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View Poll Results: Should Public Custom Player Map Hosting & Server Browser be added?

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  • Yes add both now!

    119 99.17%
  • No way man

    1 0.83%
  1. #1

    Petition: Add Public Custom Player Map Hosting & Server Browser

    Ubisoft,

    It is unacceptable for Far Cry 2 which released in 2008 to come with standard online features, while FC3 which came out a full four years later is currently missing.

    The purpose of this thread is to readd CUSTOM PLAYER MAP HOSTING and SERVER BROWSER into FC3.

    I sincerely hope this does not fall on death ears, I assume it will but lets give it a try anyway...

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    Why adding Custom Player Map Hosting is ESSENTIAL to fc3



    Far Cry 3 came with an elaborate in game map editor and I personally am to ashamed to admit how long it took me to create my map. I was so excited to play it online with other users, just like I had done previously in far cry 2. However the only way I can play my map is in Private Match. Sure the map gets added to the bronze playlist where other users in public match making can enjoy it, however what are the odds of me getting to play my map? I bet its the same as winning the lottery. So essentially the only way I will ever play my map is by the stroke of luck.

    If your answer to this is for me to play in a private match, lets be realistic here ubisoft. I do not personally have 14 friends who own this game and play it online. With that being said I am not about to go out and find 14 random users to add to my friends list just so I can play my map either. Nor do I want to do a 1vs1 on my map all day long. I do not even know why I am creating this thread about this issue. This is something that anyone with a brain would and should of recognized from day one during development.



    You do not need to look anywhere other than Far Cry 2 for your solution. In the Custom Match Area allow us the option to host public matches with users created maps in them. That way I can play my match finally in public as well as any other maps that I have downloaded and I am interested in trying out.

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    Why adding a Server Browser option would benefit fc3


    Quick Match is a great way for players to almost instantly get thrown into a match. However only having quick match will overtime kill the life span of this title online. There have been plenty of games where I have joined a room to get sucked into a 2vs2 battle or joined so late as to only take a loss 10 seconds later. Or here is a even better example, going into the Bronze/Silver playlists only to find the same map every couple times. Also the server browsers creates a sense of community, example knowing I can find PlayerX every night hosting his own room. Needless to say there are other benefits of a server browsers but I believe you get the idea.


    Further more the addition of server browser will allow players to tinker with the settings that are listed in custom games. Now we can create new styles of gameplay that will expand the lifespan of the title even longer.


    Currently however once we tinker with any of the testings our game gets tossed into either a private room or a playlist that does not exist. This goes back to the same idea above with adding custom player map hosting, why are these options there if we can not use them?


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    As you can see Ubisoft both of these issues kind of go hand and hand. Currently we can not play our users created rooms maps in public. There is also no way for us to tinker with settings of custom matches or else they become private rooms. However with the addition of a server browser that would fix both of the issues above. Now I could make any kind of match I want and other users, including myself can find the type of match they want to join and not get thrown around with the game magically fitting us where its best.

    Please consider patching these into FC3 as soon as possible and prove me wrong that your not just another developer that takes our cash and runs.

    Also if a developer could reply and even acknowledge this thread and they are indeed working in it that would be a nice gesture
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  2. #2
    Thank you for putting that so eloquently. It would benefit Ubi as well as the players to make these changes. They are going to lose a lot of gamers if they don't keep up with what they've already started with previous installments. You should never take away from such major parts of a game in the follow-up: only add to or improve. Otherwise most hard-core fans will look elsewhere, or wait to buy a used copy of FC 4, 2 years after it comes out. I've seen this happen to many digital intellectual properties. (Fable for instance)
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  3. #3
    I agree 110 % and nice thread Pre_-Cision-_
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  4. #4
    I agree too, good thread
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  5. #5
    You didn't have to write all that much.

    I only wish I could just have two options, Join player match or join Rank match... I couldn't figure out how to join a player match.... So I downloaded some user's map... Sat there for a while, wondering what I was suppose to do next.

    I have not even played a user created map.

    All I saying is -- I don't care if there is just lobbying and matchmaking, but please make it easier to jump into a player created game.

    BRING BACK join in PROGRESS too!
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  6. #6
    I voted yes. We definitely need better custom map hosting and a server browser.
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  7. #7
    bumped, wonderful post
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  10. #10
    Ffs ubisoft! Are you even listening to the ****ing community!?
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