And there's a significant bit of "holy sh*t" after the release date splash.
The showcase includes a few new weapons, a hellacious HUD blood-splatter effect, and way too many players using riot shields. There's also a throwing knife that will undoubtedly be banned from a handful of servers before the game is even released. From the footage I've seen so far, IW has toned-down the use of those stupid "vision files" that made so many maps look so washed-out, and made it so much more difficult for color blind players (like me) to see anybody.
The "holy unexpected feature, Batman!" moment comes at the end: it seems the multiplayer is going to sport a host migration feature that will drop everybody into a new server in exactly the same game state. No map restart, no game lobby ... just pick up right where you left off. I have no idea under what conditions migration will occur, but there are all kinds of potential scenarios where it would be useful.
Of course, it's all Xbox footage, so that feature is by no means guaranteed for the PC.
The showcase includes a few new weapons, a hellacious HUD blood-splatter effect, and way too many players using riot shields. There's also a throwing knife that will undoubtedly be banned from a handful of servers before the game is even released. From the footage I've seen so far, IW has toned-down the use of those stupid "vision files" that made so many maps look so washed-out, and made it so much more difficult for color blind players (like me) to see anybody.
The "holy unexpected feature, Batman!" moment comes at the end: it seems the multiplayer is going to sport a host migration feature that will drop everybody into a new server in exactly the same game state. No map restart, no game lobby ... just pick up right where you left off. I have no idea under what conditions migration will occur, but there are all kinds of potential scenarios where it would be useful.
Of course, it's all Xbox footage, so that feature is by no means guaranteed for the PC.
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ReplyDeleteIf I may paraphrase and assume a little here.
ReplyDeleteThe showcase includes a few new weapons, a hellacious HUD blood-splatter effect, riot shields, throwing knife, a few more perks, and all of this equaling a ton more of things to bitch about. And as we all know it is way easier to keep your server ranked (because of an invisible imaginary hierachy which places ranked servers over unranked servers)and bitch till your face is red instead of all the "Tactical/Realism/Anti-Noob" servers which accounts for an easy 80% of the servers just all go unranked and set the server how they want instead of being whiny little cocks that rather spend game time banning people and threatening people for using fundamental and STOCK options.
This is why I F$*%ing hate this game and the idea of playing it again. The only way to have fun is to play with ITOE or find a server that doesn't complain which is not easy. So I want to play this game, and it does look fun especially with some a wider color scheme then tan, light tan, and dark tan. But as Messiah put it:
"There's also a throwing knife that will undoubtedly be banned from a handful of servers before the game is even released."
Which is most likely going to be true, but to ask someone why they banned this their response will undoubtly be something along the lines of "It is noob" or "It is not tactical or realistic". And thus is why I weep. IW is not ruining COD its the stupid f***ing consumers who dont know what the hell their talking about and try to act like their the leading commander of the Tactical Army of HeadUpOurAssesville. If IW is doing anything wrong it's put so much emphasis on the ranked status and not making everyone who has a ranked server use the same server settings like they did in Enemy Territories (one good thing that game had).
Oh and I know Messiah can't wait till this game comes out, because those shields are going to really urge people to shoot people in the back.
ITOE Frisky Wabbit
Not saying just playing with ITOE is a bad thing its just we need to have people in the server to have a decent game going.
ReplyDeleteYou're definitely getting better at constructing an argument. Seems the college education is already paying dividends.
ReplyDeleteI've said this in a couple of different venues: a generational divide has formed in the "CoD community," and it's most apparent in the ranking system (introduced in CoD4). The older generation mostly didn't give a shit about it, but to the younger generation, it's everything. The older generation plays mostly on a PC, and wants to play custom maps and mods. The younger generation plays mostly on a console, and doesn't get any user-made content.
There are, of course, new generation PC players, and I suspect that they outnumber old generation PC players. The new kids won't play on modded servers (the only ones that can run custom maps these days), because they'll lose their ranks. The older guys know how stupid that is, but have had no success trying to convince the younger generation of that. The number of modded custom maps servers has thus diminished substantially since CoD2: it's hard as hell to keep them populated anymore.
So the way I see it, the introduction of the ranking system has inadvertently screwed custom content producers on the platform where CoD was born. Of the 14 million copies of CoD4 that were sold, less than half a million were for the PC.
I think that makes it very likely that IW won't release mod tools for MW2, and that's going to suck.
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ReplyDeleteWell i deleted what i said and didnt copy it so ill type it later when im not sitting in a days inn parking lot lol ill be home tomorrow with good internet, every one better be on!!
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What a boring post to read
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DUMBA$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Messiah for once, is completely off track ... must have his mind on some hot dude or something ...
Frisky Wabbit ? la la land
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I'm a young player, and I like custom maps and mods.
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Just had to tell yas I think you're doing a lovely job and wanted to say Good Morning !
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ReplyDeleteSteve is a figment of his own imagination.
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