The loading times are definitely a problem at odds with the drop-in nature of it, especially when I’ve had several instances of it just sitting at the loading screen with no idea if it’s doing anything or not before having to kill it. Still, it’s a bit of a blast once it does get there.

If it’s any help 64-bit wise, I upgraded to Win7 64 bit slightly before Christmas and I haven’t had any compatibility problems at all, including some older stuff like XCom and Doom3 from Steam sales.

Well Star Trek was reduced in the steam sale but i still couldn’t bring myself to buy it. Suppose one day I’ll get it, but currently there are fair more interesting games to play.

Exactly. For someone that’s been gaming on PC for 10 years, the failure of a matchmaking system and lack of dedicated servers is a serious problem. I have top of the line hardware and a solid high speed connection, and i still get a quarter second of delay on literally everything i do in multiplayer in this game.

Example: running up to a guy and knifing him, only to have him kill me with his gun because what i saw never actually happened, while the game insists i have a strong connection.

IW released a broken multiplayer, and that’s why I’ve been sticking to WaW and COD4.

And as far as less douchey, that’s totally false. Racists, assholes and spammers plague the multiplayer in this game, and 12 year olds do too. It’s a huge, huge problem and IW isnt doing enough about it because of exactly this: “…we are now the minority and aren’t the focus of developers like Infinity Ward”.

“Why cater to a group of people with high expectations, when theres another group of people that will play anything you give them?” Should be IW’s new mission statement. Casual gamers are going to ruin the industry standards, and i hope all you hardcore PC gamers like me out there are ready for it. Buy a console, everyone.

Peace.

IWNET is a mess, we have problems getting in servers due to numbers, we have no choice of what server to join, get separated and thrown in different servers and generally spend half our time waiting to get into servers. When in servers the level of suspect playing is unbelievable, the use of the word noob seems mandatory whether it’s nades knives or any other weapons, and the level of good playmanship is almost non-existant hardly ever n1 or gg.

With our old dedicated servers for other games the rules were ‘If you don’t like the server leave’, Admins were always reachable even when not in game so cheats and trouble makers could be handled quickly.

Iwnet seems to have spilt a realy good game which can be very enjoyable if you get a good server, with half decent players and your able to stay in the server without failure to migrate, game lobby closed, unable to connect to host etc,etc,etc!!!

I’m glad you managed to get matches without too much effort or connectivity problems.

I agree the multiplayer element of the game isn’t bad and can be enajoyable, it just wasn’t though through for the PC market.

IWnet really is far too controlling, but as a unclanned noob player ive had nothing but decent experiences with MW2 multi. I would like more control over what types of matches I play. Like let me design a playlist of sorts with favorite game types. But even playing in the morning during the weekday I would get in a round as often as I wanted. I’ve had 1 game with a hacker (he even spammed chat with his website) so everone just left and found another game. In MW1 you wouldn’t want to leave a low ping server as it usually took forever to find that particular one, so you would just grin and bear the hacker hoping a mod would step in. Also the community is far less douche baggy. Mostly just get ‘gg’ after a match with no ongoing name calling and baiting.

So I see your point, yet have had better gameplay experiences with IWnet then I ever did with MW1. I guess I prefer a heavier handed server moderation structure for skill based games, and IWnet is far from perfect but I think it’s a step in a better direction.