Spadge
14 Mar 2007, 00:49
Obviously we're currently investigating what the problems are with;
(a) hosting 4 player games (this previously worked fine all through cert & testing) - it locks on hitting START and leads to the confusing messages you see otherwise about servers being unavailable etc. For the host, this manifests itself as a hard lock and requires a reset. For people joining the game you get a message saying the game is then unavailable and then the server is down, try again. (see the point at the end of this mail about playing 3 players until the title is updated)
(b) why the leaderboard's don't always send the correct information back (less of an irritation, but needs looking at). The fact that it works most of the time has been annoying.
These two issues are likely to be dealt with on an essential fix level. We will update when the fixes are expected etc. We currently cannot confirm anything until we've spent more time with the MS people - a few multiplayer titles have had updates, including some on launch.
For now, if you wish to play ranked games, I'd recommend that you go and create a game, selecting up to 3 players, this works every time. I know this is a pain, but there you go - and it'll just mean you have some fun whilst it's sorted out.
Hopefully it won't be long before this is fixed and up, there'll be some additional certification I guess. I've been playing great 3 player games all evening without any problems, hangs or anything - it seems totally isolated to 4 player - and I have had 4 player games on the go.
(a) hosting 4 player games (this previously worked fine all through cert & testing) - it locks on hitting START and leads to the confusing messages you see otherwise about servers being unavailable etc. For the host, this manifests itself as a hard lock and requires a reset. For people joining the game you get a message saying the game is then unavailable and then the server is down, try again. (see the point at the end of this mail about playing 3 players until the title is updated)
(b) why the leaderboard's don't always send the correct information back (less of an irritation, but needs looking at). The fact that it works most of the time has been annoying.
These two issues are likely to be dealt with on an essential fix level. We will update when the fixes are expected etc. We currently cannot confirm anything until we've spent more time with the MS people - a few multiplayer titles have had updates, including some on launch.
For now, if you wish to play ranked games, I'd recommend that you go and create a game, selecting up to 3 players, this works every time. I know this is a pain, but there you go - and it'll just mean you have some fun whilst it's sorted out.
Hopefully it won't be long before this is fixed and up, there'll be some additional certification I guess. I've been playing great 3 player games all evening without any problems, hangs or anything - it seems totally isolated to 4 player - and I have had 4 player games on the go.