More details about Title Update 1.05
In our previous post, we let you know a little about what’s in store for you in our next Title Update.
Today, we reveal a little bit more about Title Update 1.05.
By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Thursday February 11 2010

Yesterday’s blog post about our Experimental Weekend results sparked quite a bit of debate in the comments and on the PlayStation.com forums. That was not unexpected, especially when we have such a great, vocal multiplayer community. Changing some aspects of gameplay is never an easy consideration for us, nor is it something easy for the players to adapt to. I’m sure once Title Update 1.05 goes up, it will renew the debate. As always – we’ll be reading closely and seeing how the multiplayer matches are playing out.
There’s quite a bit more in store for everyone with Title Update 1.05 and it’s all really good stuff.
In our very first Title Update we introduced a penalty system to deter players who were spuriously quitting from matches (also to quite a bit of debate).The deterrent actually worked really well – we saw in-match departures drop significantly almost immediately. That didn’t mean that the system we worked out was the best implementation, so we looked at ways to improve it, which will be active when Title Update 1.05 goes live.
The cash penalty for leaving a match will now be commensurate to your level at the time the penalty is applied. REMEMBER: You won’t receive a penalty for leaving a match for whatever reason for the first time within a particular span of time. The tiered penalty by level is as follows:
- Levels 1 – 20: -10,000
- Levels 21 – 40 = -20,000
- Levels 41 – 60 = -40,000
We’ve also noticed – and heard your reports – of players who are flagrantly AFK during matches, apparently affecting Plunder matches the most. We’ve put in some hooks to look out for AFK players and remove them from the active matchmaking player pool until they’ve returned. That doesn’t mean you won’t run into AFK players or that some less than honorable players will find a workaround, but this should aid matches stay more balanced between teams.
Since Title Update 1.04, we’ve started to hear from you about seeing your individual Level being reset and also seeing your Ranked playlist skill rank reset again during the course of play. Both cases have been some very nasty occurrences that have not been easy to completely eradicate, despite our best efforts. Thanks to some aid from our community, we have been able to get to the bottom of what’s been affecting a small portion of our players. Addressing this as soon as possible was incredibly important to us, which is while you’ll be seeing Title Update 1.05 released very soon.
One last, more cosmetic, detail you’ll see in Title Update 1.05 concerns the multiplayer menu screen. Back in Title Update 1.02 we added leaderboards in various categories to the menu screen. To supplement this, we’ve added a crawling ticker to the bottom of the menu screen which displays select stats from the leaderboards.We’ve posted a couple screenshots of this in action in the Title Update 1.05 Flickr set.
It may be hard to believe, but we haven’t covered everything that’s in the upcoming Title Update 1.05 yet. Stay tuned for more!







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Posted by: WhisperGamer on 02-11-2010
Great thanks to hear, hope you fix the glichers, cheaters, lag and all that other crap.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: majora96 on 02-11-2010
I do glitch but not in public so I please don’t do anything bad to me. I only glitch in custom game parties where all my friends glitch.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: All2000 on 02-11-2010
I don’t want to be unpleasant, rude or repetitive but I do still believe that “players should be free of quitting or leaving any match or game at any time without penalty”.
I sure know, without running a poll, that penalizing player is a bad move.
Stubbornness, a lake of Will, maybe a lake of money or a lake of knowledge prevent ND to steep forward and give players a better system and stop penalizing them because they quit or leave a match. I guess!
Then at least ND should fix all the nasty issues that have been harassing players and so “give face” to those that awarded ND at Machinima and spike and, especially, to those that support ND, the players.
This is the way you should “Commensurate” not that one you are stating for update 1.05.
ND Thanks!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: All2000 on 02-12-2010
No I’m not talking about water…
“Lake” ==> should one read “Lack”
Stubbornness, a lack of Will, maybe a lack of money or a lake of knowledge prevent ND to steep forward and give players a better system and stop penalizing them because they quit or leave a match. I guess!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Anghild on 02-12-2010
The problem is that if you are in a Plunder match trailing 1 to 3 with 5 minutes to go, your whole team is gonna quit out so that it doesn’t affect their win-loss ratio, or quit if a match is not going their way. A penalty system is a must.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: DarkDuneMRK on 02-12-2010
Had a match last night where a player got Kicked, and his (TBag) team left right after. Sorta lame as it left us with only 2 on our team, and 5 on the other in Plunder.
I also had a match where some (Limp) dude I don’t know on my team killed me for no reason, so I went around trying to kill him. When he kicked me, I thanked him for saving me the $40,000 I’d have lost if I left on my own!
Felt good to save the cash as I am $250,000 away from the “oh so Pink” 50 now
You ROCK ND, and we THANK YOU!!!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Rellite on 02-12-2010
I similarly agree to a certain extent.. a money penalty would not be cool.. it takes so long to earn like 20,000 bucks in game anyway! I’m not completely opposed to the 30 second penalty, though. Such as certain cases where I’m forced to unexpectedly leave during a 20 or 30 minute match, and it takes only 30 seconds to put on my shoes or whatnot before I even get out the door, so that’s perfectly acceptable to tax a gamer on time rather than in game earnings. That would be rather harsh alot of casual gamers out there!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Dannn_SAS on 02-12-2010
i agree with you on the free quitting...cuz sometimes people have to quit a game for important reasons.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Jekahog on 02-12-2010
they have to REALLLLY consider those lags in this game, to have a better idea of what i mean check out this vid i posted on youtube about it..
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Posted by: Badazz_Truco on 02-12-2010
GOOD! I’m tired of all you cheaters and quitters. How can anyone feel good about themselves if they can’t win without cheating.
ND, pleaste continue to improve and push these cheaters away from their bad habits.
Updates such as this is what drives me to continue playing this great game.
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