Crashes are ironing themselves out, but they still happen too frequently for our liking. You can jump straight into games, and, despite regular calls of lag, it's not nearly as bad as MW2. The return to dedicated servers, where you can easily pick your favourite map, game type and see what your ping is, has caused rejoicing among CoD players. Casual shooters are regularly stuck with interminable IWNet searching and massive pings. Only the Hard Core 'pro' players seem to get regular games nowadays. Now that Black Ops is here and MW2 players have migrated over, it's near impossible to get any game on MW2 at all. After a while you might only play Derail (snowy sniper map) or Rust (tiny spam fest) once every 100 games. And some maps were on much higher rotation than others. Wanted to play on a specific map? Forget it, you got what you were given.
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There simply weren't enough people to pick from for lesser variants like Search & Destroy and HQ Pro and you couldn't see if anyone else was trying to get a match. Not content with routinely picking hosts that were rubbish and suffering wild ping issues (making it, on occasion, potentially the laggy-est shooter ever), if you lived in Australia, you simply couldn't play many of the game types.
Well, as if we needed telling, Black Ops' return to dedicated servers has highlighted just what a steaming pile of turd IWNet really is. It did this to alleviate lag, simplify match-making and improve stability. You had no choice in the matter, you chose a game type and IWNet would (attempt) to find one for you and set everything up. MW2's IWNet vs Black Ops' dedicated serversĭevelopers, Infinity Ward, introduced us to a peer-to-peer online match-making system called IWNet where one person was made host and other players would connect automatically to their PC. So what's it been like to live with and what are the real differences between the two (three, if we include the occasional Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ( CoD 4) mention) now that things have started settling down?
I've racked up about 40 hours online (PC version) after racking up over 300 hours in its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (MW2).
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Note too that this deals mainly with the PC version.Ĭall of Duty: Black Ops has been out for just over a month now. Otherwise, I'd be fascinated to see if you agree. This is a bit of a monster post, and if you've no interest in Call of Duty - look away now.