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Re: The Firehouse

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:49:28 GMT

Internet fights are fun, until the Mods roll up with their Banhammer of course

The OT Watering Hole

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:47:38 GMT

The Watering Hole is now open for buisness. Serving you anytime anywhere with our very own Happy Hour Every Hour drink specials. Remember, don't drink and drive...unless of course you brought your wife with you as your DD, I think it's safe to say you'd be safer driving yourself home

Re: what the hell is going on ?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:07 GMT

A lot of people have said that the game has gone off the deep end. I can attest to this as well. One game over the weekend that I played I came into a match that had already started. I finished that game calling in 3 VSATs, EMPs, and SWARMs and our team stomped the other team by 100-30

The very next match, with the same exact people lined up on the same team we got destroyed. The match was on Carrier and one player ran around with the Tac 45 destroying everyone. He was on and off the screen constantly popping up and ended up with over 70 kills. What I remember the most was how he always got 2 hit kills with his pistol but my FAL was taking 5 shots to bring him down.

Hit detection, lag, weird ass glitches in the party and lobby where people are constantly getting kicked for no reason at all. This game has taken all the issues it's had since launch and grouped them together to give players one Hell of a month

Re: Why Not Quit When Your Team is Going to Lose?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:47:07 GMT

RemoteViewer187 wrote:

How do I boost my stats? I don't quit to alter my stats, I quit to get into a match

If people are quitting it's an easy win to boost your W/L. I don't mean that in a negative way, just saying that teams who quit are usually giving away a win

Re: Why Not Quit When Your Team is Going to Lose?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:16:42 GMT

RemoteViewer187 wrote:

If the enemy forfeits, you win. If there's only one or a few enemies left, you can hunt them down, watch TV for a few minutes, or quit...it's entirely your choice. I have no issue with the enemy quitting. And if enough of my teammates quit, so do I...no big deal.

If I was concerned with winning and boosting my stats I'd agree. When I turn my PS3 on I do so with the intentions of actually playing the game. When the enemy quits 2 minutes into a match I end up spending more time in a pre-game lobby than in playing the damn game. It would be one thing if this happened every 40-50 matches, but it happens nearly 25% of the time.

The worst is when only 1 or 2 players are left. It ends up being one guy who hides in a spawn. 6 people sharing 1 enemy to kill means a whole lot of running in circles for nothing. This is a problem that needs dealt with

Re: Why Not Quit When Your Team is Going to Lose?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:07:22 GMT

The last time I played this game probably 5 out of the 15-20 games ended either in forfeit or my team spent most of the time hunting down one person who stayed. That's not fun to me, in fact it actually pisses me off.

Re: KSG?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:51:07 GMT

Lag influences the KSG more than any other gun. In fact I can quickscope better than I can use the KSG. The best thing to do is put a Suppressor on it. That way if you miss you're not alerting the person you shooting at. The range on the KSG is so good that even with a Suppressor you're not losing much

Re: My Worries

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:46:41 GMT

The frame rate drops in Black Ops II have nothing to do with the PS3 not having enough power. Any frame rate issues are in the coding, not the console

Re: My Worries

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:23:23 GMT

Unless Activision figures out a new way to do match making this game could lag more than any other. The community will be torn between PS3 and PS4 users so there won't be nearly as many people playing the game at the same time as there use to be

Re: The game has been out for 7 months....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:14:16 GMT

I've been playing The Last of Us, haven't thought about playing Call of Duty since. In fact I don't plan on returning unless some close friends want to play. This game isn't fun by itself anymore, I need more incentive to play and the only incentive I find worthwhile is getting a bunch of friends together and killing time

Re: would having a controller you accidentally messed up giving you a advantageover everyone else cheating

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:28:20 GMT

Technically yes, but it's not like you can prove it or Activision will even care. It does violate the ToC

Re: Don't believe the hype... X1 and PS4 used game policy is about the same.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:48:45 GMT

rankismet wrote:

But consider regarding digital... PS4 will not have functionality allow you to share digital copies in any way. X1 will... limited... but it's still there.

This might not be true. As of now on the PS3 any account that has authorized access to your PSN has access to your digital downloads. I can go to my girlfriend's house and play purchased games on her PS3. I believe Sony only allows two different consoles other than your own to share games on though. As far as the PS4 is concerned I haven't seen any news of this changing

Re: The Problem With Closed BETA Testing

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:16:39 GMT

Foxhound-Pro wrote:

An hour after midnight, depending on where you are, could be a sale that happened legitimately six hours before you even queued up in line. It could also be an illegal sale.

I shoud have clarified this earlier though, when I say illegal, I mean they broke a street date. There are illegal acquisitions that happen for sure, but those are few and far inbetween. Every mom-and-pop that sells it early or back door deal at a Gamestop doesn't negatively impact Activision as they, the publisher, have already earned revenue for that game. -- You do realize that's how it works, right? Activision has the games, Gamestop/Stores purchase them, then they are sold to the population. This drives up costs btw and is why an all digital future is better. Remove the middle man and you can lower costs. You also create a saftey net of sorts.

I was thinking more along the lines of cracking discs and making copies.

Re: The Problem With Closed BETA Testing

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:55:41 GMT

I understood what you were saying. I just wasn't aware that THAT many games were being illegally circulated. For Black Ops II I had the game in my console almost and hour after midnight. There were some serious issues at launch with the PS3 game and it caused nearly everyone to wait for a fix. However there were still tens of thousands of people who were way ahead of everyone in prestige. That's a lot of money Activision lost out on. My thought process is this: If that many people had the game early Activision would have done something about it. From what I'm aware of there was nothing done, therefore the games were distributed legally. The most logical reason for Activision to distribute the game legally is for BETA testing.

I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just saying that's what I'm concluding.

Re: Is Hijack the most popular map?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:05:12 GMT

If you're getting 200+ games on Raid then either the enemy team is half brain dead or you're boosting. I've gotten 5 VSATs, 3 Dogs, 3 SWARMs on Raid before and barely broke 70 kills.

Re: The Problem With Closed BETA Testing

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:29 GMT

I'm aware of illegal selling of video games, but if there's this many people who are getting the game early I would think that this would be a problem that Activision would be very interested in taking care of.

Foxhound-Pro wrote:

How many closed BETA tests that you know of have allowed stats and leaderboard placements to carry over into the retail game? In my experience, and there's quite a good bit there spanning multiple consoles, the response is slim next to none.

Fox, we both know that Activision doesn't care about the leaderboards, if so there would be an attempt to purge the unrealistic stats from them. I will admit that Trey, or whoever is in charge or handling them, did a decent job in taking care of glitchers and hackers. MW3 is still a complete distaster.

Re: The Problem With Closed BETA Testing

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:08:55 GMT

kkiller14 wrote:

All BETA tests for Call of Duty games since MW2, have been internel tests. No YouTubers or MLG players have gotten access to any Call of Duty betas. The only CoD game that had an open beta was CoD 4. That's it.

Then why are there videos surfacing of gameplay before the game comes out? Why are there thousands for players who are well on their way to a hitting top prestige before the the game comes out? I'm sure there is a great deal of internal testing but if there isn't a closed BETA testing then why do so many of these "professional players" getting early access to the game?

Re: Is Hijack the most popular map?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:01:47 GMT

Hijacked isn't popular because it's a good map, it's popular because of how effective a good spawntrap can be. Hijacked is where 100+ games are made if you can organize your team well enough. To me that doesn't make it a good map but one of the worst

The Problem With Closed BETA Testing

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:54:29 GMT

Apparently I didn't make my point clear enough the first time.

CoD is BETA tested by a select group of individuals. Mostly big name players on YouTube or MLG. The problem with this is that these players are pretty one demisional in their styles and thus the game will never get fully tested in every way that it should. Because of this we see exploitations that slip through the cracks. Items in the game get used for purposes they were most likely never meant for. There are incredibly advantagous headglitching points that go unnoticed.

Closed testing does not yield complete results

Re: The Problem With Closed BETA Testing

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:05:54 GMT

Foxhound-Pro wrote:

I completely disagree with the presentation of this thread.

Let's blame an entire group of people for a rumor you've heard about, even though you don't know the true purpose of the BETA test or the audience that it includes, by using tactics you disagree with, but aren't game breaking, as evidence of the developer's and supposed "rock star" tester's failure to properly BETA test.

I hope you can see the problem there. -- It's a huge generalization on your part. I could see the argument of opening up the BETA test to "accelerate" testing as a standalone point, but you didn't deliver that. You instead bashed some people.

Unfortunately, most gamers play BETAs to simply play the game early and cast judgement on their purchase. Most will not fulfill the role that they should and most think that the BETA is their soapbox to dictate how the game should play or what weapons are OP/UP. Even though the game is not near completion and most BETAs exist for technical stress testing, not feedback or focus group testing.

Way to over generalize yourself. Did I say it was their fault? No, I said they are a select few who play a specific way. The group that BETA tests the game is so small and one deminsional in their style of play that there would be no way to fully test the game.