Modern Warfare 2 Anyone?

[p00p]

I know some of us have different tastes in gaming genres but I was wondering who was planning on getting the most anticipated FPS of the year? ..I'm STOKED!

Phr0st and I will be playing it (PC). Hop on Xfire later this week and play with us if you're planning on having the game and so inclined.

The internets have been flaming this game when it released news that they threw out the dedicated server type multi-player to a more left4dead-esque matchmaking system.. should be interesting how that works with the ranking system.

kotaku.com/5384057/new-modern-warfare-matchmaking-service-will-definitely-reshape-pc-community

[b0lg]

l0vrick and I won't have it until xmas. His grandparents want to get it for him, and me

[p00p]

Sweet!! I can't wait until Christmas then!

..they have a tactical nuke perk after a 25 kill streak... it will wipe out all players on the map! (whoa)

[Mathazar]

I will be passing on this one. It's clear to me that they have no love for us PC gamers, and so I have no love for them.

[p00p]

I actually am not upset about the changes. Playing COD4 lately, it's pretty nasty how many cheaters there are out there and it has ruined the multi-play pretty harshly. It seems the changes with not allowing console or mods on a server lock down the code itself so much that hopefully it really does keep the cheaters at bay. But of course, I'm a much more casual gamer than I ever was in the past too.

One thing that will suck (I imagine) about no dedicated servers, is if a host rage-quits in the middle of a game. Supposedly, gameplay is paused and another host is found within 5 seconds or so, but I can't really see that being implemented in a convenient way.

We'll see. The steam version has been delayed until the 13th anyway, so that gives me time to see what the internets complain about after it's brick-and-mortar release tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it will still be a frick'n sweet game for what I want out of it. COD4 singleplayer was worth the entirety of the game; hopefully this version is similar.

[bl00k]

The $60 price for PC has me turned off for now. I'm hoping to get it eventually, but I'll wait for a price drop. I still have Fallout 3 and FarCry 2 that I have yet to play from a year ago. Not to mention that whole WoW thing.

Modern Warfare 2 looks cool, I'm interested in the single player. I really loved CoD4:MW multiplayer. I just reinstalled it and have played it a bit. Man that was some good gaming. So, if anyone wants to play some OG CoD4:MW then hit me up.

[bl00k]

I'm a big fan of Steam, but this would take some of the bite out of the price.

At the dreaded Wal-Mart

[Mathazar]

So walmart won't sell cd's with swear words but will sell a game that includes shooting civilians? W/E.

[b0lg]

Nov 9, 2009 20:10:02 GMT -7 Mathazar said:

So walmart won't sell cd's with swear words but will sell a game that includes shooting civilians? W/E.

That's great, got a new signature now!

[p00p]

Yeah, it's funny how wally world works when it comes to their modesty policy or whatever it's called.

If you think about it, they couldn't sell hardly any game whatsoever if the rules for their music distribution applied to games.

The Onion has an in depth report on the future Modern Warfare 3 here.

[Phr0st]

Im so stoked. They were covering the midnight line on teh news last night.
I love old scholl cod4 its really all i play anymore. Until now maybe.

Trigga-plz

[b0lg]

I heard the single player was great, but a lot shorter than CoD4? I may have to pick this up sooner than xmas....

[Phr0st]

Hard core, best sequel to the best game ever.

WOLVERINES!

[Mathazar]

Didn't IW say that you don't need console commands to deal with cheaters because there won't be any?

Zero Day Hacks - www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/11/look-a-modern-warfare-2-aimbot-and-wall-hack/

[p00p]

Nov 11, 2009 11:44:25 GMT -7 Mathazar said:

Didn't IW say that you don't need console commands to deal with cheaters because there won't be any?

Zero Day Hacks - www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/11/look-a-modern-warfare-2-aimbot-and-wall-hack/

^ wow, that BLOWS. HARD. The community will freak out on IW even more for this. I don't care, but i can see where the complainers come from as i used to be were they are.

One interesting thing to note is that the retail brick and mortar game installs on steam.. as in it's a steam game yet it's not released on steam yet. Odd. It doesn't show up as an available game on the steam account on another computer either. I'm hoping it will after steam releases it ..strange.

The game is pretty thrilling so far though, very much so.

:edit: The only thing to maybe save IW is Valve's Anti-Cheat. I would really love for them to figure out how that hacking is done and ban their steam accounts. VAC is by far the best anti-cheat mechanism because it bans the actual game account from VAC servers and that's pretty much EVERY server in this case.