Killzone 3′s Open Beta hasn’t even been live for a full week, yet there’s been over 62 million kills, with ten percent of that being brutal melee kills. Impressive. Guerrilla Games have also been listening to the many complaints gamers have voiced. Ranging from connection issues, to stats issues, and even flickering screens.
Great thing about all the mentions is that GG’s got a chance to make changes for a much better experience when the game finally launches on February 22nd.
High level issues discovered:
- Connection problems
- High load caused the database to fall over
- Score posting
- Flickering screens
- Ribbon stats not updating
- Vulgarity filter
Solutions underway:
- Guerrilla has already released a patch. At the time of writing this has gone live in the US and the EU.
- The other territories will follow shortly. We have no ETA on that.
- Guerrilla has made improvements for the server connection issues. The server was brought down and back up for that on Monday, February 7th.
- The problems with the vulgarity filter should be fixed now.
- Guerrilla will continue to update the servers and patch the Beta if needed. We’re watching your feedback closely on Killzone.com.
- Score posting issues have been resolved.
- Ribbon stats updating issue has been resolved, known issue is that 1 ribbon (the faster reload ribbon) does not update yet.
Here’s a message from Guerrilla Games:
“We are happy that we are encountering these issues now, during a Beta, instead of after launch. This will help us get ready for the huge amount of people that are expected to go online for Killzone 3’s launch.
This Beta also gives us the opportunity to change Killzone 3 based on feedback that we get. Although we’ve already gone gold, we can and will make server-side adjustments to things like weapon damage, balancing issues, and more. So this is not a demo, it is meant to be a Beta — a way for us to test the game.
Thanks for your continued patience and help in getting this tested properly.”
See out open beta impressions here.
Thanks, US PS Blog.
Now that’s just amazing! It’s only the beta.
I’m responsible for a few of those, lol
Yeah, me too. Quite a few actually.