Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 details have, apparently, spilled all over the Internet.
They reportedly came from a post made by a play tester through Infinity Ward's Twitter account. The play tester in question has supposedly been banned (no one seems to be clear on whether that's from Infinity Ward's Twitter page or from play testing) and the list, if it ever actually went up, has been deleted.
Here's the thing - SPOnG did the maths and the list alone would require 13 tweets, given the 140 character limit to posts. That's certainly not impossible, but it also doesn't make Twitter the ideal place for the play tester to leak the info. Also, why would a play tester have access to Infinity Ward's account? Unless the features were posted as a response on Infinity Ward's
questions page, rather than its
Twitter page proper.
Frankly, no one seems at all clear on where the list actually did appear. The Twitter account of Fourzerotwo (aka Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward's community manager) has also been mentioned, while links all seem to point at the developer's official page. SPOnG's contacted Infinity Ward for clarification. In short, there's a lot of fog surrounding this one.
All that said, the features listed are not improbable - and the longest of those listed is, in fact, 140 characters in length. Take a look for yourself below:
*Vehicles will be in MW2
*M16 will return, using stopping power will only be OHK at head, neck, and torso (abdomen, limbs, and hands/feet will not)
*Ak47 and M4 will return, unknown if there are any changes
*M40 will return, ACOG damage boost will be fixed
*Scorpion, P90, M21, R700, G3, G360 will not return
*There are more unknown weapons that will not return
*New sniper rifle: SR25M (United states forces)
*New Assault rifle: Diemeco C8 (Canadian forces M4 equivelant)
*New Assault rifle: L85A2 (United Kingdom forces)
*Total weapons in multiplayer are said to be around 35
*Favourite Modern warfare 1 maps will return
*Helicopters, air strikes, UAV will return
*Red dot sightings will come in different shapes for multiplayer (circular, square, original)
*Snipers will have special grass camouflage (As seen in Modern warfare 1’s campaign)
*All perks will return from MW except eavesdrop and others will be altered
*All gametypes will return from MW and all will have hardcore versions
*New gametype: Secure (Call of duty version of capture the flag, however you capture the enemy’s Intel)
*New gametype unconfirmed name, similar to search and destroy, however instead of trying to plant a bomb, you try to kill a specified enemy
*Solider customization for each class (and each country)
*Sniper with silencers will NOT be in multiplayer
*There are NO bots in local multiplayer
*Similar version to Nazi Zombies, however details are unknown
*NO guest players online, 1 player per console
*Killcam save feature
*There is blood and gore
*Offline/Online Co-op
*Story takes place in the Middle East
*Role as US marines return
*Ken Lally voice work in campaign
*Release is set for sometime in November
*New army tags will be available to add different elements in campaign (similar to halo skulls)
*Campaign-only weapons
Via NeoGAF