Sledgehammer Says CoD Multiplayer Wasn’t Broken, They’ve Just Made It Better

As you probably know by know, there’s some pretty big changes coming to the multiplayer in Modern Warfare 3.

However, legions of die hard CoD fans will say that besides the well known issues, there really wasn’t anything wrong with Modern Warfare 2′s multiplayer… so why change it?  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?

Well, I recently sat down with Sledgehammer Games VP and COO Michael Condrey (not to be confused with award winning film director Michel Gondry) and asked him amongst other things, why all the changes?

So there you have it.  Sledgehammer and Infinity Ward are committed to listening to the armies of Call of Duty fans worldwide in order to bring the best possible experience to all of them.  Whether or not these changes will be welcomed by the community remains to be seen, but we’ll all have a pretty good idea in less than a week.

For more on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 check out the latest info HERE and be sure to stay tuned for the RipTen Review.

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  • Guest

    Modern Warfare 2 was broken in many ways, and on paper, this games sounds like it’s still broken, just less broken, especially with quickscoping returning. The defense for quickscoping from Infinty Ward was a joke, that was one thing in the game that made it bad, and its back. I seriously think Treyarch is doing so much better in attempting to progress the series forward gameplay wise (being that they had customization, splitscreen online, no quickscoping, tried to balance killstreaks and perks more, and had a perfect era of time where there was no heartbeat sensor and other accessories) because we all know when it came to connection, servers and graphics, they mesed up there, and with the fact that splitscreen online on PS3 had no Dual Login with their reasoning being its impossible because of PS3 limits and restrictions and because of sony. A Black Ops 2 sounds like it will be a much better game if it was to happen, Modern Warfare 3 sounds horrible, to me at least.

  • Mingeil_evil510

    i am agree with u guy i says good work good day fan

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1446075010 Christopher Nigel Weymont

    Ummm… it’s broken for the PC!

    No ranked play for dedicated servers? GTFO!

    No buy for me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1446075010 Christopher Nigel Weymont

    Ummm… it’s broken for the PC!

    No ranked play for dedicated servers? GTFO!

    No buy for me.

  • Dave Oshry

    You are agree!

  • Guest

    How is quickscoping broken? Explain.

    And I for one think online splitscreen is stupid.

  • Guest

    How is quickscoping broken? Explain.

    And I for one think online splitscreen is stupid.

  • http://twitter.com/DiamondDNice DiamondDNice

    i think he means it’s broken in that it shouldn’t exist. In that point i 100% agree. guys running around killing people with ridiculous no look sniper shooting i think is just kinda dumb.

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyNeat Johnny Neat

    Although BlackOps did somethings right such as limiting noobtubes, match start tube delay, balanced perks and no quickscoping for the most part it did a lot of things horribly. Split-screening online causes serious lag, which came from server side or the Xbox trying to compute to games at the same time. It also had the worse spawning in any call of duty. Period. So regardless for me and my pals it was a horrible experience online. I couldn’t even gets past how ugly it all looked and animations were down right cartoon like.

    I’m not saying MW2 is perfect, but it had a better feel. We all know it was an unfinished product as multiplayer got no refinement and we now know why but I think MW3 has a chance to be better, be what MW2 wanted to be. I just think all CoDs need to address ridiculous stuff like auto aiming/aim lag (aim assist), bunny hopping with perfect aim, tube spamming, tubing at match start, teamkilling, no weapon recoil, tiny maps, dated game engine and spawning.

    P.s. Heart beat sensor needs to go along with the superman perk aka SitRep.Oh and claymore need more respect.

  • Guest

    Yeah thats what I meant, my wording may be a little off, but quickscoping was like a bug or technical hiccup exploited in Call of Duty 4, and now it is being kept in the game intentionally as if it is a feature, when it should not be treated as one. Sniper Rifles just get treated as 1 shot kill single shot rifles when it shouldn’t be like that. If anything, Modern Warfare 3 should make it an option to have quickscope only in private matches or custom game modes, not in ranked matches. It’s unfair to actually skilled players of the game. And I agree Modern Warfare 2 had a better visual feel than Black Ops thats true, but gameplay wise i prefer Black Ops. And also don’t get me wrong with my first comment, MW3 is doing some good things, and new ideas to balance things a bit, new cool features and such, but they drown it in more casual noob type features that arent neccesary or in my opinion shouldnt be there. So they shouldnt scrap all the good ideas, keep them and develop a better game. I would love is Infinty Ward would remake Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’s Multiplayer portion as a download maybe, keep all core mechanics intact (like the 3 support killstreaks MW1 had only), just have intense balancing (to perks, no quickscoping, and weapons), make graphics better (focus on textures, particle effects and animations) and implement all of the good features like 3 perks, and the game profile cards seen when killed or when you kill someone. I would love that :)

  • http://twitter.com/ZeroBarry Shane Barry

    MW3 is broken, spawning is worse than BLOPs, maps are way small, more over powered guns then the first week of MW2, way 2 many UAV’s, constant lag when an AC130, reaper or that new gunner thing comes in, I could keep going. I still play the game in hope that it will improve  but in my opinion the supposedly most “balanced” game of all the CODs is the most “unbalanced”.

  • http://twitter.com/ZeroBarry Shane Barry

    MW3 is broken, spawning is worse than BLOPs, maps are way small, more over powered guns then the first week of MW2, way 2 many UAV’s, constant lag when an AC130, reaper or that new gunner thing comes in, I could keep going. I still play the game in hope that it will improve  but in my opinion the supposedly most “balanced” game of all the CODs is the most “unbalanced”.