08-06-2004, 12:35 AM
Its a tad slow using a 56K for the actual game connection, but easily playable. I was using a 56K connection during the first two phases here and only got a cable connection in time for the third phase. Most of what you listed for the "full-blown scenery/landscape with a good amount of houses, trees, monsters and characters with fully detailed textures at max. resolution" is a matter of your computers performance in rendering these images from the bulk data files of the game, not the realatively small data packets that tell the game where some of these things are (some are fixed on the maps).
What will hurt you is that the distribution of the game and the patches are very large files being distributed by a bit-torrent system. With 56K connection you could be looking at a 200 to 300 hour download (7-10 days) to acutaully get the game. I was able to take my main box to a friends house to use his cable connection to get the earlier phase downloads done in a somewhat more reasonable time.
What will hurt you is that the distribution of the game and the patches are very large files being distributed by a bit-torrent system. With 56K connection you could be looking at a 200 to 300 hour download (7-10 days) to acutaully get the game. I was able to take my main box to a friends house to use his cable connection to get the earlier phase downloads done in a somewhat more reasonable time.