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COD4 Live patch in works News

Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell

19 November, 2007

Infinity Ward is planning to patch Call of Duty 4 for Xbox 360 in the relatively near future to take care of various online issues.

Speaking on the game's official forum, IW's community relations manager explained that the update will optimise things like match-making and host-selection, among other tweaks.

These include the addition of host-migration, so if the host leaves a game it automatically chooses the next best host, as well as a new control scheme, improved network performance in 18-player games and other tweaks detailed on the thread.

Elsewhere, IW said that a separate update will solve an issue relating to corrupt profiles.

Neither update has a deployment date, but we'll let you know when they're out there.

Not that their absence seems to be doing Call of Duty 4 much harm. It's top of the UK sales charts, and Major Nelson's latest Live activity charts reveal that it is now second only to Halo 3 in terms of popularity, displacing Gears of War.

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Tejstar
19/11/07 @ 10:04
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Second to GoW in such little time, that's some acheivement!
RedPanda
19/11/07 @ 10:07
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i'd like a 'release the hounds' perk which'd let ya use attack dawgs online :-D

unlikely i suspect ....
Stonker
19/11/07 @ 10:11
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I wonder if they've fixed the sprint. Which doesn't cocking work.
S.J.Rogers
19/11/07 @ 10:14
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@ RedPanda

That is az fantastic idea....

I would love that..!!!!
McLovin85
19/11/07 @ 10:22
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i hope this goes for PS3 version too as i have yet to be able to play online due to the dreaded 'downloading game settings' crap that is always there. i've finished the single player like 3 times but i just really want to play online. please IW fix it.
t8yman
19/11/07 @ 10:36
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@stonker

whats wrong with the sprint function? works fine on my 360?
killyourtv
19/11/07 @ 10:37
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sort the damn game out before you ship it!
rashes
19/11/07 @ 10:41
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2nd on the live chart.. I thought it might top it last week as alot of people on my friends list are on it.
Its so brilliant I don;t know how I'm going to fit Mass Effect in.

@killyourtv
There will always be patches needed for online games. Get over it.
espadachin
19/11/07 @ 11:02
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can they sort matchmaking so that you join similarly ranked players.
/joins game full of rank 50's
/sniped
/spawn
/knifed
/spawn
/sniped
/cries
Monkey_Puncher
19/11/07 @ 11:09
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Host migration, sweet!
Dr.Gash
19/11/07 @ 11:31
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Host Migration is, indeed, sweet like tropicana. That would sort out the biggest bugbear I have with the game.
Machetazo
19/11/07 @ 11:34
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@McLovin85: The charlieoscardelta forums include information from IW about two upcoming PS3 patches. One to fix connection issues (arriving first) then another shortly afterwards for MP fixes.
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19/11/07 @ 11:44
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@Stonker
Sprint works fine for me too. You do know you can't constantly sprint don't you? I.e. you fatigue and stop sprinting - requiring a bit of time to recover. You can get a perk to extend your sprint time.

@espadachin
I think they need a proving ground to give new people the chance to get used to things. Rank < 5. Once you have create a class then the difference is more options for the higher ranked players - the early perks and guns are just as valid as the later ones.
BadBoyBonner
19/11/07 @ 11:46
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Would love one of the options in the Game being the "Chicken" mod that you could do on counterstrike years ago.

Where if you stayed still for too long you turned into "Super Chicken" with name announced ((and you actually changed into a chicken making loads of noise so people knew where you were) which obviously meant you had no weapon)- clearly it would not work on everymap that well - but I always thought it was great.

Just a good, fun idea.
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dave06
19/11/07 @ 12:15
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You want to turn into a chicken?......
MBar
19/11/07 @ 12:45
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There will always be patches needed for online games. Get over it.

Yeah? And the corrupted profiles patch? Should that have been in the game that's in stores now?

I remember when console games were tested a bit before being shipped. Xbox Live and PSN have allowed developers to become lazy.
gal2319
19/11/07 @ 13:10
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"Would love one of the options in the Game being the "Chicken" mod that you could do on counterstrike years ago.

Where if you stayed still for too long you turned into "Super Chicken" with name announced ((and you actually changed into a chicken making loads of noise so people knew where you were) which obviously meant you had no weapon)- clearly it would not work on everymap that well - but I always thought it was great.

Just a good, fun idea."

sounds funny as hell dude!
i would cr@p in my pants the first few times if i'd seen it!
RedPanda
19/11/07 @ 20:01
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isn't the killcam already taking care of that?

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