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Modern Warfare 3 To Have Limited Party Chat, Better Spawnpoints

Posted on Thursday, July 14 @ 14:34:52 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Infinity Ward removed Party Chat from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to prevent players from cheating on servers or rig matches, but the resulting complaints have convinced them to bring Party Chat back in limited form for Modern Warfare 3, Creative Strategist Robert Bowling explains:

A major focus of Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer is allowing you to have a lot more control over how you play, looking at those restrictions, and doing away with stuff like Party Chat blocking that's super hardcore. It's about giving options. We will have places where competitive guys go where you might have restrictive voice chat. And then you have an option to maybe play that same mode without the same restrictions if that's the type of player you are.

The only place where Party Chat should be blocked is Search & Destroy and won't be blocked for modes like Domination.

Likewise, he details, in a statement with Kotaku, how Modern Warfare 3 will take a step back from air strikes and killstreaks and return to the original Call of Duty 4:

I feel like it's something we nailed with Call of Duty 4. We moved away from it a little bit with MW2, relying heavily on air support, killstreaks, perks, and stuff like that. Modern Warfare 3, very much [is] building up from that Call of Duty 4 mentality of gun-on-gun, fast-paced infantry gameplay...

The hotspots are a key thing [in] Modern Warfare 3. We went into each map wanting you to be able to turn a corner and know very easily that these are three—no more than five—places I need to check.

For the hardcore guys who have been with us since the beginning, that speaks volumes: the map design, the return to focus on gun-on-gun, all that stuff. I like to always make sure the hardcore players know we're building it up for them.

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Tags: Activision, Infinity Ward, Call of Duty

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Klandathu
Joined: Apr 2008

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Bringing back party chat and trimming some of the fat with the killstreaks and perks is definitely a step in the right direction to improve on some of MW2's flaws. The killstreaks add some flavor and flair to the game, but they're relied on too heavily. All they need to do now is make quickscoping harder, get rid of tac inserts in free-for-all, and just completely do away with One-Man Army when slimming down the perks: using it for the sole purpose of infinite claymores and noobtubes is just ****ing retarded.

If these small concessions are made it might very well divide part of the fanbase, but will definitely make the gameplay way more balanced and fair (well, as "balanced and fair" as it can be, I guess). If that means doing away with boosters and quickscopers, that's a-OK in my book.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
TL;DR I assume you support this from that first sentence

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Amorphis
Joined: Dec 2010

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
So long as there is the emphasis that there is no even field between a seasoned player and someone who just picked up the game that day. There were far too many perks given to even the playing field.

Why bother trying to get better at the game when you can just n00b t00b across the map or duel shotgun someone?

I hope there is more emphasis that practicing using more difficult weapons will be rewarding for the MW community.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Jokes on you when you buy it

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
You can't claim to have better spawn points. You can only physically manifest them. They don't exist as an idea, because you cannot prove them without actually exemplifying them.

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Stickyellowsock
Joined: Oct 2009

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 5:59 pm
SOOOOO basically they are saying I can go back to getting Tubed from across the map and also sniped too....AWESOME!

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Your conversation partner has disconnected.

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gonzar09
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Jul 16th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Don't know about the rest of you but I think I'm gonna try to jump ship on this installment. At least until all the hype surrounding it dies down. I've already played the first and second games, so, as a compulsive "completionist" I will sooner or later buy this, but I have no hope that it won't be more of the same.

Stepping back is not the same thing as stepping forward - it just means that you are back to where you started out 4 years ago before you got lost in the forest.

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