When I sat down in a room full of proper games journalists like Brian Crecente, Adam Sessler and Nick Chester to watch some Modern Warfare 2 gameplay, I was quite excited. Not just because I was getting to see a very exciting FPS, and not just because there was loads and killing, and death turns me on. No, I was mostly excited for the fact that not a single enemy threw a grenade!
Grenade spam is one of the biggest bugbears I have with the series. It seems Infinity Ward has eschewed the respawning enemies, which was incredibly annoying, so does that mean they have reduced the grenade spam as well? I couldn't help asking once the demo was complete.
"The grenades are randomly thrown," explained the team, after laughing. "Sometimes they've thrown them in the demo. It all depends on difficulty level, though. Higher difficulties will have higher amounts of grenades."
I think what that basically means is that Veteran Difficulty will once again be little more than a grenade dodging simulator, as enemies hurl infinite supplies of the little exploding assholes on your position. This is sure to thrill a great many people. This is sure to terrify a great many more. At least I thought to ask.
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10:00 AM on 06.07.2009
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The nade' spam in WAW was a helluvalot worse. And like you, I found the veteran in cod4 to be fairly easy. Apart from No Fighting In The War Room. I hate that mission.
There was a ridiculous amount of spamming in that.
And hell, on Veteran COD 4 it wasnt the grenades that fucked me over, it was the enemies killing me in two hits, massive swarms of such enemies, and small amounts of cover (im talking the last part of the 'sniper' levels, and the level straight afterwards. Most frustrating part of any game i've ever played).
THE HORROR.
Also, do you think an enemy would spend his entire cache of ammo letting you sit behind a car for 20 minutes instead of using a more effective on you in a real war?
Sure CoD4 Veteran still makes me rage with the 2-shot deaths, but at least it's actually hard and you don't have to play it if you don't want to?
Someone had to post it. In fact, grenades are the reason I never played through on veteran.
Oh my god so many greandes!
And seriously all the greande spamming is the main thing that makes veteran so hard. If you took that out it would still be hard but not as much.
I still havent gotten 1000 in WAW (Blowtorch and Corkscrew and the very last mission)
Because of all those damn grenades
I'm glad they did this, but since enemies don't respawn anymore, they should have a limit on Veteran too.
Of course, R6V2 Realistic mode is alot easier than CoD4 Veteran. If only because bad guys in CoD4 could sprint and shoot at the same time. And if you hit someone, they would stumble, making it harder to finish them off. Also, shooting from the hip is garbage in CoD4, whereas in R6V you dont even need to aim with your sights.
Yeah, grenade spam sucks big time. I haven't played CoD4 but I own CoD:WaW and I think it's the same level Havoc Fang is talking about, Their Land, Their Blood, that I'm stuck on in Veteran difficulty.