mw3 pre load is live now

~>Dg<~ · 4 Nov 2011 at 19:13

dling now yay !

GTO656 · 4 Nov 2011 at 19:15

Nice wats a pre load lol?

Witcher1979 · 4 Nov 2011 at 19:18

Means he is downloading via steam or something now so on the day of release he can play right away without having to download on release day.

xrs · 4 Nov 2011 at 19:19

Thanks for the heads up!

A pre-load allows you to download the entire game now. The game is encrypted so you can not play it untill release. Upon which time the game is decrypted and you can play it. It helps to prevent everyone downloading the game at once.

GTO656 · 4 Nov 2011 at 19:20

Ah right cheers guys, thts awesome.

Gecco · 4 Nov 2011 at 19:55

Getting full speed on the pre load very nice.

Edrof · 4 Nov 2011 at 20:48

I'll wait for reviews, I think! Hoping an OcUKer will pop a frank one on here when it's released

apatia77 · 4 Nov 2011 at 20:50

I'm done with MW after what had happened last year with BO release.

Puppetmaster · 4 Nov 2011 at 21:57

apatia77 said:
I'm done with MW after what had happened last year with BO release.

What do you mean?

Substance · 5 Nov 2011 at 00:15

Puppetmaster said:
What do you mean?

He means that when he plays call of duty he sweats really really badly and it stinks, so he won't play it this year

Thanks for the heads up about the pre-load OP, downloading now

~>Dg<~ · 5 Nov 2011 at 00:47

mines done now wait for release :cool:

dave_beast · 5 Nov 2011 at 00:54

Pre loading now

Don't think i'll bother with the single player tbh, not until i've played the rear end of multi first

iamtheoneneo · 5 Nov 2011 at 01:17

apatia77 said:
I'm done with MW after what had happened last year with BO release.

um what happened exactly? please do enlighten us.

think il get this from shopto might aswell....only a game or two away from getting their £1.50 voucher a month scheme.

sas.wlv · 5 Nov 2011 at 10:10

I expect he meant how the game ran like crap on a lot of more than capable systems.

For example on my old QX9650 (not sure if I had a 480 or 580 gtx at the time) I'd get loads of stuttering and fps anywhere between 60-120. Upgrading to an i5 2500k sorted this out instantly and gave perfect 120 fps.

Anyway, preloading now - cheers for heads up

Dirk · 5 Nov 2011 at 12:53

shadowcreaper · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:16

no offence but why would you buy MW3 on PC???

After playing black ops which was a total let down as it ran like crap compared to MW2 im totally put off by the game.

also £40 for mw3 compared to £30 and less for BF3 really is quite crazy

Edrof · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:18

iamtheoneneo said:
um what happened exactly? please do enlighten us.

Probably that for many, many people the game played very poorly on even high spec machines, the single player campaign (which IMO was excellent in places in MW2) was ridiculously dire, the multi-player featured lots of annoying things (like the worst spawn system known to mankind - kill a dude and he spawns behind you in knifing distance - WTF!?) and the fact you couldn't return the game as it was tied to Steam. Add in that Activision paid lots of reviewers to only say great things about the game and the fact that CoD games are generally quite expensive and lots of disgruntled people ended up with what was a pretty pricey, but useless box and couldn't do squat about it.

Substance · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:18

shadowcreaper said:
no offence but why would you buy MW3 on PC???

After playing black ops which was a total let down as it ran like crap compared to MW2 im totally put off by the game.

also £40 for mw3 compared to £30 and less for BF3 really is quite crazy

I swapped a hat I found on TF2 for Skyrim and MW3 pre-orders on steam, Otherwise I would have picked it up on 360 as it will probably be pretty good on there and BF3 is horrible on there

dave_beast · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:23

shadowcreaper said:
no offence but why would you buy MW3 on PC???

After playing black ops which was a total let down as it ran like crap compared to MW2 im totally put off by the game.

also £40 for mw3 compared to £30 and less for BF3 really is quite crazy

Still better graphics on PC than consoles with their aim assist etc, we're not limited to 720p

Edrof said:
Probably that for many, many people the game played very poorly on even high spec machines, the single player campaign (which IMO was excellent in places in MW2) was ridiculously dire, the multi-player featured lots of annoying things (like the worst spawn system known to mankind - kill a dude and he spawns behind you in knifing distance - WTF!?) and the fact you couldn't return the game as it was tied to Steam. Add in that Activision paid lots of reviewers to only say great things about the game and the fact that CoD games are generally quite expensive and lots of disgruntled people ended up with what was a pretty pricey, but useless box and couldn't do squat about it.

Never had any problems with Black Ops technically, even with my old system (Q9400 on a ATI 5750) Only problem was the ridiculous distance you could melee before it was nerfed

Puppetmaster · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:33

sas.wlv said:
I expect he meant how the game ran like crap on a lot of more than capable systems.

For example on my old QX9650 (not sure if I had a 480 or 580 gtx at the time) I'd get loads of stuttering and fps anywhere between 60-120. Upgrading to an i5 2500k sorted this out instantly and gave perfect 120 fps.

Anyway, preloading now - cheers for heads up

I ran it on a Q9550 with a 4870 1GB and it ran fine, could run it at 1920 x 1200, max settings with 4x AA and have above 60 fps majority of the time. Didnt stutter at all. I thought most of the problems were due to people using dual cores?

shadowcreaper said:
no offence but why would you buy MW3 on PC???

After playing black ops which was a total let down as it ran like crap compared to MW2 im totally put off by the game.

also £40 for mw3 compared to £30 and less for BF3 really is quite crazy

I would say because it looks better on pc, its better (imo) to play with a keyboard and mouse, people may have friends that all play it on pc, dedicated servers (to a certain extent), modded servers etc. Not to mention that its cheaper on PC's.

The game ran as good as MW2 for me. Ran better on my old pc than BF3 on my new pc.

Edrof said:
Probably that for many, many people the game played very poorly on even high spec machines, the single player campaign (which IMO was excellent in places in MW2) was ridiculously dire, the multi-player featured lots of annoying things (like the worst spawn system known to mankind - kill a dude and he spawns behind you in knifing distance - WTF!?) and the fact you couldn't return the game as it was tied to Steam. Add in that Activision paid lots of reviewers to only say great things about the game and the fact that CoD games are generally quite expensive and lots of disgruntled people ended up with what was a pretty pricey, but useless box and couldn't do squat about it.

The game ran fine on my old system, which was by no means high spec. I much prefered the single player of BO to BF3. I only found issues with the spawn system on Nuke down with certain game modes.