» Sun May 10, 2009 5:26 pm
So, I've been reading a lot about the PC players having trouble with the multiplayer function in Crysis 2, but the consoles are having trouble as well..
1# Bad connection
I live in Europe, but I am constantly getting queued with Americans and people not even near my region (insert bad joke here). I normally have a decent connection in any other games, but here I am rolling 1-2 bar.
2# Extremely low framerate
People (including me) are literally jumping like rabbits and it's not just because of the bad connection. This problem even occurs in the loading screen where the frame is standing still for 0.5 - 1.0 second and then jump.
3# Sound is fading/disappearing
Sometimes when I play the sound just disappear. Then I have to leave the lobby and join a new in order to get it back.
4# Extremely noisy sound effects!
But when the sound do work it is very , very loud. I am having trouble hearing other people. If I want to talk with someone I will need to turn down the Music, SFX and Voice volume and even then it's hard to hear other people.
5# Party chat
And also, when in a party (before joining a session) you can't speak with your party! This is not Xbox so we can not just create a "Dashboard party" so we can talk meanwhile. Very annoying.
6# Leaderboards in game
I like to check the Leaderboards (pressing Select) while playing the game, but when I do that I can not walk meanwhile. Also very annoying.
7# No hitmarkers!
Don't think that this is a bug, but when I shoot at someone I can not se if I'm getting any hits! Just to compare a little: In Black Ops it makes a unique sound when hitting a person and some white crosshairs will pop up. In Crysis neither of these things happens.
8# "The voice over guy"
This is not an issue, but it's annoying as hell. "You have now turned on your invisibility function" - "You have now turned it off" - "You turned in on again" - "Off" - "On" - "Off" - "On"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please let us be able to turned him off!! I know when I'm cloaked, because I pressed the god damn button myself!
9# The spawning system
The spawns are a bit off. I have been killed so many times in the back, because of people spawning behind me (but then again, I have spawned and killed people two feet away from my spawn).
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I'm rolling a Samsung UE46C8705 tv with the Astro A40 headset and I do not have any of these issues with any other games (except the fps and lag in Black Ops, but that's their stupid Xbox engine running like sh*t on PS3, seriously don't hope Crysis are doing the same!).
This game is still very, very new and I will give the developers some time to fix this, but for now it is unplayable.
I'm not saying that this is happening for all the PS3 players, but I am definitely having problems!
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I agree with numbers 7,8,and 9.
There are hit markers,but it's isn't as distinguishable as in other games.The hit marker is a white "X".A simple color change to red would work perfectly.
I'm really getting sick of hearing "Cloak engaged".Just give the option to turn off the suit voice.
I understand the reason behind the spawning system,to prevent spawn camping,but it just leads to too many kills from behind in this game.Can't really decide if a singular spawn area for both squads would help or hurt the MP.I like how it works in Capture The Relay.
A couple of sound tweaks would be nice too.In game chat and gun sound effects to be specific.
I think that most people are complaining about waaaaay too much though.There are some minor fixes that could be worked on,but tying to turn this into another COD game is just wrong,and I really hope that the people biching about stuff that would turn it into that game just go back to it,and leave the rest of us alone.