This week we’re seeing the result of Round 2 for the fight up the Xbox Live charts for the prestigious “King of Xbox Live” spot and according to Xbox’s Major Nelson, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has once again taken the #1 spot of the most played game on Xbox Live for the week of 1/28 away from Halo 3.
This battle for the #1 spot has been causing a surge of “Call of Duty 4 vs Halo 3″ articles and forum debates, and I don’t think the question is necessarily as easy as “which game is better”, because that’s all just opinions. Both amazing games, the question I have is who will stay on top, and do I think we can stay on top?
So can we stay on top? Yes.
Why do I think that? Well…
I fully expect to be battling for the #1 spot back and forth with Halo at the moment, it’s a great game with a huge following, but I also know we have a hardcore community of players not to mention have quite a few things up our sleeves for the game (some announced / some unannounced).
Reason #1 — Upcoming Feature Patch:
 New Kill Cams
We’re currently finishing up testing a feature patch thats going to bring a lot of enhancements and new features to the multiplayer overall that a lot of the community’s going to love. From Host Migration so when the host leaves you don’t have to research and re-invite everyone, you’ll all stick together and just assign a new host, to new Kill Cams for everything. So now those “WTF!” grenades that seemingly come from no where, you can see that a guy threw it over the house, it hit a tree branch, bounced off a rock, into a tiny window, where you happened to be pointing out of, and say…… whoa. Follow behind RPGs and M203’s kill cams, claymores, Airstrikes where you can follow the bomb from the plane until it hits you.
Host Migration:
Now you won’t have to be dropped back by yoursef when a host leaves. Instead, everyone will stay together, a new host will be assigned, and the game will auto-start back up. Keeping everyone together, no more re-inviting, re-joining games because some host leaves. This has been a tall order and something that we’ve put a lot of work into which has allowed us to really optimize online play all around not just specifically with Host migration.
Improved Sniper / ACOG Accuracy:
Sniper and ACOG scopes have been tweaked and are really improved. I use to not snipe at all (mainly because I’m a horrible sniper), but now it’s so much more fluid and natural, while still having the same difficulty to use, it has no more “WTF I know I hit that guy!” moments.
Upgraded Spectator Cam:
Now when you’re in spectator mode you can follow them in 3rd person, switch to their first person view, or rotate the camera in a full 360 degrees around whoever you’re watching.
[PATCH STATUS: Still in test, we're currently heavily testing the Host Migration before we submit it for certification at Microsoft. So heavily, we currently have the most highly paid test team ever as everyone here at IW is currently help test it, not just the QA department, we have the programmers in there right now actively working to push this thing out as quickly as possible as well as we've all been doing daily take home tests to get time on it even after the day has ended. Great progress happening on it.]
 Reason # 2 — Working on new DLC Maps:
The patch isn’t the only thing heading to multiplayer that we’re working on behind the scenes here at Infinity Ward. I announced at the beginning of this week that we’re also working on some brand new maps for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and trust me, based on the feedback were getting regarding what type of new maps you guys what, you’re not going to be disappointed. We’re putting a lot of community involvement, ideas, and feedback into these maps and I can tell you right now that some of the ones we’re working on are exactly what some of you have asked for. Can’t wait to share more details with you when we get a bit further done and start showing them off a bit. Thanks to everyone who has been commenting on the New Maps post.
Reason # 3 - Possibility of new Playlists
We’ve been throwing around new playlist ideas here at the office on ways we can constantly be updating the multiplayer experience for you guys (the community). Try out a few different ideas, see how you guys like them, if it’s gold, we keep it. This sounds like a perfect question for anyone who reads this blog, you guys had great feedback on what you think would make a good map, so what do you think would make a good playlists?
Hardcore Headquarters? I know a few of you have IM’d me that.
Maybe some Team Survival? Essentially just Team Deathmatch with no respawns, last man standing wins.
I would love to get some Hardcore Team Survival going, now that would be some serious shit. No Health Re-gen, no Respawns, just you, your weapon and your 1 life. What do you think? If you could fully customize a gametype (which you can in private match) what would be the rules? What would you call it? Hell, maybe we’ll try it out. I’m being 100% serious too, I’m interested in hearing what you think makes a good game type cause I’d really love to see what we can do to test some out.
Conclusion
Those, among other things, makes me confident we can stay at #1 for quite a while with the support of the community keeping the game fun and fresh. So let’s do it, I’m gonna be gathering up a group of the IW guys and start playing at a dedicated time / day each week, maybe we’ll kick it off tomorrow night? Who’s down for some Hardcore Search and Destroy tomorrow night around 8 pm PST? Regretfully my friends list is full, so I can’t add every friend request I receive but I figured if we have a dedicated gaming night where we know a lot of you and a lot of us (IW) are all going to be on, pick a specific playlist for the night, we’ll all have a much better chance of running into each other online. See you online and be sure to comment with your Playlist ideas.
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Cpt Longhorn // February 7, 2008 at 11:51 pm
RPG killcams=love, the hardcore team survival would be ill! Keep up the good work.
chazz // February 7, 2008 at 11:54 pm
has Iw made any progress with the host migration problem? can you put some kind of time frame on when IW will be ready to send it to ms?? other than that great #1 again
smallville // February 7, 2008 at 11:55 pm
This is the kinda of stuff that will keep this game going on for a long time. A good setup would be a assasination mode one person is the target you have a team to protect and a team to kill. once at the safe zone you have to stay alive until the timer countsdown once you get there and do it on a hardcore mode that would be cool.
MegaMan3k // February 7, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I would absolutely love a Team Survival / Last Man Standing playlist - although I think I might suggest that you bump it up to something like 3 lives so that rounds aren’t over extremely quick. That’s what me and a lot of my friends play in private match a lot - 3 life TDM.
As well, I’d love to throw out the idea for a 2 or 4 person TDM/S&D playlist - that would blow me away with excitement!
Thanks for the update. I love to see COD4 updates tick across my RSS Feed.
Ic3b3rg sLiM // February 8, 2008 at 12:00 am
Hardcore HQ would be awesome but still dumb at the same time if one team keeps spawing right at the HQ after capturing the previous HQ… its a pretty big problem and it can get very aggrivating..
MegaMan3k // February 8, 2008 at 12:00 am
Oh, sorry, I mean 2v2 or 4v4 person TDM/S&D.
Ic3b3rg sLiM // February 8, 2008 at 12:02 am
Survival would be awesome as well except for the mad camping that would be goin on…
Ic3b3rg sLiM // February 8, 2008 at 12:04 am
what i would really like to see is some Hardcore Ground War.. that would be just nuts… and perhaps extend the Ground War Team Deathmatch score to 1200 instead of 1000
Broward // February 8, 2008 at 12:06 am
Thanks for the update, this should calm people down again.
Xerlotian // February 8, 2008 at 12:24 am
OOOoooo! This has got to be the best thing I have read all flipping week!
I read it twice.
Thank you, Game Making Gods, for all of your response to our input.
We truly are not worthy.
Personally, I miss Cap the Flag.
Hardcore Headquarters would be ….sweet.
I never notice the Host Migration problem until I read this, now I’ll be looking for it. Thanks.
New Kill Cams sound like pure genius.
I hate Snipers.
I want to see the pain and suprise as my bullets enter my opponent.
But that’s just me.
I think 8PST is 11EST?
I will be sure to be there.
Save me some space.
IF YOU DARE!!!!!
Xerlotian
ZADIEl // February 8, 2008 at 12:30 am
Great info. As far as the COD4 gametypes I think a central bomb with no respawns would be great. Like in socom2 crossroads Demolition. Extraction of hostages would also be cool.
Gdogg // February 8, 2008 at 12:33 am
I think if anything S&D and HQ… should have mercenary features. Its hard enough dealing with clans or groups in those gametypes when my friends arent around to play. I know it would be alot more enjoyable to play those gametypes again.
Tyler // February 8, 2008 at 1:31 am
i think that capture the flag would be awesome just like it was in cod2. make is so you can chose to host a game or find one. and also, fix the spawning of the HQ in headquarters and where players Spawn in headquarters/
Dono // February 8, 2008 at 2:47 am
Personally, I’d like to see Team Tactical include 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 capability. Sometimes you just want to play with your little group, not having to rely on some new comers, you know?
Kevin // February 8, 2008 at 3:16 am
Man i would want CTF in the playlist ^_-
JeVeS360 // February 8, 2008 at 3:58 am
CTF all the way COD2 style………
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thelittleone // February 8, 2008 at 4:10 am
Maybe make it so you could custom private matches alot more, like in halo 3 you can custom the gravity and all that stuff. I find out that alot of ppl do glitches(getting on roofs in old school) alot cuz its pretty fun or maybe making up games(michael myers which is sorta like hide and seek). Maybe make co-op missions which you can get dozen ppl to help you with killing AI terrorist or anything.
Mars // February 8, 2008 at 4:26 am
I like the idea of a hardcore, no respawn assassination/escort mode, similar to what smallville (and others) mentioned.
I think an “intel” mode could be cool. Both sides have a computer in a fixed location and the goal is to travel to the opposing computer, get some intel from the enemy’s computer, and bring it back to your own. If the opposing team kills the person carrying the intel, they can pick it up and bring it back to their own base. This could become frustrating with no respawns, since it would be too easy for someone to camp on their own computer and just pick people off as they enter, but 3 or 5 respawns, maybe even unlimited respawns (with a delay) could work.
Keep up the great work!
john // February 8, 2008 at 4:32 am
Mercenary on EVERY mode PLEASE !! Im sick of going up against clans everytime when I wanna play solo. Mercenary Domination is most important.
xCoNx Fascism // February 8, 2008 at 4:38 am
Can’t wait for patch…I’ve been dying for it since Dec.14th. I mean not to brag but my sniping is already pretty sick, can’t wait for this.
New Maps = Can’t Wait. (Sucks you need PC version of game to use Mod Tools)
New Modes = GREAT IDEA
Hardcore HQ = No, just plain no.
Team Survival/Last Man Standing
/Hardcore Team Survival= Yes
Great Idea - No Respawns
Free For All Survival = Fun, But Maybe
Only On The Bigger Maps
Please Give Us SOMETHING New Soon.
P.S. Congrats on #1
NeoMorph // February 8, 2008 at 4:51 am
The thing I want most is a way to turn off the annoying aim assist. It’s like a backseat driver which keeps grabbing the wheel and shouting LOOK OVER THERE when I’m trying to drive straight. Just had a game session and was really enjoying it up to the time the AA kicked in and kept screwing up my shots… I left the game in annoyance at that point. To go from having fun to having a crap game all because of this Aim ANNOY function that you can’t turn off.
PLEASE GIVE US AN OPTION TO DISABLE AIM ASSIST IN MULTIPLAYER!
Kenwright910 // February 8, 2008 at 5:04 am
I think it would be awsome to have a hardcore option on all multiplayer gametypes. this game is supposed to be based on realistic modern combat. well taking 5-6 shots to the chest with an assualt rifle that would normally put someone down in 2 is just not realistic. so i would have to say hardcore option on all gametypes. like make a little option under vote to skip where you can vote to make hardcore or something
Cross xDRx // February 8, 2008 at 5:59 am
I have a small comment on your playlist adjustments. In an earlier blog you made a commentary on clan support and professional gaming. I have a simple solution to help encourage team and clan support that I know many competitive teams would enjoy.
A Playlist accessible ONLY to Teams of 4. If you don’t have enough people in your party - you cant join the playlist. This way the playlist will insure that two competitive teams of friends who regularly play with each other can go head to head in intense competition. It would seem like an easy option to implement. You already give people by themselves a nice option with mercenary team death match. All of us who enjoy playing with our friends and who want a challenge as opposed to regular ass kicking in public rooms against 6 randoms want an option to play with some good competition. This would be the perfect way to implement a competitive, Team Playlist.
Teck187 // February 8, 2008 at 6:11 am
Thanks for the post I would like to see A VIP mode
Macauley // February 8, 2008 at 6:12 am
Sweet! Do you think you could estimate how long it’ll take? Could we expect it by next week end, if there are no problems?
rabs // February 8, 2008 at 6:44 am
Hi 402,
Great news regarding the features of the patch. Just wondering though, will fixing the ‘unable to connect to host’ be a target for the patch as well?
Cheers,
rabs
Tapio // February 8, 2008 at 7:15 am
Honestly,i think Cod4 is unbalanced and that`s the reason im bored of the game,everybody else have perks like 3 grenades! WTF DUDE,dont give more experienced players more power!
Only thing i enjoy at cod4 is sniping,but sadly that is also broken
Il-loys // February 8, 2008 at 7:39 am
I ` would like to see the survival mode you mentioned,I like that idea…And also a big map ,where you only can play as a sniper..It would be a field of 4vs 4 snipers placed randomly.Which team kills the other team wins..
And another thing…IN search and destroy the teams will be placed randomly on the map,cause I always know where the enemy is coming from,and it`s spoils the fun of finding your enemy.And i would like also to see larger maps…
Cheers many thanks,Keep up the goodwork
Matt // February 8, 2008 at 8:09 am
Hey, what’s going on? I’ve got a few ideas for game modes and playlists:
VIP. It’s in almost every realistic shooters’ multiplayer. I think Rainbow Six Vegas nailed the concept, and you guys could do a variant of it? Vegas had it set up so the VIP could only use a pistol, and everyone else could use whatever. No respawns. The VIP has to make it to a designated spot on the map for the win. It’s pretty fun!
Team Doubles and Hardcore Team Tactical! These two playlists would be spankin’ awesome because I’ll usually find myself with one buddy on or in a group wanting to play hardcore without 3 extra team killing nubs on our team.
402, you guys have to put the Eotech on the M4 SOPMOD in Multiplayer! This would be an incredible addition/update! I guess you can add in an extra challenge to unlock it for each weapon, along with some pistol challenges for fun
Anywho, I’m GLAD you guys are working with us fans! And we’re all REALLY excited for the awesome job you have done on the patch and the maps. Thanks IW!
WildCat87 // February 8, 2008 at 8:15 am
Team Survival sounds pretty cool honestly.
Any chance we can get some previews of the new maps, like some teaser pics or something?
blair88 // February 8, 2008 at 8:47 am
I have had some very exciting and memorable moments playing capture the flag in COD2. If you guys could that gametype in COD4 I would be so happy. That would be the only gametype I would play. I also would love to see a map with one building that has multiple floors like maybe a hospital or something. Keep up the good work and no matter what you guys do I’m sure it will be great.
matt // February 8, 2008 at 10:26 am
What about different placement of bombs on search and destroy rather than in the same places? Simple but would vary the gameplay massively in this mode.
exercisingfutility // February 8, 2008 at 11:35 am
Used to be a longtime Halo fanatic. It was THE fps for multiplayer in my opinion. Halo 3 came out and while I wasn’t disappointed, I wasn’t blown away either.
Then I play CoD4.
Dear God.
I don’t think my friends and I did anything else the last week of December. Maybe you can’t say which game is better, but I think this game is the far superior fps… yeah basically I just said it’s better.
Also, I love blair88’s idea of a map that’s just one building with multiple floors. That would be sick!
Anyway, ramble ramble, you guys rock!
Xeroxicide // February 8, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I think there should be a hardcore Team Tactical. Just 3v3 Hardcore.
Great game guys. Keep it up!
Xeroxicide // February 8, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Maybe also a 2v2? Hardcore and Normal. I usually have a friend come over every weekend and sometimes we can’t get another guy for Team Tactical and I’d rather play with people i know. So 2v2 would work well in that case.
Gavin Owens // February 8, 2008 at 1:19 pm
fourzerotwo:
The online experience would be expanded exponentially if it put more power to its users in shaping it.
Here are a few ways to make this happen:
#1)
-allow us to put a name or a title on our game
-let us set that game to “public”
-create a 2nd List of Playlists on the Find a Match that is nothing more than a dump of all the custom matches set to public. let the mercenary or even party leader browse through them and see what the title is , who is host and some of the options.
B)
Create a Halo 3 style system where users can save and upload their gametypes, but do something halo does not and add the top ten to fifteen gametypes people are playing at any given moment to the list of types to jump into.
C)
dedicated servers for the console versions allowing anyone to create rooms (ie: Socom 2)
-PS3-Totex // February 8, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Game mode suggestion:
CTF (not that domination crap) but MANHOOD, I HAVE BIG EFFING BALLS CTF
Someway of having a place to report or kick by vote from games offensive clan tags (ex. KKK all they do is TK and trash talk the people out of the rooms) or griefing behaviour (yeah playing hardcore its great but its better when theres a way to kick the asshole that joins your team just to TK)
Fonkyonder // February 8, 2008 at 3:04 pm
hmmm…
I have an idea for a great playlist! It would be extremely awesome if there was a Clan Wars playlist, where your clan can go up against other clans. Also adjust it so people can just go into your clan by putting on your clan name. Make it so the leader of the clan or other clan members can invite them to the clan.
thanks
RGS Arnie // February 8, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Guys these improvements sound awsome, have u thought about an option to switch off the explosive weapons, These game types seem to bring out the best in people and also cut out the random nade factor…..Keep up the good work
is not null // February 8, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I like the idea of Team Survival but I don’t think it would replace Deathmatch for me. One of the best things about COD4 is it’s “realism”. One shot and you’re dead. But that also makes it difficult and frustrating sometimes because you can die so quickly.
The only thing I would like to see is a new map where it is night time.
theJwac // February 8, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I appreciate all these updates and you keeping us informed but I am really curious about capture the flag. It has always been my favorite game type and the decision to leave it out of CoD 4 really surprised me.
Fourzerotwo, what is the possibility of a CTF gametype in the future. Should I stop asking (it’s definitely not gonna happen) or should I just be patient (stop bugging and wait!)
boner10 // February 8, 2008 at 6:14 pm
yea guys it gives me huge boners
s5casto // February 8, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I’d be happy to have just Ground War Team Deathmatch - I hate domination… Also, what about team specific melee weapons? Marines carry knives, SAS do a back hand slap (like they’re challenging you to a duel), Arabs carry throwing stars, and the Soviets have heavy flasks they bludgeon you with.
I also think a doberman pinscher perk would be sweet. After a 10 kill streak or using all 3 perks you can send out a dog or 2.
BW // February 8, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I’d be curious how a game would work where you take Domination, but if you don’t have at least 1 checkpoint, your team cannot respawn. The reason I say this is because you have a lot of folks who play but are not interested in taking checkpoints, just staying back and trying to rack up kills, which defeats the spirit of Domination…
TheSorrow // February 8, 2008 at 6:47 pm
How soon will the patch come to PS3 after it’s set on 360?
Seraph // February 8, 2008 at 7:45 pm
What about offline multiplayer with bots? Including split screen. I love playing online, but when I have friends over and we want to play, this would be a perfect solution!
WasawSolos // February 8, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Team Survival would be the shiz. I used to play that game type in the game Starsiege Tribes and it was my favorite. The reason I play s&d on cod is because it is the closest thing to team survival.
oh and 11:00pm est? I was going to be playing hardcore s&d anyway so maybe Ill run into you.
BTW, Hello to all of my fellow CharlieOscarDelta forum members!!
Sgt Payback // February 8, 2008 at 9:07 pm
You can count on the boys from 2old4Duty! We love the hardcore stuff, so just shoot me an invite if you want to go up against us old guys
Pirates Gin // February 8, 2008 at 9:21 pm
A team survival gametype would be awesome. I used to play a lot of Clan Arena back in the Quake 3 days so a last-man-standing-team-wins gametype would be pure nostalgia. That tiny square cargo map would be awesome for this gametype and would make for some pretty fast paced and intense matches.
In fact, that cargo map should silently be slipped into other game modes like TDM. Sometimes there’ll be a few slow matches in a row and suddenly comming up to a rediculously small map would be quite the riot.
For me personally I’d love to see a “Vacant Only-All Team Gametypes” playlist. Vacant is like the Q3dm6 of CoD4 for me and I could play it all day long
Wolf // February 8, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hardcore Team Survival ftw!
And what about just Hardcore Survival? (FFA with no respawns, and hardcore)
Though would need to prevent camping somehow…need some kind of objective?
Crazydew // February 8, 2008 at 10:07 pm
How about a PS3 VS Xbox Playlist? PS3 players on one team and 360 players on the other and stats that track how many games each console has won. It would be great competition between the systems. You could even make different player skins for each console. That would be sweet!!!
Z1ldjian // February 8, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I and several others that I have spoke to as well think the single best thing you could give us other than new maps would be, the ability to play any game mode on all of the maps. I realy don’t like that COD 4 will only let you play specific maps for certain game modes. Open it up aka: like COD 2, and let the host get to choose the map that will be played regardless if it is TDM, Domination etc…
Pirate Fister // February 9, 2008 at 1:14 am
Mercenary S&D is a biggy for me because if my team isn’t on and I want to get in some S&D, it sucks having to play against team NOX or the latter.
Pistol, sniper, shotgun only matches etc. It would all be in the same game mode called “Specifics” or something.
Maybe some kind of wacky match type mode. Something like grenades and knives only on shipment, or make c4 capable of flying as far as a grenade and have a C4 only match with like 3-4 packs of C4 on you when you spawn and you can pick others up. People would play that mode all the time.
This is for 360 by the way.
Your loyal 3rd prestiger,
Pirate Fister
SeaCat // February 9, 2008 at 1:27 am
I really enjoyed “War” playlist from COD3. Big tug of war for 5 flag locations. Would love to see that as a new playlist in the patch.
Blastoid oio // February 9, 2008 at 4:17 am
Gametypes I would like to see
1. Capture the flag …carry the flag back to and from the enemy base either one or two flags
2. Nuke ball….a large ball that you can shoot to arm and then shoot and roll it into enemy territory before it explodes…it can explode killing those around it and regenerate (spawn time 10 seconds)
3. Cavalier…you have one gold plated team member who you must keep from getting killed (respawn 5 seconds)
4. Blastoid…a gold plated team member with unlimited noob tubes and grenades (maybe with a flamethrower) who has 5 times regular health that you must kill
5. Payback….a team deathmatch game where you get 5 lives. Each life you start with less and less health. The final life you end up heart racing and red vision..last man standing wins
6. Chopper chopper…Team deathmatch with a rogue chopper cutting everyone down
7. Predator…where everyone can get knocked down to pulsing heart and slow movement like the flash grenades do but only knife kills count
8. T-minus…you must search out and disarm the enemy nuke (nuke is set to 5mns and unlimited lives with a spawn time of 10 seconds)
……….just a few
Blastoid oio // February 9, 2008 at 4:19 am
Oh yeah thanks for the updates!
-Blastoid oio (2o4D)
We have been practicing so get peasant online and lets hammer down
SpeedNut[CV] // February 9, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Just a comment on the Hardcore Team Survival. We’ve been matching on this (Friendlies) on the PC side with some fellow squads and this format is great. Brings out the tactical instead of run+gun, but the only drawback is there needs to be some sort of determination to prevent draws if people are still alive at the end of the round. If you need any more details, or a demo, let me know.
xAsSaSiNxChIcKx // February 9, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Capture the flag: not cod3 style but cod2..where you have the flag but can still use the gun. dunno why CTF was ever eliminated but then again i didnt ike the cod3 version.
In Battlefield modern combat you can actually fly the chopper and have teamates inside to drop them around the map..Awesome.
Tanks! not the jeeps and the motorcycles but Tanks
Some type of Hostage game mode could be cool too where you can take one of the opposite teammembers and they have to rescue them. But in order to take them hostage you have to do like in cod3’s single player campaign and hand to hand combat them loser is the hostage. Most hostages captured wins
xAsSaSiNxChIcKx // February 9, 2008 at 6:48 pm
also COD2 had the playlist you could name and chose the map and players you wanted to play with many of us old schoolers had tons of fun! bring it back
Please
AJKI11A // February 10, 2008 at 4:32 am
CTF… CTF..CTF!!! * (Huge Crowd Chants and Screams and yells)*
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EG // February 11, 2008 at 12:52 am
Mercenary Groundwar would be awesome.
EJ // February 11, 2008 at 5:38 am
Will there be the ability to mute other player’s mics? Some kids are so annoying…
Sandwolf // February 11, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I think for a new playlist a CTF playtype would be great. You can’t even make that in private matches because theres no pick-up able objective. Take a look into it. CoD3 and CoD2 did it? Why can’t CoD4.
paul // February 11, 2008 at 9:15 pm
all i have to say is mersaniers hardcore search and distroy and something like capture the flag with a brife case not like sabatoge but like the call of duty three capture the flag
GoN2SouthPark // February 11, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Great News !!!
I’d love to see Hardcore Team Survival. Also, the members of our community would like to be able to get more than 6 folks into Hardcore TDM as a team.
Thanks for all the good times.
kman3k // February 12, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Couple things here my man……
1. Team survival=Camp, camp, abnd more camp. Keep it. Got no need for more camping gametypes (cough-TDM-cough).
2.Team Tactical- Make it 4v4 like the beta. Tourneys, clan matches, etc are 4v4 for the most part. Be great to grab my 3 teamates and jump into a TeamTact and get some practice against the unknown masses. Plus if MLG picks this up, it will be even more necessary.
3. Prv. Matches- Need more opyions. Instead of perks on/off, how about the ability to only allow certain perks, or more precisely turn off the bad perks (i.e.-martydom, last stand, etc.) Plus a “No Booms” option would be great. Imagine, playin a shooter where the only weapons you had were guns….strange I know, but a very welcome change.
kman3k // February 12, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Lastly, Instead of trying to jam 100 things into this patch, why wasnt it done in phases? The sniper rifle/acog hit detection were immediately brought to IW’s attention. There was word of a patch being worked on less than 1 month into the game.
Now here we are 3 full months have come and gone and still no patch. I love the work you guys do, but this was a poor decision on IW’s part. No one cares about killcams when you cant shoot a guy w/ a snipe from a tiny 100 yds away.
And now here comes word of new DLC, great, but can you fix the game first?
Dasyatis // February 12, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I like the idea of Team Survival. Play that quite a bit (albeit with a few lives) in private. I`ve found that when you get to the last few people left though games can drag a little. Two people on Overgrown can take ages finding each other even if they`re both looking.
Shipment needs to be added to more playlists. That map can be brutal.
Hardcore versions of the existing modes would be nice too. Hardcore seems to be all I play.
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Dasyatis // February 13, 2008 at 11:05 am
As an aside, I`d also like to see a special playlist added.
This would be changed quite often and have something a little bit silly in it. I`m not sure how easy it is to do but having the special playlist do something random (everybody moves at double speed, firing is slowed, firing is sped up, no reloading, knifes only, lower gravity, no jumping, etc etc). After playing match after match of something serious it would be nice to do something a little silly.
GOON36O // February 13, 2008 at 11:25 am
Team survival sounds awesome! I always hated respawns in games. This way its more tactical and slow paced where every shot counts and team work is more crucial than ever!
Another kool random idea would be a 3rd support when you reach say 10-15 kill streak. Say maybe a AC130 gunship comes in and reigns down fire on whatever area your targeting “ala frontlines :D”.
Malthus // February 13, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Hardcore HQ would be great, Hardcore Domination would rock too.
Team Survival sounds good too and I’ll echo the crush of voices for Hardcore Team Tactical.
lukeman // February 13, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hardcore OLTL (One Life To Live), no or hardly any health regeneration, no respawns, no UAV, no Perks, as hardcore as cod4 could get.
Snap // February 13, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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Joshua Sudmeyer // February 14, 2008 at 3:23 am
ok i got a game type for ya, what if u made a survival game type were it would be like on crash lets take the 3 story tower for instance were one team , marines has to defend the second story and the the opfor has to take it, the opfor has to stand inside the tower for 4 seconds without dying while there can be no marines in it, i.e. if a marine is in the second story the timer cant start if he is alive. anyway the marines have like a 6 second spawn delay and the opfor doesnt have one so that would make it really competitive, the marines spawn at the top floor of the tower or on the helecopter, the opfor spawns in different locations throughtout the map, if a marine gets a kill its worth 20 xp and assits are 10, if opfor gets a kill its worth the normal 10 and assits are 2. the game is over once the marines have lost the defend spot or the opfor fails to capture it in 10 minutes. the game type would be called Survival. u could do this for all maps except Shipment. Just pick a building and have a room in it that has to be defended. like the Gas Station on over grown or the house at B Bomb site in SD on overgrown. or lets say the Tin Tractor house on Downpour. Email me at jsudmeyer@earthlink.net for comments.
BetaNemesis // February 14, 2008 at 11:06 am
How about a gametype like captive, like in socom FTB. Where when one of your teammates gets killed you can revive him by pressing the x button and when you are revived you have full ammo. It would be team death match, best of 6 rounds.
BrutalxAJx // February 14, 2008 at 2:12 pm
hardcore free for all ???
=)~
BrutalxAJx // February 14, 2008 at 2:14 pm
maybe some new perks OH how I would love a M14 with an acog and silencer !!!!
Poffy // February 15, 2008 at 1:14 am
Hardcore Team Survival would be AMAZING.
I love the feeling of Search and Destroy, where you have to use a lot of tactics, and I think it would work amazing for a death match-like game type.
ReeseCupTBB // February 15, 2008 at 5:26 am
Please, please, please separate Domination from Groundwar! We have over 30 people in our clan and we usually have more than 6 players together at a time. We constantly vote out Domination maps and take our chances that we’ll get Deathmatch. Frequently, we’ll do a party split just to avoid Domination in Ground war.
I bet if you check the stats, you’ll see that a lot of folks skip Domination in Groundwar.
If you can scroll the playlist box, there should be no problem with splitting Goundwar into Deathmatch and Domination variations and still add everything else that’s in popular demand.
Sir pH // February 18, 2008 at 9:10 am
CTF! definately.
thebigb59 // February 25, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Sod the hardcore modes
Capture the Flag
King of the Hill
1000 points for tdm
hyphy // February 25, 2008 at 8:54 pm
please i would love to see the m16 toned down just a little or make it unlockable
Mr M // March 1, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Just being able to select the map and gametype would be enough for a lot people.
Cheers.
Mr M.
PaxilRose // May 11, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Love to see Hardcore Headquarters
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