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I just installed the new patch, it said it fixes the online rank and zone battle crashes...
Now i cant even go online and when i looked at my badges my rank was back to Rank 1 LOL? also i get errors when trying to save photos.
I hope the servers are just down for a few hours or something... otherwise its another dodgy patch.
Or maybe its just me and my ps3 is dying a slow and painful death.
Online ranks are like this since the 2.50 patch.
This patch corrects online leaderboards which have gone messy with 2.50.
And online is working, I'm currently in.
Yes i just tried it on my old account and it works fine but it just comes up with errors when i play using my main account...
I bought Wipeout on release with my old account so maybe this patch has also locked the online mode to 1 account (the original)
Sucks if its true... so if any of you get beat by a noob called puffy22 its me lol.
Good news first: Zone Battle seems to be working again. At least it did well for Geeza and me, when we checked out.
But I've seen no updated online ranks so far, though I've seen several people, who had rank 101 before 2.5. Also I've talked to a few people on PSN who have problems attending online game at all. My new rank is already higher than my old one before 2.5 and I was able to join online races, so it's no problem for me, but I feel sorry for those whose game is broken now and I'm afraid I won't be able to race with several friends so soon anymore.
Also I can see no improvements in spectator mode, but honestly, who needs it? I hope the issues will be fixed soon.
I updated to patch 2.51 and can't even get online now. Normally, I would log out of PSN while in game then try to access online. That was working up until this patch. Now I just keep getting server errors or it will tell me that I'm already logged in which makes no sense.
@BlackReign, thats exactly what is happening to me... however, i can play online if i use my old account and it even works on my bros account.
I got him to deactivate me from his ps3, that didnt work... so im re downloading the game to see if this fixes it.
il let you know if it works.
Yeah, let me know if that works. I tried it for the previous patches and it didn't help me.
Exact same problem as BlackReign here. On the first try it says I can't connect to the server. On the second try it says I'm already logged in.
same here :(
it's says: 'connection error' or 'you already logged in'
Re downloading didnt work... i did notice that in the information on each of my downloaded games it says-
"This content can be used by people other than the content owners" all except for Wipeout...
Looks like im stuck playing Wipeout on my ancient account until this gets fixed :(
Once again another bad patch. At least I'm not the only one having the problem. JF, Dr.Mannevond, Geeza, any of you try logging out of PSN while in game then trying to connect online? That worked for me with patch 2.5 but now it's not. Worth a try if you haven't tried it yet.
Make sure you guys report if you haven'y yet. Either send a message through the Wipeout 2048 group on Facebook, or contact Stuart Lovegrove on Twitter. I already did both.
I can still get online after the new patch but my online rank has not been restored. I haven't checked out what else they have fixed/claimed to fix but i did see that the "players met/met players" are now working properly again.
WipEout HD is dead!! Sad news for all the wipeouters out there!! :(
I tried to logging out in-game and then connect, but no luck. Same error messages. I posted on their Facebook page about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackReign
Edit: This was posted on facebook about a hour ago: we're looking into a these issues guys and will update as soon as we can
So at least they're aware of it.
Unbelievable.
2.51 installed. No Onlineplay possible. Errors like 'server problem' or 'user already logged in' makes me wonder what SLs QA dept. looks like.
That's really a shame that the pressure on making a crossplay feature killed WipeoutHD :(
On my side, I didn't install any patch after 2048 release date... But I can't play online anymore.
@constrictor: i really believe they don't have a QA :(
i still can't go online with my main account, so i re-retired my 2nd account (moghlie) from the depths of nowhere. guess what, no problem to go online and play.
had a very cool session with the XXX333-XXX clan :)
as i said before in another thread, no.333-3 (MIRAGE) is the fastest of them. 333-1 (AG-SYSTEMS) is still highly above average.
i hosted a few races with weapon hints off, they worked together very well :)
after switching to weapons off, 333-3 was able to give me good competition.
Installed the patch today and I've had no problems online so far. If "Restores Online Rank Progress" in the patch notes was meant to give us our old rank levels back it hasn't worked. I'm still rank 28 instead of 5X I used to be, and from the looks of it other people's ranks haven't changed either.
The lobby appears more accurate though. The "Race In Progress/Returning to Lobby" and the current lap/leader info looks right.
Problem now is we're experiencing different problems to each other. That will be fun to fix. :/
Same online problem over here, so if you run into a bulgarian player, that's me^^
EDIT : well, my alt is getting dc'ed fairly fast too and there's no way to reconnect without rebooting... at least I can play a little I guess^^
So annoying that this has to happen. I only just started playing Wipeout HD since I got it a year ago and I tried to go online to make a start on the online trophies only to get error messages like "Unable to contact server" and "Already logged in". I just hope this problem gets fixed or I'll never get the plat.
The team are in Brighton this weekend so it'll probably get looked at early next week
Now as you all know, I really don't like to bash people without good reason, but come on SL, this is ridiculous. Yet another patch which has created more issues than it's fixed. I too can't get online at all now and to be honest, I don't think I can be bothered with this game anymore. Were the QA guys on holiday or something when this patch was being developed? How can an issue as big as this go completely overlooked?
I totally agree Dark. It's getting ridiculous. I know they have QA in multiple countries (according to Stuart Lovegrove at SL). But clearly someone isn't doing their job/s. This xplay garbage and patching is driving me nuts!
Well it seems a strange decision to release 2.51 a few days before the team go away for the weekend. I can't get online at all. I spoke to an AUS player today who has created a new US account, apparently this has allowed him to get online. I'm not doing this, I already have two accounts, so I'll wait til it's resolved. I have to say this is disappointing after what's been a long wait for 2.51. But hey-ho, I'm away next week anyway, and I'm sure it'll be sorted soon enough.
fingers crossed anyway, been doing alot of this lately though, hasnt improved very much :(
Well, other than that, the patch seems to be good so far. Can't say if I've seen any improvement about the leeches. Progress bars are back at any rate, which is awesome, I had a stable connection this night and zone battle didn't glitch yet, so I'm willing to believe everything's fine, unless my opponents weren't truly pitiful and just crippled with bugs, but the former sounds more likely...
A shame about the account thingy, but hey, as long as I can play (creating a bogey account was easier than I expected), I have no qualms with it. Besides, I guess the leaderboards are still a mess so whatever.
I was thinking about doing some ZB evening or something Friday or Saturday night (since it is no longer bugged). Any volunteers ? :)
Was that annoying glitch in ZB fixed at last? I mean, not the one in the update log, i mean the one who makes invisible barriers, making it impossible to play.
Aren't SL busy making a new AAA game that is rumored for? Maybe that's the problem that they conflicted it with their time of patch development (if you know what I mean).
Maybe they use the same Q&A people that Sony used for the Dust514 beta before they let regular players in. Only saw one video before it was pulled because of the NDA, but it was a guy running in circles, jumping a lot and saying over and over again that he didn't have a clue what he was doing. So basically - he didn't even know how to control a first person shooter. Would explain a lot...
And this has been said before, but the network code for HD is clearly shite. EVERYTHING that is or has been a problem with the game has to do with online functionality. Voice-chat, spectator mode, general lag issues, broken leaderboards, spurious records (via spec. mode), wrong ship displayed in leaderboards, NULL_POINTERs instead of player names (That one in particular scares me. Error handling is as basic as it gets. If they can't even get that right...), broken online badges (Fastest Lap, anyone?), and now Cross Play with a whole new can of worms. Now we get to worry about bugs in a DIFFERENT game screwing us over too. Yay.
the SL not fix it. they make it more broken now. hard for join the lobby also the problem not update my time. this game very broken. (sorry my English)
Unbelievable SL. Truly pathetic :(
The second account thing's working for me, I've signed in using Erik_Ponti and it's fine. And Zone Battle runs like a dream :g
I'm getting a little concerned for the backlash now from this patch, mostly towards this ideall "QA Team" most are directing it to. QA testers are most often on contract, focusing on a game as a "team" during alpha, beta and possibly during the first release month. I imagine that this game is hardly a priority to the remaining QA team's work lists, what with 2048 and the other projects SL has still in development. Realistically, there are likely few people in SL that are contributing to WOHD patches now, who have other job roles during the day. You tried QA for yourself? It's bloody tedious and you NEVER find all the bugs, even in teams, so it's important for us to give constructive feedback.
Yes, the sign in bug is irritating, but at least other fixes have been made. Just keep in mind that this game is almost 4 years old, and other than cross play support we're fortunate to be having patches at all. Some games this old already have their online servers shut down, and there were bound to be issues when upgrading HD to have cross play tech with a new game. It likely wasn't specified to since release.
On a side note I just graduated from Games Programming/Development and AI with a 2.1, so if SL does want me to QA, HIRE ME! haha.
I do know a bit about QA, and although I'm by no means an expert in the matter, you have to draw the line somewhere and admit that SL have screwed up big time here. It's not as if it's a bug that people have had to really go out of their way to find. This is an error which occurs within 2 minutes of the game loading up. That sort of thing should have come up in testing and quite frankly, I'm gobsmacked that this gaping hole has managed to slip through the net. I don't like to bash SL, because they've produced a fine product in HD that we all know and love, but the game has had a terrible lobotomey since the Vita was released and now it's a shadow of its former self.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aeralys
That's true to some degree, but not everyone, including me has this bug. The accounts (if multiple) created or used in internal testing of this patch could have been the lucky few. This is what I mean by staff's priority in thier work list and the fact that there are few actually contributing to patching this game now. 3-5 new or existing accounts used in testing with retail consoles, dev kits and such makes this bug less discoverable.
It's one of those bugs that's seems more obvious from an external point of view, as there are hundreds of us with accounts for it to be more apparent. The problem with bugs like these is that they could be caused in instances that are hard to replicate in internal testing, such as users being forced logging out for/during server maintenance (making their "already logged in" states active).
Can anyone give me a quick recap of what the patch was supposed to fix and which issue is still bugging the game? I tried playing online this morning and everything was fine (except that i still got my rank reset to 1...). Thanks guys!
Another good point is we got back the old handling and speed.
I think there was the same problem 2 years ago saying "your account is already logged".
They know how to fix it so lets be patient again :)
I have some micro-freeze at every end/beginning of music track while playing (custom soundtrack only), have you noticed it too ?
is it me being psycho or am i seeing double psn names online for me there were 2 people called ferrari-tony
then when i go to players met it only shows the person i met only once and 1 other psn name i definitively did not meet .
If you see two people with the same name, it just means they're logged in to both HD on PS3 and 2048 on Vita at the same time.
In the end, people end up with a broken product. That is all that should matter form a consumer point of view. I acknowledge the difficulty of testing a game but in the end I shouldn't have to. I shouldn't have to care whether Toyota had difficulties quality testing their cruise control. I just want a product that works the way it's intended. And currently it doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aeralys