{"id":3451,"date":"2009-01-30T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cod-5-community-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/3451-cod-5-community-backlash","title":{"rendered":"COD 5 community backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty 5: World at War was reasonably well received by reviewers and the broader gaming community alike.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign has now been launched <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.raidersmerciless.com\/showthread.php?t=7858\" target=\"_blank\">appealing<\/a> to all CoD5 administrators to shut down their servers until Treyarch publish patch 1.2 and fix a long list of bugs, included below:<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Fix Server Authentication Failures. <br \/>&bull; Fix Spawn Logic &#8211; not working properly in all gametypes. <br \/>&bull; Fix HTTP ReDirect it does not work. <br \/>&bull; Fix alt+tabbing out, and back you either get a black screen or a crash <br \/>&bull; Screenshots Broken &#8211; not incremental, they overwrite each other <br \/>&bull; Fix missing cg_drawfps feature &amp; Fix cg_fov it resets with every round. <br \/>&bull; Add \/record feature &#8211; Extremely important for competition. <br \/>&bull; Optional Head Icons &amp; Name Tags for both Friendly and Enemy Players. &#8211; 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 &#8211; NO Enemy name tags at all or an Admin option. <br \/>&bull; Fix Enter Prestige, server reports &#8220;Primary grenade 0 is invalid. Setting to frag&#8221; in red text. <br \/>&bull; Co-op servers will show up correctly in server browser, many players have difficult joining others as well <br \/>&bull; LINUX BINARIES RELEASE <br \/>&bull; Fix when you quit the game, blue screen pops up and restarts computer <br \/>&bull; Fix unhandled exception errors appearing randomly <br \/>&bull; Fix areas where a clip or texture requiring a specific sound doesn&#8217;t do so when walked across. <br \/>&bull; 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. <br \/>&bull; 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. <br \/>&bull; Fix the DVARS that are not write protected that allow Rank Raping.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is asking server administrators to shut down servers from Jan 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign to close Cod5 servers underway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}