[CoD MW3] 'Elite' service

sierra117x · 17-08-2011 08:42AM

took me so many attempts to get the beta set up:( kept telling me stupid stuff like my email address was wrong . then it was in use. then it was wrong again. then my password was wrong(yes wrong 1 upper case 6 regular and 1 number). then eventually it seems to be going ahead........then boom username is in use. start over bitch

claiva · 17-08-2011 11:02AM

sierra117x wrote: »

took me so many attempts to get the beta set up:( kept telling me stupid stuff like my email address was wrong . then it was in use. then it was wrong again. then my password was wrong(yes wrong 1 upper case 6 regular and 1 number). then eventually it seems to be going ahead........then boom username is in use. start over bitch

I'm confused, I signed up, got the invite, filled it in...100% etc etc.....
Now what ?

sierra117x · 17-08-2011 03:34PM

claiva wrote: »

I'm confused, I signed up, got the invite, filled it in...100% etc etc.....
Now what ?

i dunno why your quoting me i clearly havent gotten that far. you should be able to start viewing stat details i guess . or you might notice some different player card stuffs

minidazzler · 17-08-2011 04:11PM

claiva wrote: »

I'm confused, I signed up, got the invite, filled it in...100% etc etc.....
Now what ?

Go here http://www.callofduty.com/elite sign in, and it should say Enter Elite Beta on the left side about middle of the screen. Then you should be in it I think.

iMuse · 18-08-2011 01:16AM

I got an invite ages ago but was hidden in my junk mail haha, it pretty cool, WOR has ghost on half his classes

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JeanClaude · 19-08-2011 03:17PM

AGB_Ghost wrote: »

You cant sign in on an alternate IP address, Im on my other internet on my laptop and I keep getting "Thank you for registering, check your email to validate your moments away from entering the beta"

Had the same problem with my PC upstairs, after originally using my Laptop to access it but keep trying I eventually got it on both.

Also has anyone signed up "enlisted" for the lone wolf FFA operation and if so how are you doing? I'm 69th with 463 kills, some people are just gonna play the whole 24 hrs which is absolute lunancy.. I'll be happy to be in the top 50% and get a Bronze badge as it's my 1st tournament???

Leeg17 · 19-08-2011 03:23PM

JeanClaude wrote: »

Also has anyone signed up "enlisted" for the lone wolf FFA operation and if so how are you doing? I'm 69th with 463 kills, some people are just gonna play the whole 24 hrs which is absolute lunancy.. I'll be happy to be in the top 50% and get a Bronze badge as it's my 1st tournament???

I read on the RatsClan twitter that one of them was playing for 17 hours straight at the time of tweeting with an average of 20-25 kills a game (I'm assuming it was the same FFA tournament), crazy altogether. I'll just be happy to compete

JeanClaude · 19-08-2011 03:26PM

iMuse wrote: »

I got an invite ages ago but was hidden in my junk mail haha, it pretty cool, WOR has ghost on half his classes

What's his GT??? Thought it was UnlimitedUAV??? searched for it but no sign of him on it.

JeanClaude · 19-08-2011 03:29PM

Leeg17 wrote: »

I read on the RatsClan twitter that one of them was playing for 17 hours straight at the time of tweeting with an average of 20-25 kills a game (I'm assuming it was the same FFA tournament), crazy altogether. I'll just be happy to compete

This one just started this morning at 8am runs till 8am tomorrow. Probably along the same lines i.e. most FFA kills in that 24 hour period.

Dozyart · 19-08-2011 03:31PM

JeanClaude wrote: »

Had the same problem with my PC upstairs, after originally using my Laptop to access it but keep trying I eventually got it on both.

Also has anyone signed up "enlisted" for the lone wolf FFA operation and if so how are you doing? I'm 69th with 463 kills, some people are just gonna play the whole 24 hrs which is absolute lunancy.. I'll be happy to be in the top 50% and get a Bronze badge as it's my 1st tournament???

Played 2 of the TDM Tournaments,finished with silver badges in both with the winners chalking up over 6000 kills!
Playing for 24 hours straight is nuts!!You would be better off doing it as team and passing the gamertag on to the next person every few hours!

JeanClaude · 19-08-2011 03:36PM

Dozyart wrote: »

Played 2 of the TDM Tournaments,finished with silver badges in both with the winners chalking up over 6000 kills!
Playing for 24 hours straight is nuts!!You would be better off doing it as team and passing the gamertag on to the next person every few hours!

It's a bit silly alright, the winner should be determined by Kills Per Minute over a certain period i.e 1 hour. That way if you only have an hour to spare you can still post a competitive score, if someone wants to play 24 hours straight let them but only their best hour would count. Hope that makes sense

JeanClaude · 19-08-2011 08:06PM

77th with 640 Kills, hope thats enough for bronze cos I've enough of FFA and the BellEnds who play it.

Seamus LFC · 19-08-2011 08:35PM

JeanClaude wrote: »

77th with 640 Kills, hope thats enough for bronze cos I've enough of FFA and the BellEnds who play it.

You'll definitely get at least bronze. The last ffa event was longer and 90 kills was enough to get me a bronze badge

JeanClaude · 19-08-2011 08:48PM

Seamus LFC wrote: »

You'll definitely get at least bronze. The last ffa event was longer and 90 kills was enough to get me a bronze badge

Hopefully, just looking there I only dropped 1 spot since I posted last and out of the 1,231 that have enlisted only 450 have got kills. It's lunancy at the top of the table, fella leading has 2,512 kills in just under 13 hours. Pure and utter madness. :eek:

Magill · 02-09-2011 10:44PM

So we know how much this will be and what you get with it....

what are peoples opinions ?

Activision has finally put an end to speculation and confirmed a £34.99/$49.99 price for an annual premium subscription to Call of Duty: Elite.

An annual membership gets you all Call of Duty DLC free for the year, and during the Call of Duty XP conference in LA Activision promised 20 new pieces of Modern Warfare 3 content over the next year. It wouldn't just be maps, either, with Activision confirming it was working on providing new multiplayer modes and missions for the game's Spec Ops mode.

Having a premium subscription to Call of Duty: Elite will also allow you to access map packs before they are made available over Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network and Steam. Map packs will still be sold, but on Call of Duty: Elite they will be stripped apart and handed out on an individual basis every few weeks.

Premium membership will also entitle you to enter daily competitions, which offer both real-life and virtual prizes and promise to cater to all skill levels and playing styles.

Call of Duty: Elite provides clan support for all users, but subscribers will also be able to level up their clans in a fashion similar to their individual player ranks.

Elite TV will provide original video content to subscribers. So far this includes weekly shows such as Friday Night Fights, which pits celebrities against one another and will be directed by brothers Ridley and Tony Scott, and Noob Tube, a light-hearted commentary show produced by Jason Bateman and Will Arnett.

Finally, you'll have eight times the storage space for videos if you're a premium member.

Call of Duty: Elite officially launches alongside Modern Warfare 3 on November 8.

Personally.. i think its a no brainer, if only for the maps and extra content alone.

Shammy · 02-09-2011 11:03PM

Magill wrote: »

So we know how much this will be and what you get with it....

what are peoples opinions ?

Personally.. i think its a no brainer, if only for the maps and extra content alone.

If there are 3 map packs then thats 45 euro which would equal the yearly sub. If there are 2 packs then its 15 euro for the extras .
If theres only 1 map pack they can F**k right off.

Leeg17 · 02-09-2011 11:08PM

Shammy wrote: »

If there are 3 map packs then thats 45 euro which would equal the yearly sub. If there are 2 packs then its 15 euro for the extras .
If theres only 1 map pack they can F**k right off.

They said in the interview that the value of the map packs in MW3 will be 60$ (4x15$) so even if you were to buy 4 map packs in a CoD cycle normally it makes sense to go for Elite, plus you get the maps earlier than regular release. Anything on top of that such as the daily competitions (which I look forward to enter, something different!), extra theatre mode slots (not in HD) and stuff is an extra.

Magill · 02-09-2011 11:11PM

Shammy wrote: »

If there are 3 map packs then thats 45 euro which would equal the yearly sub. If there are 2 packs then its 15 euro for the extras .
If theres only 1 map pack they can F**k right off.

They've said there will be 20 pieces of additional content, im assuming that'll be at least 10-12 maps. The rest is split between game modes and spec ops missions apparently. Its still in their interest to make a few map packs because im sure people wont buy elite and will just buy the maps seperately.

Shammy · 02-09-2011 11:16PM

Leeg17 wrote: »

They said in the interview that the value of the map packs in MW3 will be 60$ (4x15$) so even if you were to buy 4 map packs in a CoD cycle normally it makes sense to go for Elite, plus you get the maps earlier than regular release. Anything on top of that such as the daily competitions (which I look forward to enter, something different!), extra theatre mode slots (not in HD) and stuff is an extra.

Magill wrote: »

They've said there will be 20 pieces of additional content, im assuming that'll be at least 10-12 maps. The rest is split between game modes and spec ops missions apparently. Its still in their interest to make a few map packs because im sure people wont buy elite and will just buy the maps seperately.

I didnt watch any of the vids

yimrsg · 02-09-2011 11:16PM

Magill wrote: »

So we know how much this will be and what you get with it....

what are peoples opinions ?

Personally.. i think its a no brainer, if only for the maps and extra content alone.

Largely depends on whether mw3 is cack or not.

I can do without the extra slots for videos, the exclusive videos by big names in hollywood, the competitions and the razzmatazz than blinds fools. If the maps are sh*te, then good luck getting my money, I will hold off buying individual map packs untill after launch and not be swayed by buying it on launch. If the consensus is good then I may join in, if not I'll spend my money elsewhere.

The only way I can see myself going for this is if there is some past iterations of COD4/MW2 maps that you can only have through Elite. And even then I'd still think that there would be problems with match making as I'd be paired with distant international players rather than those local to me.

€40/45 is another game and as such any enjoyment from elite should be judged against another purchase of equal value. With upcoming and recent releases promising and fulfilling so much, I'd be reluctant to pay for an add on to a game that wasn't the best it could be or at least advanced the series somewhat. I paid €20 for FM2011, £10 for Rome Total War and those have given me far more bang for my buck than paying for the similarly priced map packs of black ops. I'm sure many people remember fondly similar bargains that cost so little but occupied vast swathes of your time in a pleasant manner.

If upon MW3's release it has a pile of perks stuck randomly in to the amorphous blob of multiplayer, with hideous point streak claws without any basic understanding of balance then it'll bomb and I can't see myself ever paying full RRP for a COD game again.

Elite's success is entirely dependent on MW3 being a triple A game and judging from what I've seen of it and how poorly IW has in the past supported it's projects I can see it being a failure after a massive hype campaign drove initial uptake way above it's actual true value. Think of it as Eircom shares.

Magill · 02-09-2011 11:54PM

yimrsg wrote: »

Largely depends on whether mw3 is cack or not.

I can do without the extra slots for videos, the exclusive videos by big names in hollywood, the competitions and the razzmatazz than blinds fools. If the maps are sh*te, then good luck getting my money, I will hold off buying individual map packs untill after launch and not be swayed by buying it on launch. If the consensus is good then I may join in, if not I'll spend my money elsewhere.

The only way I can see myself going for this is if there is some past iterations of COD4/MW2 maps that you can only have through Elite. And even then I'd still think that there would be problems with match making as I'd be paired with distant international players rather than those local to me.

€40/45 is another game and as such any enjoyment from elite should be judged against another purchase of equal value. With upcoming and recent releases promising and fulfilling so much, I'd be reluctant to pay for an add on to a game that wasn't the best it could be or at least advanced the series somewhat. I paid €20 for FM2011, £10 for Rome Total War and those have given me far more bang for my buck than paying for the similarly priced map packs of black ops. I'm sure many people remember fondly similar bargains that cost so little but occupied vast swathes of your time in a pleasant manner.

If upon MW3's release it has a pile of perks stuck randomly in to the amorphous blob of multiplayer, with hideous point streak claws without any basic understanding of balance then it'll bomb and I can't see myself ever paying full RRP for a COD game again.

Elite's success is entirely dependent on MW3 being a triple A game and judging from what I've seen of it and how poorly IW has in the past supported it's projects I can see it being a failure after a massive hype campaign drove initial uptake way above it's actual true value. Think of it as Eircom shares.

I think with pretty much every game, judgement should be reserved until you actually play the game (Long enough to judge it) and since i doubt any content will be released within the first few weeks or so it'll give people enough time to decided if they like it or not.

Lets be honest tho.. the majority of people on this forum will be playing the **** out of this game for months after release and elite's success will clearly not be dependant on MW3 being a AAA game. The only other MP game thats coming out around then is BF3 and while i think its going to be good... its a very different game from CoD so i can't see it replacing it.

From what i've seen, the perks seem fine and noobtubes and equipment seems balanced (Apparently noobtubes are ****)... after thinking about it.... it really doesn't matter what the killstreaks are like because frankly it doesn't matter. Playing in a group you can decide if yas want to use the OP killstreaks or just play gun on gun with supportstreaks, its not like the other team are gonna be getting 15 killstreaks against ya. In blops killstreaks were never a problem with boards groups(On the ps3) once we decided to stick to the non overpowered killstreaks, the only reason people got fed up with the game was ghost/secondchance (And generally being burnt out from playing too much).

Im optimistic for MW3, not expecting anything gamebreaking, just something to pass the time and have some fun with.

yimrsg · 03-09-2011 01:24AM

I'm probably one of the more pessimistic people that posts here so I may be too harsh but you can glean a great deal from what the videos and the little nuggets of info that have been released. I've held off giving my honest opinion on MW3 (which Elite's success is based on as it was designed to work in symbiosis) but I suppose I should say my piece and have it off my chest. It's not directed at you in particular Magill but rather how poor in standing the latest game is to me.

Perk Imbalances
IW are to me deliberately creating an unbalanced game by adding in so many new elements. There is about 6 perks by other names per player, which has a massive potential to completely unbalance the game. To get a good game balance using 3 perks alone has been incredible difficult throughout the series. Doubling the perks, potentially causes cheap game breaker perk combinations to rise exponentially. Without a massive amount of play testing to combat this or taking action post launch to rectify any game breakers that arise are the only prevention/solution, on both of these fronts IW have been remarkably poor on in the past.

Point/kill streaks
More of these, likewise means more potential for imbalance occuring. There is a bit of a grey area in that its not certain if kill streaks continue after deaths or if you can restart again after performing your whole set of killstreaks. If either of those two scenarios is true then you've essentially become even further removed from the origin of the series which was gun vs gun game play.

Loss of Identity
It's blatantly apparent that there is sod all originality in COD and although combining the best elements of other FPS together sounds promising it's gradually eroding from the game that initial core of uniqueness that attracted people to the series initially. I can't imagine anyone at Valve saying that CS:GO needs killstreaks, vehicles and destructible terrain. I fell out of love with Halo as the series progressed as it moved away from what it started out as, sure it has to evolve and change over time but not at the expense of losing it's originality what made it so widely loved. It was 1st guns, 2nd perks, 3rd killstreaks now it looks like 1st killstreaks (THEY'RE STILL KILLSTREAKS!) 2nd perks Did Not Finish/Disqualified guns. Possibly the exact opposite of COD4.

No apparent desire to achieve perfection
This is based on how I've interpreted the press releases and videos and how IW, Treyarch, Activison et al. have acted in the past so it's much more difficult to quantify as it's based on my opinions thus far. I was underwhelmed for black ops and now I'm bordering on apathy to MW3. Some games makers are craftsman putting out true pieces of art, others produce games so regularly with so little new to them that the only real changes have occurred on the box artwork. Elite doesn't strike me as one or two IW developers in their spare time working on a little side project that blossomed to show off all this cool stuff we can do, will you buy it? But rather how can we get them to pay for something after that initial purchase with minimum effort, you two IT interns make me a website.

It's not hard to imagine that over the course of a series as prolific as COD that it has got certain things right and that they shouldn't be messed with and more of less kept in stone. But they've constantly altered with things that were good or near perfect, not out to improve them but instead just to change them out of necessity. Nobody within the company(s) has said that X is as perfect as can be, now go fix Y and Z (as if only the list was that small in actuality).

Certain things that could have advanced the series massively for console like dedicated servers and mod tools for pc gamers are still not 100% confirmed with the launch date rapidly approaching. Look at special ops in MW2, I would have loved more DLC and it was perfect for it too, just think of a cool mission that was done in a war movie and reinvent it in the MW2 universe. But only now is spec ops DLC being mentioned. They've shown too much invention in pointless areas and not enough in important ones that can really take the series in new and exciting areas. Instead they've stagnated and even regressed in areas take for example black ops zombie mode being 4 player and mw3's spec ops being 2 player. I'd have loved it if it was 4 player spec ops but it's a affront to the fans that this newer game hasn't improved on what has gone before it.

In BF3 they're facing the biggest challenge to their crown as top selling FPS but instead of relishing the competition and thriving they seem to have a continued as if BF3 didn't exist. It'll have overtaken them in terms of listening and reacting to the community's sensible requests and by the time that the IW/Activision react it'll have lost it's audience who have migrated to another manufacturer who can deliver a similar quality game.

Nuri Sahin · 03-09-2011 02:17AM

If only I could spam the thanks button. You've pretty hit the nail in the head from my point of view and I'm certainly in that pessimistic crowd however few of us are there. So I'll try not expanding on what you've said for the most part Yimrsg. Only thing that would be different, is when you commented on being underwhelmed by Black Ops. Not talking about yourself here, but I could throw out a handful of names who were clearly overhyped about the game but were left flat fairly quickly into the games life cycle. I, after the experiences of MW2 made sure I was not going be hyped for another COD game again. I learned from my mistake, but others have not and they are the ones who will be most disappointed once again.

For that alone, I went into the final months before BOPS release without being overly concerned(not many will remember but I really kept quiet in the lead up to the release) by all the stories and hype other people were being sucked into. Thanks to that, I enjoyed BOPS far more than I probably would have done otherwise.

I'm repeating the same thing once again with MW3. Hopefully it'll exceed my fairly low expectations. But I'd certainly agree with you in that there is some apathy towards MW3 from myself. My faith in the franchise is hanging by a thread, said this a few times now. But I'm tired of broken promises. COD4 needed tweaking. They so nearly had it right, so utterly damn close to finding that balance with COD4.

In regards to Spec Ops, I'm not going to generalize but from my experience with the lads I play with regularly here. The majority do not have intention of playing it in MW2 and are frankly dismissive about it which is frustrating from Spec Ops in MW2 was the best thing about the game for me. Spent an entire night with my good friend just playing it through on the highest difficulty. It was stressful, but the banter and sense of accomplishment completing it is certainly a gaming highlight for me. This MW3 Spec Ops though is a step back, not sideways even. Fair enough if it was 4 player but it is not that.

I honestly thought I'd never say this(I know I have said it for the past few months but go with me here), but I'am looking forward to Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3 more than MW3.

Kev_ps3 · 03-09-2011 09:37AM

Depends how good mw3 is, if it is good then ill prob get the elite

sierra117x · 03-09-2011 10:41AM

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Kells... · 03-09-2011 10:49AM

Activision wrote: »

MW3 will not be out for XBOX 360 till January 2012 due to the version of it need's a bit of tweaking,To all the XBOX 360 gamer's we are sorry.

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Jet Black · 03-09-2011 11:49AM

It depends on what I'll be playing the most. If bf3 is good I'll be playing both and won't be getting any dlc just the content that's on the discs. Will decide closer to the date.

Magill · 03-09-2011 11:57AM

yimrsg wrote: »

I'm probably one of the more pessimistic people that posts here so I may be too harsh but you can glean a great deal from what the videos and the little nuggets of info that have been released. I've held off giving my honest opinion on MW3 (which Elite's success is based on as it was designed to wo.......

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

If only I could spam the thanks button. You've pretty hit the nail in the head from my point of view and I'm certainly in that pessimistic crowd however few of us are there. So I'll try not expanding on what you've said for the most part Yimrsg. Only thing that would be different, is when you commente....

I think it just comes down to why you play the game, having a perfectly balanced game is never what i'm expecting from a CoD game(CoD4 is not close to being a balanced game... they created pro mod for a reason). Over hyping the game can be anoying but thats CoD for ya.. dice have taken a leaf from their book when it comes to that as the hype surrounding BF3 is far beyond that of MW3, just look at the videos of anything CoD related on youtube, massive amounts of dislikes and trolling from BF fanboys. For me personally, yes im excited for both, im also excited about 3 or 4 other games around the same time.

Im not expecting MW3 to be a masterpiece, or be even close to cs in terms of balance or gameplay (No CoD has). What im expecting is something fun and fast paced to play with some friends.... and frankly... i think thats what most CoD players want. Maybe thats why I actually really liked the previous version of CoD.

p.s I might have seemed overly excited last nite on boards/twitter etc... but that was just a subtle troll as i was getting bored of all the headshaking and facepalming from some people

krudler · 03-09-2011 12:08PM

if MW3 is fun to play and not as hair pullingly frustrating as MW2 can be then I'll be happy out, and look at it this way, Spec Ops is a game in itself, co-op modes across all 16 multiplayer maps? could wind up playing that just as much as the MP itself.

now the question is do I buy the xbox or ps3 version? play more with the ps3 lads but the xbox tends to get stuff first (surely the map pack exclusivity should be remove for elite players? paying for a service you dont get at the same time as another console is a bit sh1te)

[CoD MW3] 'Elite' service

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