[cod] Well, looks like COD2 got pushed out 2 months...

[Geoff Goas]

who's your source?

On 8/21/05, Mark J. DeFilippis <defilm at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, looks like it was pushed out.
> 
> Well, honestly, I would rather wait until October, or November
> and see the release of a COD2 with a working Windows server
> and Linux server day 1.  
> 
> Of course I expect some issues, but not the BIG ones with COD:UO.
> Missing big ones is not unique to AV or IWN, look at BF2 Linux
> server by EA.  (Nice Memory leak, and nice they are so responsive
> to their own forums the put up for bug reports....)
> 
> I don't know about the rest, but BF2 was no COD killer!
> They break away to play BF2 for change, but back to COD
> and UO.  To some extent, I have seen that a large portion of
> the COD playership (A Bush word - defined as "made up" ;-) )
> has migrated back to playing COD, or COD:UO with much of
> the big fire power items missing. Something to be said about
> skill with a rifle vs a tank.
> 
> My busy servers are ironically my rifles only (Bolt), Snipers only,
> and maps that don't have PPSH, aka n00b weapons  in them.
> I don't find that very strange, but I do find the return back to COD
> somewhat odd, or using UO, but without the hardware and it does
> not all see to be driven by lag issues if you have tons of tanks a
> blazing in Cassino.  It appears driven towards skills developed to be
> a good infantry player.  I suspect this training will not go wasted in
> the upcoming COD2.
> 
> When tanks are available, and a player keeps grabbing a tank, the
> guys that know their stuff, and have the skill, know where all the
> anti-tank weapons are, and the tank don't last long with a shot up
> the old "back bone".  Eventually they get the hint and move on.
> 
> I thought perhaps a COD2 would look a lot like a BF2 with COD skins
> and engine.  Perhaps hot for a while if it was, but I would suspect it would
> somehow default back to basics and skill and tactics, especially if the
> campaigns are more detailed and infantry based.
> 
> Whatever it turns out to be, I am sure it will be great, and I will
> gladly wait until the Windows and Linux versions can be released at the
> same time and actually work.  And unlike what we just went through
> with BF2 and EA, AV and IWN make them look sooooo bad.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts about this? Noticed it?  Thoughts about
> COD2 push-back?  I would like to think it was because ALL was not
> ready, and not the Windows was not ready and no one gives a lick
> about the Linux server at AV....
> 
> Dr. D
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> Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
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