COD MW2 ruined?

Supanova · Oct 31, 2009, 00:02:48

For £25 I reckon it will be worth the money. I'v paid as much for games I have played for a few days and got bored of before and I have no doubt that the quality of the gameplay for MW2 will be excellent if not a little arcadey.

Also it has a steam platform, and I have yet to see a steam platform game that has not been modded into a completely different game. The PC gamers are always smarter than the developers, the developers at IW seem to have caught a bad case of the stupid from their console playing community. How hard can it be?

wecpcs · Nov 11, 2009, 12:54:12

I received my copy on the 9th November from coolshop.co.uk (early because of the anticipated PO strike action). I soon realized that it uses the STEAM platform which I did not want at all, as I have never played an online game in my life and never will, but unfortunately there is no other way to play the game offline without installing STEAM. I would never have bought it had I known beforehand.

I then then tried to install it and kept getting errors and that was just trying to install the STEAM bit. Thinking that it might be an error on the DVD, I downloaded the STEAM installer from their site, but with the same problem, but a different error message, saying that I was not connected to the internet. I then realized that it was probably my new Billion router that was blocking it, and once I turned off the firewall it then started to install, but came to an abrupt halt after entering the license number as it was not the 10th (release date), I have never come across this before in a game.

As I was still up around midnight midnight, I decided to try again with my Firewall set to low (instead of medium) and low and behold it installed, which was quite a long install over 11Gb. I then had a little play then went to bed. The following day I gave it the full treatment and I was very impressed with the graphics and by 11:30pm, I had finished it (a total of 10hrs playing time). As I am not an avid gamer, I thought the game was too easy easy (I did play on Regular) and far too short, so I think an avid gamer will not be impressed by this. Most games take me quite a time spread over several days sometimes weeks.

Colin

PS
Does anyone know what ports need to be enabled for STEAM, in order for me to keep my Firewall settings on Medium (default), rather than keep switching to low or turning it off altogether.

Lance · Nov 11, 2009, 13:11:22

Quote from: wecpcs on Nov 11, 2009, 12:54:12
PS
Does anyone know what ports need to be enabled for STEAM, in order for me to keep my Firewall settings on Medium (default), rather than keep switching to low or turning it off altogether.

Here you go: https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=26621

This is linked to from Steams support site

Niall · Nov 11, 2009, 17:49:43

If you like RPG games, get Dragons age origins. It's basically a posh version of Neverwinter Nights and it's what the second game should have been. Voice over acting for all non player characters, which is really good and what's more it's been estimated that there is about 90 hours play, per character. You can also play each character as good, neutral or evil as with most RPGs so that's 270 hours of play for one character. There are 6 classes too so as you can see it will last you a hell of a long time!

I'm currently running around with a mage and all my extra shiny stuff as I paid £40 for the collectors edition because I'm a massive nerd! Ni!

wecpcs · Nov 11, 2009, 19:50:20

Quote from: Niall on Nov 11, 2009, 17:49:43
If you like RPG games, get Dragons age origins. It's basically a posh version of Neverwinter Nights and it's what the second game should have been. Voice over acting for all non player characters, which is really good and what's more it's been estimated that there is about 90 hours play, per character. You can also play each character as good, neutral or evil as with most RPGs so that's 270 hours of play for one character. There are 6 classes too so as you can see it will last you a hell of a long time!

I'm currently running around with a mage and all my extra shiny stuff as I paid £40 for the collectors edition because I'm a massive nerd! Ni!

Sorry but I do not like RPG games or Simulations at all, as I only ever play FPS games.

Colin

Niall · Nov 11, 2009, 20:27:37

But your inner nerd is trying to get out!

Colin Burns · Nov 13, 2009, 17:43:53

i think what is annoying me the most about mw2 that there are already people using aim bots

Supanova · Nov 15, 2009, 16:45:07

I thought that campaign was excellent. It was exciting, interesting and had a great plot with twists I didn't see coming. It took me 5hrs to complete but I don't normally like single player games so the shortness of it didn't bother me.

The only play would be fantastic if we had dedicated servers, control and the ability to mod but as it is...the online community isn't going to last very long. I give it 6 months if that before PC gamers move on. CoD4 was something special -CoD6 isn't.

The P2P hosting sucks causing lag and when the host leaves there is a 10 second or so pause while another host is found (yes...in the middle of the fricking game). There is a MASSIVE lack of control for players - I don't think you can even choose which map you want. The games are too short for me usually lasting under 10 minutes. If there is a hacker in your game you cannot kick him because there are no servers.

All they had to do was give us dedicated servers to solve everything and produce a brilliant multiplayer game. As it is, they have completely ***** it and lost the huge respect I previously had for them as game developers.

wecpcs · Nov 15, 2009, 23:55:44

Quote from: Lance on Nov 11, 2009, 13:11:22
Here you go: https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=26621

This is linked to from Steams support site

Thanks Lance, I have added them ports to the default medium firewall setting on my Billion router and all is now fine.

Colin

Colin Burns · Nov 16, 2009, 00:28:40

couldnt agree more ive just been stuck in a game where my ping was good but due to the cr*ppy p2p game type was laggin cause the t**t host was probably downloading something.

I dont think it will be long before the modders will make something that will enable us to have dedicated servers

zimmerframe · Nov 18, 2009, 13:39:44

Quote from: Colin Burns on Nov 16, 2009, 00:28:40
couldnt agree more ive just been stuck in a game where my ping was good but due to the cr*ppy p2p game type was laggin cause the t**t host was probably downloading something.

I dont think it will be long before the modders will make something that will enable us to have dedicated servers

One can only hope. Meanwhile, I'm still resisting buying it, (just)...

Actually, this is one I'm keeping an eye on and its going to have a good on-line following and dedicated servers

http://badcompany2.ea.com/#/videos/id/1

Supanova · Nov 18, 2009, 14:51:46

Quote"Well it turns out that developers at Infinity Ward didn't have any time for PC title so they simply disabled the dedicated server feature. As it was developed on the same improved engine Call of Duty 4 was developed on, so it presumably had the same features + few improved if any.
So the console and dedicated servers option was there, but infinity ward blocked it, may be because they simply were too lazy to completely eliminate these features."

http://www.destructoid.com/modern-wa...k-155250.phtml

There are other similar websites with the news and loads of different groups creating different types of servers - some of them sensible.

Still awaiting a response from IW about it.

Supanova · Nov 18, 2009, 14:57:44

Quote from: zimmerframe on Nov 18, 2009, 13:39:44
Actually, this is one I'm keeping an eye on and its going to have a good on-line following and dedicated servers

http://badcompany2.ea.com/#/videos/id/1

Problem is...it's an EA game developed again by DICE. It's going to have the same problem all the previous BF's have had - it gets 1 patch and then it is left to die a buggy abused death. EA don't give a sh*t about a game once they have extracted your cash from your wallet.

I have to agree with you though, BFBC2 does look good and they have explicitly said there will be dedicated servers and mod-packs. IMO cod6 has opened the door to other companies in search of the big-bucks for competitive PC FPS gaming thanks to the fantastic shitness of CoD6 multiplayer.

Colin Burns · Nov 20, 2009, 10:45:18

i have bad company of the 360 but might get the new one for the PC due to the evil brokeness thumb i cant use a controler properly anymore