Call of Duty 4 is currently a horrible experience on PSN

I just had an extended gameplay session with COD4's muitiplayer on the PS3.

It is shredded, man. In my pesonal experience, I estimate almost half of all automatches had some kind of hack active. Volleys of grenades, cluster bombs, infinite ammo, super speed sprints, damage modifications....

And some more distressing ones, namely that the rate of host departure's after loading the game increased multiple times in frequency. Also, after hosting for many hours my own public listen server (I was tagged the host), someone joined and ran, I guess a script that hoisted host control to someone else. Lobbies close randomly, servers crash, and there is a great deal of mayhem in many games.

The reporting/support infrastructure on PSN needs to be immediately improved up to Xbox Live standards if Sony wants to maintain even a hope of implementing a proprietary network policed and controlled from the top down. I'm being thrown in random servers with a bunch of hackers who are being designated the hosts and making lobbies into their own personal playpens. COD4 is, in it's current state, taken with all the other quirks, like no host swapping, random drops and random pings/connection strength, virtually unplayable.

Add your own reports of misery on COD games, report on the state of PSN hacks at large, and generally provide suggestions for improvementto make PSN a more stable environment below..

Should have got it on Xbawks.

I´ve been playing Black Ops, and I havent encountered any of that, but I guess COD4 is more susceptible to hacking and such.

Havent CoD4, WaW and MW2 had these problems for years now? Everyone knows how crappy CoD is at networking. When they hack other online games on ps3, aka Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 then I admit there is a problem. This is just CoD being crappy which doesnt surprise me. Black Ops isnt hacked as far as I know but it has difficulties with itself, struggleing to even run properly.

is BO ****** yet?? mw2 is also unplayable fromwhat i hearbroken_ops

COD4 is a mess on the ps3.....

I just dont understand how people can derive enjoment from cheating on an online game, its just so unrewarding

[QUOTE="broken_ops"]is BO ****** yet?? mw2 is also unplayable fromwhat i hearWilliamRLBaker

Is CoD the only game that's getting hacked? UC2 online is fine. hexashadow13

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="broken_ops"]is BO ****** yet?? mw2 is also unplayable fromwhat i hearbroken_ops

I'm glad I only play call of duty for the offline campaign. never cared about the online whatsoever

I'm glad I only play call of duty for the offline campaign. never cared about the online whatsoever

da_illest101

[QUOTE="hexashadow13"]Is CoD the only game that's getting hacked? UC2 online is fine. WilliamRLBaker

[QUOTE="broken_ops"]

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"] yes not only is the main game without hacks laggy and dropping connections *as per the recent activision will close down servers fiasco* its geing hacked bad.WilliamRLBaker

The reporting/support infrastructure on PSN needs to be immediately improved up to Xbox Live standards if Sony wants to maintain even a hope of implementing a proprietary network policed and controlled from the top down. I'm being thrown in random servers with a bunch of hackers who are being designated the hosts and making lobbies into their own personal playpens. COD4 is, in it's current state, taken with all the other quirks, like no host swapping, random drops and random pings/connection strength, virtually unplayable.Brownesque

[QUOTE="da_illest101"]

I'm glad I only play call of duty for the offline campaign. never cared about the online whatsoever

Brownesque

Playing COD4 has always been better on the PC. I do have it for the PS3, but playing 4 on 4 or 6 on 6 just dont feel right. And I dont get why people hack where is the fun in hacking in a game, everyone knows your cheating. Being that COD4 is an old game I doubt anything will be done about it, but I hope future games implement some type of ban system kinda like PB on the PC where if you get PB banned you cant play on any servers that use punk buster.

That's why I have it on PC....

So, all the hackers are doing is hacking old COD games. Good

It is the same for Modern Warfare 2 and i wonder when it will get to affect Black Ops

wow I counted 3 topic that are about ps3 hack on system wars 1st page, either everyone is over-reacting or your playing a game with poor programing (CoD)

wow I counted 3 topic that are about ps3 hack on system wars 1st page, either everyone is over-reacting or your playing a game with poor programing (CoD)

bloodcord

[QUOTE="Brownesque"][QUOTE="da_illest101"]

I'm glad I only play call of duty for the offline campaign. never cared about the online whatsoever

broken_ops

I just bought MW2. Why? The SP campaign. Then I sold it. I have never played MW2 online!

[QUOTE="bloodcord"]

wow I counted 3 topic that are about ps3 hack on system wars 1st page, either everyone is over-reacting or your playing a game with poor programing (CoD)

Chris_Williams

[QUOTE="bloodcord"]

wow I counted 3 topic that are about ps3 hack on system wars 1st page, either everyone is over-reacting or your playing a game with poor programing (CoD)

Chris_Williams

Oh yes I know, just that system wars seems to be spazzing out since this whole "ps3 hack" its getting out of hand and its making system wars turn into "ps3 hack-wars".

[QUOTE="broken_ops"]

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"] yes not only is the main game without hacks laggy and dropping connections *as per the recent activision will close down servers fiasco* its geing hacked bad.WilliamRLBaker

So, all the hackers are doing is hacking old COD games. Good

Snakemaster9

Is CoD the only game that's getting hacked? UC2 online is fine. hexashadow13

UC2 online is not fine in terms of cheaters, it may not have hackers, but it has a lot of glitchers that go inside the maps and walls.

Killzone 2 on the other hand is perfectly fine.

I don't see it as Sony's fault since it's only COD/Activision games that are broken, I played BC2 and Uncharted 2 the other day on PSN and both worked great.

COD4 is a mess on the ps3.....

I just dont understand how people can derive enjoment from cheating on an online game, its just so unrewarding

the PS3 hacks are spreading like a zombie virus. its starting in the popular poulation centers (CoD) and will be starting to spread to the less popular and populated ares of PSN. soon PSN shall crumble because of sony's inhabilty to defend its populations from such threats.

COD 4 was unplayable since WaW came out. Nothing but hackers and glitchers, and no more support from Activision.

I don't think "xbox live standards" are what Sony should be aiming for when it comes to how they want the psn to ultimately be. They have more ambition than that.

the PS3 hacks are spreading like a zombie virus. its starting in the popular poulation centers (CoD) and will be starting to spread to the less popular and populated ares of PSN. soon PSN shall crumble because of sony's inhabilty to defend its populations from such threats.

taterfrickintot

Lmao, PC is an open platform and you dont see every single game getting hacked. You know why? Because there are anti hack servers and programs.

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="broken_ops"]dropping co nnections might be from someone using lag switches,i watched a youtube vid yesterday showing someone on xbox using a lag switch, the guy who uploaded showed how every connection but the lag switchers would drop to one bar

MethodManFTW

[QUOTE="hexashadow13"]Is CoD the only game that's getting hacked? UC2 online is fine. RadecSupreme

UC2 online is not fine in terms of cheaters, it may not have hackers, but it has a lot of glitchers that go inside the maps and walls.

Killzone 2 on the other hand is perfectly fine.

[QUOTE="hexashadow13"]Is CoD the only game that's getting hacked? UC2 online is fine. WilliamRLBaker

[QUOTE="taterfrickintot"]

the PS3 hacks are spreading like a zombie virus. its starting in the popular poulation centers (CoD) and will be starting to spread to the less popular and populated ares of PSN. soon PSN shall crumble because of sony's inhabilty to defend its populations from such threats.

RadecSupreme

Lmao, PC is an open platform and you dont see every single game getting hacked. You know why? Because there are anti hack servers and programs.

[QUOTE="taterfrickintot"]

Lmao, PC is an open platform and you dont see every single game getting hacked. You know why? Because there are anti hack servers and programs.

RadecSupreme

[QUOTE="taterfrickintot"]

the PS3 hacks are spreading like a zombie virus. its starting in the popular poulation centers (CoD) and will be starting to spread to the less popular and populated ares of PSN. soon PSN shall crumble because of sony's inhabilty to defend its populations from such threats.

RadecSupreme

Lmao, PC is an open platform and you dont see every single game getting hacked. You know why? Because there are anti hack servers and programs.

Funny because I dont remember having to pay for PunkBuster or VAC. I only payed for the games that have them. The company with the game are the ones that have to worry about that not us. They would be the ones to lose money.

lol, even those who dun have a PS3 are comminting on the playbility of the games on the PS3 .......... I wonder if anyone of you actually encountered these issues themselves.

Multiplayer in CoD4 has always been a horrible experience, on ANY platform. *Raises flame shield*

Frankly, though, that sucks. On XBL, the worst you see in CoD is a modded controller.

I'm so glad Call of Duty is a bad game.

[QUOTE="RadecSupreme"]

[QUOTE="taterfrickintot"]

the PS3 hacks are spreading like a zombie virus. its starting in the popular poulation centers (CoD) and will be starting to spread to the less popular and populated ares of PSN. soon PSN shall crumble because of sony's inhabilty to defend its populations from such threats.

taterfrickintot

Lmao, PC is an open platform and you dont see every single game getting hacked. You know why? Because there are anti hack servers and programs.

Um, hackers are not "prevented" on the PC. There are hackers all over the place, it's just that on the PC the community has the right and the ability to tag em and bag em and eventually they don't come 'round these parts anymore.

And if you think "anti hack programs" are sufficient to prevent hacks, think again. MW2 was treated like a joke by hackers, I personally saw people fly-scooting around the map and shooting volleys of grenade launchers, why? Because it didn't have any community report feature or votekick/voteban, the servers were all made on the fly and they weren't moderated by players, in fact they weren't moderated at all, and that's the only way to get rid of hackers. Hackers treat VAC like a running joke, it does nothing.

I tried to see if there was any hackers on MW2 or Cod4. Non I could find after a few matches. I'll try to look again. Black ops is still clean from hackers.

MW2 seems the same as always UMP-45s everywhere