Texas Hold'em updated coming this Wednesday
Xboxic.com is reporting that Microsoft will be releasing a patch to fix many, many issues with Texas Hold'em. Here's the list of improvements:
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Features
• Game-play has been sped up:
o Post the blind and play right away! – Players can now, if they wish, start playing immediately when joining a table by posting the big blind, rather than having to wait for the blind to come to them.
o New ‘Away’ mode – Players can now set their status to ‘Away’. Hands will be auto-folded and blinds auto-posted until the player returns.
o New ‘Auto-boot’ mode – Players who continuously let the timer expire (more than three times in a game) will be booted from the table
o Faster overall pacing – Timers and messaging durations have been adjusted to speed up game-play among experienced players, but still allow novice players plenty of time to play.
• Improved blind structure – Initial blinds, as well as blind increases, are now more proportional to table stakes, ensuring more meaningful increases during game-play.
• Matchmaking improvements – Players are no longer matched into games they cannot afford
• Improved interface controls – Improvements to controls, such as increasing/decreasing stake amounts
• Leaderboard display – A player’s full winnings and rank are now properly displayed
• Art and text improvements – Game art and spelling issues have been addressed
• Online exploits addressed – Certain known exploits that enabled cheating have been addressed. As a result, the online multi-player leaderboards will be reset to eliminate inflated scores as a result of these exploits.
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The speed of which Hold'em plays is the main reason I stopped playing it, and I'll certainly be checking this out as soon as it's available.
Comments
Quildar
53117
This update looks good other then not mentioning a fix for there achievement glitch. How can you fix everything but that?
Measure76
23717
Two reasons I stopped playing Hold'em.
First, the speed issue. It was bad, but usually not a game-killer.
Second, the exploits. after the first couple of weeks, so many people had used the exploits that a high-level tourney was no different in terms of player skill than the low level ones. That really got me to quit.
Looks like I'll have every reason to start playing again.
Tomacco
22869
I've removed two comments as the first was an unnecessary flame, and the second quoted it.
A question came up about the leaderboard, to which I will appologize that it's not up yet, I've been very busy and it'll be up tomorrow morning. It has nothing to do with who is beating who.
As for the poster of the first comment, this is your only warning! I have no problem taking critizism, but next time try and find out what's going on before making those types of comments.
Hexxagonal
23061
**crosses fingers**
Tomacco
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trent82
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"A question came up about the leaderboard, to which I will appologize that it's not up yet, I've been very busy and it'll be up tomorrow morning. It has nothing to do with who is beating who."
if this has anything to do with borlog, he shouldn't be counted on the xbla leaderboard anyway because he's a cheater. if infrared or klutch take the top spot, they deserve the credit, but i'll admit that it's annoying for borlog's name to be listed above mine considering all of the hours i've spent to get some of the hardest achievements and this guy comes along and whores his account out to other more skilled players to boost up his score and then gets his name listed above mine. do as you wish with the leaderboard, but for me, if his name is on top, the leaderboard cannot be taken seriously.
it would be great if we could come up with a leaderboard that updates on its own and eliminates any known cheaters.
Borlog
65769
trent i will not flame u for the administrator has already gave me a warning, but i am a much more skilled gamer than u even could be, the only reason ur even close to the top spot (actually not close at all 245 GS away) is because of how much of ur life u have wasted getting 200 in bejeweled 2. Unless having endless mode makes u a better player, u have no right to dis me.
BTW look at ALL the leaderboards everyone trades it part of the community and infrared and klutch trade, so u are calling them cheaters too, u just don't like me cause i'm better than u.
to the administrator: if u find this post to be bad enough to be deleted, plz do so, but i'm trying to be more cautious with word choice.
Tomacco
22869
Alright both of you, I've had enough of this in the comments of posts that have nothing to do with it. I understand that you two (and others) have differing opinions about this, but it doesn't belong here.
I've created this forum topic where everyone can talk to their hearts content about this subject, but KEEP IT CIVIL.
Stoffs
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