[cod] 1.3 patch has ruined my clan

[Rick]

At 12:46 PM 3/26/2004, you wrote:

Oh but there is I'm not totally knocking cod I love it but Far Cry is out 
now and if you haven't tried the demo........ well you missing some great 
gaming.. boats and trucks and (haven't seen yet but purported helos)  and 
one KICKASSS realistic sniper rifle   The demo was challenging yet solvable 
and the AI of the ingamers was topnotch  From what I understand it's JUST 
released  in the full version

Rick


PS..... IW I really wish you'd take the sniper rifle back to the 1.0 version



>And the in-game browser still doesn't work.  You'd think they would hire
>a DBA to handle this.  Or at least an entry level coder.  It can't be
>that hard to make it work right.  The quality of this game is taking a
>plunge.  If there was something else comparable, I'd switch and drop
>this game.
>
>John Kennington
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: admin at codboards.com [mailto:admin at codboards.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 12:29 PM
>To: cod at icculus.org
>Subject: Re: [cod] 1.3 patch has ruined my clan
>
>You can read about it here
>http://www.codboards.com/index.php?showtopic=2912&view=findpost&p=28763
>it's mostly about shooting in wrong places but a lot of other people
>were
>upset, not sure for what other reasons, some installation issues and
>others.
>
>
> > Can someone tell me what Problem (on 1.3) we are talking about? I just
> > installed 3 Linux Servers and am pretty interested what kind of Bug is
> > in the 1.3 Patch.
> >
> > Thx.
> >
> > acc> I have to agree on the emptiness of my servers with you. I'm
>running
> > 5
> > acc> servers on 1.3 and I patched them the same day (few hours) of
>patch
> > acc> release. I was assuming it'd get totally full but not a single
>person
> > acc> joined in to date. The server is listed as well.
> >
> > acc> The rest of the thing, specially the wrong shooting bug everyone
> > keeps
> > acc> talking about all over my website, like this one here
> > acc>
> >
>http://www.codboards.com/index.php?showtopic=2912&view=findpost&p=28763
> > acc> but I never experienced this even trying to get it wrong I can't.
>So
> > if
> > acc> it's working for me, it's gotta be not the patch. Correct?
> >
> >
> >>> Seriously, We went from having two full COD 1.2 servers 24/7 to two
> >>> empty, laggy, weapons shooting to the side, crappy servers. Thanks
> >>> IW!
> >>>
> >>> How do we as Linux admins recover from this patch? I have installed
> >>> a weapons mod to (I think) correct the weapons issues, but I think
> >>> most users see the 'LD' next to my servers and avoid like the
> >>> plague. Maybe Im wrong.
> >>>
> >>> Also, the servers are periodically more laggy than before..... and
> >>> no, Im not paranoid. I have admined over 20 different Linux games,
> >>> dozens of mods, etc. I am telling you this patch is laggy. I cant
> >>> find any obvious reason for it, but its there.
> >>>
> >>> What are we to do now?
> >>>
> >>> Luke
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mit freundlichen Grüssen
> > Walrus
> > mailto:walrus at iam3.de
> >
> >
> >