May 17, 2012 10:54 AM
Can SomeOne Please Explain Why On Earth I'm getting Put In To foriegn lobbies?
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Hello all
I am from the UK and i play on the PS3 and PC and i get put in to foriegn lobbies every single game and so do my friends,i have my firewall down when i'm on the PS3(but up when on PC),i have all the correct ports open,i have recently started to drop out from lobby search if the games aren't 0-50 ping,me and my freinds have tried changing who is party leader to see if any change but its the same every single game.
Please ghandi or a community member can you shed some light on this issue or tell me of a fix?
Playing with Germans Iraqi's and people 500000 bazillion miles away from me is unacceptable and the game has become stupidly unplayble due to this totaly silly logicless problem,why haven't the DEVS inplemented the LOCAL only button like we had in Black Ops?
I am at a loss with this.
P.S i shot a guy last night in Hardcore with the MSR rifle(about 3 feet away) and got a hit marker LOL
Thanks in advance for info
The best way to handle it is when searching for games, never let the ping go past 75ms. Once it does, back out and start over. Might take a little time but it's the only way to help you.
This is exactly what I do. I have only great games because of it.
I've also had this problem. more so recently. I'm in Nevada US, and always getting placed in lobbies with people from hawaii. I understand that we are all from the US but hawaii is an ocean away from me, literally across the f*cking Pacific. No way, that matchmaking can't find players near me, I'm surrounded by other states!
I'm in Ireland and it happens to me to, very rarely get a local game, stuck in lobbies earlier today full of people from serbia and the middle east
i Do drop out of lobbies if they pass <75ms and for some reason i still end up in lobbies 1000's of miles away,surely there is something deply wrong in the programs match making to do this,i'm not 100% sure if this started before the last update/maps either
It seems to be an ongoing issue, there are a lot of posts in here about it, there is supposed to be a patch on the way to fix it though according to a few people on here..
Yea i keep looking for threads about this but never really find any,just find it mentioned in other thread subjects
There are a lot mixed in with the threads about lag and lag compensation
Have the DEVS accepted there is a fault and posted anything,if so can anyone link it please?![]()
I believe the patch has already been released for the PS3 (1.14) The matchmaking now takes the party hosts ping and searches on that, rather than the full parties as it did before.
Make the party leader the person with the best ping - This should solve your issues, and get you more local games.
Unfortunately thats not the case here,we all have similar pings and live with in a half mile of each other,also most of us are with BE internet/02 and have all tried been host ![]()
Also if we all average 28ms give or take you would think none of us would get Lobbies in germany/america/france/egypt as our pings would be 300+ ish which wouldn't match our low pings to put us in those lobbies or am i missing something?
that's great for parties. but what if I'm running solo? I guess I'm just out of luck huh?
Yes i get it solo too,in all honesty i can say its been a good while since i've heard an english speaking enemy team.
I run solo nearly all the time so my luck is bad most of the time..
just talking to Activision support about why i cannot sign in to elite any more and why i haven't recieved my pre order prestige token in 9 days.
here is the conversation for some LOLz
Joseph P: Activision Support reporting for duty!
You: hello,i cannot sign in to elte,its asking me to link my gamer tag even though it has been done months ago
ou: also it seems that when i redeemed my pre order prestige token code it didn't link to any account,as in xbox/ps3 so now when i try to link it says the code has already been used
You: **********@msn.com PSN ID:ronson122 i am a free ELITE member
Joseph P: You should create a new account at www.callofduty.com/elite/account/create.
You: so the fix to using my original account is making a completely different account?
You: won't i loose my information?
You: My clan?
Joseph P: you to register a new email then link your console information and that is the fix for the aforemented issue
Joseph P: no
You: ok im now in to my account but what about the issue of the used redeem code?
Joseph P: You have steps on your receipt to redeem the code. If your redemption is an issue with elite creating a new account will quell these issues.
You: well i say im in my account but what i mean is that i can see my profile info but no game data
You: i dont have a receipt,i just got the code emailed
You: if i create a new account the token and the new account is going to be linked to my psn?..this sounds barbaric so to speak
Joseph P: Barbaric?
You: as i already have an account linked for elite,this seems like a big thing to do to simply aquire said token
joseph P: A primative option suited for a barbarian?
You: >.>
You: i only have one email address so this seems overly drastic for something that should just be fixed to work on my original account no?
Joseph P: The fix for the issue entails creating a new account. You can employ a free service such as gmail or yahoo ect. There are many options and oppertunities you can use to take the first steps to get your token
You: lost for words
Joseph P: Is there anything else I can provide on my end to clarrify?
You: why can i not see my game data in my original account?
Joseph P: What steps have you taken to view your playcard?
You: eeer,logged in like i have done for the last couple of months,except this time its asking me to link my PSN/Gamertag even though its already done,so i humour it and relink my PSN ID and get locked in to the Profile screen
joseph.p: I would suggest a new browser.possible clear your browser cache.it is possible that we are seeing a server related error in which case it woulf be more adviseable to try back in a few hours
You:Cache is clear,used this browser fine with elite since day one,did you just pick 3 random problems out of a hat?
i had to end the conversation at that before i stabbed my eyes out with a kittens claws.......
It sounds like he was carrying on a totally different conversation to you
i remember reading some where that the rag headed countries do not have a lot of people playing and was hard to connect to a local game and they were pleading with IW to expand the radius to play play in more lobbies.
i think they went a TAD to far on the expanding part. i live in florida and also play with what ever countries that can't speak a lick of english.
the only joy i get out of it is making fun of them, and 9 out of 10 times i get my butt handed to because of the lag issues.
i know my game playing has cut down considerably because of all the lagging. just not that much fun any more
Ghandi,Where for art thow?.
Needs fix!
The reason is two part:
LackInVision/Virginity Wart/ScuzSpammer has determined this game unhackable so it must be so.
Your console maker has determined no one can hack you through their system so it must be so.
I hope that clears things up, if I were you Id start searching for numbers to Lack-In-Vision and/or Virginity Wart (the best are fax#'s), write a letter and fax it in. Thats the best way to make changes.
That made me lol
Also found a fix to this disgrace of a game/problem...........
/Inserts Call Of Duty 4:ModernWarfare
OP: im in the USA and i empathize. It is because Inferior Ward couldn't manage to create a local search setting in its crap code. Just trade in the game for BO2 because it WILL have a local search feature.
I get the French German and Spanish all the time iam from Scotland Germans are ok but the French and Spanish languages really do my nut
so true today ..... yet never before
BUMP
Very true here! The latest update has made this worse and I now seem to connect with NOT local (1000 miles radius) player but players in other countries...has made gameplay not fun at all!
From uk, ever since I had the game It has been putting me into european lobbys, clan ops was disgusting on Sunday , altho lag has gotten better!! the KC clan ops was a joke ....one second im in the dome next second im going back into the dome, we was playing clans from china and who knows where else.
the thing that is disgusting is that my friend list that are full of english people in different english clans are all in kill confirmed clan ops are all playing against foreigners too!!
there are loads of uk matches to do UK v UK ect or at least to it by languages
so uk and america and australia ect so we can slag each other off after the game and shizz lol no fun telling a german that they are pussys cus they dnt understand lol