Jul 26, 2012 4:03 AM
BIG IMPROVEMENTS COMING TO LAG COMP, MATCH MAKING, SPAWNS, GUNS
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Rubin's latest update......sounds very encouraging......particularly the change to IP based matchmaking in Dom....thoughts?
Quote: Rubin Tweek 21 July.
"Lag Comp (Xbox & PS3) - TDM has some settings that replicate to an extent MW2 lag comp settings. More to be done here. Moving to all playlists soon. Probably sometime next week barring any issues. PC is still being worked on as well but is a different code path."
"Matchmaking (Xbox) - Domination has a new matchmaking schema. It no longer uses Hilbert regions but rather country code based on your IP. Improvements to that coming in upcoming patch. But if you have been matchmaking a lot with people from other countries please try this out and see if it is better."
"Spawning (All) - Faceoff maps have had more spawn points added and a slight tweak to the logic. Should reduce the amount of spawn trapping. But the maps are small so spawning will always feel dangerous. Part of the fun of the mode. A full re-write on spawn logic is in the works but will be some time before it is ready."
"Weapon Balance - We have started our pass on weapons here at the studio and are testing out some changes. We are just hitting ARs and SMGs at first. Our current philosophy on this right now is not to nerf but rather to buff those weapons that are under-performing. Not sure yet on the eta of when these changes will go live."
I'm in Sydney Australia......I have been put in lobbies with Americans all day. Playing with NZers is laggy enough.....:( Bring on the patch....
So that explains why I am playing with people all over the world in my lobbies now. Again, they look like amateurs by not being able to get this right.......FAIL
LOL good luck with that TDM is way worse for me now so this wont be pulling me back to play I will stick with BF3 thanks.
Yeah I don't understand why I get put into lobbies full of (continental) Europeans, especially French, German and Spanish players. I'm from the UK and have nothing against them but surely they have sold enough copies of the game so they don't have to have their players being matched up against UK based ones?! When half the lobby is full of non-UK based gamers they are guaranteed places 1st to 4th after the game in my experience.
wait so this has already been done or it is coming soon?
could be interesting only time will tell. do you think it will be an update or just a behind the scene fix ?
Where it says close to MW2, shouldn't have changed it since MW2
Part of fun of the mode. Oh yeah not being able to play is really fun!
So in reality nothing is happening, changing spawns to face-off? Who cares about face-off, fix the spawns for the entire game. Its the end of July, and they are talking about changing things in September at the earliest, great job.
Ok I have read it again, does domination already have the fixed matchmaking and they are gonna apply to all over modes? So they will improve lag comp and matchmaking, hmmm maybe I will have to make a u-turn. Im off just to try a little domination just to see
1 game of domination out of the 12 of us spainish x 1, Northern Irish x 1 so not to bad lag comp still bad but if they apply the lag comp amendments to this then maybe it will be playable for a couple of games per night.
Still getting a couple europeans per game just the lag comp needs sorting
Only 7 european players in 25 mins from 54 players vast improvement, just the lag comp to do
So had 30 secs of MW3 tonight on the apparently matchmaking fixed domination mode and this was the list of players
1 x italy
2 x german
1 x french
1 x Norway
1 x cananda
1 x USA
4 x UK including me
and i was host
Great fix lasted 1 night and I was host so needless to say after the first couple of lag induced kills I quit double XP or not BF3 is far better than MW3 at present
I tweeted my thoughts to
@CallofDuty @Treyarch @InfinityWard #MW3 @candyslexia @IWMarkRubin
They need to drop the whole idea of match making based on country codes and only use ping since that is the ONLY important factor in regards to match making. I'd rather connect to somebody in my neighboring country with a 10ms ping than somebody in my own country with a 200ms ping.
The problem of only using ping to do that is that ping is variable and changing all the time for some players. You may get a low ping one moment to have it change a few moments later. So that low ping player may soon be a high ping player thus affecting both yours and their game.
By trying to do it by region they hope to keep pepople more in the local area of play, which shuold provide a better average of lower pings. Where as that player in another countries ping can very vastly depending upon traffic over the internet between their country and yours on a moment to moment basis.
Im in California, and the past week the lag has been worse than it ever has been for me... The game is literally unplayable 40% of games.... Like i cant believe it, lag has increased 10 fold for me its disgusting...
Any update news if they are applying all fixes to all modes this week?
Matchmaking doesn't work properly even in domination.
I am from Italy, and yesterday i played with people coming from all europe, from Norway to Turkey. In some cases people from USA and South Africa.
I didn't notice any improvement in tdm, it is the same "wtf" as always
I hope they fix all the spawns not just face off maps
Haha.
IW: Challenge : Break the game more then it already is... Challenge accepted.
well anything helps, it can only go up from here lol,, id also liek to see some of these spawn killer groups actually have to earn their kills.. watch their kd drop lol
I can picture it going down to be honest, from what I can tell thats all they've done really is make the game worse since launch but maybe a few decent updates.
Anyhow with the games life running out quick and Blops 2 around the corner, they won't do anything major to this game.
I guess one could hope though?
Wouldn't be me. ![]()
too little too late
I feel you, if anything needs a buff though is the riot shield.. i used it a few times lately and i actually got knifed head on through the shield, i lookds at the kill cam, and I couldnt believe it.. also if you switch back to shield to block another enemys bullets, even on your screen shows the shield in place.. you die.. look on the kill cam and it shows you still putting the shield infront of you... crazy