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So as many of you know I uninstalled World at War last month and never really thought twice about it until my friend called me a few days ago to tell me they released the new map pack. So against my gut feeling I went ahead and re-installed the game.

The first thing I noticed was that I had to start again, from rank 1. Why is that, exactly? Aren’t our stats stored server side? Or are they stored locally? I could have sworn they were stored server side which would beg the question why do we have to re-rank up when it’s re-installed? Shouldn’t it automatically give us our rank back when we connect to their server? Furthermore, I *SHOULD* be on my 3rd prestige but Treyarch purged a ton of accounts without explanation about a month after release, you guys remember that? Yea, I signed on one day and all of my rank/stats were POOF gone. There were like 10 gazillionbillion threads about it on the official Call of Duty forums. Treyarch, to my knowledge, never gave any explanation or apology. It would have been nice to at leats get an apology like “Hey, we had some server errors and the  75 hours of playtime you had has disappeared, you’re going to have to start again, sorry.”. No apology, no explanation. F you too, Treyarch.

So I digress, last night I played COD5 for the first time in a really long time and I must say it wasn’t bad, the new maps are pretty cool too. It seems they fixed the terrible  browser issues. I didn’t notice if they fixed the bug where nades stick in the trees when you throw them, did they finally fix that bug?

Oh, they also fixed the custom maps issue, before any custom map you wanted to play on it could only download at like 12KB per second so it would take 20min+ to download a custom map. Also, unlike IW, they don’t have the browser set to automatically filter custom servers which is really cool. IW kind of shit on the custom servers and community by doing that. Granted it’s easy to tell the browser to show all servers but there are a lot of noobs out there who have no clue.

Anyhow, back to my profile trouble, last night I played up to rank 8 and went to bed, today I got on and I was rank 1 again. I assumed it was just the server I was on tonight, must have been one of those custom servers with custom ranks, right? Wrong.  After playing S&D today for about 20min, up to rank 4, I wanted to change my graphic settings so I exited the game and when I re-started it I was back to rank 1 again with the settings back to how they were before I had just changed them. So now it was pretty clear that not only was it not saving my rank and stats, it’s failing to save the control and graphic settings as well.

I just really don’t know WTF is wrong with this game, how can you F up so bad? It’s just terrible coding, I really don’t know what else to say. There seem to be bugs and crashes everytime I turn around and it literally makes the game un-playable. I finally uninstalled the game again tonight for the last time, there is just no winning with World at War. I wash my hands, I am done! The IW coded Call of Duty 6 will be out in no time, until it’s out I’ll play my trusty COD4.

P.S. Hey, IW, hows about some screens already? You’re F’ing killing us here with the lack of details and info

I can’t put into words how happy I am that IW is doing Call of Duty 6. I hope Activision has learned a lesson form all of this. Call of uty 4 was an epically successful game, why they snatched the dev rights away from IW and gave them to Treyarch after such a huge hit is beyond me. Treyarch even got to use IW’s game engine and they STILL managed to F’d it up, I mean wow.

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So I came across this image a few days ago and saved it to my desktop. It’s pretty cool, it shows all kinds of different stats for each gun in COD4. It shows damage, reload times, and various other stuff. Click on the image for a larger view.

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Why can’t this be done? I’ve seen it discussed a few times and never really came away with a real answer. Ironically, it usually deteriorates into a flame war about who is more skilled. Which if the idea was ever implemented we would have our answer.

Usually the answer I see given is something to do with servers and requiring too much effort on everyones part. In other words Sony, or whoever pays to host the PS3 servers would have to allow PC users to eat their bandwidth and likewise for PC server owners and Microsoft’s servers.

So is that it? Sony, Microsoft, and PC server owners are too stingy to cooperate with each other? I actually have no doubt that most all PC servers would have no problem with 360/PS3 players coming on. I think the real people holding it up would probably be Sony and Microsoft, two pretty shitty companies as far as customer treatment goes, especially Sony.

I just fail to accept that something can’t be done about this. I for one have 5 different friends that play Call of Duty regularly. Two are on PC, 1 is on PS3, and 2 on 360. All I’ve ever wanted is to be able to play a game together with everyone, is that really so much to ask? We can send men to the moon but we can’t play a damn game of Call of Duty together on the same server? Bullshit.

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Call of Duty makers Activision today announced they will be releasing 3 new multiplayer maps as well as a new Co-Op Zombie map. This comes just days after their 1.2 patch which also included a new map. Could this be that Activision told Treyarch to pull their heads from their developer asses and fix this cluster f**k of a release that we common refer to as World at War? God knows people have been less than pleased about  WaW and everything else Treyarch has done. I mean basically the Treyarch hate began with them screwing the BETA up and kind of snowballed after that. The community isn’t even going to make a promod for WaW because it’s such a trainwreck. I guess the only place for Treyarch to go from here is up, let’s hope they’re trying to turn this thing around.

Anyway, don’t mind my butthurt ranting, the map you see below is called Nightfire and all 4 maps have a planned release date of March. If you need me, I’ll be in COD4 S&D. Actually, to be more specific, I’ll be on this server:

The content below was taken directly form the Call of Duty site so you don’t have to go there and fill outtheir ridiculous birth date form.

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New conflicts are on the horizon for Call of Duty: World at War! We’re pleased to introduce the contents of our first
Downloadable Content (DLC) Map Pack for World at War, which includes three new Multiplayer levels, as well as an additional level for the ever-popular bonus Co-Op mode, Nazi Zombies!

Nightfire
In “Nightfire,” players take to the streets of a war-ravaged Berlin with only the flames of the burning city to expose the enemy.

Station
“Station” offers a bombed out underground train station littered with hidden passageways and destroyed subway cars.

Knee Deep
“Knee Deep” takes place on the island of Peleliu in a once tranquil village turned chaotic Japanese command center.

Verrückt (Zombie Asylum)
The fan favorite 4-player co-op Nazi Zombies Bonus Mode returns with “Verrückt,” a terrifying Zombie asylum featuring more weapons, perks via the addition of Perks-a-Cola machines, electroshock defenses and the endless zombie horde.

The team has been very quiet regarding details of our DLC until now, and we’re so excited to let this content loose. DLC Map Pack #1 is due out in March of ‘09 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC platforms. More details are soon to come, so be sure to check out CallOfDuty.com for all the latest news and updates regarding CoD:WaW!

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So it seems Treyarch took a break from counting all their money and finally released a patch for COD5. I haven’t personally installed the patch yet so I’m eager to see what exactly they fixed. I wonder if you can refresh the server list and then join a server without restarting the entire game now? I know, I know, I shouldn’t be so demanding of Treyarch.

Have any of you used the new patch yet? Did they fix the server browser issue? What all did they fix? I know they said the two map glitches have been fixed, big whoop. What else?

Call of Duty: World at War PC Patch Released (PC)
Treyarch’s version 1.2 patch adds a new multiplayer map plus some fixes.
By Bryn Williams | Feb. 6, 2009

FilePlanet is offering up the 498 MB file and has the full list of changes. You can also read GameSpy’s review of Call of Duty: World at War, which ranked highly in our Multiplayer Top 10 Game of the Year list.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m in the minority when it comes to hating Treyarch. I haven’t been to a COD forum for sometime now, last time I was on one everyone had just found out Treyarch was making COD5 and they were expressing their disgust not only for Treyarch but for WW2 as well. It was pretty clear the community wanted another modern warfare, I wonder whos idea it was to basically say FU to the community and make another WW2 theme against the majority of our wishes?

You may be asking “what’s your beef with cod5?” Allow me to name a few of the things off…

1. After updating the servers list, you have to actually close down the game and reload it otherwise you can’t enter a server because of the famous “server authentication error”. I can see having some bugs when the game first comes out, but the game has been out now for months and the browser is STILL broken. What kind of preschool company would allow such a huge bug to remain without patching it?
2. The sound. I think no explanation is needed.
3. Search & Destroy can’t determine the actual winner. Say you’re playing S&D to 7 and one team has 7 and the other has 0, if the losing team wins the final match they win the whole thing. Perhaps this is something that should have been fixed in the first patch? I mean no rush, just one of your game modes is completely broken, take your time Treyarch.
4. Auto-climb was annoying in COD4 but it was just something everyone had to accept. In COD5 you CONSTANTLY find yourself getting hung up on stupid crap. For example sometimes you will be running through a field and all the sudden your forward movement stops and you’re trying to figure out what’s happening only to look down and see you’re “caught” on a little rock or stick. In COD4 this isn’t a problem because the game would simply let you walk over or around this small object.

I could go on but what’s the point? Treyarch doesn’t care because they’re too busy counting the money they made off of us. What about Activision? You think they will reward Treyarch with another COD title after this one? I would hope not. They should have never taken the rights away from IW to begin with. Why would you look at the huge sucess of COD4 and then turn around and give the next title dev rights to Treyarch after IW did such a good job?

I should say that it’s not ALL bad from Treyarch. They added the friends option which is cool. The prestige option like COD4 consoles had was cool until the power rank servers came out which totally ruined the whole idea. Other than those two thinks I can’t honestly say I like anything else about it. I’ve already become sick of COD5 and gone back to COD4. Bad part is I installed Windows 7 yesterday and found out that COD4 and Windows 7 don’t get along so I’m forced to play COD5. It’s actually Punkbuster that doesn’t work with Windows 7 but don’t even get me started on how worthless Punkbuster is, they’re worse than Treyarch.

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I gotta give credit when it’s due, the second patch for WaW certainly seems to have fixed a ton of problems. Funny enough they fixed the power up exploit which I never took advantage of, now I have to start at rank 1 when I decide to reinstall(just reformatted windows).

Do you think they will have the same guns as they did in COD4? I assume they will have to have some of the same guns, how can you not have the AK47 and M4/M16. I suspect some of the less traditional guns like the P90 could possibly be replaced with some new non-main stream type guns which would be fine with me. Don’t get me wrong, the P90 is a great gun but change is always nice.

One of the few things Treyarch did correctly, and I do mean “few”, is they made it take much longer to rank up plus they added 65 levels instead of 55. And of course the prestige. So on COD4 you only had 55 levels while on COD5, if you count the prestiges, there are 650 levels! Except the reward for completing a prestige is crap, they should ahve offered some gold skins AND custom slot for each prestige at least.