Modern Warfare 2

[DuVeL]

Had a laugh reading the newspaper today, it seems 50 people bought the game at our local record store around 0.00 in the morning. :roflmao:
They are compairing the game as; The game to have as the Harry Potter book to readers.
 
Welcome to the forums Satch!

[[BIG]magnus]

Nice vid of how things are going to run nice and smoothly!!

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[BrotherTobious]

I would be very very upset if I paid for that!!!

[[BIG]magnus]

Having a read about the tinkerers are out in the config files already.  The default max ping level is........get ready.....

800  

So no wonder there is a "bit" of lag.  I am so glad I am not getting this game.

to quote infinity ward "It's great" :g:

[Lexander]

They said that the latency bar systems best ping is around 100-200, so thats a good ping in their opinion... hmm

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/modernwarfare2

[[BIG]magnus]

Well the day after the release all their hard work has gone into improve the online experience to make it "great" for everyone and stop piracy and hackers and this!!

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That is fast work!  If only IW could make dedi servers as fast as these guys can hack IW net.  I wonder if the hackers will make a dedi server!!! :roflmao:

[The Moose]

I've just spent the morning watching my brother playing multiplayer.

 When it works ok its quite good.

 Unfortunately the majority of games are full of lag (even with everyone on three green bars +) Obvious kills don't always register, Host migration pauses the game for 20 secs + at a time (and when it happens three times in a 5 min round its extremely annoying)

 The matchmaking is complete ****, noobs getting put in with people of a rank 30+ higher than themselves, Brits on the same server as Aussies and South Africans (i dread to think what the actual pings were)

 One word to sum it up....  Shambles.

 It really is as **** as every PC gamer feared.  I was looking forward to getting a new CoD game and joining you guys for some killing.  This is the biggest letdown in multiplayer FPS gaming ever.

 ..and the sad thing is they have probably got the biggest selling game of all time on their hands....  it's so overrated it's not funny.   The single player is fun if your into that sort of thing, but it was completed in less than 5.5 hours.

 Very sad indeed.

[Lexander]

magnus;296011']
That is fast work!  If only IW could make dedi servers as fast as these guys can hack IW net.  I wonder if the hackers will make a dedi server!!! :roflmao:

"Cheat / Hack Free Games: The biggest benefit of using IWnet by far is the fact that you donââ,¬â,,¢t have to worry about joining a server full of aim-bots, wallhacks, or cheaters. Or relying on the server admin of the server to constantly be monitoring, banning, and policing it. Modern Warfare 2 on PC allows us to control the quality of the game much more than ever before as well as utilizing the VAC (Valve-Anti-Cheat) system to keep games clean of hackers and cheaters."

Now what was it ?

[delankster]

I was looking forward to getting a new CoD game and joining you guys for some killing.

get yourself a copy of cod 4 (tiss quiet cheap now) and come join us on the server :boxing:
its still busy most night of the week and by the look of this pile of **** then it could be for some time yet

[Tutonic]

I am this: disappointed. Yes I am

[Karrde]

Been playing it for a couple of days now and my thoughts:

Single player - an over the top, James Bond style story, but overall holds together well.  Some awesome levels (Boneyard and Ghost) and some terrible on rail pieces, though I imagine one mans meat is another mans poison as to what type you like.

Some good fun fights to be had, story ladled on thick by IW, some nice toys to play with (love the predator) makes this what we love about Call of Duty.

The bad side? Some parts where you only progress by dying and moving a metre, dying again and moving another metre.  The AI isn't reliable in many places to do the job it's supposed to whilst you do yours.  There are also a few bugs where a sudden slow down or crash happen.

Overall well done, fun to play but not a huge leap from CoD4.

Multiplayer - the much lamented part of the game.  

They've made some massive mistakes with no dedicated servers and we all know that, so sadly we've got to go with what we've got... personal servers.  I've not seen any lag so far but each round can take 1-3 minutes to start whilst it finds players which is painful.  The match making also seems slightly flawed when the server I started on yesterday had 9 level 1 players vs 6 level 30+ players and 3 level 1s.  Not overly fair.  I have seen a server change once, which meant the game stopped for 10 seconds and then resumed with a count down; not the worst thing in the world.

The multiplayer maps I've played so far are very good and I've enjoyed playing across them and there are a good few hints to older map elements.  They've made some good changes to the levelling with titles, emblems and power ups coming thick and fast. Things like death streaks (die 3 times without a kill and you get a power up such as copy the persons set up who killed you) are good ideas, along with customisable kill streak options.

My overall thoughts:

A good game, it really is, but the hype and then dedicated server fiasco has tainted it in many peoples eyes. If this had been Generic Shooter Twelve there would have been much applause for it, but built on the back of CoD4 it seems they've given with one hand, but taken back much more with the other.

Should you buy it? Yeah its fun and Call of Duty fun at that, plus it has a silenced Barrett sniper rifle and more things for me to hide from in my ghille suit

[Tutonic]

;296030']it has a silenced Barrett sniper rifle

So that's realism completely out the window now then

[Karrde]

Well it's 5 years in the future and you have all kinds of cool toys like heart beat monitors and stuff attached to guns.

I just like silenced sniper rifles and always hated CoD4 not having it.

Since having typed up my thoughts earlier I've now had the game crash twice on the loading of the final level (which was bad).

Really enjoying the special ops mode, though Tobious you should be helping me - joint ghille suit stealth mission, dodging other snipers through Chernobyl in one level and another defending against waves of enemies using sniper, claymores and predator drones.

[Gone_Away]

good review Karrde.. ignore the ney-sayers..

[Gone_Away]

Welcome to the forum Satch.
We are a gaming community who enjoy playing games with other community members on our own dedicated servers.
We can set the rules to encourage teamplay and discourage frag-monkeys; we can ban cheaters or the plain obnoxious.
IW has taken that control from us.
I won't buy it until dedicated servers are allowed, and the community won't be adopting it until then either.

And with a post like that.. A potential new member is gone...... :eyebrow:
 
WD that Blunt.. :thumbsup: