Against my better judgment I tried playing this game again, on Xbox. New complaints specific to that version: the auto-aim is way too strong... it's much more noticeable, it's borderline aimbot country. It has really neutered aiming as a skill in these games. It seems to compensate for recoil pretty well too... it's almost like they added recoil to compensate for auto aim, so if you turn off auto aim you're at even more of a disadvantage. Ugh.
I was shocked to see on Xbox that the game doesn't hold a constant 60fps. The PC frame stutters were baffling, and they don't really exist here. But, I do see it drop to 30fps occasionally... more often when I'm host. The MW games were solid frames across the board as far as I can remember on console.
The only things that are actual improvements over MW2 are the way they credit kills of Last Stand users, and the fact that they fixed quickscoping, which was a console only type of problem (thanks to overzealous autoaim assist).
The maps, they pretty much all suck. Nuketown is a joke. Jungle sucks. The snowy one with the broken satellite dish is ok. The one with the launching missile is ok. Cracked sucks. Havana sucks. Crisis sucks. Firing range is ok. Grid sucks, Hanoi REALLY sucks. Summit REALLY sucks... Villa is ok... the rest I don't remember off the top of my head, but probably fall into the suck category.
There is not a single map in the game that is as good as Favela, Wasteland, Overgrown, Storm, Terminal, Bailout, Afghan, Estate, Invasion, Sub Base, or Quarry. Maybe even Scrapyard as well.
The animations are incredibly laggy... even if you are host. For instance, enemies will start firing about 30 percent of the way into their reload animation... then you watch the killcam and see them merrily reload, line up a shot for a good second, and finally open fire. The same sort of thing happens with the knifing. You can't react to things you see in the game, you can't trust that a guy who appears to not be facing you is actually not facing you.
On Xbox, at least in TDM, everyone and their sister just camps a corner. I have not seen a case of camp-itis infecting a game this bad in well... ever.
Everything I ever said about poor hit detection in previous posts still applies. In MW2 and I imagine MW1 before it I could rattle off two bursts from an M16, know for a fact that the guy is going to be dead, because I saw I was accurate on the screen, and start reloading. Here that just doesn't seem to work. Even when I get hit markers. I literally once got 3 hit markers in a row with the M16, at VERY close range, where it's certainly in the 40 damage per shot area. The guy did not die. Even if only one shot out of each burst hit him, which makes no sense since we were five feet apart and fuck you, my aim is awesome! Anyway, even if, that bitch should've been dead. Rubbish I say!!! Rubbish!
I REALLY hate how you have to do challenges for the pro perks, then buy them on top of doing the challenge. AUTO SPEND MY MONEY FUCKERS.
I don't like the perks. I need to unlock Ninja Pro... maybe I'll like that... but SitRep Pro was easily my favorite perk in MW2... it was severely underused... which I guess I understand since Ninja completely counters the best part of the perk, and there was no real counter to Ninja. But still, the footstep adjustments + being able to see Claymores was perfect for me... so naturally whereas lots of perks got minor tweaks, they had to completely blow mine up. Hacker Pro sounds completley useless. As for Ninja, footsteps are so weak in this game anyway... I understand not being able to hear them when there are raging gun battles nearby. Not that realism always makes a better game, but I can accept that.. but I can't accept a killcam where I am moving forward Ninja style and some ass-hat with Marathon sprints and knifes me without me hearing a single step while literally no gunshots are happening.
The sound in this game is severely fucked. You can located gunfire, and you can locate RC-XDs by sound... and that's about it. The dog sounds are screwed up, footsteps are completely inconsistent as to whether they even work, etc...
I get the feeling I need to try Ghost Pro/Warlord Pro(sight/suppressor)/Ninja Pro. Though getting used to iron sights and using Sleight of Hand Pro is surely better long term. And maybe tactical mask pro, with warlord pro's extra concussion grenade it seems pretty abusable.
Or I can just go load up MW2, which plays like butter.
. Pretty surprised that I managed that regardless running all over the place without any concept of what was where. I'm shocked I didn't get any deaths from accidentally running off the edge of the building or something!
