official Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

[LingeringSoul]

Straight from fourzerotwo, Modern Warfare 3 will have dedicated servers! Yay! http://twitter.com/#!/fourzerotwo/status/103858062640693248

Great news for those of you who plan on picking up the PC version. At least they seem to have learned their lesson this time around.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

If the spec ops can be done split screen then that might be the only thing I play as I will do it with my brother.

[NoLiMiT06]

If the spec ops can be done split screen then that might be the only thing I play as I will do it with my brother.

It was split screen in MW2, I don't see why it won't be in MW3.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

It was split screen in MW2, I don't see why it won't be in MW3.

Because it wouldn't be the first time split screen was removed from a series in a game mode where it had been before.

[rajputwarrior]

Yes, Modern Warfare 3 Is Coming To Steam

Valve today confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will indeed be using Steamworks and sold on Steam.

Taken in light of the franchise's history of being sold on Steam, this isn't exactly surprising news, but with Battlefield 3 giving the service a pass, it's probably worth noting.

The game's availability on the service means that if you want you can pre-purchase the game and start downloading it now, in preparation of the game's Nov. 8 launch.

Activision also reiterated that the PC version of their game will support dedicated servers on day one.

[mikebiacsi]

Looking forward to this game, I'll be torn between this and Battlefield 3 come winter time.

[Lamp0]

That's actually pretty good for a hardened edition.

[Jan Veteran]

^ That's very good.

[LaP]

Gonna pass ans play BF3.

[Razorwing]

I will soo get the Hardened this time. :laugh:

[Lamp0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEvTkdFRJio

[LingeringSoul]

Some of those comment posters on YouTube are pretty upset about that multiplayer reveal. I don't get what the big deal is. It looks like Call of Duty... what did they expect?

Some interesting things in there, though. Looks like Steady Aim and Scavenger are available as killstreak rewards now. There's also a killstreak called "Juggernaut", which I imagine lets you spawn a juggernaut or something (though it would be fun if you could personally become the juggernaut :)). Only thing I'm a little irked about is the return of the Overkill perk. Really unnecessary perk, in my opinion. Heaven forbid people would have to work together to alleviate their individual weaknesses!

[Lamp0]

All the killstreaks and perks details apparently leaked on line a while back:

MW3 Killstreaks

There are 3 Seperate killstreak tiers, you have to choose which tier you want to choose you?re 3 killstreaks from, but if you choose the last tier, you just get exactly what it says.

Assault Tier Killstreaks:

4 Kills ? Care Package

5 Kills ? IMS ? 3 or 4 placeable landmines that cannot be stunned or flashed

5 Kills ? Predator Missile

5 Kills ? Sentry Gun

6 Kills ? Precision Airstrike

7 Kills ? Attack Helicopter

7 Kills ? Little Bird Flock ? Mini Helicopters which patrol the map

9 Kills ? Little Bird Guard ? Big Helicopter that follows you from above and protects you

9 Kills ? Mortar team ? Mortar team but with 5 predator missiles ? all go off at the same time in different places

10 Kills ? Talcon ? Mini Tank Robot

12 Kills ? AC130 (We cheer!)

12 Kills ? Pavelow

15 Kills ? Juggernaught Suit ? From spec Ops ( For anyone who says in the spec ops video he gets it at 14 kills, well thats because he has hardline on)

15 Kills ? Osprey Gunner Cps ? You control a chopper gunner that also drops an emergency airdrop for your team mates.

Support Tier Killstreaks:

4 Kills ? UAV

5 Kills ? Counter UAV

5 Kills ? Ballistic Duffel ? Drop Juggernaught perk for the whole team, not jugg suit

5 Kills ? Airdrop Trap ? Drops a hacked care package

8 Kills ? Sam Turret

10 Kills ? Remote [Missile] UAV ? Target enemies with missiles

12 Kills ? Advanced UAV ? Blackbird

12 Kills ? Remote Turret ? Sentry Gun that you can control

12 Kills ? Stealth Bomber

18 Kills ? EMP

18 Kills ? Juggernaught Recon Armour ? Care Package Drop Armour

18 Kills ? Escort Airdrop ? Same as the Osprey Gunner but you dont control the gunner or chopper and Drops 5 care packages, one will be hacked

Specialist Tier Killstreaks (you have the opportunity to choose the perk each time):

2 Kills ? You get 1 extra perk

4 Kills ? Get another perk

6 Kills ? Get another perk

Another thing is that the killstreaks will cycle through in the same life, so you dont have to die to reset your killstreaks and get your first killstreak again.

MW3 DeathStreaks

Juiced [Lightweight] ? 4 Deaths

Martyrdom ? 4 Deaths

Final Stand ? 4 Deaths

Revenge (Last person that killed you is always visible on your mini map) ? 5 Deaths

Stopping power for one kill ? 5 Deaths

Dead Mans Hand (You run around with c4 in your hand (suicide bomber)) ? 6 Deaths

MW3 Perks

?+? = With pro added

Tier 1

Extreme Conditioning ? Sprint longer distances + Climb obstacles faster

Sleight Of Hand ? Reload faster + Faster weapon swapping

Scavanger ? Reload ammo from bags + Spawn with more ammo

Blind Eye ? Undetectable from air support + Faster launcher lock on and extra damage to air support

Recon ? Explosive damage marks target on HUD + Bullet damage marks target on HUD

Tier 2

Hardline ? One less kill for Killstreak + Two assists count as a kill towards next killstreak (Like)

Assassin ? Immune to UAV, Motion Sensor, Thermal and Heartbeat Sensor + Immune to CUAV & EMP

Overkill ? Two primary weapons + Second primary can have 2 attachments

Quickdraw ? Faster aim down sights + Faster animation of using equipment and throwing grenade

Blastshield ? Flack Jacket (Immune to most explosives) + Immune to stuns and flashes

Tier 3

Sitrep ? Enemy equipment is visible + Enemy footsteps are more clear

Dead Silence ? Your footsteps are silent + No fall damage

Stalker ? Faster movement with ADS + Delay on claymores

Marksman ? ID target from range + Longer hold breath on scoped weapons

Steady Aim ? Increased hip fire accuracy + Faster aim down sight while sprinting

MW3 Pointstreaks

Rather than standard killstreaks for objective based games, pointstreaks will be rewarded to players who play the objective (i.e. capturing flags, defusing bombs etc.) and get kills to encourage players to play the objective rather than just get kills in objective based game types. The streaks will be awarded based on points that the payer has received.

http://www.mw3info.com/mw3-leaked-perks-and-killstreaks/

[mikebiacsi]

I'm liking the idea of pointstreaks. :yes:

[LingeringSoul]

Ahh, thanks for posting the list, Lamp0. That explains why the guy has Scavenger, Steady Aim, and Marksman listed as his killstreak rewards (the top of that little window says "Specialist" at 3:03 in the video).

Interesting decision, moving Sleight of Hand from Tier 2 to Tier 1. Not sure if that's a good thing, since now it looks like it's hands down the best perk in its tier. Good thing they separated fast reload and fast ADS, though. Same goes for Steady Aim in Tier 3 (unless you're playing hardcore S&D, in which case the other ones become more useful).

[Razorwing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEvTkdFRJio

That video was lulz.

[Lamp0]

though it would be fun if you could personally become the juggernaut

:rofl:

There is lots of mp gameplay popping up online now due to COD XP event.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

I don't know, from all the MP stuff I am seeing, it almost is feeling way to over the top for my liking. Like almost to the point it is silly. The Juggernaut video above being a perfect example of what I am talking about.

This is actually a bit of a revelation on my end, as I never really had any solid reasons as to why, but I think I just realized why I slowly have started to lose interest in the past few releases of CoD MP. Because of this over the top aspect. Once in a while they provide a bit of entertainment, but I think when it comes to over the top, I prefer games more like Unreal / Halo, meaning set in fictional universes. Being set in "reality" makes it that much more silly to me almost.

I watched a bit of the XP keynote before. Was a little to much of a commercial for my liking so I eventually turned it off. I guess I give them credit for being able to elevate video games to this type of level, and sell enough copies to even have some kind of crazy festival around just one game. But at the same time, it all seems a bit over board to me as well. I did think it was amusing that the Activision CEO took a not so subtle jab at the competition, and also was a subtle way of defending what some people are starting to call out dated visuals, and stress the fact that one of their main goals when making a COD game was the consistent 60fps.

[Ayepecks]

The only change I like is that you can select a playstyle to your suiting and use that set of point streaks, as well as the fact that kill streaks are now point streaks. That is way overdue. Still a chance I may get it based on reviews and what not, but I doubt it.

[Vykranth]

The Multiplayer Reveal has completely killed my enthusiam for MW3.

As soon as I have seen the last part with the soldier with the assault rifle and the sniper rifle (it must have been the Perk 'Overkill'), I thought about players having a M203-equipped M4 with FMJ Intervention.

Because what we need in Quick-Scope-Noob-Tubers for balance ...

Oh Lord, have mercy

Edit: and no Tac Nuke?

[Boz]

The Multiplayer Reveal has completely killed my enthusiam for MW3.

As soon as I have seen the last part with the soldier with the assault rifle and the sniper rifle (it must have been the Perk 'Overkill'), I thought about players having a M203-equipped M4 with FMJ Intervention.

Because what we need in Quick-Scope-Noob-Tubers for balance ...

Oh Lord, have mercy

Edit: and no Tac Nuke?

45 min MP video: http://www.imodernwarfare3.com/45-minutes-of-modern-warfare-3-multiplayer-gameplay/

meh indeed.. the more I'm looking at this 45 min video the more I realize they didn't really add anything really different but just played it safe and reorganized perks and killstreaks.

The guy asks him what will be the surprise for people playing MW3 coming from MW2 and all you hear is crickets.

There are some new killstreaks like juggernaut and a few other stupid ones but the more I watch this the more it becomes clear that Activision went 100% safe with this one. Take MW2 and just switch up the killstreaks a bit and that's it.

I hate the fact that they are now making killstreaks continue even after you die. Stop catering to people that don't want to invest any time in actually mastering something. This pampering of mediocrity is really annoying.

They do that with gun adjustments in Black Ops so those who suck can try to get a chance and they are now doing the same thing MW3 and killstreaks.

Btw, they took out:

They took out:

1. Marathon

2. Lightweight

3. Commando

4. Last Stand

4. Nuke

[Lamp0]

I hate the fact that they are now making killstreaks continue even after you die. Stop catering to people that don't want to invest any time in actually mastering something. This pampering of mediocrity is really annoying.

Actually I think it's just the "Pointstreaks" that continue after you die. The Killstreaks won't.

but yea, MW3 really isn't doing much to excite me.

At most this will be a bargain bin buy for me.

[Vykranth]

15 minutes in the video Boz posted and I am very disppointed:

- Awful selection of weapons with all my expert weapons gone but that

- Same old Modern Warfare 2 graphics

- Same perks barely shuffled

- Same MP gameplay with 1 to 2 second difference between players

Frankly, they could have released it as DLC episodes on MW2, that would have been much better

[neoadorable]

Vyk, it's not like you to be so negative...i was sure i was going to boycott this game until recently, but now i'm actually quite excited. it doesn't look half bad, and it certainly looks better than MW2!

[Boz]

Find Makarov is very nice attempt at making a MW movie.

Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish

The short film trailer: