Just what the fuck were you thinking Infinity Ward?! This consolisation is really, really pissing me off. It was noticeable in the first Modern Warfare too, but now, I mean, what the hell??

 

For those of you not knowing what am I talking about here: The multiplayer part of the game of course.

 

Infinity Ward, in their infinite wisdom, came to the conclusion that it is "too complicated" for a player to join a server, so they removed the support for dedicated servers. What does this mean, you might ask? Well, in Cod 4, if you used to play on your favorite nice 40 people hardcore server for example, you would simply click join and thats it. Well, forget about it now! There are no dedicated servers, so there are also no favorite servers. The clans and communities can go play scramble.

 

Infinity Ward, following the total consolisation, decided to use "matchmaking" instead of dedicated servers. Basically, the IWNet (IWs network system) chooses the matching players for you, based on ping for example, then chooses one of the players to act as a host. Naturally, since the game is hosted locally on this one guys machine, there can't be too many player slots. The maximum is 18 players (9vs9). Talk of "epic fights"? Forget it ...

 

Not only this, but they also removed the lean function, the ability to record matches, the typing console function alltogether - and since there are no dedicated servers, that also means there can be no mods or custom maps, and admins cannot control their game - they can't kick or ban people.

 

So, my multiplayer rating would be, put nicely: This consolised version of multiplayer can suck my balls.