Barbones playlists now available!

Jev/N

Barebones playlists (Pro and Objective) now up, on Xbox Live anyways. All Killstreak rewards are disabled in it, but that's about it.

Decent enough as it really sorts out who is the best player (debatable I know).

There didn't seem to be any notice of it, it just appeared

TheChrisD

I think it'll be a good list, although I'm annoyed the main deathmatch one lumps both TDM and Free for All into it...

Kev_ps3

nice1, but prob only benefit the sh!te players who cant put a killstreak together:D

iMuse

Think it would have been better with cod4 killstreaks with a UAV, airstrike and attack helicopter. Be interesting to see if it reduces camping though

Nuri Sahin

Absolutely awesome news

The best players will shine through in Barebones. Skill actually required to get a 10, 20 and 30 killstreak. Cannot wait to play MW2 now(haven't said in that in so long).

krudler

Looking forward to this on PS3, boosterless games! Getting 10+ kills with no streaks isgoing to show just how good people actually are.

Nuri Sahin

Have to add, it'll be interesting to see if the COD commentators will play Barebones now or will they stick to Domination and FFA :pac: So many commentators on Machinma I don't rate.

PerrinV2

Did they get rid of mosh pit?
I didn't see it yesterday when barebones appeared

Jev/N

Getting quite annoyed at the amount of noob tubing in these lists with players looking for easy kills, and once one or two start it, everyone joins in

CORaven

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Did they get rid of mosh pit?
I didn't see it yesterday when barebones appeared

They did. It pretty much is mosh pit tho.
Played some TDM on it, people kept leaving and joining every kill on my team, 'twas very annoying.

liah

Is it coming to PC?

JeanClaude

liah wrote: »

Is it coming to PC?

I presume ye'll get it when the new maps come out on P.C. ala PS3...

Anyway had 2 games of BareBones (one of each Pro and Objective) earlier, first was an FFA on Fuel and that was a disaster 8 in the game, winner ended up with 15 kills after the full 10 mins, twas probably just Fuel being too big of a map running around not meeting anybody for a minute or so, obviously a smaller map would have been better. So i won't comment too much about how a FFA game w/o Killstreaks works out till I play it on a smaller map.
Second game was a CTF on Favela, much better, we were 4-0 down at half-time but we ended up winning 6-5, very rarely would you come back from that but opposition fell into the trap of protecting their lead, (had a few camping at their own flag ) but while they were racking up the kills, they had no air support (or Sentry guns etc) to stop us coming at them, so we got through enough times to capture a few flags ,all in all was quite pleased with it, cos definitely we wouldn't have been able too, if killstreaks were enabled.
Coldblooded is useless now with these gamemodes (bar you have coldblooded pro) and (don't know if this was related or just coincidence) alot more claymores were deployed, had sit-rep on for the CTF, and if every game was like that I'd have sit-rep pro in no time.. :D

TheChrisD

JeanClaude wrote: »

Coldblooded is useless now with these gamemodes (bar you have coldblooded pro)

Or the enemy uses Thermal Scopes.

raze

What's the difference between Pro and Objective playlists, and is either a hardcore playlist?

Also, is the UAV still there when you hit Start - or is it like a permanent Counter UAV is up?

shawpower

I heard that CTF is now gone from the playlists? Is this right?

iMuse

shawpower wrote: »

I heard that CTF is now gone from the playlists? Is this right?

Yeah its gone from its own playlist but its still in team tactical, and part of the barebones playlist and resurgence playlist

JeanClaude

krudler wrote: »

Looking forward to this on PS3, boosterless games! Getting 10+ kills with no streaks isgoing to show just how good people actually are.

Not gonna happen, unfortunately....found quite a few boosters on the 360 to-day. Still enjoyed finding them and sticking a nade on their head.....but i genuinely thought they wouldn't bother with BareBones..

anonymous_joe

TheChrisD wrote: »

Or the enemy uses Thermal Scopes.

Wouldn't bother me on most maps really.

I played it a bit in my mate's last night, when I got back to my Xbox I went straight back to Ground War.

It's a great change of pace, but I love Kill Streaks. Also, I don't find them overpowered in many contexts, barring Ground War and spawn trapping really. I mean, Wasteland and a Chopper Gunner isn't going to be pretty, but if you don't have either a Cold Blooded class or a Stinger Class (or a combination of both) then you're asking to die. Repeatedly.

Liam O

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Wouldn't bother me on most maps really.

I played it a bit in my mate's last night, when I got back to my Xbox I went straight back to Ground War.

It's a great change of pace, but I love Kill Streaks. Also, I don't find them overpowered in many contexts, barring Ground War and spawn trapping really. I mean, Wasteland and a Chopper Gunner isn't going to be pretty, but if you don't have either a Cold Blooded class or a Stinger Class (or a combination of both) then you're asking to die. Repeatedly.

so in other words if you are lower than level 28 (?) or whenever you unlock cold blooded and stingers you are asking to die? That's really nice and a little bit of an overlook by IW...

The Floyd p

Great to see this game mode It was fine in COD4 with just UAV, Airstrike and then Helicopter. Too many killstreaks in MW2

raze

Liam O wrote: »

so in other words if you are lower than level 28 (?) or whenever you unlock cold blooded and stingers you are asking to die? That's really nice and a little bit of an overlook by IW...

Not that I don't agree with your point, as I think cold blooded should be unlocked around rank 13 like UAV jammer was in COD4, everyone has cold blooded at rank 2 if they pick the scout sniper default class. So you at least have the option if you're stuck with high ranking gits for teammates if they're not shooting down air support. Personally think that Stingers and scavenger (for the ac130) should be on one class for everyone in any team game, then first to die takes it down.

Apologies for OT.

anonymous_joe

Liam O wrote: »

so in other words if you are lower than level 28 (?) or whenever you unlock cold blooded and stingers you are asking to die? That's really nice and a little bit of an overlook by IW...

A default class has it.

IW didn't do things perfectly by any means.

.SONIC.

the noob tubers are out in force on barebones!!! :mad:

i like it that theres no killstreaks, allows me to put the stinger away and whip out the deagle!!

nothing beats the desert eagle EXCEPT pacman :pac:. . . . . . .

PerrinV2

CORaven wrote: »

They did. It pretty much is mosh pit tho.
Played some TDM on it, people kept leaving and joining every kill on my team, 'twas very annoying.

Actually did they just rename mosh pit to team tactical?...

CORaven

PerrinV2 wrote: »

Actually did they just rename mosh pit to team tactical?...

Mosh pit had Headquarters pro, sabotage and free for all.

PerrinV2

o ya,I miss mosh pit....

Liam O

anonymous_joe wrote: »

A default class has it.

IW didn't do things perfectly by any means.

A default class that is a cold blooded Barrett, which pretty much unless every shot you hit is a headshot is a 2 shot kill, which for a sniper, is stupid.

anonymous_joe

Liam O wrote: »

A default class that is a cold blooded Barrett, which pretty much unless every shot you hit is a headshot is a 2 shot kill, which for a sniper, is stupid.

Don't blame me for that.

I think the implementation of air support is slightly flawed for certain game modes, but there's usually the option of staying indoors on most maps anyway.

Kev_ps3

Looking forward to this on ps3. Domination is filled with campers looking for killstreaks.

Nalz

Anyone find any boosters in barebones yet?

JeanClaude

Trilla wrote: »

Anyone find any boosters in barebones yet?

Loads of them...place is full of them....genuine...:D

raheny red

Silly amounts of people using hardline

Shammy

Trilla wrote: »

Anyone find any boosters in barebones yet?

JeanClaude wrote: »

Loads of them...place is full of them....genuine...:D

I spent a good hour looking for them on barebones , need a few more boosters to complete my booster montage but couldnt find any.....:mad:

JeanClaude

Shammy wrote: »

I spent a good hour looking for them on barebones , need a few more boosters to complete my booster montage but couldnt find any.....:mad:

Jaysus Shammy they're all over the place, even had 2 lots of 'em on 1 match yesterday... if I come across any today i'll give you a shout .. might need some help cos I'm noticing alot of them seem to have a "Guard" or two lately...:D..
Had some good craic getting the sticky nade challange completed (is that not a form of boosting..it's so easy...:D) and loads of double kills, it's great to see em run when the fella who you stick realises what has happened...can imagine them on the mic..."oh **** a grenade run"...LOL..only for it to be stuck to his head...:D

celtic723

JeanClaude wrote: »

Jaysus Shammy they're all over the place, even had 2 lots of 'em on 1 match yesterday... if I come across any today i'll give you a shout .. might need some help cos I'm noticing alot of them seem to have a "Guard" or two lately...:D..
Had some good craic getting the sticky nade challange completed (is that not a form of boosting..it's so easy...:D) and loads of double kills, it's great to see em run when the fella who you stick realises what has happened...can imagine them on the mic..."oh **** a grenade run"...LOL..only for it to be stuck to his head...:D

Because of you my laptop screen is now covered in chicken soup.

FFS!!!!:pac::pac::pac::pac:

The Shtig

Brilliant didn't think IW would give us barebones!

Mostly looking forward to objective games like domination and demolition without killstreaks, too bad noobtubes, grenades, Rpgs etc. aren't disabled