» Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:38 am I'm new here and I can see that Crytek doesn't communicate with their customer base much, if at all. But I would be very grateful if an employee of Crytek would be kind enough to give us a rough estimate on when the next patch is released.
I can see that they released a few patches and hotfix within the first month, but it's been 22 days and I've looked through posts and I cannot find an ETA on next patch. They probably have given us an ETA somewhere (as I cannot imagine them not doing so, because other company's usually do) in some thread, but they're a lot of them and I don't want to go through dozens of them.
I'm hoping that the next patch fixes the below;
1) I find that I hardly play some maps, I tend to play the same 4-5 all the time and rarely see others like Impact and the night-time maps as much as say Skyline & Terminal which are every other game. I appreciate that these are good, fun maps but it's not fun playing them all the time.
2) Lobbies take ages to fill up - I can wait with friends for several minutes for just 1-2 extra players to join to start the countdown. There must have been another 1-2 people in the whole world that wanted to play Crysis when we did surely.
3) Keep being thrown out lobbies either before or after matches only for the same or less people to rejoin in a new lobby moments later and then point 2) happens again. Really annoying and also it seems to make us play Skyline & Terminal again.
4) This ties into point 2) but it's rare to find a full game.
5) Host Migrations barely ever work - I cannot believe that that many hosts turn off their xbox or dashboard because I have a friend who is sometimes host and if he has to eat dinner then he exists the game back to the lobby and then instead of the host migrating it will fail. I don't understand this as he didn't dashboard or turn off xbox, he left the game properly using the Start menu.
6) If a failed host migration occurs then I get an automatic loss?? Why can't it be that the game ignores that the game too place so that no-one loses. Makes more sense that everyone neither wins or losses than everyone loses. I don't care much for stats but it make me appear worse than I am.
7) Countdowns between each game are REALLY long. It's like 45 seconds for people to vote and then this increases as people join, then once the countdown reaches 0 then if someone else joins then have extra time to vote again! On top of this it takes ages at the loading screen and then there is another 16 second countdown before the game plays. Waiting 2-3 mins each game is really long. I know there is Fast Rounds for Team Deathmatch but what about Free for All or Crash Site please?
8) Grenades are overpowered - The No.1 way I die is being shot when I attack someone else and No. 2 is grenades. No. 1 I can live with because this is part due to my decision-making, but no. 2 I have no power to control. I will be playing and then die instantly with no warning sometimes. Also it seems that even if I have full heath and use armor then I can still be killed. I don't know if it is because it takes time to transition to Armor but it sometimes in the killcam I can see that I used armor when the grenade hit my feet and I would run a a couple of seconds to get away and then it will still kill me. If I use armor 1-2 seconds before it detonates then I shouldnt die imo.
9) Xbox keeps crashing either forcing a dashboard or for me to turn off xbox about 1-2 times an hour. This is to much imo and my friends complain of the same thing. Even Fallout: New Vegas does not crash this often and it is notorious for that problem.
10) Random Energy Drain - Sometimes I wil just lose all my energy for no apparent reason. I thought it may be a stray bullet but sometimes I am in areas when bullets could not possibly hit me, like going up a flight of stairs and it will happens. This almost always gets me killed.
11) My party keeps being split up on the first game of every new lobby we enter even if there is enough people on the opposite team for me and my friends to be on the same side.
12) Unbalanced Parties - A lot of the time it will put level 10's and lower on one team and level 30+ on the other. Makes the game too easy to win.
I look forward to your reply.
Thanks in advance.
