Call of Duty 4 Patch Released (PC)

[fitbabits]

I just now got word from Infinity Ward that a new patch has been released for the simply tremendous Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. This brings it up to version 1.5 and includes the following fixes:

CHANGES:

* Fixed server browser not showing all of the servers
* The "hold [ ] to steady" sniper scope hint will only appear if you can use it
* Fixed game not recognizing IWDs existing if they are all in fs_basepath and none are in the main/ folder
* Made mod scripts able to change stats
* Allow developer_script for mulitiplayer modding
* Fixed map rotation errors with usermaps
* Fix for reloading several times after connecting to a modded server
* Fixed minimap not showing up in the menu for usermaps
* Fixed an issue with Http redirect downloads.
* Mod tools will now work with other languages

NOTE: patch 1.5 is not compatible with 1.4. You will not be able to find 1.4 servers if you update.

NOTE: Please ensure you have previously downloaded 1.4 patch before downloading 1.5 as you will need the 'Winter Crash' map from 1.4.
Maybe I'm being needlessly stupid, but don't the notes in the italicized portion of the above contradict themselves?

[Bone]

I think they mean that 1.5 players can't connect to 1.4 servers. You of course would need 1.4 before you upgrade to 1.5 though.

[fitbabits]

I think they mean that 1.5 players can't connect to 1.4 servers. You of course would need 1.4 before you upgrade to 1.5 though.

:boggle: :confused:

[PacoTaco]

It says two different things... say I just bought the game. One note says that I need to download and install 1.4 before I download and install 1.5.

The other note is for people ALREADY using 1.4... warning them that if they update, they will no longer be able to find/join servers set up on 1.4.

[Homes]

Now it's time for the 360 one...right?

[Varsity]

You need 1.4 for its content.

[Disgustipated]

WOW OK YEAH THE FIFTH PATCH FOR PC PLAYERS YET THE 360 USERS GET THE SHAFT?

Capslock.

FUCK YOU INFINITY WARD/PHILIP KOLLAR

[TheEpicOfTyler]

People who don't upgrade to 1.5 can't play with 1.5 players.

Players who upgrade to 1.5 cannot play with people who don't upgrade from 1.4.

[holysin]

Sweet. Steam auto updates the game, so I don't have to worry about downloading it.
I wish steam became the standard for friends and online playing. If you set it up to run your non-steam games, you will be able to access the community tab (shift+tab) just like you do with the 360's dashboard.
I wonder if xfire does that... I need to check that out.

[Disgustipated]

Yes, Xfire lets you do that shit in-game.

[Beelzebud]

They're also having a mapping contest. Pretty good support for a doomed platform.

[Thumper]

* Fixed server browser not showing all of the servers

Jesus, it's about time. I'll have to hop on and see how well this is working. It was rare for me to find servers below 100 ping before, they seemed to play just fine but it was a little odd. When a local server did manage to pop up it was pinging as it should (<50ms) so I don't think it was my connection.

[Thin_J]

Jesus. I started reading the thread title, got excited, and then immediately any excitement was deflated by the little (PC) note.

Fix your goddamn console version already. We've only been waiting for three freakin months.

I play the PC version too.. but it's already fixed for the most part, and most of my friends play on the 360.

[Blog]

This is great! I bought this through Steam so as soon as I fired it up the patch auto-updated me to 1.5. Awesome!

So I jump right into the server browser to get my game on... only to find that all 13 of the servers in my 'Favorites' list are still on 1.4.

Protip to Infinity Ward: Release your fucking patches on Monday from now on. Jerks.

[Deadend]

How about the patch for the 360 version?

[Frogleg Special]

Haha, awesome. More power to PC as platform.

[ResistanceAddict]

Jeez. The 360 version really needs a patch. Lag is terrible and using a Sniper Rifle is almost pointless.

[Beelzebud]

Lag seems terrible in every Xbox Live game. It's the p2p networking. No patch will fix it. For consistent low ping games, you need dedicated servers.

[Krom]

360 version needs a map pack really bad

[Disgustipated]

Lag seems terrible in every Xbox Live game. It's the p2p networking. No patch will fix it. For consistent low ping games, you need dedicated servers.

You're wrong. The 360 version does NOT lag unless you have a shitty router/connection. It rarely lags for me, and I know other people rarely have trouble too.

So yeah, you're wrong. Don't be a PC elitist prick.

[Beelzebud]

You're wrong. The 360 version does NOT lag unless you have a shitty router/connection. It rarely lags for me, and I know other people rarely have trouble too.

So yeah, you're wrong. Don't be a PC elitist prick.

Then why do people get great ping with COD 4 and TF2 on a PC, and they both lag like crazy on Live, on the very same connection?

[J Arcane]

Then why do people get great ping with COD 4 and TF2 on a PC, and they both lag like crazy on Live, on the very same connection?
It's called peer to peer hosting, and it's the single biggest reason why XBL is a complete crock of shit.

[Disgustipated]

Then why do people get great ping with COD 4 and TF2 on a PC, and they both lag like crazy on Live, on the very same connection?

I don't know, sounds like bullshit to me. I know tons of people who do PC gaming AND 360 gaming and they ping fine on both.

Try opening some fucking ports.

[Stormwatcher]

BLAGH PC HATE BHAGL PC HATE ABLOO BLOO PAC HATE PC HATE PC ELITST BLOO PC HATE.

You pc haters should take MS's cocks out of your asses and mouths before typing... The Xbox patch is probably being delayed by MS's QA process, as it usually happens.

Man, console elitists are so fukken annoying, they're worse than the mythological PC Elitist. I play consoles, portables (yeah, both of them) and PC, and I love all of them.

[Isamura]

Xbox 360 lag is all dependent on if your NAT is open. You can open it quite easily by placing your 360's IP address in the DMZ, or port forwarding.

If everyone's NAT is set to "open", it runs like a dream. However, if the host somehow manages to find a game when their NAT is set to "strict", some people experience intermittent lag. It's definately not ideal, as some folks have trouble with getting their NAT to be open, causing all sorts of odd things - such as one person not being able to hear somebody else in chat.

[MrWonderstuff]

The 360 version needs a new patch desperately.

"Game Lobby Closed"
"The host disconnected"
"Networked connection timed out"
"Game Lobby Closed"

Did I mentioned "Game Lobby Closed?". I hear Halo has some great network code where the game just jumps to someone elses connection to host if the original person leaves. Why Infinity Ward couldnt do this is laughable.

[Beelzebud]

You pc haters should take MS's cocks out of your asses and mouths before typing... The Xbox patch is probably being delayed by MS's QA process, as it usually happens.

Man, console elitists are so fukken annoying, they're worse than the mythological PC Elitist. I play consoles, portables (yeah, both of them) and PC, and I love all of them.

Well said.

They come in to whine about a PC patch, and then proceed to call people PC elitists for calling them on their bullshit.

If putting the Xbox 360 in DMZ on the router is all it takes, what's the need for a patch to improve lag? :)

[Beelzebud]

I don't know, sounds like bullshit to me. I know tons of people who do PC gaming AND 360 gaming and they ping fine on both.

Try opening some fucking ports.

If all it takes is to open some fucking ports, why do Xbox Live users always whine about lag and demand patches to fix lag?

It's the P2P networking. I can have all the fucking ports open that I fucking can, but if someone else is on a fucking shit connection, everyone fucking suffers.

It's fun reading and typing fuck.

[baggle]

Sounds like a pretty boring patch. I guess the server names displaying fix would be nice if I played the PC version online.

Let me lend some credence to the 360 lag issue. It's not like the games are unplayable or anything, it's just that there is significantly more lag in every 360 game than there is in any PC game I've ever played (and not subsequently disconnected from). I'm also new to consoles (1 month in), so it might just be particularly jarring to me due to that reason.

The net code actually seems pretty good in the 360 games that I've played. Everything is usually predicted pretty accurately while playing, or at least appears that way. When you can really notice it is when, for instance, you get into a one on one battle with somebody, fire a couple shots into them, and then you both try to knife each other, but they knife you first. You feel like you should have won the fight, so you watch the replay. You notice that during the replay, which is replaying what was happening on their end, that it didn't even register certain things that you did, like knifing, or firing that last shot, or whatever. Thanks to the magic of lag, what happened on that person's console becomes reality, and that person was lagging too much to even register your knife strike/trigger pull before it registered his own knife strike. So you die.

But yeah, like I said, I've noticed this a lot in 360 games as compared to PC games. I don't know why people act like it's not true, or that it's so surprising. Of course peer hosted games aren't going to be as lagtually (like that word?) accurate as games with dedicated servers. Would you play TF2 on the PC on somebody's peer hosted server when you could play on a dedicated server instead? It's not rocket science.

[miah]

I'd really be happy with a 360 patch, sniping is almost pointless. I can kill people acrossed the map with a AK47 with a single shot, but it takes multiple shots from a 50 cal sniper rifle. Which is funny because in the single player game, a 50 cal sniper rifle rips a dudes arm off when you shoot him.

[J Arcane]

I'd really be happy with a 360 patch, sniping is almost pointless. I can kill people acrossed the map with a AK47 with a single shot, but it takes multiple shots from a 50 cal sniper rifle. Which is funny because in the single player game, a 50 cal sniper rifle rips a dudes arm off when you shoot him.
That's messed up. 50-cal is usually a one shot kill unless the target has Juggernaut.

[cheerfree]

To the guy screaming fuck Infinity Ward in all caps...how about you spend 2 seconds thinking before you scream curses at the dev responsible for this incredible game. As was suggested earlier, IW provided the complete patch to MS for testing weeks ago. You are a huge idiot. Please never post again.

[Sl1pstream]

Weeks ago? Didn't they announce the 360 patch months ago?

[miah]

That's messed up. 50-cal is usually a one shot kill unless the target has Juggernaut.

I've found thats only true if you hit them in the head. I've hit people in the body and they keep going. This is why I tend to play hardcore mode only, because regular matches, even with the ak you may have to unload half a clip into people before they die. I don't care if they do have "body armor" if you get hit 5 times by 7.62x39 you're not going to be happy.

[GigaFuzz]

Yay, the server browser works now.

It's nice having lots of <70 ping servers, rather that one if I was lucky pre-patch.

I was at LAN last week, and there weren't enough of us to get a local game going, so we tried to all join a public server. The trouble was that no two people had the same list of servers, and with no join-by-ip or friends list features, we gave up. Steam FTW.

[Disgustipated]

To the guy screaming fuck Infinity Ward in all caps...how about you spend 2 seconds thinking before you scream curses at the dev responsible for this incredible game. As was suggested earlier, IW provided the complete patch to MS for testing weeks ago. You are a huge idiot. Please never post again.

No thanks. Fucking reject, if they provided it weeks ago it'd have been done by now. It only takes 2-4 weeks for certification. :rolleyes:

Please never post again.

[LexeL]

COD4 is some serious business.

[baggle]

I've found thats only true if you hit them in the head. I've hit people in the body and they keep going. This is why I tend to play hardcore mode only, because regular matches, even with the ak you may have to unload half a clip into people before they die. I don't care if they do have "body armor" if you get hit 5 times by 7.62x39 you're not going to be happy.

Same reason I prefer hardcore mode, as well. My dream, though, is a mode with the radar and HUD/crosshair of normal team deathmatch and the bullet damage of hardcore.

[Micasa]

They're also having a mapping contest. Pretty good support for a doomed platform.

You can designate the map you're creating as being for the PS3 or 360 as well. Turns out the "doomed platform" might get some life by supplying content to its killers :p

[Beelzebud]

No thanks. Fucking reject, if they provided it weeks ago it'd have been done by now. It only takes 2-4 weeks for certification. :rolleyes:

Please never post again.

So much hate.

Did you spend the weekend at the beach? Time to shake the sand out of your vagina.

[Beelzebud]

You can designate the map you're creating as being for the PS3 or 360 as well. Turns out the "doomed platform" might get some life by supplying content to its killers :p

Someone has to come up with the prize money. Why not Xbox Live users chip in? :D

[Sl1pstream]

So much hate.

Did you spend the weekend at the beach? Time to shake the sand out of your vagina.

You were wrong. I guess the whole elitist thing prevents you from admitting that. Trolling is much more fun, I guess.

[Shadowstorm]

Wait, what? I thought the 360 patch came out in December? (then again, I wouldn't really know because my 360 is in for repairs)

[ResistanceAddict]

Wait, what? I thought the 360 patch came out in December? (then again, I wouldn't really know because my 360 is in for repairs)

No wonder I haven't seen you on in so long. I may be the only person I know who's never had problems with my 360, knock on wood.

[Beelzebud]

You were wrong. I guess the whole elitist thing prevents you from admitting that. Trolling is much more fun, I guess.

I was wrong about what exactly? Speaking of trolling...