Tomorrow, May 4th, will be an onslaught of Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer goodness on the PlayStation Network!
First and foremost, the first downloadable content for Modern Warfare 2 — The Stimulus Package — will hit the PSN Store for $14.99 and bring with it five new maps to the multiplayer of MW2. Included in those five new maps are two classic Call of Duty 4 maps that we all know and love, and three completely new locations that offer a variety of unique locations for your favorite gametypes. The Stimulus Package includes:
Bailout – An American apartment complex that is amazing for objective gametypes, especially Capture the Flag, but one of those maps that works well regardless of what type of game you’re playing it on. Its long sightlines — like sniping from a blown-out wall of a second-story apartment suite — give it some nice spots for long-range sniping but also has plenty of flanking routes through the bullet-riddled gym, hallways, lobbies, and interconnecting units.
Salvage – A snowy junkyard covered in debris, crushed cars, and my favorite aspect — no place to hide (well, maybe one, but hiding in the dog house isn’t going to win you the game). This aspect of beautiful but simplistic design is what makes Salvage my new favorite map for Hardcore Team Deathmatch; it forces you to rely on your speed, accuracy, and skill. It’s all about offensive, sorry campers! This map is about getting in and STAYING in the fight.
Storm – A rainy warehouse district on the outskirts of a looming thunderstorm with booming lightning and rolling thunder. A massive interconnected warehouse with overhead walkways and plenty of machinery for cover makes this great for big team games. With plenty of surrounding outdoors areas for flanking or cutting through the connected buildings, this is a map that benefits from two teams working together to control their area and lock down domination points. This map has a great atmosphere and always results in some insane HQ games.
Crash – A war-torn urban environment with a crashed helicopter surrounded by several great vantage points. Whether you’re taking pop shots from the three-story building overlooking the map, or covering the center objective point from the second story of the appropriately named “blue room” windows, Crash is the first fan-favorite map to make a return from Call of Duty 4, and is one those multiplayer locations that is perfectly balanced regardless of the gametype you throw on it. Team Deathmatch is king on Crash for me personally and we’ve maintained every cover, sniper vantage, and perfect ‘nade spot you’ve grown to love, but have also filled the map out with even more detail.
Overgrown – A massive and open village divided down the center by a dried-up creekbed. Overgrown is a snipers paradise with its high grass, super-long sightlines, and earns its cred as one of our largest multiplayer maps. It’s back by popular demand from the community, and was one of my personal favorite maps of all time from Call of Duty 4. It’s been updated with some new lightning and atmospheric changes, yet maintains its trademark flow and appeal for big team games.
When you jump online to enjoy the new maps, you’re also going to be greeted with a few new additions to the playlists structure in multiplayer. You’ll notice two new playlists added to the bottom of the list: Stimulus & Stimulus Hardcore. These two playlists will allow you to play your favorite gametypes on ONLY the new maps. That way you get to experience them as much as you like.
Stimulus – This playlist will include all gametypes for 8-12 players and rotating through ONLY the new Stimulus Maps.
Stimulus Hardcore – This playlist will include Hardcore Ricochet Team Deathmatch, Hardcore Ricochet HQ Pro, Hardcore Ricochet Search and Destroy for 8-12 players and rotating through ONLY the new Stimulus Maps.
While these two playlists are reserved for those who download The Stimulus Package, the same day we’ll also be introducing an all new playlist for ALL Modern Warfare 2 players.
Team Tactical – 6-8 Players playing small team based games with Team Deathmatch, Domination, Capture the Flag, and Demolition. (First Person viewpoint)
This playlist is being added by HUGE demand from the community on our forums, Twitter, and other messages you’ve sent in to us; in addition to another requested change of adding the Ranger maps (Terminal, Skidrow, Highrise, Invasion) to the HC HQ Pro playlist.
When I said onslaught, I MEANT onslaught!
That’s not even all. When all these updates hit tomorrow on May 4th, we’ll also be flipping the Double XP switch for the first time, ON ALL PLAYLISTS, FOR ALL PLAYERS! So when you jump online you’ll be earning twice as many XP for your kills and objectives to help you finish off that Prestige you’ve been working on or, for all you level 70s, the deciding factor to take the leap into the next Prestige.
Tomorrow is all about adding even more mileage to your Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, giving you all new locations to play, new playlists to play them on, and Double XP to make it all that much sweeter. I look forward to seeing all of you online!
You can follow official Modern Warfare 2 updates and news on Twitter by following @fourzerotwo.
What time does the map pack come out???
its taking a long time to put the DLC in the store can not wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:59
If You Can Pay 60 bucks for a game,you can pay 15 bucks for an addon.let along pay 300 to 600 for your ps3 and you guys are copmplaining about 15 bucks.wow!!!LOL!!!
when you get the new pack you will alos have double xp pionts too.
we continue to get shafted by PSN. Now we have to continue to wait till the afternoon for the MW2 DLC. LOL. time to by xbox.
Hey Robert….regretting this statement from your ‘personal’ blog while employed with IW yet?
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As for Playstation. No thank you.
There will be absolutely no Playstation product in my game room. That includes PS1, PS2, and ESPECIALLY PS3!! As far as I’m concerning, Sony can eat it. Sorry.
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I REALLY WANT THE MAPS, WE SHUD ALL MAKE A CLAN UNTIL THEY GET THEM ON PSN!!!!!!!!!!!!! COMENT IF U THINK A GD IDEA :)!!
WHAT TIME WILL THE DLC COME OUT IM IN TEXAS
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Hey Robert,
I have a question for you and i hope you answer it.
As we all know MW2 has had it problems.At the beginning we had the server issues,Then we had the hackers,Then we had boosers in FFA,What are you doing to fx the problems that ar in the game right now?.I’m going to be honest and sy there are alot of them including problems wth the Barret 50’C and the Intervention taking more than one shot to kill people even hough both of them rfles in real lie would kill you instantly,seconl the M9 silenced still showing you up on the mini-map. Will ou be fxing hese poblems any time soon because i know alot of people who hate these problems ad it has made them stop playing Modern Warfar 2.
I hope for a reply.
-HHiiMM
Noon on what time zone?? Im in new york and its noon here. are we going off pacific time?
MY CLAN IS GFYS
Would you people like some cheese with this wine? I find it funny that people say it’s expensive when they’re compairing the 3 new ones. There’s 5 maps, and yeah 2 may be remakes but there the best maps from Call of Duty 4. Now you can call a Chopper Gunner/AC130/Tacitcal Nuke or whatever you want when before you couldn’t. I’m not a huge fan of Modern Warfare 2 (A Battlefield Bad Company 2 fan)but damn people these will sell like “hotcakes” and would a business miss out on that? Be glad it’s not more than that.
Hey Robert,
I have a question for you and i hope you answer it.
As we all know MW2 has had it problems.At the beginning we had the server issues,Then we had the hackers,Then we had boosers in FFA,What are you doing to fx the problems that are in the game right now?.I’m going to be honest and say there are alot of them including problems wth the Barret 50′C and the Intervention taking more than one shot to kill people even though both of them rifles in real life would kill you instantly,second the M9 silenced still showing you up on the mini-map. Will you be fxing these poblems any time soon because i know alot of people who hate these problems and it has made them stop playing Modern Warfar 2.
I hope for a reply.
-HHiiMM
(Reposted with spelling mistakes fixed)
Hhimm you are a loser. you taking gaming too far.. its called GAMING..not LIFESTYLE. take it easy and play the frggn game. get a job..get laid.. go for a walk in the park. do something. stop taking gaming to heavy. its a recreation activity as is sex. food for thought
you know what we are all getting out of this?? a bond… we are all bonding getting to know each other and adding each other. i feel like this is a small part of 9/11 where everyone got together for one thing. aaaaaawwwwww xoxo love you guys
not the aimbots
GREAT! Next time, we need the Map Pack to come at the same time, coz CoD is a MASSIVE Franchise for both, Microsoft & Sony!
ITS NOON WHERE ARE THEY.
map pack out in aprox in hour from now.
no aimbots i hate aimbots
correction 1 hour from now!!
says who
yo robert now that activison has signed with bungie do you think youll help on any future games cause your games are the best the gaming community has EVER yes EVER seen.(wargasm about the maps to LOL)
noon pacific time
at 3:00 maps pack come out
damn i cant wait for this to come out been waiting for a month and now just a few hrs to go
LOL SHOPMCRS
on may 3 i stayed up till 12 and waited for the map pack…i waited like 40 minutes…then i got really pissed and went to sleep and didnt go to school to play the game…THEN! I WAKE UP LIKE AT 9:00 I TURN THE PS3 ON AND ITS NOT IN PS STORE…and here i am writing u guys… MEGA pissed
we didnt even get a kiss before taking it up the rear
HHiiMM, I prefered when you called the boosters “boosers” in your spelling error. I hate boosters with a passion by the way. They selfishly ruin free-for-all for any legitimate players. The sad part is that I think they actually consider themselves to have skill. A lot goes into finding all those key hiding places, you know … losers.
I hope it is then
if u see at your it 9:08 but it really 12:08 so that mean at 12:00 on this site it going to be out at 3:00
ITS 1212
ITS 12:13
I really am tired of quickscoping.. But just wanted to pop in and say that the double XP has started… I’m still waiting for the map packs to show up in the store myself… Considering it says that they are available in the store inside of the game.
Dude, seriously, what’s with this Ricochet crap? You couldn’t make a straight up and up Hardcore tactical playlist rotation? HC fans have been calling for that since day one. Ricochet is just your weak-a$$ stop-gap solution for TKers, when the real solution all along was massive TK penalties with specific incremental server boots. All I see the new playlist modes doing is further fragmenting an already limited player pool, i.e. further limited server selections. I’ve suggestions for remedying that, but obviously IW doesn’t listen to the little guy. I was all hyped to get this, but finding out it’s ricochet just utterly kills and I wouldn’t want to waste $15 for something I would quit in 2 months.
Has everyone been smoking too much crap? “I don’t use twitter thank you for the information they should post this on the front of playstations offical website not advertise it’s available today and it’s not there till late in the afternoon poor marketing sony and you’ve made me waste alot of time trying to find this information.” You realize that this afternoon is still today right? And if it took you so long to find this information you should learn to use google…Or you should have visited the front page of Infinity Ward’s website, they always have 402’s tweets so you don’t have to be on Twitter to get them.
Robert, I have a question. Umm, what do you mean by tweaking the One Man Army stuff. Please reply. Thanks
Bonds what are you talking about bonds we are all pissed off right now.
SHOPMCRS too funny and somewhat true. a bond from a tragedy(can’t compare though) lol
Ok I’m confused some say 1 hr others say at 3:00 so who’s right ?
hey tell robert to patch the aimbot plz
on the real ya’ll need to stop complaining….ya’ll got internet free,blueray free,wifi free,,i mean u paid it when u bought the ps3 but u still got internet free…on the xbox u need to pay for it…so what if it cost 15 dollars..i know im gonna enjoy them im tired of this maps..everybody knows alll the hiding spots…im glad they coming wit them..about time.
Sony smoking crap.you are right about that angry panda.
KEEP WHOOPIN A**
what time on east coast?
im just thinging 3:00 becuz it said 3:00 but im thinging ok
At least theres double xp today.