Oddly enough a couple of patches already got out and both fixed mostly glitches (at least this is what I noticed) in zombie mode.
Multiplayer is still a mess.
Really.
Multiplayer is still a mess.
Really.
Treyarch Explains COD Patch Procedure
- Thread starter John Funk
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They should do it like Valve's TF2 patches. One patch made the game imbalanced? Don't worry, there are a dozen more coming in the next few hours!
This can also be kinda said for the general game. When people find a problem with a game everyone thinks "Oh [Insert gaming company here] is full of monkeys who can't do anything right!" They don't even realize the amount of programing, animation, reviewing, etc. went into it! Everything about a game takes time and isn't cooked up in two seconds!
Completely fair point usually, except for the fact that the game I paid money for as a quality product was released in a completely unplayable state that was in worse condition than a beta (it was worse than the MoH beta from 6 months before it's release), and a month later the game is still completely unplayable, despite the fact I meet the "Minimum System Requirments", surely that's in breach of some sort of trading standard or something. :|0p3rati0n said:
This game has a few bugs and glitches that are so apparent I'm surprised they haven't fixed it before the game was even released
* The Menu-system is horribly bad. Unresponsive, glitchy and terribly designed.
You can't *STOP* the server list from refreshing once it starts loading up the list. There is no STOP button for Christ sake!
The JOIN-button is buggy. It's broken in fact! You have to click it 10-20 times before it lets you join a server
If you quit a server you are tossed back to the main menu instead of the server list. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?
* The game is INCREDIBLY sluggish to START or even QUIT
The time it takes for the maps to even load is terribly long, significantly longer than Crysis or Bad Company 2, and the maps are nowhere NEAR as big NOR support as many players!
Even on a Hi-End PC rig the game takes immensly long to load, and if I want to quit the game? Takes almost 5 minutes before I'm in control of the computer again. Put in a F10 quit command for christ sake!
* Can't change loadout while in-game
If I want to change weapon or ACOD sight on a rifle, I have to QUIT the current game, go into Operations menu, change my loadout, go BACK to the server list and re-enter the game!
These aren't issues that are hard to reproduce or even FIX! I'm calling the partial BS-card on these arguments from Trayarch for making a subpar console-to-PC port of a game with some serious optimization issues and suffers from significant design flaws!
* The Menu-system is horribly bad. Unresponsive, glitchy and terribly designed.
You can't *STOP* the server list from refreshing once it starts loading up the list. There is no STOP button for Christ sake!
The JOIN-button is buggy. It's broken in fact! You have to click it 10-20 times before it lets you join a server
If you quit a server you are tossed back to the main menu instead of the server list. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?
* The game is INCREDIBLY sluggish to START or even QUIT
The time it takes for the maps to even load is terribly long, significantly longer than Crysis or Bad Company 2, and the maps are nowhere NEAR as big NOR support as many players!
Even on a Hi-End PC rig the game takes immensly long to load, and if I want to quit the game? Takes almost 5 minutes before I'm in control of the computer again. Put in a F10 quit command for christ sake!
* Can't change loadout while in-game
If I want to change weapon or ACOD sight on a rifle, I have to QUIT the current game, go into Operations menu, change my loadout, go BACK to the server list and re-enter the game!
These aren't issues that are hard to reproduce or even FIX! I'm calling the partial BS-card on these arguments from Trayarch for making a subpar console-to-PC port of a game with some serious optimization issues and suffers from significant design flaws!
No, you don't. You have nostalgia. Games have always, ALWAYS had bugs. It's impossible to test everything.Adzma said:
Treyarch could pay a hundred people to quality test Black Ops for a year, and gamers racked up more total playtime on the first night.
I was under the impression they had patched it already. I should know, the multiplayer freezes and locks up my machine every time without fail, AFTER the patch. Not before. So, yeah, really hanging out for another so I have some hope of playing the darned thing.
Microsoft Certification is one of the things that kept Dawn of War 2 patches going so slowly.
Relic would make a post like "Hey guys, we made a patch that fixed all these issues you found. It's ready to go and we're sure it works, but it will be out in two-four weeks due to MS certification. Please be patient!"
Relic would make a post like "Hey guys, we made a patch that fixed all these issues you found. It's ready to go and we're sure it works, but it will be out in two-four weeks due to MS certification. Please be patient!"
This is the biggest FAIL I have seen in a while.John Funk said:
In a description of the steps needed to patch the game, they jump from "reproduce bug" to "test finished patch"
Gee, it seems like they're missing something there....like, I don't know MAKING THE PATCH!
Yeah, that's a pretty important part of the PATCHING process.
The longer it takes to release a patch, the more things they're fixing is how I always thought of it. Unless they're lazy, which I hope not.
All i remember is the months of agony brought on by
One man army noobtubing... To me that stands as one of the more unfair exploits in online gaming history. To this day unpatched.
there is nothing even close to that bad in blops.
So. as far as i am concearnd. they have earned a gold start for not having anything that big
The only thing i am bitching about in blops. Is jungle. flying spaghetti monster damn do i hate that map
One man army noobtubing... To me that stands as one of the more unfair exploits in online gaming history. To this day unpatched.
there is nothing even close to that bad in blops.
So. as far as i am concearnd. they have earned a gold start for not having anything that big
The only thing i am bitching about in blops. Is jungle. flying spaghetti monster damn do i hate that map
danpascooch said:
So, yeah. Not really that much of a fail, is it?Olin's original post said:
OT: I also hope you guys fix the lobby system. Really, I can never get into an HQ match. That's not cool. Maybe that's my internet, but, really, doesn't look like it.
Other than that, at least it's nice to see Treyarch actually talk to their community.
Good to see that at least Treyarch is giving people a backstage view of the happenings. And to think, this is for every game in the long haul.
And for those complaining about how games shouldn't have to need patches? Alright then. Wait 20 years for the next game you want. I'll enjoy my buggy game that I know is getting fixed while you wait, and wait, and wait.
And for those complaining about how games shouldn't have to need patches? Alright then. Wait 20 years for the next game you want. I'll enjoy my buggy game that I know is getting fixed while you wait, and wait, and wait.
And they haven't fixed the network problems for the PS3. I've been having games drop on me in less than five minutes.
They tried to tell us this bs with WaW also. I understand that it takes time to find, create and test a patch but then maybe they should take the time to explain how they have managed to already launch patch version 1.02 before launch and 1.03 9 days after release (PS3 version).
By their explanation the final few stages of the process takes 9 days when the console manufacturers are testing it and it gets released, so by this logic they had prepared the patch before the game was released when it was in response to a number of issues that were revealed after release... doesn't sound quite right to me but maybe I'm just missing something.
By their explanation the final few stages of the process takes 9 days when the console manufacturers are testing it and it gets released, so by this logic they had prepared the patch before the game was released when it was in response to a number of issues that were revealed after release... doesn't sound quite right to me but maybe I'm just missing something.
