operator-1 wrote:
@ G IH A IN ID II :
Your polite & frequent interaction on this forum is appreciated. Please understand that, by now, we're way past "be patient." Call of Duty customers deserve more accountable answers & solutions instead of hearing things like "we plan to continue working on it, so just wait & see."
The Call of Duty series has enjoyed billions of dollars in sales & MW3 is the seventh Call of Duty game to offer multiplayer on Xbox Live...
...After all that time, money, experience, & customer feedback, the performance & security of Call of Duty games should be getting better - not worse.
Out of MW3's numerous defects, the "lag" issue (commonly referred to by many names, such as: lag compensation, latency, synchronization, hit detection, hit registration, net code, "Wanted" bullets, "a second ahead/behind," etc.) appears to be, by far, the most severe problem affecting the most customers.
It might even be argued that this issue affects all MW3 customers - those who report having no issues may, in fact, simply be on the favorable side of this very same "lag" problem.
It's conceivable that this lag issue is also a major contributor to other problems (such as weapon balance - a weapon's effectiveness is certainly affected by lag/sync circumstances).
Most of us do not have this problem with anywhere near this level of frequency & severity when playing other games over Xbox Live (even other Call of Duty games).
Judging by the frequency & severity of this issue, I can't imagine why the MW3 team would have any priority higher than fixing it.
The kind of tweaking/hot-fixing/patching going on now in MW3 seems like the sort of thing that should occur pre-release (alpha/beta phase) rather than post-launch. We're nearly 3 months into MW3 (one-eighth of the 2 years' time it took to develop the entire game) & many issues do not seem to be improving much (if at all).
If MW3's developers cannot duplicate this lag issue in their testing environment, perhaps their testing environment does not adequately mimic the live/production environment, or perhaps they should try different testing methods. Judging by the high volume of detailed customer reports regarding this issue, it doesn't seem like it would very difficult to reproduce.
The developers are the experts/pros. The complexities of game development come with the job. Clearly something has gone very wrong if the beast has outgrown their ability to tame it. None of the game's problems/defects seem like anything multi-billion-dollar sales couldn't easily find ways to overcome.
We continue to work on lag issues with our best network engineers.
