UFC Undisputed 2009: Patch Coming Soon
by Steve on 08/07/09 at 12:54 pm
Since it’s launch UFC 2009 Undisputed, online game play has been a complete nightmare with the flood of gamers who lack integrity and pull the plug on you when they loose a match – preventing the match from counting and thus pissing you off immensely. However I don’t totally blame the dishonest sore looser gaming community for taking advantage of such a flaw – THQ should have been well aware this type of stuff happens all to often in other online games that don’t have a early disconnect protection feature for players, and they dropped the ball when they didn’t plan ahead. Well I am finally happy to say publisher THQ says they know all about it and are working on a patch to fix this and other issues as well.
Neven Dravinski, UFC Producer, tells gamers that the entire development team play a lot of online matches and read the boards daily, so they are “well aware of the issues.”
“We want to make sure we patch this correctly so it is taking a bit of time, but I can confidently say we’ll be releasing this patch soon,” he said.
So far the team has worked up nine fairly significant fixes for the patch:
1. We recognize premature match quitting as the biggest online issue and have taken steps to fix it. The Patch will have integrated code that detects who pulls the cable and will assign a Loss as well as a Did Not Finish to that player. The DNF is only counted for the player who executes the disconnection. The DNF rate will be displayed on the fighter selection screen of the Online Ranked Match. When disconnected the Winning Streak is also reset to 0.
2. We’ve adjusted Ranked Matches to match up players with better connections, which will improve lag issues we’ve seen to date.
3. We’ve adjusted the difficulty of performing submissions against AI opponents to improve the balance of subs vs. striking when playing against the AI.
4. We’ve adjusted the Flash KO rate so that they are less frequent.
5. We’ve increased maximum number of points awarded in online play from 99,999 to 999,999 and we’ve increased the Max Level from 100 to 200.
6. We’ve lowered the Winning Streak Bonus Max from 5 to 3.
7. We’ve removed the decimal places on the Leaderboard Winning Percentage so we only show whole percentages.
8. We’ve addressed the CAF cheat so the skill levels in CAF cannot be cheated and increased. Also any CAF with unfair point values will no longer be able to be used Online.
9. For PS3 users we’ve also fixed a bug that causes a freeze during auto-save; whichever controller was used to Press Start on the Title Screen will be identified as the main controller.
-So there you have it cage fans – just be a little more patient and we should have a much better time pummeling people and loving it. I myself stopped playing online ranked matches a long while ago due to the early quitters but I am anxious to get back in there and rip it up again once this patch releases.
-Steve
[kotaku]
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