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With the most current Call of Duty game (Modern Warfare 2) being, in my eyes, a catastrophe, I had no choice but to backtrack to the older games. I decided to try and rank up on World at War, the last Treyarch release, as Infinity Ward seemed to be taking CoD in the wrong direction. The silent servers of Call of Duty 4 are now mostly filled with experts who have played the game since it was released, making them impossible to play against, and ruining the fun. So World at War would be my FPS until the next Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Evidently, World at War was also filled with experts, who hadn't made the switch to the Modern war scene, and who thought "Phooey" on the predator missle. I can picture these people, playing whilst dressed as nazis, with their iron crosses and Mein Kampf book open on the top of their Xbox. Ok, maybe that's abit extreme, but it's my method of showing how dedicated some of these players are.
My gripe today is not with the nazis and their controllers, but rather with the game itself. Now we all love downloadable content. Well I don't, so, we don't all love downloadable content, but alot of us do. It adds some extra content (as the name would suggest) to the game, wether that be in items, characters, locations or even a new section of gameplay. World at War is no different, and has it's own arsenal of DLC, which features primarily map packs.
Now these maps can be played on multiplayer. I personally don't want to fork out even more money on extra content which could've easily been put into the game straight away. It's like the way the TV repair man comes round to fix your socket, and all of a sudden, he notices your television needs a new discombobulator switch*, and that your fridge is leaking and your carpet has a distinct smell of breast milk. It's roping you in with a product, and then telling you that the original product doesn't work, and needs this and that, maybe add a fridge onto the side of your television set, or make you download a couple of lousy maps for a ridiculous price.
I've already said I don't bother with DLC, so you're probably wondering "What's this kid's problem?" My problem is that I cannot enjoy the multiplayer on this game, which I've payed for through the original purchase, because I get prompted every 5 seconds to buy a map pack. This seems like a stupid niggle at first, but when it comes up for the 100th time, you really don't feel like killing anybody, not even the nazis.
My idea, as mad as it may be. Make a seperate server specifically for people who have downloaded these maps. As it is, I spend more time in the menus than I do playing the game. Even when I get in, I get owned.
Rant Over. And Out.
*Discombobulator Switch is not an actual part of a television. Please do not seek advice regarding it
Evidently, World at War was also filled with experts, who hadn't made the switch to the Modern war scene, and who thought "Phooey" on the predator missle. I can picture these people, playing whilst dressed as nazis, with their iron crosses and Mein Kampf book open on the top of their Xbox. Ok, maybe that's abit extreme, but it's my method of showing how dedicated some of these players are.
My gripe today is not with the nazis and their controllers, but rather with the game itself. Now we all love downloadable content. Well I don't, so, we don't all love downloadable content, but alot of us do. It adds some extra content (as the name would suggest) to the game, wether that be in items, characters, locations or even a new section of gameplay. World at War is no different, and has it's own arsenal of DLC, which features primarily map packs.
Now these maps can be played on multiplayer. I personally don't want to fork out even more money on extra content which could've easily been put into the game straight away. It's like the way the TV repair man comes round to fix your socket, and all of a sudden, he notices your television needs a new discombobulator switch*, and that your fridge is leaking and your carpet has a distinct smell of breast milk. It's roping you in with a product, and then telling you that the original product doesn't work, and needs this and that, maybe add a fridge onto the side of your television set, or make you download a couple of lousy maps for a ridiculous price.
I've already said I don't bother with DLC, so you're probably wondering "What's this kid's problem?" My problem is that I cannot enjoy the multiplayer on this game, which I've payed for through the original purchase, because I get prompted every 5 seconds to buy a map pack. This seems like a stupid niggle at first, but when it comes up for the 100th time, you really don't feel like killing anybody, not even the nazis.
My idea, as mad as it may be. Make a seperate server specifically for people who have downloaded these maps. As it is, I spend more time in the menus than I do playing the game. Even when I get in, I get owned.
Rant Over. And Out.
*Discombobulator Switch is not an actual part of a television. Please do not seek advice regarding it
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That same issue bothered me and I'm sure it was handled differently to Call of Duty 4, in COD 4 I'm pretty sure the new maps were only selected if everyone in the lobby had access to them. It worked well.
WAW seemed to ditch that and stopped short of dragging you off to buy the maps. It used to drive me nuts when I'd have to quite out of a lobby because I didn't have the map that was about to be used and when I did a search for another lobby the game would put me back into the one I had just left.
WAW seemed to ditch that and stopped short of dragging you off to buy the maps. It used to drive me nuts when I'd have to quite out of a lobby because I didn't have the map that was about to be used and when I did a search for another lobby the game would put me back into the one I had just left.
Hey HM, I will giv you a GAME ON wORLD AT WAR
Sonic Chris wrote:
> When you can get in a game it is.
I managed to get quite a few games recently - I seem to be doing better on this than I am at MW2. If I ever get called into war, I hope I slip through a wormhole and I am fighting in WW2!
> When you can get in a game it is.
I managed to get quite a few games recently - I seem to be doing better on this than I am at MW2. If I ever get called into war, I hope I slip through a wormhole and I am fighting in WW2!
When you can get in a game it is.
CoD: WaW is awesome
With the most current Call of Duty game (Modern Warfare 2) being, in my eyes, a catastrophe, I had no choice but to backtrack to the older games. I decided to try and rank up on World at War, the last Treyarch release, as Infinity Ward seemed to be taking CoD in the wrong direction. The silent servers of Call of Duty 4 are now mostly filled with experts who have played the game since it was released, making them impossible to play against, and ruining the fun. So World at War would be my FPS until the next Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Evidently, World at War was also filled with experts, who hadn't made the switch to the Modern war scene, and who thought "Phooey" on the predator missle. I can picture these people, playing whilst dressed as nazis, with their iron crosses and Mein Kampf book open on the top of their Xbox. Ok, maybe that's abit extreme, but it's my method of showing how dedicated some of these players are.
My gripe today is not with the nazis and their controllers, but rather with the game itself. Now we all love downloadable content. Well I don't, so, we don't all love downloadable content, but alot of us do. It adds some extra content (as the name would suggest) to the game, wether that be in items, characters, locations or even a new section of gameplay. World at War is no different, and has it's own arsenal of DLC, which features primarily map packs.
Now these maps can be played on multiplayer. I personally don't want to fork out even more money on extra content which could've easily been put into the game straight away. It's like the way the TV repair man comes round to fix your socket, and all of a sudden, he notices your television needs a new discombobulator switch*, and that your fridge is leaking and your carpet has a distinct smell of breast milk. It's roping you in with a product, and then telling you that the original product doesn't work, and needs this and that, maybe add a fridge onto the side of your television set, or make you download a couple of lousy maps for a ridiculous price.
I've already said I don't bother with DLC, so you're probably wondering "What's this kid's problem?" My problem is that I cannot enjoy the multiplayer on this game, which I've payed for through the original purchase, because I get prompted every 5 seconds to buy a map pack. This seems like a stupid niggle at first, but when it comes up for the 100th time, you really don't feel like killing anybody, not even the nazis.
My idea, as mad as it may be. Make a seperate server specifically for people who have downloaded these maps. As it is, I spend more time in the menus than I do playing the game. Even when I get in, I get owned.
Rant Over. And Out.
*Discombobulator Switch is not an actual part of a television. Please do not seek advice regarding it
Evidently, World at War was also filled with experts, who hadn't made the switch to the Modern war scene, and who thought "Phooey" on the predator missle. I can picture these people, playing whilst dressed as nazis, with their iron crosses and Mein Kampf book open on the top of their Xbox. Ok, maybe that's abit extreme, but it's my method of showing how dedicated some of these players are.
My gripe today is not with the nazis and their controllers, but rather with the game itself. Now we all love downloadable content. Well I don't, so, we don't all love downloadable content, but alot of us do. It adds some extra content (as the name would suggest) to the game, wether that be in items, characters, locations or even a new section of gameplay. World at War is no different, and has it's own arsenal of DLC, which features primarily map packs.
Now these maps can be played on multiplayer. I personally don't want to fork out even more money on extra content which could've easily been put into the game straight away. It's like the way the TV repair man comes round to fix your socket, and all of a sudden, he notices your television needs a new discombobulator switch*, and that your fridge is leaking and your carpet has a distinct smell of breast milk. It's roping you in with a product, and then telling you that the original product doesn't work, and needs this and that, maybe add a fridge onto the side of your television set, or make you download a couple of lousy maps for a ridiculous price.
I've already said I don't bother with DLC, so you're probably wondering "What's this kid's problem?" My problem is that I cannot enjoy the multiplayer on this game, which I've payed for through the original purchase, because I get prompted every 5 seconds to buy a map pack. This seems like a stupid niggle at first, but when it comes up for the 100th time, you really don't feel like killing anybody, not even the nazis.
My idea, as mad as it may be. Make a seperate server specifically for people who have downloaded these maps. As it is, I spend more time in the menus than I do playing the game. Even when I get in, I get owned.
Rant Over. And Out.
*Discombobulator Switch is not an actual part of a television. Please do not seek advice regarding it
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