When you get that balance right, thrilling the hardcore and letting the ungifted join in, you're onto something pretty big. Killing someone who's nearing a kill streak or who's recently killed you or a teammate using a variety of weapons - all these things offer an XP boost and awards that can lend even the worst player a sense of dignity. In the potentially intimidating world of online shooters, MW2 tries to be friendly, offering bonuses for every notable situation.
This is connected to Accolades - end-of-game awards given to those with high kill-to-death ratios, or who've done good at protecting their flag. Now you unlock emblems through a separate achievements system. Now, you don't just get to show off with a badge that proves you've voluntarily given up your top-level soldier 10 times, like some kind of suicidal maniac. The prestige elements have I also been built up. Level three grants access to all five predefined classes, and level five lets you create five custom classes.Ī class load-out now consists of your unlocked primary and secondary weapon, two pieces of equipment, three of your unlocked perks, and a death streak. For prestige - well, you could trade all your progress for a shiny badge that proves you're awesome.ĭeath streaks give heroic losers the chance to redeem themselves, with health boosts and the ability to steal your killer's class, to see how he was kitted out The unlocks are constant too. In terms of progress, the kill streak awards were instant reward for persistent murder, and the levelling and unlock system provided a compelling wider picture to keep you going.
Pie multiplayer side of Modern Warfare was characterised by two things: progress and prestige. Finally there's High Rise, which breaks with the dusty theme and lets you wage war around an office block and on roof-tops. Then there's the dusty expanses of Afghan, with mountainous brown terrain and bunkers providing hiding places and sniping spots. Favela is your dusty shanty town, with tight maze-like roads occasionally opening up into areas filled with burnt-out cars and fizzing pylons. Today, though, it's all about the PvP multiplayer side - with three new maps cycling on the 32 machines. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.So far, we've had a glimpse of MW2s single-player campaign, and the Special Ops co-op mode has been showcased briefly. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.