Official Modern Warfare 3 thread

[dougp]

Haha I literally was getting so many messages I couldn't sort through it all and play still. People were inviting, asking if we were full, telling me i suck, etc etc

Secondly, what we dont want is to play against a bunch of AVS/AT'ers who are good and will fuck us up while we are still learning the maps

I am not sure if you were on later but it ended up just being 2 of us and it would have been no problem bringing you in. I'll keep you in mind

I kinda figured. I'd rather play with people I know because like you said, learning the maps really blows when you're playing good teams.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Is the survival mode 2 or 4 players max? I can't seem to find a solid answer online.

 

[bucwylde23]

Is the survival mode 2 or 4 players max? I can't seem to find a solid answer online.

2 people only

 

[Schfifty Five]

2 people only

Damn, that's a bummer.

 

[Arkaign]

I visited a CoD fanatic friend of mine and checked it out.

My brief impressions :

About an hour of single player, pretty impressive. It's definitely a playable Michael Bay action film. On rails, but that's the recipe, and the sound seems improved.

Multiplayer. Ugh. I don't know how people play it. This guy is really good, usually finishes with dozens of kills and less than 5 deaths, but he was having trouble with this one. What was striking was seeing how clunky the movement was vs. a KB/mouse setup. Of course I had similar feelings watching people play Halo on Xbox1. It just seems like driving a semi truck with a pair of forceps and a lubed banana.

 

[sygyzy]

I find the movement and gameplay of MW3 a lot more fluid than BF3 and maybe even Black Ops. I felt right at home and on my first game I was doing something like 12:3 kills:deaths. Nothing to write home about but remember this is Level 1. For Black Ops and previous MW's it took me until at least level 10-15 to get my groove on. I am a pretty good player, often ranking in the top one to three positions on a team match but again, it usually takes me a while to get there.

With MW3, I was there pretty quick and I also went from Level 1 to Level 10 in 9 games.

 

[Atty]

It really isn't that bad, Arkaign. I used to switch between Xbox for Halo and CoD and PC for CS, so I'm no stranger to the glory of a KB/m set up but the Xbox controller and movement in MW3 is pretty damn good.

 

[sygyzy]

How come sometimes cash sprays out of me when I die in multiplayer?

 

[Atty]

How come sometimes cash sprays out of me when I die in multiplayer?

"Money" shot. Either a headshot or a cock shot, I don't know, a certain hot spot hit on your body produces that effect.

Also,

Spoiler

the vacation cut scene and death in the UK level was brutal.

 

[BD2003]

"Money" shot. Either a headshot or a cock shot, I don't know, a certain hot spot hit on your body produces that effect.

Also,

Spoiler

the vacation cut scene and death in the UK level was brutal.

It's when you kill the guy who just killed you. It's payback. Pay...money....get it?

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

I need to get better. My k/d ratio is .70 lol. Although I haven't played an fps in awhile and I was playing kill confirmed which isn't exactly great if you are worried about your k/d

 

[digiram]

Loving this game so far... It's a more balanced version of mw2 with new kill streaks, perks, modes. Maps are pretty nice.
I am kind of upset about final stand still being in the game... WTF?? Thought that was gone? Can we get sp back and remove final stand?

Also, there's a 25 ks MOAB that doesn't end the game, but this will cause you to see some camping and lead to potential boosting.

 

[sygyzy]

What's a MOAB?

Edit: Oh I see - Mother of All Bombs

 

[BD2003]

Loving this game so far... It's a more balanced version of mw2 with new kill streaks, perks, modes. Maps are pretty nice.
I am kind of upset about final stand still being in the game... WTF?? Thought that was gone? Can we get sp back and remove final stand?

Also, there's a 25 ks MOAB that doesn't end the game, but this will cause you to see some camping and lead to potential boosting.

SP is also in, in the form of a deathstreak (hollow points).

Hate it when it happens to me, love it when I get the drop on someone with it. It's pretty rare for that to happen, which makes it even more fucked up when it does.

 

[Kev]

A few random thoughts...

I love that final stand is gone! Having it as a death streak is no big deal.

I feel like assassin is almost a necessity. There is a UAV going up every 15 seconds. And the maps are so closed in and some have buildings that make it take forever to locate the UAV to shoot it down.

Speaking of UAV's (and other air killstreaks), I was hoping the fact that shooting them down adds to your streak would be the motivation necessary to get the CODonkeys to attempt shooting things down. Hasn't happened yet.

Graphics and textures are much more realistic than BLOPS in my opinion. Sure the color pallette is duller, but I think it just looks better.

Gun sound effects are just weird. Is this how these guns sound in real life?

The interface is clunky and a step backward from BLOPS. Also, I don't like how your friend leaderboard is basically based on how much you play. I liked being ranked on SPM, but I didn't find anywhere that SPM was listed.

 

[Atty]

The ACR sounds amazingly deadly and the Model 1887 is ridiculous.

In other news, Survival mode is amazing.

 

[BD2003]

A few random thoughts...

I love that final stand is gone! Having it as a death streak is no big deal.

I feel like assassin is almost a necessity. There is a UAV going up every 15 seconds. And the maps are so closed in and some have buildings that make it take forever to locate the UAV to shoot it down.

Speaking of UAV's (and other air killstreaks), I was hoping the fact that shooting them down adds to your streak would be the motivation necessary to get the CODonkeys to attempt shooting things down. Hasn't happened yet.

Graphics and textures are much more realistic than BLOPS in my opinion. Sure the color pallette is duller, but I think it just looks better.

Gun sound effects are just weird. Is this how these guns sound in real life?

The interface is clunky and a step backward from BLOPS. Also, I don't like how your friend leaderboard is basically based on how much you play. I liked being ranked on SPM, but I didn't find anywhere that SPM was listed.

The sound is def a step up from MW2, but it's still far from realistic. BF3 has it beat pretty hardcore on sound. It could be a LOT better.

Also agree that the interface is a step back in a lot of ways...almost seems like they're not taking what blops did well out of pride.

Dunno about other people but the points for shooting stuff down has been a big motivator for me. I have a defender class entirely built around countering everything the other team does. I always try to build my streak to 18 to get the EMP, and whip it out as soon as I hear jugg or escort airdrop incoming. Pisses people off so much and often turns the tide of a close game.

 

[Atty]

In MW2 I had a class named, "Kill Streak end" with its only downfall being that without stopping power (which I couldn't use because I needed the hidden from air support perk) I had no chance of being useful past a certain point. Now, though, without SP it'll be making a huge return for me!

I'm thinking Silenced AR (probably SCAR to start with), Blind Eye, Assassin, and maybe dead silence? Not sure on the last one. And stingers as well, although I need more ammo...hmm maybe I'll use the Specialist point streak and throw scavenger in there. So many options .

 

[Schfifty Five]

Is the callofduty.com website really fucked up right now? I'm trying to set up my account, link my PSN account to it, and get my founders status and everytime I try to do anything, it either hangs or kicks me back to the register page.

This is getting fucking annoying.

 

[sygyzy]

Last night this kid (I assume it was a kid) sent me a message on XBL, after a match and said "ur bad"

Who the heck does that?

 

[Atty]

Same kind of people who complained I used a "noob" tube in the game and proceeded to send harassing messages until I blocked communications.

Also, you level up far too quickly in this game. I got to level 40 at the end of one round and two minutes into the next match I was promoted to level 41. D:

 

[sygyzy]

You're obviously really good. We all see your sly attempt at showing off.

But seriously though, stop using the grenade launcher.

 

[Kabob]

I find the movement and gameplay of MW3 a lot more fluid than BF3 and maybe even Black Ops. I felt right at home and on my first game I was doing something like 12:3 kills:deaths. Nothing to write home about but remember this is Level 1. For Black Ops and previous MW's it took me until at least level 10-15 to get my groove on. I am a pretty good player, often ranking in the top one to three positions on a team match but again, it usually takes me a while to get there.

With MW3, I was there pretty quick and I also went from Level 1 to Level 10 in 9 games.

The fluid feeling comes from 60 FPS.

In other news, I hit lvl 10 in 3 games :awe:

Don't even want to think about how fast Buc hit it...

How come sometimes cash sprays out of me when I die in multiplayer?

Payback.

Is the callofduty.com website really fucked up right now? I'm trying to set up my account, link my PSN account to it, and get my founders status and everytime I try to do anything, it either hangs or kicks me back to the register page.

This is getting fucking annoying.

Entire website is horribly broken right now. Sneaky Shark had a good point, they'll probably bump the registration date for Founder status back to compensate.

 

[pontifex]

A few random thoughts...

I love that final stand is gone! Having it as a death streak is no big deal.

I feel like assassin is almost a necessity. There is a UAV going up every 15 seconds. And the maps are so closed in and some have buildings that make it take forever to locate the UAV to shoot it down.

Speaking of UAV's (and other air killstreaks), I was hoping the fact that shooting them down adds to your streak would be the motivation necessary to get the CODonkeys to attempt shooting things down. Hasn't happened yet.

Graphics and textures are much more realistic than BLOPS in my opinion. Sure the color pallette is duller, but I think it just looks better.

Gun sound effects are just weird. Is this how these guns sound in real life?

The interface is clunky and a step backward from BLOPS. Also, I don't like how your friend leaderboard is basically based on how much you play. I liked being ranked on SPM, but I didn't find anywhere that SPM was listed.

all you would hear in real life would be ringing because they are so loud and to have tons of people shooting, yeah, have fun unless you have some sort of ear protection or everyone has suppressors.

 

[BD2003]

Same kind of people who complained I used a "noob" tube in the game and proceeded to send harassing messages until I blocked communications.

Also, you level up far too quickly in this game. I got to level 40 at the end of one round and two minutes into the next match I was promoted to level 41. D:

Yeah....Im at like lvl 65 after 20 hrs played. One thing I noticed is that it takes approx the same amount of XP to go from 1-60 that it does from 60-80. So you leveling slows down a whole lot, but it's offset a bit by the fact that in later levels you're getting challenges and match bonuses that are way higher than at start.

Probably going to end up taking about the same amount of time to prestige as in MW2...40-50 hours. Compared to the way too short 20-30 it took in blops.