First Impressions!

[Hendrix]

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iv only played the single player, again like most new games it's not very long, complete in 4 hours.

[Kylee!]

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Good thing I'm actually broke right now so I couldn't buy it right off the bat... haha.

[CptainCrunch]

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Man, rough times. Yeah, its a shame these big companies think betas are no longer needed. This is the 7th pc CoD game, what do they need a beta for? Right?

Crunch

[Vreki]

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The only difference a beta would have made is that there now would be a bunch of people saying "We told you so, you ************ imbeciles!".
Or have the last few BF betas made me too cynical?

[iQue]

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Supposedly steam and the game can't communicate properly causing steam to use 100% CPU with massive performance troubles. Should hopefully be fixed soon.

My game is still downloading though.

[CptainCrunch]

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The only difference a beta would have made is that there now would be a bunch of people saying "We told you so, you ************ imbeciles!".
Or have the last few BF betas made me too cynical?

Thats only because betas are not ran like betas anymore and these large titles seem to think they know best.

As for Battlefield, you have devs denying there are even issues on some things. Huge disconnect that seems to be changing.

For those wanting to play the single player without lag, Ive read that running Steam in offline mode will correct that.

Crunch

[Anarchy1]

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Well, those are the side-effects of having no large scale PC beta. While I hate to say this, you really have to expect it with a console port with no beta. Most games now need a good patch before they are up to standards. A patch that basically would have been the changes made after the beta.

Installing right now. We'll see how it is.

[=MNKY=Frosty]

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K just got off a fair few hours ripping it up with some of the lads, in all honesty it's a fantastic game, lag and terrible server issues aside it's really kept up with the cod series.

Aside from lag and such I only have a few gripes 1) Can't change killstreak/create-a-class/buy stuff between games, have to leave and rejoin. Which brings me on to 2) Joining friends is stupid, to join a friend they have to invite me, even though there is a join session in progress button which doesn't work. Not only that but NO CONNECT TO IP. very bad. game good, server situation bad.

[Minmaster]

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is anyone else getting their hut compass kinda cut off? changing aspect ratio won't fix it.

[Anarchy1]

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Just played it for a bit and it is pretty fun. When you first join though there is a lot being thrown at you. Ranking up is really fast and challenges are really easy so there are things popping up all the time and unlocking all the time. Server browser is ok, better than the other CoD's. Lag problems aside, it is pretty fun, but lag problems are pretty big.

Anyone else having problems with wager matches? I go to join one and they are always full

[iQue]

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Have gotten about halfway (I'd guess) through the campaign and wow, I'm really impressed. It's very hollywood action movie like - not all are going to like that - but woo it's like an adrenaline rush. Very few parts that frustrated me once you know what to do. Not gonna spoil anything so i won't say much else. Perhaps my favourite singleplayer in a CoD game so far.

(I haven't experienced any lag in the slightest, been playing on highest settings + 2X AA with about 70-90 FPS)

Gonna try MP for a bit as well before jumping into bed.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

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The lag isn't due to servers. I was getting lag spikes playing combat training, offline with bots. My wife said, "Oh, it's probably just first-day server stuff. It'll work out." Then she saw me kill "her" and said, "Wait, I'm not playing and usually if you play with your friends you're on voice. Are those bots?" "Yeah." She said, "They released a game that broken, that BOTS are lagging? Roffle roffle." Yeah, we say "roffle" as a word, most people think we're crazy.

But even my wife understood that if a game is lagging like that offline, there is a problem. She also saw it randomly minimize to desktop 3 times in 5 minutes.

I can't believe they didn't notice the lag hits, though. How in the hell could they not have tested a system that did it, if nearly everyone I've talked to is experiencing it?

[Anarchy1]

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Anyone else noticed that the MP FPS is locked at 60?

Have gotten about halfway (I'd guess) through the campaign and wow, I'm really impressed. It's very hollywood action movie like - not all are going to like that - but woo it's like an adrenaline rush. Very few parts that frustrated me once you know what to do. Not gonna spoil anything so i won't say much else. Perhaps my favourite singleplayer in a CoD game so far.

(I haven't experienced any lag in the slightest, been playing on highest settings + 2X AA with about 70-90 FPS)

Gonna try MP for a bit as well before jumping into bed.

I've only played through the first level, but it is fast-paced. As soon as you start the mission, you are in the middle of a massive firefight that continues for the entire level. I had no idea what was going on but it was amazing.

The lag isn't due to servers. I was getting lag spikes playing combat training, offline with bots. My wife said, "Oh, it's probably just first-day server stuff. It'll work out." Then she saw me kill "her" and said, "Wait, I'm not playing and usually if you play with your friends you're on voice. Are those bots?" "Yeah." She said, "They released a game that broken, that BOTS are lagging? Roffle roffle." Yeah, we say "roffle" as a word, most people think we're crazy.

But even my wife understood that if a game is lagging like that offline, there is a problem. She also saw it randomly minimize to desktop 3 times in 5 minutes.

I can't believe they didn't notice the lag hits, though. How in the hell could they not have tested a system that did it, if nearly everyone I've talked to is experiencing it?

I heard the lag has to do with some conflict between the game and Steam.

To try and fix the MP lag, type /snaps 30 in console. It helps a little bit.

[Minmaster]

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i heard playing offline helps... for SP at least. that's what i'm gonna try right now.

[RYKUU]

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Well at least a patch can be created to fix the game up, I am very surprised that Treyarch didn't see this error before.