Call of Duty: Black Ops

[Chun Liroy]

I am back in town and trying to get to the bottom of the spawning issues.

Let me explain how spawning generally works. The spawn system is trying to pick the best spawn from all the available spots. Each spawn has a "score" or "rating" that is constantly being modified based on what is going on around that spawn. Many things can impact the rating of a spawn.

For example, a teammate who recently died would temporarily lower the value of a spawn. Spawns in the path of a Napalm strike should have their values lowered significantly. Etc., all. The complete list of things that modify the value of a spawn is large.

No spawn can ever by 100% eliminated as a choice, because we have to spawn you even if it is less than ideal. It's unfortunate when you spawn directly in front of someone like this video shows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2Ct...eature=related). That shouldn't happen.

During development, we had the spawns running with a low error rate. 98 to 99% of the time for most maps (small maps like Nuketown are an exception) when you spawned you were not killed or injured or able to injure someone within 3 seconds of spawning. The game was instrumented and we were logging this. Our spawn debug tools are the best they have ever been, so I'm disappointed and want to see if we can sort this out.

Please don't bother linking in Nuketown videos. That map is too small to use as the basis for evaluating what is wrong. Use Summit, Launch or Radiation.

The videos are helpful but they just show one bad spawn. They don't help us understand why that spawn point was chosen by the game over another. In order to get to the bottom of that, I need to see "the big picture" of what is going on in the entirety of the map. Please make your video as detailed as possible. Freeze time. Show us the entire map. Were killstreaks in the sky? Where are they aiming. Show me all the players from both teams and any skull (recently deceased friendly) icons.

Hopefully, that makes sense.

For our part, we have re-enabled the spawn logging (this is only something we can do in development, not on the live servers, unfortunately) and are now building up a match library so we can evaluate further.

Please remember what I said before. If we can find and reproduce the steps that causes the error we can fix it.

David 'Vahn' Vonderhaar

http://www.callofduty.com/board/view...aujn0j943jgbr2

Edit: Word is a 1.03 patch is rolling out and it's hit.. the UK I think. US hasn't gotten it yet. No word on the Xbox at all, apparently microsoft takes forever to approve patches?

[fren.]

Theater mode is pretty much hit-or-miss when it comes to showing games that you actually wanna watch replays of. Fun shit.

[Chun Liroy]

to be fair, it's in beta.

[Aeowin]

I can't even play this game with Kaitlyn let alone by myself >.> though it does seem the matchmaking got a LITTLE better. Party still got dropped but it searches for more than the first set of games.

[Isawa]

I lol'd.

[Chun Liroy]

Uh, Xbax didn't get the update yet?

[Isawa]

Apparently not.

[Aeowin]

Not that I know of, maybe? I don't know but Isawa is a dhamel.

[Isawa]

That's Mr. Dhalmel to you.

[Dylon]

lol i had an awesome game earlier but i cant find the game ; ; its like the only one that i thought was worth saving and i couldd'nt find it, gdi!!

[fren.]

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/5725/photogqb.jpg

AK47u is good when it wants to be.

[Aeowin]

AK74*

[Chun Liroy]

Notice how he hides the caps and defends. And I was just going off your post Aeowin, the way you posted sounded like you got the update already.

[Aeowin]

Oh nono, was just saying it seemed like there was a slightly better matchmaking. It still sucked, but it searched more than one grouping of games before kicking the party.

[Chun Liroy]

Prestige'd today... already level 20 lmao. Too bad I won't be able to play for like a week due to my work load... Test, Lab Practical, Lab notebook all due the tues. after thanksgiving.

[Aeowin]

I would've been third today if I didn't have to work.

[Chun Liroy]

I like the akimbo M19s, I seem to be able to fire that one the fastest without it stuttering. Makarov always stutters, I don't like the way the ASP handles and the CZ has really low damage imo.

[Aeowin]

ASPs have the highest SPS cap.

[fren.]

Notice how he hides the caps and defends. And I was just going off your post Aeowin, the way you posted sounded like you got the update already.

Mad hate. The scoreboard is wider than the one in MW2 so I can't capture all of it. I had a few open caps, but opted to not triple cap 8)

[Chun Liroy]

ASPs have the highest SPS cap.

Yeah, I saw you post that earlier, I just fucking hate the way it handles, maybe it's psychological but I don't like the 1 handed-ness feels weird when aiming.