IGN: 5 Ways to Improve Modern Warfare 2’s Multiplayer. Of the five complaints, the map frequency resonates with me the most. I’ve grown to hate a lot of maps. There needs to be a preference system or a way to search for a certain map. It might lead to a situation similar to Counter-Strike servers that were dedicated to Dust or Dust 2, but guess what, Terminal’s fun and I’d like to be able to play a public game on Terminal if I feel like it.
Quick notes on the other things. Team scoring experience can change but I couldn’t care less about experience points. Grenade launchers can get annoying but I’ve never felt it was to the point of unfairness. Bigotry, racism, and general anger don’t bother me. I don’t think most people actually believe the things they say—that’s just dumb people saying dumb things. If I’m wrong about that, we’ve got a lot of kids with true hate in their hearts. But again, I don’ think I’m wrong. It’s really easy to mute people anyway. And dropping out of a game without a dedicated server is expected once in a while. Drops that aren’t related to the host leaving can be annoying, but that seems to happen only about once a week.
I’d like to be able to create a public lobby with friends so that we could be on opposing teams. Yes, teamwork is fun. But yes, going against your friends is also fun. It’s one of the reasons I loved Counter-Strike and Starcraft. And if we have, say, 7 people in a group, I’d much rather separate into a group of 4 and a group of 3 and have strangers fill in the other 5 spots in a 12-player match instead of playing ground war.
(Thanks for the link Junior.)