

Have their been any incidents where people have gotten it wrong though, perhaps removed something too quickly? “The 'Deep Impact' perk was initially used and thought to be good. A good team using the grenade launcher for example could make it impossible for you to plant or defuse either bomb, without first clearing every room on the map while ensuring people don't get around.” In the hands of a highly competitive player, features like this become too lethal and have to be removed. Things like martyrdom in the stock game would help one of these casual players if he likes to run around a lot, but keeps dying. The guns behave completely different in the stock game, have different damage, and you've all these perks like airstrikes, grenade launchers and so on.”īut what's wrong with these perks? “Features like airstrikes and grenade launchers make the game easier for the 'casual' player who isn't focused on developing their aim or game sense. CoD2 was fairly similar, CoD4 however isn't. In CoD you could join a server and do exactly the same things as you would in a match. When asked why so many rulesets had developed independently, he said “the main difference with CoD4 and the other titles is the difference between the stock and competitive game.

To unite the European competitive community behind one standardised ruleset, and because development on 'PAM' - the current competitive mod has stopped, something was needed to fill the gap.” He's also a personal friend of mine, and in theory should know exactly what the competitive CoD4 community wants from its 'promod', I'm not so sure however.įor those who don't know “promod was designed for two reasons. He's one of the first competitive mod' developers whose relatively high skilled, having just been accepted into invite along with his Tetris team mates. Ryan 'raf1' Palmer is one man whose taken it upon himself to push the competitive community forward, he does however present quite a problem for both me (as an interviewer) and the community, the good sort of problem though.

The Call of Duty 4 (CoD4) community is in a state of flux with the European summer LAN's lingering dangerously on the horizon and the rejection of Clanbase and its Eurocup recently, you'd be forgiven for thinking that CoD4 has started to stagnate, a community waiting for something to happen.
