omfg.jpgEveryone’s favorite insider Major Nelson has been updating the status of the recent Xbox Live maintenance and how it’s giving people inaccurate NAT settings for their routers.  However, there may be a connection between the maintenance and the fact that many participants in the Call of Duty 4 beta (myself included) can’t play it at all.  This thread at charlieoscardelta.com is filled with complaints from people now unable to play the beta.  The first three posts are dated Sept 3, but the remaining dozens were posted after the Live maintenance.  Also interesting is the fact that only about half as many people are playing as usual at the time of this writing. 

Here’s what happened to me:  After playing a bit of the amusing game Overlord I felt the urge to squeeze off a few rounds in the Call of Duty 4 beta before getting ready for dreamtime, Mr. B.  After loading up the beta and choosing “Xbox Live” the screen went black momentarily then greeted me with the following:  “Notice:  You must be signed in to Xbox Live to play Xbox Live matches”.  No sh*t.  So I double check.  Yep, signed in, and attempt to start/enter a match.  Although thousands of people are playing, the beta kept me waiting in a room all alone and wouldn’t hook me up with enough people to start a match, except for one attempt out of seven or so.

So there you have it: evidence of some kind of incompatibility between the new and improved Xbox Live and the CoD4 beta.  Hope this gets remedied fast.  I can’t get enough of running around the Vacant map with a shotty.

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