-eXtr-W@W server

[marko]

We have a W@W server up

IP is 208.43.14.85:28960

So please come and have fun

If you have ? or suggestions please post @ [www.mycodtactical.com]


PS. We are trying to get the 4eXtr mod up and running by 11/12/2008

[13th MEU EZ3/9]

So what's the initial reaction to W@W? They have not done much advertising so I have a feeling it is just like COD3 - a filler before they come out with the next big upgrade. From what I saw in trailers it just looked like COD2 running on the COD4 platform.

I'm interested to know what you guys think before I go shell out the $50.

[{MAD} Runt]

Rather mixed on my part. The fact that it feels rather arcade like (the game was designed specifically for consoles), it's somewhat frustrating for me when I get killed by someone hip shooting with an SMG (you can't survive on a Run and Gun server without one, apparently). And good luck using the bolts and rifles. It takes way too many shots to kill someone. Might as well throw rocks instead. And then the tanks... I'd think they'd include more than just the two tanks (No jeeps?). It does offer some things that were sorely missing from CoD4; the ability to deploy a heavy machine gun at a window, and being able to bring up the full map with the press of a button (press X as default), to name two things.

What I'm looking forward to, is the moddabilty (anti-run mods!) and the custom maps (Hope someone does a shipment remake!).

One more thing, the spawns suck! So do dolphin divers.

Ya know what, I'm gonna quote a post from a completely different forum:

Well then. First impressions: extremely bad. In their desperation to lose the Call of Duty franchise to Infinity Ward forever, Treyarch have created what is basically an even noobier copy of CoD 4 but with WW2 weapons instead of modern ones. They didn't even bother to change the names of the challenges, they are exactly the same as CoD 4 including name. All flaws from CoD 4 are still in there as well as a few new ones, and the only reasons I can see so far for buying it is if you like WW2 weapons more than modern ones, and being able to play the campaign. Barring bugs, which are to be expected, here's some issues:

-Fixed respawn system my arse. There is no difference at all from the CoD 4 system. You still start out at the most maximally bad postition you could start at, and spawnkilling and being killed because someone suddenly spawns right behind you is still the order of the day.

-Treyarch takes IW's hatred of snipers even further - sniper rifles now don't even start out with scopes, just iron sights. You need to unlock the scope. Which is not an easy task because even with stopping power only head- and neckshots seem to be fatal - and that's on a bolt-action rifle. Scopes now realistically swing down heavily after shooting because of the thingying of the rifle but that makes sniping even worse - and to top it off, you can still countersnipe with everything over the entire map because sighted shots are perfectly accurate.

-Again, everything that isn't full-auto sucks if you're not playing hardcore. So much so, that barring the universally-acknowledged-as-overpowered Tommy Gun, the knife is the best weapon because it's one of the few weapons that's actually capable of killing people; everything else does incredibly little damage.

-Shotguns still suck. A lot. This time though you don't need as much shots as an assault weapon to kill an enemy; you need more.

-Last Stand still renders you invulnerable for a period of time. And again this hits non-auto weapons and those with small magazines hard as a brick, because they are either killed before they can fire again, or deplete their magazines on an enemy who can't be hurt, leaving you dry when they can be killed.

-Sights fail. Iron sights still, after four previous CoD installments, make the bullet go to the wrong place; inside the front post instead of on top of it. The aperture sight attachment, which is of course actually a big disc with a tiny hole in it, is in WAW a glassy see-through display functionally and all but in name identically to the red dot sight from CoD 4.

-Again, when you start out, you are again at a huge disadvantage. Since you don't start off with attachments for anything you first have to get them before you can make any decent amount of kills for anything. By which time you'll have completed the achievements for it and have to move on to another weapon.

-You can have tanks, even in deathmatch. These are FUBAR. You can choose a bazooka perk which gives you two rockets but that's not enough to kill one, so once you've depleted your rockets the enemy just hops out and shoots you, that's if you've not been killed already by someone else because the entire map can see you firing the rocket.

-In an effort to tone down the grenade, which was apparently thought to be exploitable, they nerfed the grenade in such a way that you can't use these to throw and still make kills because their kill radius is very small. Ironically, the only way to currently get kills with them reliably is to go suicide bomber, which is btw also still exploitable.

-Kill streak awards, like in CoD 4, are interesting at first but when the novelty wears off it's still apparent that the mechanics of it work badly. UAV recon (here replaced by some kind of spy plane) is a-okay but replacing airstrikes is now an artillery barrage which lasts quite long, somewhat killing the flow of the game, but it's now also down to sheer luck to hit anyone with it because they fall very randomly and aren't very deadly. Replacing the heli is a huge pack of dogs that attack enemies. This might be better if the dogs didn't have as much health as a whole player - it takes three rifle shots from mere meters away to kill one. When you don't have something automatic, it's instant SNAFU. Especially when you're a sniper, since bolt-actions can't kill dogs in one hit unless it's a headshot, and pistols do less damage than a thrown roll of toilet paper.

-The sound is completely messed up. Treyarch introduced some sort of sound muffling which, though realistic, makes it impossible to locate sound origins well, unlike CoD 4 which had quite crisp sound. To their credit, they fixed the issue where if you dropped an inch or more you'd make the noise of falling a few feet (even when crouching) which gave away your position, but the sound is now quite misleading. In addition, there's much more interfering noise. The radio men's voices (germans and russians sound like japanese, btw) feature lines that can be quite funny at times but take a long time which would IRL lead you to throw your radio in the water rather than have them distracting you constantly. Subtle music in the background also drowns out audio clues which would otherwise have saved your life.

-Online climate sucks. Almost everyone that isn't a friend you're just having a good time playing the game with will still be a coward or a bunny hopper or both and there's verbal abuse and capital letters flying everywhere.


All in all; they have come up with a few interesting ideas for perks and the like and maybe they will keep the game better patched than IW have kept CoD 4 but I'll probably never play this game online with anyone but my friends and even then we'll probably stay with CoD 4. CoD 4 shared many of WAW's problems but was overwhelmingly fun in the end anyway, in contrast to WAW (so far). An IW-produced expansion pack for CoD 4 instead of this half-baked, weak replacement would very probably have been infinitely better (pun intended). Of course this is still an early observation but so far I can't recommend this game for multiplayer.

I think that sums it up quite well.

[[NOCS] marcoaurelio]

Hi there,

Personally, I leave my opinion on standby because I would not be objective.

Expect the release of the game and then will tell you with more precision what you think.

However, my impression is that as we like to play this mode does not count, then I imagine that by applying our mod, will be more beautiful, and playable.
The graphics of weapons is very good, is true if you go to check, simply type the name of images on Google, there realize.

The graphics of the game and the setting of the same is amazing, I think we
the maximum limits for the current video cards.
The maps of the most beautiful I have ever seen, the lights perfect
sound is realistic even if improved.
What leaves me perplexed is the effectiveness of weapons.

The dogs (brilliant idea) are sure to be removed.
If I do a ranking of the trilogy Putting first Cod2 to follow the "4" and last World at war.

My fear regarding the maps and have put in the beta the best three to make a good advertisement for the game.
I would not be disappointed seeing the other of defoult.

In our server we have removed the race and slowed the walk and I must say that is more playable.

In Italy the versions of the game will be two.
A 59 euro without gadgets, from 79 euros a bottle with metal (empty)LOL. ;D

The exit and scheduled for November 14.

[1stMSOB Mortars]

yeah to tell you the truth it was not what i expected but i think the graphics are not as good as cod 4 but that is just me. I think the game would be better with a mod and with just rifles. instead of the simi and fully auto guns. i think i am going to wait on getting a cod 5 server for now because my cod 4 server has really picked up and i am getting a large amount of traffic daily and with the groth of my clan and the new members i have brought aboard just in the last month i am so happy with thing and plus i want to wait for all the bugs to get worked out lol.

[13th MEU EZ3/9]

Great Posts - thanks for passing along the information for me and anyone else who is interested.

[-=BwA=-Baddad53]

I'm getting it for the COOP and MP will have squad play which was great in BF2/2142. Mod is a must - and the game is pretty much COD4 code wise so the tactical one should be out soon. Maps are the typical COD series closet sized lots of spawn rape. Maps - large ones aren't. They are not the old CODUO size ones.

[{MAD}Jake_HT]

Based on the beta I will not be buying this game. If I do, it won't be until some good mods come out. COD6 is coming out in 09 from infinity ward and will make this game look like the foolish console kiddie game it is.
I'll pass, thanks treyarch.......

[13th MEU EZ3/9]

If IW is coming out in 09 with one then this one sounds like the COD3 filler they did last time between COD2 and COD4.

Based on what I have heard here and other places I think I'll wait a few weeks and see if anything shows up at GameStop.