Doom III has no multiplayer
 

Just what the Title of this thread says.

from http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9517

That's kinda disapointing, but kinda understandable. Either way, I'm buying it!

Who cares! Single player is the main reason 85% of us are interesting in this creepy future thriller! However I heard that MP would be great because it would only you to hide in shadows to ambush oponents and player cast shadows could give away positions, sounded amazing but still, as long as there's DOOM III SP I'm a happy chappy!

wow that is VERY surprising... def. gonna hurt sales.

Carmack said the same thing of Quake II, and that was one of their most popular multiplayer games. If there isn't multiplayer in the release, it will be patched soon after I bet.

They've already developed the code for MP too, if not id, someone will fill the gaps.

true, but a lot of people are going to pissed off

if my old pc can handle it i'm gonna grab a copy reguardless

With <a target=new href="http://planetside.station.sony.com/index.jsp"><b>Planetside</b></a> , and <a target=new href="http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halo/index.html"><b>Halo</b></a> coming out - i can do with out multi on Doom 3. Besides, imagine all the lag you'd have from someone trying to play on a 56k! Its hard enough to play <a target=new href="http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/returntocastlewolfenstein/index.html"><b>Return to Castle Wolfenstein</b></a>

no multiplayer games die after a few months, i'm sure they will release a multiplayer patch ...

most people who follow this game new there wasnt going to be much if any mplayer. This is not surprising. The are rumors of an expansion pack for the muli coming later.

I'm not much in the multiplayer scene.. so it's good for me.

I played the Planetside beta and I can tell you that the release version is going to be utter crap. It's incredibly laggy, unbalanced, and there is really no reason to play after a couple of weeks. There are very overpowered two weapons in particular, both in one empire (team)'s arsenal, so they completely dominate the entire server.

SOE is rather fond of releasing crap adn then patching it up to tolerable standards in the following months. I suggest against buying Planetside, as if you are looking for a real FPS, you will be very disappointed.

Planetside is the "diet-coke" of FPSes for burned out EverQuest players that have never played a game from id/Raven/EPIC.

I'm really not worried either. Let the other shoot em ups take care of that. Doom is all about you, the monsters, and someone to collect the crap you spill while playing :D

wasnt there MP code in alpha 'leak'?

hmm i will investigate

ID build engins.

Others build games.

this sucks..

thanks for the heads up. I would have bought it as soon as it came out. I played Tribes 2 for about a week, and got so frustrated with that i havent played it since. I'm still in Medal of Honor Allied Assault.

Not sure if this is correct, but isn't Quake 4 (by Raven Software) using the Doom 3 engine? I'm sure that game's still pretty far off, but at least there will be some multiplayer then.

I personally don't care too much if there's no multi. I'm buying this game in the hopes of being scared senseless, so if it does that, than it's all good. Even the leaked alpha with its retarded enemies was still pretty damn creepy.

It would be nice to have some simple editing tools so players can make their own levels, extend the life of the game, but judging from the complexity of the maps, I doubt the average gamer will be able to do that. Still, aside from Half-Life 2, this is the only game I'm really looking forward to.

I disagree. I too was in the beta. I had a remarkable lack of lag in the last few patches, none at all in large battles. I and many other players thought the balance was excellent. The devs have promised content updates (which sound pretty cool) giving it reason to play for more than a few weeks. As for the weapons, I'm assuming you are talking about the Terran Republic? I'm not so very sure. I played a different faction and I can say that a well lead, well organized squad (most squads are "pick up" for that night only. There are other groups called Organizations that are persistant.) can really make a difference. 2 or 3 squads working together even more so.

I loved the Planetside beta (I was in the exclusive and stopped playing just last night). The devs are amazing people, the game looks great, it plays well on my new system I just built for it and I had more fun than I could shake a stick at.

I play as an engineer/medic type running around healing and fixing people...every once and awhile unslinging my rifle to off a few bad guys. (Sometimes much more than once and awhile). I saw some HUGE battles (couple of hundred people) over bridges that were just amazing.

My advice, please go read the reviews and decide for yourself. If you like online FPS, this might be money well spent.

Oh, and yea, I'm a little bummed that D3 has no multiplayer, but I think I'll get over it. :)

If you're looking for a scary game in the meantime, pick up System Shock 2 from your local retailer's bargain bin. It's a little dated, but I guarantee at least three pairs of soiled undergarments.

You must have been playing a different game than I was, or you haven't played a balanced FPS before. TR DC maxes are incredibly overpowered, and the chaingun is ridiculously accurate even at 100m+ ranges. Vanu and NC heavy weapons and MAXes are crap compared to them, and it showed every night when you look at the global map and see 4+ locked TR continents and maybe one apiece to Vanu and NC.

It's pretty typical form for SOE to ignore glaring gameplay flaws and instead attempt to appease people with "content updates", generally in the form of $20-40 expansion packs.

This is another complaint of mine. Because the hit detection / aiming system is screwed up, skill doesn't really matter in Planetside. Because skill doesn't matter, well organized squads don't matter. All you have to do to win is join TR, get 10 DC MAXes together, and zerg-rush until you win.

The devs are nice guys, I'll give you that. The best performance that I got during beta, I would describe as mediocre and I have a P4 1.5ghz, 512mb DDR ram, and a GeForce 4400. As for fun, it ended after constant TR DC max and Reaver zergs.

If you are looking for a massively-multiplayer version of Quake 3, Half-Life, or UT, you will be very disappointed. If you are looking for a hack of EQ with guns and rocket launchers but no real purpose or reward, you'll love it.

NOT TRUE!!! Doom 3 DOES HAVE multiplayer capability...at least the alpha version does...the code for multiplayer is there but it is VERY VERY VERY limited since it is in the VERY early stages of development...anyways Carmack has said that there will be multiplayer but it won't be very big since their attention is focused on single player...it will prolly just start out with deathmatch and team deathmatch...just thought u'd like to know that...THANX
C'YA ?:-)

There's also rumors of 2 add on packs being released later: 1 for single player and 1 for multiplayer. I highly doubt that some form of multiplayer won't be included at some point in time. It's what id does best, afterall.

I wouldn't worry about it, they'll be shooting themselves in the foot or penis if they don't release it with multiplayer.

Doom III better have single player that's at least better than Half-Life and Halo, or why would I spend $50 on a game with no multiplayer?

I still can't believe that www.doom3.com isn't registered.

I feel the need to mention that UnrealII is a very good game despite the lack of the multiplayer component.

I read in a pretty recent review off of Gamespy.com from the E3 show that there was going to be a deathmatch mode, but the game was going to be concentrating mostly on single player.

Yeah, that sounds much more likely. It is what id tried with Quake 2 and mod-makers made it the most popular multiplayer game for some time.