Sgt-Greco Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Very nice IW "We’ve recently deployed a new feature to display Game Health Icons on the left-hand side of the screen. These ONLY appear when we detect non-ideal conditions that affect the performance of the game. If you don't see them there should be no problems with the game performance info we are tracking. The icons will be used primarily to gather more information from user-posted videos and help us take appropriate actions as we continue to improve and iterate on the game post-launch." Icons Location Icons explained (not yet confirmed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonicBoom Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Apparently it shows in kill-cams too, so you know if the person that kills you has a dodgy connection. It's going to cause a big increase in abusive messages I expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt-Greco Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Apparently it shows in kill-cams too, so you know if the person that kills you has a dodgy connection. It's going to cause a big increase in abusive messages I expect. my first thoughts exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urge Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Does this system seem accurate to what ya'll are feeling while in game or beneficial at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Does this system seem accurate to what ya'll are feeling while in game or beneficial at all? I do not see the icons, only on other players kill cams, so it must be right as I have a Netduma and a good line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PharmDawgg Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 This is a good play on InfinityWard's part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urge Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I haven't looked into this as I don't play the game very often. My big question is - what will they do with this? Will they be using this in any way to collect data to improve the experience or is it just there to be there... most of us don't really need an emblem to know when the game is playing badly. Hopefully something constructive will come of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urge Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Aha. I just read the IW statement from the original post - so my last post is moot and answered. lol. Anyways. I did play some today just to see how this works and didn't see any icons what so ever on the screen. I wasn't surprised not to see it on my end but didn't really notice them either on a few killcams from guys that had visible lag and connection issues. I'd love to know if any one is actually seeing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 This could be a positive move by IW, it has been needed for a long time to tighten their ping comp as it should be a little tighter here and there with it being so twitch. But wildly jittery pings, I mean how can they bring them inline with everyone else in the MP map, impossible? who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonicBoom Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Does this system seem accurate to what ya'll are feeling while in game or beneficial at all? I haven't had a chance to play since it dropped but I'm really interested in this. Because of this I've also realised how much of a loser I am. Hopefully I'll only see these icons in killcams obviously, I'll be pissed right off if I'm showing icons! And more importantly, as far as the accuracy of this thing goes, I'm really hoping not to see laggy stuttering killcams where none of the icons show (thus proving it a disappointing gimmick that doesn't work). Of course there won't be many killcams to check because, you know, Michael Flatley. This is a good play on InfinityWard's part Very clever of them, any video that goes onto youtube illustrating lag will be excusable for Infinity Ward as they can blame the lag on your connection or your opponent's. I expect they're hoping that fewer people will incessantly tweet abuse at @ActivAssist complaining about the terrible in-game lag, as people should now be able to attribute blame elsewhere. But the majority of people will still say "my connection is perfect, you're wrong" (but with more dirty words). I wonder what the icons will show if the dedi is actually having a wobble, I expect there's no icon for that... This could be a positive move by IW, it has been needed for a long time to tighten their ping comp as it should be a little tighter here and there with it being so twitch. But wildly jittery pings, I mean how can they bring them inline with everyone else in the MP map, impossible? who knows. Bang on. Solve this and become a millionaire and a hero to millions of gamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby jugs Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 i haven't seen any of these icons in my games yet thank god, which is a bit strange considering i'm routinely seeing spikes of 1000ms. i only play hc so i won't be seeing any other player icons either in kill cams. all i see this as is an attempt to deflect the blame for the shoddy connections onto the player, after all why the hell should we trust anything the devs say when they consider a 4 bar connection to be anything less than 120ms of ping. if they are able to tell who is on a 5hite connection but will do nothing about it other than name and shame in lobbies then it proves exactly what kind of sheisters they are in my opinion, it's gonna cause loads of hate messages SMH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frustrated Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I also played yesterday and didn't see a icon at all, so I'm ok then...It's the others But this game is a love hate relationship- said it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urge Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Played a bit more IW this weekend cause it seems to be playing better overall. Yesterday had the pleasure of playing with MrRelentlessUK, whom is from the UK of course and I'm from the US. He played fine on my PS4 server and i played fine on his UK server. Neither of us saw a health icon at all. All games played very well, except for 2. We still did well of course but we did notice a guy with a 1 bar lagging everywhere. Judging by his name I'd say a middle eastern location. This guy even though he had a very noticeable poor connection didn't have a health icon pop up either on the kill cam. This makes me wonder. Will most of us even see this icon at all? I can believe that Mr R and myself both have great connections and won't see it. It was interesting seeing that when playing across the pond neither saw it as well. I am suprised that the middle eastern chap didn't have one though with the 1 bar teleport connection. My theory is that we won't see it on a person to person basis or if there is even 1 or 2 people with crap connections in the room. Perhaps the only way it pops up is if the room truelly is trash as a whole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_Wildcats_Fans Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I love the icons, and I hope that all other CODs use them. I have seen a lot of them this weekend, which definitely explain some WTF momments. Packet loss is the most common, but usually the severe ones have all of them. The icons are not always there though. We had a player that was skipping, teleporting (not the trait), etc. All my teammates were commenting about it. He could not touch him. None of the kill cams had a game health icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urge Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Had about an hour and a half span last night where the game went to trash. Every room visible lag. Other players pings were fluctuating from a 1 bar to a 4 bar in various rooms. Only once did i notice the icon; but i'm also half asleep so may have missed others. The icon i did see was the lost packet icon on the guys kill cam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt-Greco Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 A friend of mine also had this packet loss icon (triple hexagon). I contacted Activision Support on his behalf because his English isn't so good. They asked me for a screenshot of the icon. I sent the snapshot and they started explaining the remedy. First step is to shutdown both console and router for 10 minutes and reboot. It was late at night though and we couldn't go any further . We'll continue today. I'll let you guys know how it went, even though I'm pretty sure that there is no cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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