IW Forums a mess, and MW2 last night...

Visit the IW forums? Expect a lot of this.

The Infinity Ward forums have a lot of problems, like the screen cap above. BBcode sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Users log on and wind up in some other user's account. Forum threads on controversial topics have been accidentally deleted during editing -- twice. I sometimes wonder if folks who can't run a bulletin board properly can properly run a multiplayer game franchise. From the complaints from Aussie gamers, it appears that they can't... Managed to play some Modern Warfare 2 last night with a full crew which was a pleasure. We won most games, tho there were a couple of games (on Rundown and Highrise, and Terminal, IIRC) where we were beaten badly. We're all still learning the maps and weapons. We had some difficulties with a recently unlocked Javelin missile. Twice, right at the beginning of the match, a friendly Javelin nuked our entire team. After a couple of private matches, all the targeting issues were sorted out and we carried on. By far the most satisfying match, win-wise, was my last. We went up against a full party clan, which I always dread, on Skid Row. We tried to hold the spawn area, but we got cleared out. We reorganized at another location, near the loading bay and tunnel and held that general area and won the game. It was satisfying to hear the other team say, "Good game!" after the match. Even if they didn't really mean it. :D On to the links:

• The Modern Warfare 2 PC Dedicated server petition is at 225,000 sigs.
• The Modern Warfare 2 PC Post-Release Petition has exceeded 6000 sigs.
• Overhead MW2 multiplayer map views from BASHandSlash.
  
• Edge Online op-ed on Modern Warfare 2: It's amoral and that's a good thing.
• YouTube vid of a chopper gunner winning a game on Wasteland.
• Want your voice in a popular CoD4 mod? (Judging by many Xbox Live lobbies a lot of people are really, really in love with their voices.) BASHandSlash is having a Galactic Warfare mod game dialogue contest.
  
• One weapon that should be in MW2 (or in my gun safe): The belt fed shotgun. 
  

More Gaming Links:

• Left 4 Dead 2 bots have balls, but their common sense is sometimes lacking. Watch this daring AI rescue on GameTrailers.
• Valve has patched the Steam version of Left 4 Dead 2 to stomp some bugs.
  
• Left 4 Dead 2 review roundup: NowGamer.
• Think Left 4 Dead 2 is just an expansion? Destructiod's Jim Sterling says you're a f*cking idiot.
• Destructoid has news of a teaser site which might preview L4D2 DLC content.
  
• CrispyGamer talks to the organizer of the original Left 4 Dead 2 boycott.
  
• GameTrailers has a trio of Bioshock 2 vids: To harvest or not to harvest. Deathmatch gameplay. Turret hack gameplay.
• Joystiq has another article on Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2 Holiday cards.
  
• PS3 beta Battlefield: Bad Company 2 gameplay. Multiplayer gameplay impressions from the beta from GameInformer.
• BASHandSlash has this pretty nifty Battlefield: Bad Company 2 launch countdown timer.
  
• Microsoft says it wasn't one million Xbox 360 consoles which were banned.
  

Non-Gaming Links:

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