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Bless you, Treyarch
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http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/call-of-duty-treyarch-project/1133423p1.html
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"We said we would support the game. We are going to support it... We didn't spend two years of our lives to toss it all in the trash in one day."
Nov 10, 2010 5:16pm PST
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Bless you, Treyarch
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http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/call-of-duty-treyarch-project/1133423p1.html tl;dr:
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Seriously. I don't PC game much anymore but this second class support shit needs to stop.
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ThomW
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Just don't buy games that are blatant shitty ports.
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capt tripps
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I switched over to the 360 years ago and just keep wondering how long it'll be until pc guys get fed up a...
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ThomW
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Most PC guys like me don't play console games on their computers. I have consoles for that :P People ...
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SpaecKow
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That's how I work it. IMO FPS are still a PC genre, I realize i'm behind the times. To me, a huge tv wi...
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Pneum0
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I am starting to think that next gen consoles may finally support KB+M. With movement on the user interfa...
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Dr_Cube
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that would basically force everyone who wanted to play FPS's online on a console to play with KB+M. Not ...
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DonkeyPopsicle
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Or they could just account for it in the matchmaking maybe. Seems like an awful reason to not give peopl...
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DinK
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Fragmentation is a good reason to not support it.
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daVinci1980
yet this still happens with dlc
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crewmaac
Honestly I think they're moving away from that, going even simpler, but I would absolutely love if that w...
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DinK
-they're terrible ergonomically on a couch -everyone would have to use them to be on equal footing or els...
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derelict515
STEAMBOX with KB+MOUSE FTW.
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ajvitaly
no they wont
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dantastic
I have remained a PC gamer only because of Valve, Blizzard, the Battlefield series (so long it still has ...
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Dr_Cube
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I got fed up with the pc hardware requirements and bullshit like having to juggle drivers or deal with an...
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roushimsx
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I got fed up when I sat down to play games then spent more time downloading updates, patches and dealing ...
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ThomW
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So you dont play on PS3 either I take it?
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Strid3rtheGreat
So true. =(
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DinK
God so true. Especially mine since it has an issue that makes it freeze on startup.
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ThomW
Uncharted 2 was the first, and still only, game I tried to play on PSN and it left me pissed off. I tried...
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zerog83
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Ever since I got my first PC as a kid, issues that popped up for PC games has lessened dramatically, almo...
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TrptJim
Well I didn't grow up with a PC, so maybe I'm spoiled by games "just working" and not having to fuck with...
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roushimsx
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Lol, yet when Oblivion came out on the consoles it often fell below acceptable frame rates...
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Pandilex
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oh wow, good job unearthing an obscure western rpg that I have a negative amount of interest in and tryin...
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roushimsx
But it looks like shit, whereas it runs smoothly on mine (60+ fps maxed) and looks amazing. Enjoy your su...
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Pandilex
man, you're a loser
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justwr!ght
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I'm more likely to quit playing games. I buy around one console game a year, and never anything for the x...
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Dynotaku
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That's what a lot of people say until they just go ahead and play and get used to it. You don't have to ...
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DinK
I have both a ps3 and a 360. Played them for a while but came back to playing mostly PC games. I just thi...
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razlebol
Back at you, I wonder when console gamers will realise they are paying way too much for games with bad gr...
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Pandilex
I'm really interested in seeing how they handle the patches and support for the PC version in particular....
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roushimsx
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Hey Dice, you see what they said?
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Godhatesfatpeople
^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Thornfist
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I shit on the pricing structure of map packs for COD as much as any internet hatah, but dude, I will fuck...
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roushimsx
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They really dropped the ball with 1943. I would have bought three maps for $15 every three to four month...
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Haku-Jin
I'm not sure they expected it to be as popular as it was. 1943 was pretty awesome, but my understanding f...
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deveus1
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The game sold like crazy, too! What the fuck? Did they just not have a team allocated to continued BF1943...
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roushimsx
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Kinda. I forget which podcast I was listening to at the time, but a few of the devs basically said exactl...
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deveus1
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It's a really sad miscalculation and a total missed opportunity; I don't think there's any way for them t...
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roushimsx
I don't think anyone was happy about it on either side of the fence. On the bright side, there was a real...
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deveus1
Yeah i think that was pretty much it. But seriously when you get a hit like that you think they would re...
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Haku-Jin
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I hate glitchers as much as or more than anyone else, but maybe making the PC version a working piece of ...
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Gore87
Yeah, I'm willing to live with griefers if they could just make the game playable.
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Vincent Grayson
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Yea, right now they've mentioned their main priority is figuring out wtf is up with the lag issue everyon...
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roushimsx
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quake 3 engine netcode is pretty hard to fix man!
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chilln
yea i got tired of the crappy performance so I just load the levels via the console in ioquake3 and it ru...
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roushimsx
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Gameservers located one of the main issues for the lag. The sv_maxrate was set to 5000 instead of somethi...
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Strid3rtheGreat
yeah there's a r_clipFPS variable set to 24... I wonder if the config is a straight console copy/paste
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Downforce
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SP for a lot of people is experiencing the same "lag" effects, though. No idea how this passed QA.
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Daochi
what QA
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Shadowdane
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Hey, they made thier deadline. That's what's important!
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Pneum0
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Activision doesn't fuck around with that shit, as Tim Schafer would tell you firsthand if he wasn't so fu...
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roushimsx
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Brutal Legend speaks volumes to the fact that Activision was pretty much right in that case.
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baron calamity
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/08/activisions-kotick-on-brutal-legend-drama-thats-not-really-w/
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deveus1
The single player is *better*, but it's still pretty bad. And there's lag in places that don't even make ...
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Vincent Grayson
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Game devs, TEST YOUR FUCKING GAMES!!!!!!!!!!
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i38warhawk
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Armchair developing at it's finest.
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liqker
Nah games are never tested. Compile that shit and ship it - what's the worst that could happen?!
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dahanese
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Millions of simultaneous players stress testing ANY game will find bugs. As long as they are on top of t...
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Poor Yurik
Well, enjoy your $60 open beta.
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i38warhawk
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Hey, they were just following orders, in a weird and twisted way, forgetting to read the second paragraph
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the archvile
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It seems like the 'how-to-exploit-the-bugs' in youtube would be pretty effective.
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Pneum0
Only if you tell the developers about them.
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JarEme
Even better is the comments!
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supermonkeyballz
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"I'm not going to talk about it publicly. We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-b...
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Cygnus X-1
David Voderhaar is mad yo
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PlanetPerfecto
Vahn and Bunting are cool dudes
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deveus1
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bless them for dropping a broken game?
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Dravenport
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Broken? Doesn't sound any more broken than any of the previous games in the series and they're sure tryin...
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roushimsx
It is significantly broken. See posts on the Steam forums regarding the "lag" bug: http://forums.steam...
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Daochi
why the hell would i want to play a broken game
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Dravenport
When is a game not broken upon release in one form or another. Just doesn't happen anymore.
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Pettytheft
I'm glad to see Treyarch hit this one out of the park. Hopefully now people can stop referring to them as...
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MikkleThePickle
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My friend played it last night at someone's house and he said the graphics look worse that MW2. They were...
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h o s t i l e
I'm not terribly impressed with the graphics, but the scripting and everything is pretty fucking awesome ...
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roushimsx
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It looks fine
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justwr!ght
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He specifically mentioned the weapon models.
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h o s t i l e
The weapon models are asstastic.
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Albemuth
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I'm pretty sure it's borked and forces DX9 mode. mine looks like SHIT, and for reference, I fired up metr...
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Downforce
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I don't believe the last 3 Call of Duty games were anything but DX9. I doubt this one is either.
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pyide
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can we please go back to the point I say where they are still using the quake 3 engine? it comes up every...
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chilln
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which is really weird, because if I fire up quake 3, I'd probably get over 9000 frames per second in tota...
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Downforce
runs okay fps wise for me with my i7 860 oced @ 4ghz, and a 5850, but yeah the internet is lagtastic. and...
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chilln
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I love Metro immensely and think it looks AMAZING on max detail, but Black Ops looks fine.
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Poor Yurik
well, I did have that directx error on first launch which apparently means I really should reinstall, eve...
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Downforce
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It's based on the old WAW engine (which is based on the CoD4 engine). What do you expect? MW2 was base...
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LoioshDwaggie
So the tech that IW is using is specific just to them? Why wouldn't/couldn't the studios share the same t...
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snot3353
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didn't the digital foundry article on eurogamer confirm that it's a further extension of the MW2 engine, ...
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roushimsx
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Enhanced WaW(CoD4) engine: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-call-of/100688 IWard 4 was for MW...
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LoioshDwaggie
I find that hard to believe though... why would they write/update/maintain a completely separate engine t...
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snot3353
SP
looks great.
MP
does look bad. Everything looks washed out to me.
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skinlab133
Why do people misspell "than" as "that"? T and N aren't remotely close to each other on the keyboard.
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Marrbe
Not as good as MW2, IMO. Weapons sounds kinda weak compared to MW2 as well.
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Mmmmmoo
As a shallow graphics whore, most of the game looks like shit. there are moments in the sp campaign where...
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exit button
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The killstreak nerf has really improved my enjoyment
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Boxelder
I was worried when I read the list of kill streaks, but they did a fantastic job of balancing it. Also, i...
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noxiousgg
Fuck yah! And I know they'll do the same for the consoles. God damned MW2 cheaters ruined my fun time. Ge...
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Madwacker