To EA & 2015

santiago · 01-26-2002, 07:15 AM

First off... Wonderful game despite the lack of a decent single player ending. Easily the pinnacle of the FPS genre. HOWEVER...

Please remedy the following:

1.) If you're going to release a patch two days after the game is on the shelf, at least have the courtesy to make the in game browser aware of the different game versions. I'm SICK of joining games only to be told that the SERVER IS RUNNING AN OLDER VERSION. To add insult to injury I must do a complete server list refresh in order to try again. It's taking 30 minutes to find a server.

2.) If there is a way to prevent the intro movies from showing every time the game is launched from GameSpy, please let us know what it is. If there isn't, please fix it. There is simply no excuse for this at this stage of FPS development.

3.) How can I change the crouch button behavior from toggle to momentary? This my only gripe with the controls. (what was the reasoning behind this anyway? It should be an option at least)

Sincerely,

Santiago

santiago · 01-27-2002, 02:12 AM

And one more thing...

I finally got into a v1.1 server running the Omaha Beach level (w/24 players) and was horrified to see my frame rate hit 10-14 fps any time anything interesting happened... This on a 1 Ghz P3 with a Geforce 3 TI 200.

Is this normal? I had to shut all the goodies off (dynamic lighting shadows, fog) and turn all the options to Low to get a consistantly reasonable ~30 fps.

This occured during the single player game as well but it was tolerable then. It's completely unacceptable for multiplayer. RTCW does not suffer such performance hits.

Man... I understand that economic realities require that games be released before their time occasionally but RTCW set the bar for a highly polished FPS. I had such high hopes for this game and the levels are the best I've ever seen. But... multiplayer seems thrown together, unbalanced, and insufficiently tested. I hear you are working on a new game, MOH-Teamplay or something like that. Please don't neglect fixing current multiplayer issues just to extract another $50 from us.

Xhale · 01-27-2002, 02:43 AM

in gamespy you can add something to the commandline for moh.exe , just add and it wont play them anymore.

Johnny Changs · 01-27-2002, 03:07 AM

Answer to #2:
You can delete or move all the files in the MOHAAmainvideo directory (I left the one MP3 file RenSizzlefeb.mpg)

As far as multiplayer goes...I think they did a great job. You can compare MOHAA to RTCW all you want...but RTCW was also from ID Software, the kings of online FPS. MOHAA was done by EA and 2015, both of which haven't had tons of experience with the multiplayer side of the Quake 3 engine.

There are bound to be some sytems the game has problems with, whether it be your hardware or software configuration. Hence the reason for "Minimum" and "Reccomended" requirements. The game runs great on my system...Athlon XP 1800+, Geforce 3 Ti500, SB Live Platinum 5.1, 768MB SDRAM...etc. All options cranked up, 1600x1200 is fine in single player, but I have to tune it down to 1280x1024 in multiplayer.

Yes Gamespy sucks. Solution: The All Seeing Eye. Get it here: http://www.udpsoft.com/eye/

Its important that everyone that has problems to post them, since I'm sure 2015 and EA are having people skim through these boards.

The game has been out for 5-6 days...give them a bit to find out what problems people are having and I'm sure they will be fixed.

peaceout

01-27-2002, 03:12 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>To add insult to injury I must do a complete server list refresh in order to try again. It's taking 30 minutes to find a server.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I can see having to refresh the game broswer every time you leave a game (long 10 seconds). However, if youre taking 30 minutes to find a server, maybe there is something wrong with YOU. How about only joining the servers that say 1.1, or something indicitive of their version. Or like a poster suggested - get ALL SEEING EYE, which does just that - shows the game version before you launch.

And wouldnt an open letter to EA be better served on the EA forum? You must have ALOT of faith in this message-board.

excelsior

lysis · 01-27-2002, 04:38 AM

GAYSPY HAS A 1.1 FILTER!

go into a lobby, above the list of servers is a patch that says: medal of honor, click on this and choose verison 1.1, now every listed server that is running the updated version will be listed.

I agree that this filter should have been included in the in game server list. And for me ID is incredible and 2015, and grey matter are decent

MOH multiplayer is pretty good, comparable to RTCW. And I find it to be balanced.

One problem for me though is ROCKETS!
Multiplayer seems less fun to me when people use rockets.

Lastly: for many people, this game seems not to run too well when there is close combat or lots of effects going, almost no matter what your system specs are - this is too bad.

santiago · 01-27-2002, 11:42 AM

Thanks!

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Xhale:
in gamespy you can add something to the commandline for moh.exe , just add and it wont play them anymore.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

santiago · 01-27-2002, 11:47 AM

I realize that the 30 minutes was mainly due to every server which said 1.1 being full at the time, and the rest being a crap shoot. But it's very early in the games release.
Frustrating nontheless after dropping 50 bucks primarily to play online. Thanks for the tips though.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Cerebral Assassin:
I can see having to refresh the game broswer every time you leave a game (long 10 seconds). However, if youre taking 30 minutes to find a server, maybe there is something wrong with YOU. How about only joining the servers that say 1.1, or something indicitive of their version. Or like a poster suggested - get ALL SEEING EYE, which does just that - shows the game version before you launch.

And wouldnt an open letter to EA be better served on the EA forum? You must have ALOT of faith in this message-board.

excelsior<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>