Modern Warfare 2 Free steam weekend!

chrisxuk · 9 Apr 2010 at 12:40

ninefoureight said:
getting a localization.txt errror

I keep getting this as well

Downloading an update I think, 5 hours 34 minutes remaining.

ic1male · 9 Apr 2010 at 12:48

z3r0 said:
Load of garbage.

+1

Five minutes is all I could stomach. Vastly superceded by Bad Company 2 and MAG. Seems quite ancient now.

SteveOBHave · 9 Apr 2010 at 13:01

I'm sure it's been said before but I find it surprising that it sold so well and yet people seem to hate it so much... strange lot gamers.

Personally I much prefer BC2 - much more fun and involving game.

z3r0 · 9 Apr 2010 at 13:09

My brother brought it for me for my birthday, had I known he was going to buy it I would have told him to get me something else.

meths · 9 Apr 2010 at 13:12

I'd consider getting it on the PS3 if it was cheap and I was in the market for a console FPS as I see it as a console shooter first and foremost and enjoyed CoD4 on the PS3.

On the PC though? Nah.

ordinaryjoe · 9 Apr 2010 at 13:28

Just played for about half an hour... It's not terrible (imo) but it's not great at all... mediocre I'd say. Also, fed up with stupid kill streaks and people knifing me from 10 metres away and the game keeping stopping because the host left :-/

Gimpymoo · 9 Apr 2010 at 14:03

dirtydog said:
And we still don't know if this is THE weekend deal or if there will be a better one this week. Because it might not be announced until later today.

I think you are right.

This is not listed as "THE" Weekend deal so I also think there will be another deal announced this evening.

Who will join mein a great big LOL if BF:BC2 is THE weekend deal with 33% off or something?

Rroff · 9 Apr 2010 at 14:13

ic1male said:
+1

Five minutes is all I could stomach. Vastly superceded by Bad Company 2 and MAG. Seems quite ancient now.

I wouldn't call it garbage, but if your looking for something semi realistic look away.

ordinaryjoe said:
Just played for about half an hour... It's not terrible (imo) but it's not great at all... mediocre I'd say. Also, fed up with stupid kill streaks and people knifing me from 10 metres away and the game keeping stopping because the host left :-/

Kill streaks are great fun, makes it different from just your normal run and gun. The main problem is they (the developer/publisher) take forever to work through things that obviously won't work/ruin the game like silly laggy knifers, g18 akimbo, etc.

Gimpymoo · 9 Apr 2010 at 14:18

ic1male said:
Five minutes is all I could stomach. Vastly superceded by Bad Company 2 and MAG. Seems quite ancient now.

Deleted from my HDD too.

sygitius · 9 Apr 2010 at 15:02

I'll give it a try.

digitalis · 9 Apr 2010 at 15:47

ninefoureight said:
getting a localization.txt errror

Finally managed to get around this by changing the MW2 language to Russian, then clicking it back to English - only way I could get the 2nd download to start.

:confused:

S.

sbweightman · 9 Apr 2010 at 15:53

Gimpymoo said:
I think you are right.

This is not listed as "THE" Weekend deal so I also think there will be another deal announced this evening.

Who will join mein a great big LOL if BF:BC2 is THE weekend deal with 33% off or something?

They are now offering 15% off the price of MW2 as well as free multiplayer this weekend.

Pyroblaze · 9 Apr 2010 at 15:56

Was going to give this a try but download speeds went from 2.3MB/s to 700KB/s in the past half hour, and it wants to install 11GB. Bugger that.

nex20 · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:23

thecremeegg said:
I cant believe that people are still being so pathetic about boycotting the game, even on a free weekend! Its a great game to play online, you get the occasional cheater for sure but it hardly ruins it. 90% of games are lag free and its great entertainment. Talk about jumping on the hate bandwagon!
Oh and I have Bad Company 2 as well, both are great fun...is it cool to hate MW2 because you own BC2 or something?

No it's not cool... It's because the game sucks. Yes, I do own the game but wish I could get my money back

Tefal · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:27

thecremeegg said:
I cant believe that people are still being so pathetic about boycotting the game, even on a free weekend! Its a great game to play online, you get the occasional cheater for sure but it hardly ruins it. 90% of games are lag free and its great entertainment. Talk about jumping on the hate bandwagon!
Oh and I have Bad Company 2 as well, both are great fun...is it cool to hate MW2 because you own BC2 or something?

the MW" hate started a few weeks before release when they announced the price and lack of dedicated servers + admins and generraly poor gameplay.

Long before BC2.

I don't think we've had a week since launch without a "I bought MW2 and now need to moan about it" thread.

platypus · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:40

Well I pre-loaded but its missing some files and has to download again :/.

Anyway, I'm reading it doesn't have dedicated servers, who hosts the games then? Some joe on a bt broadband connection?

Tefal · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:43

platypus said:
Well I pre-loaded but its missing some files and has to download again :/.

Anyway, I'm reading it doesn't have dedicated servers, who hosts the games then? Some joe on a bt broadband connection?

yep, possibly you.

150ms ping seems to be considered "good" in the game too...

platypus · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:53

So does the matching put everyone on the same server that a random person is hosting?

platypus · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:54

ic1male said:
+1

Five minutes is all I could stomach. Vastly superceded by Bad Company 2 and MAG. Seems quite ancient now.

Played MAG the other weekend at a friends, great game.

platypus · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:57

digitalis said:
Finally managed to get around this by changing the MW2 language to Russian, then clicking it back to English - only way I could get the 2nd download to start.

S.

Same here lol.

Only still having the localization.txt error. Bums.