Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the eleventh entry in the Call of Duty franchise and the last fully featured title to be released on both the seventh and eighth generation consoles. CODAW is a refreshment of the franchise, featuring futuristic drones, exoskeleton suits and laser weaponry. Critically acclaimed on release, and nominated for best eSports game of 2015, Advanced Warfare was a major technical victory to provide the same quality across multiple platforms.
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Date: 2014-2015
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Platform: Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
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Role: Associate Online Engineer
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Tasks:
- Implemented numerous online fixes
- Collaborating with remote teams in pushing new features and bugfixes for the product
- Crushed several rare showstopper bugs on a number of platforms, in addition to strengthening the game to comply with third party TCRs.
- Optimized data usage & manipulation, introducing an item parity feature to allow for cross-platform title upgrades within console families.
- Fine-tuned online services with third and first party services used in the game, providing an overall smooth experience for the player.
- Led a side project dealing with combating the growing issue of cheating on the last-generation consoles, reverse-engineering exploits and mitigating hacking attempts that plagued previous titles.