Just when I was ready to give World at War some props
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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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World at War gets 4 new maps, 5 counting the one that was just released.
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!
Call of Duty 5 Patch + New Map. Anyone use it yet?
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
Call of Duty: World at War PC players have reason to be excited today, as Treyarch released a new patch which offers up a new multiplayer map. The map is a reworked version of Makin, featuring low tide and bright sunlight versus the original gloomy map. The new patch takes the game to version 1.2 and implements a host of tweaks ranging from online map exploit fixes to one slight weapon balance tweak.
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.
This October comes the challenge of Modern Warfare and Battlefield: Bad Company. Medal of Honor of Electronic Arts is being released on October 12 and it will challenge both the games for the top spot in the FPS genre.
Last week at E3 gaming event the stills and multi-player footage were released. The footage bound to bring comparison with the MW2 and BBC2.
The styles of the game is similar to the MW2 and BBC2, but MoH appears to concentrate on points and not focus on kills as MW2 does.
Below is the footage of Medal of Honor:
