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Putting us into matches when sat in Lobby....

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:19:20 GMT

Not really a moan or anything but it's happened 3 times in the space of 2 weeks now and wondered if anyone else has come across it.

1. Sat in Lobby waiting for friends to join, all of a sudden we are in a 6v6 TDM on Carrier against, what we first thought were Bots but were not, the weird thing is the highest player on the other team was a level 5.

2. Same as above but in a party of 6 and we went 'Core' - 'Domination' in the menus and we ended up in a Groundwar TDM.

3. Last night was the latest episode, sat in Lobby waiting for friend to join and next thing is we are in a 6v6 TDM Lobby without going through the menus and our friend was on the other team.

Strange but true, anyone else....?

Re: How To Get Rid Of Lag In A Multiplayer Game Official

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:29:06 GMT

As Ss78 says, a typical copy/pate resonse, personally I don't see why I need to set up a DMZ just to play the game but if it works for you, but interesting (or not) it isn't just Port 3074 that BOps II uses, I've set it up with:

TCP: 3074, 27014-27050

UDP: 3074, 3478, 4379-4380, 27000-27030

Obviously the benefits or not may vary.

One thing I did with MW3 was set the TV to force 720 as it wanted to play in 1080 and adding the upscaling was removed and although the effects may be minor or negligable, every little helps, I've not tried it with BOps 2 yet, it did improve the game when running solo (MW3) but playing in Parties is another discussion as I think the Party/Lobby system is flawed....

[I have a static IP for the 360 but don't use port forwarding for it and connected to a Plasma TV through HDMI]

Re: How To Get Rid Of Lag In A Multiplayer Game Official

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:53:44 GMT

You are right off course, as we (friends) who play other MP games never need to change the settings for other games and also not sure why COD games always force 'Moderate' Nat's for some when nothing else changes on your own set up, it is the only game that seems to do that (That we've played).

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:55:36 GMT

Never backed out of a match because of stats and never would, they don't mean a whole lot really, it can be annoying (and funny) when the, as vims says, "......disconnected by transmission error" appears on the screen as you know you've upset someone by making the match not go as they planned, (Or....messing with their K/D) which happens a lot some nights as whilst one or two players do shine in our team, in general we all have 'average' K/D's so looking at the Leaderboards doesn't tell the whole story, as my K/D is one of the lowest........though I have a W/L of 2.5+, although some of the players I know have a 2+ K/D because they play a lot of FFA but don't do so well in objective games due to the math of it all.

We sometimes used to use 'Clan' (I use that term lightly, as we use the Gaming Forum intials as it) tags but found people backed out more when they saw 6 people in the party, I can see why but we don't mind it, in fact it can make for a better game if you do fall into a lobby with another 'Clan', not always of course, as we've played teams who don't even cap their own spawn flag....then you're just waiting to see how long the "......disconnected by transmission error" will appear....

I do play solo sometimes (Mainly Dom) but mostly with friends and have had a few good nights with randoms who luckily played the game but not always the case as you know you're in trouble when you cap 'B' and turn around to find you're on your own....and hear the stampede of the other team....

"I do/would, I don't tend to stay in lobbies with clans since I play alone, I now my team obviously won't win."

Whilst it can be a chore, it's not always the case, but I know what you mean and can be off putting, (see above) but I've dropped into games mid session before and been losing against 'teams' in Dom, but pulled it back on the odd occassion.

Re: OUTRAGE! MW3 empty handed at BAFTA games awards

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:55:17 GMT

Or the fact is that MW3 deserves to win nothing because some people aren't fooled by the self proclaimed hype....just saying.

Re: How To Cap B Flag Like a Pro?

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:44:08 GMT

Title should be "How easy is it to cap B when the other team are ****" nothing 'Pro' about it....

Re: I'm apparently doing it wrong.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:20:09 GMT

Don't worry about it you're not doing anything wrong....it's not a race, you'll get there at your own pace.

Check out some other game modes as some reward more XP than others.

My son got to 10th in 6 Days 2hrs.... is that considered 'normal' here, who cares....he just had fun doing it at his own pace.

Re: Why punish players with good internet...

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:07:54 GMT

DR K1LLINIT wrote:

my 2 pennys worth, lol

My net at home is virgin 50mb and I have to use all my previous skills learned in cod games to even get above 20 kills per game, and somtimes its just painful to play!!!

But..............

When Im round my mates house playing on his xbox,( internet is BT 10mb), I run and gun as if im xcal or markofj and get 40+ almost every game.

I have exactly the same load out, but do soooooo much better.

HOW COME??????

Hmmmmmmmmm Lag comp??????

One other thing is Virgin is notorious for bad connections to this game and it's all over the Virgin forums and a couple of our Clan members have 50mb connections but we cannot even get into some lobbies when they're in the party and if it does give them host then they have to leave as the game is terrible for all of us.

Re: Why punish players with good internet...

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:06:39 GMT

This made me laugh so much I almost couldn't cast off....

Please define 'Good Internet'

Please define 'Skill'

What is not always considered is the other players connections that your playing with, especially when in a party, we have terrible issues when some of our Clan play who are on Virgin (Fibre) and have 50/10mb connections and sometimes we can't even get into a lobby until they leave and have to join in session and this is just one example of the trouble we have.

Most of us have a mix of mainly Virgin/BT Infinity/o2/ and the different ISP's do not make for good gaming and add in the netcode issues and it has become ugly.

A big difference since the days of MW2 when we where running 2 Xbox's off a 1mb line and when one of the players from our forum used to connect using a usb dongle and still kick peoples @rses.

Re: When will the Clan Ops be rescheduled for?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:16:44 GMT

2013

Re: Who still plays this game daily?

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:59:06 GMT

A lot of the Clan I'm in have already sold it and the others don't play it anywhere near as much as we 'tried' to and some have got their M$ Points back (UK) because it's not delivering what it promised.

When we played MW2 we played everynight for 9 months and although it had its faults it was still playable and you still could win even though it was sometimes laggy.

Then the poor excuse for a game, BOps was released and it started going downhill from then on.

We jumped on MW2 last Friday and a party with 6 of us had a good night, the one most important thing we noticed was how refreshing the Maps where in comparison to MW3 ones.

It's a sad statement of modern day gaming when the companies with the tech actually make things worse as it progresses instead of improving the series and what should be the best FPS experience you can buy, has instead turned into a dying episode of fail on a mass scale, not only does the game not work, Elite is a disaster.

Along with the recent Matchmaking problems, as I'm in the UK and have started getting put into Spanish and French lobbies etc....and not once have we been given host and the lag is now worse than it's ever been and the constant updates and HF's that just seem to make it as bad as it was before, it is now coming to the end of the road.

If we could get our money back for the game and the press actually did their job of reporting the state it's in, the devs would be commercially dead in the water, drowning in their self righteous egos.

Re: Don't you wish there was an achievement for... ?

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:27:36 GMT

In MW2 one of our team players once commented to someone on the other team in the lobby who was ranting on about K/D even though his team lost the game and he said:

"Have you unlocked the Boring as Fcuk Emblem"....So whilst not an achievment it would be funny....

So yes please:

"Sitting in a corner for most of the game"

"Abandoning your teammates in objective based games"

"Having a far too high voice for a male"

You get the picture....

One of our players did get a Head Shot on Wasteland with a Stinger once and apparently there is a reward for it.

Re: Black ops 2 rumors

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:17:06 GMT

Lol, I was about to say that after seeing your comment above, whilst I can see the point of them, I agree, they do nothing but promote the cheapness of the game and do add to the, what seems to be rising disappointment from players with the series, but they are part of the whole and the way the game plays needs seriously looking into as well. (Matchmaking, Spawns etc....).

Re: Black ops 2 rumors

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:06:02 GMT

The worst idea for a game that's not out yet, if this is how they intend to deal with something they have no control over and as, has been said, there are many reasons people leave games, then it is already a fail.

They should be dealing with the way it puts you into games as a priority, you know, when a game has 1v6 players left in the lobby (See above ) and it drops you in that lobby when your losing 7000-50 and then game over and a loss through no fault of your own, which makes the stats a joke. (For those interested in stats).

They should try asking players who play the game for ideas, instead of telling us what we want.

Re: Losing faith?

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:00:38 GMT

dawickid wrote:

I know this isn't the creator’s fault and I am sure that they are working hard to get this up and running again.

Well it's only taken 2 yrs to get this far, so should be OK in another 2yrs...[twiddles thumbs]

Re: I have a 3.3 Kd

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:38:56 GMT

anthonysgreat wrote:

I live in the us on the east coast
I didnt mean to come off as some elitist ******* but im sick of every good player I run into just wanting to play full party and hold two flags even if the other team is not trying to leave their spawn. and every clan ive joined just camps and rages if I cross the invisible line, I play to have fun and I have fun when I can run around and know I have a teamate who can kill someone whos shooting them rather than sitting ads at a door or alley

Go play TDM then....holding 2 flags is how you win Domination matches....

Re: Terrible matchmaking....

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:50:37 GMT

Same here (UK), with atrocious lag.

Re: Are modded controllers bannable?

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:39:14 GMT

So would you agree that those who used them by their own admission in Clan Ops should be banned?

Re: How to Win Operations

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:24:24 GMT

Maybe because no one's interested in your borefeast....moving on....bye!

Re: Better way to handle Clan Ops

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:21:00 GMT

Same as you asian, I don't know the answer but would have thought they have backend SW available that can look at Players in more detail and their Stats, maybe it's possible to adapt that to filter the numbers, or it may be easy to start from scratch if they know what they want it to do.

It would be nice to be able to play in the Clan Ops and feel like your efforts are worthwhile if they could implement some options to restrict Boosters before the Ops start and it would of course raise confidence in BH for the players in the Ops as they would appear Pro Active instead of chasing the cheaters tails all the time, which of course is harder to do.

One thing in the future is to make sure only the caps count for the winning team then it would negate the other teams score, so if it is team mates then they wouldn't count towards the Clan count, not sure if it works that way already as it's hard to find a definative answer.