Constant Freezing and Lock ups

[legacy-Hydrafiend]

Has anyone else had a problem with the game constantly freezing up and then you have to restart your xbox. Also there is a lag hiccup whenever anyone joins a server. I hope they patch this fast.

[legacy-Viroxide]

Yes so far i have encounted 4 freezes, one in Ascension Rights, 2 in split screen, and 1 on xbox live.
And the lag practically erases any chance i have of enjoying this game on xbox live unfortunately.

[legacy-Tricky_jBi]

Ya i will be playing in a game with no lag, then it will just freeze up, or disconnect.

It will also lock up when switching maps or laoding server.

The epic servers are horrible, worse then other dedicated i have played on.

This is a great game, but there are insane server issues.

I rememebr there being another game where this happened, maybe CS? i cant remember, the had a patch out within 2 weeks of the games release to fix it, hopefully Epic can do the same and wont ignor the problem

[legacy-Enochrewt]

I haven't actually gotten on XBL and played the full version yet, but I bet that they still tweaking everything. Most games don't come right out of the box with no server issues(Most of the game I've played anyway) and I'm sure Epic wants online to be successful and smooth as much as you do.

[legacy-Hydrafiend]

I think its inexcusable for a game designed to played on xbl to have this many bugs-the freezing and lockups are only two of the many I encountered last night.

[legacy-Frank_the_Avenger]

And what are the rest? Seriously, we can't do anything if you don't tell us anything. Just saying 'there are bugs' or 'it froze up' isn't enough information. Help us out!

[legacy-Hydrafiend]

Fair enough. Basically the game will just freeze up in the middle of your doing something-you can be firing a weopon or jumping or whatever, doesn't matter if your in deathmatch or capture the flag or whatever. Just play the game for about an hour or so and you will see, it will happen.

There is also a problem where your screen says hit fire to start and nothing happens-happened to me in CTF last night. You have to restart your xbox and go back into live.

And the other one is after you die, you zoom into your body in 3rd person and you cannot move, you just run in place.This happened to me on serveral maps that I played. Again just play the game for about an hour and one of these is bound to crop up.

Great game though if these bugs can get worked out.

[legacy-SOULRAGE13]

hey everybody...but ive been playing ctf...and like after a while of playing..i get killed..then when i respawn i find out that im just like floating in air..and stuck..i could shout but cannot control the direction of where to shoot and well its an eazy kill for the other team bc they find me.. just stuckso they freeze me and do the CDG on me ..and it really suckss...theirs also lag when people join in the games...it kind of sucks but for the rest ..in truly awesome..

[legacy-dissonance_icon]

to devs:


http://forums.epicgames.com/message.asp?topic=19324259&start=19330196

details here.

[legacy-SkinE]

only freeze up i've noticed (and it only happened once) was when i respawned i was stuck, i could turn but not move for the rest of the round, if i was killed and respawned i was still stuck

[legacy-G3N3RAL_BUN_G1E]

Yea i have the same problems that these people do. Ive had about 50 disconnects and ive fozen about 10 times, and ive only been playin it a couple days.It also froze once and said my disc was dirty or damaged and i took it out and it was in perfect condition. Please fix these things so i can have a good time on XBL!!!

[legacy-BlackKnightOfH8]

The lag when someone joins has been around since UT 99 for the pc. I don't think that can be helped or it would have already been fixed by now.

[legacy-Aromis_Tallion]

I have noticed that 85% of the time when playing XBox Live for UC2 that it will freeze when on the loading screen when switching maps and that I have to reset my XBox, I also have asked around when I am on-line if other people have experienced this problem, and most of them say that they have the same problem.

I have also noticed that in a few instances that when you respawn, that your character while be stuck on the map, not able to move in any direction, but still able to swing around your melee weapon in any direction around you.

I am hoping that a patch will be made to at least fix the problem with the freeze while loading. I think the game is great and can live with the minute instances of a single in game freeze until you die, but the loading screen between maps problem really hurts the gameplay.

[legacy-Pokester]

I am having all these troubles too. It completely freezes the xbox. No other xbox game has done this to me. The freezes happen randomly when doing different things, but allways while playing, just running arround it freezes, different maps too. I think it might have something to do with someone recently entering or leaving the room. I have also had the problem of respawning in and just being able to look arround with the camera but not move or fire, it seems that you are just hovering and able to turn 360 in all directions. I have also had this happen and not seen anyone else talk about it, it has happened twice now. I could run arround but could not interact with the map or other players not pickup ammo, fire, melee or use adrenaline. Now last but not least, it sometimes respawns you but you are in flyby mode, you can even go way outside the map. It really concerns me to have this many problems in a game that was supposedly ready when H2 released. The demo didn't even have these bugs. What happened? Great game though if you can put up with all that.

Also why no clans, and why cant your message people? It really keeps the game from being an up-to-date experience. Love all the maps could have skipped a few and done more work on the interface and connection issues imho. Thanks though for a good game otherwise.

[legacy-augy]

I've noticed that on or offline, if you're running around with the melee weapon and press y to switch to a ranged weapon, the game will often highlight the weapon you selected, but the reticle, the gun model, and the actual ammunition that fires is different. I.E., you're running around with your sword, you press y to switch to the flak cannon, but your reticle is the dual pistol reticle, and you fire pistol shots. Sometimes if you switch weapons again with Y you get your problem solved. Other times, the HUD seems permanently out of "sync," if you will, with what the game is actually displaying, though it reset for me when I died. Also, when playing a laggy but playable online DM, my flak cannon ran out of ammo, and it got stuck on the flak cannon. I couldn't switch weapons, I couldn't pull out my sword and I couldn't fire. But then I picked up explosive ammo and it went back to normal.

Phew. Hope that helps you guys out. Killer game, but please fix the bugs. I want to be able to burn my halo2 disc and surrendor myself entirely to the gaming bliss that is uc2, but it ain't gonna happen as long as the game remains in the state it's in :) good luck getting this stuff fixed. Nobody's perfect, but you guys can do better than this.

[legacy-BlackKnightOfH8]

Yeah it's getting out of hand nowI haven't been able to play a full game in 2 days now because near the end of a map i'll start to lock up. The big clue for me is when I respawn I start in 1st person mode instead of 3rd. Next I can't lock onto anyone an when I die or kill someone no name pops up showig who killed me or who I killed. After a few times of doing that i'll finally respawn frozen unable to move at all but able to die from other players. 2 days this has been going on for me an some other players online. It needs a fix or a patch or something. Love the game but things like this will make me sell it for something else.

[legacy-Nightland3r]

ya i have seen it most when ppl join the game and u respawn at the same time

[legacy-Retodon8]

I have had 1 freeze playing the Ascension Rites tutorial.
I started slashing at the dummie bots before Sobek told me too, equipped my guns, shot him... because I didn't read what I was supposed to shoot, and everything froze.

I played it properly, reading everything before, did what was asked of me, and no problems.
It seems there's a problem if you don't listen to him. :)

[legacy-SimpthePimp2]

Ive only had it lock up on me 4 times in total, 3 in a row on time though.

Im not sure if its the server your are on, but it seems that the game locks up in the loading screen just before you get into a room (i found).

Plus as for lag, i found the worste issue there is when someone leaves, or joins a room you get about 2 sec. lag issue, which can cost you a kill, or get you killed. as for the major lag its the same issue he host has a bad connection.

PS. give us an update with live 3.0 options...PLEASE!!!

[legacy-DOPEpurplehaze]

This has happened to me about 40 times. :-(

[legacy-BlackKnightOfH8]

Anyone else only seem to suffer lock-ups at a certain time of day? For some reason when I play UC2 early morning or during mid-day - early evening I lock-up every match. But i'm fine if I play in the middle of the night. Any ideas?

[legacy-anonymoususer]

Yes,almost every other game I join. It's frustrating to the point of almost not wanting to play the game any more.I even experienced it in midway servers that where only 4 plyrs max. Never experienced it on the demo,what's up with that /