Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

biron_w · 18 Feb 2015 at 12:13

With this game I just back out of lobbies if I'm lagging. Then I'll find a good lobby and have some fun.

BuffetSlayer · 18 Feb 2015 at 12:23

biron_w said:
With this game I just back out of lobbies if I'm lagging. Then I'll find a good lobby and have some fun.

Tried that all last night. Didn't play many full games. Spent a lot of time in the intermission! Spent a lot of time being put straight back into the server I just left as well

As I have seen many times, a potentially really good game can be hobbled by devs/pubs or simply by an element of design. In 2015 there should be no need for these problems, which is why I firmly beieve they a side effect of lazyness and greed.

Iceman · 18 Feb 2015 at 17:45

Ive sent a rather snotty email to Sony requesting a refund for my season pass. Oddly enough i now no longer have the AE4 in my classes and it says i have to download the season pass to get it. No refund showing in my wallet though, hoping its a case of it takes a few days for the refund. What to buy instead lol.

martin9887 · 19 Feb 2015 at 10:30

What's the campaign/story and single player like in this game? thinking about getting it while its on sale in the xbox store.

biron_w · 19 Feb 2015 at 10:51

martin9887 said:
What's the campaign/story and single player like in this game? thinking about getting it while its on sale in the xbox store.

I'd buy it on disc and sell afterwards, personally. I think the campaign is excellent. One of the best COD campaigns I've played.

Adz160 · 19 Feb 2015 at 12:12

Had one of my best games last night, and actually didn't lag for a change! I even managed to record the game... here's the edited footage

BuffetSlayer · 20 Feb 2015 at 11:40

Any R1 users here finding it will now no longer reliably only connect to games within the UK?

If I set my range to just the UK and put it in strict mode, it is still connecting me to servers in Europe.

Wasnt doing this until a few days ago, so wondered if anyone else is having the same problem? The support people are saying the search area is too small, but it was working fine just a few days ago........

antijoke · 20 Feb 2015 at 11:42

BuffetSlayer said:
Any R1 users here finding it will now no longer reliably only connect to games within the UK?

If I set my range to just the UK and put it in strict mode, it is still connecting me to servers in Europe.

Wasnt doing this until a few days ago, so wondered if anyone else is having the same problem? The support people are saying the search area is too small, but it was working fine just a few days ago........

The last game I played last week, I noticed that the circles were large over the UK in the lobby but then when the game started it put a large circle in France. I just thought it was maybe an error with the geolocation showing the wrong place as the game played fine.

BuffetSlayer · 20 Feb 2015 at 11:59

anticonscience said:
The last game I played last week, I noticed that the circles were large over the UK in the lobby but then when the game started it put a large circle in France. I just thought it was maybe an error with the geolocation showing the wrong place as the game played fine.

Yeah, I am finding it hit and miss of late, but that could be an issue with PSN/AW though. Last night I set my distance to UK only but was chucked in servers in France, Germany and even Greece!

To be honest the northern europe ones didn't play too badly but not as nice as as I have had in the past. But I just find it weird it was working exactly how I wanted it to the other day, and now it is fubar even after many resets and an update.

Would be interested to see if others are having a similar problem.

antijoke · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:02

I didn't find the games were bad as my ping assist was set to 50ms so I was still connecting to good lobbies, so when all said and done it was OK.

It's probably a mixture of SBMM forcing us out of UK lobbies, not many people online etc

biron_w · 20 Feb 2015 at 15:22

Whether it's SBMM or just matchmaking in general, it needs fixing for this years COD. When the game has just come out and there are a lot of people playing there is no excuse for it putting players from all over Europe in the same lobby.

antijoke · 20 Feb 2015 at 16:39

How do you know a lot of people are playing it?

BuffetSlayer · 20 Feb 2015 at 16:55

I can't speak for console but the PC player base was shocking just after release. It went from about 35,000 peak to about 6,000 in the space of 10 days. It may have improved though. I am actually going to try the R1 on the PC version tonight and see what happens.

A lot of people quit due to the lag and the hacking but hopefully I can get some good games in

There are plenty of players in the UK. Up until a couple of days ago I have never failed to get a UK based game. I am actually starting to suspect netduma are at the core of the sudden difficulty staying in Uk servers.

But yes the entire design of the net code needs redeveloping. But it won't happen. This is CoD we are talking about. Shame really. If thy actually listened to what players want and provided it, they would probably sell far more. But it is a cynical business model and they design the game to be throw away from the start. You won't find people still playing AW in 10 years like they did/do with CoD4. Sorry to say but the console generation only has itself to blame by keep buying these titles and facilitating lazy development.

Iceman · 20 Feb 2015 at 18:53

BuffetSlayer said:
A lot of people quit due to the lag and the hacking but hopefully I can get some good games in

What hacking is there? Excuse my ignorance but I'm just struggling with the game in general lol

BuffetSlayer · 20 Feb 2015 at 19:48

Iceman said:
What hacking is there? Excuse my ignorance but I'm just struggling with the game in general lol

On PC? Lots of hacking. LOADS.

There are subscription websites that you can register with and their business is simply to provide hacks to players. They have millions of users worldwide and it is a mutlimillion, multinational business these days.

Wallhacks and aimbots mostly, but they are usually comprehensive and will include a range of features.

It is one of the key reasons I changed to console. It is well known the amount of hackers in AW on PC is ridiculous, given the low player base. I played in maybe 5 lobbies tonight and there were 2 hackers. One obvious rager laser noob. The other a bit more careful, but he got found out by most in the server. Check his steam account and he already has 1 VAC ban :rolleyes:

ON PS4 they reckon there are no hacks. But you can buy pads with aimbot functions for use in single player. But I reckon it cant be too hard to circumvent that design to use them in multiplayer. Plus people using gadgets like the XIM4 add to the mix. Once jail breaking is reliable on the PS4, no doubt there will be other exploits/hacks that can be bought into play once the file system is unlocked. Given the PS4 archetecture is similar to PC, I can see there being 3rd party hacks on the PS4 once the system is reliably cracked. Might take a few years yet, and to be fair to Sony, they do their best to keep it a level playing field.

Iceman · 20 Feb 2015 at 22:39

Ahh sorry assumed you mean on PS4 already. I hate how people have to cheat these days. Games are bad enough as they are without the idiots choosing to cheat too.

biron_w · 21 Feb 2015 at 00:22

anticonscience said:
How do you know a lot of people are playing it?

What I meant was; even when this first came out I was still playing with people from all over Europe. When a new COD first comes out a LOT of people will be playing it so it should be putting you with players from your own country.

TheHitMan-1973 · 21 Feb 2015 at 07:43

I have notice that more players are returning to Ghost

Tells me a lot of players dont like AW

BuffetSlayer · 21 Feb 2015 at 11:10

TheHitMan-1973 said:
I have notice that more players are returning to Ghost
Tells me a lot of players dont like AW

I go through phases of enjoying it to completely hating it. The more I play, the more I am taking notice of the map design, and it boils down to either being shot in the back, shot from the sides out of your field of view, or being shot from the front.

At least being shot from the front you have a chance, but with the way the lag works in this game you will be getting shot first but you won't see it on your screen until the replay. Obviously that can work in your favour sometimes too though. When you mix in the silly spawning, it can make a map very tedious.

I appreciate they wanted to make AW a fast paced run and gun game, but I personally think they got it wrong with AW. I don't think it is a bad game per se, but I think the spawning and map design should have been thought about a bit more. At the very least they could have had a mix of map styles to offer a more rounded game experience.

TheHitMan-1973 · 21 Feb 2015 at 12:49

BuffetSlayer said:
I go through phases of enjoying it to completely hating it. The more I play, the more I am taking notice of the map design, and it boils down to either being shot in the back, shot from the sides out of your field of view, or being shot from the front.

At least being shot from the front you have a chance, but with the way the lag works in this game you will be getting shot first but you won't see it on your screen until the replay. Obviously that can work in your favour sometimes too though. When you mix in the silly spawning, it can make a map very tedious.

I appreciate they wanted to make AW a fast paced run and gun game, but I personally think they got it wrong with AW. I don't think it is a bad game per se, but I think the spawning and map design should have been thought about a bit more. At the very least they could have had a mix of map styles to offer a more rounded game experience.

What i hate , the guns all sound the same , very under powered , no claymores , rubbish killstreaks , rubber bullets , just not for me , must be the worse COD ever in my view , reminds me of blackops II

Worse of all , this jumping and flying like a flee LOL