» Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:55 am
Why is everyone bagging on the freakin MP? Its a brand new game, give the developers some time to tweak it! Remember how crappy the Black Ops MP was, before the developers messed with it? Jeez...
Ok, raging over.
People are 'bagging on' because this game effectively had 2 multiplayer specific public betas.
I played the main beta extensively and really enjoyed it (and got really good at it). It had problems, but thats what betas are for. As requested by Crytek, people submitted full reports listing bugs and problems.
Then they released the demo.. which I was dismayed to find, had lots of the same issues seen in the beta. Except it seemed a lot more laggy. It was so bad I couldn't stand playing it. Again, as requested people left detailed feedback.
I wasn't going to buy the game on the Xbox until I knew that the problems were fixed, but my friend got me a cheap copy so I took a gamble. Unfortunately all the problems are still there.. which begs the question.. why have betas if you're just going to ignore all the feedback people give you? All the problems people are listing now were present in the beta.. especially hit detection, melee and lag.
If they couldn't fix those problems in the time between the beta and the final release, then I have to question whether they have it in them to fix the problems at all.
ps. I'd also like to add that it's a little disconcerting that at least one of their forum devs hasn't actually played the multiplayer.