FourZeroTwo Blog - Team Killers are Lame

[Spawndemon]

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Infinity Ward's community manager FourZeroTwo has posted up a new blog post asking the community their opinion on a few topics. Take a look:

Nothing ruins a game of Hardcore Search and Destroy or Hardcore Team Deathmatch faster than an excessive team killer being a douche. So, all this talk of new playlists we’ve been doing around the studio recently (with the help of my raw hatred of team killers) got me to thinking about some Hardcore playlists variations we could possibly introduce when we do the playlist update.

What do you guys think of having the option of playing your favorite Hardcore playlists standard (HC S&D, HC TDM) in addition to Hardcore (Friendly Fire Disabled). Essentailly, standard Hardcore rules with limited hud, increased weapon damage, etc. minus the dread of team killers?

I mention it, because I think it’d be a nice option to have once we introduce Hardcore HQ and give those who love Hardcore but hate team killers a haven for some honest hardcore gameplay. So what’s the verdict? Would you like the option to play Hardcore Standard and Hardcore (No Friendly Fire)?

Note the word, option. Meaning, you can still play the way it is now (with friend fire on) or have an additional option to play without friend fire. I’m not proposing change all of Hardcore. I’m saying give an option for Hardcore lite in addition to the normal hardcore playlists there already are.

So be sure to post up any comments or opinions you have for him.

[CptainCrunch]

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Wow, reading about this and the playlist posting makes me glad I play the PC version. It seems the console people has only 75% of the online version.

Crunch

[imported_Whiskey]

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How console players could NOT demand a FF on/off option in all modes is beyond me. In the PC world, that's pretty much a given. Makes one appreciate all the extra options that PC has to be able to customize one's gaming experience.

[JoMaMaz]

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Definitely! I recently got a ps3 (my fiancee was wanting one and I enjoy some console games). One thing though, fps will still be on the pc for me. FPS on consoles are behind imo. Mouse + keyboard any day over 2 analog sticks.

[imported_ATM743]

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How console players could NOT demand a FF on/off option in all modes is beyond me. In the PC world, that's pretty much a given. Makes one appreciate all the extra options that PC has to be able to customize one's gaming experience.

i know right.

what i don't understand on the consoles is why dont they just set FF to reflect. thats an option on pc?

FF on call of duty is just plain dumb and retarded. or better yet (what i set the clan im in's server) is ff off.

so you dont have to worry about where you place a air strike or throw a grenade

PC for the win :) i recall playing halo 2 on xbox live and hating how the map rotation was set up. it sucked. guess crappy rotations in console online games still are around

[Manufan7]

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i know right.

what i don't understand on the consoles is why dont they just set FF to reflect. thats an option on pc?

FF on call of duty is just plain dumb and retarded. or better yet (what i set the clan im in's server) is ff off.

so you dont have to worry about where you place a air strike or throw a grenade

PC for the win :) i recall playing halo 2 on xbox live and hating how the map rotation was set up. it sucked. guess crappy rotations in console online games still are around

Yeah I barely ever get to play the maps that I like on Halo 3 as people usually veto them and whats the point in being able to make ur own maps if there are no dedicated servers whare people could join and check them out instead of only having a few friends play on them from time to time, its such a waste of a good feature.

[Greasy_Mullet]

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The problem is the Martyrdom is the single worst "feature" in the game. The problem is not the game mode it is in but the fact that something like this is in the game in the first place. My CoD4 time went down a ton once more and more people started to use this perk.

If you play Free For All at all and use this perk, you will get at LEAST 1 kill every single time you die. On the other mods you will still rack up a ton of kills with it as well but in Free For All, it just totally ruins that game mode.

Since I am sure "features" as lame as the nade drop will not be removed, perhaps a small vicotry would just be a option for servers to disable certain perks like this one for any game mode and then allow users the option to filter in only the anti nade drop servers.

[FPS[SONIC]]

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"Hey' we've been having second thoughts now that the game has been out for awhile."

...This all sounds like more console-spawned nonsense to me. Good players only use this perk because they want to. Get over it.

Bad players use Martyrdom because they haven't mastered the game yet. You should be able to minimize the impact of their poor perk choice with your superior choice of perk. It's that simple.

Shoot, is there any place which exclusively focuses on PC gaming? Sigh.

[imported_Whiskey]

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One interesting thing we've read about COD:WW is that some new perks will be added that are designed to counter some of the existing "annoying" ones. Perhaps a perk to counter Martyrdom will be one of those.