Sun Tzu

Well I am rethinking my purchase.

New Modern Warfare Matchmaking Service Will "Definitely" Reshape PC Community In a webcast this morning, Robert Bowling revealed the existence of IWNet, a matchmaking service Infinity Ward will operate beginning with Modern Warfare 2. But it ends dedicated servers, and fundamentally changes the culture of the game's PC community. Bowling,the Infinity Ward community manager, said IWNet makes multiplayer moreaccessible to the PC community on Modern Warfare 2, replacing the needfor dedicated servers that are hosted and managed by players. But thehardcore PC crowd to whom he was talking, on BASHandSlash.com'swebcast, did not take the news in a completely positive light. "The silence you hear is because we've got a community right nowstructured such a way that relied on having dedicated servers," one ofBASHandSlash's moderators told Bowling. "You're definitely reshaping the way the community has been set up," another said later. "Definitely," Bowling acknowledged. Here's the score: by building up its own matchmaking service ridingshotgun with Steam, "you can get in and play with players your samerank," Bowling said. However, "You're completely reliant on IWNet andthere is no dedicated server or server list. You rely on IW Net formatchmaking and your games, but you still have your private matches." The level of control over those matches allows players to set a widearray of parameters and rules for the game. But community features suchas clans, and the high level of customization available in hosting amodded game or custom map on one's own dedicated server, face anuncertain future, if not their end outright. "Custom content, after the fact, keeps the game alive for us a lot longer," one of Bowling's questioners said. "This is the first time we've ever done something like this,obviously," Bowling said, "and I know the team has huge plans for whatIWNet develops into, and this is just the beginning. It's hard for meto speak personally towward IWNet, because that is a code heavyproject." Bowling reminded that this method of multiplayer delivery alsoallows Infinity Ward "a lot more control and structure for the PCversion. From a development standpoint, it's very good on how we canaccess and update the PC community." But before this is taken as the definitive end of modding and custommaps, Bowling clearly said "I don't have those answers yet," when askedfurther about how IWNet would affect that aspect of PC Modern Warfareplay. The entire conversation is archived here,and Bowling comes in at the 1:39:00 mark (that's one hour, 39 minutes).If this matters to you I definitely encourage listening to all of whathe has to say before reacting. But the news is not being taken well. The BASHandSlash guys referredto the vehemence in the chatlog running concurrent with the program,and terms such as "Black Saturday" and "a day of infamy" are beingthrown around. "They've made Jesus cry," is another reaction,particularly from the competitive PC community whose future also isaffected. "The server community is what's made us. It's what definedus," says Josh Pickler of planetmedalofhonor.com "IW.NET is getting the PC community to turn into consoles. You're trying to re-write our history." Bowling was steadfast in telling BASHandSlash that, for the whole of the community, IWNet will be a benefit. "It's definitely going to be a change. It's going to be a verydifferent setup than what we're previously used to in the Call of Dutyfranchise for the PC," In the long term it's going to help thecommunity. It changes the way and how we're able to update and supportthe PC version." It definitely bears watching, and keep in mind the story could change as Infinity Ward releases more information on IWNet.

Infinity Ward launching IW.NET and no more dedicated servers Posted by: John at 10/17/2009 3:26 PM More On: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Companies: Activision Blizzard Boy, first Blizzard now Infinity Ward. In this podcast, Robert Bowling confirms that PC folks won't be able to run dedicated servers anymore with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Talk of this is about 1 hour and 42 minutes into the podcast. Great. The PC community loves to run MODs and love dedicated servers because of how fair it is and offer up better performance than listen servers. So, what's going to happen when everything moved to IW.NET? I'm getting a little agitated with how things are changing and it doesn't seem like it's for the better. I maybe wrong but removing the ability to do dedicated servers really puts a damper on things. All of Valve's games use dedicated servers with great success for example as well as many other PC games. I don't like the sound of what IW's doing but I guess we'll see after a few months how it goes.

Ok well for the moment I am going not to cancel my preorder and wait till there is a clear and definite answer on this subject. Butits a damn shame how they trying to kill the pc cod community.

Chuck Norris fact: Bruce Lee killed Chuck Norris

Happy Birthday

This site here:

Rugger I have had this problem also thats why i dont use a sniper rifle.

Also done samw way for thew xfire videos as well

gamin-ol>XI< Hi Sun Tzu, nice system.

Manufacturer: Sun TzuProcessor: Intel® Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz~2.7GHzMemory: 12288MB RAM DDR3 Patriot Gaming SeriesHard Drive: 2x500 GBVideo Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTXMonitor: SynchMaster226Bw 22inchSound Card: X-Fi ExtremeSpeakers/Headphones: LogitechKeyboard: DellMouse: Logitech G5Mouse Surface: Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)Motherboard: ASUS Rampage 2 ExtremeComputer Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000

Yes thank you all who have been working so hard to get it back up and running much appreciated on your hard dedicated work.

Welcome to the >XI< family

I have a favorite saying "Just adapt and overcome the obsticle" Its just a game bro enjoy it to the fullest as much as you can.

Again I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome. Been playing with you all for sometime specially before my comp took a shit and didnt want to run which prolonged me from joining then. But now I am back and ready to make Ice Sculptures (LMAO) abds if you all dont have me added to xfire yet its suntzutheartofwar And again thanks for the warm welcome

Yes by 2 weeks.

This is going to show you what the Obscurity can do. I am uploading 2 videos Now to select items for the gun you hold ur secondary grenade button the one for flash and move ur mouse side to side to pick from a list that will be show on the bottom right corner. Now to change from weapons to hands that looks like ur holding something press 6. This allows you to pass thru some walls. You just have to test the walls and see if you can pass thru them. Now for super high jumps you press ur use key/f or whatever you have it assigned to. If I left anything out I will post it later or if you have ???? just post it here and I will answer it if I can.

Dr. Unk aka props? you pick from a list of objects that u can be and hide on the map somewhere. AKA props.

Star Wars Mod: Galactic Warfare Coming Dec 2009

http://www.xfire.com/video/15bf4d/

WoW what a bunch of dumbasses there goes more to debt. Cant they come up with something more creative.

Basiclly you have a Hider and a Seeker. Hider you pic What you want from a list of objects ranging from cardboard box to a lightpost. You basicly hide somewhere on the map. When you are a seeker you search for them way u find them is you have to knife them. Few side notes: F key puts u in third person view

Hey does this mean we get a key to the porta potty as well or is that just for Caper. Thanks everyone who has or who will post here.

I like to mix it up a lil bit rushing/camping keeps the game interseting. Trust me there are plenty of times I am the last man and try to unfreeze every1 I get bitched at come unfreeze me unfreeze me here. You do what you can do. But I gaurantee they will say nice try man and just move on. Its just a game bro just have fun and roll with the punches everything is in fun.

It looks cool I only played like 3 minutes and then was kicked but I figured it was to make room for an >XI< member.