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    People still playing? Can you host custom maps yet?

    I gave up on this game after the big news turned out to be Beta Test mode for maps. I haven't even bothered downloading that patch, as I haven't played it since. Did they fix anything else to make it worth playing again?


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    Not yet, But thank you for your post. This makes it clear for the devs, that people will come back once they can host other people custom maps in a true Map archive findable public lobby. lets hope they can pump out one more update. And if they do. Im sure this specific feature request has been relayed by the community manager. It would change the MP in a way that, i think we are all satisfied with at this stage, It would be sufficient to carry me over until FC4 hits
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    Quoted from GRAWROBZ..." Was hoping for the lobby system to be patched to host a server of 9 maps minimum and a skip feature and appears on the main servers section possibly as a new servers section showing public hosting maps or something. So random's can join in when ever. My guess they made out big with Blood Dragon so they dropped this free of charge. The community would of came back in full force with a much needed patch. Cool they gave us new stuff for maps. But like most said without no far cry 2 true public lobby system then its all but to late to save face here." This is a quote from another player. And notice how he said the community would come back in FULL force... Please relay this to the devs.
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    Also how do start a beta test ?
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    I just got on for the first time in months and if the number of players it shows on here is accurate then this community has pretty much died out. There is about 200 people and all but 10 of them on the standard team death match. Would have been nice to play my map on beta when there was actually enough people to get a match going.
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    Oh ok cool thanks ill on and try.
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    Originally Posted by Leadstorm76 Go to original post
    Also how do start a beta test ?
    Go into my maps, select the map you want and you should see the option.
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    Originally Posted by Leadstorm76 Go to original post
    Also how do start a beta test ?
    You will need to publish the map first, then go to the archive, look for your map and then instead of hosting public or private you should be able to playtest it.

    This only works for maps that you have published.
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    Thanks guys
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    Trolls ruined game and map creation - Warning all not to play 8-(( Game is dead

    Originally Posted by GRAW2ROBZ Go to original post
    No vehicles, no AI and no update makes it hard to think about putting massive hours in making any maps. I put over 20 hours in my first map. Then started 3 other maps and didn't finish since there's no vehicles and horrible lobby system.
    I bought this game to do maps. Period. I have thus been ripped off right royally. I spent fifty hours making what objective gamers and friends have called a map as good if not better than most MP maps in the game (which themselves have bad object collision, poor spawn placement et cetera, yet they do not suffer being tagged as such like we all do)...

    So I took all that hard work (including dragging down and redoing / touching up the map no less than 12x... until it was more or less perfect.... had no getting stuck, or ANY issues.... it had a functioning marijuana grow room with fans et cetera, hidden rooms..... a walk over the map above between towers.... and all whilst set in a dystopian drug-addled future where the polar ice caps had melted and everyone fought over drugs and profits....

    Yet, as soon as I posted on here that I wanted people to go and LIKE the map and avoid any negative made-up tags to criticise it or else this would degrade the map and we would not get to play it all the time and have it high up on the silver map playlist..... guess what happened. It went from 11 LIKES from 7 plays.... to 11 likes from 30 plays and people ticking (in groups, i.e. teams of three would party up, go into my map, and troll it by skipping map and then entering in a critiism for EVERY tag (too dark and too bright, too small and too big)... I had no bad feedback... then it went to 45 counts of negative feedback in three minutes... I observed it. This is categorical fact. In five minutes it went from silver (both of my maps, as one is a storm version of the other, so the community could play it twice as often as better than the other MP and 99% of created maps, many of which are broken but forced upon us when playing silver playlist.

    My maps were "DRUG WAR: POLAR MELT" and "The Eternal Storm"..... both were trolled and in almost identical numbers.... why? Cos I put up the maps here on this webpage and asked people to vote on it honestly (as is objectively a wonderful map), but they didn't. I run a gaming web-page and it has thousands of subscribers and visitors... I will be alerting members and passers-through to the broken nature of the troll-ruined voting system.... after all, look how BAD the gold maps are when you play them. They are not the good maps, they are the EARLY ones.... and now trolls ensure nothing else can EVER usurp them or the ones atop the silver playlist.

    The game is broke.... the MP maps are underwhelming and become stale.... the user maps cannot ever prosper even if they are brilliant and tested and designed over LONGER THAN A WORKING WEEK (!!!!)..... so it a gargantuan waste of time. One I will ensure no reader of my site nor fellow gamer ever has to endure again on my watch. To think that I bought the game PURELY to design maps and cannot is a fu**ing disgrace. Game is broke.

    Trolls will bes happy though, overjoyed even. You basically invented a forum for them where they can, in less than a minute, mass ruin and troll a map that took the designer 50 hours plus to make and perfect. That is pa-thetic! Worse is that my two maps were third and fourth on the high score table when I asked more to play them and posted about them here on this website... in two hours, they were then trolled off the face off the earth and do not appear in the top 1000 maps, I cannot find them at all. They are worse apparently in 'rating' order, even though they have 30 plays and 15 LIKES and only 3 trolls had criticised (albeit they put all 15 critiques and three times over), the maps had vanished and apparently are inferior to maps with 28 plays and two likes...... in other words, the most broken, victimizing, troll-revalent, broken down and customer-disrespecting system and set-up I have ever encountered in my reviewing and / or gaming capacity.

    Hang your fu**ing heads Ubisoft.... you wasted a hundred bucks of my money during a recession and you have ruined a great game by producing an endlessly ruinable and cheesable game where trolls criticise everyone's maps but theirs by using the private match / skip game / troll every criticism available and ruin map technique.... it is truly a write off. Hang your fu**ing heads.
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