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Lightbulb [ars] PC Modern Warfare 2: it's much worse than you thought

ars does a great job of dissecting the consequences of what was revealed in the BB Q&A.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...ou-thought.ars

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Modern Warfare 2 has long earned the ire of PC gamers for its lack of dedicated servers, but Infinity Ward has now announced that it's taking away much more than control over hosting with the game in one long face-palm of a question and answer session. No servers, no console, no mods, no problem!
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The question in the chat showed just how far the gulf between what gamers want and what Infinity Ward is giving them has become. "Is there a /record feature? Answer yes... please. We're trying to give you a 'chance'," the gamer asked. The answer was a simple "No."
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DudezTY: Since we cannot kick people in ranked matches, how will we stop hackers who get past VAC?

Mackey-IW: Our goal is to ban hackers from the game.

It's a shame that it's impossible to show a jaw dropping on an online chat. There will be no way to kick players, and Infinity Ward seems sure they'll simply be able to keep hackers and cheaters from playing.

That's a pipe dream, of course, but with no control in the hands of the players, no ability to control who is hosting, and no ability to kick or ban players from your game, you're just going to have to take their word for it.

kaRMa: Please give me a direct answer. On the PC version. Are all games hosted by players, and is there a five-second delay when host migration is in effect?

Vince-IW: yes.


Why is this a problem? Because Infinity Ward also revealed in the chat that the game will pick who hosts. You have no control over it. If the host leaves, there will be a five-second delay while the game picks the next best host. Players have no way of controlling who is hosting, and of course we know there will be no dedicated servers.

The host will of course have a ping advantage, which should be mitigated by the software "having a great tolerance for latency," and a five-second pause if the host rage-quits before the game restarts will ruin any flow the game enjoyed until that point.
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Moriarte: Ignoring IW.net, is the PC version a direct port of the console version?

Mackey-IW: No, PC has custom stuff like mouse control, text chat in game, and graphics settings.

This is the amount of work that went into the PC version: you are given the ability to use a mouse, to use text chat, and to adjust graphical settings. Are your fears now put to rest?
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To sum it up

We thought the lack of dedicated servers was bad, but now we can add the lack of console commands, the inability to have a say in who hosts the game, a lengthy pause while the game migrates to a new host if the currently selected host quits, no leaning, no option to record matches, and no way to kick or block trouble players, hackers, or cheaters....
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I played Spec Ops for about 5 hours on Xbox split screen and its great. But the HUD is a tad too bling.
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For some reason, people are acting like the consoles have it but the PC doesn't. To my knowledge, neither does the consoles.

Though, like I repeatedly said, it's certainly needed in alot of the campaign. I can't see it in multiplayer though.
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So, since they clearly hate the PC gaming community, I sent them an email stating that I hope MW2 gets the living hell pirated out of it.

And you can bet your ass that IW and Activision will go crying to the news saying "See? This is why we don't do nice things for PC gamers. They pirate"

I will laugh in their faces when I see that article. Games that deserve our money get it. Yours does not. Go **** yourselves IW.
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Wow.. just wow. and to think what i thought of the game was bad enough before..

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The sad part is that this game will still sell 2 million copies on PC
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