soxinthebox
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Yep.
When playing on PC do you guys see the previous game badges under your call sign? I read that you don't but I was kind of hoping my PC ranks would somehow make it over to the PS3..
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 |OT| Got 99 Problems, But Sales Ain't One.
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Yep.
When playing on PC do you guys see the previous game badges under your call sign? I read that you don't but I was kind of hoping my PC ranks would somehow make it over to the PS3..
I'm done with this game. Reached Level 80 and got a few golden guns along the way. Prestiging never appealed to me in CoD so I'm not gonna even bother. It doesn't mean shit since people eventually hack their way to the top anyway.
This game has too many issues. The only thing they did right was the strike packages (no more death from above). Other than that the maps sucks (to many entry points and obstacles), connection issues suck ("I just pumped 10 bullets into him and I die...with one shot?"), and I'm tired of getting shot in the back (literally two seconds after spawning).
There were moments where it was fun but most of time it wasn't. I don't wanna play a game that constantly gets me angry. Bottom line, with all the issues it has, this game just it isn't fun to play. I was hoping that they'd fix some of the issues in the past two weeks but I guess that was a pipe dream.
Makes me wonder, what happened to the Modern Warfare franchise?
This game has too many issues. The only thing they did right was the strike packages (no more death from above). Other than that the maps sucks (to many entry points and obstacles), connection issues suck ("I just pumped 10 bullets into him and I die...with one shot?"), and I'm tired of getting shot in the back (literally two seconds after spawning).
There were moments where it was fun but most of time it wasn't. I don't wanna play a game that constantly gets me angry. Bottom line, with all the issues it has, this game just it isn't fun to play. I was hoping that they'd fix some of the issues in the past two weeks but I guess that was a pipe dream.
Makes me wonder, what happened to the Modern Warfare franchise?
rapid32.5
Member
Feel the same man, I played COD4 and MW2 to death. Got burned with BLOPs with no proper hit detection that never been fixed and now MW3. I don't wanna wait months for the game to become playable. I think COD series lost its appeal to me there isn't enough reasons to buy new games. Thank goodness I didn't buy the Elite Pack.
palpabl_purpura
Member
Which is why competitive FPS are garbage. It used to be that every life counted, but in COD, there are "throw-away" spawns which leave you completely helpless. Either you spawn into the sights of a pavelow, or in front of a camper, etc. That's why I don't play the competitive aspect of these games anymore. ID didn't even bother adding a traditional competitive multiplayer component to Rage. Why? It would have be done right, i.e., opposite of COD, i.e. people wouldn't have played.
njean777
Member
I think you are holding on to a past form of competitive MP, Counterstrike is still around for people that value the one life formula, same with COD. There are many option in COD multiplayer to play it the way you want to. You do not have to play with killstreaks on, respawns, or the radar. COD MP is not the wrong form of MP it is just its own form, its fine to not like it, but to call it outright bad is wrong.
AbsurdG3nius
Member
Anyone having any luck getting onto Elite via a mac? It wasn't loading on Chrome last week, so I was using Safari, and now Safari is loading the same white, blank page (not a single line in the source code) that Chrome was posting.
njean777
Member
no problem for me on chrome with my macbook pro...
Same here, no issues.
dope4goldrope
Member
It's perhaps wrong to call it outright bad, but it's no stretch to call it fundamentally flawed.
njean777
Member
How so? The spawning is horrible I agree, but everything else seems balanced to me. With a couple of weapon balance patches the game should be just fine. No game is ever perfect when it comes out.
AbsurdG3nius
Member
I tried really hard but this game isn't for me.
I wouldnt call the game bad. It just has too many issues to considered fair competitive MP gameplay.
Will there ever be a day when what happens on my screen actually happens on yours too?
I wouldnt call the game bad. It just has too many issues to considered fair competitive MP gameplay.
Will there ever be a day when what happens on my screen actually happens on yours too?
I overlooked this post. I completely agree with you.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
that's why real men play search and destroy. Respawning is for chumps.
I don't know dude. Search and Destroy is like Counterstrike, right? I love that game but I hate dying and waiting to get back into the action.
I'm all set to sell this game but I'll give it a shot today.
dope4goldrope
Member
I'll do a quick run off on the things that make me think this way.
- The spawning is horrible, yes. There's nothing quite like being pinballed around because of the shoddy spawn system AND poor level design.
- Head glitching. What the fuck, man. This has been an issue forever and they just don't seem to give a fuck. It's not even hyperbole to say that the majority of good games put out by the CoD userbase probably involved headglitching at some point or another in the game. Instead of fixing one of the most ridiculous tactics in the game, they've embraced it. They enable it. They place these convenient little areas near choke point that just scream out to be discovered. It's like the motto for head glitching in Call of Duty games is "use me. abuse me". Millions of people (including myself!) use this because it's either head glitch or be head glitched. It's so wrong.
- The weapon balance. Sniper rifles and LMGs have no purpose in the game. Quick scoping is bullshit and sniper rifles make no sense to otherwise use in this game. There's a reason why it's in the game, few people would ever use a sniper rifle regardless. The maps are too confined and dense to rely on them legitimately. LMGs also have like no use cases at all. They're just there at this point for a box tick, I suppose.
- And since I've touched on this in all three of my points, the LEVEL DESIGN.
BiggStankDogg
Member
My best friend and I came to the same conclusion last night. We've played CoD religiously since MW1. We always have complaints and stuff after playing for awhile (normally when people start knowing the maps and formulating their play to maximize douchiness), but almost always started out playing and thinking "This is such an improvement!". Not so much with this one.
Yes, lag exists in all online games, but If I have 4 bars, I shouldn't be stuttering. When I aim down my sights, my frame rate should not falter, especially in a game like this. Most notably for me, it lags bad when I place claymores. I go to place my claymore, the frame skips and I place my claymore 5 five away from where I wanted. So I pick it up and try to re-place. Then I die. I am happy with the game overall. But it's issues like lag that take all the good they've done and wipes it from my memory. I know there will be apologists saying that I just suck or I need to disregard my killcam (what the fuck is it even there for if not to provide a representation of what happened?) but I never had problems like this in the other games in the series. Yeah BlOps had shitty hit detection, but rather that then not even getting to shoot someone period. I'm a middling player, not great, but not bad, but this game is killing me. This may be my last Call of Duty purchase. I'm not sure I want to wait around for them to fix THIS one.
Me too. I love HC SND, but when I get into lobby after lobby with some dickhead on both teams racing to see how many team members they can kill per rocket, I can't even find solace in this mode. It's either team rocket kills, or I can't tell you how many times I've gone to plant a bomb, only to have a random teammate deliberately team kill me to get the plant. It's happened in other games, but this one seems to almost encourage asshole behavior because there is no punishment or penalty except for negative points. Most of these assholes are on secondary accounts, so even that doesn't matter. I report and report and report but I doubt it does anything. They can't even get their paid service working smoothly, I'm sure DoucheBagMcRocket is low on the priority list.
Terrordactyl
Member
I played it extensively for the first time last night, I don't recall shields being so popular in previous installments, I changed my S&D packages lethal to semtex immediately. It seems like they take too long to kick idlers though which sucks pretty bad and some of the bomb sites are kinda WTF.
Probably the worst I've ever seen. It's like they said lets make up for this poor level design by placing a car here or a crate there. The problem is they put that shit all over the place. CoD games never has so many objects in the middle of the map to obstruct the players sight or movement. Fucking awful.
Yes, my thoughts exactly.
OMG, the killcam, don't let get me started on that thing.
BTW, what's head glitching?
BiggStankDogg
Member
It only serves to help camp, really. Grey camo on grey debris is a nightmare, lol.
Taking advantage of the fact that in CoD games you're basically shooting from your face -- if a guy's behind a box and all you can see is his head, he can still shoot you at full effectiveness.
It's part of the game.
Oh, I never knew it had a name. People do that alot on the stairs looking down the long hallway in Skidrow in MW2.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
it's all I play. I barely even touch other modes. Kills and deaths mean more, there is an actual objective, etc...
At first it'll seem overwhelming with some of the bomb site locations and all that, but overall it's the only mode in COD worth playing extensively. My opinion of course.
TestOfTide
Banned
So what exactly is headglitching, and why do people insist that it is a problem in this game?
Terrordactyl
Member
Just logged into elite and got this message:
Registration complete you've received your double XP!
lol my registration has been complete since day one, but I have yet to receive that double xp from elite, but I'll take it!
Registration complete you've received your double XP!
lol my registration has been complete since day one, but I have yet to receive that double xp from elite, but I'll take it!
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Probably POV issues that have been in all cod games.
In COD games the bullets come from your head. So you can stand behind something with just the tip top of your head showing and still shoot. Making yourself rather hard to kill. It's a problem but nothing extreme. It's been there since forever.
Rabbitweed
Member
Am I the only one who suffers from a host disadvantage? I have rage quit a couple of games today where I was the host and it was just mind boggling how fast people were able to kill me in those matches. Even when I knew where the enemy was coming from and was ready to fire I would drop dead in a nanosecond once the enemy appeared. Such bullshit.
computers putin'
Member
All 3 very valid complaints, but the head glitching in MW3 is more of a problem than ever before. Damn near all the cover in this game is basically body high, so only the tip of your head is exposed. The other CoD's at least tried to be somewhat conscious of the issue when building the maps, as most cover seemed to be chest high and non-exploitable. Here, all cover just seems lazily placed and just kind of feeds into the feeling that these maps were half-heartedly designed
These are issue's that should be exposed with decent play testing though. Too bad it seems that with most FPS's there isn't much play testing going on, because devs can get the public to play test for them the first few weeks of release then send a patch out fixing everything. Issue's with things like cover aren't typically things to be fixed after release though......
Reckless Onion
Member
Something like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOpFCCnv0E
i got it constantly, also when i'm not the host.
It's really ridiculous and made me stop playing it for now, just isn't fun at all
TestOfTide
Banned
But how is that a problem. That's the nature of the game and necessary in order for the sights to be pinpoint accurate. The whole point of this game is to most effectively use the paths and the cover to your advantage and as long as they can shoot at you, there is at least a small area of their head that you can shoot at.
The real problem is that there is some inconsistency with regard to bullet penetration. A xerox machine in underground shouldn't be impenetrable to an LMG with impact while someone else can easily kill me by shooting their SMG through a concrete barrier without impact.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Are you kidding, 98% of your entire body in protected & you can still shoot out of that cover.
legacyzero
Banned
TestOfTide
Banned
that's the point of cover: to give you a tactical advantage compared to the guy with no cover.
if he is looking down the sights in one direction behind cover, then 99% of time he is vulnerable to flank or at the very least a frag.
Maybe I just don't see the problem as much because I always go for the flanking route.
PalaceBrother
Member
That's a nice triple kill.
dope4goldrope
Member
I just think there's a huge issue in being in a gunfight against a scalp. That's a fundamental flaw in my opinion. It's just a nightmare. It doesn't have to be that way, it shouldn't be that way. There's no legitimate argument on why it should be that way.
As far as the tactical advantage behind cover goes, the vast majority of the places it's applicable are already choke points by design (doorways, corners, etc). You're already set up to have that tactical advantage by catching someone on their heels. And if you want to be behind cover so tall that only your scalp is visible, you shouldn't be able to shoot over it.
Like I said, I abuse these positions myself. It's not like I'm only a victim to them, they're just not fair. I shouldn't be able to do this to other people, they shouldn't be able to do it to me. But because of how fucked up the community is, like I said, it's either glitch or be glitched.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
I don't understand the "headglitching" complaints. If you're aiming down the sights, the gun is practically at your eye level, hence the bullets will originate from where your head is located. What's the problem here?
What? Other shooters work like this as well, this isn't anything new. It's to match up view point and bullet trajectory in first person games. Also, definitely not called "head glitching."
computers putin'
Member
Not sure if everybody is being serious about head glitching not being an issue lol
dope4goldrope
Member
The bullets in a gun come out of the barrel, not the sights. Sorry.