Call of Duty 4 DLC Is In Certification And Info On PS3 And PC Map Packs

Close_Second - 637 days 12 hours ago

Console owners of COD4 that is. COD4 has one of the worst f**king lobby systems for a next-gen game. Really, who would chose to join a game where your connection to the host will be 1 red bar. Who would also chose to rejoin that game a record 16 times after quiting.

I can only speculate as to why Infinity Ward decided to wrap such a magnificent game in such a dogs turd of a lobby system. Maybe there was not room on the DVD for the 360 version so they opted for a space saving lobby for the console versions.

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LSDARBY - 637 days 12 hours ago

Its MS splashing out the dollar.

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bumnut - 637 days 11 hours ago

i think the cod4 lobby is great, i get straight into a game without any problems (xbox 360 version).

its way better than graw/rb6v lobby were you wait for it to fill up for 20 mins only to be kicked out.

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mighty_douche - 637 days 11 hours ago

You should have a list of dedicated servers and a selection of player filters to allow you to choose by, player count/map/gae mode/latency etc etc.

I bought the game, id like to be able to play what i want, not have my console choose for me.

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DARK WITNESS - 637 days 9 hours ago

the lobby and connection issue has only been that bad since the update.

before then the only problem was with the host quitting and ending the match ( which still happens anyway ).

Now don't hold a gun to my head on this, but i heard that the networking code was outsourced to EA, which if its true, explains a lot.

i have to say though, at least you can play matchmaking with your friends in the same party. Gears of war could not even get that right !

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Apocwhen - 637 days 5 hours ago

Can't believe people disagree with 1.1 and 1.4

The lobby is terrible people. Wouldn't you at least like the choice to be able to search by map? Who wants to play a game of Wetworks, then have the host end the game, and when you find a new game to be put back into Wetworks again? Let me search for the map I want to play on and don't put me into a game that is about to finish in 30 seconds adding me to the losing team.

For such a great game the whole networking side of it is just atrocious. We should not have to put up with Host Ended Game 75% of the time. Even the Host Migration that was promised in the patch in non existent in the PS3 version and it wasn't even officially addressed by IW as to why.

If we were given a listing of Active hosts then almost everyone could find a lag free server to play on and on the map they want. Lately I've just been turning COD4 off and putting on UT3 instead as it's too annoying to go through 9 simultaneous "Host Ended Game" matches, or when you kill the Host in an S&D game and he quits the game.

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rawg - 637 days 2 hours ago

Love COD4 but the matchmaking leaves much to be desired. I would personally like to see more games use the Warhawk lobby system which allows you to choose from a list of servers that shows maps being played, # of players and ping rates.

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choldstare - 637 days 13 hours ago

it is a possibility. But people will still buy. People who play cod 4 =/= GTA4 players.

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Xiphos - 637 days 12 hours ago

I'll probably still buy them, but I certainly won't be playing them anywhere near as often as I would have been if they were released early April.

Grand Theft Auto IV is gonna keep me busy for months.

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mighty_douche - 637 days 11 hours ago

If these come within a week of GTA there no way ill be buying them, I love CoD but my passion for it is starting to waver and i know as soon as GTA is released i wont be playing CoD.

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xhairs - 637 days 5 hours ago

You're right, it is a great game, they did a good thing putting that last patch out the night before RSV2 came out because RSV2 online was booty cheeks. However by delaying the patch so long for this next one, I agree many people may buy it, but not as many people will be playing as much as they used to with all these new games coming out within weeks of the patch.

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xhairs - 637 days 5 hours ago

Just because online wont be getting its patch until after this week doesn't necessarily mean that RSV2 doesn't pose a threat to CoD4. As soon as the stability reaches that of CoD4 I could see and even shift between games. The only people I feel sorry for are those who traded in CoD4 to put down on RSV2...they are the ones who got screwed.

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