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.
wow these games are lagging something bad right now
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were do i find it on PLATSTATION STORE?
the update is out. double points
so when exactly is the map packs comming out
Thank you captain commas
i`m from britain so i should get it at 12:00am
screw that release the damn maps
ya can someone tell me about the oma glitch plz
@williamfisk, why the hell would they wait until then, so it can crash harder and faster? that’s just retarded, don’t talk anymore.
You should just play demolition mode and get double exp while you are waiting. You’ll be raking in 30,000 experience points every 15 minutes if you are at level 50 or higher. I probably won’t even play the new maps until next Tuesday since demolition is an absolute experience beast. I don’t want to get stuck with domination game mode or something and waste the opportunity.
SONY WILL BEAT THEM IN LONG SHOT IN 24 HOURS….NOT EVERYONE HAS TO BUY THEM IN 5 MIN TIME… THEY GOT 24 HOURS
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im going to beat the psn store team with a damn stick
Jus sayin…
http://bit.ly/aO9GwY
Stevenson95… maybee the delay is to coincide with the UK release. That means the US has another 2 hrs 50 mins to wait!
Capitalism A Love Story!!!
beat em with a big stick
ITS 1:10 IN LAS VEGAS NV N THEIRS NADA ON THE PSN STORE
The new maps are out there, we just can’t see them because Playstation has a counter UAV in the air.
i`m mad cuz this is one of the biggest games of the year and they gotta know how man ppl are thirsty for these maps and they could have i mean should have done this a lot better i give x box the edge just a lil for the way they handled there release..
under 2hrs to go if not sooner
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@JEVSIE if thats the case who gives a damn bout uk they got game first we should get map pack first
its almost 3 may 4th and still nothing
he said you will be posting info on when you will be playing on psn where will you post this?
mitchell lmfao
damn counter UAV :/
its says it out but i cant find it
pull out my ac-130 and rain hot death upon psn store
I can’t even download these maps for another two hours, but just watching you guys squirm is cracking me up. Most of you sound like you are having drug withdrawals.
@raiderlegend
oma glitch is whn you put on one man army, danger close, and a noob tube, you spam with the noob tube
i was just in a game and my spam tubing class still works i thought that they patched it?
ima throw a nuke at psn team!
xbox pays to have it earlier thats why they have it, sony doesn’t, end of story
Give it back to sony !! Order the maps with your credit card and then dispute the charge !!! They’ll have to hire more people just to deal with all the chargebacks !!!
Sean, the PSN Store has switched to a Tuesday update effective today. Full info: http://bit.ly/aO9GwY
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@mbrace, it’s called, MAPATHY.
10 past 9 at niht in the uk
I see dead people!!!
GRAB A STINGER AND SHOT DOWN THE COUNTER UAV
I know you’re anxious. We have to fully test each new game going onto PSN. To rush would be a bad idea. Hang in there!
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Sony said they`re debugging the servers cuz they r ppl wit the new hacked maps that shound not have them and they r messin up the servers thats why theres a lot of lag 2day
http://twitter.com/PlayStation everyone look at this they are answering q’s about the map pack
i never play mw2 because world at war is 10 times better and it was only ten dollars per map pack on that so why do you have to charge 15 dollars? this is crap. and even the starter maps that come with the game are better on world at war.
It sucks, It’s coming out in Uk tomorrow instead!!!!
But for some stupid reason America gets it today…
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Twitter update :
@MisterJohnxX I know you’re anxious. We have to fully test each new game going onto PSN. To rush would be a bad idea. Hang in there!
3 minutes ago via CoTweet in reply to MisterJohnxX
Uh hey if you can see this message fourzerotwo, um yeah when i got home, i went on my ps3 and updated my Mw2 disk to version 1.10
it says there are new maps available on the PSN store, I went to the add-ons section and didn’t see any add-ons for Mw2. This is ticking the crap out of me
Sony said they`re debugging the servers cuz they r ppl wit the new hacked maps that shound not have them and they r messin up the servers thats why theres a lot of lag 2day
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Give it back to sony !! Order the maps with your credit card and then dispute the charge !!! They’ll have to hire more people just to deal with all the chargebacks !!!