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Call of Duty 2 patch does not address multiplayer issues

by James Ransom-Wiley on Feb 1st 2006 4:15PM

Activision has released a Call of Duty 2 patch addressing the save game file corruption in the single-player campaign—a bug that has threatened the sanity of numerous gamers. To be clear, the patch does not pertain to the game's online multiplayer. However, according to Activision, "The team is continuing to work on additional updates..." Keep your fingers crossed.

Has anyone confirmed if the patch "fixes" the favorable system link glitch?

[Thanks to everyone that sent this in!]

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Tags: Xbox-360

Reader Comments (24)

i bought the game mainly for the online, I've stopped playing the game because of the lag. why advertise something that is clearly not? The game makers and microsoft should not charge high street prices for what is third rate service. Would they let a realise of windows as patcy as COD2 to be published??? Don't think so.

I agree with the above.

I keep trying to have decent online games but the connection is crap!!! So random!!!!!! Someone told me online that the problem was gona be fixed today? does anyone know anymroe about this? is it to be fixed today>

Thanks

Ah, how wonderful. We've now entered an age where the bane of PC gaming is entering our consoles: Patch releases. I eagerly await numerous rushed titles with excessively buggy code requiring patch after patch.

Why am I not surprised that we have Microsoft to thank for this?

Man, I Went On Today See That I Had To Download The Patch I'm Like "YESSSSS!!! No More Lag"... First 3 Games I Play Get The Damn Connection Interuption. This Game Has Seriously Pissed Me Off

Great.
Meanwhile those of playing the game on PC have no anti-cheat or map editor software of any kind.

Why is it that every patch that has come out thus far for the 360 and for 360 games has not addressed the majority of the major issues present in the games? It seems like every game has some sort of serious coding problem and every patch released to "fix" these problems is completely half-assed and neglects most of the problems plagueing the game. With the inccrease of price on most games you would think they would try to get their shit right the first time.

NO, the patch [cheat]didn't seem to work. My game also has an oddity in that it will skip over the U.S. battles [I think there's 3] and goes right back to beginning of Russian training version after several Brit. battles. When I first got the game,I was able to get one U.S.battle [scaling the cliffs at Normandy] but when I restarted the game [after saving] the next day,I was right back to Russian training again! Dunno, unless I'm doing something wrong in the saving step. This is single player offline by the way.

where do the patches go on systems with no hard drive? are they still compatible with people runnning the patched version?

Another chapter in a great game gone bad.

Theres some news on what the patch had in here-
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/10157/Call-of-Duty-2-Patch-Now-Available/

For short terms in only fixed some stuff in Single Player

to #5, the patches go on the memory unit or the hard drive. You can't get the patches (online) without those. For system updates like the dash upgrade, there is a reserved space on the hard drive and memory card to store a new xbox live update (not in consideration with patches/dlc) so there will always be space

Yeah, I've given up on this one. Finished the single-player, and traded the game in for store credit. I don't know what I'll spend the credit on, doesn't look like anything coming to 360 for some time...

But seriously, where does the patch go if you don't have HD? (I do have HD, just curious).

Like everyone I wanted the patch so Lag of Duty was could be renamed Call of Duty. The MultiPlayer is seriously screwed.

If InfinityWard or Activision is reading this then for the love of fricking baby jezus add a lobby so we can invite friends and fix the fricking lag for god damns sake!!

The glitch is working just like it did before the patch.Played several times with my friends tonight!

The rumors said that the multiplayer patch will become availble with two new maps one in desert and one in a rainforest.

HERE'S THE PATCH: On Mission Select hold LB&RB and input LEFT,LEFT,RIGHT,RIGHT,YELLOW,YELLOW. That was suggested by xbox.com but I didn't seem to notice any diff. good luck!

Woops sorry again- that patch #12 is for single player offline only.

Finally, after losing my save once I can finally play it and relax about not losing my saves! That really made me mad when I was down to the last two American missions on hardened. Since then I just went through it again on Veteran and am back to the same place.

Uh,did that #12 work for anybody?-that's all I could find.

it goes on your memmory card? the patches must be pretty small? considering the multiplayer patch comes with new maps.

patches on the PC game are in the hundreds of megs arent they?

what happenes when you have 10 games that needed to be patched? and no Hard Drive, I guess you need a memory card for each game now?

The system link glitch still works (thank goodness!).

Ok, another underwhelming update. First the dashboard update that doesn't really update anything. I guess if I had the corrupt save game thing happen to me I would appreciat ethis more, but the fact that I still can't play usable games online leaves me as upset as ever.

Does anyone else notice that almost all next-gen videogames seem to be in an eternal state of shovel-ware?

The developers posted on the official Xbox.com forums:

http://forums.xbox.com/2186720/ShowPost.aspx

This was by far my favorite game at launch. Then I took it online and the disappointment quickly set in. Now that this patch is utterly worthless to me, I, like the previous poster am going to be trading this game in unless a REAL patch comes out in the next two weeks.

And since I seriously doubt that will happen, I've already mentally kissed COD2 goodbye. Infinity Ward and Microsoft really screwed the pooch on this one. This game should have been a system seller, instead it's become a possible system killer. Great work guys!

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