Modern Warfare 3 Weapon Rebalancing and More on “Panic Knifing”

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Modern Warfare 3′s creative strategist, Robert Bowling, discusses panic knifing, quickscoping, weapon balancing, and potential nerf to Type-95.

Earlier today, we reported on Bowling’s suggestions on how to deal with panic knifing. In a nutshell, Bowling suggested that players should be careful when walking around corners. This advice aggravated one fan to jokingly demand Bowling to remove corners all together. Robert’s response was quite amusing, “roger. Got it, the answer to camping is to remove all corners. Call of Duty: Circle Warfare will be amazing.” Now that panic knifing is under the magnifying glass, one fan suggested that everyone hates it. Bowling disagreed, “the guy doing the knifing is loving it.” Another fan tried to persuade Bowling by bringing up the realism argument in regards to knifing, Robert answered “that’s the thing about war in video games and war in real life. One is fun; the other is real.” In terms of quickscoping, some players believe that there is a difference in quickscoping mechanics between semi-automatic rifles and bolt actions, Robert refuted these claims, “I don’t believe so. It should be the same mechanic.”

One fan approached Bowling with an interesting observation, basically he stated that Treyarch “messed up” Black Ops by “nerfing everything.” To which, Bowling responded, “I agree that weapon rebalancing should be a very selective process.” I don’t believe that Bowling is criticizing Treyarch, but offering his thoughts on the weapon rebalancing process to be more conservative. As previously mentioned, no additional tweaks are planned at the moment. Read more about the weapon balancing in patch 1.08, which will be released soon on PS3 and PC. One weapon that is still considered to be overpowered is the Type-95, Bowling stated “We haven’t discussed any additional nerfs beyond the slight one we made a few updates ago.” Type 95′s hipspread was slightly reduced back in December.

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Source: http://mp1st.com/2012/02/01/modern-warfare-3-weapon-rebalancing-a-selective-process-and-more-on-panic-knifing/

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Necklace_JrPosted:

Infinity Ward promised the people at E3 and Call Of Duty XP that Modern Warfare 3 is by far their best game...

WRONG it seems to me that they want nothing but money and they'll worry about the glitches every other 2 months...

So you charge your buyers $59.99 for the game and then $49.99 a year for a service that is actually worth $10.00 a year.

Dice made Battlefield 3 for the people that don't want a tricked out camo on your gun or quickscoping.

I'm not saying Battlefield 3 is better... I'm just saying that they spent a year and a half on it and it kicked MW3 off the charts for annual rating by players...

Would you like to know why Battlefield 3 has a low online player count... because Call Of Duty is stealing the players because it is so much easier to get kills...

A40Posted:

This should just make the knifing system like BF3. 1 knife kill from behind, 2 from the front/side.

Bl00dyMurd3rPosted:

Kinda wish this game was like black ops where quickscoping is **** up so I don't have to get one shotted by these ****** any more.

WormPosted:

Fix the panic knifing by simply making it a 2 hit for a kill.

DerkzPosted:

I hope Robert Trowling isn't talking Sh** again

Baillie123Posted:

kwigibow what make panic knifing annoying is the lunge and that when you shoot them they go through the bullets
The lunge isn't good enough its like having a 8cm long arm.... Knifings messed up on the new cod in my opinion.

SayPosted:

what make panic knifing annoying is the lunge and that when you shoot them they go through the bullets

VisPosted:

TTGNaviLlusShore forget the type-95 what about the FMG-9's? y can take out a juggarnought in a clip or two
So true...Its freaking dumb that the FMG's can take a jug out fast, yet when I put a hole clip in the head with a FAD it they dont die...

ODSTPosted:

I love how this game is still so bugged up (with glitches and over powered weapons) yet can still bring out new on a supposed monthly basis. Next time IW, please fix the game we buy for 60$ instead of just f*cking with everyone that you have an amazing game.

NaviLliciousPosted:

forget the type-95 what about the FMG-9's? y can take out a juggarnought in a clip or two