When is SSOOCH coming to the forums? How’s your back, SSOOCH? Check into some Chiropractic care before you go under the knife!

Sometimes I can’t believe he hasn’t been fired.

suzaku:
The PC version of Portal lets you fire your portal gun through an existing portal if you are standing partially through it. The 360 version doesn’t seem to allow this–which makes more sense to me because if you think about it your body would get ripped in half if you made a new opening before you had completely walked through the old one. You can see this technique being used in a speed run here:

Portal Chamber 19 Speed Run

Frankie:
Apparently Infinity Ward wasn’t adequately prepared for the demand on their matchmaking servers. All that was required were upgrades to the servers and databases that coordinate matchmaking and playlists. I played it for 3 hours on my PS3 last night and didn’t have any connection issues or errors whatsoever.

It is also worth pointing out that I live in a condo complex and have a very exotic network setup. I have an access point acting as a wireless bridge which connects to a second wireless access point that finally terminates at a cable modem. The end result of this is that I am connecting through two firewalls and every port gets blocked. When I do a connection test on my PS3 it shows me as NAT Type 3 which is the most restricted that you can possibly be. Xbox Live also has me at the worst NAT setting when I check in the dashboard.

Anyway, I haven’t ever had issues playing games on either system. I don’t even want to think about how many hours I’ve logged in Warhawk and Gears of War. Based on what I played last night I am going to amass a ton in Call of Duty 4 as well . I can assure you that the issues you describe were entirely due to Infinity Ward’s servers being overwhelmed and not due to your campus network or some inherent deficiency in the PS3 version. They’ve got this all worked out now and what a fantastic game! My initial impressions of the beta (which I hated) were truly crazy. Here is an article about the issue and the fix:

Infinity Ward works “through the night” to fix COD4

Being on campus, more of the ports the ps3 uses are blocked compared to XBOX..but it’s still hard for me to find a damn game online. I traded my PS3 version for assassin’s creed and my friend bought me a copy of the 360 version.

Anyway sorry. Love the show. I’ll be coming down to Springville from Alaska to visit my awesome in-laws. Maybe we can hang (HAH) .

again though, i wanna say what i said last time… orange box on the pc is one of the best packages money can buy. theres already a sick amount of custom tf2 stuff and servers with no lag at all. also it runs through STEAM. (dunno if you know about steam) steam is like myspace meets xbox live friend lists and really makes gaming with a group of friends as easy as can be. but what did you guys mean by “portal on the pc lets you shoot two portals halfway through” or something like that. can you not shoot orange and blue portals on the xbox version or something? either way, the pc version is so much better (from what ive heard… never played xbox version) that its worth buying again just to get all the extra stuff and experience the game differently. take the xbox one back and get the REAL version.

also, good luck to sooch with his back surgery. if he decides to go through with it, i hope he has a speedy recovery.