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juchangok
Joined: 15 Jan 2009
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Slowmotion wrote: |
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| To easily connect to US servers or Europe servers, just change your location settings on you XB console. |
Should we be changing our location to korea than for a better connection? I can download a 500 mb torrent in 30 seconds, yet I'm often wiht yellow bars or red bar on live |
Hmm well if you change your location to Korea, you will most likely get connected with people playing from Korea or with people that have their settings switched Korea. Your internet speed won't change. It's just the fact that you're connecting to servers on the other side of the world that is giving you yellow/red bar connections.
Not to promote boosting (which I hate), but that's how people boost. They will change their xbox location settings to something crazy like Djibouti and search for a live game and most likely get connected together with their friends to boost. So by the same idea you could change your location to USA to play with people here living in the States.
Edit: MW2 is freaking awesome  |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Can someone explain to me briefly what the hoo-ha is over MW2 and it's online mode? |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Can someone explain to me briefly what the hoo-ha is over MW2 and it's online mode? |
Well, we're hoping MW2 will be as awesome as MW1.........online/multiplayer? I've never got that kick either. I don't get what's cool about playing games with 16 year old idiots in Montana. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I really enjoyed playing COD4 online at first, but after a while you'd get people cheating or camping at all the spawn points so it soon became a bore. |
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hugekebab

Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Can someone explain to me briefly what the hoo-ha is over MW2 and it's online mode? |
PC players are used to having dedicated servers for their multiplayer games. Dedicated servers are proper servers, usually commercial, with high processing capabilities, and high upload bandwidth. When using these types of servers, the multiplayer experience is low ping (if you're near) and also the server is a permanent base where a clan or regular players can keep going to.
Activision have screwed the community by removing dedicated server support in favour of listening servers (some kiddie at home on his laptop and 0.5 M upload.) problems with this include:
No permanent player base: servers are constantly shifting, makes clan play/organisation near impossible.
lag:low upload bandwidth and lower processing capability, as well as the server having to run a grapical instance of the game all mean the experience is extremely laggy, and unreliable (lots of dropped servers)
interrupted gameplay when the host 'migrates' (basically when the kiddie with the laptop's mum calls him for dinner he turns off his computer and the server host has to change, causing a 5 second delay and usually, a crash.
Other problems include:
only 6vs 6 and one game type of 9 vs 9 (simply because of the lack of a dedicated server) the old mw had 64 player servers because it had dedicated server support.
No lean (because they basically straight ported it from the console and couldn't be bothered to do any specific pc platform programming.)
No mods/custom maps (modding made COD what it is today.)
Console FOV (again, they couldn't be arsed to change the FOV for the pc platform because it is a straight console to PC port. This means you feel motion sick and claustrophobic when playing. Simple laziness and arrogance on the part of IW.)
the developer's attitude towards the PC community. Arrogant, disrespectful, untruthful, misleading and rude. Accusations of piracy are unfair as only 2% of multiplayer servers were cracked. (Basically a good dedicated server multiplayer is what makes a game worth buying instead of pirating, because you need a CD key and because it gives you longevity instead of 4 hours play for �50.)
Remember COD was a PC game and developed to where it is today on the PC. IW have done all this simply because the console gives them more money and they can't be bothered to program for the PC any more, but instead of being honest, have tried to dupe the PC community. |
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Xanadu123
Joined: 01 Jul 2009
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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has anyone purchased and played this in south korea? Because my main selling point is being able to join lag free games
Any input is appreciated |
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darkjedidave

Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Location: Shanghai/Seoul
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| cj1976 wrote: |
| Can someone explain to me briefly what the hoo-ha is over MW2 and it's online mode? |
Well, we're hoping MW2 will be as awesome as MW1.........online/multiplayer? I've never got that kick either. I don't get what's cool about playing games with 16 year old idiots in Montana. |
Its not fun playing with them, but its a blast owning them with REAL friends from either here in Korea or from the States. I dont play online without friend due to the 16 year olds you talk about. Its all about playing with friends to me. |
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Destroyer

Joined: 11 Dec 2005
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| XBOX 360 version in korea yet? In English? I'm drooling... |
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Xanadu123
Joined: 01 Jul 2009
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:54 am Post subject: |
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im talking about the PC version
plus i dont care if i play with friends or not |
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Slowmotion
Joined: 15 Aug 2009
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| juchangok wrote: |
| Slowmotion wrote: |
| juchangok wrote: |
| To easily connect to US servers or Europe servers, just change your location settings on you XB console. |
Should we be changing our location to korea than for a better connection? I can download a 500 mb torrent in 30 seconds, yet I'm often wiht yellow bars or red bar on live |
Hmm well if you change your location to Korea, you will most likely get connected with people playing from Korea or with people that have their settings switched Korea. Your internet speed won't change. It's just the fact that you're connecting to servers on the other side of the world that is giving you yellow/red bar connections.
Not to promote boosting (which I hate), but that's how people boost. They will change their xbox location settings to something crazy like Djibouti and search for a live game and most likely get connected together with their friends to boost. So by the same idea you could change your location to USA to play with people here living in the States.
Edit: MW2 is freaking awesome  |
I changed my local to korea and it's not helping, still yellow bar. On the kill cam my reactions are so much later, it's hard to do good in this game if the other person always has a faster connection. I don't know what to do man, it seems the problem is not my internet connection, but rather that everyone else is playing in America. |
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the bomb dot com
Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Location: Gwangmyeong
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Slowmotion (or anyone else), where did you get your copy? Which version is it, how much did it cost, etc? |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Seeing as how the PC Multiplayer of this game has been made rubbish, why not just give Activision the finger, download the game for free, and just play it in Single player.
I'm already half-way through the Single player campaign. All in glorious English.
It's damn good fun. |
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Triban

Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Location: Suwon Station
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Slowmotion wrote: |
| juchangok wrote: |
| Slowmotion wrote: |
| juchangok wrote: |
| To easily connect to US servers or Europe servers, just change your location settings on you XB console. |
Should we be changing our location to korea than for a better connection? I can download a 500 mb torrent in 30 seconds, yet I'm often wiht yellow bars or red bar on live |
Hmm well if you change your location to Korea, you will most likely get connected with people playing from Korea or with people that have their settings switched Korea. Your internet speed won't change. It's just the fact that you're connecting to servers on the other side of the world that is giving you yellow/red bar connections.
Not to promote boosting (which I hate), but that's how people boost. They will change their xbox location settings to something crazy like Djibouti and search for a live game and most likely get connected together with their friends to boost. So by the same idea you could change your location to USA to play with people here living in the States.
Edit: MW2 is freaking awesome  |
I changed my local to korea and it's not helping, still yellow bar. On the kill cam my reactions are so much later, it's hard to do good in this game if the other person always has a faster connection. I don't know what to do man, it seems the problem is not my internet connection, but rather that everyone else is playing in America. |
I'm constantly on yellow bar in Halo 3, my settings are for USA, and I consistently get 15+ kills for team slayer, mostly killing frenzies.
I do not see your point. Rise above n00b. |
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smogdonkey
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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I'm back home now, but when I was in Korea playing MW1, I usually couldn't stand having a yellow connection (PS3). This year's game has been better in my experience, in that a yellow bar usually has a good enough connection not to get smoked.
If you can't stand it quit if you have a bad connection.
LOOOVE the multiplayer so far. So many things to unlock, so much more important to use teamwork. Waiting to level up to the M16 now... |
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t1m1ty
Joined: 24 May 2009 Location: Bundang
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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I just received my US copy of Modern Warfare 2. I can't play it until 10:30 tonight though... 6 more hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I played some MW1 multiplayer and have been getting a lot of yellow bars lately... About a week ago, I was full and green. Anyone know what's going on? |
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