New MW2 Maps

[HeroOfCrapsalot]

New MW2 Maps

I'm debating whether to dish out $15 and get them or not. Has anybody played them? If you have, are they worth it?

 

[Angel]

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Well the problem they have been having with the maps is meant to be sorted now so if you want them, go right ahead. Can't tell you whether they are worth it, only that they are working (allegedly).

 

[Zjuggernaut]

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Crash and Overgrown. <3

Two of the other three look good, although I'm not sure which ones.

 

[HeroOfCrapsalot]

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I may be able to get them if you click the second link in my sig. You can just close it after that.

 

[Steve]

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I'd pay 1,000 Microsoft Points for 'em, but not a point more. If I want to play Overgrown or Crash I'll load up CoD4 on PC - which, incidentally, I'm enjoying 1,000 times more than MW2 on 360. The three new maps do look pretty damn good though; I really like the look of that urban map which I can't remember the name of...

I still haven't deciding whether or not I want to sell my copy of MW2, but if I do still have it by the time the map pack has had a price reduction then I'll probably buy it. I'd recommend getting the map pack if you're a hardcore MW2 gamer with Microsoft Points burning a hole in your... well, pocket, I guess. I can wait though, and I'm normally the kind of guy to impulse-buy junk on XBL the day they come out.

 

[sfroggy1]

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^ I'm exactly the same lol. I impulse buy dlc on live all the time. lol. Went and bought the Crime Alley map for Batman Arkham Asylum as it was the last one I needed . . . played it once since and probably never again now lol.

As for the DLC for MW2 i will probs wait for Live to bring it down to like 35% or 50% off for gold members or something like that. Which will NEVER happen !

 

[Steve]

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I'm sure it'll take a while, but the map pack will come down in price for a quickie promotion at some point. If Activision intend to slap a price tag of 1200MSP / £10.40 on each additional map pack from now on then I'll just wait for the Game of the Year edition. I'm really in no hurry to start playing MW2 again even though I do enjoy it in short bursts.

I've started playing CoD4 and CoD: WaW on PC and, damn, I feel spoiled as hell. Dedicated servers, maps with up to 50/60 players, super mouse and keyboard precision, mods, extra maps, etc. Just wow. I played the hell out of CoD4 on 360 and even reached "no lifer" status (10/55 and all golden guns) but it's like playing a whole new game on PC. If MW2 used dedicated servers for PC then I'd flog my 360 copy and re-purchase for PC, but it doesn't. Sadface.

I'm looking forward to my Radeon 5970 graphics card arriving so I can max out Bad Company 2 and I probably won't touch MW2 for ages.

Oh, if you guys want a giggle, read the MW2 boards over at GameFAQS - there's plenty of funny reviews of the map pack there.

 

[Wonderfoole WINO]

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I'm not paying $15 for 3 new maps and 2 recycled ones. End of discussion.

And after I don't download the new maps, if it does what WaW does to me all the time (that is, putting me in a lobby with a map I don't have and then kicking me out for not having it, thereby making it extremely difficult for me to play the game at all), I'll just stop playing MW2 all together.

 

[Relinquished Reality]

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I have an Xbox, and I thought the 15$ would just be an investment to play with some of my pals on xbox. You know, just because we dont play video games with eachother often. We later find out that the only way to play just the new maps, is with other people in game cht. that is increadibly annyoing and with the recent lag that MW2 has been getting, i feel like i wasted 2 hours of mininum wage.

 

[asatre]

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
my brother wasted $7 on the stupid trailer for these maps........
if anyone asks tomorrow, im not the one who abducted him. :ninja:

 

[Steve]

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with the recent lag that MW2 has been getting.

Tell me about it(!). I can't play MW2 for longer than an hour online because of the lag - I just end up rage-quitting. When I die on MW2 and I watch the killcam, I notice all kinds of crap that didn't even happen. I think the biggest annoyance is when I run round a corner into safety and still die, but because of the high latency, according to the killcam, I hadn't even made it round the corner when some chap with akimbo 1887 snipes me from across the map (have they been patched yet by the way?)

I know I've already mentioned CoD4 for PC, but when I die I on that I normally end up thinking something along the lines of "FFFFUUUUU-- oh, wait, I guess that's pretty legit. My bad!" I hate how modern gaming is going the route of peer to peer multiplayer; I'm sticking with older games which use dedicated servers for as long as I can. Bravo to Dice for using dedicated servers for the PC version of Bad Company 2.

Edit: You can check out a quick video walkthrough of the maps (recorded by SeaNanners) in the video below. I'm definitely not getting the Stimulus Package map pack now - the name alone was enough to put me off but the only map I actually like the look of is the first one shown in the clip:

[youtube]FXXN3zynO8A[/youtube]

 

[Zjuggernaut]

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Tell me about it(!). I can't play MW2 for longer than an hour online because of the lag - I just end up rage-quitting. When I die on MW2 and I watch the killcam, I notice all kinds of crap that didn't even happen. I think the biggest annoyance is when I run round a corner into safety and still die, but because of the high latency, according to the killcam, I hadn't even made it round the corner when some chap with akimbo 1887 snipes me from across the map (have they been patched yet by the way?)

"Magic Bullets". Sucks, huh?

And yeah. They patched it. They also lowered the range of the SPAS too.

The lag can't be worse than the bullet lag on GoW2...

 

[Dark Drakan]

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Ive played them and they arent bad, nice change in colour and design from the others but an absolute rip-off at 1200 points. Only reason i purchased them was because ive had those points for ages and not used them on anything and my friends will likely get the map pack and want to play them. Also double XP weekend this weekend on those maps. Though i did turn it off earlier and played a couple of hours on BF BC2 with my cousin and had some good games. No lag on BF BC2 either and party chat works on every mode (yes infinity ward im still bitter about both points!).

 

[Skotekal]

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I remember months ago when I discovered the love of dedicated servers. Little to no lag. I choose the server. It is beautiful. I feel like I'm being cheated on Xbox Live.

Too bad the PC community is being **** on left and right.

 

[Wonderfoole WINO]

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Tell me about it(!). I can't play MW2 for longer than an hour online because of the lag - I just end up rage-quitting. When I die on MW2 and I watch the killcam, I notice all kinds of crap that didn't even happen. I think the biggest annoyance is when I run round a corner into safety and still die, but because of the high latency, according to the killcam, I hadn't even made it round the corner when some chap with akimbo 1887 snipes me from across the map (have they been patched yet by the way?)

I know I've already mentioned CoD4 for PC, but when I die I on that I normally end up thinking something along the lines of "FFFFUUUUU-- oh, wait, I guess that's pretty legit. My bad!" I hate how modern gaming is going the route of peer to peer multiplayer; I'm sticking with older games which use dedicated servers for as long as I can. Bravo to Dice for using dedicated servers for the PC version of Bad Company 2.

Edit: You can check out a quick video walkthrough of the maps (recorded by SeaNanners) in the video below. I'm definitely not getting the Stimulus Package map pack now - the name alone was enough to put me off but the only map I actually like the look of is the first one shown in the clip:

[youtube]FXXN3zynO8A[/youtube]

Yeah, friggin' "lag compensation". Just yesterday I got killed out of nowhere, then I watched the killcam and according to it it was a guy RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I never saw him. And all the time I will shoot and someone, and totally miss but get the kill anyway. And I think "how the hell did I get that kill?". Also, one time I sniped a guy in the head like 3 ****ing times while he was standing still and it didn't register, then he turned around and killed me.

And Commando! Why use your gun when you can teleport across the map and knife someone? At first I thought the people who where complaining about commando where overreacting, but really, if you ever really watch yourself get commando knifed you will see what happens. The other person hits the knife button and they instantaneously teleport like 10 feet and knife you. Really, there should be some sort of lunging animation, and the target should be able to do something about it, like dodge or shoot them before they knife you, but you can't. It doesn't matter if you shoot the ever loving daylights out of the other person, if they knife you with commando from halfway across the room, you die instantly. And, it doesn't matter if you move to the side and they stab empty space, you still die.