I said I was done with this game weeks ago and to be honest I was. It basically sat on my shelf collecting dust while I played some other titles. But then I read about the new patches that were coming out and I dusted off my copy of the game yesterday and popped it in. I was so excited to finally play this game the way it was suppose to be played.

And then after about four hours of playing I took the disc out, put it in it's case, and traded it in for another game. I'm not exactly sure what your patch was suppose to fix, but if it was the lag compensation issues that have plagued the game from day one then I am sad to say that you failed miserably.

Games took longer to get into. Nine out of ten games at 50ms ping I was one of two or three players playing with a constant four bar connection in every lobby that I joined (the rest being two and a handul of three bars if I was lucky). I was still put into lobbies with players from halfway around the world (in one lobby a full clan of very friendly players hailing from Portugal). I still suffered from insta-kills (no red screen), matrix style bending bullets, shotgun hitmarkers galore at 2m or less, and frame stutters. I won't even go into what happened the few times that I was host (nothing like getting sniped by a shotgun at sniper distance or emptying half a mag from your M60 into someone while you watch them walk through the bullets and knife you).

As I stated in previous posts, I am an avid fan of Call Of Duty. I have been playing since COD 2 on my pc, I waited anxiously for each new game that came out in this series. Sad to say that MW3 completely ruined this series for me. It's been over seven months since the game was released and you guys still cannot get things right. You ignored the community and basically left us with a big piece of steaming crap. The arrogance shown towards the community (ie blaming us for the lag issues because a handful of idiots throttled their connections) coupled with the fact that you still cannot fix the game is a game breaker for me.

I might buy BLOPS 2 because Treyarch has shown in the past that they are capable of correcting what needs to be fixed but I'm pretty much done with any game that is stamped with the Infinity Ward logo on it. I never understood all of the fanboy hate towards Infinity Ward until this game was released but now my eyes are wide open. Thank you for the very forgetable campaign, the even more forgetable spec op missions, and the hours upon hours of frustratingly bad multiplayer. I might be out of line here but the Modern Warfare series has pretty much lost it's mojo since certain unnamed developers left IW and Activision.

On a side note I feel that I should leave on a positive note. Ghandi, I just want to thank you for all of the time and effort that you have given all of us. While I disagree with many of your statements (the throttling issue being an example) I give you credit for at least trying to keep communications open with the players. I sincerely wish you the best of luck with your future endeavors.

@ G IH A IN ID II,

esmorgue

5,922 posts since

Jul 9, 2011

@G IH A IN ID II

Do you ever get a day off reading all these complaints? I want to thank you for your job and hope we soon see the f/o maps in Survival. Thanks for being there for us.

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

pulling69 wrote:

 

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

pulling69 wrote:

 

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

markocc wrote:

 

ondsnap wrote:

 

Hey Mac,  I know the patch was for parties.  But shouldn't it have also addressed single players?  Just because I'm playing solo, which is rare, I shouldn't be playing with people from all over the world.  Don't you agree??

 

I'll try this miracle of god patch with my friends tonight (that is if any are still playing) and see if it helps us.  With all due respect, have you seen the guy who you just killed by his killcam in yours?  I bet that the answer is yes!

 

This is what I also asked many pages ago. I don't understand why they would apply the host selection logic only to parties and not the entire lobby in general. If I was to play in Mercenary or in a regular lobby without any parties it should select the host in the same way as the party update is supposed to. If there are 10 people on the east coast, one in the center of the country and one on the west coast it seems to pick the one in the middle as host to average out the ping instead of picking somebody out of the other 10 on the east. That 1 person on the west coast shouldn't be in the lobby in the first place so why should everybody else have the game completely ruined because of that one person?

It does this and always has. As a single player you are effectively a party of one. The game will search for matches in your local region and join the session to which you have the best.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

Then why would it routinly when playing solo match me (in VA just outside of DC) with players in Quebec, Wisconsin, Mexico, Puerto Rico, New York, and on and on. I live in a very densly populated area and I know for a fact there is a very large population of MW3 players on the PS3 in the region(WVA, VA, MD, DC, Southern PA, Del) to match me up with. This does not seem to happen all that often. Hopefully this new party making patch improves this some, but I am not setting my hopes to high since I should have been "partying" with them already when playing solo.

What game mode are you playing? At what time and on which platform? What does the game say your NAT type is and what ISP do you use?

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

PS3 Open Nat, hard wired to router on Fios 25/25. I play a variety of types(TDM, KC, Dom, Mercenary) usually in the evening on the East coast(5pm-1am) during the week and at all various times over the weekends. This is both with and without DLC enabled mind you.

It should be returning you quality local sessions. However, with that quality of connection it is likely you are often made host. When you notice foreign or distant  players in your lobbies are they generally parties?

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

Parties.....I know I am often made host, trust me. That is why I have been experimenting with various QoS limititations on my PS3 in an effort to find an ideal speed where I won't be host as it places me at such a disadvantage in this game.

PS Over the weekend I had my connection at 350/350.....The host left mid game and it still made me host. Lag fest!

It's accurate to say that probably everyone playing on Xbox 360 last night has the patch, correct? If you select 'No' on the download prompt, it just takes you back the Dashboard, right (never done that so I'm not sure).

I had many many BS deaths last night, really it was a typical 'crappy' night for Domination. There were about 20k players in regular DOM during the 2+ hours I played. Struggling to go positive and getting manhandled by kids ending the game at 9-20, 14-25, 6-18, etc. Yet they were invincible to me. Losing many gunfights after multiple rounds on target (unsilenced SCAR, same with the silenced MP7). Losing 1:1 with Quickdraw, against Assassin and Hardline players (no, they weren't scoped in when I came into view).

I played some TDM (sigh) and it seemed be a little better due to larger player count probably...of course its hard to tell if it truly was, or if it was easier due to how terrible many TDM players are.

I'll have some patience, though. Hopefully it will improve for me!