...Update:..... A Infinity Ward Nation staff member and forum moderator (IWNation.com) was fired after he posted his take on the Call of Duty 2 patch that is in the works. "I am at pains to point out that this is NOT AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCMENT. Im sure everyone is wondering why the patch is taking so long, so I thought Id share a little of what I know about the situation. For those that dont know me, I also work at InfinityWard Nation, as a staff member. I have spoken to some of the Developers at IW (makers of COD2), and have even spoken to Grant Collier, CEO for IW. So, as such, I am pretty close to whats going on. As both Activision and IW have a HDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) with MS, they cannot divulge too much about the causes of the hold up. This explains why IW remains tight-liped about the whole deal. But, with a little detective work, I have pieced things together, and this is my estimate of the situation: Activison and IW have an agreement with MS to roll out any patches for COD2 together - for both the 360 and the PC. As the 360 was shipped without an adequate update system in place, this has held things up - until an adequate update system for the 360 was implimented. As most 360 users will tell you, as of this week, there is finally an Update patch available to all 360 users with a Live account. This is mandatory, so every 360 user has to download it. It will fit on either a mem card or a hd. As the 360 has now been readied for any updates, rumor has it that the COD2 patch will be released this week. Im not totally confident that this rumor is accurate, but I do know that the patch is now very close. the PC patch has been ready for some time now, and now that the 360 is ready for updates, I think it safe to say it will probable be sometime this month." Forums Administrator had this to say: "We've (Admins) discussed the current situation on IWNation.com. We all agreed that we would do best to remove Tally from moderator status here on IWNation.com. The current problems and situation had reached it's top, and it's causing us a bad reputation. We've had to deal with many problems in the past, so this was something we could definately not use. Plus, we did not like the way the 'patch-topic' was posted. We reckon this measure was not a simple one, but we hope it's for the best. Tally, we wish you the best in the future, and are looking forward to play with you on the online battlefields. - Major Pain On behalf of the Admin team." UPTATED RESPONSE from fired Mod: "Now that I dont have anything to loose, here are some more tit-bits I have to share about whats in the patch. All of the info here has been given to me in one form or another by an IW staff member. I share it, not to stir things up, but simply because I think you the community has the right to know. If you dont trust me, obviously you wont want to read this, so I would suggest you go and read something else. This is strictly for those that are interested in what I have to say. A lot of this (but not all) has been guessed/confirmed in other ways, by other people, so apologies for any duplications. Also, there are 'holes' in my knowledge where I simply dont have the info to give. Ok, here is a run down: #Server-side only capabilty #Increased gamestate - how much? Well, in an email to me by a Dev, it was stated: (QUOTE an increase on what there was in CoD 1.5) If there was 32k of gamestate, its going to be above that. Precisely how much I dont rightly know. #Extra server cvars to turn things on and off - i.e. all the 'idiot hints' (or 'noob hints' whichever you prefer). #New gametype - not sure on this, but Im lead to belive its Retrival. #Recoil on a lot of the weapons - MP44 and Garand for sure, which other ones Im not sure of. #Fixes for all the known map exploits. #Option to have alternative health system than regeneration. Thats about it. Not much I know, but its more than we had from GC's post. 3/8/2006 Eric 'Jetson' Pfoutz TX-CudaMinister of Information
