SouthPeak's Section 8 to Support 32 Players Online

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Geoff White

SouthPeak and TimeGate Studios today announced that their upcoming shooter, Section 8, will support X Server functionality, allowing the title to hold up to 32 player games online on dedicated servers.

The X Server software will be distributed free of charge around the launch of the title and where dedicated server matches are not available, the game still offers the traditional 16 player match ups over Live.

If dedicated 32 player matches aren't for you, there is always the single player campaign and some "instant offline action" allowing you to fight against a bunch of AI controlled bots.

Surely a good move for SouthPeak's title, considering that there aren't that many titles that offer 32 player matches. Frontlines (50) and Perfect Dark Zero (32) are two  titles that spring to mind, but other than that, my mind's drawing a blank. Add Section 8 to that list now though.

Section 8 is coming September 4th in Europe for Xbox 360 and PC.

Comments
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  • hmmm I may look into this game, haven;t heard much from it
  • Sounds interesting...gonna have to check this out.
  • omg
  • so thats 16 opponents to molest online then?
  • mag for ps3 is going to support like 256 players at a time (probably gonna have lots of bugs) but how is 32 people a big deal. first off you hafta get a ton of ppl to buy your game to begin with if you want this to work and i dont see that happening with section 8
  • cool more fun online but im still more interested on how singleplayer is going to turn out. Looks good though going to get this probaly first week out
  • So now you can play a crappy Halo knock-off with 31 squeaky voiced thirteen year old yanks. This might just be the least appealing game ever, the only thing that could make it worse is if it was a game from South Pe...oh
  • Those servers better be good or it is just gonna be LAG central.
  • as long as the servers can support it im all for it,, 16vs16.. sounds like fun ;-) Zef: its called mute mate or play in a party?
  • SouthPeak is always involved in the worst games. This is going to be a real stinker.
  • @7 totally agree, def a Halo knockoff
  • I assume that with this announcement we can safely assume that there will be a fair few multiplayer achievements aswell then...
  • I don't know why there is hate for this game. I will check it out before I judge it.
  • @7 and 11 I agree with you both
  • @7 They made Ninja Town on the DS. So theres one? lol And Two Worlds, Legendary, X-blades, and Velvet assassin were good right? Right?
  • @ #5 You play in groups of 8 though. Not 256, everyone together = 256 from what i understand.
  • I'm interested now.
  • I had this game ordered for a while, I can't wait to play it.
  • Looks interesting but my moolah is reserved for MW2, Borderlands, and ODST.
  • 6 on 6 is my limit anything over that is a bit confusing for me.too many people equals too many team kills.
  • Cool, hoping this game is good.
  • 16 vs 16 is better than 6 vs 6 stupid cod, why couldn't it let you choose like on cod 3 player matches
  • Mr 15, no, none of those were good. I can only hope you are well versed in the ways of sarcasm.
  • No thanks, Killzone has 32, Resistance has 64, and MAG wll have 256. Those are much better.
  • This is by the guys who made the medicore FEAR expansion packs... @24 What MAG the terrible ET Quake Wars knock off people are hyping because its an exclusive and because of the player count?
  • What areas will have dedicated servers?
  • 32 players!!! expect extreme lag ppl!!!
  • Watched a few gameplay videos for this game and it looked kind of boring. Nothing very unique about it, except for the whole spawn by dropping from the sky thing.
  • @#24, Resistance 2 sucks online.
  • The more players the bigger the chance is there are morons between that ruin it. For example objective gametypes. I moron can screw the whole team. + the host, connection and quiters.
  • Regardless of all the hate going on with this game, I'm getting it no matter what. It looks like a fairly decent game, just hope the achievements aren't like almost PURE multiplayer.
  • @ #28 your name says it all. I might get this.
  • I liked the gameplay videos of the Multiplayer on LIVE. It kinda looked like "halos MP gameplay" on steroids(faster paced, higher jumps). I'm definitly going to try this.
  • I'm going to try it.
  • Defo going to rent this first then we`ll see
  • I'm looking forward to this game. It seems like this will might be as good as Halo gameplay-wise, hopefully storywise too.
  • #27 It has dedicated servers.
  • only one word comes to mind, LAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!
  • I liked Legendary and Two Worlds. This game should be okay too as long as there isn't a female in the lead. :D
  • hell... lag
  • #7 Look up the game a bit before you start crying and saying its a knock off of another game. What did you do watch the trailer and be all "OMG they drop from the sky when spawning, THEY ARE COPYING ODST's THIS IS JUST A HALO WANNABE!"
  • As for all the people saying "lag" Read the f&*@#()@#)_ thing before you comment...it will support dedicated servers..
  • Mrs 41, I didn't need to complete a research doctorate to see how unoriginal the game is and the pedigree of the title goes to show how unsuprised I was that it is so. Lot's of games are similar to previous games, but sit someone down infront of the trailer for sector 8 and ask them if they think it's a new Halo trailer and they'd probably be unable to tell the difference. I haven't watched any ODST trailers, I'm not a Halo fanboy (or girl) like you that creams over the mere mention of the words 'Master Chief' or 'steaming pile of excrement'.
  • Looks decent, I'll probably give it a try when it comes out.
  • If u dont like the game just STFU :) Halo wasn't even that amazing after what the first one, who cares if this is a "knockoff" no game is original so deal with it
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