Call of Duty: World at War

[Rossco]

yeh looking forward to them, just started playing this again so fancy some new maps. The big outside jungle one looks amazing!

[Goemon]

Got this today and have to say I'm disappointed...

I'm a firm believer in the idea that it doesn't matter how good a design is, if you don't have the code to back it up the game won't work, but this game has made me realise that this very much works both ways!

The design in this game just isn't there. Bad balancing, Instant death scenarios, dodgy level design, lack of controller information, has marred the whole experience

This game really shows the importance of subtle design decisions and requirements, and that doing it wrong can make the difference between an outstanding game like CoD 4 and and decidedly average game like this.

[MisterBubbles]

been playing the new maps loving them so far banzai is great BUT 1 thing bringing it down as usual yes host advantage and lag, usually with americans it fecking kills the game
geoman stick with it cause theres great levels burn em out and reinstag are awesome
never understand how people pure diss this too COD4 but its just as good,treyarch did a good job and IW never thought of nazi zombies
p.s why the feck do we need match making for 4 players why cant i start a lobby and you can see my ping feck quake was doing this in the 90's big games yes keep match making but small games FFS

[anephric]

I like Banzai but I don't think much of Corrosion or Sub Pen (or whatever it's called). Far too chaotic and people just corner camping/bouncing betty cheapness.

The new zombie map's cool, but it's so big I haven't got a clue what I'm doing and you REALLY need people to co-ordinate, which doesn't happen in the random games I have to play.

[Rossco]

Loving the new maps, really good. Played them for ages the night they came out and was on fire, ratio for the night must have been about 3 kills per death, was so good somehow!

But I'm in agreement that the single player in this is pretty poor compared to IW's efforts.

[Kubrick]

Double XP on these new maps?

[Rossco]

It was over the weekend, not sure bout it anymore though.

[nonny]

The SP campaign does lets this down compared to IW effort on modern warfare but there are still some stand out levels. The first Russian level is pure quality for instance, its just that as a whole its not consistent.

What does raise the bar in this is co-op. If you havent tried it out persevere through SP and then go back with a guide and grab all the death card modifiers. Grab 3 of your mates and play some of the campaign levels in co-op. You'll finally understand that its a huge amount of fun. Add into that mix the rather excellent Nazi zombie mode and you've got something that Modern Warfare just didnt provide.

Because of that I'd argue its worth owning both.

Onto MP and though nothing major has changed in format from IW opus there are some benefits. If you're suffering from playing in rubbish servers with host advantage at least try using the locale filter on matchmaking. Modern Warfare didnt have this but in W@W you can limit the search to local matches and fingers crossed you'll find other players close by with a good connection.

This works great for me and my mates playing in Australia which is highly important as us connecting to US matches is a waste of time. More often than not we'll get healthy ping servers which really is half the battle with these games.

Loving the new map pack anyway. Banzai is one of the best add-on maps Ive seen in a long time. Has a little bit of everything and it isnt the snipers paradise I thought it was going to be.

[PrayforMojo]

The problem with co-op is that there's no achievements for the Veteran difficulty, as I found out to my horror. Got all the way through the Blowtorch and Corkscrew level with a mate before finding out the hard way.

[MisterBubbles]

what you playing the PC version cause the PS3 version has no filters that i know of just sucky lag with americans said before in another thread about dedicated servers, will always want it

[anephric]

You can enable "prefer local games" or summat in the 360 options so you'll always pretty much be in UK/Euro lobbies. Dunno about PS3.

[Rossco]

I'm gonna need to find that option for local games only, then see my scores rocket, I'm fed up of only kicking ass against Americans when I could be kicking ass and taking names!

PS - Is Live down?

[concretesnail]

PS - Is Live down?

down the 16th for maintenance

[nonny]

Yep Xbox360 version. In the MP lobby before pressing find games you can press X and switch from "Default" to "Locale" or "Locale Only" and filter out the wider range search.

Its a blessing, surprised its not in the PS3 version? If so then that really sucks.

[MisterBubbles]

ok i know where COD has to go next im sitting in a tank guys runs out and hides behind a box so i fire a round, any tech savvy guys or whatever i fire the shell yup the crate takes all the blast the guy grenades me as if?? whens realistic damage gonna happen?