CODMW2 Community Review

[mr_m]

oh man this is the best fps game ever, the graphics are unbelievable and the physics are awesome, this is just great!!!

[SnakeDoctor]

Well I wanted to make this topic so we are not hijacking other topics and post and for every one to give their own review of the game. We can talk about what we like and dislike in the thread.

Likes


Group invite to stay on the same team "love it"
Steam Voice works very well
The different air attacks and supply drops
Coop no lag on coop and the graphics OMG
The dog tags I like it has a JointOps one pushing for all Ops to use.
The many different packs you can create with weapons
Single player "fucking amazing need i say more"
Group invite groups you in blue color so you know where friends are
Steam Community and chat room like that feature
Have not played all MP maps but the ones i have are clean


Dislikes


No Dedicate servers
Depended on one person to host server
max 18 players on larger games
Fucking makes me host


Really I do not have many dislikes but the fact that I have no real control over a server and I can not put the JointOps name on it but I did really like that they have a back ground tag that Says JointOps and I really would like to push for all JointOps members to use that one when they get it you will understand what i am talking about when you play the game. When in a lobby or you get killed by some one a tag comes up with their name and a special made tag behind the name with a name on it and Eus and I both see one that says JointOps because the fucker was killing us alot and I think it will be good for us to claim that one for out community as soon as we can. Plus as you can see so far I have more likes this dislikes I just hope they release dedicate on the first patch I mean Bowling did say that the IW team is here to give us customers what we want and we want dedicated. Just for the main reason of having a true home for Ops.

[Neoswat]

So Snake, should I buy it?

[SnakeDoctor]

well i would say yes just to be legal and to be evolving with the community. That and the game is pretty good as well maybe we can get a few more community reviews on it to help you out

[KAYsniper]

so when are we going to play together?

[mr_m]

i just played MP for the first time, it is awesome!!!! the maps are a bit confusing for start, but will get used to it. it's amazing. and btw, the standard isnt as bad as cod4 and it's a balance between cod4's standard and hardcore.

http://i34.tinypic.com/156eqsk.jpg

[Sol73]

omg i so cant wait to play this game

but i am poor :( hope soon

[taliban]

so when are we going to play together?
when I get mine lol

hopefully I can get it, I know 3 places that have it, Bestbuy, ebgames (gamestop) and Futureshop and they are all walking distances :)
but I dont have the money yet lol

[Neoswat]

Is it hard to get use to or is it similar to CoD4?

[RedHawk]

Is it hard to get use to or is it similar to CoD4?

Very similar to CoD4, for me at least. Got used to it quick.

[mr_m]

i am a little bit confused with the perks and challenges etc, but i think it's a matter of playing for about 7-8 hours to get the complete feel of the game.

one thing i would say is that, it feels like you are a lot closer which gives you less time to deal with close encounters and if campers werent bad enough, there is the shield thing which is annoying as hell.

and sniping... it's a lot easier to snipe now, there is less shaking about, i would say it looks very much like the console version judging by the videos i have seen, but the good thing is that the maps are not that open, so you cant just camp in one place without getting stabbed in the back every 30 sec. the game's pace is unbelievably fast and i think people like my self, neo, cd, fiery, polak and all others who like to rush will love it.

i think the only thing wrong with it, is the lethality of the assault rifles comparing to cod4 - or it could be that im used to hardcore... i am just dying to unlock hardcore mode and just dive in!!!

over all, i think even with the removal of independent hosting etc and addition of Steam which is very annoying at times, i am extremely happy that i paid for it and it was well worth £30!!!

[mr_m]

oh i forgot to mention, the controversial level on single player, which was on the news and radio and people saying it's outragous and shit, and you actually get a warning on the start and you can actually skip that level, which i wish i did.

basically, you are a cia agent undercover with these russians and they go through an airport killing all of the civilians and then getting a fight with the police, killing all of them, and in the end, the russians kill you since they already knew you were an agent. basically people say it's for the story line and it's that death which leads to the war etc, but i think it's just in bad taste and i didnt see how it was necessary to have that bit, they could have just fired air shots and let people run away!

but again, it wasnt that big a deal that they made on tele. i mean if anyone is influenced by this, they have psychological problems and should be locked up! if anything, it made me feel bad to even play it.

[taliban]

so now I'm ready to buy the game and the pc version is out of stock, how awesome is that?


EDIT: nvm, got it at wallmart lol, installing...

[thekiller]

OMFG ive installed a cracked copy from my friend, playing singleplayer now.
M you were so fucking right about the brasilian mission, you feel so intense its like you are in a real war. Liked the snowmission too.

[SnakeDoctor]

with the report of all the hacking going on i am going to suggest to TNT guys that we all play together for now just to be on the safe side i know those guys dont hack and I know you guys dont hack well all but Taliban

[Agent47]

I downloaded it XD

[mr_m]

with the report of all the hacking going on i am going to suggest to TNT guys that we all play together for now just to be on the safe side i know those guys dont hack and I know you guys dont hack well all but Taliban
i played tonight for about 3-4 hours and no hakers. it should be fine. im sure we wont see many of them hackers

[taliban]

snake stop spreadin rumours dammit!



btw i'm hooked on this flippin game, its 6:30 and I havent slept :S

[SnakeDoctor]

it not rumors look at IW forum it is all over the place

[SnakeDoctor]

oh sorry you mean about Taliban and his hacks we know you have them lol because redhawk gave them to you :)

[taliban]

lol, well snake about the lag that u got, I think I know they cause,

u see with matchmaking when you choose to play and then choose a gametype, IWNet tries to find ping that matches yours or better, but when we all go in as a group, we all have different pings so that IWNet kinda averages everyone and chooses a client to host but the ping wont be that good because like Kay who is in UK, his ping will be higher so we get a crappy connection to whoever is hosting, some get lag and some dont...

thats my take lol

[taliban]

look at this twitter post:

fourzerotwo: Some late night #MW2 tweaks just went into affect. IWNet matchmaking on PC just got improvements & invites on PSN are good to go now. Gnight

http://www.infinityward.com/games.php?id=1#/videos?id=8

[Pino]

I played the game yesterday with the mp crack and it was really fun to play...i had 3/4 bars wich is good considering i live in Dominican Republic...i felt that game was kinda easy specially the sniper(dont know if im the only one that felt that way)...At first i was really confused cus i kept pressing e or q to lean and i ended up knifing in the air or blinding myself with a flashbang....i had to change the mele key to V i didnt feel comfortable pressing e too knife :D and maybe ill change te special grenade to 4 and the killstreak to 6.
About the matchmaking system most of the time i had to wait for a freaking long time to get a game and in the middle of the match the host left and had to wait for the host migration and that happend not in most of the games but in some of them, also sometimes the host migration failed and i had to wait a again for a game wich is really annoying

[taliban]

from http://www.modernwarfail2.com




[A.04] Windows 7 64-bit Incompatibility
It is not advised to install this game on Windows 7 64-bit due to the game engine being highly error prone if coupled with Windows 7 64-bit.




LIES!!

[SnakeDoctor]

not any trouble yet and i am running windows 7 64bit even still single payer runs great it does seem to be shit with connecting to other people and not a dedicated server i am sure we can all say lag city when we try to play as community together. That and we can not find games big enough to support all of us online at one time.

[mr_m]

well, that's too bad, it must be another service running that is conflicting with steam. i am running win7 x64 and not once it has happened to me, it has disconnected from the server saying unable to migrate and shit, but nothing crashed! look for services running, try to disable the ones that seem unnecesary and it might help. im sure the is a conflict, new version of steam is built specifically for win7, it even has the jump lists etc, so there is no compatibility issue.

[no-cd]

I bought it today...and despite the fact that I almost had 2 sell my body 2 purchase this goddam game it was worth it. Im in love. Now back 2 my new addiction

[SnakeDoctor]

good because now if you mike angel and i join a game we should be playing others in our area.

[mr_m]

i thought you'd already sold your body to bb? or was that his bd present lol

[no-cd]

naw bb sells his body to me xD and it was my bd present...cuz my bd is on the 22nd of this month :D

[mr_m]

lol you have the weeeeeed lined up right? :D weed and girls... and bb.... hmmmm lol

[Neoswat]

Well, here's my review, mp based only:

At this point, I can't say I've tried the game at 100%. Not even at 50%, I haven't use all the weapons, all the perks, I haven't memorized all the maps and I haven't played all the spec ops. However, I have this strange feeling I don't quite like the game. Three main reasons:

1.- The game is unbalanced; extremely unbalanced, I'd say. There are two "main" modes, which are stock and hardcore, like in the previews games. However, each one has its onw really big mistakes (imo) that make them unbalanced. In one hand, stock is just an unrealistic joke. I need to shoot twice with my m16 with stopping power in other to kill. Those are 6 bullets!!! In fact, u need stoppin power with any gun in order to kill, u just can't kill in any other way, unless u make a headshot, which is, being a fast motion fps, really hard compared to other games such as CS. Let's face it, more than 60% of the headshots u make in this game are random, u don't aim at the head cuz u have no time to do so unless sniping, which has its own mistakes too: 2 shots in the body with an intervention in order to kill, stoppin power included. Stoppin power is so neccesary, everyone use it leaving the rest of the perks ignored and making them completely useless. At the end it doesn't matter what weapon u have, as long u have stopping power. I don't like the perk distribution, but I won't talk about that here.

Now hardcore: on the other hand, hc does what stock doesnt, it's more realistic, 1 or 2 shots and tango down. However, there are features that blow the whole thing up: a) no kill cam b) long ass respawn time. Separately, they would do no harm. Combined, it creates a huge monster, campfest. U just have to camp, u can't escape it, u can't help it. In fact, I've tried not to, I've run through entire maps like I used to in CoD4, lookin for some stabbs, but at some point it becomes absolutely frustrating, u just dont survive more than 4-5 seconds, and the fact that u have to wait between 5 and 15 secs to respawn just make u camp. As everybody's camping, everybody uses cold blooded, which lead us to a similar situation than the one we had on stock, noone uses other perks in slot 2, making the rest useless. The first time I saw that u needed 25 kills in a row to get the nuke I thought "wtf??? are they insane???? every1 will get a nuke :S". I was so wrong, this game is so unbalanced that killing more than 15 ppl in a match makes u a pro. Staying alive in this game is really, really, really hard, if not impossible. The most kills I've seen in a match were 30something, and that's because the guy got an AC130. I think friendly fire is ok, some ppl don't like it and that's ok too, but ricochet is completely stupid and unrealistic. If ure shooting and some1 from ur team gets in ur way, u die for no reason; if u bomb a place and there's a friend out there, u die for no reasons; shit, I once died cuz a damn car I shot a bunch of times decided to explode when a friend was passing by!!! Finally, the high availability of launchers plus scavenger make bith modes completely flooded with nade-rocket spammin.

2.- IWNet, and I think we all agree that this is maybe the worst thing this game has. I have so many things I hate I don't even know where to start. Besides aaaaaaall the things the have been said about dedicated servers, host migration is a pain the ass (I've lost like 3 predator missiles during host migration), the waiting time between matches is exasperating, the gaps between pings, the innability of letting u chose the server u want to play at, the lag...

3.- Maps. Maps only accentuate game unbalance, encouraging camping and explosive spammin. So far I haven't played a map I like.

I'll be honest, I'm more unpleased than pleased with this game, I thought I was gonna love it but I haven't, it just have so many mistakes. What I think will improve the game experience:

1.- A more balanced gametype, combining the best features of stock and hc.

2.- Dedis, ffs

3.- Even if maps suck, they wouldnt so much with the above solved.

That's it, for now

[Agent47]

I completely agree with you.. Ive been playing on PS3 for awhile now and i must say that it is a campfest to the extreme.. some maps are just mad for the common sniper.. i even found myself camping a couple of times in which i do not like at all.. Its waaaaayyyyyyyyy too many places to hide.. I do like that the maps are pretty big compared to MW1 but its too many places to hide.. i cant stand it at all.. but all in all i love it all in the same..

[Pino]

1.- The game is unbalanced; extremely unbalanced, I'd say. There are two "main" modes, which are stock and hardcore, like in the previews games. However, each one has its onw really big mistakes (imo) that make them unbalanced. In one hand, stock is just an unrealistic joke. I need to shoot twice with my m16 with stopping power in other to kill. Those are 6 bullets!!! In fact, u need stoppin power with any gun in order to kill, u just can't kill in any other way, unless u make a headshot, which is, being a fast motion fps, really hard compared to other games such as CS. Let's face it, more than 60% of the headshots u make in this game are random, u don't aim at the head cuz u have no time to do so unless sniping, which has its own mistakes too: 2 shots in the body with an intervention in order to kill, stoppin power included. Stoppin power is so neccesary, everyone use it leaving the rest of the perks ignored and making them completely useless. At the end it doesn't matter what weapon u have, as long u have stopping power. I don't like the perk distribution, but I won't talk about that here.


Hmm ive killed with one burst with the M16 lots of times and with the intervention (in fact most of my kills with with the intervention are one shot one kill and most of them arent headshots)....as for the stopping power always needed is not completly true... i was doing the lightweight and hardline challenge to made them pro and it wasnt frustating like u said...true i have to shoot more cus i didnt have stopping power but it wasnt so hard

[Neoswat]

How many classes u have with stopping power?

[Pino]

3/5....ive always use stopping power since MW1..

[Agent47]

stopping power and sleight of hand pro on all of mines.. i guess i feel thats all i need.. i cant wait til im back on the PC version because ps3 online... THE PEOPLE SUCK and CAMP ALL THE TIME.. you will catch a person in the same spot ALL match.. people just pick a spot and stay..

[Neoswat]

I don't like this game, I reinstalled CoD4 and I'm playing again =(

[no-cd]

I just grab a submachine and put lightweight marathon and the increase melee distance perk (only cuz the pro lets you jump as far as you want without getting hurt at all) and knife people all day. makes me laugh, not much realism in that, but when you have akimbo shotgun noobs killing me from 1000 miles away who really cares about cheap unrealistic kills lol.

[jarrodmayes]

Im with neo, I just reinstalled cod4 and im gonna start playing that again. I hate the fucking maps on mw2. Maybe when they release maps Il be more prone to play.

[SnakeDoctor]

good then we will see you guys on the CODMW server then right as for the maps i believe you are going to have to buy them like a expansion pack

[thekiller]

Some of you are either crazy or high... Ive just bought it yesterday and the game is amazing! very intense fights!
And i dont see why you would need stopping power, i never use it anyway. Only problem i have is a bit fps lag sometimes cuz ive 20-30 fps cuz of cheap graphic card.
Plus i really like demolition :p