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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare |OT| House of CODs
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shungokusatsu
Member
You're not alone, but keep in mind bandwidth means very little in online games using P2P, it's your ping that matters. With the listening servers it's your upload that matters.
Players should dictate how they play, not the developers. Catering to a single group/playstyle removed in part what made CoD what it is - diverse gameplay that allows anyone of any playstyle to have fun and come up with creative ways to play the game.You know it when you are in the match with themAwesome idea and good going Sledge, bring back the fun in games, instead of yeah gonna kill only him.
It is and has been downhill since MW3, IMHO. Let's pray MCC sells insane amounts of copies and Activision takes note and gives fans a remastered version of the most popular games in the series - MW and MW2.
Given their official response (or lack thereof), it's pretty clear Activision is handling the server situation.
That last one was a mess. Jesus.
Duxxy3
Member
So I'm starting to see why IW may have split up, and why I think Sledgehammer will end up leaving in the future. Activision left Sledgehammer out to dry this week. They made what I believe to be a great game, that will only get better with tweaking and improvements, only to be fucked over by Activision not ponying up dedicated servers. All of Sledgehammer's hard work for three years is down the tubes because the online quality is shit. The game could be the second coming of Christ, but it doesn't matter.
You notice what Respawn has in their very first game after splitting from Activision? Full, top of the line, dedicated servers. None of the P2P crap.
You notice what Respawn has in their very first game after splitting from Activision? Full, top of the line, dedicated servers. None of the P2P crap.
RedAssedApe
Banned
lol...got my first two hate messages. dudes calling me trash and a pussy because I died the least on my team. hopefully these grief report things actually result in a ban if only something temporary just to teach people not to be assholes just because they lose.
used to get it a lot on 360 but first time on psn/ps4.
used to get it a lot on 360 but first time on psn/ps4.
I love it too when the flow of the matches revolves around choke points, with the ability to get out of said choke points with a stealth class and flank the enemy team, which was quite a viable tactic in COD4, and to a lesser extent in MW2. Now it's just... gone. People flank you alright, but it's not because they work to do it, it's because the frigging game itself spawns them right behind your ass. I hate the clusterfuck that COD has become in that regard, the flow of the matches is just laughable.
Wow. I didn't know this. Well, one more reason to stop giving Activision my money for this franchise.
To be fair, while a lot of the blame rests indeed on Activisions' part, let's not forget that Sledgehammer made the horrible decision to reuse Treyarch's netcode and hit detection system from BO2. They had perfectly good ones in Ghosts that they could have used, but for some unfathomable reason they decided to go with Treyarch's broken code instead.
My cousins and I played uplink for 3 hours and we had so much fun. I love that game mode. Online sucks 15% of the time for me, but for the most part it's been excellent. I switched to the bar and that weapon is too incredible, cannot believe that's the first gun. I just hit my first prestige and I'll continue again tomorrow.
I captured the packet traffic from AW while I was playing on my X1 the very first day the game was available. What I could gather from looking at the data was that there were dedicated servers being used for X1 and those servers were operated by MS. This is different than how Ghost was on the X1. Ghost had dedicated servers that were provided by a 3rd party hosting company.
My friend was going to bring over his PS4 yesterday so we could do a similar test, but I wasn't feeling well and we had to postpone it. I am interested to see who, if anyone, is hosting the dedicated servers for PS4.
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Once in clan there is a nice little clan menu in game.
All I ask is if you invite me to play on Xbox (gt= doc vape) or ps4 (psn=devilsadvocat631) just realize I go negative every match and just do b-lines for objectives
I didn't know dedicated servers were supposed to make my gameplay stutter like I was moving 10 fps on x1.... (did not have that problem on ps4, that ran smooth, bullets registered late though)
Jonesy7707
Member
The game is very playable....once you throttle or QoS your own connection. It's absolute BS that this is what needs to be done to try and get on an even playing field.
BipolarBear629
Member
I feel as if after MW and MW2, no multiplayer game has had a majority of the maps included to be good. Am I just blinded by nostalgia or are multiplayer maps just sucking? Pretty much any game from the cod series after those will have maybe 2 good maps and the rest are unnoteworthy or are just bad.
tekneek2k6
Member
I have had the exact same problem on X1. I had to hard reboot my console and that would fix it for the most part. I still will have some rare but severe framerate drops during gameplay though even with rebooting.
Everyone says there are no dedicated servers and now you non chalantly say there are?
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Eh.. Going from mw1 skipping w@w and going to mw2 was hard for me, I hated the killstreak porn and I thought the maps were horrible (especially that plane graveyard and airport) game promoted camping with those maps
Now blops1.....that was amazing maps, interactive maps with switches and levers
Jungle... I miss Jungle
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in the campaign and have to say I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Haven't touched a CoD campaign since MW2 but it sure seems like Sledgehammer's done a great job of making the game feel like an action movie, which is essentially exactly what I would want out of a CoD campaign. And the game sure looks pretty on Xbox One (can only imagine how nice it looks maxed out on PC).
Best 54 cents I've ever spent (Redbox 1 day rental with promo code FTW). Probably will pickup the PC version at some point down the road.
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Best 54 cents I've ever spent (Redbox 1 day rental with promo code FTW). Probably will pickup the PC version at some point down the road.
I can't get over how bad snipers are in this game. They have insane sway, the time it takes to both raise the sights and stabilize them by holding your breath is huge, the small maps don't do sniper users any favors, and to top it all off, it's hitmarkers galore whenever you get lucky enough to actually hit someone.
Coming from Ghosts, which had superb snipers, this is such a step backwards. Also disappointed that they didn't use the neat effect from Ghosts while using the optics, in which only the sight itself zoomed in, as opposed to having the whole screen zoom in.
Coming from Ghosts, which had superb snipers, this is such a step backwards. Also disappointed that they didn't use the neat effect from Ghosts while using the optics, in which only the sight itself zoomed in, as opposed to having the whole screen zoom in.
Broman1978
Junior Member
Why cant just Microsoft make a deal with Activision to let the Xbox One version use Microsofts Azure servers?
That's not the kind of game I want to play. When I'm doing great it feels like the game is giving me a huge advantage and when I'm not it feels like the game is giving me a huge disadvantage.
paradise_circus
Member
Is it possible that using an US (or other foreign) account in germany affects the connection in a bad way?
I have the feeling that playing with an inland account get's better latenecies than offshore accounts.
I have the feeling that playing with an inland account get's better latenecies than offshore accounts.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Played a bunch of multi on X1 last night, and noticed nothing but full bars for everyone, every match.
I did get nailed by a few unlucky spawns, but really, with everyone running all over the map, it's not like there's an ideal spot anywhere. The game usually spawns players near their teammates. There's going to be times when an enemy is right in the area. I don't let it get to me, because we go through this every single CoD, and people complain every single CoD.
The only solution would be a safe base area to spawn, but then you'd have spawn camping like Killzone.
I did get nailed by a few unlucky spawns, but really, with everyone running all over the map, it's not like there's an ideal spot anywhere. The game usually spawns players near their teammates. There's going to be times when an enemy is right in the area. I don't let it get to me, because we go through this every single CoD, and people complain every single CoD.
The only solution would be a safe base area to spawn, but then you'd have spawn camping like Killzone.
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Same here, probably luck but it's been smooth as hell in about 8 hours of online mp
constantstatic
Member
I had a feeling non region locked matchmaking was part of the problem. I'm in ohio and had a few brits in my lobby
This game needs search preferences pings are all over the place. I wish I could just choose a local dedicated server and enjoy the game like titanfall.
Uno Venova
Banned
Pretty much, the spawns aren't bad. The maneuverability just makes it easy for an enemy to be anywhere on the map in seconds, and sometimes you gt unlucky and spawn near them.
I miss jungle also lol, joined clam and added you as a friend.
geordiemp
Member
How do you throttle your own connection - bt optical fibre here UK..
TyrantGuardian
Member
So, I picked this game up on PC and have been playing a bunch of multiplayer. Team Deathmatch is a horrible experience but Domination is a lot more fun. Still, I've been bouncing back and forth between Counter-Strike: GO and this and I just... I don't think I understand COD at all? It feels like it's trying to make you play strategically by keeping key locations covered, but then people can just kill you randomly from anywhere due to how respawns work. In CS:GO there is significant value to predicting enemy movements, and it just doesn't feel like it's there in this game.
I don't know, maybe this sort of gameplay isn't quite for me but I can't shake the thought of "why would anyone think this is fun?". It's one of the most frustrating multiplayer experiences I've had, and as someone who doesn't give a single crap about unlocks and filling bars, being in it for pure gameplay kind of doesn't seem very fun to me.
I'd love to play it more arcade style with the new movement mechanics (which is what caused me to check this game out in the first place) but being oneshot by hitscan weapons no matter how you move puts a complete damper on things. Every time I die it feels like I could never have predicted it, so I just end up camping the safest location I can find and waiting for some random dude to run by and kill him because I'm prone and he thinks I'm a corpse. I'm running all the perks that make me undetectable, so it works decently well but it's not fun at all. I don't know, can anyone tell me if I'm missing something here and fill me in on stuff I should try in order to remedy these concerns?
I don't know, maybe this sort of gameplay isn't quite for me but I can't shake the thought of "why would anyone think this is fun?". It's one of the most frustrating multiplayer experiences I've had, and as someone who doesn't give a single crap about unlocks and filling bars, being in it for pure gameplay kind of doesn't seem very fun to me.
I'd love to play it more arcade style with the new movement mechanics (which is what caused me to check this game out in the first place) but being oneshot by hitscan weapons no matter how you move puts a complete damper on things. Every time I die it feels like I could never have predicted it, so I just end up camping the safest location I can find and waiting for some random dude to run by and kill him because I'm prone and he thinks I'm a corpse. I'm running all the perks that make me undetectable, so it works decently well but it's not fun at all. I don't know, can anyone tell me if I'm missing something here and fill me in on stuff I should try in order to remedy these concerns?
Jonesy7707
Member
I can do it via my Netgear router by either QoS or altering the up/down speeds to what I want.
I'm in Australia, not sure about UK sorry.
Daffy Duck
Member
Fuck this game, just tried hardpoint and went 1-17....how is that even possible? I couldn't kill anything.....I was a constant red bar....why? Why on a 55mb fibre connection am I on a red bar?
That's the very worst I have experienced in this game I quit in the end I couldn't stomach it any more.
I fucking raging right now.
That's the very worst I have experienced in this game I quit in the end I couldn't stomach it any more.
I fucking raging right now.
boredofcanada
Member
i haven't experienced anything like that. Also, hardpoint is a pretty hard game type. You'll die a lot.
I feel like the game has so much potential best online feel sense cod4 blops1/2 but they need to do something about the damn lag and hit detection
I can't keep actually using strategy flanking people get so many hits having random player still turning to me and kill me it gets me mad fuk
I can't keep actually using strategy flanking people get so many hits having random player still turning to me and kill me it gets me mad fuk
Daffy Duck
Member
I know how to play hardpoint, played it loads in black ops 2, I also know I'll die a lot but that's taking the piss, I couldn't kill anyone!
Just looked and the majority of players in the lobby were Spanish....
Just looked and the majority of players in the lobby were Spanish....
boredofcanada
Member
This game sucks because I can't quickscope. It has to be lag.
No problem here. The only time I saw any framerate drop is when my X1 locked the framerate to 30fps for some odd reason when I resumed from sleep mode. I just had to restart the game. Only had that happen once since day zero.
I see quick scooping online and its so damn stupid something like that is even in the game
It's a broken mechanic players exploid relying on COD Huge aim assist to get kills by making use of the damn zoom button and firing while the game auto aims to the player for that fast second
People that do it so much claim to have skill to do it and don't even realize it's a huge broken part of the game that they keep exploiting
Have no problems being kill by snipers even if happen to be hit by hip fire damn but quickscoping is just play stupid
Made a little video of how lag compensation kicks your ass even though I have 50Mb connection.
http://youtu.be/CNwFjVn5wKA
Edit: someone posted my video already here. Cool cool.
http://youtu.be/CNwFjVn5wKA
Edit: someone posted my video already here. Cool cool.
Revolutionary
Member
So I just finished the campaign but didn't get the trophies for completion. Went to mission select and it looks like it stopped recording my completed missions about halfway through the game. :/
At least it didn't wipe all progress like BF4, I guess...
At least it didn't wipe all progress like BF4, I guess...