The slap in the face that was last nights Multiplayer Reveal Event was a Modern Warfare 2 intel extravaganza, but an information overload!
All the new confirmed information from the event has been squashed into nice, bite size, easy to digest pieces.
Perks
Name: Sleight of Hand
Purpose: Faster Reloading
Pro: Look down sights faster
Tier: 1 (Blue)
Name: Stopping Power
Purpose: Increased bullet damage
Pro: Increased damage to vehicles
Tier: 2 (Red)
Name: Commando
Purpose: Increased melee distance
Tier: 3 (Yellow/Green)
Name: Bling
Purpose: Double attachments
Pro: Double attachments on secondary weapons
Tier: 1
Name: Lightweight
Purpose: Move Faster
Pro: Climb Faster
Tier: 2
Name: Marathon
Purpose: Unlimited Sprint
Tier:1
Name: Steady Aim
Purpose: Increases hip fire accuracy
Tier: 3
Name: Cold-blooded
Purpose: Makes a player invisible to UAV, sentry guns, thermal imagery, and air support.
Tier: 2
Name: Scrambler
Purpose: Scrambles and deactivates the mini-map/UAV
Tier: 3
Name: Scavenger
Purpose: Auto-grab ammo from enemy corpses.
Tier: 1
Name: Hardline
Purpose: Kill streaks require one less kill
Pro: Death streaks require one less kill
Tier: 2
Upgraded / Pro Perks: After completing a given challenge perks upgrade to a second level where its abilities are further enhanced.
Kill Streak Rewards
Name: UAV
Kills: 3
Function: Sweeps the area and reveals enemy player locations.
Name: Care Package
Kills: 4
Function: Air Drop a random kill streak or ammo.
Name: Counter UAV
Kills: 4
Function: Cancels other teams UAV
Name: Sentry Gun
Kills: 5
Function: Ability to set-up a remote turret.
Name: Predator Missile
Kills: 5
Function: Call in a Predator UAV missile strike
Name: Precision Air Strike
Kills: 6
Function: Likely to be similar to the strike from CoD4, but more accurate.
Name: Attack Helicopter
Kills: 7
Function: Likely the same type of helicopter as in CoD4
Name: Pave Low
Kills: 9
Function: Heavily armored assault helicopter
Name: AC-130
Kills: 11
Function: Call in a controllable AC-130 gunship.
Still more Killstreak rewards to be confirmed!
Death Streak Rewards
Yes, you will now be rewarded for dying too many times in a row! There were two Death Streaks revealed.
- Painkiller: Starts you with a triple health boost after you’re killed three times without making any kills of your own.
- Copycat: Lets you use the loadout and perks of the last guy who killed you for one life.
Premade Classes
The premade classes that are available when you boot the game up are:
Tactical Insertion
Name: Tactical Insertion
Function: Choose your respawn location.
Slot: Equipment
Secondary Weapon Slot
No longer are you limited to a handgun. You can now choose one of the following for your secondary weapon!
- Machine Pistols
- Shotguns
- Handguns
- Launchers
Maps
Name: Afghan
Description: Afghan is a rocky desert map, the centerpiece of which is the ruins of a downed jumbo jet. The open central area, which contains the aeronautic set piece, is great for snipers as it’s overlooked by several high cliffs and bunkers. At the northern and southern ends, the passages become more confined in caves and on ledges, and the fighting gets more intense.
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Name: Favela
Description: The term “favela” means shanty town, which, you guessed it, is what this is. The best way to conceptually divide this map is into two sections – the high ground and the low. The high ground is on the rooftops, which provide little cover but offer faster travel and a broad view of the larger streets and objective sites. The low ground is great for making escapes, as you can disappear around corners faster than your pursuer can rattle off bullets, though you must always be weary of the marksmen who lurk above.
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Name: Highrise
Description: This map’s uncharacteristic modern urban setting is very welcome. The map is comprised of the roof of an unfinished skyscraper (complete with helipad), two interior office spaces at the northern and southern ends, and a passageway which connects the two sides.
The offices are great for crouching around in – I was able to shotgun blast quite a few guys through cubicle dividers (papers and blood went everywhere, it was great). The rooftop exterior, however, is a dangerous place, and you can easily be forced into narrow passageways. It does offer a series of suspended metal beams which can be used to climb up to an excellent sniping roost. Finally, the passage below is exposed in the middle of the map, but is otherwise covered. If you’re lucky, you can use it to sprint all the way from one side of the map to the other without being noticed, and launch a surprise attack from behind your enemy.
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We also see confirmation of
- Suppressed Sniper Rifles
- Suppressed Shotguns
- Dual Wield Machine Pistols
- Game Winning Kill Cam: Gives everyone a slow-motion shot of the kill that won the match.
- New party support: Players in a party with you are identified by blue markers over their head.
- Double-Kill and Multi-Kill Notification: The whole game gets told when a player kills 2 or more people at once.
- Level cap raised to 70
- Accolades: At the end of each match players are awarded accolades. These awards cover everything from the player who spends the longest time in prone to who switches weapons the most.
- Throwing Knife Retrieval: When you kill somebody with a throwing knife you can retrieve it from his body and it returns to your inventory.
GamePlay Videos
Presentation Video
Articles
Interview
A very informative and in depth interview from the event with Infinity Ward Community Manager, Robert Bowling.
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Commando lets you run indefinately. Seen it on one of the many blogs I read bout it.
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admin Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
@Stormer77 – Commando is increased melee range, look at the picture.
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hahaha i heard him shoot the silenced shotgun and it sounded so funny i couldn’t stop laughing
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you can choose a shotgun to your secondary weapon without using a perk??
thats gonna be bad
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I think he meant marathon not comando. I can’t wait to get my hands on mw2!
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Machine pistols for secondary! Glock 18 here i come!
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Who can confirm the suppressed sniperrifles??? I didn’t see one in all the 9 videos so it would be nice if someone could let the community know how that is been comfirmed. What was the source of that confirmation MW2Blog??
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admin Reply:
September 16th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
@Jopie – In this article http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/modern-warfare-2/preview/modern-warfare-2-multiplayer-hands-on/a-2009091515053403065/g-20090326142328171040
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Hardline is in tier 2 and lightweight allows you to move faster
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silenced sniper rifles??? YES!
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O ya, sorry. Marathon is the running one. Pardon my mistake.
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I officially now have a erection. OMG CAN’T WAIT
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“Name: Pave Low
Kills: 9
Function: Unknown, but it may be the Pave Low helicopter made by Sikorsky.”
It’s a “heavily armored assault helicopter”. Same as helicopter but with more hp etc.
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Pave low is a heavily armoured assault chopper. Pause the multiplayer reveal video when he flicks through the killstreaks and thats what it says
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Dual Wield SMG’s? its not SMG’s, its dual wield machine pistols
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@magnumPl there are dual wield SMG’s. They confirmed it…
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MW2 Multiplayer/Online And Singleplayer/Co-op=****ing Awsome, Most Amazing **** I Have Ever Seen!!!!
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Thanks for the heads-up guys.
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No, the PP2000 actually is a submachine gun. They have it listed as a machine pistol, that scares me.
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is there a cage match??
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dis game is goin to be the game of the century if they ever once an award
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I love all the customizations. However I have a BIG feeling about alot of thing in multiplayer being unbalanced.
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The pp2000 is a machine pistol, if its got the mag coming out of the trigger grip it is. the mini uzi is returning and will probobly be in the same category. but you dont need to trust me idc
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The PP2000 and the Mini-Uzi are sub machine guns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pp2000 At least try to look things up before talking.
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admin Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
@BlazingCheeze – We know that the PP2000 and Mini Uzi are SMG’s, in the game they are under the Machine Pistol category. Atleast do your homework before calling people out! Wikipedia is not the answer to everything!
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They are both categorized as both, looks like the admin doesn’t know what he is talking about. You have to be kidding me, I had some respect for this cite because it has seemed to always been right. THEY ARE BOTH.
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Oh, read comment wrong, admin, after looking back at everyone’s realized that only few people were saying not machine pistol lol sorry.
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CAN YOU DESTROY THE ENAMIE TACTICLE INSERTION? I MUST KNOW!
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cannot wait to play as roach
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There better be acog snipers on im gonna flip the **** out.
I dont like that they have shotguns as secondary or slight of hand as a blue. Thats gonna piss alot of people off.
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