5 Reasons Why Call of Duty 4 Online Sucks

2:13 am | Jul 21, 2008

Category: Misc

Call of Duty 4 is a great game and I love to play it. Problem is, I wonder what the heck the developers were thinking when they put together the multiplayer game lobby. I love the perks, the system for leveling up and the create-a-class system, but the way they managed getting players into games is a disaster. Here's the top 5 reasons Multiplayer in Call of Duty sucks.

  1. You can't choose the map

    Most online multiplayers that I can remember provide players with a game lobby that listed at least the available games, the number of players in them, the current score and let you choose which game or map you felt like playing. My number 1 grip with COD4 is that you don't get a choice. Why was this left out?

  2. The game suddenly ends early

    This was a tough one. This probably deserves to be number 1 for the most irritating problem with Call of Duty 4. The reason it didn't get number 1 is that it is really a combination of a few shortcomings of multiplayer in this game.

    It happens at least 5-6 times per hour of game time. You finally get into a game and then at some point during the match, the game abruptly ends and a message on the screen says "The host ended the game." Or better yet, you've waited the 45 seconds or so for a game to begin after waiting for players to join and before the map begins loading, the lobby shuts down.

    Left and right, the games keep shutting down until your so tired of trying to join games that you shut the console off. It is really frustrating and it could have been avoided if the next problem was addressed

  3. The role of Host doesn't change hands

    Back in Call of Duty 2, when a host quit the game, the game would automatically transfer hosting to another player. It would even display it on your screen and inform you that you have become the host. The game would not suddenly end and you wouldn't have to start over. It was great! If they could do it then, why can't they do it now?

  4. The game tries to load the same map over and over again

    This is probably the most frustrating thing that happens to me frequently. I try to join a game, the map isn't what I want to play and I leave the lobby. I try to find another game and it drops me right back into the same lobby again. Over and over, I try to get into a different lobby of the same game type (domination for instance) and COD4 joins me to the same game! Sometimes this happens 8 or 9 times before I give up and have to try another game type of quit the game.

    This goes back to my first complaint that users should be able to pick their games.

  5. You get dropped into games that have finished

    I believe that the game should be smart enough to know that if the round ends at 200 points, it shouldn't try to add new players at 195 points. Period. It is frustrating when you're trying to get into a game when you only have a half hour or an hour to play and you wait for a map to load only to have it immediately send you back to the lobby and then you are waiting for the next round to begin. Especially when most times this means the host is about to leave the game and the lobby is shut down.

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