Modern Warfare 2 Tested
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yeah but she forgot my KFC
OMW! I hope you're giving her a warning! A letter at least! OMW man! How do you forget someone's KFC?!? It's so hard to find good help these days.
Grimspoon
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Maplassie
AK47 Pew Pew
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Well if you can call it one hehe.
Just going to post my findings as they happend, stuff I noticed etc.
Had some gametime from 21:00 till just now, gave me enough time to run through some things.
Firstly I used Matchmaking to find the best server for me, I selected TDM. I was thrown into a lobby with a name of players, and the message "waiting for 3 more players appeared" 2 More joined and we sat there ( I timed it) for 48 seconds waiting for the last player. As soon as the map loaded, we were greeted by "migrating host" Followed by what is NOOOOOOOT 5 seconds, Try 25.... Anycase, game back up and running, and me being on a High ping international server is evident. See what most ppl think about LAG is that they will be uber stuttery etc. Doesn't work like that. Your gameplay WILL feel smooth, it's called Antilag. But gooi a nade and you will see, there is roughly a 1-2 second delay of you clicking the button till the animation plays. That's lag.
Anycase. I decide to persevere and finish the round to see what it's like. My connection is on one red dot, while the rest of the players are 3-5 bars Green. After the map I find myself back in the lobby, during what is now called the "intermission" period. This is where you set your classes, define your tags and check your challenges etc.
SO a couple of players quit and again we are left at the screen, looking for players........
I decided to go look for another game. This time I chose Free For All. Map loaded up quickly enough, and once in I immediately checked my ping, full Green bars as was everybody around me. This made me a happy man!!!! It was all short lived though as not even 2 minutes into the map we were greeted by "migrating host" followed by "host migration failed" back in the lobby we were.
So I jumped on Teamspeak, got some Steam details of my friends, and decided we should go this route.
And this is where the game started. We formed a party of friends, and connected to ppl in our friendslist. Every single game played, ALL of us just about had full green bars in every single game we played. This worked out wonderfully and not once did we experience any troubles, even with host migration this time, happend about 3 times during the night, all 3 times sucsesfully migrating to a new host in under 10 seconds, and we were on our way again.
If you are going to play MW2 online, you will want to do it via friends, and LOCAL only. This is where a point mentioned in another thread comes in. With all the boycotting we are actually just shooting ourselves in the foot. The more local players, the more games with good connection you have to choose from, Simple as that. I personally don't like IWNET very much, but I must admit it really does work WAY better than I expected, It really does!
So all in all not to bad at all sofar, but that's if you keep to local only servers.
ON to the physical gameplay itself. My first map I played was horrible, not because of latency though hehe. You IMMEDIATELY feel the CONSOLE in this. It's evident from the get go. The control scheme, the "feel" of the game, all the little popups when you kill players, all these little things just shouts console port at the top of its lungs. While this really put me off, as I played more I really started getting into it. The pace is frantic, games are much faster than COD4, albeit finished faster than COD4 aswell....unfortunately. Maps are over way to quick as the score limits tend to be very low. Once you settle down abit, and trust me this can take about 4-5 maps, you really start to feel right at home again. It will surely put a smile on your face or make your heart race on several occasions, as it did with me.
You'll be overwhelmed with perks, weapon upgrade, killstreak, deathstreak, callsign, title and various other choices at first, but you get used soon enough to that aswell. Another annoying thing, weapons are overly powerfull. It's like every match you play is being played in hardcore mode. No real chance of "tanking" one short burst and your dead, guaranteed. While this surely helps to drive the pace of the game, it can become annoying as it turns the game into more of a run and gun experience, allmost UT like. COD4 was allways a fast paced game, but this really takes things to a new level. Apart from IWNET, I think this is part of the decision for the smaller player counts as it would really just be pointless having that many players in generally small maps.
Graphics wise you will know you are playing COD straight off the bat. There are some new tweaks to the lighting system and some much needed physics enhancements, but its nothing revolutionary. It's actually a bit of a letdown, as it looks more like cod4 with new textures and lighting, than a supposedly "heavily tweaked" version. Lots of textures are reused, like signboards etc. Fortunately you wont really notice this to its full extent as you barely have time for sight seeing.
Sound wise what I really hate is the guns are REALLY soft. In COD4 you could hear the gunshots across the map, all the firefights happening etc, but here it's as if all the guns have silencers, or the gun volume is just way to low. This is evident even in the chopper and airstrikes. You'll be hearing alot more ambient sound and pain/death sounds than you will gunfire wich makes it rather :/
I had a lekker laugh when a Guy called in a supply drop. Supply drops are a killstreak unlock you can pick, which drops a supply crate on your mark (you get a smoke grenade upon selecting it to mark where you want it dropped) containing random killstreaks, like UAV, Sentry turrets etc. I just spawned and I saw a friendly call in a supply crate. I veer up into the sky while a chopper flies overhead, crate is dropped with a parachute and WHAM............ Crate falls the guy who called it in to death. ROFL!
Overall eventhough alot of what I say might seem negative, i'm just posting things how I experienced it. The gameplay itself is awesome once you get used to the controls and weapons, there are more maps out of the box than COD4 had which keeps things fresh.
You actually feel you accomplished something when you win a map because of the pace alone. It's like winning a 30 player Free For All match in Unreal Tournament, that's if the server is full.
Is it worth R500? Well I would say YES and NO. Given some patches to the game and IWNET itself I think the game will start showing its worth. It's really not a bad game, It is FUN, It's a Good laugh sometimes, and the amount of perks, upgrades and maps keeps things interesting. It's not perfect, but thinking about it now, I'm glad I bought it.......
Some screenshots with locally hosted matches and ping......
Well if you can call it one hehe.
Just going to post my findings as they happend, stuff I noticed etc.
Had some gametime from 21:00 till just now, gave me enough time to run through some things.
Firstly I used Matchmaking to find the best server for me, I selected TDM. I was thrown into a lobby with a name of players, and the message "waiting for 3 more players appeared" 2 More joined and we sat there ( I timed it) for 48 seconds waiting for the last player. As soon as the map loaded, we were greeted by "migrating host" Followed by what is NOOOOOOOT 5 seconds, Try 25.... Anycase, game back up and running, and me being on a High ping international server is evident. See what most ppl think about LAG is that they will be uber stuttery etc. Doesn't work like that. Your gameplay WILL feel smooth, it's called Antilag. But gooi a nade and you will see, there is roughly a 1-2 second delay of you clicking the button till the animation plays. That's lag.
Anycase. I decide to persevere and finish the round to see what it's like. My connection is on one red dot, while the rest of the players are 3-5 bars Green. After the map I find myself back in the lobby, during what is now called the "intermission" period. This is where you set your classes, define your tags and check your challenges etc.
SO a couple of players quit and again we are left at the screen, looking for players........
I decided to go look for another game. This time I chose Free For All. Map loaded up quickly enough, and once in I immediately checked my ping, full Green bars as was everybody around me. This made me a happy man!!!! It was all short lived though as not even 2 minutes into the map we were greeted by "migrating host" followed by "host migration failed" back in the lobby we were.
So I jumped on Teamspeak, got some Steam details of my friends, and decided we should go this route.
And this is where the game started. We formed a party of friends, and connected to ppl in our friendslist. Every single game played, ALL of us just about had full green bars in every single game we played. This worked out wonderfully and not once did we experience any troubles, even with host migration this time, happend about 3 times during the night, all 3 times sucsesfully migrating to a new host in under 10 seconds, and we were on our way again.
If you are going to play MW2 online, you will want to do it via friends, and LOCAL only. This is where a point mentioned in another thread comes in. With all the boycotting we are actually just shooting ourselves in the foot. The more local players, the more games with good connection you have to choose from, Simple as that. I personally don't like IWNET very much, but I must admit it really does work WAY better than I expected, It really does!
So all in all not to bad at all sofar, but that's if you keep to local only servers.
ON to the physical gameplay itself. My first map I played was horrible, not because of latency though hehe. You IMMEDIATELY feel the CONSOLE in this. It's evident from the get go. The control scheme, the "feel" of the game, all the little popups when you kill players, all these little things just shouts console port at the top of its lungs. While this really put me off, as I played more I really started getting into it. The pace is frantic, games are much faster than COD4, albeit finished faster than COD4 aswell....unfortunately. Maps are over way to quick as the score limits tend to be very low. Once you settle down abit, and trust me this can take about 4-5 maps, you really start to feel right at home again. It will surely put a smile on your face or make your heart race on several occasions, as it did with me.
You'll be overwhelmed with perks, weapon upgrade, killstreak, deathstreak, callsign, title and various other choices at first, but you get used soon enough to that aswell. Another annoying thing, weapons are overly powerfull. It's like every match you play is being played in hardcore mode. No real chance of "tanking" one short burst and your dead, guaranteed. While this surely helps to drive the pace of the game, it can become annoying as it turns the game into more of a run and gun experience, allmost UT like. COD4 was allways a fast paced game, but this really takes things to a new level. Apart from IWNET, I think this is part of the decision for the smaller player counts as it would really just be pointless having that many players in generally small maps.
Graphics wise you will know you are playing COD straight off the bat. There are some new tweaks to the lighting system and some much needed physics enhancements, but its nothing revolutionary. It's actually a bit of a letdown, as it looks more like cod4 with new textures and lighting, than a supposedly "heavily tweaked" version. Lots of textures are reused, like signboards etc. Fortunately you wont really notice this to its full extent as you barely have time for sight seeing.
Sound wise what I really hate is the guns are REALLY soft. In COD4 you could hear the gunshots across the map, all the firefights happening etc, but here it's as if all the guns have silencers, or the gun volume is just way to low. This is evident even in the chopper and airstrikes. You'll be hearing alot more ambient sound and pain/death sounds than you will gunfire wich makes it rather :/
I had a lekker laugh when a Guy called in a supply drop. Supply drops are a killstreak unlock you can pick, which drops a supply crate on your mark (you get a smoke grenade upon selecting it to mark where you want it dropped) containing random killstreaks, like UAV, Sentry turrets etc. I just spawned and I saw a friendly call in a supply crate. I veer up into the sky while a chopper flies overhead, crate is dropped with a parachute and WHAM............ Crate falls the guy who called it in to death. ROFL!
Overall eventhough alot of what I say might seem negative, i'm just posting things how I experienced it. The gameplay itself is awesome once you get used to the controls and weapons, there are more maps out of the box than COD4 had which keeps things fresh.
You actually feel you accomplished something when you win a map because of the pace alone. It's like winning a 30 player Free For All match in Unreal Tournament, that's if the server is full.
Is it worth R500? Well I would say YES and NO. Given some patches to the game and IWNET itself I think the game will start showing its worth. It's really not a bad game, It is FUN, It's a Good laugh sometimes, and the amount of perks, upgrades and maps keeps things interesting. It's not perfect, but thinking about it now, I'm glad I bought it.......
Some screenshots with locally hosted matches and ping......
Raven Gold
Local Boy Hunter
I don't give a damn what anybody says, i want my didicated servers back, I like to browse and pick out my games and communities. I don't want some random gaggle of peckers. I want servers with people I can get to know thier tactics over time, build up rivalries and coalitions, and randomisation won't allow that.
AND I WANT TO LEAN!!! It has saved my life countless times.
AND I WANT TO LEAN!!! It has saved my life countless times.
JackBauer
New member
I played for the first time yesterday evening and came away quite impressed. All the stuff plasie said is true especially the feel at home part. just have to figure out all the achievement and perks stuff. What i didn't like was the migrating host and all the damn popups. Jis it's irritating just like a wannabee with a stun nade....
What i say now will make me lots of enemies and no-one will probably ever add me as a friend on steam BUT i am happy that there isn't dedicated servers for 1 only reason: the whole promod scene. Many of you is excellent promod players which i suck at.. So for the selfish reason of mine i am happy
Just miss the old TDm's on alpha and beta (where the REAL battles were fought) not the camping and strategy of promod bleg :/ I am too stupid for it. Oh by the way, if somebody still wants to be my friend on steam: pietpompies3
What i say now will make me lots of enemies and no-one will probably ever add me as a friend on steam BUT i am happy that there isn't dedicated servers for 1 only reason: the whole promod scene. Many of you is excellent promod players which i suck at.. So for the selfish reason of mine i am happy
Just miss the old TDm's on alpha and beta (where the REAL battles were fought) not the camping and strategy of promod bleg :/ I am too stupid for it. Oh by the way, if somebody still wants to be my friend on steam: pietpompies3
Maplassie
AK47 Pew Pew
the whole promod scene. Many of you is excellent promod players which i suck at.. So for the selfish reason of mine i am happy
J Oh by the way, if somebody still wants to be my friend on steam: pietpompies3
LOLOLOLOOL. I ONLY Play promod in COD4 nothing else. Probably one of the reasons I suck so much in MW2
EK sal jou add vanaand pietpompies3 lolol.
sycogrim
MyGaming Comp Authoritah
Very very very nice write up there mappy and considering ur the one person I know that knows everything there is about Modern Warfare and COD in general I guess you have managed to convince me to get it... but now the only problem i have is this... If i use up my Intl Bandwidth will I still be allowed to play on local only bandwidth.
How are the Kill Streaks did you manage to use all them???
How are the Kill Streaks did you manage to use all them???
Maplassie
AK47 Pew Pew
You're going to need international, soz mate. You have to be permanently connected to STEAM and IWNET, which is international
so practically i can be awesome after a few things has been sorted out that needs attention.
maybe let it ice for one 1 month and then try it.
...thanks Maplassie
Yeah dude exactly. Give it one or 2 patches and the experience will be WAY better.
sycogrim
MyGaming Comp Authoritah
You're going to need international, soz mate. You have to be permanently connected to STEAM and IWNET, which is international
Yeah dude exactly. Give it one or 2 patches and the experience will be WAY better.
WTF
and thats the one thing i was extremely worried about because I want the facility to be able to play online without problems and all that.... and this is the part where I might actually have a solution but first I need to get a hold of infinity ward SA as they will be able to assist...
Kyubi_ZA
New member
LOL
I doubt they will do this for us PC Gamers
. they want PC, Xbox and PS3 to be the same. No Platform must have advantages over the other.....
Maplassie
AK47 Pew Pew
LOL dude SO MANY TIMES, I hit the E or Q so many times out of habit, only to throw a flash grenade or to knife thin air!
Kyubi_ZA
New member
What about binding a command to a key. If there's no console in game, Can it be done in the configuration file. If letters can be binded, maybe bind letter X to change FOV?. Everytime you hit the X the FOV should change.
Terak
New member
LOL dude SO MANY TIMES, I hit the E or Q so many times out of habit, only to throw a flash grenade or to knife thin air!
Yeah dude I did that last night, finally got my copy.
Not only that but I've run into people so many times where i've pressed V repeatedly to stab and i end up just looking like a fool.