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[Darkatomz]

This seriously scares me. Does this just erase your money and level or does it also erase your medal history and unlocks?

Everything. I lost my cash, level, exp, unlocks, medals, stats, time, and sanity.

One thing that people are saying might prevent a level reset if you are getting warning signs: Do not back out of MP to get to the very main menu. If you're going to quit, quit with the PS button.

 

[Pachterballs]

Everything. I lost my cash, level, exp, unlocks, , medals, stats, time, and sanity.

One thing that people are saying might prevent a level reset if you are getting warning signs: Do not back out of MP to get to the very main menu. If you're going to quit, quit with the PS button.

can you post a link to the ND forums about this? I'd like to read more about this. Very unfortunate.

As ND responded to any of this? Its very strange that its happening

 

[Shin Johnpv]

I don't know if it was a placebo effect or ND backed out a bit since the blindfiring + melee combo is still in full force and remains the best way to play the game overwhelming those "fools" who actually take the time to aim. To me it seems like a street fighter online game with guns since 95% of the kills are caused by punches and laggy / silly cqc stuff that randomly happens by mashing square when an enemy is near.

I'm tired of seeing people running away from my carefully aimed M9 / AK + accuracy mod shots just by sprinting away and magically making my bullets disappear even if I see the hit markers. I'm also pissed that a lot of people (to be fair, I'm an Euro playing on US hosts) lag so bad that you unload 4-5 burst of the GMAL on their upper torso/head (you can hear the "ding" sound of a headshot) just to see how they magically dogde the bullets and just kill you with two ultra-fast blindfired shots from whatever weapon they're wielding + a melee attack.

This right here is why the MP is QUICKLY becoming unplayable to me.

 

[firehawk12]

there is stopping power. you try running towards someone who is aiming at you and you will slow down, and you will die.

My run and gun play seems to be about the same as before.

 

[Rikyfree]

there is stopping power. you try running towards someone who is aiming at you and you will slow down, and you will die.

I haven't noticed it yet. On myself or others. This game needs more.

 

[Somnium986]

It's like I said earlier in the thread

"Explosive Expert lvl2 (Start with an extra grenade slot and when you die by a grenade you start with an extra one) + Kickback endurance (adds extra amount of time for kickbacks that use time) + Quick boom kickback = DEATH

Overpowered as fuck but so awesome."

we'll nerf the RPG kickback but leave alone the instant grenade explosion kickback that increases your grenade slots if you already got a grenade stashed and can be used as much as you want within 20 seconds, even if you die, and it costs less medals than RPG.

Needless to say, Quick boom is the only kickback worth using at the moment.

Lol, I was thinking about equipping earlier today too. Kept forgetting. XD

 

[Rewrite]

I haven't noticed it yet. On myself or others. This game needs more.

Yes, it does. It's still not enough to kill someoene who is sprinting at you.

Anyone else have trouble reloading guns? I swear to god, I have to like mash the button several times so that it reloads sometimes. So annoying. :/

Regarding Quick Boom...that IS the kickback to use. Holy shit it's crazy how overpowered it is. The effect should go away if you die.

 

[Darkatomz]

can you post a link to the ND forums about this? I'd like to read more about this. Very unfortunate.

As ND responded to any of this? Its very strange that its happening

http://forums.naughtydog.com/t5/Subway-Taste-for-Adventure/Rank-reset-back-to-level-1/td-p/531955



I'm not sure ND will do anything to fix grenade enthusiasts right now. You have to use all of your booster/kickback slots for it to be effective. Explosive Expert / Kickback Extension / Quick Boom right? On top of that, you have to be constantly grabbing grenades.

I don't know, my opinion I guess.

 

[jett]

What is it with the overall pussification of every weapon? Two point blank shots from the pistole do not kill. :|

 

[Thrakier]

Pretty sure you're hearing things. I'm playing UC3 right now and it does not sound like the beta AT ALL.

Haha, wth, no I'm not. I loved that sound in the beta, check the beta thread, so I know how it sounds. And it's definitly and 100% there.

 

[Rewrite]

What is it with the overall pussification of every weapon? Two point blank shots from the pistole do not kill. :|

The pistole does kill with two shots. They have to be successful shots though and it doesn't auto aim like the pistole from UC2 when you blindfire it (which is a good thing IMO).

 

[gibration]

Yes, it does. It's still not enough to kill someoene who is sprinting at you.

Anyone else have trouble reloading guns? I swear to god, I have to like mash the button several times so that it reloads sometimes. So annoying. :/

Yup. Sometimes I forget to mash R2 so I end up running towards my opponent with like 3 bullets left in my magazine.

 

[TripOpt55]

Does the level cap go up tomorrow? And do people know which maps they are adding? I assume The Museum and one of the other UC2 DLC maps since I saw them as a background?

As for the game, I have fun playing it, but it has a lot of issues. When I have a buddy for three-team deathmatch that is pretty much always a blast.

 

[DigiMish]

Does the level cap go up tomorrow? And do people know which maps they are adding? I assume The Museum and one of the other UC2 DLC maps since I saw them as a background?

As for the game, I have fun playing it, but it has a lot of issues. When I have a buddy for three-team deathmatch that is pretty much always a blast.

No, the level cap stays at 35 until the game launches. More maps are promised tomorrow, but we're not sure which ones.

 

[TripOpt55]

No, the level cap stays at 35 until the game launches. More maps are promised tomorrow, but we're not sure which ones.

Ahhh... okay thanks. I thought I read something about the level cap going up. Better off if it doesn't until retail anyway probably. I am excited to try some more maps though. I hope they hold off any of the big location reveal ones (like UC2's Lost City) until retail though.

 

[Darkatomz]

No, the level cap stays at 35 until the game launches. More maps are promised tomorrow, but we're not sure which ones.

Yeah, not true. It might not happen tomorrow, but it will happen.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out additional updates to the full competitive Uncharted 3 multiplayer experience, including new maps and level cap increases. To kick off the second week of the promotion, we’ll be adding two brand new maps to the multiplayer experience on Monday, 10/10. So you’ll have a total of 8 competitive maps to explore! There also will be more videos with tips and info that will help maximize your Uncharted 3 multiplayer experience. Consider them your field guide and survival guide during the Subway Taste for Adventure and into the full retail release of Uncharted 3.

 

[TripOpt55]

Ahhh... I thought I read that. I guess we are just not sure when yet.

 

[Zutroy]

Holy Moley! The beta has improved so much since I first played it when it was realesed. Still don't get why everyone loves desert village so much though =\

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

One thing that people are saying might prevent a level reset if you are getting warning signs: Do not back out of MP to get to the very main menu. If you're going to quit, quit with the PS button.

When it happened to you, didn't you just back out of the party so we could regroup?

 

[Thrakier]

I am way worse than in the beta, I don't know why. In the beta my KDR was like 1.5 and now it's 0.75. Maybe it's because of the lage with us americans? I don't know.

 

[Veelk]

You must not play this game, because this isn't possible yet.

The stats are shown, so unless they change it, it's going to be a terrible beast. This isn't just according to me, Ryanardo mentioned it as well, and I know he plays the game a lot.

I will give you this much. There's a couple of stupid kills that I'm not getting because I don't have the equipment that I had before. However, the difference really isn't too too significant. Skill trumps equipment and boosters dude. Any day.

I disagree. I'm sure skill trumps for a good deal of the time, but the most effective strategy I've seen involves sprinting, blind firing, and meleeing, which I do not consider to be skillful. Actual aiming and shooting is far too unreliable. And Kickbacks like the ability to pull an RPG out of your ass make it even worse. I'm not saying skill doesn't play a major factor, but it plays far less of a factor than I'd like it to.

As for the bit regarding new players... You DO know that you are generally matched with others around the same level/skill as you right? Not to say that any of what you said is wrong though.

I realize what's what is suppose to happen, but I've been in far too many unbalanced matches to take that at face value. I think the last match I played before I stopped was when there were 4 Rank 25-35 players on one side plus one who was rank 7 against 4 rank 1-7's on another while one was rank 35.

 

[Phenomic]

So out of curiosity I grabbed the Blindfire Accuracy on my AK-47. Needless to say I've done better running around mashing Square and R1 than I've done this whole time aiming. I mean I don't have exact stats to give but in the first beta I could easily say I had multiple games where my Kill Ratio would double my death ratio. 10 to 20 etc...

That doesn't seem to happen much in the new beta, but having honestly never blindfired much in the past I grabbed the AK-47 and literally I had the hang of it. By the 3rd game I went 21 and 9 or 10 somewhere around that area. Just proves to me that it's way overpowered and that if not better it's equal to aiming, which shouldn't be the case.

I would also like to point out that while I'm sure I've blindfired before, but never on a consist basis in the previous beta and UC2. So I was never used to actually using it and anytime I tried just to goof off my aiming was all over the place and no one died. The main point was with this beta the 3rd round of me blind firing it felt like I had done it for years.

 

[Basilisco V.]

I've been reading all the posts since my last post, and I'll answer again: people of the Subway promotion are able to play with the PSN+ ones? It seems the opposite..

 

[#1 defender]

I've been reading all the posts since my last post, and I'll answer again: people of the Subway promotion are able to play with the PSN+ ones? It seems the opposite..

They can't.

 

[Darkatomz]

When it happened to you, didn't you just back out of the party so we could regroup?

Not really. I was a spaz and hit Circle a bunch of times, followed by an Up and a X out of idiocy. Too used to doing it from UC2.

Doesn't matter. There isn't a solid formula to determine if you're going to get reset, and that methodology is just another working theory.

 

[Pachterballs]

No, the level cap stays at 35 until the game launches. More maps are promised tomorrow, but we're not sure which ones.

I thought they mentioned lifting the level caps in the post made a few days ago? I know they mentioned new maps. but they also mentioned a lifting of the level cap. Maybe to 45 <-- that is my guess?

At this point, I might move onto dark souls as as much as I like the game; I've more or less finished the grind for now. After a couple of days I got over the fact that my level didn't go up anymore :'(

by the time I come back; full retail + whatever MP changes ND will make to the game.

 

[Pachterballs]

They can't.

they could. til ND seperated the games to troubleshoot the problems - that's what I read earlier in this thread anyhow. At this point in time, who knows. UC2 was a global game where every SKU could play everyone else.

Holy Moley! The beta has improved so much since I first played it when it was realesed. Still don't get why everyone loves desert village so much though =\

the sandstorm is AWESOME.

 

[Rewrite]

Is the game laggy for anyone else today? Out of the 5 matches I've played so far, it's been a laggy experience.

 

[Lingitiz]

Played a few rounds today and had a pretty good time even when I didn't do all that great. Its definitely growing on me but there are still obvious changes to be made. The M9 is such a better weapon than the AK that its changed my experience dramatically.

 

[jett]

This game is crashing lots lately

 

[The Xtortionist]

the sandstorm is AWESOME.

No it's not. Fuck environmental effects.

 

[jett]

No it's not. Fuck environmental effects.

haha I like it. I liked the snowstorm in Train Wreck too.

The snowstorm was more awesome though.

 

[UnlovedJew]

Holy shit. I am actually enjoying this now. Loving how you can actually aim with the AK finally. Feels much more satisfying as a whole.

 

[Rewrite]

I'm still not a fan of the train sequence for London Underground. Wish it wouldn't last long because it's just so terrible. The actual arena map is great however.

Also find it pretty amusing how the M9 wasn't that good in the beta, but now it's actually better than the AK47.

 

[Kinyou]

I'm still not a fan of the train sequence for London Underground. Wish it wouldn't last long because it's just so terrible. The actual arena map is great however.

Yeah instead of being a cool cinematic experience it's usually just pure chaos, not really sexy.

 

[Lingitiz]

I'm still not a fan of the train sequence for London Underground. Wish it wouldn't last long because it's just so terrible. The actual arena map is great however.

Agreed, its way to dark to really hit anyone, and the long range battles are just impossible. Plus, I end up falling to my death alot in confusion. I prefer the plane sequence way more.

 

[Shadow780]

I(we) got owned by a clan of Uzis and sprinting lowblows, fuck.

 

[Lingitiz]

Anyone think we might get some tweaks tomorrow along with the 2 additional maps?

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Anyone think we might get some tweaks tomorrow along with the 2 additional maps?

Please, Satan, I hope so. It's hard for me to adapt to the sprint and blindfire gameplay. I try to do it myself and forget to sprint and such.

 

[Rewrite]

Anyone think we might get some tweaks tomorrow along with the 2 additional maps?

I think we will. At least I hope!

 

[Pachterballs]

I dislike the train sequence but then I hate both the aircraft carrier n London underground maps. I do wish there was more water in the stages. I mean, water n rain, uncharted does amazingly.

 

[Mikey Jr.]

"
We're working on releasing a patch for MP soon

"Soon" as in the next few days. We'll have more specific details on what it contains tomorrow, but it should fix several critical issues. Stay tuned!

Thanks,



EvangM"

On their forums. Yeah, I have ZERO idea what is going to be in this patch. Will most likely fix the rank reset bug. Possibly some other crashing shit. As for gameplay tweaks, ehhhh, sounds slim.

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

For those of you who hate the Train sequence as much as I do, turn around when you first spawn and climb out the hole in the roof, then hang off of the very front/back of the train. From here, pop up with your pistol and put 1 or 2 bullets into any enemy you see and when they try to jump to the other train, they will fail miserably and fall to their death, giving you the kill.

It has two handholds at the very front, so if someone tries to come kick you off, just lower and watch them swing at air; then climb up while they're in the middle of their animation and pull their ass down. You can also easily shimmy to the wall side to avoid any fire when one of the trains pulls ahead of the other.

 

[Rewrite]

I have a good feeling about the patch! Please don't disappoint. Please don't disappoint!

You wanna know why I have a good feeling? Because the first patch that the summer beta received was fucking awesome.

 

[RyanardoDaVinci]

I just want the level reset bug fixed so I can play the new maps.

 

[sara_is_anxious]

in response to Darkatomz posts regarding level reset...

yeah basically when you hit level 35 and start suffering from severe frame rate drops at the beginning of each match, lag peaks, sound hiccups, recent purchases not being saved, money randomly taken out/added to your funds, slow in-game XMB and some other weird stuff it's a sign you're going to get a reset to level 1, there's definitely a bug with a lot of players who make it to the top of the leaderboards (just by playing a lot and getting heaps of XP and medals, not necessarily by having the best KDR or most points), seems like the stats server keeps "connected" with the beta client trying to exchange/update whatever info even in the middle of a match and obviously it doesn't work properly so the game eventually bugs out causing the server to loose track of your data.

my advice, stop playing until ND addresses the issue, if you're hooked and really need playing (even with Dark Souls out lol) just use an alt account, you'll be amazed how much smoother and less laggy a level 1 account is compared to a level 35 suffering from the mentioned issues.

and I don't want to act/look like the douchebag asshole online player that I might be, but I must say I hate that these players that would never kill me in Uncharted 2, Killzone, Resistance, Gears or other mp games where you need to AT LEAST aim to get a kill are owning me just by running around and smashing square while blindfiring like there's no tomorrow. I feel like aiming with my GMAL is pointless, the only solution is adding more stopping power, specially if the player being shot at using ADS is blindfiring or sprinting, just add more stopping power to each bullet fired aiming down the sights. They could try nerfing blindfire rate of fire and/or melee damage but that would affect too much their vision of the game and I believe would give again the edge to seasoned players leaving casuals in the dust, and that's not what ND seem to want.

I just want the level reset bug fixed so I can play the new maps.

just play with a different account, I stopped playing on my main as soon as I started suffering from the common level 35 "you play too much" issues, like severe framerate drops at the beginning of each match.

 

[LowEndTorque]

The train sequence isn't so bad as long as you don't climb up onto the roof of the trains.

Just stay in the cars, clear them out and jump from train to train.

 

[DigiMish]

Man, I got reset.

Was backing out to the main menu - game froze for a second, then went to the main menu. After I logged back in, it asked me to accept the online user agreement again. Everything gone, I'm back at lvl. 1.

At least I'm gonna get a bad ass kill/death ratio now lol.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Man, I got reset.

Was backing out to the main menu - game froze for a second, then went to the main menu. After I logged back in, it asked me to accept the online user agreement again. Everything gone, I'm back at lvl. 1.

At least I'm gonna get a bad ass kill/death ratio now lol.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind a reset myself for that very reason haha. I play hardcore mode so I never worked hard unlocking/leveling up stuff.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I have a good feeling about the patch! Please don't disappoint. Please don't disappoint!

You wanna know why I have a good feeling? Because the first patch that the summer beta received was fucking awesome.

Can we just skip to the part where they patch retail to get it back to SubwayBeta?