Every month for the next nine months Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players can expect a slew of new content coming their way ranging from multiplayer maps, Special Ops missions, new game modes and more.
It all starts off on January 24 with two new multiplayer maps, Liberation and Piazza (both maps detailed below.) Then we can expect another piece of new content in February, followed by two more additions in March.
Players can expect a total of 20 new pieces of content for the next nine months and this will all be available free through Call of Duty: Elite's premium membership on the Xbox 360. PlayStation 3 and PC owners on the Elite service can expect to get their hands on the DLC drops shortly after.
All the content will be available for purchase of course, the first pack going on sale in March for Xbox 360 players.
"The first two Content Drops will be multiplayer maps—also playable in Modern Warfare 3 Survival Mode—that throw combatants into a war-torn Central Park and an Italian seaside village. Liberation is a vast, militarized landscape, ripe for long-range sniper and LMG fire, with mounted turrets on either end that lend power to anyone brave enough to expose themselves in exchange for deadly firepower.
Piazza is the idyllic Italian getaway that is anything but, where tight corners and branching pathways pose great risk at every turn. Close-range combat dominates in Piazza, where attacks from behind, above and below are an ever-constant threat."
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So instead of 4-5 map-packs with 5 maps each, we get a few maps every so often to make Elite more enticing? I wonder what the pricing is (probably $10 for 2 maps).
Enh. Not excited but I got Elite anyways, so yay I guess.
I hope the new maps add some height to the gameplay. Right now every map is more or less flat with any low or high ground being pretty much just a gentle slope or the occasional 2' high ledge. There's rarely any reason to look up or down.
So after 2 months they realse 2 maps 1 for snipers 1 for knifers, how much are people throwing at them to make such maps, such "support" would already be done if they let the community do it for them but made elite just level you up faster.
But still £60 for the game plus another say £90 on top, they definatly arent stupid, seriously people need to question why they should pay for it.
When the new maps come out I'm gonna hop back into the multiplayer, but without buying the map packs. I've found that all the hardcore COD freaks start playing the new stuff leaving the original maps full of more casual players like myself. And I actually have a chance of winning.
Like others said, it is kind of funny that they are padding Elite's "9 months of DLC" by splitting what would normally be a single map pack DLC into a multi-month affair.
Unless...
Could it be that they've considered cutting the map count in map pack DLC? It would be the next obvious cash grab strategy, after all. They could claim stuff like Spec Ops Survival as extra content, akin to padding map packs with recycled ports of previous game maps.
If people can't see that Activision is obviously taking CoD players to the cleaners, they deserve to lose their money to these dlc releases. There's a reason that there have been no significant updates to the Call of Duty engine since CoD4. There's a reason that the mapping tools for the PC versions disappeared when paid content started appearing in CoD games. And the reason isn't to give you a better experience. Activision has designed things to milk fans until you've bought enough dlc that you've paid for the game 3 times over. You pay for maps and "elite" experiences that any other game that doesn't treat its customers as ATM's would give you for free. People need to stand up and put an end to this bullshit before the next CoD game that you're salivating over decides to charge you per respawn.
I didn't buy MW3 or elite myself, but maaan if I had paid the same for a PS3 elite package as someone else did for a 360 elite sub i would be real pissy about getting shit later.
Get money from MS to make shit timed exlusive. Check
Get money from MS gamers to give them said shit early. Check
Get money from PC and PS3 gamers for the same service, that isn't really the same due to dick move deal done with MS. Check.
Seriously. Fuck you Activision.
In other news my Battlefield 3 playing buddy got himself a free copy of MW3. He bought it round, we put it on and we LAUGHED OUR FUCKING ASSES OFF. It looks like absolute shit, it plays like shit. It's outrageously fucking EASY and generally sucks balls.
We were rocking 20+ kills for 5 or so deaths with the guns that don't even wobble when you hold the trigger down and drag the crosshair across an enemy. it was literally like shooting fish in a barrel, with a death ray.
It's like a step backwards, a shooting gallery for kids and casuals who can't handle anything remotely like real gun physics.
Playing it only reafirmed that I do not want it and will not buy another Call of Duty till they make some SERIOUS changes.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that of course.
Enh. Not excited but I got Elite anyways, so yay I guess.
I am the Worst Gamer in the World.
Horses are the worst gamers in the world.
But still £60 for the game plus another say £90 on top, they definatly arent stupid, seriously people need to question why they should pay for it.
Waaaaazzzuuuuuup!!!
Unless...
Could it be that they've considered cutting the map count in map pack DLC? It would be the next obvious cash grab strategy, after all. They could claim stuff like Spec Ops Survival as extra content, akin to padding map packs with recycled ports of previous game maps.
I didn't buy MW3 or elite myself, but maaan if I had paid the same for a PS3 elite package as someone else did for a 360 elite sub i would be real pissy about getting shit later.
Get money from MS to make shit timed exlusive. Check
Get money from MS gamers to give them said shit early. Check
Get money from PC and PS3 gamers for the same service, that isn't really the same due to dick move deal done with MS. Check.
Seriously. Fuck you Activision.
In other news my Battlefield 3 playing buddy got himself a free copy of MW3. He bought it round, we put it on and we LAUGHED OUR FUCKING ASSES OFF. It looks like absolute shit, it plays like shit. It's outrageously fucking EASY and generally sucks balls.
We were rocking 20+ kills for 5 or so deaths with the guns that don't even wobble when you hold the trigger down and drag the crosshair across an enemy. it was literally like shooting fish in a barrel, with a death ray.
It's like a step backwards, a shooting gallery for kids and casuals who can't handle anything remotely like real gun physics.
Playing it only reafirmed that I do not want it and will not buy another Call of Duty till they make some SERIOUS changes.
Videogames.
@SexChoco
I respectfully disagree w/ your point. Videogames.