You'll forgive us for missing this tidbit of news this weekend, as we (along with some of you, no doubt) were much too enthralled by the
other,
other,
other,
other Game of the Year, this one nestled in Valve's sumptuous
Orange Box. If you wanted to add
Team Fortress 2 to your list of yearly praise but felt that lag ruined the experience, perhaps the title update for the Xbox 360 version will do away with your doubts. The following technical alterations to the charming multiplayer romp should take effect the next time you load up the game whilst signed in to Xbox Live:
- Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer.
- Improved overall game performance.
- Arranged search results to favor preferred host conditions.
- Improved searching for ranked games.
- Addressed a possible false report of too little storage space on larger hard drives (not this again!)
[Via press release
{ Oct 29th 2007 at 5:28PM } 
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umm....hello??? @ Oct 29th 2007 5:43PM
cool....looking forward to no lag, although Halo3 and Portal have kept my time occupied well otherwise...
Too @ Oct 29th 2007 5:58PM
I don't know about anyone else, but this patch didn't seem to do much for me-- in fact I'm now dropping out on games on a regular basis.
Is anyone experiencing any issues after the patch?
I'm going to remove my router from the equation and plug directly into my internet connection, but I'm not so sure that's the problem, as I wasn't experiencing this many drop outs prior to the patch.
I couldn't complete a single game I tried to play yesterday
ysdarkfact @ Oct 29th 2007 5:52PM
They really need to fix the lobby system. I love not being able to tell how many people are actually in the room, due to people quitting or whatever. Since the game thinks there are so many people in the room, like if the teams are odd, or there aren't enough people inthe lobby, you have to restart the server. It's a pain in the ass.
Dan peters @ Oct 29th 2007 6:32PM
Still laggy, oh well.
Shibathedog @ Oct 29th 2007 7:16PM
Maybe its your connection, Make sure your NAT status says OPEN. Thats usually why peoples Xbox Live connections suck.
Token White Guy @ Oct 29th 2007 7:04PM
Works great. Now, I wish they would add dedicated servers.
k04sm02 @ Oct 29th 2007 7:49PM
demoman now can only have 4 grenades at once....pyro is stronger....i wish they would have toned down the strength of turrets, as well
doomcloud @ Oct 30th 2007 10:17AM
no way, its proportional to how long it takes to set up those damn things.
gombard @ Oct 29th 2007 8:25PM
Uhm, i get that NAT thing on halo3.. Im a little stupid when it comes to that type of setup.. Anyone know where i check that out so it's open? Maybe that'll help with my lag.. I have a Linksys router.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Cheers!
n2 @ Oct 29th 2007 8:40PM
For me the issue isn't NAT. Mine is open.
I'm beginning to wonder if the issue is the host. It seems to happen more often if you have large games. The screen will just start shaking and you have trouble walking or do anything. Sometimes it goes away, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you're dropped.
gonk @ Oct 29th 2007 9:25PM
i read that halo matches are partially hosted by all players, maybe tf2 doesn't do that and hence the lag?
jc @ Oct 29th 2007 10:06PM
Dedicated servers... are you crazy? What makes you think Microsoft can
afford to put up dedicated servers for a service that we all need to pay 50 bucks a year for?
But seriously now.. what the hell IS the money going towards? Keeping the servers that run the micro transactions online?
360 is great and all but Microsoft needs to get off their stingy asses and put dedicated servers up for every game. Getting shafted with laggy peer to peer play would be fine if you didnt have to pay 50 bucks a year for the privilege.
Psaakyrn @ Oct 30th 2007 11:25AM
a) Servers.
b) Backup Servers.
c) Server maintanence.
d) Server security.
e) Software updates.
f) Software testing.
g) R&D
h) Tech Support
i) Profit
Might have missed a few more.
Too @ Oct 30th 2007 11:46AM
It's definately worse SINCE the patch. I had trouble with a major of the games I played yesterday.
I seriously hope someone from Value or Microsoft is reading this, as this is a great game, but has serious network issues with larger multiplayer gamers.
alu @ Oct 30th 2007 1:13PM
or just play it on PC and eliminate most of these issues :)