[CoD MW3] General News and Discussion

Egyptian

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

when people flash there game or whatever its called, is that when they have the different color d Pad letters next to there name?

also any tips from ranking your gun up from 30 to 31 to get them gold? iv the type 95, m4 and ump5 all on level 30 struggling to get to 31...

Level 31 is over 89,000 XP. You just gotta keep grinding. Double Weapon XP helps, but whether it's worth using a prestige point is up to you. You'll get a couple 10,000 XP's as you get kills and headshots.... so just keep at it.

FlawedGenius

Anybody activated there elite and got founder status yet?? Just done it there.. very nice the app looks good!!

Egyptian

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Anybody activated there elite and got founder status yet?? Just done it there.. very nice the app looks good!!

How?

EDIT: Nvm, just got an email there...... took there bloody time about it.

The Elite App looks good yes, but does nothing as of yet. Still a heap of crap at the moment.

gcgirl

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Anybody activated there elite and got founder status yet?? Just done it there.. very nice the app looks good!!

Yep it's coming up I'm a founder then it does it little mad thing when it crashes and has to relog again

krudler

I got the green founder symbol and a new Winter gun camo for everything, new emblem and callsign too and the double xp kicked in, suppose it only took a week... Elite is still crap though it keeps getting error in connection, stupid by activision to not be prepared for a massive surge in it.

Shakeyspears

it's such a relief to hear that I'm not the only one who can't log into COD Elite. Delighted I haven't paid for the service. Might consider it when they have all the problems sorted out and the new maps start coming.

Does anyone know how they are being released. Will it be eight maps altogether; one each month for Elite subs and then two big releases of four maps for everyone else??

justsomebloke

have to say I'm loving the type 95, however I'm not sure if it cause of the gun itself of that I'm actually using and loving the mp9 as my secondary weapon with it.

Shakeyspears

Started off loving the type 95 but i have abandoned everything else in the hope of getting the damage proficiency on the spas and the model 1887. It will be a long and arduous journey but hopefully it will be worth the work

iLikeWaffles

whats up with the matchmaking late at night/morning

iLikeWaffles

krudler wrote: »

I got the green founder symbol and a new Winter gun camo for everything, new emblem and callsign too and the double xp kicked in, suppose it only took a week... Elite is still crap though it keeps getting error in connection, stupid by activision to not be prepared for a massive surge in it.

I've gotten founder status symbol and elite works about 90% of the time for me but still haven't got the camo emblem or title and no activation email did you register from your browser?

iLikeWaffles

AGB_Ghost wrote: »

Since Elite is down do much, all Premium members will get a month free Elite service, not bad.

Not really shouldn't be down at all!!! You wouldn't buy two left shoes would you or a book with no writing in it... We get a month free because it will most likely be down for that amount of time... Now what do we get for inconvinience. I want 20 prestige tokens that would be nice!! :pac::pac::pac:

minidazzler

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Not really shouldn't be down at all!!! You wouldn't buy two left shoes would you or a book with no writing in it... We get a month free because it will most likely be down for that amount of time... Now what do we get for inconvinience. I want 20 prestige tokens that would be nice!! :pac::pac::pac:

It's starting to work more and more now, and while it's unfortunate that it is down, a million people trying to sign up for it is gonna mess it up.

minidazzler

Shakeyspears wrote: »

it's such a relief to hear that I'm not the only one who can't log into COD Elite. Delighted I haven't paid for the service. Might consider it when they have all the problems sorted out and the new maps start coming.

Does anyone know how they are being released. Will it be eight maps altogether; one each month for Elite subs and then two big releases of four maps for everyone else??

20 pieces of DLC for Premium elite users, I'm guessing that means 2 maps a month and 2 other little thing.

CORaven

A good portion will be Spec Ops missions though.

iLikeWaffles

minidazzler wrote: »

It's starting to work more and more now, and while it's unfortunate that it is down, a million people trying to sign up for it is gonna mess it up.

Yeah some of the features are working now. still but they did have a beta for it they shouldv'e been ready for the high volume.

OriginalTom

Thoughts on MW3 Multiplayer (Not Spec Ops or Campaign)

Before I start, I was planning on doing this a while back but decided to hold off until I'd played a little more (just over a day's playtime right now) and after speaking to Ade felt it was right to go ahead and post. It'll probably be a very long post so I'm not too fussed if you think it's too long and so won't read it.

I'll give a little background on myself first so people have an idea of who I am and why my opinion might actually mean something.

I've played Call of Duty ever since COD4 back on the PS3 with Ade. Initially, I was never particularly good and used to run around with UAV Jammer on 'cos I'm leet y'all. Moved to MW2 and started to become a better player, really got into the whole quick scoping aspect of the game. My PS3 broke in December of MW2 and so I moved to Xbox and have been an Xbox player ever since, moving from Pub Stomper on Xbox to Gamebattles where I've been in some very strong teams and had some really good records on GB. I played GB all throughout the rest of MW2 and eventually when Black Ops came out combined Pub Stomping with GB, the team I was in was 3rd on the EU Ladder at one point (30-1) and I hit 9th prestige by Christmas. GB got boring, I stopped prestiging and I moved to Decerto which is the main LAN community for Call of Duty in Europe. I attended ECL3 in Loughborough placing T24 but really feeling that we could have placed higher. I then joined a Dutch team for an event over in Holland, RGT5, where I ended up placing 7th which I was fairly happy with but overall we choked finishing Top 5. A month later, I was set to not attend EGL4 in London but during the last week I was asked if I'd go with a 'pickup' team and even though I hadn't played Black Ops or Xbox in about two weeks, went along anyway for a laugh. Something just clicked when we got there, after my first 3 games of playing awfully we managed to finish Top 16 and my last 2 series were probably my best at LAN, dropping 60 kills in a Demolition game.

So there's a little background behind my Call of Duty history, nothing too amazing placement wise, I'd really love a Top 8 finish at a UK LAN event but I don't play MW3 nearly as much as I originally played Black Ops.

Moving on from that exceptionally 'cool story', I'll talk about my feelings from a week of playing MW3 now and my initial experience of the game.

I took the Tuesday and Wednesday off work and a couple of mates came up to my flat Monday night for a night out. Ended up getting back at about 5 in the morning and they eventually all left mine around 10 the next day for Uni or travelling back home or to work etc. Drove into the city centre (not sure how, was definitely over the limit) and waltzed into Game to pickup my preorder of the Hardened Edition. I traded in Pro Evo 2011 and Halo Reach to get it down to £30 which was pretty decent, I was offered the 'Strategy Guide' and my response of 'I really don't need it' didn't really impress the store attendant.

Got home, had a shower and some breakfast whilst the game installed to my harddrive and then hopped on Skype to check who was online. Couple of Xbox mates were in fact on, or had been on since midnight!

I played for about 4 hours straight away and hated every minute of it. It felt too hectic, not like Black Ops had been. I found some comfort in that domination spawns had returned to glory days of COD4 where they really just do not flip, my idea of heaven for Domo spawns. I eventually unlocked the Scar-L and from then on my game just picked up and I found that I was top of the leaderboards by some way every single game.

I then unlocked the Type95 and got my first 100 kill game, domination on Arkaden. I wasn't even using particularly high killstreaks; UAV, Assualt Drone and Pavelow. Got sick of the killstreaks after the first day and every single one of my classes now has Specialist on it, which is my favourite setup by a long way.

I hit level 60 or so towards the evening but decided to call it a night at about 11.30, I can't play as late as I used to mainly because my sleep pattern is so used to work of bed by 11 and up at 6.

Fortunately, I then got up at 7 the next day! Finished the campaign on Hardened by about 12, loved every minute of it. Won't spoil it for those who haven't played it but jesus, so emotional, love the IW campaign back from COD4.

After lunch, I went back into Multiplayer and spent most of the day playing Kill Confirmed and Domination, two really good gamemodes. Lag was an issue immediately, I have 50meg Fibre Optics and got host every game on Black Ops and Mw2, but for some reason I've not got host once in Mw3, really don't understand it at all.

I think I can actually sum up Mw3 pretty well rather than continue to blab (I'll probably blab later, when I'm back from work and off my lunch break).

Mw3 is a game for everyone, if you want to rush you can. If you're a more passive player, then the games for you. If you're a lone wolf, it caters to you. If you want to quickscope, you can do that too. The game is designed with everyone in mind, and for that I both applaud and hate IW. The game works. Fundamentally. I didn't really like Black Ops because of the hit detection and Famas. In Mw3, all the guns are powerful and so there is balance. The Type95 is good, but I outshoot people using it with a Scar or ACR whenever I please.

Remember the M16 from CoD4? No different.

The game has only been out a week, so judging the game and giving up on it already is a bad decision considering that it really does take time for a CoD game to show its true colours.

This post was ridiculously long, sorry.

AdamD

As a competitive player surely you realise that the maps destroy this game?

OriginalTom

AdamD wrote: »

As a competitive player surely you realise that the maps destroy this game?

Seatown is the only 'balanced' map in the game. All the maps are truly awful, forgot to mention that.

I enjoy Bakara because it reminds me of Crash and Strike. Arkaden isn't too bad, Resistance works for CTF and Underground is a piece of ****.

Cheers for reminding me though, completely forgot to mention how bad the maps were.

AdamD

Yeah I'm not playing till Decerto/MLG release a decent ruleset

OriginalTom

AdamD wrote: »

Yeah I'm not playing till Decerto/MLG release a decent ruleset

Yeh, I scrimmed Sunday night for the first time on this game and it felt ok. Just needs a concrete ruleset. Apparently the American's are preferring Demo to Domo for some reason, it's almost as if they don't like set spawns like Demo in Blops. They chose Domo for Blops on two maps, and even then the spawns were erratic to say the least.

eco2live

AdamD wrote: »

As a competitive player surely you realise that the maps destroy this game?

I thought that the maps where crazy at first but now I think that the maps are really good. There is logic to all of them after a bit and as people are now getting used to them they are tailoring their approach based on their class and perks etc.

The videos on elite explain the thinking behind the maps for each class. It breaks the maps into segments and shows how the streets on resistance suit snipers and how shotguns and guns suit storming pinch points and routes. 3 main routes and a load of control points that ensures you are nearly always in action.

No one map suits snipers or assault rifles or shot guns in this game. That is why people are not dominating as much (that's a good thing). I have played loads of team games that where very close right to the end and I think that is down to the map design as well as class and perk balance.

With the new maps you cant rush with snipers in this game and dominate from the other side of the map. If you are using a light machine gun then it is mainly for defense and holding positions but is actually useful in this game and you can clock up a good few kills mowing down the headless chickens in domination. Shotguns mini MGs for storming positions and attacking and assault for a balance of all. More people are playing the objectives as well and that's a good thing in my mind. The routes bring you through the objectives in a lot of cases.

I think people have to play the game a bit different then before and that is frustrating when people where dominating in previous games. It gives everyone a chance now.

I was not even going to pick up MW3 as I found MW2 very frustrating with the noob tubes and spawn kills. I loved COD4 and I think this game really has something and could be better then COD4. Time will tell.

We will have the best of both worlds soon with the vintage and new map downloads.

minidazzler

AGB_Ghost wrote: »

Starting to hate stealth airstrikes now, if they are enemy, they kill you even if you take cover in buildings, if they are friendly, the shell shock effect gets you killed nearly 100% of the time.

Turn colourblind assist on, you can see them on the radar.

OriginalTom

minidazzler wrote: »

Turn colourblind assist on, you can see them on the radar.

Whats annoying about that is that I'm genuinely colourblind and the colourblind benefits in Black Ops were really good, different colours and player names so they were great, hardly noticeable in Mw3. Sad to see.

minidazzler

OriginalTom wrote: »

Whats annoying about that is that I'm genuinely colourblind and the colourblind benefits in Black Ops were really good, different colours and player names so they were great, hardly noticeable in Mw3. Sad to see.

Same here, but I never even knew it was in Blops! Only found out when someone on Youtube said it.

ConorBF1

Just out of interest, how long (game time) has it taken you lads to prestige?

Egyptian

ConorBF1 wrote: »

Just out of interest, how long (game time) has it taken you lads to prestige?

On average, over the couple mates and I that have prestiged, you're looking at between 22-24 hours.

DanTheMan91

Unlocked the AK47 tonight and played 1 match with it. It felt like it had more recoil than the other assault rifles so I am looking forward to unlocking the kick proficiency.
I also ranked up my mp5 to level 30, now I need a huge amount of xp to get it to the next level, so I will be using that tomorrow.
Another thing I tried out tonight was the recon drone, and I really like it. I was playing ground war and in one game I got 27 assists from tagging people and then my team-mates finishing them off!

Nuri Sahin

Has that gob****e Fourzerotwo and co. commented on the game yet in regards to patches and what not? Again, not really following MW3 news pre or post-release. At least Vahn and JD2020 were frequently commenting on Twitter about what they were looking to change in the next patches, what we want to see, etc. While not everything was taken on board, at least there was communication between fans and devs.

redman85

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

Has that gob****e Fourzerotwo and co. commented on the game yet in regards to patches and what not? Again, not really following MW3 news pre or post-release. At least Vahn and JD2020 were frequently commenting on Twitter about what they were looking to change in the next patches, what we want to see, etc. While not everything was taken on board, at least there was communication between fans and devs.

Not a single word from that ballbag. Funny how he promised that they would be supporting the game from day one. He must be getting some abuse on twitter!!!!

Its crazy how overpowered assassin is. Immune to UAV, Counter UAV, Advanced UAV, EMP, Heartbeat sensors and Enemies won't see a red crosshair or name when targeting you.

Seriously did these guys read anything about the ghosts from Black Ops. Ideally assassin should appear after every second scan of the UAV and totally visible when more then two UAV's are up. I hope they patch this but I doubt they will

KERSPLAT!

They're pretty much pushing people to use it! Atleast Black Ops had a Blackbird to counter, if Advanced UAV showed Assassin/Pro I'd be happy enough

OriginalTom

ConorBF1 wrote: »

Just out of interest, how long (game time) has it taken you lads to prestige?

about 12 hours, same as on black ops. I've just hit level 80 1st prestige and im on 23 hours 20 minutes playtime. doubt i'll prestige again to be honest, love the mp7 too much.

OriginalTom

IPAM wrote: »

They're pretty much pushing people to use it! Atleast Black Ops had a Blackbird to counter, if Advanced UAV showed Assassin/Pro I'd be happy enough

I pretty much have it as my first killstreak on Specialist every time, and with hardline pro i get it after 1 cap or 1 kill, so its just ridiculously easy to get. with all the uavs etc. in the air and how powerful it is, it really makes no sense to not actually use it, sorry state of affairs to see cod go down that route.

I've put in something like a day played already - Assassin isn't a big problem. Quickdraw/hardline are much better perks to use if you're a better player - hardline pro will give you a 5-7-12 assault killstreak quite handily.

The guns are not overpowered either. No gun has a dominance in every situation. I'm constantly switching between smg/ar/sniper depending on the map.

OriginalTom

OriginalTom wrote: »

I pretty much have it as my first killstreak on Specialist every time, and with hardline pro i get it after 1 cap or 1 kill, so its just ridiculously easy to get. with all the uavs etc. in the air and how powerful it is, it really makes no sense to not actually use it, sorry state of affairs to see cod go down that route.

But you're using specialist! Thats the perk you get with specialist. Obviously TWO middle perks is OP and thats the whole draw of actually using specialist as opposed to killstreaks.

Magill

Its funny how people slated the **** out of blops when it was released only for treyarch to completely show up what a shambles IW are. I've not played MW3 since last week (Online) so hopefully when i get some free time next week they'll have at least one decent patch out, like i did with blops I didn't judge the game fully until 2 or 3 weeks after release.

So errr.... Counterstrike:GO for new year ??? Yes please. :P

Nuri Sahin

redman85 wrote: »

Not a single word from that ballbag. Funny how he promised that they would be supporting the game from day one. He must be getting some abuse on twitter!!!!

Its crazy how overpowered assassin is. Immune to UAV, Counter UAV, Advanced UAV, EMP, Heartbeat sensors and Enemies won't see a red crosshair or name when targeting you.

Seriously did these guys read anything about the ghosts from Black Ops. Ideally assassin should appear after every second scan of the UAV and totally visible when more then two UAV's are up. I hope they patch this but I doubt they will

Exactly my point. I've said in a few threads, but the IW fanboys have been noticeably more quiet since release where this time last year they were the ones leading the line wanting Treyarch's blood for making similar problems :pac:

I think for the time being, my hesitation and tbh, lack of faith towards IW has proven to be valid. In saying that, I'm still honestly somewhat shocked that despite having Sledgehammer and Raven Software on board as well, they've still managed to make a right bollocks of the game. It surely can't be that difficult to make a decent COD game. Take all the positive feedback and subtract all the negative feedback from previous COD games.

There is a reason COD4 out of all the current gen COD games got the least stick! What people wanted was no juggernaut, 3 frags, last stand (it wasn't a problem at all from my experience), martyrdom and reduce frag splash damage. It was that simple.

This Michael Bay Syndrome that has engulfed the franchise since MW2 is killing it.

I thought this was interesting too - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-14-treyarch-regrets-black-ops-second-chance-perk
How long did it take IW to admit they made mistakes, and many with MW2? Nearly 2 years of no comment and then they finally admitted the ****ed up.
I'm no Treyarch fan as such but IW don't sort things out very quickly, Treyarch and Black Ops 2 might be COD's final stand for many people.

I usually don't agree with hightower and I think he was the only one to mention it, but he made a very good point about IW. When **** hit the fan, and Jason West and Zamprella (IW's founders) left, that magic/x-factor/whatever you want to call it may have disappeared afterall, 3 developers working on the same game even with issues aside made a very marmite game to say the least.

Thomasheen

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

How long did it take IW to admit they made mistakes, and many with MW2? Nearly 2 years of no comment and then they finally admitted the ****ed up.
I'm no Treyarch fan as such but IW don't sort things out very quickly, Treyarch and Black Ops 2 might be COD's final stand for many people.

Second that. I've heard Vahn (I think that's his name), lead multiplayer developer from treyarch already own up to the flaws of Blops, particularly to do with second chance and I trust in their comittment to their games 10 fold over IW.

Egyptian

OriginalTom wrote: »

about 12 hours, same as on black ops. I've just hit level 80 1st prestige and im on 23 hours 20 minutes playtime. doubt i'll prestige again to be honest, love the mp7 too much.

Unlock Gear :rolleyes:

Would love to see a screenshot of Prestige 1 level 80 at 23 hours played :eek:

krudler

remove 2nd chance/last stand from future games, I mean really HOW HARD IS THAT!? and get rid of Assassin/Ghost whatever you want to call it. or make it so you pop on the uav every 5 seconds instead of not at all, something to combat the camping

Dues Bellator

every second game of SnD i get a bunch of Irish lads wiping out the whole team at the start of the round with a RLauncher , WTF is with this , one guy just seems to do it all the time .:mad:

Egyptian

almanu wrote: »

every second game of SnD i get a bunch of Irish lads wiping out the whole team at the start of the round with a RLauncher , WTF is with this , one guy just seems to do it all the time .:mad:

I thought they put a delay on the explosive stuff at the start of SnD rounds, after all the noobtubing 6 kill spawns in MW2. Do you mean you're spawning the round and immediately getting killed?

Dues Bellator

Egyptian wrote: »

I thought they put a delay on the explosive stuff at the start of SnD rounds in MW2, after all the noobtubing 6 kill spawns. Do you mean you're spawning the round and immediately getting killed?

yes, 1st to last round , boom 3 or 4 from the same team dead , these little scummers just in knots laughing :mad: report button is wearing out , i dont think it makes a hell of a difference if you report them anyway .

Creasy_bear

krudler wrote: »

remove 2nd chance/last stand from future games, I mean really HOW HARD IS THAT!? and get rid of Assassin/Ghost whatever you want to call it. or make it so you pop on the uav every 5 seconds instead of not at all, something to combat the camping

people will always camp, no matter the game/perks. As for 2nd chance it's nice to see it's gone back to the fella that finishes off the pr1ck - he gets the kill. ffs

The only thing that will combat assassin/ghost/uav jammer is stopping power.

Cossax

AGB_Ghost wrote: »

Even more boards lads, just bet Lynx

No, you didn't - he wasn't in our party at the time.

OriginalTom

Egyptian wrote: »

Unlock Gear :rolleyes:

Would love to see a screenshot of Prestige 1 level 80 at 23 hours played :eek:

will provide tomorrow! I'm not even that fast at levelling compared to some people on my friends list, theres a lad who's 3rd prestige already with 1 day 7 hours. ridiculous.

ConorBF1

OriginalTom wrote: »

...on my friends list, theres a lad who's 3rd prestige already with 1 day 7 hours. ridiculous.

Wow. :eek:

Simply Red

Does anyone know what that symbol means beside the name in this lobby?

CORaven

Simply Red wrote: »

Does anyone know what that symbol means beside the name in this lobby?

I would hazard a guess at something related to two player, maybe splitscreen.

FutureGuy

Just wondering what guns people are rocking at the moment. For better or worse, I'm using variants of the type95 (red dot or acog depending on map) and am at L.30 with this gun.

Once I hit L. 31, I'm going to start on another gun. Which is the best gun available at L. 62?

zero19

Simply Red wrote: »

Does anyone know what that symbol means beside the name in this lobby?

I think it means you are part of the same group if you joined one on Elite.