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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 26, 2015 14:28:21 GMT -5
Played a bunch of DOM games, the beta froze from time to time, which can only be fixed by quitting the game and then restart. I would like to see whether other XONE bros are experiencing the same thing. Lots of reports of Xbox crashes, I really only played one game but it went fine. Dumien couldn't get through a single round after trying quite a few times, so not sure what's up. Pegasus Actual: is it true that the graphics on XONE is noticeably crappier than PS4? Does not look as good to me as the PS4 streams I watched...
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Aug 26, 2015 15:09:22 GMT -5
Yes it looks worse. The resolution isn't great, and I feel like they toned down some of the lighting effects. It's hard to say exactly, I went from PS4, to PC where I cranked down the settings till it looked like complete ass... so it looks better than that, but yeah overall it's noticeable that it's worse.
edit: And now it's freezing on me constantly. Also, lag issues just as prevalent for me as on PS4.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 26, 2015 17:59:00 GMT -5
On addressing the XONE freeze issue, one suggestion with some empirical evidence is the following:
The theory is that the freeze may have something to do with friends list size/activity. A "virgin" account is free of that.
Along the similar lines: some other players aggressively trimmed their friends list.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 26, 2015 18:17:07 GMT -5
PSA: On the code redeeming front, XBox support claims that it has been fixed:
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Post by Usagi on Aug 26, 2015 19:15:32 GMT -5
Variable Zoom scope doesn't work on PC. AGAIN.
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Post by malgato on Aug 26, 2015 19:46:14 GMT -5
This beta is unplayable. 5 out of 5 games have frozen. Super frustrating. Super lame.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 26, 2015 19:47:56 GMT -5
This beta is unplayable. 5 out of 5 games have frozen. Super frustrating. Super lame. You can try the alternative account workaround I mentioned above and see if it works for you. It did work for some players: Create an alternative account is easy and free. As long as you use the account on your home XONE and/or have your primary account with Gold sign in at the same time, you can play these accounts no different than your main account (minus the friends list of course) Treyarch is still scratching their heads on identifying the root cause:
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Post by LeGitBeeSting on Aug 26, 2015 20:14:14 GMT -5
I know I say this every year but these are the worst shotguns yet. The Haymaker is the fist shotgun in CoD history that would not be fixable by spread.
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Post by Disgruntled Jigglypuff on Aug 26, 2015 20:25:52 GMT -5
I know I say this every year but these are the worst shotguns yet. They Haymaker is the fist shotgun in CoD history that would not be fixable by spread. Vonderhaar made the thermal RPK. I don't have high expectations.
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Post by LeGitBeeSting on Aug 26, 2015 20:51:02 GMT -5
Yeah but the Thermal RPK is at least good if you're a bot(like neg).
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 27, 2015 2:25:16 GMT -5
Regarding the freeze issue on XONE:
Pegasus and I tried the secondary account approach, seems to work significantly better than our primary accounts, although I cant completely rule out the possibility of placebo effect. Regardless, it is worth trying. after Pegasus left, I played another 2 hours and the game did not freeze at all.
UPDATE:
Played another hour this morning with my secondary account, 0 crashes. So highly recommended as a work around.
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Post by iw5000 on Aug 27, 2015 15:20:55 GMT -5
This seems pretty bad for the XB1, seeing how the game is only like three months away.
Is it? Or is this normal?
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 27, 2015 15:31:18 GMT -5
This seems pretty bad for the XB1, seeing how the game is only like three months away. Is it? Or is this normal? I fully expected that (discovering big problems in beta). Treyarch's first game on XONE and they bound to run into some serious integration issues. PS4 beta had issues too, mainly in the matchmaking front. Great decision on offering a beta so these kinds of problems can be discovered, for that alone I gave them big applause. After all, they put the game out there for us to play for free (coming Friday the beta will be completely open), can't really complaint too much. Now they just need to address the problem as soon as they can, and then extend the beta for 1-2 more days. That will earn a "5 star" ratings from me on their beta effort...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 27, 2015 16:28:40 GMT -5
PSA: beta level cap increase "will happen tomorrow morning if plan sticks" - Vonderhaar
ICYMI: Crash/freeze fix already applied to PC
FYI: If you want to see the list of beta issues, and/or want to provide feedback to Treyarch, go here: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops3/comments/3iljyr/xb1_pc_beta_feedback_bugs_megathread/
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Post by Dumien on Aug 27, 2015 16:46:50 GMT -5
This is why you have betas. At least this isn't day 1.
Played about what amounts to 20 games. Haven't finished one. still level 1.
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Post by malgato on Aug 27, 2015 17:01:55 GMT -5
This is why you have betas. At least this isn't day 1. Played about what amounts to 20 games. Haven't finished one. still level 1. Understood and agree. And yep, that sounds like my experience. I actually played a few games on my main account late yesterday, and actually got in complete games. So maybe it is stabilizing.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 27, 2015 17:48:07 GMT -5
Played about what amounts to 20 games. Haven't finished one. still level 1. That's the most severe case that I've heard. Probably you are too popular, having way too many friends
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Post by hebbnh on Aug 27, 2015 18:09:11 GMT -5
I've been playing for a couple hours tonight in the kill confirmed playlist. Only level 5 so no real thoughts on how the game plays, weapon balance, etc, but it's been easy enough to pick up and play so far. Only 2 instances of freezing, both on lobby screens. I only have 30 or 40 people on my friends list, so maybe that's helping.
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Post by malgato on Aug 28, 2015 1:00:56 GMT -5
I've been playing for a couple hours tonight in the kill confirmed playlist. Only level 5 so no real thoughts on how the game plays, weapon balance, etc, but it's been easy enough to pick up and play so far. Only 2 instances of freezing, both on lobby screens. I only have 30 or 40 people on my friends list, so maybe that's helping. I asked THebb if he was interested in the beta. You were corect, hebbnh - he was not impressed.
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Post by Dumien on Aug 28, 2015 1:10:31 GMT -5
Played about what amounts to 20 games. Haven't finished one. still level 1. That's the most severe case that I've heard. Probably you are too popular, having way too many friends lol... That might actually be it.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Aug 28, 2015 2:03:40 GMT -5
I'm not freezing on my alternate account. Main is unplayable. Time to make a second account noob.
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Post by Dumien on Aug 28, 2015 8:45:17 GMT -5
Works now. They patched it (or so sayeth one of my friends). I reinstalled and had no freezes or crashes.
I'll reiterate here what I told Witty and Pegasus last night. Pretty much I decided to reinstall the beta overnight 2 nights ago. Thought it might help. Instead of reinstalling it didn't. when I tried again...it froze up my xbox home menu and made everything (friends lists, games, messages) inaccessible. I was still able to chat in party. I even tried reinstalling another game. That worked. No problem. Black Ops beta? Crash and burn. Every time.
Came back later and it was fixed. Weird.
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Post by Voice from the Basement on Aug 28, 2015 10:02:25 GMT -5
Players who owned last 3 CoD (BLOP2, Ghost, AW) get beta for free… Guesses are you get a beta access for any of these titles as I received an access while having no AW. Still a great idea to prevent from a last summer days flood of… you know… and still gather a great audience for a beta-test.
PC port is shockingly good (well, I was expecting something worse than BlOps 1 launch days). Of course there are [already] well-known problems like mouse performance (some complain about mouse latency, some (me included) – about sensitivity awkwardness (invert mouse twice to be able to look up and down as well – well, with vertical sensitivity being times higher than horizontal); no wonder hipfiring, shotguns, and Combat Knifes are so popular on PC), deep freezes for more than a second (never confronted ones while other players report them; seems to be a rare case after a first update), and crashes (crashed only once within 5 hours spent in-game). In addition, the PC port seems to be extremely demanding for a graphics card (lots of people cannot afford playing even in full HD without framerate dropping beneath 60 FPS because of it), while interaction with CPU seems to be surprisingly well-optimized (threads are being used evenely) which allows recording/streaming with no FPS drops even with, well, not the best CPUs. Multiplayer lobbies seem to use BOII dedies (the ping stays the same for me, as well as overall perfomance). Don't know about lag and lag comp issues, but now, contrary to BOII, game seems to be more playable with the lowest ping possible (no additional latency for a low ping anymore…?). Tl;dr: PC beta performance is suspiciously good. Maybe Activision noticed that Black Ops II is still the most popular CoD in Steam…?
Somebody somewhere already stressed that now your in-game actions (especially weapons' RoF) are not tied to your own framerate anymore. From what I have recorded and watched in a Vegas, it seems to be true: recording Kuda dumping a whole 30-rounds mag in a wall at 30, 60 (Treyarch's 60 FPS is actually 62,5 FPS), 100, and ~150 game FPS (recording was capped at 60 FPS) gave me nearly the same results with slight fluctuations in 1–2 frames (could be caused by recording/game framerate fluctuations + difference between recording and actual framerate). Kuda's RoF is ~750 RPM, ARK-7's RoF seems to be 620–630 RPM (knowing Treyarch, I'd say it's 625 RPM).
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2015 12:30:26 GMT -5
Patch out: cap -> 34, Reaper Specialist, Stronghold map, Uplink game mode.
On the stability fix front, they are still working on it
It is reasonable to expect the beta to be extended. Both as a fan service and to further beta test the game because apparently it is quite buggy.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2015 18:06:39 GMT -5
FYI: XONE/PC beta are now open to everyone.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 29, 2015 12:13:45 GMT -5
Level cap -> 40, Specialist Spectre, game mode Safeguard
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 30, 2015 9:49:55 GMT -5
Beta news: perf comparison XONE vs. PS4 www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-cod-black-ops-3-xbox-one-beta-performance-analysis1) XONE running on 900P while PS4 ran on 1080P, generally PS4 wins in almost all categories; In particular, campers are harder to see on XONE due to less texture and BLOPS3's decision of making players blending into environment easily. 2) XONE does have one good thing as the result of lower resolution: FPS lock is pretty consistent at 60 while PS4 can drop to 50.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 30, 2015 12:26:47 GMT -5
Level cap -> 49, beta extended to Monday 10pm PT.
Disappointed that there are no words on freeze/crash fix, and the beta did not extend beyond Monday. Well...
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Post by hebbnh on Aug 30, 2015 13:15:29 GMT -5
Cool. Doesn't look like I'll have any time to play today, so maybe I'll be able to Monday instead.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 30, 2015 16:53:28 GMT -5
Cool. Doesn't look like I'll have any time to play today, so maybe I'll be able to Monday instead. If you only have limited time, play Safeguard. This new game mode a big cluster f*ck around the VIP robot. Minimal map knowledge required . It is quite fun for a few games, but can get boring with extended play.
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