XL: FREE TO ENTER CODWAW FFA: £1500+ Prizes Confirmed!!!

[KONSPIRACY]

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MatchBox360 are pleased to announce that the soon to be released Call of Duty: World at War will be available as freeplay and a FREE TO ENTER tournament during the 3 day XL weekend on 28th - 30th November at Cranmore Park.

Building on the Call of Duty 4 engine, Call of Duty: World at War thrusts players into the ruthless and gritty chaos of WWII combat like never been before, and challenges them to band together to survive the most harrowing and climactic battles of WWII that led to the demise of the Axis powers on the European and South Pacific fronts. The title re-defines WWII games by offering an uncensored experience with unique enemies and combat variety, including Kamikaze fighters, ambush attacks, Banzai charges and cunning cover tactics, as well as explosive on-screen action through all new cooperative gameplay.

MatchBox360 XL Autumn 2008 will provide the first opportunity for console gamers to experience the Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer in a competitive LAN environment. The FREE TO ENTER FFA tournament will take place on Sunday 30th November with over £1500 of prizes provided by Activision:


ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS...


Xbox 360 Console (60GB HDD) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Xbox-360-Console-Hard-Drive/dp/B001DTD0WM/ref=dp_ob_title_vg/276-9806070-5705150)
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SAMSUNG LE37A616A3F 37" Widescreen HD LCD TV (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0019M0PSU/300001674-21/?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
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SAMSUNG HT-TX715 DVD Home Cinema System (http://www.amazon.co.uk/HT-TX715T-EDC-HT-TX715-Theatre-System/dp/B001AIQAL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1225938517&sr=8-1)
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SAMSUNG SWA-4000 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-SWA-4000-XEU-Wireless-Speaker/dp/B0016J75JS)
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...OVER £1500 WORTH OF PRIZES!!!


The winner will receive this amazing home entertainment system courtesy of Activision with all finalists receiving copies of Call of Duty: World at War for the Xbox 360 console.

You’ve got to be in it to win it, and registering for the free to enter Call of Duty: World at War FFA tournament couldn’t be easier!
To register simply...

Login to the MatchBox360 XL Ticket Office (http://tickets.matchbox360.co.uk/)
Purchase your XL Admission Ticket (http://tickets.matchbox360.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=61)
Register for the free to enter XL CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR FFA (http://tickets.matchbox360.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=75) stating your gamertag.



Call of Duty: World at War is due for release on Friday 14th November...so get practising those head shots! :D


Please note:
All players must purchase the XL Admission Ticket (http://tickets.matchbox360.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=61) in order to gain entry to MatchBox360 XL.
Any players taking part in other tournaments will forfeit their place in the free to enter Call of Duty World at War FFA should a clash in fixtures occur.
Prizes listed above will be delivered within 14 days after MatchBox360 XL Autumn 2008.

[SAA COMMANDO]

How old do you have to be? to enter.

[KONSPIRACY]

All players and spectators must be aged 15 years or older to attend XL.

[Tubez]

15, I'm assuming a far cry 2 ffa announcement will follow shortly?

[xI Reverend Ix]

WOW, thats a great stack of prizes, who ever wins will be very happy.

[Tubez]

Hey Kon, can I purchase both mine and my mates tickets off of one account?

[KONSPIRACY]

15, I'm assuming a far cry 2 ffa announcement will follow shortly?

Theres a strong possibility... ;)


Hey Kon, can I purchase both mine and my mates tickets off of one account?
Yes mate...you can purchase as many tickets as like as many times as you like using the ticket office.

[SAA COMMANDO]

oh great maybe next time. it willl have to be next xl for me
oh and hey tubez

[Tubez]

Tom school tomorrow, goto bed boy!

Wicked Kon, will order tickets tomorrow

[Fonzzie]

wowo **** me! splashing out on this one.

Post rules? Or will it be players giving ideas on the rules?

[KONSPIRACY]

Standard COD FFA rules. Only decision need to be made will be maps and weapon restrictions.

[leyton1990]

Kon i added it to my kart but it wont let me checkout..?

[iG Shot2]

Hi Kon,

Do you know if the settings on COD.WAR will be the same as COD.4 on LAN? Or will it be the case of unlockable weapons being used? That brings me on the another question, will unlockable weapons be allowed or not? Obviously people would need to bring a memory card if they are allowed.

Probably take the monday off work just incase I do go to XL6.

Thanks.

[KONSPIRACY]

Kon i added it to my kart but it wont let me checkout..?
Are you sure you've logged in correctly? What message are you getting? The checkout process is exactly the same as per normal so most likely a problem at your end.

Do you know if the settings on COD.WAR will be the same as COD.4 on LAN? Or will it be the case of unlockable weapons being used? That brings me on the another question, will unlockable weapons be allowed or not? Obviously people would need to bring a memory card if they are allowed.
CODWAW uses weapon classes similar to COD4 on system link. There are 10 set weapon classes available and theres nothing we can do about it. Memory cards/profiles doesnt change anything.

[Spindryer]

Fantastic prise's for a FREE to enter competition!! Can't believe some lucky sod is going to walk away with all of that

[KONSPIRACY]

I know...it would look fantastic in my living room! lol :D

Just to confirm...the Xbox 360 console is the new version with 60GB HDD.

[p34nuTT]

gota be a activision sponsored tourney GJ on securing that kon . any luck with EA supporting fifa this year also ?

[KONSPIRACY]

Still working on FIFA09 mate.

In the meantime, expect Ubisoft free to enter tournaments to be announced next week with yet more amazing prizes! ;)

[BsE Weasel]

CODWAW uses weapon classes similar to COD4 on system link. There are 10 set weapon classes available and theres nothing we can do about it. Memory cards/profiles doesnt change anything.

what are the weapon kits available for lan? hopefully not as limited as the COD4 lan kits...m16 and mp5 lol

[KONSPIRACY]

There are 10 system link weapon classes but I cant confirm full details (my phone broke so couldnt take pics). Unfortunately they are very similar to COD4 classes...one of the rifles even comes with a n00b grenade launcher! :(

[iG Shot2]

So they copied everything from CoD4... even the bad bits lol. Gonna try booking the monday off work today, hopefully make it along, and might enter UT3 aswell.

[Fonzzie]

ite, what the map gunna be bro?

[KONSPIRACY]

Havent got the game yet so too early to say. Might use a selection of maps.

Feel free to have input on maps.

[x CHUBAKA]

What a RIP OFF £30 just to enter a FREE FFA Tournament? why do you have to buy an admission ticket?

[Fonzzie]

how to hell is it a rip off? Dont go XL if your just going there for a FREE FFA torunament that you didnt want to pay any money to get it for. WOWOWOW

Admission = Entrance

[MacDaddy]

Yeah you're not paying for the ffa tournament hence why it's free. I'd like to see anyone set up loads of monitors and xboxes and let people play on them for free.

[KONSPIRACY]

What a RIP OFF £30 just to enter a FREE FFA Tournament? why do you have to buy an admission ticket?
The tournament is free to enter however all players and spectators must purchase the £30 admission ticket in order to gain entry to the venue. Admission gives each person full access to the venue for 3 days, and contributes towards the costs of running these events including venue hire and all other associated costs.

[Mr.Firewalled]

Hello all just wondering if you have decided on what map the FFA will be I haven’t seen an update on it on the forum is so please could you post the link for me. Otherwise I have a few ideas:

(Please note that I am new to the forum and have never been to a LAN event).

Free For All

Hardcore FFA or Normal FFA?

In my opinion Hardcore FFA takes more skill than just regular FFA for the very reason of the radar and the camping element of the game. If you are running and find yourself getting shot at then die, you then have no idea were the camper is of course there is kill cam but that shows you what happens in the past not the present time like Hardcore. With Hardcore you can cheque were everyone is so if someone is camping in a corner that you didn’t know of then spawn close to then he will be sleeping with the fishes. Also when someone has juggernaut on it’s a really pain in the ass to kill It makes them like in a Master Chief in the Halo series.

As I write this I ask myself as well as the community if there is a way to test out and change the settings for a FFA? If so please add me so that we can play for practise and that we can come up with a solution for the perfect FFA. I do prefer Hardcore but its not perfect.

Maps

Asylum:

Asylum is a medium size map with no vehicles on it. It is a balanced map because there is not one place that it the unbeatable camping spot but speaking of camping most of the spawns are outside the map with makes it very easy to spawn kill over and over again.

Castle:

Castle is a medium size map with no vehicles. The key to this map is just to get the height of the map and start reining down bullets into someone skull. The glitch on this map is the most well known and which water downs the value of the map and makes it unbearable to play on at time.

Courtyard:

Courtyard is a small size map with no vehicles. This should be in my opinion should be the map for XL. The spawns aren’t in stupid places that you get shot in the back of. You can run around freely and not be scared of campers. With eight people in the map it is mad and most enjoyable in all the maps that Call of Duty has to offer.

Dome:

Dome is a small size map with no vehicles. It is a little bit too small. It is great fun to play on but when someone gets a kill streak of seven at the beginning of the game they have won the match for sure.


Hangar:

Hangar is a Medium size map with no vehicles. There are lots and lots of camping spots on this map and there is always two places were at least one person is holding down.

Mankin:

Mankin is a Medium size map with no vehicles. This is my least favourite map because of people camping in the jungle. There are five spawns there which is one third of all the spawns on the map which makes me jump out of my sofa and kick my xbox until the disk get broken.

Thanks for reading and please comment on what you think.

[Spindryer]

Hi mate, first of all welcome to Matchbox360 / XL, its great to see COD WaW players taking an interest in the competitive side of the game.

There has been some debate about this subject which you can read about in this thread (http://matchbox360.co.uk/forums/vb/showthread.php?t=8481&highlight=cod5) however its always an open issue when a games competitive rules haven't been tried and tested.

Feel free to lay down a thread in the introduce yourself section (http://matchbox360.co.uk/forums/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=4) of the forum also :)

[KONSPIRACY]

Hi Firewalled. Welcome to MB360...its always good to see new members contributing their ideas so thanks for your post.


Hardcore FFA or Normal FFA?

In my opinion Hardcore FFA takes more skill than just regular FFA for the very reason of the radar and the camping element of the game. If you are running and find yourself getting shot at then die, you then have no idea were the camper is of course there is kill cam but that shows you what happens in the past not the present time like Hardcore. With Hardcore you can cheque were everyone is so if someone is camping in a corner that you didn’t know of then spawn close to then he will be sleeping with the fishes. Also when someone has juggernaut on it’s a really pain in the ass to kill It makes them like in a Master Chief in the Halo series.

As I write this I ask myself as well as the community if there is a way to test out and change the settings for a FFA? If so please add me so that we can play for practise and that we can come up with a solution for the perfect FFA. I do prefer Hardcore but its not perfect.

I wouldnt describe Hardcore with default as any more skillful than Core FFA. Sure there is no HUD but the with extra bullet damage (ie minuscule health) it would actually make it an SMG spray fest. One of the options would be to ban SMG but we need to make the game settings more popular before than limiting our target audience to the competitive gamers.

I believe the lack of HUD including map would also be unpopular decision. As with Halo3 FFA the radar can play an important role in FFA as you can determine where the action is. I have play tested Hardcore quite a bit and from what I have see it actually encourages players to camp...we want to encourage player movement, not encourage camping.

On COD4 we used to have perks off however in order to make our settings more popular, they will be limited and wont certainly wont include juggern00b.

The Killcam can be a handy tool as it also tells you if someone was camping, and will most likely be turned on to ensure players have the correct perks assigned. In addition, I believe the Hardcore spectator mode when dead can be replicated in the spectator settings however being able to see where all players are kind of defeats the object of FFA (see radar and Killcam).

We will most likely use 3 maps on rotation with all being played in the finals. Maps will be selected from the following:

Hangar
Courtyard
Asylum
Castle

Dome and Mankin are the least popular maps for FFA and wont be considered.

This thread was for the FFA at the recent XL which unfortunately had to use the system link classes which are generally rubbish. I will be testing settings and weapon sets next week for both online and LAN so please feel free to add me on XBL if you would like to be a part of testing.

Send me a message on XBL: k0nspiracy

edit:
I also agree with your sentiments about Courtyard. This was the map we used throughout the FFA at XL, however I have since been moaned at constantly as most of the COD community seem to prefer Hangar which in my opinion naturally promotes camping.