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Modern Warfare 3 Improved Spawn Logic tonight

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:39:43 +0000

Robert Bowling has informed us on Twitter that Modern Warfare 3 will be getting an update to its spawn logic system tonight at 2AM PST/4AM CST/5AM EST on January 6th, 2012. This will improve when, where and how you spawn so “Goodbye revenge spawns” as Robert Bowling says.

Source: Robert Bowling’s Twitter

MW3: The Vet and the n00b Trash Talk Video

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:28:46 +0000

Modern Warfare 3 allows Updates without Patches

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:34:05 +0000

Nearly every game released has bugs, and these bugs are often fixed with patches released after the game has been sold to millions of people. Online games are especially prone to this due the huge number of players discovering tactics and tricks that can be considered overpowered and, subsequently, leads to copious amounts of whining. Modern Warfare 3 is going to have updates without patches.

Executive producer Mark Rubin said:

“One of the big things we’ve changed is the ability to alter the game post-launch. That doesn’t sound like a cool feature, it sounds simple – it’s like ‘why can’t you just release patches?’ Well, games don’t work that way – you can patch some things, but for others, it’s a significant deal, patching is not broad enough to do everything in the game, So one behind-the-scenes feature allows us to update files, sometimes without even doing a full patch – we can just tweak things like weapon balance, which we could never do before. In the past, we’d put out a game and realize, ‘hmm, that’s weapon’s really over-powered’ but there was nothing we could do about it.

“With twenty million people playing the game, you learn more in the ten minutes after release than you do in months of pre-launch playtesting. So that tech feature was a big thing for us.”

He also talked about fighting back against hackers and cheaters who ruin the game for everyone else to the point they deserve to be stripped of their human rights.

“Security was a big problem in previous games, so we’ve done a whole lot on that to create what we hope is a much more secure game. Part of that is learning from Treyarch’s work on Black Ops and being pro-active and aggressive on banning, watching the leader boards, looking for cheaters.”

Being able to tweak things remotely without a patch has several upsides. If a weapon is far too unbalanced, it can be changed on the fly and affect everyone right away, making it easy to keep the details in check. Having to download a huge patch in order to rebalance a few weapons is incredibly annoying and one of the reasons I quit League of Legends. It does not take a 60mb patch to nerf Vayne.

Preparation like this saves time for both developers and the gamers, resulting in an all-round better experience. Modern Warfare 2 was given masses of criticism from gamers and reviewers for the massive amounts of cheating and the time it took to correct the errors.

Modern Warfare 3 Spec Ops Details

admin — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:36:23 +0000

A new set of details have been revealed for the Spec Ops mode in Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer’s upcoming first-person shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

A favorite from Modern Warfare 2, Spec Ops is a co-operative mode set around various missions with various objectives. In Modern Warfare 3, Spec Ops will sport a new ranking system, an online matchmaking system and leaderboards. As well as Spec Ops, MW3 will feature a new Survival Mode, based around the game’s multiplayer maps.

One of the game’s Survival Mode maps, “Dome”, was detailed. It seems like a standard survival mode affair, with players starting out fighting against unlimited waves of soldiers, with some attack dogs, suicide dogs, kamikaze soldiers and juggernauts thrown into the mix as rounds progress.

Sledgehammer and Infinity Ward hope it will entice new players to move on form the single-player mode into the game’s robust multiplayer modes, while providing something that hardcore fans of the previous games will love.

All that stuff really fleshes out Spec Ops and adds in a lot that we know our fans are going to love, some of the most addictive aspects of Multiplayer. – Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward’s creative strategist.

There’s such hard-core players out there in the online community and you hear all the stories about the eight-year-olds, 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds swearing and ruining the experience. With Spec Ops, you can really get in there and hone your skills in a more confined environment. I think it’s a little more of an easy entry. I don’t have as much time as I did when I was 20 to be honing my twitch skills, but this certainly gives me a venue to experiment. – Sledgehammer’s Michael Condrey.

Infinity Ward Confirmed for Next Call of Duty (COD6)

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:52:22 +0000

Forgot to write about this earlier but Infinity Ward (those behind COD1, COD2 and most recent masterpiece COD4) are confirmed to be making COD6.

There are no further details about it though. Only that one of the greatest gaming companies will be back to making another Call of Duty title. There have been rumors it will take place in the future but who knows. They should stay where they left off though in Call of Duty 4.

Source: GiantBomb.com | ShackNews

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New Xbox Experience: ‘Games Played’ changes detailed

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:28:48 +0000

The new Xbox Experience will be released late fall. But here is some news for the Games Played tracker. By selecting your Gamertag, you will see a number of slides behind that Gamertag representing the games you own. The first slide will represent how much Gamerscore you have and then after that how much maximum out of your game collection is achievable. Below that is also displays how many achievements you have and how many are possible to get still out of the games you have played. Pretty cool to know! Also for as many games you own, you will have that many slides.

Source: Joystiq

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1UP’s Best of E3 2008

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:49:17 +0000

Here’s a list of the best from E3 2008 by 1UP. Check out the list here.

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