Be Excellent To Each Other

Using the Shield is still fun - people dont know what to do and 'slow down' when they meet you - if they are not careful they then get a knife in the face - and they often will simply ignore me if i'm capturing a spot which works out well :-)

A loss overall for my side but (again 1/2 the team left in the closing few minutes) but i love the scores :

7K 24D? I'd love that return.

I had great fun with the shield in the building-site-warehouse-y level (sorry, I don't know the names) with the long sewer pipe. I think I might use it more often. I'm only ever going to get battered playing it seriously as, honestly, I'm pretty shit at this game - so I may as well have a bit of a laugh.

How did you record it?

Infinity Ward has announced that a new title update is now available for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. According to a forum post by Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling, the update includes the following balance tweaks and bug fixes:

Fire rate normalization for Assault Rifles with undermounts
FMG9 Re-balancing (Nerf)
Akimbo FMG9 Re-balancing (Nerf)
Type95 Re-balancing (Nerf) - Reduce hipspread.
Fix for ACR with Red Dot / Shotgun
Fix Type 95 bug related to dropping it.
Fix map exploits on Dome


Bowling also confirmed that more updates are currently in development, including updates to the Spawn system, a fix for the shotgun's extended mags, further "lag compensation" or "host advantage/disadvantage" updates, and more

Are people still playing this as Im tempted to purchase it now.

Are people still playing this as Im tempted to purchase it now.

Friday, December 16th, we're updating the playlists on Modern Warfare 3 to introduce some new game modes as well as change up some existing ones.



The biggest change you'lll notice is the addition of Community Playlists. This is where we will add popular or unique private match modes to the public playlists, so you can start ranking up on them! The first playlist changes for Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer are listed below:



DROP ZONE



Get to the drop zone to earn points, the first team to 7500 points wins the round, but thats not all. As long as the Drop Zone is occupied, a care package will drop every 15 seconds, which ever team has the most members in the drop zone at that point "owns" the care package, but anyone can steal it. This is the only way to earn air support in this mode, all other pointstreaks are disabled. You'll earn 20 points per team member, for every second they're in the drop zone plus 20 XP individually for your time spent in the zone. Kills are worth 50 XP in this mode.



Custom Settings: Pointstreaks (besides those obtained through in-game care packages) are disabled.



Hardcore HQ Ricochet



We'll be adding Hardcore Headquarters to the Hardcore Team Tactical playlist.



Hardcore Ricochet



We'll be converting all Hardcore modes to Ricochet variant as a response to team killing. This means, any friendly fire, is applied to the attacker, rather than the victim. So choose your shots wisely and any attempt to team kill will simply kill yourself.

Drop Zone sounds like fun.

Also shouldn't Elite members start getting some of the DLC that they were promised by now?

As the year draws to a close, we're ready to share news about the premium features and season of digital content coming in 2012. We want you to be the first to know the release date for your first Call of Duty Modern Warfare® 3 ELITE content drop, and our vision to create an incredible nine month season of new Call of Duty®: MW3 content.

Check out a special Roll Call video with guest Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward for exclusive first details on the content you'll be playing in January.

Infinity Ward has just announced that the very first DLC of Modern Warfare 3 will launch on January 24. The developer also added that the DLC will be available to Call of Duty Elite members on Xbox Live first.

In a Call of Duty Elite video, Robert Bowling said that currently IW, Sledgehammer and Raven are all working on DLC for MW3, and this time around the game will offer more varied DLC to fans as compare to previous games in the franchise.

Bowling said, "The way we're doing downloadable content this year is unlike we've never done before,"

"Not only in how you can get it - in content drops or choose for the collection - but also the type of content you're getting. We're doing more than just maps. We're going to do Spec Ops missions and a variety of things that players have never seen before.

"That's the great thing about having three developers that are contributing to the season of content. You have Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer and Raven all pitching in. The full season of content for Modern Warfare 3 kicks off for Elite subscribers on January 24 on Xbox Live."

"The way we're doing downloadable content this year is unlike we've never done before,"

So, they have done it before?

I hired this out just to play through the single player campaign. It was pretty good I thought, easily worth £5.

Thanks man, though I would probably have declined, unless it was for some co-op. I'm not much into FPSs online, I'm congenitally shit at them and just get more wound up each time I spawn and get head-shotted within moments.

I've only had one really bad spawn-die-spawn-die game, and that was on Mission where it seemed to just drop me into one of two locations, both of which had a couple of enemies covering it continually plus a sky full of helicopters.

Most games have one or two quick deaths but that was the only one where it felt really unfair.

After much anticipation around the first piece of DLC for Modern Warfare 3, we finally have had some light shed on some details.

In an official statement over on Call of Duty’s Official website, the first DLC for Modern Warfare 3 has has been announced for Xbox 360 CoD Elite Premium members. Release date: 24th January, 2012.

As per usual with all previous DLC / Map Pack releases, they will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 for a month before released onto other platforms. With the added addition of the Call of Duty: Elite service, non-Elite users will get the map pack even later. This basically means there are two levels you need to meet to receive the DLC when it is released, firstly and Xbox 360 with Gold subscription and a Call of Duty: Elite subscription.

The DLC’s will be released later for PC and PS3 but PS3 owners with Elite subscription will get it before non subscribers. Since PC currently does not have the Elite service available it is unclear how this rather confusing release situation is going to work.

“We’re doing more than just maps. We’re going to do Spec Ops missions and a variety of things that players have never seen before.” This is an interesting change since Modern Warfare 3′s experience goes beyond just the standard multiplayer experience, having the ability to offer so much more will be greatly beneficial!

To confirm this, we were informed by the Official MW3 Facebook page: “DLC will feature multiplayer maps, Spec-Ops missions and other content.More info on this coming soon!”

Fourzerotwo at infinity ward has given us a sneak peek at one of the maps that will be included in the first modern warfare 3 map pack called “Park”, check out the pictures below.

The MW3Updates twitter feed has also posted some more images which they have labelled as “unofficial” for some reason but they show off some more maps that could feature and most likely will in the first Modern Warfare 3 DLC / Map Pack.

The maps that have been unofficially released are the following:

Park (Official, possible Central Park in New York)
Overwatch (Seems to be some sort of building sight overlooking Manhattan)
Morningwood (Looks to be a plane crash outside the Estate building in MW2)
Italy (Sort of looks a bit like Favela slums from MW2 but a bit posher!)

From looking at the pictures below its hard to tell much about the maps and whether they have anything to do with the previously teased Nostalgic Map Pack. It’s possible that these maps are based on the ones stated in the Nostalgic list but this seems unlikely! It’s possible a Nostalgic map will make up the 5th map in the pack if there are going to be 5 when it is released on the 24th of January 2012.

Thank you for being a Premium member of Call of Duty ELITE. Because you were among the first to join us, we wanted to provide you with a special gift to use in Call of Duty®: MW3 during the holidays: an additional two hours of Double XP and a Prestige Token. It's our way of thanking you for being with us at the beginning, and to wish you a happy holidays.

- Beachhead Studio and the Call of Duty ELITE team

How to redeem your gift:

2 Hours of Double XP: This has been automatically added to your account and will appear the next time you play MW3. To see the amount of Double XP time you have go to "Barracks" in MW3 and look for the gold "XP" icon at the bottom of your player stats.

Prestige Token: This token has been automatically added to your account. Use this token in the Prestige Shop to unlock perks like additional Double XP time, extra custom class slots or more. To use your token select "Barracks" from the MW3 multiplayer menu and then "Prestige Shop" from the MW3 multiplayer menu

Hang on - there's a DLC map called Morning Wood?

5 kill streak with my riot shield in 27 seconds :-)

Good effort lol

How did you capture video?

The game captures it by default but its a bit of a pain to get it anywhere usable.
First thing to do is log into Elite (you dont need to pay for this part of elite) and link a youtube account

From the main multiplayer screen select Vault
Select Theatre
You can then see all your previous games - select one of those and you can then 'watch' it either from your view / from someone else (3rd person only) or from a fixed point
You can use the controls to record sections of the game (it will let you record any amount you want but you can only upload 30 second chunks to youtube to share) then select 'finish' to upload it to one of your online slots
Then go back into the vault section and choose your clip and select render - it will play it , then upload it to your elite page (and also to youtube)

Snipity Snip
Then go back into the vault section and choose your clip and select render - it will play it , then upload it to your elite page (and also to youtube)

I tryed, but it didnt work

In other news, my LIVE was hacked.

The little feature where you can hear the person you just killed is so awesome when playing on the opposite side as your friends!

Yep, I really liked that, but when it came to a choice between also hearing all the sweary idiots or people who think you want to listen to their rap music on one side and just turning the voice down to zero I went for silence.

It's made for a much more pleasant experience. Oh, and I prestiged for the second time yesterday - I really need to back away from it now and play some of the other games in the pile.

Ah , so its you they are timing their new maps for then (24th of Jan for the new stuff).

As promised, the Call of Duty Elite app for iOS is now available via the iTunes App Store, and just like its console counterpart, it's totally free. The Elite app offers a chance for Modern Warfare 3 players to track stats, player progression, revisit past matches, and a variety of other services, though we're told it's all the more thrilling if you're paying for the annual Elite subscription. The application is expected to arrive on Android devices next week.

The Call of Duty®: MW3 content season kicks off this month first on Xbox LIVE delivering a variety of brand new content every month over the next 9 months for Call of Duty ELITE premium members. Published by Activision, the developers from Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software

The two new maps look great, but I'm not sure how this "season of content" thing will work for non-elite members...
Will we still be able to buy map packs and when?

No idea - also what was the point of paying for a 'years subscription' to Elite , and them extending it by a month because of all the hassles if they are only starting content now at the end of Jan , and are promising '9' packs (which takes you to August)