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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  • OMG can anyone who is american and gettingthe maps add me on PSN: dionb112
    thn you can cgange your pass then i can get the maps. then you can change it back pleease.. u need only gie me 30 or 40 seconds on your account.. pleease i cant wait another day.. and i hav allready topped up 15€ into my acc :(

  • lady add me

  • i hope dbl xp last for a week they owe us atleast that for waiting for a mounth for the maps after crap box

  • ok when is it gonna be available

  • Im from jersey too, and this is BS!!!! the launch is closer to the 5th than the 4th….It would be like advertising that the game was on 11/10/2009 but not available at midnight?!?!?! no point, they need to step up their game!!!

  • PSN blog is the new twitter lol

  • its 12 40 on the east coast i put in mw2 and got the update but then i looked on the playstation store and still no maps. now im hearing 3pm for us on the east coast. im not complaining but make up ur minds

  • how do u kno they testing them?

  • Turbocharged420

    “@nomhak The PSN Store update (and MW2 DLC) will be live this afternoon, hang in there!”

    This was 5 min ago on the PS blog on twitter.

  • add ME banner1911

  • I love hearing people cry about the price of this package. Since the announcement, you could have collected enough change found on the ground to pay for this DLC. Get over it! Or, get your priorities straight enough that you don’t have to jump online to cry about it.

    I think a game mode of 4 teams of 3 TDM would be pretty stinkin’ sweet. DoWk.

  • i hav all 3 cod5 map packs.. all re5 DLC, Bs2 DLC,Loads of LBP stuff, Premium themes, and plenty of other things you can hav.. ill giv you my pass if you do yours.. plz any1?

  • I’m buying the maps for sure (can’t wait to play overgrown using the intervention), but as im already 9th prestige level 70 with my other character (not going 10th prestige cause i think the pirate token is lame and six months after the game’s release you still get called a hacker) the double-xp doesn’t really help me. Double-xp=too little too late

  • man i keep hearing the wahhhambulance

  • right lol 15 bucks aint to much . even u 10 year olds can get that from ur parents lol and if ur 21 or older and dont have 15 u shouldnt have a ps3 lol

  • RichardCaraniuM2

    this is crap!!! I am in Michigan and it has been May 4th for 12 hrs and 45 min and still no maps. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 15 bucks is alot for a game with horrible servers, the lag time is rediculous. Then again i was suckered into paying 60 for the game so im sure 15 will be given with a smile and the finger

  • no body have it

  • Im glad to see we’ve got some New levels coming soon. More importantly though….. IW now has time to clean up the LEADERBOARDS!

    Hey Robert, whats up with that 10th prestige spinner?

  • HAPPY MAY 4TH EVERYONE LOL

  • This situations become overblown, we would like to play overgrown.

    Stimulus Pack save us from our sorrow, Stimulus Pack do not arrive tommorrow.

    Double XP is good and all, but most of us think you`ve dropped the ball.

    We all want play till the rising of the moon, while newbies faces we will pwn.

    So hurry map pack, hurry quick, I`m so bored….time to jerk it.

  • wtf its may 4th and the new map pack still isnt on psn this is rediculous

  • where is that map pack, i’ve been waiting for 6 hours already

  • I went to play the game cause I’m not going to sit around waiting. As I turned the game on, it prompted me for an update. I did the update, and now it says the new maps are available. Maps are not available yet. But thats not my problem here….

    A friend of mine turned his game on so he can do the update. Only his update gave him an error, and now anytime he tries to turn the game on, the system goes black.

    Anyone else share this problem? Any solutions?

  • i guess z man start another account not mad about people who play the game right but the people who hack just to get to 70 they suck

  • did any1 see that if u load up ur mw2 game it even says that the new map pack is out on ur game and it tells u to go to playstation store to find out it aint there

  • DEATH_TO_ALL_666

    where the maps at i just got the game update and when you choose to play online in green printing it says new maps available at the ps store well i checked the ps store and nothing

  • not so happy

  • knowgood dose his light turn yellow

  • When the PS Store updates, they will be there. Sony’s store doesn’t update a lot. Sometime in the afternoon, about 2 or 3, we will get what we want.

  • neorudemovement

    gee robert, how m,any times did you dodge real questions to answers the SAME questions over and over? so when are the maps coming out? what time will they be available?

    knew you would get your a$$ handed to you up here.

    ill be buying them cause this is what were stuck with for now and $15 is really just a chip in the bucket.

    as long as you guys use these funds to underpay someone to fix this game i will be happy. this game is simply the updated engine world at war used with a modern warfare paint job on it. you are essentially treyarch now lol!

    happy birthday son!

  • gh000000000stman

    Anyone know when the UK ( Little place, just across the water :-> ) will get the Map Pack – Is it the same time as the US?

    Cheers
    Ken…………

  • Hey Robert, i hope ur still reading this, can you plz explain to me how ppl are hacking the game for XP hacks? i thought that 360 users were the ones doing that? i have been a legit player and im already working on my 3rd prestige!!! :D :D i love this game lol.

  • So I am totally broke, How long if ever will these new maps be available for free? I did pay the $55.00 for the actual game and I think it’s a little unfair to have to pay extra for new maps.

  • Yo, whats PSN Blog twitter page? I want to add it.

  • arghh its nearly 6pm on 4th may and im gettin pretty fed up off waiting .. HURRY UP and just press the update button =(

  • thanks but no thanks

  • UK and PC get the maps on May 5th.

    Friend’s problem is fixed. He had to delete the corrupted data from the update.

  • gh00000000stman ive heard us gets it may 4th and then everyone else gets it may 5th but hell we havnt even gotten it yet

  • PNS SHOULD HAVE MADE A DAMN COUNT DOWN FOR THE RELEASE OF THE MAPS, that way we can all be at peace

  • tomorrow for you guys ken

  • So what music do you guys like?

  • All I know is it’s now May 4 at 12:40pm eastern and still no map pack. The game had an update and when you go to the main screen you see a message informing you that the map pack is available. It’s nowhere to be found in the store and Sony just says it will be out some time today. That’s just great, a vague response is all we get. Come on Sony, Infinity Ward did their job of getting a half-assed map pack to you at a more expensive price than all of the other previous full map packs. Until my friends got a PS3, I played all my online games on my 360 and didn’t run into this lackadaisical, we’ll release when we feel like it attitude. And try shelling out some extra cash to get some of these releases before Microsoft. It will be a lot easier justifying these outrageous prices to your fan base when the competition has been playing the add-on before us and in some cases never getting until they games are re-released. Thanks from a loyal customer since the original in 94.(sarcasm)

  • oh well stop complaining about the price they aren’t making you buy it

  • Turbocharged420

    The PS blogs twitter account is at the top of the page. It is tghe scrolling news update. Just click the “PSB on twitter” when it rolls around.

  • crazyredhead1432

    Mr. Bowling, I totally support IW, but Activision has proved time and time again that they care about NOTHING but making money. And charging this much for these maps is, once again, proving to me that Kotick is a greedy, greedy man, and I will not purchase anything with the Activision name on it, ever again.

    BOYCOTT ACTIVISION!!!

  • what time will maps be available for download

  • unfair? So just play the maps you already payed for! AND STOP [DELETED][DELETED] ! Unfair life’s not ! play the game and shut up !I’d pay whatever these guys work hard on these games and do things we cant even imagine so you think it’s unfair to pay these guys for doing their job and making your life funner !

  • wat time is it meant to be released in the UK?

  • i see 2 people in th stimulus game mode before i joined my match so somewhere it’s been released

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