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Re: Hardcore playlist getting kicked

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:19:20 GMT

Ok, then explain to me how I can control being on Studio and launching a Hellstorm (which when split already covers half that damn map) onto 2 of the enemy team only to have the spawn switch at the very instant It's about to hit the ground causing me to get a quad kill with 2 of them being my teammates? Or how about the trolls that think it's funny to run in front of you repeatedly in a game? Or how about that teammate that is close to their killstreak on KC and shoots you in the back so they can take the tags you are picking up? Simply put, there are too many variables that you can't control, especially with these small ass maps, that you unfairly get penalized for. And sadly, the majority of them are the community themselves! Riccochet is the way to go or at least a different logic like crome proposed above.

Re: New Moshpit series Placement

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:47:33 GMT

JSlayer211 wrote:

In regards to the matchmaking, it's always been broken. What's the surprise? Get used to being put up against high ranking teams while you have random trash mates (unless you have 6 man team). It's the nature of the beast I'm afraid.

Ah, but see, that's supposed to be the point of League Play. That you get matched against "like" players. And even worse, the Moshpit series in general (formerly TDM League) is supposed to be solo ranking. That's been part of the issue with this series from day one. How is it supposed to accurately rank "solo" players when it's usually a team of 6 randoms vs a party of 4-6? Remember, in league play new players do not cycle in when others rage quit. It is VERY common for a game to end with 5-6 on one team and 1-2 on the other. Yet "winning" is the main factor in ladder points and initial placement. IMO "solo" play should be like mercenary. No parties allowed. Or at least limit the party size to 2-3. If you want to play as a full team, then go play Champions series. That's what it's there for!!! Hmmmm, I wonder why LP regularly has less 2000 players at any given time.

Re: New Moshpit series Placement

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:55:15 GMT

I tried it last night and never will again! The first of my placement games was ok. It was CTF and we won, barely. However, the second game was complete BS! It was myself and one friend in a party. Neither of us are ranked this season yet obviously. In previous seasons of League TDM we were Gold & Silver. Well, the brillance that is 3arc matchmaking placed us in another match of CTF against an entire clan (all 6) of masters and platinums! And top 25 masters at that!

So explain to me how 2 guys with no rank yet, plus 4 randoms, 2 of which also had no rank, the other 2 were bronze and silver, got matched against 6 masters? Needless to say 3 of the randoms never spawned in at all quitting, leaving my party of 2 and one random before the game even started!!!! I don't think I need to mention how that game went.

Re: What is really bad for this game?

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 25 May 2013 17:24:51 GMT

Well you've certainly thought it out very well, and I even agree with many of your points. However, IMO the one thing that's wrong with this game, and most CoD's anymore for that matter is simple. It's the community! From the players who are damned and determined to find, exploit and publicize every little glitch to the people that do everything for that YouTube montage. From the one's who throttle their bandwidth to the ones who sit in the corner not playing the objective because they're afraid to hurt their stats. And the ones who complain about every gun and/or perk until it gets nerfed/buffed rather than either trying it themselves or simply adapting. That's 90% of this games problem. And in the end, we got BO2. Small, unispired, symetrical fast paced maps. Overpowered close range weapons. Characters that run faster than Superman. The inability to hold any perimeters with a team because there's 4+ ways to get everywhere and they all have better line of sight than the people in the perimiter. I could keep going. Why? Because all the past experience showed thats what they all wanted. Isn't it? Oh wait, now they don't want that either.

TripCap challenge Bug

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:49:42 GMT

I tweeted this to Mattks last week but I'm sure he's busy with real problems I figured I'd take a shot here.

On Saturday, 5/4 I was in a party of 4 playing Domination on Standoff. After trying for months we finally got the Trip Cap challenge (and subsequently domination master). It popped up on the screen, gave the xp and even showed new in my calling cards.
When I logged on Sunday I went to put on my calling card and to my surprise, it said it was still locked (and the dom master as well). The other 3 members in my party still have theirs. Is there anything I can do? This is quite a difficult challenge that could be damn near impossible to get again. My GT is XBOX: ShmedlyWilcox88. I can provide the complete time, date and party members with me if needed. Thank you for your time!!!

Re: 82 Defends in one game of domination. World Record?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:55:40 GMT

It's because there's a space in the name. It's well known that, for what ever reason (um, shitty coding), searching for a player with a space in their name will return no results.

Re: please bring back team tactical!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:42:09 GMT

I agree but sadly I don't think that's gonna happen. While they officially haven't said it, I do believe they are maxed on playlists.

Re: UPRISING is the new DLC... Its no Fake!

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:43:53 GMT

Ok, ok. You got me. lol

Re: UPRISING is the new DLC... Its no Fake!

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:35:12 GMT

I am usually very skeptical of any of these "rumors", but between the coding and the new material popping up, I believe its actually real. CI has a pic on the prepaid card at Best Buy and it seems to be the geniune article (plus they almost never post rumors unless they are confirmed).

http://www.charlieintel.com/2013/04/02/leaked-promo-image-confirms-uprising-as-2 nd-black-ops-2-dlc/

Re: How to increase ping?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:20:20 GMT

What I don't think you're realizing is you're the only one getting the 4 bar because you are the host! As maccabi has told you repeatedly (and you should trust him, he knows something about this ) your problem is the population of your region. Take the minimal amount of players you have to match with and add in the crap internet they have that you have already mentioned, and you are at the mercy of their connections. Anything you do to increase your ping and/or limit your bandwidth is in fact going to make it worse for you. Why? Because your latency problem is the amount of time it's taking to get from you to them and back to you. You're matched with players from far distances over with subpar connections. Period. And if you think it's bad on your end, to them you probably seem like a god!

Re: Which controller would you guys reccomend?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:12:13 GMT

The Onza was crap. The Sabertooth is like a Luxury car.

Re: Which controller would you guys reccomend?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:59:49 GMT

Stay away from the Mad Catz, whatever you do. Complete junk! I would recommend a scuf (as ctrl-s said) or a Razer Sabertooth, depneding on the features you want. As Fox said though, I definitely wouldn't spend more than $100 though as who knows if the next box will be able to use it.

Re: Aim Correction... How do others aim faster and more consistent than me?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:49:38 GMT

Kudos to the Op for a great thread. It's nice to see some helpful discussion on here today. Great ideas from lots of the regulars too!!!

One thing you may want to consider if you are serious about it is getting a better controller. I too come from PC (even though that was 5 years ago during W@W time) and I still struggled sometimes with the sticks. My biggest problem was that I wanted my right stick (aiming stick) to go far slower than my left stick. With the stock controller that just wasn't possible. I invested in controller that let me adjust the sticks individually and that helped alot. Now I am using the Razer Sabertooth which takes that a step further and let's you do it digitally. It is a godsend!

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Re: New DLC should be free for Season Pass holders!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:22:01 GMT

I'm so upset that I don't get bacon and pink kitties for free.

Re: Additional CAC slots and Elite...

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:20:47 GMT

I only go on there to enroll my clan in ops/challenges but I'm honestly not even sure why I do that (there's no incentive with this game). Even that isn't working right. Sometimes shows you're already enlisted in every single thing when you're not and you have to sign out and sign back in to make it right. And last weekend it "unenrolled" us in Sundays Op (even though it says we were in the notifications) and didn't credit us with anything.

Re: Treyarch isnt fair anymore. if we bought season pass we get all bonus contens for free...and now we need to pay for camo's.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:03:56 GMT

Wait a minute now, as advertised, you already were saving $10 by purchasing it. You also got Nuketown Zombies for free. Now that anyone can buy that for $5, that means you've exceeding their advertised savings. So you got $65 worth of content (as of now) for $50. Plus if you want to get technical, now that they are selling calling cards for $1 (nations packs), you technically got $1 worth of free calling cards for the special SP card. You're right, they've ripped you off.

Re: Additional CAC slots and Elite...

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:58:07 GMT

I haven't even bothered using Elite for classes since the first week of release. It's kinda worthless being able to change classes online (or mobile) when you can't use your unlock tokens through there. I really had high hopes for BO2 intergration with Elite after how great it was with the original BO if you were lucky enough to beta test it. Instead, it's even worse than it was with MW3 and doesn't even have half of the limited information that it did for that game. "Fully integrated with Elite 2.0" my a$$!

Re: Some players amaze me....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:20:11 GMT

Hell I just flip to game chat and tell them "thanks for the help" in that case.

Re: CoD Community is full of hypocritics

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:37:00 GMT

Don't forget it's supposed to be "solo" ranking (except for championship series), yet you can come in with a whole party. So essentially it's one team of randoms who tend to leave as soon as they think their ranking is going to drop vs a team of 4 or more. Yeah, that'sseems like an accurate assesment of "solo" skill to me. Especially when they don't replace a dropped player so it's often that team vs just 2 or 3 who stick it out. IMO, "solo" league play would be a hell of a lot better if it was set up like Mercenary. No parties, no party chat. It's a pointless ranking & playlist that's only fun for cheap ass little kids who party up to get cheap wins and inflated rankings.

Re: ERROR - Error Modifying Session a Dozen Times Per Hour HELP

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:53:20 GMT

My parties get it quite often, but as trickster said, it's only on core tdm. It's been worse the past week for some reason. Last night I was in a rather small party with my clan (3 players) and it happened 8 times in a row on tdm. A couple of times the lobby would fill most of the way up and then it would kick us with that error. We left and tried a kc lobby. Got right in no probs. Played that game then tried tdm again. First 2 times same thing. Finally got into a game the third time only to have the host dashboard half way through kicking the game back to pregame lobby. 5 seconds later, the party was kicked back a party lobby with that message again. I wish they would get it fixed!