COD 5 community backlash

30 January 2009

Call of Duty 5: World at War was reasonably well received by reviewers and the broader gaming community alike.  However, as seems to be the case with most games upon release, the title went to retail still harboring a host of bugs and glitches.

While these issues are annoying, gamers are relatively forgiving, and the standard practice of ironing out the bugs over a series of patches has become accepted. The process has become a sort of unwritten-rule, and developers Treyarch are beginning to test the patience of the COD5 online gaming community.

A campaign has now been launched appealing to all CoD5 administrators to shut down their servers until Treyarch publish patch 1.2 and fix a long list of bugs, included below:

• Fix Server Authentication Failures.
• Fix Spawn Logic – not working properly in all gametypes.
• Fix HTTP ReDirect it does not work.
• Fix alt+tabbing out, and back you either get a black screen or a crash
• Screenshots Broken – not incremental, they overwrite each other
• Fix missing cg_drawfps feature & Fix cg_fov it resets with every round.
• Add /record feature – Extremely important for competition.
• Optional Head Icons & Name Tags for both Friendly and Enemy Players. – Players should not be able to put color in their name tags, like green to look like a teammate. Name tags should not show through walls – NO Enemy name tags at all or an Admin option.
• Fix Enter Prestige, server reports “Primary grenade 0 is invalid. Setting to frag” in red text.
• Co-op servers will show up correctly in server browser, many players have difficult joining others as well
• LINUX BINARIES RELEASE
• Fix when you quit the game, blue screen pops up and restarts computer
• Fix unhandled exception errors appearing randomly
• Fix areas where a clip or texture requiring a specific sound doesn’t do so when walked across.
• The Clipping/Collision/Blocking brushes should be more detailed. Far too many places in maps that should be accessible are clipped/blocked by straight line clipping. Rooftop access and climbing of trees are a plus thus adding to playability, all the promos showed tree snipers.
• Mod Tools must be properly patched. All the mp prefabs for each game type (CTF,DS,HQ etc..) are missing also some of the basic csv files.
• Fix the DVARS that are not write protected that allow Rank Raping.

The campaign is asking server administrators to shut down servers from Jan 31.

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