** The Official Call of Duty: Ghosts (CoD 2013) thread ***

It will probably cost ms more to run dedicated servers with the cod userbase than they earn from live subscriptions and activison. Heh, and they will have to deal with ddos and probably hit detection will still be dreadful as no doubt it will us some half-arsed client-side hit detection.
 
COD ghosts stuff is about 18 minutes in

http://uk.gamespot.com/events/gamescom-2013/microsoft-gamescom-2013-conference-6413265/

No "we have something planned for PS4" or "we're sorry that we can't offer this service for PS4" just ignored and sucking up to MS.

Not that i'm complaining, but microsoft bank rolled their multiplayer reveal the other week in LA and provided them with a load of PCs running emulators and with XB1 pads for people to play the game on.

It just continues the trend of Activision being in MS's pocket.
 
Alrik said:
Play Ghosts instead, you can get quick scoped while someone is using that helicopter sniper support streak.
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I can't believe that's even a kill streak. The kids must be pee'ing in there pants with that one.

Bigpig said:
looks bloody incredible. Thinking of buying the digital edition for quick and easy access
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Indeed. Hopefully their will be a decent amount of people so we can get a decent squad on the xbone.
 
Support streaks will be the new death streaks, instead of being taken out by dead mans nuke 1 kill away from your streak you will instead get sniped by some little scrubber in helicopter going 15-27 that took no effort to get what so ever. Then you also have those hidden care packages on maps where you know someone is going to rush them and get something stupid out of it along the lines of the juggernaut/AC-130/chopper gunner equivalents in this game.
 
COLOGNE, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq:ATVI), today announced further details surrounding Call of Duty®: Ghosts’ participation in Sony’s PS3 to PS4 upgrade program. The upgrade program is completely optional and allows consumers who purchase Call of Duty: Ghosts on PlayStation®3 to upgrade to the PlayStation®4 version of the game for a limited time at a suggested retail price of only $10, €10, or £10 depending on territory. More details will be shared in the weeks to come.

"Today we’re announcing that anyone who buys Call of Duty: Ghosts for the PS3 will be able to upgrade to Call of Duty: Ghosts for the PS4 for a limited time at a suggested retail price of just $10, €10, or £10," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, Inc. "Retail programs, announced by Amazon and GameStop allow our players to upgrade from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One version of Call of Duty: Ghosts for $10 as well. We have also previously announced that for a limited time our players will bring all of their Season Pass Content and all of their in-game progress with them within a console family, for no additional charge. We have the best fans in the world, and we want to make this transition as seamless and easy for them as possible. And there’s more news to come on that front. Stay tuned."

- $10, €10, or £10
- Via Amazon/Gamestop only for Xbox upgrades.
- DLC/stats carry over.
- All of above for a limited time.
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How kind of them, you wouldn't expect them to do something like this.

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Alrik said:
Support streaks will be the new death streaks, instead of being taken out by dead mans nuke 1 kill away from your streak you will instead get sniped by some little scrubber in helicopter going 15-27 that took no effort to get what so ever. Then you also have those hidden care packages on maps where you know someone is going to rush them and get something stupid out of it along the lines of the juggernaut/AC-130/chopper gunner equivalents in this game.
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This

they are still catering for the scrubs, but in different ways.

Peoples complaints was about the support streaks having anything lethal in it. Because it allowed scrubs who had gone 10-30 to use high power streaks and get more kills that they blatantly didn't deserve

It wasn't specifically about the stealth bomber. So they just replaced stealth bomber with different stuff and sat back and thought "mission accomplished"

The list of potentially annoying kill streaks like Juggernaut maniac, that helicopter sniper thing etc.. is terrifying, Especially when you consider that some of the maps have free care packages.

Soulja said:
Indeed. Hopefully their will be a decent amount of people so we can get a decent squad on the xbone.
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I play battlefield 3 on 360 with a whole clan of people who will be getting XB1 and BF4. We can quite easily have 8 people playing BF3 on the 360 at once, so you're more than welcome to come join us if you fancy. This will be so much easier to team up with XB1 having 64 players.
 
Soulja said:
Indeed. Hopefully their will be a decent amount of people so we can get a decent squad on the xbone.
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In your dreams :p

You know what will happen, BF will take more than 3 seconds tactics/planning and some time to learn or shock horror practice to get better and everyone pours back to COD. A game they can play with one hand, leaving the other to shovel cake in to their mouths while drinking beer and switching off the brain (Wyrdo) ;):p

In all seriousness Ocuk consoles is not a great place to get any game except COD and maybe fifa games/community going. I can't think of a single game post MW that's lasted on here for long as a MP game. Gears and GRAW did for ages and a few others until the activision Juggernaut arrived :)
 
I honestly struggle to think of any decent MP games released post 2007 that wasn't some sort of sequel, so it was essentially the same game as you'd played before anyway so you'd end up spending less time with each new installment.

I agree with everything you say though, I still remember us trying to get people to play GRAW2 when it came out in 2008 only to be told "Playing CoD4, I NEED to rank up!!!"

Gears of War 2 was pretty much the same, there wasn't enough of us left for private matches and playing against randoms was pointless with the bad lag and massive host advantage.
 
Interesting post on match making for this game here
There has been a lot of work done on matchmaking and Ghosts will see a few new features added to matchmaking that will improve how matchmaking works. One of the most important ones for me (as its something I repeatedly highlighted) was the fact geolocation especially for european players had an inherent flaw . due to the way Ip blocks are bought and sold by european isps it was possible to be in the middle of the UK but the game thought you were in Italy. To counter this Ghosts will match make using your actual internet distance (and hops) rather than basing any matchmaking off your actual physical location. This will ensure players are better matched and potentially will be matched more locally.
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I've no idea why it was done any other way. Hopefully the way they're doing it in this game will mean connectivity is more like COD4 or MW2.
 
 
Greboth said:
I understand them wanting to clunp Europe together but I think they would have found it easier to sort lag comp had they split it up. Good job they have sorted this out though :)
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It's not that easy splitting up Europe with the system used in BO2. With it using geotagging it assumes everybody is actually where their IP address says they are when a lot of the time they actually aren't.

This new system should make match making a lot better.
 
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