COD6 MW2 thread of inferior Clancy SP, sweet SpecOps and energy swords MP

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, it sounds so ridiculously awesome.

[Crushed]

Honestly, the trailer is kind of awesome in a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow adolescent powertrip fantasy way.

Blow up a castle
Jump over a cliff
Crash a snowmobile
Blow up a spaceship
Blow up Washington, DC
Be a terrorist

Does MW2 have a first person sex scene? It should.

you're not a terrorist, you're a CIA operative

they're like legal terrorists

[archie4208]

Honestly, the trailer is kind of awesome in a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow adolescent powertrip fantasy way.

Blow up a castle
Jump over a cliff
Crash a snowmobile
Blow up a spaceship
Blow up Washington, DC
Be a terrorist

Does MW2 have a first person sex scene? It should.

you're not a terrorist, you're a CIA operative

they're like legal terrorists

Killing innocent Russians in the name of freedom.

[brawndolicious]

I tried to pre-order it at gamecrazy but apparently it's too late now.  Gonna try gamestop tomorrow.

[The Fake Shemp]

Pre-order it at BLOCKBUSTER. Nobody is going to reserve it there, the line will be so small.

That's the gameplan for my brother and I.

[demi]

Go to TRU and get your plastic money

[duckman2000]

I'm getting mine on Friday or Saturday, and I don't have to stand in a line like some dirty poor Polack.

Stores

You're bitching about the launch trailer now. Oh, duckman, never change.

Well, the music is shit. The dude sounds like some redneck 20-something ranting about dry counties and having only one ball. Trailer itself is cool, though. I'm just going to treat this like an advanced Punisher story or some shit, and I'll be alright with it.

[brawndolicious]

man actually, I better make sure this game actually has offline 4player split screen before I buy it.  It honestly feels like that mode was as valuable for me as the online.

[duckman2000]

Holy crap, there are some people elsewhere arguing, in all seriousness, that the complete lack of recoil is realistic due to the modern weaponry used.

[Crushed]

in other news, the wii-wii version of mw1 has appeared, so the only released footage of that is from a russian pirate playing it on a 10-inch early 90's sdtv over an rf connection. treyarch wasn't even allowed to put their name in the intro, and their name is put at the very end of the credits, after IW's catering crew.

[duckman2000]

LMG silencer.  

[Crushed]

LMG silencer.  

ahahaha what


mw3 is going to have laser guns and buster swords

[The Fake Shemp]

I would dig on some lasers.

[Crushed]

*dual wields silenced laser machine guns in space, blasts some pussies and fegs to eminem*

heh... bronage

*slams a dew, sets off a tactical nuke while riding back to earth on flying snowboard*

[duckman2000]

They might as well just throw the Hulk in there as a final boss. Or maybe Nuke would be a better choice.

[archie4208]

Hopefully Master Chief makes a cameo in MW3.

[Crushed]

in other news, the wii-wii version of mw1 has appeared, so the only released footage of that is from a russian pirate playing it on a 10-inch early 90's sdtv over an rf connection. treyarch wasn't even allowed to put their name in the intro, and their name is put at the very end of the credits, after IW's catering crew.

My long lost brother!

nvm, he was apparently finnish, which explains why his language resembled no human tongue

[duckman2000]

[youtube=560,345]21QPONq4hYk[/youtube]

[The Fake Shemp]

Looks so much fun. Monday is so far away.

[Jansen]

still dont know if want

[duckman2000]

http://www.xboxzona.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=54&id=233

Single player 60fps video

And they have had the nerve to talk about the much improved A.I. 

[duckman2000]

"I'm four hours into the SP campaign now, and holy shit I'm still being grenaded like there's no tomorrow. The game feels 100% like COD4, with all the ups and downs that brings." 

But I guess that SP video above already clarified as much. Well, not the grenade thing, but the A.I. certainly seems to be the same.

[demi]

Oh man someone on my list is playing. I am gonna cum.

[brawndolicious]

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/PopBackofbox.aspx?Product_ID=74393

4 player offline confirmed.   I've set my pre-order because that alone makes it worth the full price.

http://www.xboxzona.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=54&id=233
Single player 60fps video
And they have had the nerve to talk about the much improved A.I. 

That video doesn't load for me but the I posted a question to the guy playing the one live stream on justintv about whether the AI seems smarter and he said that it does feel smarter and he was playing the lowest difficulty to get through it as fast as possible.  I'm betting that the AI is still scripted and probably cheap as hell on veteran but that it's just got more reaction patterns than cod4.

[Ganhyun]

People already having the game sucks. Wish it was next week so I could be playing as well.

[duckman2000]

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/PopBackofbox.aspx?Product_ID=74393

4 player offline confirmed.   I've set my pre-order because that alone makes it worth the full price.

http://www.xboxzona.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=54&id=233
Single player 60fps video
And they have had the nerve to talk about the much improved A.I. 

That video doesn't load for me but the I posted a question to the guy playing the one live stream on justintv about whether the AI seems smarter and he said that it does feel smarter and he was playing the lowest difficulty to get through it as fast as possible.  I'm betting that the AI is still scripted and probably cheap as hell on veteran but that it's just got more reaction patterns than cod4.

Well, that video shows enemies that are as dumb as bricks and have near zero situational awareness. There is a bit there where you gun down two dudes, progress forward and spot a third dude a few feet away seemingly unaware of your presence. And I doubt that it is somehow an isolated case. It's possible that they have changed the spawn bit, but nothing else seems different.

Hopefully I'll get to see for myself tomorrow.

[Agent Whiskers]

Welp, it's out in Saudi Arabia/the Gulf region. Gonna pick up my copy tomorrow.

[duckman2000]

Got the game 

[demi]

Play on Veteran

[brawndolicious]

LMG silencer.  

Link?

[ManaByte]

http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/06/how-investigators-tracked-down-a-modern-warfare-2-cyber-thief/

The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, doesn’t officially go on sale until Nov. 10.

Activision Blizzard, the game’s publisher, called in IPCybercrime.com, a Dallas private investigation firm that specializes in online investigations. The investigators tracked down the seller and stumbled into a scheme to pirate the game and sell a bunch of fake copies over the Internet. While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peak at how investigators try to head off a major piracy disaster before it happens.

“It all happened very fast,” said Rob Holmes, owner of IPCybercrime. “If these guys get their stuff out, then they can do some major damage to sales and spoil it for everybody. We plug leaks every day, but this was one of the biggest ones of the year.”

The investigators started by calling the Craigslist ad phone number and talking with the seller, who said he had two items for sale. They negotiated a deal to buy two bundles for $800 each. Then IPCybercrime dispatched its investigators in Los Angeles to perform an undercover pickup. Then another Craigslist ad appeared for the same Modern Warfare 2 bundle. A search on social networks revealed that the first seller was a friend of the second seller. And the second seller said on his social networking page that he worked as a “box boy at a major retail chain.”

IPCybercrime’s client, Activision Blizzard, approached the sellers, who then admitted having stolen a crate of the bundles from the backroom of a game retail store. Then IPCybercrime folks turned the case over to the loss prevention department at the retailer, which dealt with the thieves. This kind of inside job involving physical theft is becoming common, though it’s hard to do because retailers get a major game just a week in advance and then lock the boxes up in a high-security part of their warehouses.

On Oct. 30, the client told IPCybercrime that an individual going by the name “cedelamo” and “cdelamo815″ had posted a message on the piracy forum at xbox360iso.com. The post asked for users to donate funds to him via PayPal so that he could buy one of the above-listed Craigslist bundles and crack the anti-piracy code. Once he did that, he could distribute counterfeit copies of the game widely and make a bundle of money doing it.

There wasn’t an obvious way to track the person who made the post. But IPCybercrime checked on Facebook to see if the email address belonged to someone with a Facebook account. The search turned up a page for someone who was anonymously offering “modding services.” Modders are people who hack into Xbox 360 systems and turn them into repositories for pirated games. They stand in a gray area of the law, as it’s legal to make your own backup copy of a copyrighted disk, but it’s not OK to sell that copy commercially. To evade the law, the modders often describe their services in ads as selling “backup disks.”

The Facebook page had a cell phone number and it said that customers could contact that number via text message. Holmes’ investigators stayed in contact with the person sending text messages for four days as they negotiated a business deal. At one point, they convinced the person to call them with a cell phone. Holmes called that number back and then managed to get a business address out of the person.

Meanwhile, the person on the web forum said that he had received a copy of Modern Warfare 2 on Oct. 30. Over the weekend, the hacker went to work on the copy protection built into the DVD disk with the game on it. He cracked the code — something that isn’t that hard for hackers to do these days — and announced that he had done so on Monday. Coincidentally, pirate digital copies of Modern Warfare 2 flooded onto torrent sites, which are peer-to-peer sites for sharing software, on the same day. That has likely caused untold losses for Activision Blizzard, Holmes said.

Holmes was looking into the business address he got from the Facebook modder. The location (pictured right) was a computer business in Miami, owned by the subject’s father, Hiram Del Amo. IPCybercrime sent an investigator to the address and then determined that the cyberhacker was Christian Del Amo, an 18-year-old who was known as a modder and had a site for selling modded Xbox 360 hard disks on iOffer.com, an eBay-like site. The modder advertised 250-gigabyte Western Digital hard drives, loaded with 125 hacked games, for $150.

IPCybercrime handed the case over to the Miami-Dade police department. They conducted a buy-bust sting where Del Amo had sent a “runner” to make the exchange. The runner gave them a disk with the Modern Warfare 2 limited edition image on it. That meant that not only was Del Amo making pirated digital copies on DVDs, he was also sophisticated enough to know how to make disks that look like legitimate copies. On his Twitter account, Del Amo was in a conversation with an underground hologram maker. Holograms can be used to make the disks look like legitimate copies of the game. Those who bought the pirated game would be able to play it in modded Xbox 360s.

“This kid was in a position to sell thousands of these,” Holmes said.

Police interrogated the runner, who led them to Del Amo’s home. They then arrested Del Amo yesterday (pictured right). Del Amo’s attorney has not returned a call for comment. The whole process, from finding the first tip to the bust, took less than a week. While the operation snagged a perpetrator, it didn’t move fast enough to prevent the massive copying of the game on the torrents on the Internet.

“Hopefully it is a lesson,” said Holmes. “If you try to do piracy on a large scale, you will get caught. When you use the Internet, you always leave tracks somewhere.”

[Third]

Beat it today. The game is alright. But I was underwhelmed by the graphics.

[duckman2000]

Yeah, it's pretty damned ugly. Looks alright indoors, but the outdoor stuff has been weak. The favela looked real enough, but the snow scene was weak. Then again, it's post-Uncharted 2, so I doubt they ever had much of a chance to impress there. At least the gun models have been improved.

The story could make the writer of the GRAW games blush. And that airport scene is the dumbest thing ever.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not only am I supposed to believe that the airport lacked any surveillance equipment or that four dudes could take out a whole fucking F.S.B. squad, but then the rest of the F.S.B. arrives just as the ambulance drives away, yet no one sees anything fishy about that. Disappointing to see that IW couldn't figure this one out in a better way.

[close]

And now it's just getting stupider.


Played one round of MP, didn't like the map (large, open map). I did like using the stinger missile to take down UAVs and choppers.

Play on Veteran

Fuck that. I'm playing on weaksauce, and judging by the favela level, I'm never going above Hardened.

[duckman2000]

Oh yeah, and the host migration thing is a laugh. It's nice that the games don't just end, but come the hell on. 10-15 seconds pause while the game finds a new host and sets up the game, it's ridiculous.

[Beezy]

Are large open maps ever good? I hated that missile silo map in COD4.

[duckman2000]

This one is different. It's got large open areas, but there is also a trench network. Oh, and hedges. I think it's a remake, but I don't like it.

[demi]

Play on Veteran

Fuck that. I'm playing on weaksauce, and judging by the favela level, I'm never going above Hardened.

Please refrain from commenting about the SP then, thanks 

[duckman2000]

Oh, and the campaign stuff hasn't really been "Michael Bay's Modern Warfare" so far. It's just been MW, but with a stupider story and sort of shitty execution. Maybe that will change, but if they can't tighten things up, it will never feel as spectacular as it probably needs to, with a story like this. That's not to say that there haven't been some cool scenes, but it's mostly goofy.

Please refrain from commenting about the SP then, thanks 

This blatantly isn't an A.I. driven game, so whatever. Nothing changes, other than less damage dealt, more damage taken, and more grenades. Hardened is plenty enough for me.

Then again, if you're some freak who actually liked Veteran in COD4, you will probably love this one. It's got it all: grenade spamming, monster closets, invisible spawn triggers all over the place, and what have you.

[maxy]

Played it a little...omg...this is going to sell 20 million easily...haters and fantards annihilated
Looks amazing,plays amazing...didn't someone said that 60fps is not needed...yeah lolz,other games look like choppy crap compared to MW2.
   
  Infinity Ward -best developer this gen

As for Veteran,its going to destroy lots of marriages

[demi]

Veteran

[The Fake Shemp]

Veteran

duckman

[duckman2000]

The last mission was hot as hell, but now it's back to goofy garbage again. GRAW owns it at this game. Hopefully there's less of this shit, and more of the TF141 stuff.

Played it a little...omg...this is going to sell 20 million easily...haters and fantards annihilated
Looks amazing,plays amazing.

Damned shill. If you played it a little, you haven't played anything amazing. Stop lying.

[duckman2000]

The new weapons are fucking HOT.

Glock18

[The Fake Shemp]

duckman getting annihilated by people who own the game, and he can't take it.

[Brehvolution]

Isn't it out the 17th? How did they get it already? Must be

[duckman2000]

Isn't it out the 17th? How did they get it already? Must be

Excellent Ebayers

[maxy]

The last mission was hot as hell, but now it's back to goofy garbage again. GRAW owns it at this game. Hopefully there's less of this shit, and more of the TF141 stuff.

Played it a little...omg...this is going to sell 20 million easily...haters and fantards annihilated
Looks amazing,plays amazing.

Damned shill. If you played it a little, you haven't played anything amazing. Stop lying.

Mission objective-slight spoiler obviously

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Connect the DSM to Makarov's computer network

[close]

That is how far i am in the game,i could make a pyramid out of dead enemies(and civilians).

[demi]

Isn't it out the 17th? How did they get it already? Must be

um... no its out this tuesday

[duckman2000]

That is how far i am in the game,i could make a pyramid out of dead enemies(and civilians).

Well that's not a little then, is it? Actually, it might be; just looked at the Act/Mission list, and I'm about 2/3 through. 

[The Fake Shemp]

I want it to be Monday night already.

[duckman2000]

I'll be playing more MP after midnight tonight, but it feels sort of stupid. They are resetting the stats, aren't they?

[Andowsky]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not only am I supposed to believe that the airport lacked any surveillance equipment or that four dudes could take out a whole fucking F.S.B. squad, but then the rest of the F.S.B. arrives just as the ambulance drives away, yet no one sees anything fishy about that. Disappointing to see that IW couldn't figure this one out in a better way.

[close]

Damn dude, it's a videogame. Since you mentioned U2, did you have an equally large wad in your panties as a couple of cave explorers and a reporter scale ancient ruins, annihilate well armed mercenary units,

spoiler (click to show/hide)

discover the mythical kingdom of Shambhala, fight super powered guardians of a magical stone that is embedded into the Tree of Life and thus grants you immortality?

[close]

Just wondering.

[demi]

Did duckman buy this game just to complain? Who is he preaching to?

[duckman2000]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not only am I supposed to believe that the airport lacked any surveillance equipment or that four dudes could take out a whole fucking F.S.B. squad, but then the rest of the F.S.B. arrives just as the ambulance drives away, yet no one sees anything fishy about that. Disappointing to see that IW couldn't figure this one out in a better way.

[close]

Damn dude, it's a videogame.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Worst excuse ever. It's a highly scripted cinematic action game that delivers heavy shit with a heavy hand. Goofiness of the story aside, that airport scene was poorly executed, for the reasons mentioned. Especially the last bit. It is an action that fuels the events in the rest of the game (and a full scale national movement), it could have been handled better.

[close]

Did duckman buy this game just to complain? Who is he preaching to?

I think I'm spreading the love and hate quite equally here, that's what the game deserves. This isn't ODST.


Multiplayer, though, that may have been somewhat redeemed by the new UAV format. Being able to spot and shoot them down makes a big difference.

[The Fake Shemp]

duckman wants to play A FEW GOOD MEN: THE VIDEO GAME or something

"I EXPECT MY GAMES TO BE DEFT MILITARY THRILLERS!"

[duckman2000]

duckman wants to play A FEW GOOD MEN: THE VIDEO GAME or something

"I EXPECT MY GAMES TO BE DEFT MILITARY THRILLERS!"

Why shouldn't I? It's plenty scripted, and they are sure as hell pushing the cinematic bit as hard as they can. They got one of the more celebrated movie composers around to create a score for it, and every trailer sans the launch trailer has emphasized story. Expecting it to be of high quality really isn't that crazy. Accepting and reveling in the fact that it isn't might be.

[Third]

The water in the this game looks terrible, btw. Pretty unacceptable.
They really had to sacrifice the graphics for 60fps.

[Andowsky]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Worst excuse ever. It's a highly scripted cinematic action game that delivers heavy shit with a heavy hand. Goofiness of the story aside, that airport scene was poorly executed, for the reasons mentioned. Especially the last bit. It is an action that fuels the events in the rest of the game (and a full scale national movement), it could have been handled better.

[close]

No, the "excuse" was completely valid, your complaint however is highly distinguished mentally-challenged and downright quibbling.

It's only how action games/movies have worked since the beginning of time. If they had put cameras and more enemies for you to fight through then you'd just be bitching about that instead.

[duckman2000]

The water in the this game looks terrible, btw. Pretty unacceptable.
They really had to sacrifice the graphics for 60fps.

Those sacrifices are everywhere, but I haven't really noticed the water. The edge filtering seems worse than in COD4, but that may just because there are more detailed objects here. Don't really mind the graphics.

These last few missions have been pretty awesome.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fighting through yuppieville

[close]

It's only how action games/movies have worked since the beginning of time.

Alright, and in this instance it's poorly executed.

[Jansen]

[youtube=560,345]YD0CZbJzMas[/youtube]

thought they fixed this?