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Re: Does anyone else suffer from only playing COD?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:47:45 GMT

I used to have this problem, but MW3 cured me. I like MW3, but it feels like a big dud in the franchise. It's just nowhere near as addictive as all the releases before it. MW3 is a little dull and uninspired in my opinion. Because of this, I have successfully beaten COD addiction and spent a good amount of time playing other games.

Re: BRING BACK STOPPING POWER!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:22:22 GMT

I respect your opinion, but you were definitely in the minority. When I looked at the killcam, the guy who killed me had stopping power 99% of the time. Though of course Danger Close actually had a fair amount of users for noobtubing, but overall I saw stopping power used almost exclusively.

Re: BRING BACK STOPPING POWER!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:09:38 GMT

Thesandman wrote:

If nearly everyone used SP would that not then be a back to square 1 situation as your advantage would be cancelled out by everyone also using it?

Then is stops being an advantage, and becomes a necessity. It's essentially like not having a 2nd tier perk in the game at all. When one perk offers such an advantage that the vast majority of players have to use it, then the game isn't balanced.

Re: BRING BACK STOPPING POWER!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:03:47 GMT

If one perk is clearly better than all the rest, then it is unbalanced. Balance means each perk is more or less equally desirable to use. When a single gun or perk is so OP that no others are used, that is the very definition of imbalance. If a person wants to use and non-SP tier 2 perk, they are at a huge disadvantage. That is not balance.

Re: BRING BACK STOPPING POWER!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:53:55 GMT

It wasn't balanced, because 99% of everyone used Stopping Power. That's not balanced.

Re: Care Packages and Collision.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:25:42 GMT

I think the player collision problem is exacerbated by the fact that the maps are designed with mostly narrow walkways. David Vonderhaar slammed this in his joke "COD: Anthill Simulator". It's poor map design. There aren't many open areas on any map, it's mostly bottlenecks and narrow paths.

Re: January sales figures are in and they're not good.....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:38:33 GMT

Rednecksniper39 wrote:

well i dont wanna go into MW3 stuff but it did bring alot of new stuff to the table as far as the IW games go. Im not a huge treyarch fan so ya....

I do like MW3, Don't get me wrong, And MW3 does have some strong innovations, but I can count them on one hand:

Separate Support/Assault/Specialist packages

Pointstreak instead of killstreak

Gun proficiencies

Killstreak setup for each class

New modes (Drop Zone, Infection)

Those are the big ones I can think of, though maybe I have missed some.

(Note that I don't mention Spec Ops/Survival because Spec Ops was in MW2, and survival/horde mode has been in the last two Treyarch games).

Re: January sales figures are in and they're not good.....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:29:23 GMT

that6uy420 wrote:

why couldn't they? They basically reskinned MW2 into MW3 with a few new additions... no new titles.. just minor tweaks to the game and addition of strike packages and changing the nuke to a free killstreak now instead of having to select it and waste a killstreak slot on it. Sadly, it has just as many bugs, if not more, than MW2

The early rumors sounded terrible. IW was basically gone. The early rumors were that MW3 would be a prequel to COD4, and that many scenes from COD4/MW2 would be revisited. In other words, it was going to be an almost literal copy/paste of COD4/MW2, just rearranged. I think Activision probably crapped their pants when they herad this, and Sledgehammer was brought in to help make sure MW3 wouldn't be a complete trainwreck. I honestly don't know if it would have been better worse. I'd actually like a straight up copy paste of COD4/MW2 with the BS removed.

Re: January sales figures are in and they're not good.....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:26:17 GMT

Rednecksniper39 wrote:
Correct me if im wrong but wasnt the only invotating things BO brought to the table was the player card stuff/wager matches/ and the points to buy stuff with right?

Things Black Ops brought to the series:

Theater Mode (brought back in MW3)

Wager Matches

Ability to hotfix (brought back in MW3)

MLG playlist

Custom public playlists (Express mode, Nuketown 24/7, etc)

New modes (as wager matches): Gun game, one in the chamber, sharpshooter, sitcks and stones

COD points system

In-depth in-game stat tracking

Contracts (brought back as Daily challenges in MW3)

Emblem creator

Character appearance customization

Reticle customization

SAM turret (brought back in MW3)

Portable jammer (brought back in MW3)

Motion sensor (brought back in MW3)

Blackbird (nerfed and brought back as AUAV in MW3)

Hacked care packages (brought back in MW3)

Re: Are most of us in agreement -- MW3 is bad?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:13:56 GMT

SplitUrWig wrote:

I am happy that MW3 wasn't made as NOOB friendly as Black Ops.

Death streaks? What exactly is not noob-friendly about Dead Man's Hand? Akimbo FMG9s? Stealth bomber in the support package? I love the Support package, but even I will admit it is a Noob Assistance Device. The maps are cluttered with garbage and consist mostly of narrow walkways, where you are constantly bumping into your team mates just trying to get anywhere. The guns barely have any recoil, and have higher damage, so you barely have to aim in order to take out an enemy. I'm not saying I hate MW3, but I think it is clearly the noobier game when compared to Black Ops.

Re: January sales figures are in and they're not good.....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:03:37 GMT

SmileUrDead wrote:
The truth is mw3 was made by failures. IW is not IW anymore and bringing sledgehammer in to help was a joke..

I think Sledgehammer was brought in because the game just wasn't going to be made otherwise. A team of 30-40 people just can't produce a triple-A blockbuster video game in only a few months. And most of the really hardcore IW people left, so the ones leftover were probably recently hired newbies. IW was basically evaporated. Sledgehammer came in to help copy/paste a game and ship it out the door, which is why MW3 doesn't have much new or different about it. Expect Black Ops 2 to innovate on the same level as Black Ops did. I just hope Treyarch doesn't mess up the graphics this time around.

Re: January sales figures are in and they're not good.....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:51:35 GMT

Here is an article speifically discussing MW3 sales vs. Balck Ops this time last year:

http://gamingbolt.com/modern-warfare-3-sells-50-less-compared-to-black-ops-in-ja nuary

Re: January sales figures are in and they're not good.....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:46:43 GMT

electricXfuneral wrote:

Yeh im sure the decline in Janury was more than made up for in Nov and Dec.

Black Ops sold more upfront than MW2 did, and then also beat MW2 in long term sales. Each COD has outsold the previous COD both upfront, and in the long term (Well, WaW probably didn't outsell COD4). So it was to be expected that MW3 would outsell Black Ops in the initial few weeks. That followed the COD trend. The fact that three months later, the sales figures are only half what they were for the previous title at the same month, is a pretty big sign that something has changed.

Modern Warfare 3 sells 50% less compared to Black Ops in January

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:44:01 GMT

http://gamingbolt.com/modern-warfare-3-sells-50-less-compared-to-black-ops-in-ja nuary

Re: 15 Prestiges? WTF?

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:56:12 GMT

esmorgue wrote:

Does anyone know how many people are playing BlackOps for Dxp weekend compared to this piece of crap?

I'm playing Black Ops, and it is such a breath of fresh air. Infinity Ward has declined so badly since COD4. On a side note, I played on a team with you a few weeks ago (domination on Interchange). I recoginized your name from the forum. You were yelling at our team through the whole match. But we won, so maybe it was a good tactic!

Re: WTH is happening to Infection?

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:50:36 GMT

I played about two games of Infected, and I am never going near that game mode again. It is purely a troll trap set by Robert Trolling. Anyone who plays it deserves the crap they get. It's like someone served you a turd sandwich, and you chose to eat it, then you complained that it tasted so bad. Infinity Ward's days as a premier game developer are clearly behind them.

Re: Assasin Pro

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:55:30 GMT

Brock509 wrote:

take off assasin and watch all you ******* start cryin

I'd rather keep Assassin on, so I can turn red dot chasers into baby buffalo.

Re: Here's why Assassin is OP and must be nerfed

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:16:55 GMT

zArtfulDgr wrote:

Without Assasin, flanking would be a death sentence. The only smart way to play without it would be to camp all the time. Leave it be.

Agreed. I can't count how many times Assassin has allowed me to flank a herd of baby buffalo who are too stupid to look around, and instead look at the minimap.

Re: Bowling on deathstreaks

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:26:09 GMT

davidlsofferman wrote:

cryo70 wrote:

Am I the only one in CoD forums that actively support deathstreaks?

Call of Duty multiplayer is VERY difficult (what multiplayer game isn't).
Lost all credibility here.

He lost me at "Deathstreaks are legit."

Re: Bowling on deathstreaks

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:21:45 GMT

cwatz wrote:

It took a while to get the recognition, but since BO - and especially since mw3 - treyarch has elevated themselves to equals or superiors of IW.

I was on board with Treyarch all the way trhough Black Ops. I thought MW2 was the worst FPS ever (after enjoying it for a few months, to be honest, but then the bs becamse overwhelming). To this day I simply cannot play MW2, it is terrible. Black Ops disappointed me at first with it's inferior graphics, but the game was so fun I was able to look past that. Sure enough, I played Black Ops every day for a solid year, and never got tired of it. I just loved how it was pure gun on gun skill. Aside from Second Chance, I didn't feel like there was any bs in the game whatsoever. If the graphics had only been a little better, I'm sure Black Ops would probably be considered the best in the series by most COD fans. However, I'm not sure many will admit it, but I think the subpar graphics made the game seem "cheap" to a lot of people, so they didn't really give it more of a chance.