Brotherhood,
Here's what's going on with the multiplayer:
Right now, it seems that the main cause of the lag is the bandwidth of those hosting multiplayer games. We didn't get any lag problems during our testing because we have pretty good bandwidth speeds. We are working on a patch that will hopefully solve this problem.
We aim to release the patch sometime next month for the 360. For PS3 users, we are waiting for Sony's August patch for our update to work. After that happens, we'll fix your multiplayer, too. But, for both systems, until we get the patch there is a temporary fix, straight from the developer:
Check your bandwidth speeds and follow these guidelines. This should ensure that you minimize or completely eliminate the lag.
- below a 1.5 megabit/s upstream, host only up to 3 players
- 1.5 - 4 megabit/s upstream, host only up to 4 players
- above 4 megabit/s upstream, host up to 8 players.
Your bandwidth upstream is how fast data can be sent over your internet connection to the other players in your match, so if your speed is too slow for the amount of players you are hosting, your game is going to lag. If you don't know your upstream, here's a quick way to check. Use this link from speedeasy and check your upstream numbers against our guidelines above:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/links.php Now some bad news for those of you who've been asking - No, there will not be any patches or updates that will bring Darkness powers into the multiplayer games. I've already told some of you individually why, but I'll tell the lot of you what's going on. Simply, it would throw the balancing out of whack and would not be fun. The Darkness Powers make you reallly, REALLY strong. Since single player was our focus we didn't work on a way to make the Darkness Powers feasible. It would have taken A LOT of time to get those powers to work in a mutliplayer game that would not have been cheap and frustrating. HOWEVER, if we do a sequel that is definitely something that we will do our best to include... especially if The Brotherhood wills it enough.
Finally, you've put up with a lot regarding the multiplayer so I'm opening myself up to your challenge. Find me on Xbox Live under the gamertag, "Master Kweif". I don't have time to formalize a match with everyone, but when I have a free moment The Brotherhood of The Darkness, as always, will be the first to know.
~Lord Sonatine