Time Line for Updates?

This game is becoming very frustrating, love the title, my entire group does, but because of the matchmaking are thinking of leaving it all together.

I just want to know, what kind of time line is it until the connection fix is pushed?

I dont know officially but id guesstimate around a week or two.

if by "connection fix" you are referring to the lag then I dont know how much uber can do. Lag comes from people with crappy connections hosting games. Since console games rarely have dedicated servers I dont see this issue going away. Games like MW2 have the luxury of a huge player base so they can get better player-hosted servers. Though a better host migration could alleviate the problem quite a bit, but we already know uber is working on that.

The only time this problem really bugs me is when I wait for the countdown between games, which is unnecessarily long, and then when it gets to like 5 seconds I lose connection to host. Why couldn't I lose connection at like 50 seconds and not wait all that time.

It is a big problem that they empty the lobby if the host quits. It should select a new host from the group and try to preserve the lobby.

That's so weird...I have no problems with this game, and I know whenever I'm lagging it's because of my crappy connection.

No, no one cares about the lag. Try playing the game with 5 other people and you will understand what I am talking about. This game is only fairly stable at 3 players, 4 players run into some problems, 5 players is near impossible, and 6 is one game every 30-50 minutes and then the team rage quits and your stats don't post.


I have a group of around 29 players who play this title, we always have 8 - 9 of them wanting to play, we settle on 6 of them ..... we can't get a game hardly ever. As an entirety (and I'm sure most of them have friends I don't know) we are considering taking this to the next level for complaint filing, directly to XBOX since this is 1) A title they approved and 2) A title they advertised under their summer arcade marketing push, and perhaps push for a refund if the issues aren't fixed because as it is, it isn't providing us the service that it demonstrated would be available to us and selling a misrepresented good, at least in America, and not offering restitution, is not legal. We are trying to be patient but it is literally an unplayable title in a group setting which is the main reason the game was purchased, for it's group play and balance.


--Edit-- But as a note to anyone working on this title or forum moderator, I am not going there yet, I don't know about any of the other people, but I'm willing to be patient a few more days, but some of us don't have 15 dollars extra (actually 20 since I had to buy the points to get it and they obviously won't sell you exactly what you need, that would ruin profit margin) to just throw away and so that patience isn't a permanent thing ---

Or I guess we could just start posting our vidcaps of the lobby closing / splitting our team 14 times in a row, I'm sure that would get a good word of mouth about the issues since no one seems to want to address them or post any type of info to quell our uneasiness.

Not sure what you're inferring here, but I've never had stability issues with the game with a full 6v6. Host migration sucks, but you make it sound like this is the end of the universe here. My gameplay has suffered minimally.

Edit: To this point, I understand you're talking about party-splitting, and yes, that sucks. It needs to be fixed.

I'm sorry that you seem to think you're entitled to a refund on something which made no guarantees of perfection, and on a feature you ASSUMED would be included rather than was promised. Good luck with that one, buddy. ESPECIALLY since it explicitly says there are no refunds on games purchased through Xbox Live.

TF2 is the closest example to this game and it's CONSTANTLY getting updates to fix random issues. Quit acting like a petulant child because there are some small snags in an otherwise great game. The developer is aware of them and will sort them out. Crying to Xbox Support isn't going to do you a damn bit of good.

Yeah the game has it quirks but honestly every game does, if you expected perfection from launch then i'm sorry to say is your own mistake. I can't even remember a game that didn't have it's share of annoying problems online this generation.

This next patch will probebly fix alot but since it takes time and (alot?) of money to release patches you can be sure they want to release it with as much in there as possible.

The party splitting does suck a whole lot though, it even happend to us the first 3 times we tried to splitscreen even.
But again, alot of games have this, L4D and BF1943 for example just split you up so i guess it's harder to code then we assume.

Fixing all of these issues is very important to us!

We are working hard on them as we speak. We cannot give you a timeline though as anything we do has to go through test and certification.

This post takes the prize for being the most laughable. I've been playing the game and have only run into a laggy match about 3 times. Get a real connection and stop playing on morse code and you'll see it's not that bad. Good luck with filing that complaint btw, that'll be a real hoot. Any game that has P2P and not dedicated servers is going to have lag issues if *gasp* the person hosting has a crap connect. Try playing Gears of War 2 sometime and you'll be begging for MNC.

The only issues I have are ones they are working on, but no matter what they do, you will get lag eventually.

The biggest issue right now for updates is that their hands are tied until microsoft pushes out its next XBLA update (in 2ish weeks), because they cant put anything through the new process until its out.

Zero Hour thanks for that, that was helpful.

Rolo, I won't say you are ignorant, but you are ignoring what I wrote because I didn't say anything about lag, I responded to someone talking about lag but I didn't mention it because outside of a few games where the host is on p2p file sharing the games are fine.

Mod, yes I know, I was just hoping someone could say 2-3 weeks and not 4-6 months

Kid who scrutinized my post about how great it is, you do not consistently play with 6 people, or if you do they are not that good, otherwise you would understand and stop posting ridiculous comments. My group is very dominant, we were ranked #1 in the world on halo 2 for the first seven months out, our only competition at that time was a group called STK, the group would sit for half of an hour or longer waiting for a game because there was no group in major clan near our rank at that time, we continue to be very dominant, H1, H2, skipped H3 mainly, COD4 MW1, COD4 MW2, we have insanely high win loss ratios as a group and it's all legit, so when we play this title, which we are very happy with in it's gameplay, balance, and design, but have to spend 30-50 minutes to find one game and it isn't due to ranking systems, that is very frustrating, because we just want game time to get our team work better and more stats posting. Everyone rage quits against us which migrates host which then bridges atleast 2 players out almost 100% of the time. That leaves us 4 of our 6 players in the game, which can win any time they want, but isn't the point of starting a game, with 6 people.

Name used to be prophet seekers in h2, look up tango paseo, atomic scorcher, prophet of leet you'll see plenty of forums complaining about them .

Are you quite done fapping to yourself?

I don't know who you're calling "Kid" here, but I've generally found that people who resort to condescendingly refer to their peers this way are doing it to cover for their lack of maturity. Beyond making you sound arrogant, spouting out all this information doesn't make me feel sorry in the least for you because you of all people (based on this list) should know that games sometimes requiring patching and that takes time.

Sit back and wait just like the rest of us instead of making stupid demands like a refund from Xbox Live.

Yes, we are all very impressed at how much time, effort, and emotional investment you put into video games.

Good luck trying to get your money back from Microsoft pal, their legal position is iron clad, and you wildly overvalue your own importance if you think anyone cares about you just because you have a high K/D ratio and are "uber leet".

You will eventually realize that, outside your little circle jerk of competitive turds, nobody likes you, the way you play, or listening to your self-important internet brags about how awesome you are at a series of twitch shooters.

Thanks for the response, good luck on that. Think you'll need it

Thanks for sharing something completely unrelated to the topic. Reading about how someone can turn a serious topic into a self promoting e-penis extender just breaks the week nicely like that.

Bad players are the majority of game players. The reason most players are bad isn't because they don't aim very well, it is because they don't think, they don't evaluate situations, understand environment response, and the numbers behind their actions. Those people will always be the majority of the people who participate in forums, I do not mind being in the minority.

So thank you all for your comments and I appreciate all the free points you give me, continue being uninformed and running into my bullets. You should probably play as an assassin too, I hear they do really really well.


BTW MNC thanks for some of the tweaks you have done recently, don't know if its because of your larger gameplay pool or if it was something done to intervene, haven't seen an update pushed yet so if it was something outside of a push, thanks. Six man is still death to play, and they have got a game battles running now so there will be more private matches that don't rely on your matchmaking, but I would still suggest that be patched as one of your priorities.

I, for one, am happy that your organized group has trouble getting games against random pub groups. If you can't understand why randoms always "ragequit" against you, then you obviously haven't been on the other side of the situation enough. An organized team pubstomping is like a grown man going around punching babies, thinking that makes him an awesome boxer.

edit: If you've got ~29 people, why not just do private matches against each other? That would probably be way more fun for everyone involved

lol umad?

I sympathized with you in your first post. I get wanting to stay in a party with your friends. Totally reasonable request, and I respect that. You also made another post explaining tweaks and fixes you'd like to see. I liked that post as well. It was well thought-out and they are fixes that I'd like to see implemented.

However, this particular topic derailed into how you deserve a refund, how much time you sink into shooters, how leet you think you are, and how misinformed the community is because we like to have fun with games and not pretend that they're anything besides a way to kill time and have fun. We're not misinformed; we just don't CARE. You're entitled to play any game how you want, but don't assume that everyone's going to bow at your feet because you can point a thumbstick and pull a trigger.

Here's a tip: When you're on forums making ridiculous requests for refunds and acting arrogant, don't intend on being popular.

P.S. Loved your post on how Assassins aren't made for lane-clearing or turret killing. Makes a good read on how to be misinformed.