So after having the game now for about 5 days, and having played quite a few hours of multiplayer, I think I'm in a position to provide some multiplayer impressions for those of you still on the fence about this game (if there are any of you left).
My biggest impression coming out of MW3, is not how similar it is to MW2, but how it doesn't work properly.
Yes, many of those issues that made Black Ops such a mess on PS3 are back for Modern Warfare 3, chief among them, the frame rate 'collapse'. The game in every review I've read is billed to run at a smooth 60FPS. Well it doesn't- all the time.
Yes it runs smoothly when your the only player on the screen, but that's where it ends. Multiple explosions, players, or large firefights make this game struggle and chug- and I still can't believe it's an issue reviewers and the community haven't widely commented on yet. Multiple frames skip, frames freeze for 1-2 seconds, and the whole experience is that the game feels 'jumpy' and unfinished.
What is most concerning is, these issues are negligible to non-existent in MW2. So what gives? This isn't simply a case of lag- 10 years of online gaming has taught me the difference. This is poor coding, and it's inherent game, not the connection (which for the record I've noted the issues occur in games where all players have full ping).
This to me is representative of two things:
1) The now yearly cycle in which CoD games are released has seen the same problem that plagues many sports games- the same game means the same issues. Black Ops had this problem, and now MW3 does too, and it should have been identified and fixed, but wasn't simply because the focus of development is not improving but re-skinning the same experience.
2) CoD players silently put up with these issues, because the game is still damn fun. I'll admit I still enjoy MW3. However, I still enjoyed NBA2K10, the most glitch ridden and poorly executed basketball game of the HD generation. It doesn't make them bad games, just badly made.
So there you go. Fire comments away.
A number of leaks have popped up that reference Pokemon Black and White remakes in some way. Are they all coincidences or real in 2024?
The Final Fantasy VII Rebirth combat director has expressed that he wants the final part in the trilogy to offer players "even more freedom".
I love the game so far but please don’t make the final part a mini game fest
Everytime I get to a new part in Rebirth it’s “mini game time”
As long as it comes out on PS5 to have the entire series on one platform, do whatever you want
The combat is my favorite thing about Rebirth. Would be really cool if they can improve it even more.
I hope after FF7 Square will either give a new FF game the remake treatment. Or give some of their older titles a remake treatment like Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, even Xenogears.
Wccf tech writes: "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's scope was impacted by the Xbox Series S hardware limitations, as developers could only make a game that was 25% bigger than its predecessor."
More info from the author of the article, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/ki...
Quote:
"1) I was told this info from the producer of the game Martin Klíma.
2) He specifically said the game will have only one mode.
3) And this mode is 4K 30 on PS5/XSX and 1440p 30 on XSS.
4) He said that the game is already running north of the 30 FPS cap so the performance should be stable on launch, much better than KCD1.
5) The limitation was XSS because of the 10GB memory. He said that's why they wanted to make the game 25% larger.
6) Speculation on my part: the output resolution is probably upscaled and the reason why there won't be a 60 FPS mode is because it'll most likely be very CPU heavy, like Dragon's Dogma 2 for example."
Doesn't seem like they're adding a 40fps mode on PS5/Series X for launch even if they can handle it.
Remember when xbots were adamant that the series s won’t hold back the gen?
Microsoft just needs to let go of the mandatory parity. Who cares if your grandma doesn’t understand that a game cannot be played on the S. It’s not like it she can buy you a physical game for it anyway. Before buying the game put up a notice that it only works on series X. If you’re buying for a friend-allow for a refund.
Bam. Everyone is happy. Most series s owners are for casuals that want Game Pass anyway and most likely don’t purchase most games.
If the developers want it to run on S, let them figure it out.
“During the event, the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 producer also revealed that on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the game will run at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second“
Another “creative decision” right? 🤦♂️
Is actually on a 2 year cycle, infinity wards next game wont come out until 2013. The next cod game you will play is treyarcs effort. Allso five days isn't really along time to be playing a game online, give it another couple of weeks and things should be sorted.
so what are the issues again?
The only issue I have in MW3 is the head glitch.
I think the frame skipping you're referring to is actually just lag. I've had the same problem a few times and each time it was solved by host migration.
Latency compensation needs a tweak as well.