All I want to know is - what game modes are the maps for!!!
I have googled and googled and all the pages say are “there are some new maps” and then waffle about their names and stuff.
I tend to play Free for All and 3rd person cage. I simply want to know if these new maps are available for those modes.
Anyone know?
Don’t pay $15 for three maps, please. You’re hurting the rest of us.
I think it’s safe to assume that they’re open for multiple gametypes.
That is about as useful an answer as most of the ads.
It doesn’t answer the question: “Can I play cage matches on all these maps?” or “Can I play Free for All on all these maps?”
Take Derail as an example. I am pretty sure it is a ‘multiple game type’ map, but you can’t play FFA or 3PC on it.
And in answer to Palooka, I probably won’t buy it. But £10 something pence is not very much. About the price of a single order of barely edible junk biomass from a typical non-chain take-away.
I might not get much out of it, but it’s still only about £10.
On the xbox:
I’ve seen all 5 of the new maps in Free-for-all.
Cage match was removed on the xbox when the new map pack came out, replaced with first person team tactical (which also had all 5 maps).
I don’t see why they wouldn’t be playable for different gametypes.
FYI: For anyone who likes 3rd person cage mode. Don’t buy the stimulus pack. It’s removed from the game!
So in answer to my own question: The maps are not playable in 3rdpc… and neither are the original maps!!!
ETA: I see that jacobsta811 has already pointed this out.
There are 5 maps but only 3 are new. 1 is Crash and one is Overgrown from MW.
Stimulus pack gets its own spot on the choose game screen. The maps are in a Mosh Pit like rotation, but the rotation does not include any of the previous MW2 maps.
If PC works like the Xbox it won’t matter whether you buy the maps or not - removing cage match was a playlist update separate from the Stimulus package and you got it whether you bought them or not. Regarding Stimulus playlists, the Xbox has Stimulus and Stimulus Hardcore which only have the Stimilus maps in the rotation in Mosh Pit style, but the maps were added into the normal rotation of all other playlists as well (unlike Halo 3, MW2 can accomodate people with & without the Stimulus Package in the same playlist - you just don’t get matched to the same game/lobby)
The thing that annoys me about the reason for removal of Cage - to stop boosting - is that it will merely have the effect of further ruining another game mode - free-for-all, because the boosters will simply go there (and ruin the game for legitimate players)
I loved Cage and I never used it for boosting. In fact I would set my name as “Not boosting” so as to save time by not having to wait for the game to start and apologise for being here to actually play the game.