Coduo for me is the best ww2 game ever, I stopped buying any other games as they just collect dust, at least with cod/coduo you have to actually learn to play the game with all the others it just point and shoot in the general direction, hence why grans with arthritis can play and win.
As for Modsonline I would be gutted if it went under, it's been a big part of my life for years now and it's the site that tort me to map when I hardly knew how to turn a pc on.
But I think if ever theirs a problem admin will let on and then it will be time for all us free loaders to show just how much we love the site.

antonio.horvatovic0 writes...

I'd say starting with CoD2, where they copied Halo's regenerating health and two-weapon system for all the console kiddies and their restrictive operating systems and input devices.

In CoD/UO, if you wanted to chuck a grenade or satchel, you had to equip it first, meaning you could get caught with your pants down. Now it's just uber-dumbed down with a bunch of shiny poo-poo thrown up on-top of it. You'd also have to keep track of your health, if you happened to get nicked by a sniper early in a Search and Destroy round, you'd have about 3hp to sneak around and try saving the round for your team, and surviving the round as the last alive to win it for your team is far more rewarding than hiding behind a bush and sucking your thumb for a few seconds before going back out to spam grenades and spray and pray.

PC gaming and Modding is a thing of the past. Publishers just want to sell you an over-priced, under-developed game, then come and sell you the rest of it in DLC packages at 15 bucks a pop. Then there's this whole huge wave of "early access" malarkey, which then gives developers no incentive to finish the game once they get your money. There's no love in the gaming industry anymore; just lust, money, and greed.

Not to mention the announcement to stab the PC community in the back. Then it was almost as if Activision spited the PC community for its (ineffective) response. Had it not been for the PC and modding community, Call of Duty would not be what it is today. But it doesn't matter, the mindless masses have no self-control.

The regenarating health thing is the most unrealistic thing ever done in cod IMHO. You'd be filled with 100lbs of led at the end of any sp mission. This is just silly, only Solid Snake and Big Boss could pull this off ;-)

we mappers and modders have also a few things to do with how the future CoD games develop i like to think.
some of us are always making new stuff on maps or mods, and of course they they (activision guys) are looking at what we did.
for eg. people discovered the bug in quake engine by accident, and that's how we got jump mod, after what they decided to leave it. then we made zombie mod, after what they started putting zombie round on the end of the SP campain.
When we made low gravity maps for zombie mod, jump... etc. they became popular and now i hear they want to make Space CoD. O.o
But they also add some of their own ideas and we use them then.
I for eg. made a map for CoD4 (ROTU mod) with zombie traps and unlockable areas they made in CoDBO, and players like it.
Any CoD can be good if you have mappers for it to make new interresting maps.

hitmarkers,
regenerating health,
not having to select grenades before use,
ability to use sights while jumping,
instakill knives,
no ability to change fire mode,
no bashing enemies with binoculars or smoke grenades,
flashbangs,
killstreaks,
no more bolt action rifle goodness,
no tanks or jeeps,
slomo scenes,
"epic" campaigns...which are crap,
create-a-class,
tiny maps...



This is why new CoDs suck... Not to mention the modern/future Micheal Bay Hollywood movie crap campaigns...

Hehe, good ponit sgt. I appreciate all what Activision, Infinity Ward and Treyarch did for the gaming community. They created something special, and when I think it through, I dont care what they do with the franchise, as long as there are friends that play with me( and a 6-pack) theres nothing they can do to ruin CoD for me...

antonio.horvatovic0 writes...


hhaha nice.

so who has the best community? Do any of you have a team that is mapping and modding that I can go play with? I am installing cod 2 right now and I am pretty sure I have 4 laying around here somewhere. All I need now is a community that wants to play some new custom maps

About the community, I'd say Cod2. Check the mod db page, there are 3-4 mods currently in development.

Coduo, The Dui clan have about 3 or 4 mappers and their server plays Customs maps, every Friday night a new rotation with mixed gametypes, they have a modern weapons mod running, whilst I'm no fan of MW their Custom Maps and rotation make up for it, they have many of their own maps about 60+ maybe but they never over use them.
The server is in America and I connect with a stable ping of 140
and never have a problem playing, downside, it's a late night server, uk 12pm start, Friday night tends to kick off an hour early.
They have a Uk server same set up worth invading if you got a bunch to play together.

It's not my clan nor am I a member It's just a great server.