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Call of Duty 3 patched up

Activision's WWII shooter gets fixes to multiplayer via auto-update on Xbox Live; some gameplay enhancements also added.

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"Medic!"

That was the cry of gamers after being sidelined by some issues found in the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty 3. COD3's developer, Treyarch, has heard the call and has made available a patch for the World War II first-person shooter.

The auto-update is now available over Xbox Live and addresses problems relating to both ranked and player matches in Call of Duty 3's online component. The development team says that the greatest improvement in gameplay comes with searching for and joining multiplayer sessions. Ranked games allegedly come together much faster, and searches for player matches return many more results than before.

Other additions include basic improvements to gameplay, options, and the heads-up display. Among them are consistent brightness settings between single- and multiplayer, the ability to choose between playing as the Axis or Allies in ranked games, and consistent amounts of players per team in rotating-map games. More details on the patch are available on the game's forums at Xbox.com.

For more information on Call of Duty 3, read GameSpot's previous coverage.

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Yeah, Martyr's right... This should be on PC.

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man why couldnt this be on PC...........

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+1 on ranked matches still not working!!

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this game blows. it is what they scrapped from call of duty 2 because it was way too lame and NOT FUN! this was easily the biggest waste of time i have ever experienced.

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Patch hasnt changed a thing. Still takes an hour to get into a multiplayer game and ranked is still broken.

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just got it ******* great game

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CoD:3 OWNS! Amazing game!

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Patching console games is going to ruin the next generation.

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I can't understand why developers insist on using gamers themselves as Beta Testers.

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i dont even think its as good as cod 2 multiplayer wise. i like cod 2 a lot better in a lot of ways.

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just bough call of duty a few days ago, its pretty bomb, glad its all patched up once i bought it. Good timing!!!

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The patch didn't fix anything. I spent an hour last night trying to get into a multiplayer game and got nothing. This game would be close to perfect if it wasn't for the multiplayer connection issues. That makes the game almost not worth buying.

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My xbox 360 jams when i play online call of duty 3 and its not the xbox that has theproblem its the gam because i alrady played it on a friends house and it also jams

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YES! Too bad i'm hooked on Rainbow six vegas

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Still needs to fix a problem in falling through the map its getting on my nerves!

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what they need to do is fix those god awful issues ai issues in the singleplayer

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you just wait till brothers in arms Xtremeg4m3r, ur opinion will change quickly

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The cod series is the best in the world war 2 categoriey. This is what it needs.

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MOH went down the drain right when EA took it over

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cool i'm gonna get this one, i still haven't bought it yet though. COD really has beaten the pants off of medal of honor.

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I had that problem joining game, failed several times and rarely connected. The update has made a very noticeable diference. Much easier to connect. Brilliant update.

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haha good news i just pick'd the game up yesterday, can't wait to bust in it.

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'bout darn time, now lets get those war bonds together so we can afford the map packs.

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i can agree that gears is the better game..but i have had MUCH more fun with cod3 online than gears online...glad to see these issues get resolved

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True.

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who cares about CoD anyway? Gears is the only game worth playing right now anyway. I have CoD but am not even touching it until I get my 10,000 kill achievement in Gears.

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Patch didn't work for me either, And I'd sooner play as canada than russia any day

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omg, finally! They should have adressed this probolem MONTHS ago!

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It still takes 4ever to get into ranked matches. I didn't notice any difference after the patch was released. People are quiting, then it send you back into the lobby to wait again. I won't be playing 4 a while. Let me know when it's really fixed.

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I want to play the game just for the multiplayer, could care less about the singleplayer. Hopefully everything is running smooth by the time I get the game for xmas

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COD3 graphics are EXACTLY SAME as COD2 , only difference is - you have some canadian instead of the russian soldier as one of the campaigns , Activision should be sued for this kinda treachery .

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Everyone keeps getting mad about this Generation releasing games before they are finished. Do any of you angry people realize that this is better then in the previous generation (Xbox,ps2,Gamecube) where crappy games never got patched. At least in this generation they are fixing there problems and owning up to them. Before they just sold us useless crap!

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It still doesnt work for me

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I haven'et even played it yet

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Ye, you dont because Nintendo makes complete games..

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THats GREAT NEWS

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You never see Nintendo do this with their consoles and Sega never did either

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finally i can play ranked matches! BUT!!! i can only play about 1 in 5 matches i enter into

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Patching console games makes me sick. Finish the damn product before you release it PLEASE!

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As much releif that update has brought me, i still get the same messages even with the patch!

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They always release a '' super action-packed game '' that makes you miss all the fun because of the numerous bugs.... Anyways, all you can say is ''A patch, a patch, my kingdom for a patch!''. Then you have to wait for the right patch. But until then, you'd probably have already broken your XBOX.

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Shooting gamed always xbox is da best...

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Finally!!!!

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I keep getting a message saying either: "Cannot connect to host.", or "Cannot connect to all players." Apparently they don't know how to patch it.

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at last

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Shorter time to join but still ages, when you get into a game loadsa people join though, the real solution is to have more games running!

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neato

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Now I get a message saying can't connect to all players. They had 2 chances to get this right and still not working properly.

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