Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare

[Legendary]

Mine is coming along nicely, from a horrid 0.6 to 0.96 it has taken AGES. Still going up slowly.

 

[Sureboss]

My router is completely open, the firewall has been disabled and the PS3 has been set to DMZ. I've had problems with WaW and MW games on the PSN but never on the 360! I just find the PSN is a lot more difficult to use in general than Live too. It's not just me either, a Google search reveals the extent of the 'Downloading Game Settings' problem. Then there's the disconnections after games which is higher on PSN, and the apparent lack of being able to start a party and keep it together to play matches together, which Live does perfectly.

Anyway I got a few good games in in the end, came across a lot of people jumping about like idiots but they were soon put down by the AK47. My k/d ratio stands at 1.31 at the minute, it will be interesting to see if it goes up or down from there as my 360 ratio is 1.41.

More of a problem with COD4 Developers than PSN.

 

[Moglet]

I don't believe I ever said it was because of the PSN! I simply mentioned it doesn't work as well for this game as Live does, which, judging by the replies to this thread, is true. I don't like using it in general really, it's lacking massively in feedback and party features that IMO should be standard on such a modern console.

EDIT: It's doing it again, I'm getting the same problem every time I try to play online.

 

[boiltheocean]

Just had a couple of awesome Ground War games.

44-2 Domination, matched my highest killstreak of 25.
17-0 Team Deathmatch, good for upping the sniper kills, close to an ACOG now.

 

[Moglet]

Right, this is getting ridiculous, I've been on the phone to my ISP and they said there is nothing wrong with my router or my connection, and I've got it set up correctly for PS3 use. Now I'm off to phone Sony to see what they say.

I've also discovered that when I try to start a Private Match, it freezes before I can even enter the Private Lobby and I have to reset the console completely.

EDIT: I tried changing my internet connection settings on the console, and now it freezes whenever I try to access the Connection Settings menu, so I can't even get online anymore!

 

[boiltheocean]

I've also discovered that when I try to start a Private Match, it freezes before I can even enter the Private Lobby and I have to reset the console completely.

That happens to me every single time. Also offline multiplayer will freeze sometimes on the same menu. I think thats down to bad developing from the COD Team, they never liked PS3 users in the first place.

 

[Famine]

Right, this is getting ridiculous, I've been on the phone to my ISP and they said there is nothing wrong with my router or my connection, and I've got it set up correctly for PS3 use. Now I'm off to phone Sony to see what they say.

I've also discovered that when I try to start a Private Match, it freezes before I can even enter the Private Lobby and I have to reset the console completely.

EDIT: I tried changing my internet connection settings on the console, and now it freezes whenever I try to access the Connection Settings menu, so I can't even get online anymore!

COD4 uses a Peer-to-Peer connection. If your ISP blocks or throttles P2P you might experience "issues".

 

[Moglet]

COD4 uses a Peer-to-Peer connection. If your ISP blocks or throttles P2P you might experience "issues".

World at War runs just fine on my PS3 though, and COD4 works completely fine on my 360 too. I've emailed Activision about it as my ISP is certain that everything is fine if I can play all my other games.

I think I'm just going to sell it though, there is absolutely no point in me having a game I can't play.

 

[Famine]

As far as I'm aware, World at War isn't P2P (though I might be wrong) and some ISPs have been reporting issues with PS3 connections and not 360 connections.

Who is your ISP?

 

[breakpoint]

Hmm, well i have never had one single issue with mine on 360 so seems like a sony issue there. What ISP do you have?

 

[Famine]

Hmm, well i have never had one single issue with mine on 360 so seems like a sony issue there.

In one respect it is a Sony issue - it's to do with the ports the PS3 uses - but ultimately it's a technical issue with the ISP. Note how it's only an issue in the UK..?

 

[Moglet]

In one respect it is a Sony issue - it's to do with the ports the PS3 uses - but ultimately it's a technical issue with the ISP. Note how it's only an issue in the UK..?

Surely though, if it's a problem with the ports then it would have been solved by putting the PS3 on DMZ?

 

[Famine]

Surely though, if it's a problem with the ports then it would have been solved by putting the PS3 on DMZ?

Not if the ISP blocks those ports.

Incidentally, BTInternet and Sky are notorious for causing PS3 connection issues by throttling and blocking P2P.

Edit: There's a program called "Glasnost" which will allow you to determine if your ISP is blocking P2P.

 

[Moglet]

I'll look into that, thanks Famine!
I'm back playing on the 360 and loving it, I'm coming top in almost every match with a k/d ratio of 2 each time. I'm using the MP5 with Stopping Power and Extreme Conditioning and just running about like a madman!

 

[Legendary]

The problems you were having had never happened to me that often. Sure, every few weeks I get trapped on that stupid Downloading Game Settings rubbish but nothing else has happened, I can get into private matches and do all the other stuff you said you cant. I think its a problem at your end somewhere because most of the CoD4 PS3 community never have a problem with it.

 

[Sureboss]

Wow, in Full HD I am seeing enemies from further a field. Pipeline actually felt reasonable as a map. I do need to work out how this C4 stuff works.

 

[Legendary]

If you snipe a good strategy is to sit in your building and have your full field of vision over the screen at all times. This strategy is much easier in HD but what you do is sit there, you dont have to be zoomed in or out for this to work, the second you see a movement, be it crossfire,pipeline etc, you zoom in on that spot and check to see if its a enemy, if it is BAYUM and he is dead.

I know that seems obvious but most people sit there and wave their screen around, when you move the screen you cant detect movements, so staying still is your best option.

 

[a6m5]

Just had a couple of awesome Ground War games.

44-2 Domination, matched my highest killstreak of 25.
17-0 Team Deathmatch, good for upping the sniper kills, close to an ACOG now.

Holy Moly! 👍

Wow, in Full HD I am seeing enemies from further a field. Pipeline actually felt reasonable as a map. I do need to work out how this C4 stuff works.

You've been playing on a standard definition? I've yet to play it on standard def., and I'm sure I'll be going "where in the hell did he come from!?" through the matches, if I did.

I know that seems obvious but most people sit there and wave their screen around, when you move the screen you cant detect movements, so staying still is your best option.

That is pretty obvious, bud. I haven't played that way in....... hours. At least.

 

[breakpoint]

All i have to play on is just a standard tv, no flat screen or plasma or fancy HD. I am really looking forward to the day i get a nice HD tv so i can see people on the screen with further draw distance and such.

 

[Dead_Poetic]

I play in HD too, but I'll be honest, I always play better when im playing on a sdtv. My aim sucks on my hd tv for some reason. almost a bit of input lag with certain hd tv's.

 

[a6m5]

I knew it wasn't me. I got skillz, My TV, not so much.

 

[TheCracker]

Wow, in Full HD I am seeing enemies from further a field. Pipeline actually felt reasonable as a map. I do need to work out how this C4 stuff works.

A mate of mine has just got himself a nice HD telly (i've still got a SD TV). We'd just recently been talking about how sometimes when you get killed and watch the KillCam replay you think to yourself, how the hell did they see me? it must have been a lucky guess. Now he's playing it on HD he says he can now see how these long distance kills are much more possible. Not only that but it's much easier to make people out against similar coloured backgrounds in the mid distance too.

Need to get myself one too i think.

I wouldn't bother with the C4. Very few people use it from what i can make out. It's just a bit time consuming to set up. 9 out of 10 times of trying to use it in a TDM match will see you getting killed long before you can do anything with it. It's one of those perks that you'll come across that are pretty useless.

 

[a6m5]

Agreed. I finally figured out how to use it, and I actually got lucky on my first couple of tries. Two for two. But I get the impression that the circumstance, the timing, those things have to be just right, or you could be wasting couple of minutes, just waiting for a passer-by.

I'd say just accelerate your play, level up to lv. 23 for the claymores. They are awesome, right along with the three frags(lv.40?). On my Japanese account, I think I'm at 21. I can't decide which I miss more: The silenced P90, or the claymores.

 

[Sureboss]

A mate of mine has just got himself a nice HD telly (i've still got a SD TV). We'd just recently been talking about how sometimes when you get killed and watch the KillCam replay you think to yourself, how the hell did they see me? it must have been a lucky guess. Now he's playing it on HD he says he can now see how these long distance kills are much more possible. Not only that but it's much easier to make people out against similar coloured backgrounds in the mid distance too.

Need to get myself one too i think.

I wouldn't bother with the C4. Very few people use it from what i can make out. It's just a bit time consuming to set up. 9 out of 10 times of trying to use it in a TDM match will see you getting killed long before you can do anything with it. It's one of those perks that you'll come across that are pretty useless.

Absolutely, it's like being cured of being short sighted. It makes a massive difference to what you can see, and as you've said making out movements easier.

 

[Famine]

I played COD4 through on a 15" SD set. I then played COD5 almost all the way through on a 32" 1080i HD set and tried to do just the last checkpoint on a 37" SD set so I could record it - and that took me an hour because I couldn't see where the bullets were coming from.

I now play COD4 online on a 22" 1080p set and... wow

 

[Dragonistic]

I play in HD too, but I'll be honest, I always play better when im playing on a sdtv. My aim sucks on my hd tv for some reason. almost a bit of input lag with certain hd tv's.

I'm pretty much the same, I've played on every type of size and def and found I'm pretty much just as decent on them all. I still have no trouble spotting guys across the map on an SDTV and my first 34 kill streak was actually in SD at a friends. I've since got another 34 streak in HD and my ratios have stayed similar on both TVs and whilst we're on the subject systems. I play just as well on 360 at the same friends funnily enough, and hold his highest streak on XBL only around 25 IIRC.

 

[Moglet]

I've always played mine through a 32" HD TV, I'm not sure how I'd fare on an SD display.

My new tactic of 'run as fast as possible and never stop' seems to be working well, I managed to get the entire opposition team into a panic on Creek by using a silenced fast setup (UAV Jammer, silenced MP5, Extreme Conditioning) and just legging it across the hills in zig zags. I finished about 12-6 and that was only because the opposition got a heli.

It's brilliant coming face to face with a sniper, firing the MP5 from the hip while running toward them and then not stopping as you go past, just running through them to get to the next target

 

[Dragonistic]

I've always played mine through a 32" HD TV, I'm not sure how I'd fare on an SD display.

My new tactic of 'run as fast as possible and never stop' seems to be working well, I managed to get the entire opposition team into a panic on Creek by using a silenced fast setup (UAV Jammer, silenced MP5, Extreme Conditioning) and just legging it across the hills in zig zags. I finished about 12-6 and that was only because the opposition got a heli.

It's brilliant coming face to face with a sniper, firing the MP5 from the hip while running toward them and then not stopping as you go past, just running through them to get to the next target

This tactic is one I use as well, works particularly well when there's more then 1 of you doing it on a map like Pipeline, using the tunnels to flank around and sweep the buildings. You can really cause havoc behind enemy lines, it works one most of the maps which allow you to flank around, maps like Bog it's useless as you usually get caught in the open, although it can still work.

 

[Moglet]

This tactic is one I use as well, works particularly well when there's more then 1 of you doing it on a map like Pipeline, using the tunnels to flank around and sweep the buildings. You can really cause havoc behind enemy lines, it works one most of the maps which allow you to flank around, maps like Bog it's useless as you usually get caught in the open, although it can still work.

I found it worked well on Wetwork running straight up the middle and right into the thick of it took them by surprise! I've had success using it on Downpour sneaking about in the shrubs and then legging it when nobody was looking. I've yet to try it on Pipeline but I can't wait to do so.

 

[breakpoint]

I've always played mine through a 32" HD TV, I'm not sure how I'd fare on an SD display.

My new tactic of 'run as fast as possible and never stop' seems to be working well, I managed to get the entire opposition team into a panic on Creek by using a silenced fast setup (UAV Jammer, silenced MP5, Extreme Conditioning) and just legging it across the hills in zig zags.

I was just like, wow when i read that because i use that exact set-up on creek sometimes and do the same thing:tup: One match i was on the downside of the creek which sucks starting there but i got to the top and of course there were about 3 snipers on the roof of the one house and you know they set claymore inside the house and as you go up the ladder. Well, there is a 2nd way on to the roof that seems like hardly anyone knows about. I'm sure most of you vets do, its jumping on the hotwater heater and all that jazz. Well i made my way up that way with that set-up and since there weren't any claymores set off they had no idea i was there, so i began to slice them open:idea: I quickly set my claymores and went into the bushes behind that house beside the big tank and waited and watched cause i knew they would head straight for it.


They did, and 2 died and the 3rd was shot from the bushes by a silenced MP5, then i just moved and kept killing the same sniper who kept trying to come back and kill me. I just know he was so aggravated because he just kept coming back and looking for me and only finding were 9x19mm rounds ripping his flesh:tup: