Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

[jim g]

Well early impressions are similar to the Beta, it is fast with lots of jumping (but better than Advanced Warfare). The Lag is still there even with an open NAT and the specific ports for the MP open. Lower ping at them moment = ass wooped. In most games when we lose (team deathmatch) we all have KD ratios of less than 1, whist the opponents ALL have 2 and 3 KD. Now if it was just me them I am crap, but repeated teams either win with high KD versus low KD it points to lag. Replays support this, the shot before you see them syndrome is still present. hey ho thats modern gaming for you. I think I will move to Portugal, ping there is crap!

PS4, UK Pal, BT Internet, Draytek Router, Nat Open, Port Open for BOPS 3 (Port 3074 needs to be open), ping 29, 56mb down, 12mb up

[djtickle]

which format mate?

XBO

[MartyG]

Well early impressions are similar to the Beta, it is fast with lots of jumping (but better than Advanced Warfare). The Lag is still there even with an open NAT and the specific ports for the MP open. Lower ping at them moment = ass wooped. In most games when we lose (team deathmatch) we all have KD ratios of less than 1, whist the opponents ALL have 2 and 3 KD. Now if it was just me them I am crap, but repeated teams either win with high KD versus low KD it points to lag. Replays support this, the shot before you see them syndrome is still present. hey ho thats modern gaming for you. I think I will move to Portugal, ping there is crap!

PS4, UK Pal, BT Internet, Draytek Router, Nat Open, Port Open for BOPS 3 (Port 3074 needs to be open), ping 29, 56mb down, 12mb up

I used to think I was crap at CoD because I was just crap - now I know it's been because of my awesome low ping from fibre, which I used to think was a good thing to have for MP.

Thanks for that Jim

[teddymeow]

Just bought for PS4 in Argos.

?39.99...and I had one of those ?10 vouchers from a previous purchase.

Happy!

[djtickle]

Played a few games last night on MP and had a good time. I put the single player on Realistic right of the bat and wow its brutal.

[Neon Ignition]

My preload failed so hopefully it'll be ready for when I get home. Seems to getting a good reaction online

[jim g]

So, many games later..., sometimes OK others times, well we know the score, I sit and camp to test something out and lo and behold a guy runs up to me and shoots me from right in front of me and he wasn't even there!!! Watch the replay and yep, the Lag is there. Other games, you cant killed cos a the beneficiary of said Lag, so KD of 3 and 4 are achieved,. Surely in 2015 someone could work out a better solution??

Still I will plod on cos like I to shoot things and i have just completed the Last of Us 3 times in 2 weeks so need a bit blasting!

I haven't played single player or Zombies yet.

[BIG EDD]

I picked it up from Argos also.Wont be able to play it until Sunday night so reading people's impressions

[PaTaito]

Sorry duplicate post.

[PaTaito]

Well early impressions are similar to the Beta, it is fast with lots of jumping (but better than Advanced Warfare). The Lag is still there even with an open NAT and the specific ports for the MP open. Lower ping at them moment = ass wooped. In most games when we lose (team deathmatch) we all have KD ratios of less than 1, whist the opponents ALL have 2 and 3 KD. Now if it was just me them I am crap, but repeated teams either win with high KD versus low KD it points to lag. Replays support this, the shot before you see them syndrome is still present. hey ho thats modern gaming for you. I think I will move to Portugal, ping there is crap!

PS4, UK Pal, BT Internet, Draytek Router, Nat Open, Port Open for BOPS 3 (Port 3074 needs to be open), ping 29, 56mb down, 12mb up

I used to think I was crap at CoD because I was just crap - now I know it's been because of my awesome low ping from fibre, which I used to think was a good thing to have for MP.

Thanks for that Jim

The criminal thing is that i threw this series in the garbage, so to speak, last year and returned to counter strike global offensive...and to my horror the lag compensation system has found its way into this real beloved franchise of mine, and that is all thanks to COD. AWP'ing in CSGO favor's the people with the higher pings(peeking advantage), and for a series which pretty much laid the original ground rules of needing decent internet quality, this is truly a dire scenario and something which aiming for the masses has had the knock on effect of resulting in...If these dev's just let us have our own locked regions, this lag comp thing wouldn't even be an issue.

Loved COD back between 2005-2010, and MW3 was just passable, everything after has been a consistent downward trend, and i look at the game now with all its power ranger style outfits and ridiculous looking weaponry and laugh. Truly though, what its degraded into makes my stomach turn whenever i read anything positive aimed towards it.

To me this series is now a steaming pile of ass.

So, many games later..., sometimes OK others times, well we know the score, I sit and camp to test something out and lo and behold a guy runs up to me and shoots me from right in front of me and he wasn't even there!!! Watch the replay and yep, the Lag is there. Other games, you cant killed cos a the beneficiary of said Lag, so KD of 3 and 4 are achieved,. Surely in 2015 someone could work out a better solution??

There isn't anything better because they want people in siberia to be able to play against the rest of the world with terrible levels of ping, but not get their asses spanked in every game, putting them off the franchise for good in the process. Multiplayer is simply an extremely compromised experience.

I bet in the pro scene there are russian teams etc who regularly mop up online, arrive at lans getting their asses kicked...and wonder wtf is going on.

[BIG EDD]

Had my campaign save data disappear. Wouldn't mind but done 3 missions on hardened
And I paused the game and selected "save and exit" and returned to the title screen.

[MartyG]

I bet in the pro scene there are russian teams etc who regularly mop up online, arrive at lans getting their asses kicked...and wonder wtf is going on.

That'll be down to the state sanctioned pro-gaming doping

[PaTaito]

That'll be down to the state sanctioned pro-gaming doping

That is completely unfounded!!!