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Infinity Ward gives more details on Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer

Infinity Ward has given more details on Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer, how it’s discouraging campers and creating a more ‘COD 4′ mentality for its latest FPS outing.

The studio is crafting multiplayer maps that have no more than five hotspots where campers are likely to hang out and wait for their prey, the studio says.

“It simplifies it so that the less skilled player has less to think about,” creative strategist at Infinity Ward Robert Bowling, told Kotaku.

“What happens when you have more is that the professional guys are using that spot that is either difficult to get to… There’s fewer places to hide, which discourages the camper mentality that seemed to emerge in the map design of Modern Warfare 2.”

Modern Warfare 3 is also edging closer to the original Modern Warfare than its direct predecessor in terms of general feel and philosophy.

“Modern Warfare style is, for me, all about the high-speed, fast-paced-and I’m talking in terms of smooth controls and 60-frames-per-second framerate-infantry-focused combat,” Bowling continued. “Tt’s all focused on that gun-on-gun gameplay, especially in Modern Warfare 3.

“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.”

Bowling told CVG about the crack team of QA testers Infinity Ward has flown in specially to put the Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer through its paces. Have a read if you haven’t already.

Source: CVG

Studio confirms outside group has been enlisted to help run the game’s multiplayer “through its paces”

Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has told CVG the studio’s working hard to identify and address any Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer exploits before the game launches this November.

He also confirmed reports that the studio has flown in an outside group – which describes itself as “a community of gamers who have become infatuated with discovering and sharing glitches, exploits, tricks, and strategies” – to help test the shooter.

“The mapMonkey’s are correct,” he said. “They’re out at the studio to help us run Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer through its paces.

“While we’ve been hammering away testing on it since it’s been up and running, these guys focus specifically on exploits that can potentially be used to an unfair advantage, such as getting outside a map’s playable area, inside geo, or find weapon / equipment exploits that were not intended by the designer so that we can catch and address these before it gets out to the public.

“They’re a great addition to an already rigorous QA process that the internal team here at Infinity Ward / Sledgehammer and additionally at Activision have been doing since development began,” Bowling added.

Publisher Activision has promised Modern Warfare 3 will deliver “the most advanced multiplayer ever”. Little has been revealed so far, but Infinity Ward has confirmed it’ll feature a heavily revamped killstreak system. Check out a list of rumoured MW3 killstreaks here.

The beta test for new online service Call of Duty Elite, which will launch fully alongside Modern Warfare 3 later this year, is set to kick off tomorrow using CoD: Black Ops.

Source: CVG