I have not been a competitive MP FPS player since my quake 3 days, so I am as surprised as anyone at the amount of CoD:MW2 I have been playing. It has some secret sauce tickles my gaming fancy enough that even though I am terrible (playing on the 360 makes me even worse), I keep wanting to play.\u00c2 \u00c2 Part of this I am sure is the leveling and unlockables system they have in place, I am a sucker for leveling up and MW2 has tons of it.<\/p>\n
But I do have some issues with the MP.<\/p>\n
\nFirst, exploits are bad and need to be corrected asap.\u00c2 To IW credit they are working on this now and hopefully it will be fixed fast.<\/p>\n
Second, I look at this game as a shooter but lately I am finding many of my matches filled with melee or air support. I don’t mind either in small quantities but with the number of people running around with knives sort of changes the game’s genre.<\/p>\n
While the lack of my ability to counter enemy air support is frustrating. Yes I know, “don’t die so much” and the enemy wont have air support. And Yes, level up and get a stinger or javelin and you can counter enemy air power.\u00c2 I know, I know.\u00c2 But I am an admitted “nub” and the game gives out airsupport to good players long before “bad” players can get a decent counter.\u00c2 I would rather have the “counter” available to players before the “power”, but that’s me.
\nThird, the “party” system feels sloppy to me. Granted I don’t have a lot of experience using party systems but MW2’s implementation feels bad. What I want to do is link up with my friends and play together on the same team talking to each other without having to listen to the rest of the ‘jimmies’.<\/p>\n
Problem one: The game does not seem to put xbox live party members into MW2 parties automatically. Instead from the MW2 MP menu I have to invite friends to join my MW2 party, even if they are already in my Xbox live party.<\/p>\n
Problem two: Most play lists require us to us “game chat” and if you accidentally don’t switch to game chat when the party starts searching for a game you will get booted from the party. And you can not be re-added to the party unless all the party members are back out at the MP menu.<\/p>\n
Problem three: there is no in game toggle for swapping between party and game chat. Which means you have to stay exposed to enemy fire if you want to chat with a friend who joins your xbox live party while you are in a game; if you want to chat with them.<\/p>\n
Fourth, I am stuck with the play lists IW offers.\u00c2 I long for a “ground war” playlist that includes HQ mode.\u00c2 Or even better a play list that swaps between domination and HQ, allows party chat, plays on med\/big maps, and allows up to 18 players.<\/p>\n
In the end I tip my hat to IW for creating the first 1st person shooter I have found myself wanting to play in multiplayer on my xbox.\u00c2 You fashioned an enjoyable, short campaign to wet my appetite and then built a leveling and unlockables system in multiplayer to hook me. Genius. Bravo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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