UT 2004 netcode still poor

[Friend_Bear]

I'm very surprised they didn't fix the netcode for the demo yet, its still very very poor playing onslaught online, i'm just wondering if the full versions netcode will be much better, since even with my dsl I can't play it without heavy lag.

[Static_Fred]

I too played the demo and experienced a lot of lag, but having never really played UT2003, i didn't know that this was not the "usual" UT gaming experience. The lag made everything choppy, even when i was just over a 100 ping. The other players would skip around, making it very difficult to shoot them from far away. I wasn't imperssed with UT2004 at all, i dont' think i'm going to be buying it. I may pick up Far-Cry instead.

[Renzatic Gear]

Yeah, they changed the netcode from 2k3 going to 2k4. Both the original and 3 were perfectly smooth gameplay experiences all the way up to 200ms, but from what I've seen they really dropped the ball with 2k4. At 80ms the game was batting me around the screen like I was a pingpong ball, I'd press forward and end up halfway across the map in the blink of an eye...

Hopefully they have it fixed for retail...the reason they probably haven't addressed the issue with the demo yet is cuz they're still working on it up til the games release.