G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

We have not been adjusting parameters lately since we decided without the right instrumentation to empirically determine the impact of our changes in the retail environment we would be, to a large degree, shooting in the dark. We will have this information shortly.

 

We are also confident that many of the issues people have described in recent weeks can be laid at the door of matchmaking.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

Ghandi, lets be honest. After 7 months you still haven't a clue what's messing up the game and have to implement a feature to monitor what's happening??? Apart from that additional traffic you might generate this seems llike you wasted 7 months with what? Waiting how many players will post here and there or just abandon the game? Maybe some placebo patches or even some that make everything worse? Well at least for matchmaking you wrecked the game even for solo players.

My prediction is that this game might become playable when BLOPS2 comes out. Not because you finally fixed the game but because cheaters, hackers and bottleneckers will move on to the next title. Great job.

maccabi wrote:

 

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

RainMaker wrote:

 

Since your on right  now what kind of update from the horse's mouth  are we looking at for a fix?? Do updates have to go through corporate first before being implemented??

 

Sync issue man why is it so hard to address limited resources on xbox360 also?

No we cannot hot-fix this issue although we have the ability to change parameters which affect the lag compensation systems on the fly. In the next TU to hit a platform we will be logging information that will allow us to better determine what these settings should be as well as provide us with data that will hopefully lead to a code fix to the issues people are suffering from. Also, as I have said previously we are deploying a number of changes to the matchmaking system which we hope will have a dramatic impact upon the quality of games players are joining.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

So basically the nexct TU on consoiles which is due within what two weeks? has the instruments for you to then spend x number of weeks collating data , for a fix that will then be included in the following TU or more likely the one after that.. as the TU in cert now is the dhm nerf one that is due second week in july right?

 

Maybe im reading this wrong but to me that says stuff like host disadvantage and the horrible lerps isnt going to be addressed for another 4 weeks at least (Tu after the next one)

 

I really dont understand this , Without sounding arogant here, months ago I pointed out to you the lerps was set incorrectly heck you can see it is just by playing, ive also told you months ago your region fencing is screwy (two things you recently confirmed were the case) how comes i can work out where the issues are without the need for fancy backend instrumentation? On top of that people have said from day 1 host disadvantage is killing peoples enjoyment why cant you just scale the setting down anything lower than it is now is an improvemnt.

 

Add to this your guys over dose of community interaction now where everyone is saying different things ..it's leading the community to really get annoyed, you say one thing., Mark Rubin says something completely opposite, then you got Tina and Candice giving people false infomation/hope by basically lciting a wishlist (i have noticed the iw twitter account tonight clarified that but still.. left hand right hand no communication issues seriously.

 

and tbh you're now doing stuff that you guys should've been doing months ago, 7-8 months in and suddenly its all hands on deck to fix latency and connection issues that have been common knowledge since day 1 seriously you had no backend instruments to monitor connections? pulls up desk thumps

I apologize for the frustration maccabi. We have a new community team. We are in the process of establishing how this group coordinates messaging across the different social media outlets. As part of this process I will eventually withdraw from posting on these forums and individuals from the community management group will take my place on a full time basis.

Regarding the suggestions you make they have been valuable. However, as I'm sure you understand these are systems that try to balance an inherently complex problem. We fixed all the things that obviously jumped out at us as being potential culprits. We wish to proceed in a more surgical manner. For what it's worth to dispel a misconception there is no active host disadvantage code running. I don't mean to imply that many hosts are not suffering a disadvantage, however.

Cheers,

G IH A IN ID II

coolwhhhip wrote:

 

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

coolwhhhip wrote:

 

Sorry guys, I think I shut Ghandi down when I asked him what the problem was regarding premium members and matchmaking. Must be a pretty embarrassing problem they found. the issue is one that has always faced

 

I'm still here. The issue is one of fracturing the community and is an old problem as you highlight. Additionally, we have many more playlists than in previous titles and this compounds the problem. The other issue is that we are more narrowly looking for people who match your specific player population due to the regional component of our matchmaking algorithms. We hope this issue will be resolved within the next two weeks.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

Do you think with learning and advancements in the future, the systems you use in these games will be dynamic enough to possibly be able to trump disparities in internet quality and issues in player base fracturing to the point that all of the issues these things create will be gone? Just curious where you think all of this stands regarding the future. Cheers

We are learning all the time both from our successes and our failures. Our plans for the network layer in future titles have been influenced heavily by what we have discovered on MW3 both at IW and at other studios within Activision. The short answer is yes we are confident that connectivity will improve.

Cheers,

G IH A IN ID II

g ih a in id ii kn u reply to my earlier Q to shed some light on why mw3 was fine b4 blackbox and horrible after u fixd the matchmaking problem(which never affected me)

undertow0013 wrote:

 

g ih a in id ii kn u reply to my earlier Q to shed some light on why mw3 was fine b4 blackbox and horrible after u fixd the matchmaking problem(which never affected me)

We believe we know what occurred at around this juncture and this is one of the fixes that will be rolled out soon.

Cheers,

G IH A IN ID II