What does everyone think about the Improvements that might be happening to MW3?

[shaqqq]

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[Harry94]

I don't think it will work. There's too many people addicted to it and people will log on to check how many people are online that day.

I don't think stuff mentioned there will ever be fixed.

[Bounty V]

I think if the main fixes are already in development then the black out is kind of pointless. Half the things they list are personal preferences or complaints about the game being 'too easy' i.e. death streaks and the support package. I personally think the difficulty in MW3 is just fine, and is exactly how the devs intended it to be.

Official Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - The Vet & The n00b - YouTube

Official Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - The Vet & The n00b - YouTube

Since the game caters to everyone, it should have something for everyone, that includes death streaks and support package for the "n00bs". The last stand death streak and dead man's hand really annoy me, but I use the support package and have no issue with the way it currently use. Ultimately, the Assault package is more rewarding towards kills - as it should be. If anyone complains about stealth bombers and EMPs, explain to me how it is not support for your team, be it in the form of disabling the use of kill streaks/uav for a minute, or shell shock/kills in a straight vector.

If people really can't stand MW3, simply don't buy it. That's my $0.02 at least

[Xx_Progenitor_xX]

Originally Posted by Bounty V

Since the game caters to everyone, it should have something for everyone, that includes death streaks and support package for the "n00bs". The last stand death streak and dead man's hand really annoy me, but I use the support package and have no issue with the way it currently use. Ultimately, the Assault package is more rewarding towards kills - as it should be. If anyone complains about stealth bombers and EMPs, explain to me how it is not support for your team, be it in the form of disabling the use of kill streaks/uav for a minute, or shell shock/kills in a straight vector.

If people really can't stand MW3, simply don't buy it. That's my $0.02 at least

As Bounty said, the deathstreaks have a place in the game and should stay.

The Blackout movement have given a list of reasons as to why they are not happy with their Modern Warfare 3 gameplay experience:
Lag Compensation,
Matchmaking options which include the ability to enable disable local search and base search off the party leader when playing with friends,
The broken Spawn System,
Full featured Theater mode,
Individual volume controls in the options menu,
Tac insert removed from Kill confirmed,
More Hardcore game modes,
Better Elite playlist options,
Objective stats on in-game scoreboard,
Akimbo machine pistol nerf,
Removal of any assault kill streaks from the support package,
Removal of death streaks
Fix Local Area Network settings for Competitive events.

This list is so random and unnecessary. I'm going to go through it and give my opinion about each point.

Lag Compensation,

They have already done something with this, so changing it again is a total waste of time

Matchmaking options which include the ability to enable disable local search and base search off the party leader when playing with friends

The matchmaking options are fine. If you want to play locally, they have LAN party capabilities and Private match capabilities so maybe try those instead

The broken Spawn System

So far, this is the only one that actually needs fixing, but only on certain maps. Dome is a clusterfuck of spawns when playing a full Infected match or Groundwar. Even in FFA there aren't really enough spawns that can allow more than 6 people in the match.

Full featured Theater mode

This could be a good idea for the next CoD game. I can't see them implementing this for MW3.

Individual volume controls in the options menu

I don't know why people would want this. The volume is probably one of the most important things about a game like this. hearing footsteps and claymore triggers is vital if you're using Dead Silence.

Tac insert removed from Kill confirmed

This reeks of petty whining to me. If they;re going to remove the Tactical Insertion from KC, they might as well remove it from every game

More Hardcore game modes,

This is unnecessary. What more do they want? HC Infected?

Better Elite playlist options

The Elite playlist options are fine the way they are. Stop complaining about every little thing that doesn't go your way

Objective stats on in-game scoreboard

Having these will make the in-game scoreboards way too crowded. I think people would rather know how many kills they have over how many plants or defuses they have gotten that match

Akimbo machine pistol nerf,

This was already done, soo......yea

Removal of any assault kill streaks from the support package

Again, this reeks of petty whining. If you get so pissed about people using the Support killstreaks that are also in the Assault category, then don't let them kill you so much so they won't be able to use it. Personally I love the Assault/Support killstreaks like Stealth Bomber. Support killstreaks allow some of the players who aren't as good as some of the tryhards to experience some semblance of achievement and be able to get some kills. For new and even some experienced players, getting 14 kills in a match is quite difficult.

Removal of death streaks

Not gonna happen. Deathstreaks are well-placed in the game. None of them are too overpowered so quit whining.

Fix Local Area Network settings for Competitive events

Can't speak for this one because I've never competed in an event.

[Mann0802]

That's a lot to fix and I just don't see it happening. Hopefully BOPS 2 can right some of the wrongs. Support shouldn't be changed especially it's fine the way it is.

[Bounty V]

Originally Posted by Xx_Progenitor_xX

As Bounty said, the deathstreaks have a place in the game and should stay.

The matchmaking options are fine. If you want to play locally, they have LAN party capabilities and Private match capabilities so maybe try those instead

I personally think Matchmaking could be improved. On game nights it's very frustrating for a full lobby of EU players to be put onto a NA server, or for a lobby of 5 EU and 1 NA to be put in a NA server...either way it's pointless. At the very least localize server searches based on party leader's location.

[Xx_Progenitor_xX]

Originally Posted by Bounty V

I personally think Matchmaking could be improved. On game nights it's very frustrating for a full lobby of EU players to be put onto a NA server, or for a lobby of 5 EU and 1 NA to be put in a NA server...either way it's pointless. At the very least localize server searches based on party leader's location.

That's a good point. If they're going to localize server searches, perhaps instead of going by party leader location, they could go by the location of the majority of players in the party (for example: we have a party of 5. 3 are EU and 2 are NA. The search would look for EU servers because there are more EU players in the party)

[SNAKE_7]

I liked how in black ops you could just join someone's party unless they had it on private, sometimes i have trouble joining a friend's party or vice versa. As for the list the only ones that i think they could fix are the spawns and lag (don't know why it lags when 1-2 people join never happened in previous games). Also i liked how you could search local in blops so you could find people near you and get better connection, now it seems like they will pair you up with anybody, sucks too when your whole team has 2-3 bars and everyone on the other team has 4 bars.

[Ice Car]

I think this whole notion is stupid.

"It's April 20th! Everybody, go offline for one day, maybe they'll fix the innumerable problems in this game!"

Meanwhile, at Infinity Ward HQ, nobody gives a fuck because they know it's just for one day and they already have your money. They're too busy swimming in an ocean of money and adding new but shitty content to the game while not fixing the same problems stressed by many.

In addition, I highly doubt even a small portion of the COD community will go offline, and even so, what is it even going to do? Following April 20th, nothing will be different and everything will be back to normal. Anyone who thinks otherwise is way too optimistic that something like this could get their attention.

Try boycotting Activision games forever instead of for one day, or at least boycott Call of Duty. It still probably won't do anything, but it does actually send a bigger message... Then again, I'm asking COD fans to stop playing COD until IW/Treyarch gets their shit together, which will never happen as long as they're making money, which they will be unless no less than 90% of the community boycotts their games.

My guess? About 15% of the community will go offline that day at best. No one will completely boycott the game or the series, they'll just return to it the next day. Keep dreaming people, not going to happen.

Lag Compensation

That was already "fixed", supposedly.

The broken Spawn System

Already "fixed". One of the improvements in the hotfixes was "Spawn logic improved" or something along those lines, even though there was no spawn logic to begin with and it seemed to only get worse after the update...

Full featured Theater mode

Not going to happen until they fix everything that's wrong with Theater first, and that itself is never going to happen.

Tac insert removed from Kill confirmed

Makes sense, it's something small that could probably be added. I still doubt anything will come out of this 1-day "boycott"

More Hardcore game modes

How about they fix the Hardcore spawns first? I don't even touch that playlist anymore because of all the damned corner campers and the spawns still being as bad as ever despite the respawn timer. Only mode I play is HC Dom because there's no respawn timer.

Better Elite playlist options

I don't buy any map packs because I'm not a sucker. Not anymore anyway.

Objective stats on in-game scoreboard

Not going to happen. Something that's been complained about forever but never addressed.

Akimbo machine pistol nerf

Already done, but if they do, I'll be pissed. Only the FMG9 Akimbo needs nerfing now, the others are already worse yet still inferior to the FMG9s. Give it an accuracy nerf, not another Fire Rate nerf. Its problem is the range it kills at for the most part. It still kills as fast enough in CQB while being as effective as ever at longer ranges. I actually think it's a better gun after the supposed nerf, as the fire rate reduction reduces recoil and the rate at which the magazine is emptied, more ammunition conserved and more effective at range, while CQB effectiveness isn't hampered very much at all.

Removal of any assault kill streaks from the support package

Agreed, but not going to happen. Only small fixes are going to happen IMO, if anything.

Removal of death streaks

Removal of deathstreaks entirely, never going to happen. You can only wish for it in the next game. I personally think Dead Man's Hand needs to have its blast radius (I call it tactical nuke radius) nerfed, and Final Stand needs to be like Second Chance in Black Ops after the update, where the person who downed the second chancer would get the kill if someone else killed him, not the person who dealt the finishing blow. If that happened, it would be less frustrating but something more likely to happen in an update... A complete removal of deathstreaks is never going to happen. It would solve my only gripes with deathstreaks at least.

Yes, I am a very cynical person.

[BrinkOfSanity]

I don't see a problem with the support package. I never use it really, but I haven't had problems with it. It's easy to just switch to a class where you won't be killed by the escort airdrops or whatever. I don't have issues with the Deathstreaks either. I don't see why people are making a big deal about it. Except for maybe Dead Man's hand or Final Stand, but I've been using it of late so whatever lol.

The spawn system can be improved in certain game types as someone mentioned. Ground War or Dom on Dome is ridiculous and if it's that big a deal than maybe not have Dome playable in groundwar or something as it is a small map.

I think they are probably removing the Tac Insertion in KC because people can boost for xp, though the tactic is garbage for k/d.

Full Theater I'm thinking means the inability to turn theater mode off? All the better when it comes to people who boost and turn it off so they can't be seen. Especially when it comes to splitscreen boosters. Reported a few the other day.

I do have issues with the matchmaking sometimes so it be nice if they really do try to work on that. Being put in matches that are practically over can get annoying.