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    I'm really getting frustrated over the fact that there still aren't, and probably never will be dedicated servers, It's almost impossible to play a game with your friends, unless you play a private match, that won't give you any xp. And you have to be lucky with your NAT type because you'll probably have a shitty network that you can't fix which makes it even harder to play a decent game. Also, it's even more annoying that when you're playing a game it suddenly stops for host migration, and often just can't find a new host and the game just stops without a match bonus or anything. Also, a lot of the hosts in servers are really laggy, I see stathackers or just hackers each 3 servers I go in. And did I mention that it takes an hour to connect with a good server, because as soon as I click the gamemode like free for all, demolition, anything I just connect to a server and 5 secs later I'm in the middle of a game without even having the choice to pick a map or see what players are in the server.

    OK so they made a game that's fun but they should really care more about their costumers, I paid like €60 for this game so I expect it to not be a pain in the ass to play it properly. And yeah their going to bring out a DLC with some new callsigns, maps etc, but guess what, we'll probably have to pay for it? And that still doesn't fix any of the problems I mentioned.

    It's about time they do something about all this because there are a lot of players getting tired of the game already because of this...

    The reason behind the matchmaking system given by spokesmen for IW, was that it would make thing easier for gamers. Anyone could click play, choose their gametype and be on their way.

    However, I spent 5 minutes waiting for the system to find someone while ppl dropped and joined, dropped and joined, before it finally went into a game (all the while shouting at me in german, cunts) then the host migration came up, failed, and returned us all to the lobby.

    Not being able to choose a map to play on is a real fucking pain in the ass, but really it's only a change in scenery that you get because every map is the same circular gameplay with no chokepoints and a million ways to get anywhere, along with a million camping spots because god forbid people had to learn a level instead of running forward shooting at things. Maybe IW could avoid getting Brad "The Dude" Peterson and his frat buddies to provide QA for their game, or at least get them to play while not chugging beer bongs and "shredding kegs". We're not all idiots and a challenge is a good thing in a game, when you try to make everyone a badass killing machine you just make a mess and there's nobody to clean up the semen and vomit.

    I literally laughed out loud when I saw the screen pop-up and show me I could choose a new title and a badge/icon (fuck knows what the term is in english as I was treated to some bavarian moon runes bullshit). If anyone says that time and resources were the reasons MW2 on PC didn't get dedicated servers or a server browser then they should wonder how many weeks it took to design all 7 fucking pages of titles along with their associated artwork.

    Great. Now we can all be unique running around in circles cluttering up the fucking screen with dope leaves and golden skulls.

    I look forward to playing the coop when I work out what fucking button I need to press.

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    Not being able to choose a map to play on is a real fucking pain in the ass

    Have to agree on this, other than that: rank 64 - still taking n00bs to school pretty much every day! Anybody from the Core is welcome to add me on Steam for some free for all mayhem

    IW.Net FAILED on matchmaking.

    Having spent the last weeks playing MW2 at a friends house, we are both so fuken sick of the "easy" system. Is this easy:

    - Being in a party, but ending up at different servers when we try to play.

    - One getting "kicked" off the server just before the game starts (so the game starts with 1 less player, message is "unable to connect to host")

    - Switching from servers pre-game (everyone\half\some "drop out".

    - Not being able to join parties (cannot connect to player, WE ARE ON FUKEN LAN!!111!)

    - Playing with Russians, Spain-ards (?) and Germans, GREAT PING!!1

    Give me ded servers, and I'll buy the game one more time.

    I wonder if they even had people on QA for the PC-version. Probably not. Or if there was, they were probably a bunch of console fanboys, or ultimatelly ignored. How the lobby-system could slip under the radar for PC is a mystery. For every time I play this game, I just keep telling myself "Wow, did I really pay $60 for THIS?". I bought it cause I had some money to spare and wanted to have a game to kill time with until Battlefield Bad Company 2 is released (oh snap, beta soon!). Now the 'buyers regret' is creeping up on me, realising it's a peice of shit port from console to PC.

    I keep raging at the Field of View being so damn narrow, I constantly keep running into door frames rather than through it, and enemies running up to me stabbing me in the face while under normal Field of View conditions in proper games, I would have no problem seeing the damn asshole. I also like how IW didn't see that the Scavenger-perk gives people infinite "noobtubes". Why bother aiming at your enemy when you can just go PLUNK---**BOOM**---KACHUNK and restock on nades from the enemy corpse? I like how there is still nothing being done about the Care Package Marker sprint. So in future warfare, all we'll see is people running around stabbing each other, while holding a tiny green smoke canister.

    Some of the maps are just plain horrible. "Sub Base" have broken spawns; fun stuff giving the enemy free kills by spawning pretty much next to him. "Wasteland" is snipers digging in at every possible location, waiting people out until time runs out or they camp for kills until they get an overpowered aerial killstreak award. "Scrapyard" ... GTFO! At least the maps made by our dear mapcorian Composite are OK'ish.

    Speaking of killstreaks, the Nuke shouldn't even be in the damn game! If there's something I don't want, it's getting thrown back to the lobby before a game ends, where you have to wait for AT LEAST a minute before being able to get your ass kicked again (this doesn't happen with dedicated ser- ... oh wait, IW doesn't care about this, never mind). The Nuke also gives the users team the win, which is completely retarded as well. Even if your team is doing a fantastic job at racking up points, be it in Domination or TDM, you lose all cause of a camping jackoff enemy getting the nuke.

    There's tons more of stuff I could rant about, but knowing nothing will be done about this, all I've posted could just been a huge wall of nothing. It really feels like IW got their money, and just ran off. "Harrdiharr, the peasants shelled out lots of money for our overpriced product ... OFF TO THE BAHAMAS! FOR EVER!". And I bet "Finding the best host" is a running joke within the office...

    st0lve : I was in a party with a buddy of mine, and we ended up on different teams in TDM.

    I wasn't going to buy the game until this dedicated server nonsense got figured out. But I went to a local store last week and saw the console versions on sale for $40. I've now got myself a 360 copy, I haven't tried the multiplayer yet though, just single player and spec-ops

    I don't understand the hate.

    I'm enjoying the multiplayer alot, I have pretty much NO problems connecting to games, no dropouts or lag. Someone please provide me the "bad version" of this game so I can share your frustration.

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    so steam AND IW are both retards.my account is english, my address is english, all my games ahve been bought and are set to english. but all of a sudden when i buy mw2 on steam it gives it to me in german.

    and deleting the zone files means the game simply crashes on launching, instead of downloading missing files.

    i even gifted the game to a non german friends' account. and he has been given the german version.

    fucking failures, every man and child involved.

    Not wanting to sound condescending, but have you tried to right-click on the game in steam and set it's language to english? I can set it in German, so I supposed you could do the opposite.

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    Some of the maps are just plain horrible. "Sub Base" have broken spawns; fun stuff giving the enemy free kills by spawning pretty much next to him. "Wasteland" is snipers digging in at every possible location, waiting people out until time runs out or they camp for kills until they get an overpowered aerial killstreak award. "Scrapyard" ... GTFO! At least the maps made by our dear mapcorian Composite are OK'ish.

    Try marathon, feather light/firepower and ninja perks in combination with a sub machine gun like a Mac 10 or TMP. You can dodge bullets or silently sneak up behind them, the camper n00bs will never know what hit them.

    I played with a guy yesterday who used marathon + feather light in combination with commando, just holding a pistol = fast as fuck, in close combat there was hardly a way to take him out before he stabbed you. This stuff can be annoying but I still scored higher than he did. What's everybody's favourite weapon? Silenced UMP + firepower and quick reload is pretty lethal in my hands

    All trouble with the matchmaking system aside (for lonewolves like me it works quite ok) I guess it depends on what you are looking for. I like fast paced deathmatch games with lots of mayhem, then again I used to play a lot more S&D (Hardcore) in MW1. I don't play in a clan anymore, that's one factor but the other is that the maps are indeed not as good as in MW1 for team matches. As you said there are not enough choke points.

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    Try marathon, feather light/firepower and ninja perks in combination with a sub machine gun like a Mac 10 or TMP. You can dodge bullets or silently sneak up behind them, the camper n00bs will never know what hit them.

    I played with a guy yesterday who used marathon + feather light in combination with commando, just holding a pistol = fast as fuck, in close combat there was hardly a way to take him out before he stabbed you. This stuff can be annoying but I still scored higher than he did. What's everybody's favourite weapon? Silenced UMP + firepower and quick reload is pretty lethal in my hands

    All trouble with the matchmaking system aside (for lonewolves like me it works quite ok) I guess it depends on what you are looking for. I like fast paced deathmatch games with lots of mayhem, then again I used to play a lot more S&D (Hardcore) in MW1. I don't play in a clan anymore, that's one factor but the other is that the maps are indeed not as good as in MW1 for team matches. As you said there are not enough choke points.

    How about Maraton\Lightweight\Commando pro, alongside a pistol with taci-cool knife and Care Package glitch. It's been in the game since lanuch, and gives you retard speed + reach on the knife.skdr, play on the PC, probably not a problem on consoles.

    I had the laggiest piece of shit game ever today. Ping bars sitting there at 3 or 4 green bars.

    I can see why they didn't go with numbers.

    Because Peer-to-Peer is for faggots who don't know better.

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