COD MW2 - No PB support and Dedicated Servers

[PaganII]

I learned to fly by starting my own BF2 server so I could be the only 1 on the map and fly without being shot at. Also to learn the maps faster.
A friend with dialup (no other choice) used to play on the phone. We would each start our own Far Cry Local server and cruise in the boats, explore the maps keeping track of each other on the phone.
There is really not much to explore on a CoD map without custom maps.

[gr8golf]

Can you read or is it a matter of not being able to control your emotions? I don't give a rats arse about your perceptions, or your obviously damaged sense of priorites. As for the rest of your breezy, addlepated diatribe, who asked you?

If people don't like what IW has done with this release, they can vote with their wallet and buy something else. I am getting a little tired of people hammering IW for the decisions they made with this - I get it, I just don't get why those peeps don't understand that IW is going to make a FORTUNE on MW2. If the haters were running that company they might see things a *little* differently. I'd be happy to answer to a subset of pissed off users if my company released a product that sold $300M in the first day. Any guesses how much of that was the PC version vs. the consoles? No-one in their right mind would give up that revenue and emphasize the PC version.

FWIW - I think that IW will now change put some effort into the PC version and probably re-think this now that the consoles are released and done. I won't be at all surprised if the graphics get update in future patches and they add the dedicated server capability, etc.

[PaganII]

1 Billion McDonalds eaters couldn't be wrong.
This will make room for other game developers, custom map makers and those looking for a different experience than swimming in the shallow end of a public pool.

[iTravis]

If people don't like what IW has done with this release, they can vote with their wallet and buy something else. I am getting a little tired of people hammering IW for the decisions they made with this - I get it, I just don't get why those peeps don't understand that IW is going to make a FORTUNE on MW2. If the haters were running that company they might see things a *little* differently. I'd be happy to answer to a subset of pissed off users if my company released a product that sold $300M in the first day. Any guesses how much of that was the PC version vs. the consoles? No-one in their right mind would give up that revenue and emphasize the PC version.

FWIW - I think that IW will now change put some effort into the PC version and probably re-think this now that the consoles are released and done. I won't be at all surprised if the graphics get update in future patches and they add the dedicated server capability, etc.

+1 for vote with your dollar. On a side note, I got the game and even though I didn't play the first MW, I can tell how bad IW servers are even though I have a good connection, got kicked out several times and experience some lagging during the match. Hopefully IW will hear us and have support for dedicated servers soon.

[Locke]

Can you read or is it a matter of not being able to control your emotions? I don't give a rats arse about your perceptions, or your obviously damaged sense of priorites. As for the rest of your breezy, addlepated diatribe, who asked you?

lol what? then why did you comment and quote my post? damaged sense of priorities? what are my priorities? i don't know wtf you are taking about. maybe someone else in this thread can help me understand.

funny though lol

lots of people seem to be having server lag type issues that seem to be degrading play on a regular basis. have you found lag that is consistent and detracts from game play; not all lag is significant and detracts from game play... some people are okay with some aren't. I'm not. With dedicated server I can control my lag.

it seems you like to label people and according to you I:
- have messed up priorities
- write "breezy"
- rant or throw a temper tantrum
- post in a confusing manner (i guess you are saying my arguments are cohesive?)

You seem to know a lot about me from just a few written words.

I try not to label people from just 3 posts they have written. I would be nice to post an opinion and not have a fellow PC'er rag on it w/o first understanding what I really meant.

[s81o]

I picked me up a copy

[IronWarrior]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCU7SJVQao

[Locke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCU7SJVQao

Brilliant!! Too bad the world is caring less and less of PC gaming of this type. On the gaming sites its about 800 console gamers vs 1 PC gamer and most of them want to see PC fail. Those PC gamers that broke boycott only add fuel to the fire and helps the console gamers case that much more.

MW2 has really put a hurting on the PC gaming industry. Not that we can't recover but console gaming has become a huge monster that needs to be fed babies.

[Michowski]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCU7SJVQao

That has got to be the stupidest video ive ever watched. Yes I wish they had lean but its not that big of a deal.

[slim142]

That video was retarded but it made me laugh (speciall the german shepherd dog with his arm on top of the house lol)

Anyways, I got the game for PC. Played the single player and beat it. Even though IW killed the game when it comes to the online part, they have the most amazing single player I have played in my life.

[CobraXP]

my fav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdT8HLGUWwo

[Chris_redfield]

Its not just the PC thats suffering. I got the 360 version and I'm having some terrible issues at the beggining of games where it seems like every one except one player (I assume the person hosting it,) is bouncing all over the place and its not untill all but one or two people have quite the game that service resumes to normal.

The annoying thing is though if you quit don't you get negative experience so your rank goes down? Or was that just in COD4?

The service with Live is usually pretty good (it should be you have to pay for the bloody thing,) but this is the worse online experience for lag that I have had across all of the current generation of consoles. I've got half a mind to go back to Killzone 2 for my online console fps kicks.

[IronWarrior]

my fav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdT8HLGUWwo

I enjoy this video as well, I loved the floating gun bug part.

[Crit]

!!
They said cheats are not possible to use, they'll ban every cheater... But what i'm seeing?
Working Aimbot and WH 1Day after release? Fail



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdSwgKtSYg

Video got taken down due to "copyright claims by Activision". So once the proof of their failure to keep cheaters out becomes evident, they attempt to hide it by pulling the "copyright" BS.

[Crit]

Another one is up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3Wj2YfDx0

FFS, hasn't the game been out for like 2 days now?

[IronWarrior]

How the hell can they claim copyright for that, unbelieveable.

[slim142]

Fail Fail Fail

[Particle]

I bought the game yesterday, and I think I'd have to give it about a 4/10 review. The gameplay is fun, but IW tried to it up in every way possible:

- FOV is stuck at 65 degrees. Those of us with large monitors get lost when turning and about fall out of our chairs with motion sickness. Nobody can see anyone else unless they happen to brush their mouse over their location, so the game is full of not so much skill as it is people stumbling over other people, killing them.
- Horrible latency compensation. Watching my own death cam replays is often funny, as I'll have shot at a guy maybe 5-6 times, die, and then the replay shows me just spinning around in circles not shooting at all. What I see, what the other guy sees, and what the server see apparently are vastly different. It's worse than any other game I've ever seen in my life in this regard. Honestly.

The new weapons and achievements are pretty fun, and the textures are sharper. I really like the blowing cloth. It doesn't redeem the huge gaping crap, however.

4/10: I came, I saw, I want my money back.

[gr8golf]

I'll go the other way - I bought it and have played a little MP and campaign. I like some of the new look and feel, and I'm still convinced that IW will put some additional work into the PC version that will show up in patches now that the consoles are released and they are $500M richer.

[IronWarrior]

Don't know if anyone has been keeping watch, but for the last few weeks, there has been a group that are working on "dedicated servers" for MW2, don't know how they doing it or the details, but it's becoming interesting.

[CAUTION]

Don't know if anyone has been keeping watch, but for the last few weeks, there has been a group that are working on "dedicated servers" for MW2, don't know how they doing it or the details, but it's becoming interesting.

Do you have a source for this information?

[Easybeat]

Do you have a source for this information?

Try the IW forums, its usually on the front page. It gets deleted and then simply starts up again as there is next to no moderation.

http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=24

BTW IW have lost the plot on their own forums a bit like they did with the PC game really.

[Mungri]

As a side note -

Developers of RPGs and MMOs are going to follow after Infinity Wards shining example, and will be deactivating player character movement in all of their games released on the PC.


Following that, 3D graphics are to be abandoned, and we will see games running on a multi coloured wall of text™ graphical interface. As a compromise to fans of 3D games, the multi coloured wall of text™ graphical interface will later be updated to include groundbreaking 3D floating text.

[bfar]

I'm a little disapointed with the SP campaign actually Beyond the well documented PC issues -

Absolutely awful plot. That stomach churningly crass airport level is completely out of place - a ham-fisted attempt to shock, that would only have worked had the plot been far stronger. Indeed the game actually tells a story that is both weak and dubious (there would have been nothing wrong with that had they not tried to justify it in such a blundering manner). This is all unfortunate, as the game-mechanics are still of a very high quality. It's almost like the whole project was annexed by Soldier of Fortune. At least those games didn't have the audacity to explain themselves!
The FOV issue really hurts gameplay - at times it's almost impossible to see whats actually going half the time. It's like going to war with tunnel vision! The scripting is a little clumsy at times, and the spawning is worse than ever in some scenarios. These are problems that existed in COD4, and they only seem to have gotten worse rather than better.
A 7/10 game for me.

[Think]

After all this petitioning, flag waving and pc patriotic following of this; what is the end result? Nothing. Online petitions are sadly, a true waste of time.

I still don't understand why they would move in this direction? I mean, what would be the problem in setting up a dedicated server anyway?

Strange.