Modern Warfare 3 Will Feature LAN Support

[Evil the White]

Take out the £10 mappacks (or alternatively, charge me £10 for them all) and I might try it.

 

[qeinar]

Now lets just hope that the Famas isn't overpowered, the grenade launcher isn't too cheap, and that there is no retarded knifing. Then I will say they have won my full support. Very much looking forward to it. Not that LAN actually matters on Xbox 360.

they've suposedly nerfed the knifing some.

I just wish they ad mod support so every mistake they make can be fixed on the pc. ^^ atleast there's no stupid deathstreaks this time around.

 

[GideonB]

Tiny steps...but keep coming forward Activision...no sudden movements, and keep your EULAs where we can see them.

Take out the £10 mappacks (or alternatively, charge me £10 for them all) and I might try it.

Yes please
These
Because you know, Activision I don't pay £10 for 5 maps
I pay £10 for a fucking expansion pack
NOT 5 MAPS

 

[AugustFall]

There is an incredible role reversal going on here with BF and CoD. I loved BFBC2 and compared to BlOps I was more than happy to jump on the BF3 love train but after everything with Origin, no server browser and EA throwing shit at IW and Activision I'm sort in the MW3 camp now. Hope it's good on PC.

 

[-IT-]

Well fuck me, I wasn't expecting that from Activision. Though I do applaud the LAN support, I'm still waiting till they drop the silly mappack pricing.

I'll just stick with CoD4 and BF3.

 

[Rednog]

Translation:

Battlefield 3 is going to fuck us sideways on the PC; we're just trying to get together as much lube as possible before it happens.

Really? Any PC gamer should have EA on their shitlist. They've been building a pretty bad habit of screwing up launches and patches as of late. Medal of Honor, perpetual cycles of updating the same patch over and over and not having it stick, then steam players getting no support for a patch. Dead Space 1 had absolutely ass backwards control problems with the mouse, Dead Space 2 got got no DLC, and multiplayer didn't function well and pretty much got it killed off the bat.
Now this origin nonsense, having to exit out of the game to search for a server? What is this nonsense?

 

[chinangel]

not really on-topic but a question about Modern Warfare 3 none-the-less. will i ahve to buy a subscription to play online? If so then screw it i'm going to Battlefield.

 

[smartengine]

Meh... sure they're trying to appeal the PC community, but adding lan is not proving it's not just a bad console port.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Perhaps I'm just being cynical here, but I can't help but feel that this is less about selling more copies - the game will sell well without all this extra effort - or even about really doing something good for PC gamers. Instead, it's about more about winning hearts and minds and making Activision a little more popular.

I had to read this like five times before I realised it said that it was "less" about selling more copies.

Wait, so now the cynical approach is to assume that they aren't just in it for the money and they do want to cater to gamers' desires and win them over?

It's getting really difficult for me to keep up with the ways in which I'm supposed to dislike every major publisher. I know I'm supposed to dislike them any time they try to make money, but now I'm supposed to dislike them when they go out of their way to please me and it probably won't make them much more money?

That aside, I've never really seen a tremendous need for LAN in most modern games. I've been to plenty of LAN parties where everyone was playing on an online server through a single internet connection and latency was still absolutely fine. Most games have pretty low bandwidth requirements, so having more connections (up to a certain point of course) is rarely a big problem. I suppose there are situations in which it's useful (like for truly tremendous LAN parties), but I think people make far too big a deal of it given how little it matters for the average person (and I think a lot of it is based on people misunderstanding networking and thinking that running several clients on one connection will cause huge latency).

As for the servers, I'm very happy that there will be dedicated server software available, but I'm not sure how I feel about making it easy to restrict classes. MW3 and its ilk are plagued by people who aren't very good at the game complaining endlessly about "noob" weapons and weapons or perks that they just don't understand how to play against. I suppose there will always be vanilla servers, but it's frustrating when you try to find a server and 80% of them have disabled the "noob" weapons (protip: They're called noob weapons because they're easy for noobs to use and stand a little bit more of a chance, not because they're "unfair". The overwhelming majority of the weapons called noob weapons are incredibly bad in the hands of an experienced player compared to most other weapons.).

 

[jonyboy13]

What happened to the world that LAN is considered a special feature?>>"

 

[bbad89]

I'm getting more and more interested MW3, you have my ear. Give it mod support and I'll have reasons beyond Shogun 2 and (now possibly) BF3 to upgrade my PC.

 

[ArcticSquirrel]

Hmm... I see you implemented LAN support...

But no dinosaurs?

Shame on you Modern Warfare 3.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Now lets just hope ... the grenade launcher isn't too cheap, and that there is no retarded knifing.

woa woa, slow down. we are STILL talkinb about cod after all^^

Well CoD used to have arguably one of the most skilled and balance melee systems before recent games.


OT: Oh come on MW2 was a complete fuck you for PC gamers. The only reason it could have been more anti PC was if it forced users to use a controller and I didn't even touch the thing due to the stuff it took out for no reason. Lean was removed because maps weren't balanced for it, Dedis and mods were removed more or less just cause, maps sizes and game sizes were drastically reduced on PC. We used to be able to have 64 man games on CoD. Good god they may have been chaotic cluster fucks but they were fun the odd time and the 20ish man games seemed perfect for it.

Although to be honest this is like advertising vibration on a 360 game it should be in it anyway. While I will admit Activision has seemed to have improved a lot of shit with this game this is not one of those things I will cite as an improvement.

 

[Coldster]

Now lets just hope that the Famas isn't overpowered, the grenade launcher isn't too cheap, and that there is no retarded knifing. Then I will say they have won my full support. Very much looking forward to it. Not that LAN actually matters on Xbox 360.

they've suposedly nerfed the knifing some.

I just wish they ad mod support so every mistake they make can be fixed on the pc. ^^ atleast there's no stupid deathstreaks this time around.

Actually there is going to be death-streaks according to the Machinima people. It is quite unfortunate.

 

[archvile93]

not really on-topic but a question about Modern Warfare 3 none-the-less. will i ahve to buy a subscription to play online? If so then screw it i'm going to Battlefield.

Nope Elite is only for people who want useless extras and free DLC. Well, actually your subscription pays for it, but you know what I mean.

I approve of this, I swear it seems like Activision is doing everything it can to get my money while EA is doing everything to hide from it.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Hey Everyone,

I've edited the final paragraph. Apparently I wasn't making my point as clearly as I thought I was. Hopefully this clears up any confusion over what I meant.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

So... wait. People still give a shit about LAN? That blows my mind more than this game having LAN support.

Same could be said for vibration but if that was removed from 360 people would shit a brick like they did for PS3.