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CoD:WaW BE...-ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD

ColonCancerColonCancer Registered User regular
edited November 2008 in Games and Technology
Well folks, it came out yesterday. All you need to do for a code is sign up on www.callofduty.com and look in your email. But if you have Vista, you might have the same problems most of the other people are having.

Most of the people using Vista are getting black screens on starting it, only hearing the intro sound, maybe menu music. People have found things that fixed their situation, but an official fix has yet to show up.

I would make a fancy informational post like everyone else(see: rip everyone off) but until a fix comes, I'm stuck looking at the black screen.

Oh, yeah, the intro involves machine guns, I guess.

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    acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    arg it's too late, Fallout 3 has sunk its claws into me. I try to fight it but. . . ALL GLORY TO THE PIP-NO-TOAD. (I'd photoshoop that one up but I'm at school)

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    TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Why did I do this.
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    ColonCancerColonCancer Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Why did I do this.
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    Awesome.

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    donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    So I'm in the PC beta now, hooray!

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    SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Did I just read that COD PC has a friends system or did I just wake up in fucking bizarro land?

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    tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I was not impressed by the multiplayer beta on the 360.

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    043043 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I got into the PC beta, but have no way of playing it.

    First one to PM me gets the code.

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    donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Ok, I'm in the PC beta but all I get is "SERVER AUTHENTICATION ERROR"

    man fuck you.

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    SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Damnit I am not getting a code.
    Perhaps I should make a new account.

    edit: I LIE. 043 gave me one like that awesome pro he is.

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    ZercofZercof Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Just to verify... Is there no longer a way to get into the 360 beta? (without pre-ordering)

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    aBlankaBlank Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Zercof wrote: »
    Just to verify... Is there no longer a way to get into the 360 beta? (without pre-ordering)

    Check your private messages.

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ColonCancer wrote: »
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Why did I do this.
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    Awesome.
    I am impressed with the touches such as the scanlines, dust, and glare on hypnotoad's glorious visage, nice work.

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    ZercofZercof Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    aBlank wrote: »
    Zercof wrote: »
    Just to verify... Is there no longer a way to get into the 360 beta? (without pre-ordering)

    Check your private messages.

    Fucking Awesome! You, sir, are alright by me :^:

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    One Thousand CablesOne Thousand Cables An absence of thought Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Zercof wrote: »
    Just to verify... Is there no longer a way to get into the 360 beta? (without pre-ordering)

    I'd also like to know this.

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    LookFreeGrenadeLookFreeGrenade Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    keep on getting an unexpected error on register

    I hope I can still get a PC code...

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    YardGnomeYardGnome Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    So, uhh, this doesn't work for me on XP. Everytime I run it I get a message box telling that it has encountered a problem. It tells me "Error during initialization: Unhandled exception caught" and then closes.
    This sure as hell makes me excited for the game!

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    LookFreeGrenadeLookFreeGrenade Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    okay fuck this.

    They don't want my to try their fucking game

    editx3: umm, now I'm registered I guess? weird.

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    SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Who else is rocking this on PC?
    tag: smashism

    Let us play and kill and feast on the corpses of our enemy.

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    ZercofZercof Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Not to sound greedy but.......
    would anybody happen to have another 360 Beta code.
    My GF wants to hit up some online action with me on her 360. That would be totally cool. ;-)

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Going to be trying this on Vista 64 Ultimate in a few minutes.

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    Black IceBlack Ice Charlotte, NCRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I wonder why IGN doesn't have a review out for it. They're normally pretty good at coming out with reviews the day games are released.

    I can't decide between this, Resistance 2, or Far Cry 2.. or LittleBigPlanet.

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    ColonCancerColonCancer Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Black Ice wrote: »
    I wonder why IGN doesn't have a review out for it. They're normally pretty good at coming out with reviews the day games are released.

    I can't decide between this, Resistance 2, or Far Cry 2.. or LittleBigPlanet.

    It's not -released-. This is the -BETA-.

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Worked fine for me on Vista, but honestly it feels similar to COD 4 did on the PC and I didn't quite enjoy that.

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    EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    This is more of a game i'd get on my 360, i'd rather play that beta but i think i am too late on that front.

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    SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Worked fine for me on Vista, but honestly it feels similar to COD 4 did on the PC and I didn't quite enjoy that.

    What?
    Between the tight controls and the competent server browser, what was there to hate?

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Smashism wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Worked fine for me on Vista, but honestly it feels similar to COD 4 did on the PC and I didn't quite enjoy that.

    What?
    Between the tight controls and the competent server browser, what was there to hate?

    For some odd reason I prefer the 360 controls. I do not know why. It is the only case in my life where I have preferred playing an FPS on a console. Usually console FPSs are a bane to humanity but to my great befuddlement I prefer COD on 360.

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    SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Smashism wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Worked fine for me on Vista, but honestly it feels similar to COD 4 did on the PC and I didn't quite enjoy that.

    What?
    Between the tight controls and the competent server browser, what was there to hate?

    For some odd reason I prefer the 360 controls. I do not know why. It is the only case in my life where I have preferred playing an FPS on a console. Usually console FPSs are a bane to humanity but to my great befuddlement I prefer COD on 360.

    I played on both, and honestly, I wont argue with you on cod4 for 360. One of the tightest feeling shooters on the sticks that I've played. Something about the way the sticks control the camera, just feels right. That dead zone must be perfect to the .000001

    Anyways, that being said, nothing is wrong with the PC version. I don't see how enjoying it on a console can somehow damper the experience on a PC, when the PC version controls just fine. In fact, just perfect.

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    ColonCancerColonCancer Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Well, I can safely say that 90% of the people in the BETA cant get to the main menu. Errors, black screens, DirectX issues galore.

    And what are the Devs up to? Going into the Forums and taking suggestions for what they should add to Multiplayer.

    Fuck this, I'm getting it for the PS2 when it comes out.

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    aBlankaBlank Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ColonCancer wrote: »
    And what are the Devs up to? Going into the Forums and taking suggestions for what they should add to Multiplayer.

    I'm sure they have people working on it. It's not like EVERY dev/community manager is tasked with fixing that shit (or even knows how to).

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    TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    This won't let me log in. Can't connect to Internet. Waaah.

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    ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    This game feels like either 1) a lazy lowest-effort sequel, or 2) a polished mod or expansion pack for COD4. Everything, the icons, the UI, the graphics, and general feel seems the same. The knifing animation, for instance, seems like it was lifted from Modern Warfare wholesale. The same class and unlock system as COD4. Same gameplay. Same everything, just with WWII skins and models. At this point, I wouldn't be comfortable paying full price for this fucker, at least not what this multiplayer-only beta is showing me.

    Being the same as COD4 isn't necessarily bad, since COD4 was excellent. But this feels so lazy that paying full price for it seems dirty, especially with a WWII theme that I'm sick and tired of. But that's just me.

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    JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Zxerol wrote: »
    This game feels like either 1) a lazy lowest-effort sequel, or 2) a polished mod or expansion pack for COD4.
    Another game to safely avoid this holiday season. Huzzah.

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    aBlankaBlank Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Zxerol wrote: »
    This game feels like either 1) a lazy lowest-effort sequel, or 2) a polished mod or expansion pack for COD4. Everything, the icons, the UI, the graphics, and general feel seems the same. The knifing animation, for instance, seems like it was lifted from Modern Warfare wholesale. The same class and unlock system as COD4. Same gameplay. Same everything, just with WWII skins and models. At this point, I wouldn't be comfortable paying full price for this fucker, at least not what this multiplayer-only beta is showing me.

    Being the same as COD4 isn't necessarily bad, since COD4 was excellent. But this feels so lazy that paying full price for it seems dirty, especially with a WWII theme that I'm sick and tired of. But that's just me.

    I probably won't invest much (if any) time into it's competitive multiplayer... but you still have to remember, 4 player co-op, a (hopefully?) decent -> good single player, and a zombie survival mode! If the game was just multiplayer then yeah, it'd be expansion material. But there's a lot more content here (imo).

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    Dr.ObliviousDr.Oblivious Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I just got done playing the beta for the PC...yeah, it's alright, nothing to cry home about. They were obviously trying to go for the exact same feel as COD4, but lacks a lot of the games polish and I do mean a LOT. This can clearly be seen with how they balanced the weapons, which aren't balanced at all.

    I also found that I can pretty much spam support for pretty much forever once a got artillery support.

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    Metal Gear Solid 2 DemoMetal Gear Solid 2 Demo Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Do the guns sound atrociously weak to anyone else?

    I don't know, like there's obviously a good product there, but there's just something missing. It doesn't feel as solid as COD4, and besides the gun sounds, I can't put my finger on what it is lacking.

    The one thing they did get right though are the shotguns. They're actually VIABLE WEAPONS! Please IW, patch this into cod4

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    RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    My system is playing it just fine. Well, from time to time I get kicked out of servers for "packet loss", dunno what that is as all the other games I play online don't give me any such messages (games such as Cod4, for example!). It does seem pretty similar to CoD4, but I don't play that online much anyway, and I'm looking forward to the single-player and co-op modes in World at War more than the online deathmatch/domination/war modes.

    Edit - Running it on the following system, if anyone cares (because of the issues a lot of people seem to have)

    Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz
    2GB PC6400
    Radeon HD4870 1GB
    Vista 32-bit SP1

    Would most people having these issues be running an nVidia card, perchance?

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    MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Dr.Oblivious wrote: »
    I just got done playing the beta for the PC...yeah, it's alright, nothing to cry home about. They were obviously trying to go for the exact same feel as COD4, but lacks a lot of the games polish and I do mean a LOT. This can clearly be seen with how they balanced the weapons, which aren't balanced at all.

    I also found that I can pretty much spam support for pretty much forever once a got artillery support.

    Polish is one of those crap arguments like 'not getting it' in my book, elaborate? And playing on hardcore almost exclusively, I'm going to call bull on the weapon balancing. I've been smacked around by every weapon in the book so far and don't seem to have any one weapon held over another for balance.

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    SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Dr.Oblivious wrote: »
    I just got done playing the beta for the PC...yeah, it's alright, nothing to cry home about. They were obviously trying to go for the exact same feel as COD4, but lacks a lot of the games polish and I do mean a LOT. This can clearly be seen with how they balanced the weapons, which aren't balanced at all.

    I also found that I can pretty much spam support for pretty much forever once a got artillery support.

    Polish is one of those crap arguments like 'not getting it' in my book, elaborate? And playing on hardcore almost exclusively, I'm going to call bull on the weapon balancing. I've been smacked around by every weapon in the book so far and don't seem to have any one weapon held over another for balance.

    If you arent playing COD PC on hardcore, then you aren't playing COD PC right. Big chunk of the PC community would probably agree.
    Anyways, guns don't seem that imbalanced on normal, you just have a small ass clip, so you gotta make your shit count. Can't go blowing your load like prom night or some shit.

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    Dr.ObliviousDr.Oblivious Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Polish is one of those crap arguments like 'not getting it' in my book, elaborate?

    Polish is a polite way of summing up the quality of something without going into deep detail. A lot of key features of the game just aren't well thought out or well done in general: Spawn points, support, animation, graphics, tanks, and number of other things. I just want to drop my opinion, not give a five page point to point bullet form about my analyst on CoD:WaW.
    Mechanical wrote: »
    And playing on hardcore almost exclusively

    I'm playing a mix of both.
    Mechanical wrote: »
    I'm going to call bull on the weapon balancing.

    I'm not going to argue how I think some weapons are overpowered then others but I will say this, both SMG and Machine gun pale in the number of toys they get compared to bolt actions and rifles. It's almost to the point of being silly.

    Edit: Curse you smileys! Curse you to hell and back!

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    SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Why did I do this.
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    Change the text under it and you have a winner.

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