Five Things Infinity Ward Needs To Do To Save Modern Warfare 2

Posted by Rhettspect On January - 26 - 2010

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has the potential to be a great multiplayer game. And, at times it is. Sadly, a combination of human nature (the hacks and abuses of the community) and ineptitude (Infinity Ward’s arrogance in not having a multiplayer beta) is ruining the game.

Here is how it could be fixed…  

1. Fix Matchmaking
At present, trying to find a game with a party of friends succeeds roughly 10% of the time. The rest of the time, your party gets separated, or you sit endlessly in the lobby. It’s ironic to describe this as game-breaking, since it means you can’t play the game. Searching for a game on your own nets you a red or yellow bar ping about 90% of the time. Local search would fix this.

2. Get Rid Of Tactical Insertions
I find nuke-boosters abusing tactical insertions in more matches than not. Needless to say, this devalues the whole idea of Prestige mode. A Beta test would have highlighted the problems with tactical insertion. But we’ll take just getting rid of it now.

3. Fix Glitches and Fix Them Fast
The Javelin glitch. The care package sprinting glitch. And now, the One Man Army, infinite care package glitch. All of these glitches ruin the experience for players, and waiting 2-3 weeks for them to be sorted out is far too long.

4. Modern Warfare, Not Shotgun & Knife Warfare
The Commando perk – which allows you to “teleport” into knifing range – and the over-powered dual shotguns are both ridiculous. Plain and simple, players should not be able to dominate in that manner. While we’re at it, get rid of Akimbo. Finally, Infinity Ward needs to balance the assault rifles by giving them recoil comparable to Call of Duty 4 levels. I know, strange request. But at present, Submachine guns are all but useless because of the assault rifles laser-like accuracy.

5. Maps, Please
Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer was handled by an all new, dedicated team within Infinity Ward. They all need to be fired. Then, Infinity Ward needs to let the map-designers from Call of Duty 4 loose, to create maps with flow… maps actually worth the DLC they are printed on.

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5 Comments

  1. Titan-Uranus says:

    Infinity ward is ignoring any and all complaints ,they are too busy spending the moolah that rolled in after the game was released to be concerned with customer complaints ,take it or leave it that seems to be the company motto.

    A shame really ,because it is a kick arse game ,I enjoy playing it,its just that when the frustration level gets too high I have to return to MW1 to get my fix.

  2. Alphapocalypse says:

    1. Agreed

    2. I make a point of keeping an eye on the scoreboard and and my team activities and I have only ever caught one duo trying to nuke boost, just camp the guy on your team and rack up some easy kills.

    3. Care Package sprinting isnt a glitch, it follows the same rules as everyting else you carry something light you run faster. The grenade is light as and its not an entirely unrealistic speed to run at. If you cant track a fast moving target then man up and increase your look sensitivity. Think of it this way, when I pull out my CP and go for a sprint I have no gun out, I am unarmed but for my knife. The rest of the glitches do need to be addressed faster than they have been.

    4. I fail to see how commando is broken, I think you camp with an AR to much. The shotgun is so much the problem Akimbo is the game breaker, drop akimbo and we will be fine. I do agree with the AR’s being highly acurate (except the F2000) but having never actually fired one I dont know how true to life it is. The SMG’s work just fine so long as you dont treat them like an AR’

    5. They dont even need to be new maps, for 1200 points they should port all the cod4 maps over to MW2. God I would love that

  3. Rhett says:

    You think I camp too much with an Assault Rifle?

    Actually, that is totally true – after I get my predator (camp… harrier… camp… chopper gunner), but it begs the question… how did you know!?

    I am SO checking my windows the next time I play Modern Warfare 2 in my underwear.

  4. Alphapocalypse says:

    Rhett everyone AR camps, thats what MW2 is all about, silly. I love campers, I dont need to screen watch fo find them my knife is my compass and it leads me straight to them, First recon for the win.

  5. Rhett says:

    My favourite way to play recently is running around with Marathon, Lightweight, and a silenced MP5K. Underrated gun… a lot of fun!

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