» Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:23 pm
I'm going to try to give some constructive feedback here and not hate on the game, because it is a solid working game.
It's the launch weekend, first off. And since they're doing double xp, pretty much everyone who owns a copy of the game is going to have issues because everyone and their grandmother is online. Look at any CoD at launch and there's not been one iteration without issues such as these. I do fully agree that the random host migration followed by being booted after the 30 second timer reaches zero is pretty annoying. Especially since it only seems to happen in matches where I'm doing well. I'd assume it's the host rage quitting and causing the migration issues. Crytek, can we get dedicated servers? Is this in the works? I'm really on board with this game, but we do need a more stable connection....especially when migrating hosts. This was an issue Activision ran into with the original Modern Warfare and then World at War, but the issue was fixed by the time MW2 released...years ago.
Secondly, any online game is going to suffer from "connection wars". I have a mediocre connection at best, and I've noticed that the live feed looks a lot different than the replay cam (as mentioned above, you're getting hit in advance of actually seeing it on screen, but the replay clearly shows the enemy has been tagging you). This is nothing new, I see it in CoD ALL the time. But, they mitigate it with dedicated servers.
Lastly, to tie all this up, EA is a mega publisher. They should be supporting the devs better by providing the dedicated servers. I'm not a big EA fan though. I learned earlier today that they already shut down the studio putting out the newest Army of Two game, and ***the game hasn't even released yet! ** Sooooo, here's to hoping that EA will notice this and stop being so damn cheap. The underlying point here being we need dedicated servers. If they can cut teams to "re-teach" their teams for upcoming projects, they are obviously saving quite a bit of money, so pass along the savings to your paying customers by giving us what we deserve.
Crytek, I hope you guys get the support you're looking for. This is a great game, and I'd love to see it gain more success as we go.