What's happened to this game?

WARLOCK · 01-27-2008

for the first few months this game was all purring kittens and lollipops, it was almost magical it was so freakin great! for the first time since socom 2 i actually looked forward to getting off work and jumping online to get killed alot.

now game invites don't work 9 times outta 10, the spawning system has nose dived straight down the crapper, people are making rooms and then ending the game 2 seconds after it starts just to be little feminine hygiene products, the hit detection has started fluctuating so bad that you basically HAVE to spray and pray just to get a kill, and now it seems like the martyrdom perk has a an effective killzone of something like 400 square miles.

this game is starting to remind me of a hot chick hooked on meth. she's real pretty and fun at first, but then she gets real ugly real fast and isn't much fun to make out with anymore.

Irish Kin · 01-27-2008

Agreed. Completely.

Invites - On the party invite list, they should add if the person is in a game or not. It seems like I only get party invites when I'm in a game.

Spawning - See Omega's thread. I played a Shipment Domination the other day and the first 3 times I spawned it was in front of someone shooting and next to multiple grenades. Also had someone on my team that was killed by the same air strike 4 times.

Host Ending Game - Happens way to often. I'll find a good room with even match ups (in terms of rank) and before we start playing the host ends the game.

Hit Detection - This is one of the things that really frustrates me. So many times I've had my sights on someone's chest, but they get the kill by spraying around my feet.

Martydom - Too many people use this to their advantage. Running into the middle of a room on Headquarters makes me really hate it. But I've had some funny kills with it. I actually had someone kill me, then come stand over me and pick up my weapon, but then they go boom. I've also gotten a couple multi-kills with martyrdom. But I do agree the grenade range seems so much larger. I've been killed by grenades when I didn't even see a grenade indicator.

Camping is also something I've seen become more popular. Claymores have been getting a lot more use. I played a TDM on Backlot a few days ago and everyone on the other team was either in the small building with the MG or on the roof of the middle building. My team won and I called them out for their hardcore camping but inability to win. Funny thing is every time I call people out for camping they never say anything back.

Marvin Wong · 01-27-2008

I think people found out the weakness of this game since this game released for a while. Every game, there's always people who use the "noob" way to win.

Focus · 01-27-2008

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Originally Posted by -Irish.Kin-

Agreed. Completely.

Invites - On the party invite list, they should add if the person is in a game or not. It seems like I only get party invites when I'm in a game.

Spawning - See Omega's thread. I played a Shipment Domination the other day and the first 3 times I spawned it was in front of someone shooting and next to multiple grenades. Also had someone on my team that was killed by the same air strike 4 times.

Host Ending Game - Happens way to often. I'll find a good room with even match ups (in terms of rank) and before we start playing the host ends the game.

Hit Detection - This is one of the things that really frustrates me. So many times I've had my sights on someone's chest, but they get the kill by spraying around my feet.

Martydom - Too many people use this to their advantage. Running into the middle of a room on Headquarters makes me really hate it. But I've had some funny kills with it. I actually had someone kill me, then come stand over me and pick up my weapon, but then they go boom. I've also gotten a couple multi-kills with martyrdom. But I do agree the grenade range seems so much larger. I've been killed by grenades when I didn't even see a grenade indicator.

Camping is also something I've seen become more popular. Claymores have been getting a lot more use. I played a TDM on Backlot a few days ago and everyone on the other team was either in the small building with the MG or on the roof of the middle building. My team won and I called them out for their hardcore camping but inability to win. Funny thing is every time I call people out for camping they never say anything back.

This is all stuff that I've experienced first hand..except for the invite thing(I play[ed] on 360)

Martyrdom, something I ran into every game and what happens to you guys happened to me...I got used to it after awhile, you just have to slow down your play style so you stay back more after you kill someone(if you're right next to them)..although still quite annoying.

Hit detection..the thing that fluctuates the most in my eyes. When the game first came out everything was fine and dandy, then there was a period in time where I literally ONLY got killed by people spraying my knees/feet. Instead of getting crapped on nonstop I decided to turn into a ***** and do the same. It worked for awhile, then later stopped working so I had to go back to normal precision aiming and that worked..then went back the other way, and kept flipping on me.

Host ending game - WAY too annoying..

spawning - that's where my big old black cloud sits and follows me around.

I figured I had enough with a lot of the stupid stuff going on, plus me doing more things outside of work made me stop playing this game, and pretty much all games altogether..I can't remember the last time I hopped on CoD4.

ShadioRack · 01-27-2008

yeah I think the more I play the more I see the kinks. Its still the same game however.

sublime8022 · 01-27-2008

It's sad but very true. All of this. The first week it was released I called in sick 3 days in a row just to play and pull over nighters. I went through 5 prestigue ranks in 1 week then it got HORRIBLE. I play 3 to 6 games a day if that. I die more then live and get annoyed of all the nades that people cook for 30 mins then throw at me or at my spawn..

Z3CH · 01-27-2008

I feel so out of the loop... I haven't touched my xbox in a week

Maybe I'll get on tonight and see how bad it's gotten.

EAsTon · 01-27-2008

I was my friend's house last night and we played some COD4....for like 30 minutes. The camping was horrilbe, the spawning was ok, got annoying sometimes but wasn't bad. The worse thing was the hit detection and all people were doing were spraying. It's like they weren't even trying to aim.

Eventually me and my friend decided to get on S3 and played in some big map respawns without snipers. It was rather fun. Camping wasn't as bad as COD and it ran surprisingly smoother. It was actually a good time, unlike COD.

I'm thankful I didn't get this crappy game.

oxfordfreestyl · 01-27-2008

All these things, the little kinks, make it seem even more like S2. think about it, S2 had some REALLY, REALLY annoying ****, but at the end of it all, we all kept going back for more. And with these guys actually keeping stuff up to date (ren't they???) some of the annoying thing should be fixed, or at least I would hope so.

The mOBSCENE · 01-27-2008

You play it on the PS3 Warlock. XBox Live doesn't have problems with hit detection (or at least I don't.)