Leveling the playing field

Matchmaking on Xbox happens in a very different manner from the PC. There is no "Server list" at all and you don't browse a list of games. The equivalent "mess around" space would be a private game on XBL.

I agree these are good things but we are somewhat limited in resources here. The XBL experience is a different one from PC.

Again, no server list on XBL. PC is a different animal and what you are talking about is more applicable there.

Just throwing out some ideas neutrino. I don't know the first thing about consoles and the Xbox and XBLA specifically. This Monday was actually the first time I touched a console controller in my life. A friend of mine bought a Wii and I gave bowling a chance. Pretty impressive btw. The new advanced controller made it possible to add a spin. It was actually the most fun sport simulation I've played so far.

Yeah, the matchmaking experience on console is very different from PC. This is one of the reasons that people were complaining about MW2 on the PC.

Your ideas are always Welcome here!

I still need to stress an issue I addressed and confirmed with a dev, but the game needs a minimap, and badly. It helps communication and teamwork by allowing the player and team members to be able to help each other out by knowing what the playing field is like even without any mics or chat. The dev I talked to confirmed it is being thought of and possibly worked on, but I have to disagree with him. He said that the current idea is to have it used only while you are waiting to respawn. I find that less useful than being able to have it when you are alive.

We had a minimap and we cut it for a variety of reasons. It definitely changes the game if you have one but we ultimately decided it wasn't necessary.

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Make it optional like in FA?

You can have a server list on xboxlive games, TF2, Perfect Dark Zero and Unreal tournament 3 are some I remember that use server lists. But I perfer matchmaking because server lists increase the amount of mess around games you will stumble into.

I agree with that for consoles, but not for the PC. However, depending on the game mode, this changes. For crossfire, I believe matchmaking works best since it works best with full 6v6 fights that are full before the game starts, while something like a possible larger scale mode like death match or team death match or capture the flag (or w/e it ends up being called, same thing with something like king of the hill) would work just fine without. I think for those types of modes a server browser for something like the PC version (fingers crossed) would be better and a quick join feature would be even better if stacked on top of that. I know this isn't the highest production game but it's just an idea.

We haven't really defined the PC version so all of this is at least possible.