SavyGamer – Page 1348 – What're you buying, stranger?

I’ve been playing through the single player campaign of Modern Warfare 2, but I seem to have encountered a glitch. It’s not preventing me from progressing through the game, but it is hampering my enjoyment of it, so I was wondering if anyone else has had this kind of thing happen, or if you could offer any solutions.

Every time when I get up to Act 1, Mission 4, the game appears to load fine at first, but then when I encounter the first enemies, I discover that nearly all of them have been rendered without weapons. They aren’t even programmed to melee attack either. There are a small number of badies with guns, but it’s not until towards the end of the mission that most of them have weapons.

It seems that this glitch is apparent in the PS3 and 360 version. I’ve tried playing it without the game installed, and with it installed, and I have cleared my consoles cache.

If anyone has any suggestions for how to fix this, or has heard anything about a patch, please let me know.

Update: Reader StuAA encountered the same glitch, he says:
“Last I heard, Keith Vaz was putting pressure on IW to get it patched ASAP. Also doesn’t it have a level skip option before that bit? I expect they’ve left it in from the debug versions. Sloppy work, IW.”

Any other theories?

Update2:
I have heard back from Activision support, and they aren’t exactly sure what the problem is:

See the official response here if you like, you’ll need to sign up for an account.

I’m going to have to probe further.

14/11/2009

Merceneries 2, PC – £2.99

Merceneries 2, PC – £2.99 delivered

14/11/2009

iPlayer Wii Channel – Making the unmissable, waggleable

Nintendo and the BBC are going to be launching an iPlayer channel for the Wii on Thursday the 19th of November.

The web version of the iPlayer has been compatible with the Wii’s Opera web browser, but it had a pretty horrible interface, the video quality wasn’t great, and it was awkward to get it full screen.

In theory this channel could fix all of those problems. I guess we’ll see exactly how good it is when it comes out.

It will only be available to people in the UK. I assume that it detects where you are connecting from (like the PC version does).

You don’t need to have a TV license to use the iPlayer. I decided a while back not to bother renewing my TV license, since pretty much everything I want is put up on the iPlayer. Worth considering, and you could put all that money towards more lovely games.

13/11/2009