Incoming: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package DLC Hits PSN Tomorrow

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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:

Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package for PS3

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.

Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package for PS3

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.

Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package for PS3


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.

Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package for PS3

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.

Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package for PS3

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.

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  • no more hacks plz

  • DenverDopeboy81

    Ohh $15 4New Dlc mw2 i’ll b the first 2 download STOP CRYIN ABOUT IT..

  • i wonder if anybody will sue.

  • can i pay for map packs with my debit card or do i have to get one of those psn cards from the gas station or where ever???/

  • IW and Playstation[DELETED] us in the [DELETED] with this map pack deal taking all day and they didn’t even have to courtesy to give us a reach around :)if you don’t get this sucks to be you lol

  • i hope u guys can get rid of all 70th perstieg hackers they think thay are good but not and the laggggggggggg is realy bed need to fix

  • DenverDopeboy81

    Wow I hear nerdy people who B* TCH 2 Much!!!

  • anyday now

  • hey brian 111557777788 here u go

  • There’s not enough cheese in the world to go with all this whining!! To a generation raised on file sharing free is a birthright, but I say if you’ve got something worth paying for never give it away. $15 versus all the hours of enjoyment you can get out of all the new content and favorites from MW is no comparison.

    My biggest request would be to PLEASE BRING BACK CAGE MATCH and maybe a Shipment type map designed for it. That’s the thing that I miss most from MW. It’s so much fun to match your skills against another player one on one, that is when you can find one that’s not looking for cheap headshots. Come to think of it it would probably descend into a nuke booster paradise…….forget I mentioned it!

  • this is pissing me off. noon is noon. shoulda said noon PST

  • it’s 12:20 here and no maps. i think they mean their time wich if you look next to your name their time is 3 hours behind (well atleast for me)

  • no laggs plz on hacks no more hacks plz :(

  • mapsssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

  • I haven’t played the game that much, I would but some people are flying and just killing me I mean WTH?
    glitches and hacks are everywhere, maybe if these things are gone( which I think it’ll never be gone) I might play it because in the end it’s a good game.

  • DenverDopeboy81

    Wow I THOUGHT I WAS DUMB WHEN IT CAME TECHNOLOGY OF COURSE U CAN USE DEBIT USA CHARGES EVERYTHING

  • @Bassist262 I totally don’t think you cheat cuz your kdr is 4.0, it’s pretty easy to go 12-3 on any given day…lol

  • lag isnt too bad but the damn hackers piss me off

  • The maps will be released at 12 pacific time 3 eastern time. please stop fiending like crack heads. friend me up if ur good. if your not, dont.

  • Can you give any details to the OMA tweak? why has 3rd person team tac been taken out? iv had a theory that its been taken out to stop boosting too much and you may return it after double xp is gone? looking forward to new maps. When you say you will be cleaning the leaderboards of i guess hackers, but you say that LEGIT players can have their glory, but will you be deleting people like Loarte who boost all day?

  • K wat is the site for mw2

  • b-r-i-a-n-------

    Lol

  • I dont understand why noon PST….. they had over a month to prepare. Typical I guess. Xbox went and put money up so their users could have it first. PSN made us wait the month and now they dont have their crap together enough to lauch. Like we all havent been waiting long enough?

  • MAN IM NOT GOING 2 SKOOL YOUST FOR THIS MAPS HURRY UP N POST THE DAM MAPS ALRREADY

  • ScrapDiggityDogg

    why is there always 1 or 2 ppl in the stimulus playlist?

  • Probably some dev testers checking out to see if everything is ok and ready for launch

  • OMGZ I’S HAS MAPPACKZ!!1!

    I got to see if anyone would react to that…..

    Respond please…

  • clear the leader boards of all the hackers…. like kills leaderboard of 2100000 hackers that shows no skills

  • you think they havent had the time to test over that past 30 days?

  • I heard the maps are basically on the disc already, except PC users, and basically our download is gonna be a key to unlock it. IT BETTER NOT BE A HUGE STUPID DOWNLOAD>…prolly will be tho.

  • For the people who are complaining about the price of the map pack, all I gotta say is.. GET A JOB. By the way MAG sucks.

  • When will the DLC be available?

  • you know this kinda reminds me of when the network went down for alot of us and well here is the reality of it all guys they never said what time they were putting them out they just said it was coming out today so chill

  • hey im a new yorker and we havent really changed here people are nicer yeah but they still give you the finger lol

  • PILLARSofHEAVEN

    Ya know how it is, ya start playin a game and before you know a few hours have passed. That’s probably what happened over on the PSN; they’re busy hyping up their lol, wild west game instead updating the add-on to their store. C’mon PSN pull your head out of your !@#

  • @SHOPMCRS add me please…your hilarious! EAST COASTERS!

  • How long is the Double XP going to last?

  • ARES-DD:

    Not for compatibility with PSN they haven’t, as you have probably noticed, the update came out TODAY didn’t it?

  • sseleriw_freedom

    I see 3 people in the Stimulus Playlist, and 2 in the Hardcore Stimulus… So there are a select few people who have it…

  • well i’m off til 3. then ya’ll can catch me on the new maps. see you guys there later.

  • man im here eating wet bread. its your fault psn

  • Oh and if people are going to complain about the time, [DELETED] to Sony, not to Activision or Infinity Ward.

  • GTG to work( to pay this exorbitant priced map pack(lmao)) in 27 minutes…this totally sucks…ROTTEN!

  • The latest update has ruined online play for a lot if us in asia. I am in Thailand and can no longer connect to any of my friends outside the country and the lag is horendous for all that play when you can get online that is. I won’t be buying the stimulus pack beause it is not being released in Thailand and I can not buy it on another pan site such as uk as they won’t accept my credit card and I can’t even but a frackin psn card online without waiting 4 days for delivery it sucks. Maybe psn should accept PAYPAL

  • Is that 3pm east coast or west coast time?

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      Jeff Rubenstein

      It comes out when the store update goes live. There’s not a set time, other than ‘afternoon, Pacific’. You’ll see on the blog when it updates.

  • they r testing new maps thats y it takeing so long there 3 people in stimulus and there 4 in hardcore stimulus

  • so true shopmcrs. probably why i’m in jersey now lol.

  • OMG! So much whining, so little time.

    First off, yeah, $15 may be a bit steep, but like others have said, you are getting FIVE (not 3) new maps. Yes, two of them are from COD4, but they are still NEW to MW2. That makes them $3 each.

    And we are also getting some fixes to the game as well, which, as I understand from the comments here, IS available NOW, in game.

    And now y’all are complaining because the maps aren’t available yet? WTF???

    Y’all do realize that it’s SONY’s call on when the PS Store updates, not IW/Activision, right?? When the store updated on Thursday’s, at what time were you able to notice it had updated? Was it a NOON ET? No. Was it at NOON PT? No. It was more like 3-4PT/6-7ET. The update DAY changed, not necessarily the update TIME. Maybe the time did/will change, but it’s obviously later than NOON ET.

    Yeah, I’d like to have the maps right now too, but y’all are complaining to the wrong people.

    All you complainers need to seriously take a “chill-pill”.

  • now there 1 in stimulus and HC stimulus 2

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