Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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Strange since I am sitting in front of my xbox playing the new maps...
 
I think that migrating the maps into the playlist is whats taking up the time . I could barely get a game...Overgrown is lovely!
If you’re an Xbox Live player on Modern Warfare 2, there are some big updates hitting tomorrow (March 30th) in the early morning. Included in those are:

The Stimulus Package (Downloadable Content)

The first dlc for Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer hits exclusively first on Xbox Live. It’ll be coming to other platforms at a later date as well, but tomorrow morning you’ll be able to download the 5 new maps including Bailout, Salvage, Storm, and my favorite classic maps Crash and Overgrown.

Double XP

Originally planned to do it this weekend, but we’ve decided to throw the Double XP switch early when the new maps hit. So jump online with the new DLC and check out the two new DLC specific playlists.

Stimulus and Hardcore Stimulus Playlists

These two playlists are 100% dedicated to the new maps, and are Double XP enabled. So jump on and experienced the new DLC you downloaded, get double XP, and experience all your favorite gametypes along with some hardcore variants of them.

Ranger maps added to HCHQ

We’re adding a few maps to the Hardcore Headquarters Pro playlist on Xbox Live, allowing you now play all the Ranger maps in this gametype, something I know a lot of users have been asking for!

Title Update

Along side the DLC, but something ALL of our users will get, is a title update for Modern Warfare 2. Included in this update is support for the DLC (if you choose to purchase it), as well as some tweaks to the One Man Army perk, some matchmaking updates that will help our international users find more locally hosted games thanks to how ping is now sorted, and various other code updates that will help improve the overall quality of multiplayer on Modern Warfare 2.

There is no exact time you can expect all this, I’d say early morning when traffic is at its lowest, but by the time you wake up and get online I’m sure it will be available to most of you on March 30th! See you online all this week!
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I played on the new maps in private for about 30 mins looking around and looking for glitches etc, I did find 2 elevators :) Went and fixed some lunch for the kiddies and came back, fired up the xbox and now I can't connect to xbl:( It says my mtu settings are faulty which is complete bs because I have had the same settings and my ports are fowarded the same and all since last year. So, looks like xbl got slammed from the map pack craze and some of the servers are smoking.



EDIT: Now my xbl is working once again, not sure if I will have time to play though, I might have to take my oldest (6) back to the dr. in a bit. She had her tonsils taken out this past firday and she has a stomach bug too now and puked this morning and that cause the stitches to start bleeding so might have to take her in to get checked out to make sure all is well.
 
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Looks like you got yourself a full plate today. :lol: Hope everything turn out alright for ya, especially for your daughter.

I'm eating my lunch, but I am currently on the new map Storm. I checked around the Overgrown a bit, and it is amazing how they just recreated the same CoD4 map. I was going to look for changes, like with the Gran Turismo tracks in the past, but IW actually did it right, and kept everything pretty much identical to the original. 👍👍 Only two big changes I noticed were: 1) The mounted machine guns, of course. 2) The new, GT-esque graphics. Lighting has improved, especially inside the houses.

Can't wait to finish my lunch and explore the new maps!
 
I almost feel like playing right now but I'm going to watch the Bayern vs Manchester game. I'll probably get on after later.
 
a6m5
What gun do you use? What gun?
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I don't think I have a setup without an ACR on it xD

From,
Chris.
 
:lol:

I was on that new apartment map? Numbers of angles that you can shoot, or get shot from is amazing. All the stairs & corners, too.

I tested out the One Man Army after the update, but I can't find a single change on it. I might have to google on this one.
 
ill have to get them, but, it'll have to wait until sunday.
 
The new maps are crap, they're clearly aimed at campers, there are so many hiding spots it's a joke. They've put them on Mosh Pit mode so you're stuck playing terrible, terrible game modes like HQ which, once again, rewards camping. Also, they appear to have toned down the damage of the UMP45. Just now I unloaded an entire extended magazine with Stopping Power Pro into someone and it didn't even register a hit marker.

Thanks a bunch, Infinity Ward.
 
Moglet
Also, they appear to have toned down the damage of the UMP45. Just now I unloaded an entire extended magazine with Stopping Power Pro into someone and it didn't even register a hit marker.
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That must be lag. I had a game where someone was planting a bomb on demolition and I emptied a full mag from my scar just 1 ft away and they got up and shot me in the face.
 
Yeah, that is lag. I agree with Mog on the stimulus package though. While I think the new maps are awesome, very well designed, I do think they reward camping. Most players, and almost all good one's says that camping is part of the game. Of course, depending on the map, there is a risk of camping becoming "the game" as well.

Anyways, no complaints from me on the maps. I'd give it close to "A". It's the delivery that without a doubt gets an "F" from me. Like also mentioned by Mog, it's only available in the Mosh Pit type mode, where you have to play everything. I'M A FRIGGING TDM PLAYER! Words can not explain the disappointment I felt toward this stimulus package. At least not words permitted by the AUP. ;)

This is a joke. No TDM mode? Really? And I prestiged, with an assumption that it was going to be a week of double XP's. Apparently, double XP extends only to the Stimulus mode(that nasty mosh pit thing). So they screwed me here, too. I probably missed it on their press release though, they probably did mention that double xp applied only to the stimulus mode. Or did they?


Maps: "A-"

Delivery: "F"

Edit: I forgot to add the matchmaking. It is brutal. So many blowouts. It's been awhile since I've seen matchmaking this poor. And the consistency of it just might be the worst I've ever seen.
 
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Maps are just camping delights, that and like you said A6 with the game modes you have to play when playing them is just not fun. I don't like playing the objective games, I just like shooting people in the face. I don't mind Demolition so much but would rather not play it though.


EDIT: Someone on xbl give the SPAS and try and tell me if you think they nerfed it a hair. I don't mean like they cut the damage by 30 points or anything, just a little. I had it as my second earlier and had stopping power on and popped someone in the side chest area from about 15 feet away and just got a marker and had to put another round in them to take them down, I have never had to do that with the SPAS before from that close....
 
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I used it earlier, and while I didn't notice anything, I don't use the gun much, so....... I like the gun much more than I did before, but I have gone back to AA12 as soon as I got the gun unlocked. I've already pwn'd groups of guys with it. When you go head-to-head against number of guys, AA12's rapid fire is hard to beat. :)
 
... but then you need to reload, and you get your ass handed to you on a platter. :lol:

If only the AA-12 came with a 20-round drum magazine standard like it does in real-life. lol
 
Sharky.
... but then you need to reload, and you get your ass handed to you on a platter. :lol:

If only the AA-12 came with a 20-round drum magazine standard like it does in real-life. lol
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You'd think, but AA12's one of the quickest reloading guns I use. And the rushers, or the groups you want to take out, they seem to hang in group of 1~3, just enough for one clip. In epic moments, next batch(again in 2, 3) arrives just as I finished reloading. I've taken out the entire three, four groups out just with AA12 before, all in a row. If I feel like they will get me before I recover, or reload, I use the flash grenades to back them off a bit.

It has its shortcomings, sure. But in close, tight battle, I couldn't select a better weapon than AA12.
 
Sharky.
... but then you need to reload, and you get your ass handed to you on a platter. :lol:

If only the AA-12 came with a 20-round drum magazine standard like it does in real-life. lol
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Or skill to use! :sly:

My favorite secondary has to be Akimbo M9's for the being... 15 rounds in each clip, accurate, and extremely fast to switch to. I've walked through 3 or 4 guys with these things without a reload.
 
I have extended mags on my AA-12. 16 shells of sit the **** down. :)
 
While we're talking about secondaries, my favourite would have to be the akimbo Glocks - they are absolutely beastly at close-range. The SPAS is a close second; I haven't used the AA-12 all that much.
 
I unlocked the akimbo PP2000s a while back but I didn't like them. Besides that I haven't used anything else but the AA-12 or stinger as a secondary.
 
Azuremen
Or skill to use! :sly:
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I never get that logic, or people calling some guns noob gun, noob laser, etc. As long as I like the performance, I'd take a gun that is easier to use every time. I play to win, both from the personal perspective, and as a team. I couldn't care less if I scored almost as good using a gun that is a b1tch to deal with.

I know you don't mean anything by it. It's just that I've heard it since CoD4, and it makes absolutely no sense to me. :crazy:

Edit: Oh, and my secondaries(in order of usage):

1) AA12
2) M1014(or whatever it was called :lol: )
3) Pimpin 2000, AT4, Stinger 3-way tie
 
I think since it was included in the game and anyone can use it there isn't really anything wrong with using it. They've already made sure that one shell isn't as powerful as one from any other shotgun and I'm still killing people right and left with it. How much more do people think they could nerf it?
 

Bailout looks huuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
 
Oh, sweet - Seananners. Was hoping someone like him did a walkthrough of the maps. 👍
 
Bailout reminds me of Crossfire. I like all three new maps.
 
Sharky.

Bailout looks huuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
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Its actually fairly small, the only one that is of decent size is Bailout. I like all of them ok, really wasn't worth 1200 ms points but I was so bored of all the other maps I paid it:dunce: On Salvage earlier I was having to play HQ and went 63-?-13:tup: I haven't looked at my KD since then but I'm sure its 1.91 at least now, it was 1.90. Most of that score was due to my harrier. For some reason that match my harrier went to freaking town! I have never had a harrier do what it did on that match, it was just almost a constant, liiizzzzzd,liiiizzzzd,liiiizzzzzd, noise coming from it and +100 across the screen almost constantly:dopey:
 
Its been a while since I last posted here, but I have not been online playing MW2 since just after xmas! I had problems with my internet, and I basically lost the desire to play.

I'm getting back into things now though, and one thing I have noticed, is the change in the way people play the game! There are crap loads of snap shooting snipers, shotgun wielding rushers and a definite change in game strategy. At first it put me off, but now I actually relish it. it seems like there are new challenges to master in the game, something I felt was lost just before xmas.

I did try my hand at becoming a snap shooting sniper, but to do that I had to increase my look sensitivity beyond 1. Alas, I remembered why my look sensitivity was so low - motion sickness! :lol: So the snap shooting thing kinda went out of the window. :lol:

I'm pretty excited about the new maps. I have had a look at the videos posted here, and I have to say that I like what I see. They suit my style of perfectly perfectly. No, I am not a camper, but neither am I a rusher either. They look like they force you to consider your options more than the present maps, which is a good thing, and I reckon they hark back to the style of maps from COD4. 👍
 
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