Critical Miss: Modern Warfare 3

[Treblaine]

Got to Open up your NAT.

Try port forwarding... or get the game on PC and use dedicated servers.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

Good thing you didn't shoot that box of narwhals.

That would have been messy.

 

[Frostbite3789]

You'd think that after making billions of this franchise they'd be able to afford some decent servers.

But then how could they afford to fill their company pools with the tears of angels and precious metals and gems? HOW?!

 

[Tiger Sora]

I've totally seen the opposite as well playing Black Ops. Where your gun is right on them theirs is flying 2 feet to the right facing an entirely different direction. And a bullet blowing my skull into a bowl full of bloody jello.

Damn my enemies, n' their magic bullets.

I'm getting MW3 for Christmas.

Great comic though.

 

[Retardinator]

You'd think that after making billions of this franchise they'd be able to afford some decent servers.

Rehashing old code isn't exactly making a new game ):

Perhaps, but they still made INFINITE MONEY.
This is actually quite old. It used to happen in Call of Duty 4 as well, but what did you do then? Switch to another server.
MW2 had this problem, as well as Black Ops. And I only played Black Ops MP for 2 hours at most when it was free on Steam.

 

[mysecondlife]

is she using sniper rifle at close range? ..why?

 

[The Wooster]

is she using sniper rifle at close range? ..why?

Because the alternative is trying to club him with the butt of the gun?

 

[mysecondlife]

is she using sniper rifle at close range? ..why?

Because the alternative is trying to club him with the butt of the gun?

I would go for that. But then again, I never played call of duty multiplayer.

 

[RuralGamer]

That is exactly how 90% of the killcams on MW2 looked for me, which is why I stopped playing the series' MP.

What? What is eirstup?!

 

[Draconalis]

Gods... I can relate so hard.

I've got three bars of four bars most of the time, and what this apparently equates too is that I get MAYBE one shot off and then drop... when I damn near emptied the clip on my end.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Of course, Skyrim can be an unforgiving place too, but at least when a giant crushes my skull out of fear that I'm about to molest his mammoths, I can be fairly certain that it's actually my fault for not getting out of the way.

Lies! I was walking down the tundra one day without even my weapon drawn heading to an objective when out of nowhere i hear the thuds of a giant feet, and BLAM! i see my body fly 567389 ft into the air!

Giants will gank you if you walk too close to them >.<

 

[Wolfram23]

This was definitely something that really pissed me off with BlOps. I can't believe people are still buying a game, just for the multiplayer, when it doesn't even have dedicated servers. That's easily one of the most crucial pieces to having a fun, competitive multiplayer environment.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Of course, Skyrim can be an unforgiving place too, but at least when a giant crushes my skull out of fear that I'm about to molest his mammoths, I can be fairly certain that it's actually my fault for not getting out of the way.

Lies! I was walking down the tundra one day without even my weapon drawn heading to an objective when out of nowhere i hear the thuds of a giant feet, and BLAM! i see my body fly 567389 ft into the air!

Giants will gank you if you walk too close to them >.<

I can kill anyone right now with dual-wield swords and level 2 elemental fury shout. Giants, Dragons, Gods... NOTHING SHALL STAND IN MY PATH!

Oh, and when stamina becomes a problem, pull out Volendrung to gain it back. Yeah, that's right - I get more energy by swinging around a legendary freakin' warhammer

Or I would, if my PC hadn't decided to turn into an expensive brick yesterday

damn you've gotten far. I've spent 50+ hours and havent even gone pass speaking to the Greybeards the first time. Nor have i done any of the long quest chains, i.e. thieves guild, dark brotherhood. Im almost 100 in smithing tho. I guess thats what i've been doing all this time XD

 

[The Wooster]

Yeaah . . I find I didn't have as much lag after I installed it to hard drive.
Still some of the kill cams make me wonder big time, I know there's some sort of aim assist but a lot of people don't seem to even get shot in the kill cams. And do bullets pass through walls or something? Because one time a guy was shooting at a window frame and somehow killed me through it despite the fact he couldn't see me at all.

There is some bullet penetration yeah.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The killcam isn't some floating camera that sometimes films footage from funny angles to make you look bad for the lols. It's simply footage from the other guy's TV screen, showing you how you died.

Actually that's where you're wrong. The killcam in MW3 is a notorious liar, as it shows players that are sometimes up to almost a whole second in front of you in time advantage. There are many videos on Youtube that show this.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I thought people were saying that they fixed the hit detection issues from Black Ops. Good to know that things haven't changed...I guess.

 

[endplanets]

Really good art in panel 1 and 2.

I love kill cam. The best one I ever had was when I was out of ammo and darted between a guys pistol fire for 6 seconds, then he reloaded and I boosted forward but his reload was too fast and then he shot me when I was an inch from knifing him. 9 seconds of Batman out of 10.

 

[mjc0961]

No offence, but you may just be nowhere near as good as you think you are?

I played some online MW3, had a great time, but will happily admit that I was far from good. Most of the time, the enemy had already sighted me before I could get my sights up. In a game like COD, a few bullets is all it takes to go down, so unless you religiously check your corners and always look behind you, there are always going to be firefights where you never stood a chance.

The killcam isn't some floating camera that sometimes films footage from funny angles to make you look bad for the lols. It's simply footage from the other guy's TV screen, showing you how you died.

Sorry, but ths strip comes across as "Y I dyin all teh time? my skills r teh best! Teh game is broken! Dere's no way its my fualt I b dyin!"

You didn't watch the video that the news post linked, did you?


If you still think it's really "Y I dyin all teh time? my skills r teh best! Teh game is broken! Dere's no way its my fualt I b dyin!" after watching that, well then, I don't know what to say to you.

 

[FFHAuthor]

Yeaah . . I find I didn't have as much lag after I installed it to hard drive.
Still some of the kill cams make me wonder big time, I know there's some sort of aim assist but a lot of people don't seem to even get shot in the kill cams. And do bullets pass through walls or something? Because one time a guy was shooting at a window frame and somehow killed me through it despite the fact he couldn't see me at all.

I was shot through the length of a fire engine. Not side to side, front to back. rounds had penetration effects on the vehicle and hit markers through it on the other guy's kill cam.

These aren't just lag issues people.

 

[LewsTherin]

I guess the other player just caught you in the spotlight