CoD: World at War thoughts / opinions

Eiretrains

Just wondering if anybody can help out here. I'm quite a loyal CoD fan and own pretty much all the games on either the PC or 360. This Christmas I had bought WaW like many other people for the PC, but I've never experienced the sheer amount of bugs relating to the multiplayer aspect of any CoD game so far.

I have looked through the official forums but I thougth I might get a better perspective of one of the problems I'm having.

Firstly whenever I load up the game I very rarely ever connect onto the WaW online server.
Frustratingly there's no reconnect option (unless it's in console?), so the only way round this is to quit and restart the game until it does connect. I have almost spent at least 15 mins trying to do so before giving up!

If I do get it to connect online successfully I can encounter another problem, which has been mentioned elsewhere. Whenever I try to join a server I get the "Server Athenticity Error", and I can't connect onto anything. So once again I have to restart the game, as well as hoping to get it to connect too the WaW server all over again.

I've read somewhere that refreshing the server lists in the menu causes the error when connecting onto any server, but I often get it the first time loading the game up. I only gathered some information about it, it seems a connection problem?, but doesn't explain why it's totally random.

As anyone else had such problems, and if so have they found a way to solve this re-occuring error?

Basq

Guy I work with is a massive CoD fan and he thought CoD: WaW was absolutely terrible!

Said he played it for an hour, and put back in CoD4.

Reminds me I've had CoD4 for about 8 months now and played for 10 minutes in all the time I've had it. Must give it a game later.

Steffano2002

basquille wrote: »

Guy I work with is a massive CoD fan and he thought CoD: WaW was absolutely terrible!

Said he played it for an hour, and put back in CoD4.

Reminds me I've had CoD4 for about 8 months now and played for 10 minutes in all the time I've had it. Must give it a game later.

That guy you work with sounds like me! He knows his stuff anyway!

Steffano2002

Eiretrains wrote: »

Just wondering if anybody can help out here. I'm quite a loyal CoD fan and own pretty much all the games on either the PC or 360. This Christmas I had bought WaW like many other people for the PC, but I've never experienced the sheer amount of bugs relating to the multiplayer aspect of any CoD game so far.

I have looked through the official forums but I thougth I might get a better perspective of one of the problems I'm having.

Firstly whenever I load up the game I very rarely ever connect onto the WaW online server.
Frustratingly there's no reconnect option (unless it's in console?), so the only way round this is to quit and restart the game until it does connect. I have almost spent at least 15 mins trying to do so before giving up!

If I do get it to connect online successfully I can encounter another problem, which has been mentioned elsewhere. Whenever I try to join a server I get the "Server Athenticity Error", and I can't connect onto anything. So once again I have to restart the game, as well as hoping to get it to connect too the WaW server all over again.

I've read somewhere that refreshing the server lists in the menu causes the error when connecting onto any server, but I often get it the first time loading the game up. I only gathered some information about it, it seems a connection problem?, but doesn't explain why it's totally random.

As anyone else had such problems, and if so have they found a way to solve this re-occuring error?

Do you have NTL/Chorus broadband?

Eiretrains

I have to admit that th egame isn't terrible, it's just these errors and bugs that kill it!
I am using Chorus/NTL (UPC) broadband. I'm assuming it's an ip issue with how the game is configured?

Steffano2002

Eiretrains wrote: »

I have to admit that th egame isn't terrible, it's just these errors and bugs that kill it!
I am using Chorus/NTL (UPC) broadband. I'm assuming it's an ip issue with how the game is configured?

I don't know the Ins and Outs of the issues associated with UPC Broadband... All I know is that all UPC Customers are having connection issues with CoD:WW.

311

I've read only the last 20 posts in the thread ,I played my first call of duty game last week. COD:WAW

Offline was enjoyable ,but its very short. For me the online is great and I can't stop playin it.
Someone mentioned that the dogs are a nuisance but I find them a good way to make players stick together.
I've ordered modern warfare game of the year edition ,so I might enjoy that even more.

Btw ,suprised to hear the trouble people are having with NTL ,I was about to order broadband from them tomorrow but now I'll hold off for a while ,thanks.

KamiKazi

Steffano2002 wrote: »

I don't know the Ins and Outs of the issues associated with UPC Broadband... All I know is that all UPC Customers are having connection issues with CoD:WW.

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I'm on UPC 20Mb and I could never get CodWW to work

Cuddlesworth

From some testing I think its a combination of packet shaping and some network protocals used solely on NTL exchange routers. Its not something that's going to be fixed, because NTL don't care and nobody working for Treytech would even know where to begin. If you go into a direct connection to the NTL modem it should fix some of the problems. The other one, there is a tutorial on youtube about it.

You basically have to load the game up, have it bail out on you, quit and load it up again, let your profile connect normally and then check the server menu only using quick refresh.

311

Excuse me please ,just wondering if the problems are only on PC's or all platforms with UPC/NTL ?

Steffano2002

311 wrote: »

Excuse me please ,just wondering if the problems are only on PC's or all platforms with UPC/NTL ?

PC only I believe...

311

Nice one steffano ,they're back on the shortlist so:)

TerrorFirmer

Experienced my first bug yesterday. When I minimise World at War and maximise it again, the screen stays completely blank. Left it for 5 minutes and nothing. So I can't minimise if I'm playing, it's quit or nothin'. Also, when launching the game, if I click on anything on the desktop while the splash screen is loading, it also just launches into a blank screen and I have to force end process. Not huge deals but....

Adriatic

don't try /reconnect, it crashes then too.

Toosey

COD5 traded in...COD4 all the way baby...classic..

TerrorFirmer

I'm still playing this, so much so that I just sold my copy of COD4. Honestly, it's an excellent MP game. Wish they'd just ditch the Martyrdom though.

Steffano2002

Toosey wrote: »

COD5 traded in...COD4 all the way baby...classic..

Same here!

KamiKazi

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I'm still playing this, so much so that I just sold my copy of COD4. Honestly, it's an excellent MP game. Wish they'd just ditch the Martyrdom though.

I use my copy to make my monitor taller. :pac:

brendansmith

WAW is an amazing game, i am replaying the single player mode for the 5th or 6th time at the mo.

Cant understand why people are still banging on about cod4, do ye not get bored of the same levels?

Penis Eye

brendansmith wrote: »

WAW is an amazing game, i am replaying the single player mode for the 5th or 6th time at the mo.

Cant understand why people are still banging on about cod4, do ye not get bored of the same levels?

lmao ur askin if ppl get bored of the same levels but u played the single player 5 or 6 times? lol

anyhoo on the ps3 i tried to play a multiplayer. tried for bout 25 minutes and couldnt join a single game. pissed me off big style!!

jtsuited

got cod:waw for the xbox 360 yesterday.

COD 4 is my absolute favourite game ever (i never really liked fps to be honest).

WAW is already boring the crap out of me. Even though it's the same engine as CoD4, it just seems like a sort of cheap knock off. The sounds are plain terrible, and the added gore is completely pointless.

Tried the multiplayer and was even more dissappointed.

I dunno, I just haven't been engaged by this COD at all.

TerrorFirmer

Still hopelessly addicted to WAW War Mode, but I have noticed that the Kar98k appears to be rubbish in this game - unless it was a custom server thing? Out of about 50 hits, only 2 of them killed outright - the rest required a second hit! So incredibly frustrating, and makes using the Kar stupid if it requires a 2nd shot to kill.

Using the Browning M1919 a lot. Savage weapon.

Dr.Millah

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Still hopelessly addicted to WAW War Mode, but I have noticed that the Kar98k appears to be rubbish in this game - unless it was a custom server thing? Out of about 50 hits, only 2 of them killed outright - the rest required a second hit! So incredibly frustrating, and makes using the Kar stupid if it requires a 2nd shot to kill.

Using the Browning M1919 a lot. Savage weapon.

I get 1 shot kills with the Kar98K most of the time, unless they have jugger/laststand or I hit them in the limb or something.
Im using stopping power and deep impact with the gun, maybe this is your problem with the gun?

Burtchaell

COD4 glitches were believable you could get on a few roofs of building outside the occasional map and whatnot. COD:WAW Getting under maps on top of maps, Not great network wise, Juggernaut is way to overused only because they overpowered the MP40 way too much which allows it. That really wrecks my head. After all that i think its a good game though. As for the Kar98. Its great.

One shot kill everytime for me unless jug, last or limb hit.
If your using a bolt action you really need to get used to one shot hits in the chest/head everytime.

kar98 with Bandolier, Stopping Power, Extreme Conditioning:cool:

Good for opening up a can of whoopass

CPT. SURF

Burtchaell wrote: »

COD4 glitches were believable you could get on a few roofs of building outside the occasional map and whatnot. COD:WAW Getting under maps on top of maps, Not great network wise, Juggernaut is way to overused only because they overpowered the MP40 way too much which allows it. That really wrecks my head. After all that i think its a good game though. As for the Kar98. Its great.

One shot kill everytime for me unless jug, last or limb hit.
If your using a bolt action you really need to get used to one shot hits in the chest/head everytime.

kar98 with Bandolier, Stopping Power, Extreme Conditioning:cool:

Good for opening up a can of whoopass

I like the Kar98 with Stopping Power and Deep Impact-pure lethal. Bouncing Bettys, Frag, & tabun gas. That works great at Seelow, Outskirts, Castle, & Airfield. For the Hanger I use the STG44 with a scope & the same perks. At the Dome and Asylum I pull out my shottie like Jon Gotty.

Overall I think the COD4 multiplayer boards are better and its weapons cooler. WAW feels a bit cartoonish to me. But I still like it, its a nice filler until the next Infinity Ward game

Flecktarn

Excellent game! Nice maps also

TerrorFirmer

The Kar98 is a one shot kill with stopping power, but if you're not using stopping power, it's not, even if you get a chest shot - totally ridiculous in my opinion.