Killzone 3′s Latest Patch Did More Harm Than Good
Killzone 3 released last month to high review scores, but has frustrated online players with some of its nagging issues. Thankfully, Guerrilla Games quickly came to aid with patches, and their team has been battling to make Killzone 3 as enjoyable as possible. The first major patch for the title just released, and was supposed to fully recover the game. Unfortunately, it did more harm than good.
Dozens of users have been reporting major issues since Killzone 3‘s v1.04 patch released just two days ago. Among the issues encountered are severe lag, disconnections mid-game, and the notorious network connection hindrances that make joining online games nearly impossible. Guerrilla Games has since stated that they’re working on addressing these frustrating issues, and have turned to the community for data, but more patience will be required before we see a stable Killzone 3 online mode. Yes, even more patience.
If you’re wondering what were included in the v1.04 patch, then don’t worry as we have you covered. See below:
CHANGES & NEW FUNCTIONALITY
- Network – Lag fixes and fixes for network errors 10002, 8001 and 8013
- Gameplay – Players now have more stamina by default. Sprint length is increased but the recharge timer has been adjusted to compensate
- Gameplay – Mortally wounded players no longer have collision. Alive players should now be able to traverse the levels without getting stuck on mortally wounded players
- Gameplay – Medic’s revive cool-down reduced from 25 to 10 seconds
- Gameplay – Increased range from where friendly players can be revived – player can be revived from 20 meters now
- Gameplay – Guerrilla Warfare games now last 15 minutes and it takes 100 kills instead of 50 to win
- Performance – Improvements to party creation server load
- Menu – Show envelope icon to indicate that player has received message
- Menu – Rewards panel in post game screen now auto-scrolls
- Menu – Botzone is now paused when player goes to start menu
- Menu – Single click squad invite
- Menu – Enhanced idle detection code in menu, the player isn’t spawned if he’s still pressing buttons
- Security – Several security, anti hack and cheat fixes
BUG FIXES
- Stability – Fix for an occasional crash bug when in the Credits screen and transitioning straight into Multiplayer via a Invite
- Stability – Fix for potential hang when players migrate between maps
- Gameplay – Player can retain crouched collision after deploying jetpack
- Gameplay – The Assassination Executioner medals only count Deadly Assassin kills, not Executioner kills
- Gameplay – Cloak kills with weapons that break cloak now count towards medal for Cloak levels 1 and 2.
- Gameplay – Global – Medic’s Triage droids now disappear when player quits out of game
- Gameplay – Cloak/Disguise cannot be removed manually by accident anymore
- Gameplay – Fix for rumble in Exo being over-powered and out of sync
- Gameplay – Fix for Silent Footsteps remaining active after choosing other skill and removed from the personal stats menu
- Exploit – Akmir Snowdrift – Player can reach the boat by using an ammo box to exit the intended boundaries
- Functionality – Disc eject now handled more gracefully
- Trophies – DLC 1 ‘Little Big Weapons’ Trophy does now counts rocket launcher and StA2
- Clan functionality – Fix for player quitting and re-joining a tournament, they may re-enter a tournament alone.
- Menu – Find game – Operations – Mode description – Spelling issue fixed
- Menu – Friends: Fix for Clan tags being displayed for a max of nine players despite the number of player that are in the clan
- Menu – Fix for incorrect message given when attempting to join a Clan Game that an online friend is taking place in
- Menu – Spawn-screen – Fix for when the extra Primary Weapon skill is equipped, the weapon description goes out of sync
- Menu – Accolades do now show subsequently
- Menu – When receiving a squad invite from a player in another match, there is now a warning that the player will leave his current game.
- Menu – Scramble detailed range and in-game range now match properly
- Menu – The Spot and Mark description in the unlock menu is now correct
- Menu – Fix for when the player presses the SQUARE button when a player that is in their game is highlighted in the squad lobby menu they receive the message ‘You cannot join a play that is not in a game.’
- Menu – Turn off animations for the squad list to avoid it becoming unreadable every time a rebuild occurs when voice chat is activated
- Menu – Fix for when trying to join a friend without the required DLC pack, the message will tell the player they are part of a squad.
- Menu – Fix for the message informing the player they are attempting to join a DLC game without the required DLC content installed reading better
- Menu – Increased Accuracy & Faster Reload Ribbons now update in the personal statistics screen.
If you’re one of the many being hit by these problems, let us know what you’re experiencing. As soon as Guerrilla Games gives us an update, we’ll be sure to update you. We want Killzone 3 to be error-free just as much as you do.
33 Responses to “Killzone 3′s Latest Patch Did More Harm Than Good”
I played it last night and did not encounter any of these issues. I noticed some people lagging for a short period of time.
The only thing about the new patch that is bothering me is actually the medics increased revive range/duration. Ever since the patch I have been getting killed, just to get immediately revived and killed again before I even gain control of my character. This sometimes happens over and over. My own teammates are farming me for XP. Lame.
Single player is awesome but as with most games nowadays it seems the online is just poop and best avoided sadly
Something needs to change across the board with online imo….
Are you kidding??? KZ3 multiplayer is superb… I agree that there are a lot of unnecessary multiplayer modes but you cannot put KZ3 in that bracket.
Anyone reading this who hasn’t played the online of KZ3 don’t listen to lemmy78…
wo wo wo! im talking from the point of issues… YES the game is gr8 but with all the issues iv had a bad xp ‘like alot of games now’… Jeeez people so quick to hit out on this site
Killzone 2 and 3 have the best MP of all the games out there. There is nothing that even comes close.
BFBC2. Just my opinion, but that game is still more fun to me, by far. Sure, it’s got issues of its own too, but I find winning so much more satisfying, and I really am still in love with the destructible environments.
@lemmy78: The only way you can improve online play is to teach the players how to play within the rules. But without any way to enforce some rules with today’s batch of players online will always be a hit and miss prospect. And with today’s ISP’s now using tiered and even throttling accounts when they go over limits I am beginning to wonder if the issues are not with ISP’s instead of the game.
Maybe we should be looking into what affects ISP’s are having on online gaming? AT&T is set to announce a change to their online model and it looks like ComCast is the leader of the pack with 250gb limits on usage.
I haven’t played online since the patch. Been playing on Elite
Its nice to see balance-patch, but common, fix the problems.
Any reason why i should not try the new patch out? guess i’ll wait for next.
i play everday and its great..only prob i hate now is getting stuck on 1 map..sometimes you can vote sometimes you cant
the patch hasnt caused problems for me but it did fix that pesky error 8001. ever since the patch, i’ve been raking up the kills and trophies! i gotta say kz3 MP is bloody well brilliant and fun.
So I joined a match on the day of the patch, and there was 3 people on the enemy team with 0 kills and 0 deaths, but for some reason they would show up at the top of the ranking list… At first I thought they were cheating, but they were playing pretty legitimately, and there was also a guy on my team with 0 score even though he was doing good as well. When the match ended (we won), it didn’t even go to the results screen, it just stayed in place and I left it for 10 minutes (because I wanted my points) but nothing happened…
I love Killzone, possible the best console-exclusive FPS series, but goddamn GG… I’ve been playing ModNation since then because KZ is getting to be frustrating (and still no custom tracks like in KZ2). Next patch better be godly, pretty soon there’s gonna be jokes about MW2 on PS3 being more playable than KZ3.
Oh, and still no custom matches or lobbies. Wtf!?
“match on the day of the patch”
Dammit, lol
Killzone 3 = BIG DISAPPOINTMENT!
Trolling as always -Shakes head-
So is you mom.
I haven’t came across these problems yet
Since the patch I have noticed some lag issues but that’s about it. I hope they fix it soon. Annoying getting owned because of lag.
Played it today for like 4 hrs and the only thing I saw was the hit detection or being able to kill them when the game shows u hitting them
I can’t understand how people can say Killzone 3 multiplayer is perfect, I really cant understand it. Unless of course you didn’t like or didn’t play KZ2.
This game is garbage now because of the patch, botmode and online are f’d with bad framerate since 1.04 and unplayable. GG pulled an epic fail and ruined a game I LIKED, 60$ for a game I can’t even PLAY now. Thanks for literally breaking my game assholes and i’m told to have patience? Insult to injury much you stupid clowns! I hope whoever is responsible for this gets cancer, seriously!
Cry a little louder so we can hear you. Seriously, relax, you’re exaggerating. Unplayable? There are some problems, but this word ‘unplayable’ really gets thrown around wildly these days. If you really do like it, then give them a chance to correct things. And for your sake, I hope your little rant, especially that last sentence, is just a big joke, because you sound like a dickhead right now.
You sound like a dickhead even trying to come back to what I typed, the game ran smooth for me until 1.04 then the FRAMERATE was fucked and runs so slow the game is unplayable. So you really need to rethink your comment and sympathize, how would you feel if you enjoyed a game and a patch released and fucked up your experience hmm? 60$ hard earned dollars for a game I can’t even play. Oh that’s right, you’re part of the majority who were lucky enough to have the patch NOT fuck up their game and feel the need to belittle the ones who have had their experience ruined. That or you’re simply a troll. Which one is it?
You sound like a pre-pubescent child who had their toys taken away. You wished cancer on the developers, but you want me you sympathize with you. The fact that you’re serious is the saddest part. Grow up, quickly.
Yeah because i’m angry I can’t play a game I spent hard earned cash for and had enjoyed before the patch ruined it, now i’m asked to have patience by the developers who are responsible for the problem. I’m sure if your were in the same boat you would be equally pissed, no?
So now it’s weeks of no multiplayer or botmode until GG decides to patch the problem they created and then to add insult to injury there’s assholes like you trolling when you have a perfectly working game and you expect me to say nice things about GG over an epic fail such as this?
Let me reiterate the problem so you can understand: I bought killzone 3 on launch day, I got was enjoying and otherwise had no issues with it, the game ran fine until Patch 1.04, now everytime I go to play bot mode or online multiplayer the framerate(you know what that is right?) crawls so ridiculously slow it’s unplayable.
Now run along an go enjoy your game and quit trolling, it’s pathetic.
Next time you tell someone to grow up be employed and pay for your own games instead of having your mom do it for you and then maybe in a situation like this you’ll know why someone who works for his money gets pissed over situations like this.
Good Day Sir
Be real man you’d be pretty damn ticked off if this happened to you too and would probably be shooting off with some very harsh words. If you aren’t having problems then why are you even commenting to people who are???
I hear ya hitman, i’m having the same issues but we seem to be part of a vary isolated case according to what a mod on the killzone forums said but the problem is known about and will be addressed in the next patch. Just ignore jerks like kwiet and at all cost stay away from the killzone forums because there’s many like him there posting the same stuff, seriously, if people aren’t having issues why do they feel the need to batter people who are?
Looks like for now campaign is all we can play until they fix it; I know your urked like me but wishing cancer on someone isn’t cool bro and can if your superstitious not good for your families health
Yeah dude the cancer thing was alittle too much on my behalf and was out of anguish over this issue; it’s ridiculous they launched kz3 with some of kz2′s key features missing and then they release a patch that ruins botmode and multiplayer. I hope they get it straightened out soon so I can get back to playing this awesome game, my favorite fps by far.
Next time think before you type, cancer isn’t anything to joke around about. I’m going to send you a FR on psn so we can play when this game is back up and running properly, would that be cool with you?
Killzone is the best multiplayer of any games I’ve played. It is alot of fun and very enjoyable. The single player is epic, I can’t recommend it enough. Everyone should get this game and experience the awesomeness. I finished the single player campaign twice and currently on Sergeant Major 3 online rank.
@ENiGMATiC_HiTMAN
I guess pre-pubescent was too generous. I’m 29 years old. That whole mommy buys you games defense is a tired response from people who are overreacting just like you. You also assume that I have no problems with my game. My whole point was that you’re being childish about it. You spent your hard earned money on it blahblah we all spent our hard earned money on it. It’s only $60 AND IT WILL BE FIXED. If you were a software programmer, you would have an idea of what goes into these projects and why some things happens, but you would justify wishing cancer on someone because of anguish over a “broken game.” Inconceivable.
@Louis
Stay away from people like me? You don’t even have a clue what you’re getting at. And what exactly do you mean the Killzone forums are full of people like me? lmao what exactly am I to you? All these assumptions being made and ran with are no good for your own sanity. Try to comprehend what I am saying before responding.