I'll probably buy only for campaign if it's actually that good. I'm expecting it to be highly overrated though.
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/709971035_Jh78w-L.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5403286/what-modern-warfare-2-boycotters-are-playing
Haha :V
Damn. MW2 sold 1.23 million copies over here in just 24 hours (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/36482/Modern-Warfare-2-smashes-day-one-sales-record),United States and the United Kingdom total sales on first day: 4.7 Billions
Can someone explain what the BIG DEAL was with the dedicated servers? I mean, I know the basics: They didn't put them in, a bunch of nerds got butthurt and boycotted the game, it turns out that most of them bought it anyway. I was just on multiplayer and it worked just fine.
To put it simply, if you have no dedicated servers than someone who is currently playing the game has to be hosting the game. If that person leaves, the game is either ended right there or has to be handed over to someone else to host, in this case it's usually the latter, resulting in different pings for everyone and possibly lag as the game is handed over to someone else.
Most PC games have dedicated servers, which basically means the server is being hosted on a machine that doesn't have to have someone playing the game on it (it can, but it doesn't have to). The machine is "dedicated" to hosting a game for other players to join and continues to host the game regardless of which players join or leave.
Because of this dedicated servers can be placed in more ideal locations and be given better connections. Also they're better for multiplayer games with mods and tweaks because the game in question will stay on that machine.
If you've been playing first person shooters on PC recently then chances are you've been playing most of your multiplayer games on dedicated servers and have run into some with mods at some point.
However, if you've been playing mostly on consoles or are a more casual PC gamer then it won't affect you nearly as much since you probably won't know what you were missing to begin with.
(the more cynical side of me would sum up the last few years of gaming as "we can take stuff away and get away with it because most of the players are new and won't know what they are missing".)
I've never cared much for CoD, though. >_>
In one of the recent interviews, Activision is planning to add monetisation.They said they were looking at one of Blizzard's most successful game, World of Warcraft, and they think it's doing well because of the monthly fees. It sounds like they are going to add priced content but others assume that it will get constant updates but with monthly fees a la WoW. They also said "From what we see so far, additional content, as well as all the services Blizzard is offering, is that there is demand from the core gamers to pay up for that." So this sentence means basically that gamers said "Don't be so nice and give us free content, make us pay for it." This may not mean much to the console players but it means that PC players have to pay now.Activision knows that no matter what they do or say, 'gamers' will still buy their shit.
If you want to read the article:
http://www.destructoid.com/activision-gamers-demand-to-pay-more-for-call-of-duty-155190.phtml
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a187122/activision-mulls-cod-online-charging.html
In one of the recent interviews, Activision is planning to add monetisation.They said they were looking at one of Blizzard's most successful game, World of Warcraft, and they think it's doing well because of the monthly fees. It sounds like they are going to add priced content but others assume that it will get constant updates but with monthly fees a la WoW. They also said "From what we see so far, additional content, as well as all the services Blizzard is offering, is that there is demand from the core gamers to pay up for that." So this sentence means basically that gamers said "Don't be so nice and give us free content, make us pay for it." This may not mean much to the console players but it means that PC players have to pay now.Why am I not surprised ._.
If you want to read the article:
http://www.destructoid.com/activision-gamers-demand-to-pay-more-for-call-of-duty-155190.phtml
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a187122/activision-mulls-cod-online-charging.html
I died so much at that part, at least 5 tree deaths and 4 deaths due to hitting a rock which caues you to get launched into the air and landing next to the slope.... that's a really deep cliff.
It was like learning danmaku, my pattern was dodge 3 trees by going left, then move to the middle, after 1 tree go to the right and just straight :V
This is why PC gamers are complaining. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHsWZp5pWCo)
I've never cared much for CoD, though. >_>
I remember having a steady ping of over 1500 on an AOL connection
Im not even sure how you could play with 1500 ping D:I'm not sure myself, it was coded well so there wasn't alot of skipping, but I usually had to lead about another inch or two beyond what I would normally need to lead with, it varied with what kind of connection I was having.
Eh, I completed the campaign but it only says 50.8% done or something. I clicked resume hoping for an epilogue or something but it just restarts the last save. I'd assume other difficulty settings but..well. wouldn't it be 25% done then since I only completed it on 1 setting? I just don't get it. The special ops missions or whatever don't seem to connect, it's been sitting at 50.8% even after I completed half of the ones you can solo (my bro hasn't had the time for the 2-player ones with me yet).
As for insanely tough ones. Are you referring to the stupid snipers in ghillie suits one? That one is just so damn cheap on the hardest setting. I ALMOST did it once too. I just don't see how skill has anything to do with getting past the 2 ghille suit camping spots. I understand sometimes their area flashes just before they shoot you, but nobody can react that fast..Hell even if you could, the game just plain doesn't allow you to look down the scope in the 0.2 seconds after the flash before you get nailed before the sniper. What sucks even more is they are the only thing stupid soap does NOT go "beautiful" or "he's down" for when you kill one. So you just have to hope you got him, take a peek around the corner, and have a random chance of being wtfpwnt.
If that's not all, sometimes they randomly decide not to shoot for lengths of time. so you just assume they are all dead. Only to shoot later when you are nowhere near cover, or at the same time as another one who shot you. UGH.. That's how I died that one time, I was out in the open like 40m away from the ending, nobody was shooting me, so I went for the finish when blam, dead. @%@%#.
Eh ... a random screenie from MWI, but ...
I lol'd.
I never thought of cold blooded , I prefer to have my steady aim as I massively hip shoot , but I do have a stinger class but my response to air support is camp in buildings , it's mainly players on my team that get mauledyou're supposed to have a back-up stinger class with cold blooded. I'm using stopping power and hardline on my 4 main classes and when I get killed by air support I switch to my stinger class and shoot it down. Everyone should do this, it not only prevents enemies from getting more kills but also from getting better kill streak rewards.
and the camping spawn-killing map is that snowy one , if that map comes up I just don't bother no more with that map even if it means leaving the lobby.
ACR ? haven't unlocked that yet , I think that's the next Assualt Rifle I get to unlock actually.
EDIT: *Realises cold blooded is Red , not green* you have a point , but I like my increased bullet damage.
you're supposed to have a back-up stinger class with cold blooded. I'm using stopping power and hardline on my 4 main classes and when I get killed by air support I switch to my stinger class and shoot it down. Everyone should do this, it not only prevents enemies from getting more kills but also from getting better kill streak rewards.
And yeah, I also met private Chen. Already posted it in the touhou addict thread
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8031/pvtchen3.jpg)