Newcomer / Intro Can I play smoothly with only 3mbps?

solarm · Dec 24, 2014

Hi, I'm just new and looking around, I'm really interested with the game and really reminds me of my old favorite game from Microsoft "Freelancer", I was hoping to ask if I can get smooth gameplay with only a 3mbps internet connection... would the lag be tolerable to play with...? Are there any other players out there with similar low speed like mine? What's the experience like... Thank you... if it plays smoothly I'm thinking of going ahead and purchasing the game...

Raz0rking · Dec 24, 2014

afaik you only need .5 mbps

Yabba Addict · Dec 24, 2014

On solo you can for sure. In open you might run into troubles in busier systems though.

KronenBrg · Dec 24, 2014

Aye, during the Beta and Gamma I regularly restricted my games PC to download speeds sub 1MB/s in order to convince myself that I could one day move to a village and still play

No probs!

Yabba Addict · Dec 24, 2014

KronenBrg said:
Aye, during the Beta and Gamma I regularly restricted my games PC to download speeds sub 1MB/s in order to convince myself that I could one day move to a village and still play No probs!

1 mb/s is different to 1 MB/s. 1mb/s is 125 KB/s, you'd run into problems at that speed.

solarm · Dec 24, 2014

thank you for the replies... hmm..

my download speeds vary from 70 to 160 kB/s... would that do...? I'm really looking forward to playing it without getting frustrated, I play counter-strike online and it's unplayable, a click takes around 1-1.5 seconds before the gunshot goes off, by then I'd be dead...

solarm · Dec 24, 2014

solarm said:
thank you for the replies... hmm..

my download speeds vary from 70 to 160 kB/s... would that do...? I'm really looking forward to playing it without getting frustrated, I play counter-strike online and it's unplayable, a click takes around 1-1.5 seconds before the gunshot goes off, by then I'd be dead...

on a good day, it would hit the 250-290 kB/s mark... I'm really a big fan of the past Freelancer game... really would like to try this...

KillaALF · Dec 24, 2014

What kind of connection? I have just 2mbps DSL and can play online games just fine (Team Fortress 2, Planetside 2). Elite I play solo and again, without any problems.

Yabba Addict · Dec 24, 2014

solarm said:
on a good day, it would hit the 250-290 kB/s mark... I'm really a big fan of the past Freelancer game... really would like to try this...

Like i said, solo you won't have any problems. I wouldn't worry too much about online play right now, it's a bit underdeveloped atm.

Gorf · Dec 24, 2014

I'd have thought that ping and server load were more important than bandwidth.

solarm · Dec 24, 2014

Yabba Addict said:
Like i said, solo you won't have any problems. I wouldn't worry too much about online play right now, it's a bit underdeveloped atm.

Thanks for the replies... ok... when you mean solo... is that single player offline (or online... I read that they didn't offer offline...).

I couldn't play well in team fortress with my connection based on experience... my ping goes up to 300-500 or higher at times... takes around a few seconds before I could shoot... it was hard to get a good kill...

Yabba Addict · Dec 24, 2014

Yeah, single player online. Can be played over mobile network so you shouldn't have any problems.

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Gorf said:
I'd have thought that ping and server load were more important than bandwidth.

Actually no because the connection mode ED went with is p2p. That means if you play with 10 other people in system you have to send your movements to 10 different people, and they all have to send theirs to you. It can get pretty intensive because of this.