Anyone who actually plays still plays The Outfit knows that an update for the game is available. After much work by THQ, here is a list of what the game update does.
Matchmaking Improvements
- Connection speed of each gamer is now visible in the Pre-Game lobby (green for good, yellow for average, red for poor). This enables easier detection in the host part which players have a poor connection speed, giving him the option of removing them. The Outfit uses peer-to-peer networking, so identifying and removing players with poor connection speeds before the game begins will eliminate lag for all players in a session.
- Connection speed of each game is now also displayed in the Custom Quick Match and Custom Ranked Match lobbies (again green for good, yellow for average, red for poor), aiding players to stay away from games with poor connection speeds.
- Players looking for a Quick Match to join will now automatically connect to the game with the fastest connection speed. Prior to this, Quick Match obtained the first game it found.
- Players can now contact each other in every pre-game and post-game lobby.
- Only your friends who have played The Outfit will appear in the Leaderboard “Friends” filter.
- Fixed an issue where Quick Match player numbers were being reported incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue where ‘Play Again’ caused the lobby size to be frozen at previous match’s size.
Gameplay Improvements
- Both Ranked Quick Match and Ranked Custom Match game sessions can now provide Multiplayer Achievements.
- Vehicles in particular, is as effective in multiplayer as they are in single player.
- Vehicles can no longer be hijacked when they are moving at high speed, significantly reducing “hijack spam.”
- Event queue messages now appear on screen for one second longer than before, giving players a better chance to read them.
- Fixed an issue that caused the jump animation to play twice in certain multiplayer situations.
Multiplayer Tuning Changes
- The rotation rate and health of Anti-Aircraft Emplacements has been reduced. If you can recall, before AA guns were too powerful given their cost.
- 15% increase to health for all Halftracks and Tanks.
Infinity Ward will be releasing the invasion pack for Call of Duty 2 on the Xbox 360, on June 29th.
What’s better? Five new maps for the steal of 800 MS Points!
The Invasion Pack includes:
Antoville, France (Crossroads);
St. Louet, France (Newvillers);
Amaye sur Seulles, France (Normandy);
Alam Halfa, Egypt (Decoytown);
Rostov, Russia (Harbor)
The game that stole hours of my life for the PC, Lord of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II, is coming to steal more July 5th when it is released for the Xbox 360.
35 points, adding up to a total of 705 gamer points instead of the normal 1,000 (strange huh?)
* (5) Defend Rivendell - Complete Good Rivendell with all bonus objectives (Level 1) Unlocks Hero: Hadhod
* (5) Clear the High Pass - Complete Good High Pass with all bonus objectives (Level 2)
* (10) Cleanse the Ettenmoors - Complete Good Ettenmoors with all bonus objectives (Level 3)
* (10) Reclaim the Blue Mountains - Complete Good Blue Mountains with all bonus objectives (Level 4) Unlocks Hero: Maur
* (10) Secure the Grey Havens - Complete Good Grey Havens with all bonus objectives (Level 5)
* (15) Rescue Celduin - Complete Good Celduin with all bonus objectives (Level 6)
* (20) Defend Erebor - Complete Good Erebor with all bonus objectives (Level 7)
* (30) Assault Dol Guldur - Complete Good Dol Guldur with all bonus objectives (Level 8) Unlocks Hero: Idrial
* (5) Destroy Lothlorien - Complete Evil Lorien with all bonus objectives (Level 1) Unlocks Hero: Krashnak
* (5) Demolish the Grey Havens - Complete Evil Grey Havens with all bonus objectives (Level 2)
* (10) Scour the Shire - Complete Evil Shire with all bonus objectives (Level 3)
* (10) Ravage Fornost - Complete Evil Fornost with all bonus objectives (Level 4) Unlocks Hero: Thrugg
* (10) Commandeer the Old Forest Road - Complete Evil Mirkwood with all bonus objectives (Level 5)
* (15) The Dragons of Withered Heath - Complete Evil Withered Heath with all bonus objectives (Level 6)
* (20) Pillage Erebor - Complete Evil Erebor with all bonus objectives (Level 7)
* (30) Crush Rivendell - Complete Evil Rivendell with all bonus objectives (Level 8) Unlocks Hero: Olog
* (5) Istari Power - Purchase first player power.
* (25) Captains of the West - Complete Good Campaign Unlocks Hero: Berethor
* (25) Cover the Lands in Darkness - Complete Evil Campaign Unlocks Hero: Tumna
* (80) Servant of the Secret Fire - Complete Good Campaign without a Hero dying Hero: Mektar
* (80) Servant of the Shadow - Complete Evil Campaign without a Hero dying Hero: Urulooke
* (15) Sergeant - Win 1 Versus game.
* (15) King of the Hill! - Win 1 King of the Hill game.
* (15) Capture and Hold - Win 1 Capture and Hold game.
* (15) Middle-earth Financier - Win 1 Resource Race game.
* (15) My Heroes!!!! - Win 1 Hero Vs Hero game.
* (30) General - Win 10 Versus games Unlocks Hero: Ohta
* (30) King of Kings - Win 10 King of the Hill games Unlocks Hero: Fhaleen
* (30) Capture them all!!! - Win 10 Capture and Hold games Unlocks Hero: Avatan
* (30) Entrepreneur of Middle-earth - Win 10 Resource Race games Unlocks Hero: Celebrim
* (30) My Heroes are better than yours - Win 10 Hero Vs Hero games Unlocks Hero: Felek
* (5) Good Practice - Win 1 Single Player Skirmish game
* (50) The Hobbit and the Troll - Win a game against someone 20 places higher than you.
* (0) In need of a lesson - Lose 10 Multiplayer matches in a row.
* (0) Try a tutorial - Lose to someone ranked 20 places below you.
Best Buy has listed Halo 3 as being released on November 16, 2006 for the Xbox 360. Which means it will be in stores this holiday season, a great stratgey to get gamers off of the Ps3 and on to the 360!
Remember all the hype Sony brought when they Said Ubi Soft was creating Assassin's Creed as a PS3 exclusive? Remember all of those rumors from E3 that Assassin's creed Demo was actually running on an Xbox 360 and not a PS3 (Remember, UbiSoft did not confirm nor deny it).
Which console UbiSoft is developing this title for isn’t quite clear either. At the Tokyo Game Show last September is was said to be a PS3 title, at the Game Developers conference in March it was said to be a PS3 and Xbox 360 title, Then at E3 a PS3 exclusive. Which one is it?
Well a leaked internal Memo from UbiSoft for an upcoming game list classified Assassin's Creed as a multi-platform game. UbiSoft officially the company denies this, although sources close to UbiSoft said the game will definitely be on Xbox 360.
Perhaps UbiSoft sold the rights to Sony, to ANNOUNCE, that it is a Sony Exclusive- Remember, now a days exclusive means "only on this console....for a short time.”, unless the game in question is published by 1st party.
Look's like Toshiba is taking one for the team. It is estimated that Toshiba will lose approximately $200 for every HD-A1 HD-DVD player sold. According to a report published by iSupli the components needed to assemble the HD-A1 came to approximately $674, this isn’t even taking into consideration the cost for packaging, component cables, and remote control, which if you factor in the total cost would be around $700.
Why would Toshiba be willing for such the large profit loss? My guess is to establish a hold on the next-generation market format. A $500 HD-DVD player is certainly more attractive than a $1000 Blu-Ray player. Now lets ask, is a lower price over Blu-Ray worth the finical risk?
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* (10) Secure the Grey Havens - Complete Good Grey Havens with all bonus objectives (Level 5)
Look's like Toshiba is taking one for the team. It is estimated that Toshiba will lose approximately $200 for every HD-A1 HD-DVD player sold. According to a report published by iSupli the components needed to assemble the HD-A1 came to approximately $674, this isn’t even taking into consideration the cost for packaging, component cables, and remote control, which if you factor in the total cost would be around $700.
