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Originally Posted by General Pain
Moder Warfare 2 is just fantastic.
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Oh man, I could not disagree more. Allow me to elucidate.
I bought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on pre-order, and was eagerly awaiting its release. I loved the single player campaign in Modern Warfare 1 but at the time I wasn't able to play online. I've been playing quite alot of MW2 online on my PC since it was released in Australia (daily at times) and I don't have words to describe adequately how disappointed I am. I'm playing the PC version as I said previously.
Just for starters NO DEDICATED SERVERS. It uses a ported over version of the Xbox Live multiplayer system and it just isn't up to the job for the PC. Dedicated servers would be such a massive improvement but IW (the game's publisher) isn't interested in responding to the pleas of the game's PC players. As a result just getting into an online game and having a decent ping are incredibly lengthy and frustrating things to achieve.
The game has been massively compromised by hacks and cheats. There are companies online that will sell you entire packs of cheat hacks providing auto-aiming, allowing you to ignore walls, open all the unlocks and set your experience level to whatever you like. You can get individual packs by using Google and having a look around. I'm not interested in using cheats and I am constantly being slaughtered by blatant cheaters. I am actually pretty good at not kidding myself so I accept that many players are just better than I am at the game but there are many, many blatant cheaters.
Even without cheating there are exploits built into the game that make a mockery of its title of "Modern Warfare". Two of the most successful upgraded weapon/perk combinations in the game are dudes using knives attached to the end of pistols and dudes using a sawn off 1887 shotgun in each hand. Ridiculous. In what way are knives and 120 year old shotguns modern warfare?
I'm plugging away at the game online but it is very frustrating and I can only take it in small doses now before I yell at my monitor and go find something else to do. My attention is now focussed on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 which is coming out at the beginning of March. I have watched all the trailers for it at the EA Games website and they look awesome.
http://www.ea.com/games/battlefield-bad-company-2 That is the next online game I will be playing heaps of.