Modern Warfare 2

[ChrisF]

Does anyone else experience sound problems on the 360 version? For some reason the front and rear speakers seem to be the wrong way around. I can't hear anyone when I'm facing them, meaning I have heard very little speech in this game and its made it tricky in places.

Before anyone asks, I have an all in one speaker (Denon) so I haven't wired that up wrongly...

No one else with this issue? I feel like I'm missing out half the experience with it!

[mugetsu]

there's lag tonight (not that ive experienced it yet myself as ihavent been on) because of something to do with yet another multiplayer patch........this time its 1.4.

i wish they'd have left it well alone after 1.3 as everything worked perfectly from what i was reading including flist problems.

this time round they really should have followed on treyarch's approach to the online play and have all friends list imported instead of having to go back to the xmb.

[charlesr]

Chris: no, all seems fine to me. Apart from phantom flying people.

[Matt]

Played

->Open Spoiler<-

For The Record

and it's finally Good! In fact, it's a great level. Difficult to do cartwheels given the drivel before it, which has put a dampener on the game for me, but that level felt like a proper COD level. Lots going on, nice scale. Nice destruction. The few levels I've played after that have also been good, so it looks like the game's turned a corner.

Funnily enough, it's also happened when I've finally worked out / it's been explained why all this **** is happening. A bit of context goes a long way.

Last few nights online, my friends and I have finally started playing as something approaching a loose team, rather than running around like it's Death Match. Had some good wins against some seemingly good players. Lots of fun

[nonny]

The lag is killing it for me... MP is officially unplayable from Australia thanks to the broken matchmaking. It is honestly shocking that IW can hype this up for so long and deliver something which actually works no better than COD4 online which is consequently way behind COD W@W which was brilliant thanks to the locale filter.

I'm not going to be online for the next week anyway (inlaws visiting) but I hope they patch this soon otherwise I can see myself sticking to Spec-Ops until I've completed it and then selling this.

[PeteJ]

I haven't had any problems with lag or matchmaking, seems to be great for me. Would rather be paired with people more my level (rather than 30 levels above) but I'm crap against any level player to be honest!

Finished this last night on Hard, Act 3 is an absolute joy from start to finish that not only makes the story from earlier on make sense, but also contains some of the most edge-of-your-seat set-pieces I've seen in a first person shooter. Time to go through again on vet!

[Kubrick]

I haven't had any problems with lag or matchmaking, seems to be great for me.

Same here. I think I've spent somewhere around 35hrs on multiplayer now (360 version) and the number of dodgy games in TDM has been very small. Ground War is another story, but regular-sized games are usually fine.

I love the fact that it takes ages to complete all the challenges for the guns now. In MW1, I would typically max out my favoured guns quite quickly and then force myself to use guns I didn't particularly like all in the name of earning XP, but in MW2 you can use the same gun for ages and still have challenges to aim for. Despite unlocking a ****load of new ones, I'm still using the same 4 or 5 guns I've had since the start.

[jim g]

I love the fact that it takes ages to complete all the challenges for the guns now. In MW1,

Me too, I got the Gold guns in MW1, but MW2 has many more challenges per gun which I love to complete!

[nonny]

You guys are extremely lucky then.

I've got an ADSL2+ connection here and I am yet to get anything better than a two yellow bar connection, always in lobbies full of US players. I reckon about 1/3rd of the matches I enter are red connections that lag so bad I've no choice but to just quit.

If I do get a party of local players going and join usually it comes up "merging lobbies" and migrates us to a half empty US lobby anyway, back to square one.

It's ridiculous. I guess the number of UK players and closer proximity to the US is helping you in this but from here in Australia it's wholly frustrating.

[MJ]

With the amount of money some of these big releases make, it's disappointing they don't give them dedicated servers for online play. At least it eliminates host advantage and makes it a bit fairer for all connections in the game.

[Skull Commander]

I'm having more problems with lag and the suchlike in this COD than both WAW and MW1. Loads of issues happen when I'm in a party of three or more, and lots of Ground War games just die or are unplayable due to lag.

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving this online, but there have been more problems in this week than the entire time I played the previous 2 games combined. A poor show.

[Largo]

Every time i see Billy Murray now on the Injury Lawyers 4U adverts i always think "mission accomplished good wurk!" "enemy headquarters located!" "bleedin eck we just got our arses kicked!"


someone with the skills needs to edit that advert video to a MW theme

[charlesr]

Is there any pattern to who is getting the lag? i.e. xbox vs ps3? All seemed super smooth for me, although I've only played enough to get to level 5.

[Spatial]

I found as last week went on the laggy games were becoming more frequent and then waiting for a new host started happening more and more (360 version).

It's hard to tell what's behind it though because you can't tell who's hosting it or where they are. It's probably because you're being hosted by some 12 year old American who's also trying to downloading 23TB of porn at the same time.

[Brad]

Vs has been fine but Spec-Ops was lagging on occasion recently (PS3).