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Re: how do you get to be a moderator ?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:19:54 GMT

kastro187420 wrote:

I assume you have some sort of proof/verification to back up claims such as these?

[Enter the crickets]

Re: Make them fix MW4!

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:19:10 GMT

The issue is that I believe they (the devs) have heard this all before. They just seem to be past the whole "let's do some type of official take suggestions from the community" thing.

Until the annual sale numbers start to drop off, there won't be any real effort made on their part.

Re: Modern Warfare 3 Title Update and Hot Fix Discussion

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:56:04 GMT

Wow, it's been a year? Seems like just yesterday we were introduced. Congrats, do you now get to participate in the IW 401k program?

Re: SCAR-H or AN-94?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:49:43 GMT

I don't even think there is a contest here. For my personal preference, the AN has perfect Iron Sights, predictable recoil and seems to be the easiest gun to aim.

Re: What is your worst game ever on any cod game?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:59 GMT

ProfessionalPoster wrote:

On W@W I got with a party of friends and we tried to win a game of Domination without getting any kills (long before these things were posted on YouTube) and I went something like 0-44. We won, but it was ugly and I don't think anyone on our team finished with below 30 deaths

Yeah? I have something worse, back on MW3 I was partied with one of my normal crews and for some damn reason I just couldn't kill a single person. 0-26 with a few caps and in the end I just resorted to shooting down whatever killstreaks the enemy had gotten because of me.

Re: LagComp Video Discussion: BlackOps2 Edition

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:37:39 GMT

I have resorted to cutting and pasting in effort to make sure that nothing is lost in translation. It really does make sense when you combine it with some of his overviews of latency stuff:

For lag compensation, generally what you do is have the server rewind the state of the world so that when it does bullet collision, the world looks like it did on your screen when you pulled the trigger. So while a player may now be behind a wall, if he was out in the open when you shot him, it'll do damage to him. This can be frustrating, but keep in mind that if you "missed" players right before they ran behind walls, that would also be frustrating, too. Nobody has come up with a perfect solution to this.

If you can have players play on servers with a low ping, then the distance someone will have moved is much smaller, so you'll get less visible cases. So at 200ms, you could die long after you ran behind a wall. But at 50ms, you might not even be fully past the edge of the wall yet, so your perceived injustice is really small.

In the end I still think you were right all those years ago Macc when you hypothosized a dysncing within the game. It's not overly common, but in my primative mind it helps explain WTF moments and allows me to move along without a ton of frustration.

Re: LagComp Video Discussion: BlackOps2 Edition

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:29:29 GMT

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Re: LagComp Video Discussion: BlackOps2 Edition

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:28:43 GMT

When I look at it, I think I see something else. The way many MP games do networking (including CODs) is the server sends snapshots at some interval - some games do 5 times a second, some do 10, some do 15, some do 20. So if you do 60/snapshot rate, you get the number of frames between snapshots. So if the game is doing 10 snapshots a second, you get 1 every 6 client frames.

So if you are rendering at 60fps, this means you have one frame that is authoritative of what the server had, and then you have a few frames where you are filling in the data on the client. Usually you use two snapshots and interpolate between them, just in time for a new snapshot to arrive. So if you are getting 10 snapshots a second, you do 1 snapshot that is "real", and then 5 that are interpolated, and then back to 1 that is "real" again, over and over. If it's 20 snapshots a second, you are only interpolating 2 frames between snapshots.

So the client is already interpolating the positions of things - if you didn't everything would be jerky.

If you rewind on the server and don't also interpolate, then you are going to be showing the player one thing while judging their reactions on a different set of rules. That's never fun.

A lot of what we are seeing in these various videos seem to fall victim to circumstances such as this, as opposed to anything else.

Re: Error:Downloadable content has changed, storage device has been removed

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:32:47 GMT

uga243: Can you download the game from the disc to your system's harddrive? If so, I highly recommend doing so, it eliminates a lot of these issues.

Re: How do you deal with frustration toward Black Ops 2?

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:29:51 GMT

I don't know man, at the end of the day it is just a game. If you can't have fun with it, maybe you need to chill out a little longer and come back in maybe a week or two.

The way I see it, for evey WTF moment that I have, I think about the countless WTF moments I have given other people. Ask yourself this, when you are going 60-7 is YOU that is getting all those kills or are SOME of those kills due to the game screwing over some of the other players?

I'd say that you tend to make out pretty good, so count your blessings and don't be so serious about the whole thing.

Re: Bring Back Chaos Moshpit!

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:11:33 GMT

gdexter wrote:

So you're not playing a game, due to the devs who own the games content removing a simple playlist?

Honestly? Yes, we have pretty much given up on the game. Mosh Pits are a fun alternative that give us the opportunity to experience all the different game types w/o the hassle of arguing with each other.

Not a biggy though, almost all of us are max prestiged anyways and nobody besides myself is into the DLC or Zombies. I have played more Zombies over the last month then I have MP, since a majority of my crew is now gone.

Re: Why do bullets curve in black ops 2?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:57:34 GMT

If the enemy is moving side to side while shooting, the bullets will curve to account for the velocity of the shooter when they were moving.

Ok, that's not true. There are lots of fancy words and terminologies and such that explain it. But just chalk it up to a bit of lag.

Re: Less people online, better connection.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:07:33 GMT

CupcakeBandit wrote:

People who run in groups vs more solo players during off peak.

This could be one of the common causes. Players that party up might not have as good overall connection (on average) as that of what you might find in a lobby filled with RANDOMS that all selected "best".

Re: Want to play Nuketown Better?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:05:02 GMT

Am I high or is your Nuketown Map different then mine? Was there an update or something? Or do they add cars and other objects for the different game modes.

By the loading van, there are normally boxes near the end of it and there are normally two cars to right of the moving van (looking from where the video started).

Wierd.

Re: XBOX is the reason for lag not Black ops 2?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:57:23 GMT

Foxhound-Pro wrote:

AvgGamer wrote:

yea but if you have crappy download and upload speed its makes for a slower ping.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. ADSL lines can have much better ping than a cable line, but their banwidth, which is different from ping, are night and day.

I hate to agree with Foxy, but I think he is right. One of the guys I play with regularly is from Los Angles, he runs an AT&T DSL service which has pretty low DL/UL, but the ping times are CRAZY good.

Re: Gamemode for negative k/d players

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:53:11 GMT

In the end isn't this what Combat Training is for? Whenever my game play starts deteriorating I will jump over there and work on aiming as well as some tactical manuevers.

If your game play is bad, I really suggest you try the CT for while. It really does help me get back on track.

Good luck and please for sake of all that is good in gaming, don't ever suggest something like this again, this is how terrible concepts like the pain pill from MW2 got started.

Re: Why Is the EMP the Most Used Tactical?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:58:21 GMT

More junk in this game then any of the others. So the emp is almost a requirement if you tend on traversing the map w/o too much worry.

Re: Challenge of the Day - Ask players what's wrong with the Target Finder

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:10:40 GMT

Meh, I don't usually complain about it. I run a special class just for these guys. I really don't like running the TF sight for some reason though, I think I get too distracted or something.

Re: What Will Treyarch Do When Fat Boy Ben Spills The Beans On There DLC 3&4?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:55:45 GMT

It was too painfully boring to listen to.

In addition, everyone crying "it's going to ruin it". You know you could just not watch or read anything about it, right?

Re: Sorry foxhound. But that's not spam.

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:49:08 GMT

Foxhound is not a 3arch employee, but a former forum dude that volunteered for the position. He is fairly savy when it comes to knowing what is "junk" and what is legit. Hey, I'm not defending what he did, just pointing you in the right direction. Foxy and I have had more then a few run ins, can't say he is always right, but he usually somewhere in the ballpark.

I tend to give the guy a break simply because he has a pretty big task of dealing with us jerks around here. Don't take his actions personally, I don't think he operates like that. Just accept it and move on.