• 4/28/11
  (Title Update 8)
• • Support for Escalation Map Pack (Releasing 5/3/11)
• • Security Updates.
• • Addition of banner-style Message of the Day on the MP Main Menu.
• • Addition of Hardcore FFA and TDM for Combat Training.
• • Additional sniper rifle tuning changes.
• • Addition of “Competition” Barebones playlist.
• • Replaced RPG with Grim Reaper in Gun Game Wager Match.
• • Prevent automatic weapons from jamming if the player is feathering the fire button on “Default Alt”, “Tactical Flipped” or “Nom4d Flipped”.
• • Fine-tuned napalm and bombing-run damage indoors.
• • Prevented rare invulnerability issue.
• • Additional game mode timer options for Custom Games.
• • Fixed a minor out of map exploit in Grid.
• • General Killcam and death-cam improvements.
• • Improved Auto-Assign reliability in Private Match.
• • Addressed an infinite “joining session in progress” screen under very specific timing conditions.
• • Demolition bombs can no longer explode and be defused at the same time.
• • Spy play now activates in One in the Chamber in all cases.
• • The “Sprint Kills” challenge for Steady Aim perk now rewards the player with the correct number of kills.
• • Contracts purchased but not yet expired no longer count as expired when viewing a friend’s player card.
• • Addressed a rare issue where a hacked camera spike would not function properly if the hacker also had a camera spike that was destroyed.
• • Recording a clip with the speed mode for 2 cameras set to .1 will no longer increase in speed when switching perspectives back and forth.
• • Improvements to Zipline functionality when viewed in Theater mode.
• • Settings from custom games are all cleared and no longer carry over from one custom match to another.
• • Improvements to map voting reliability in lobbies.
• • Nova gas will now affect players that are standing over their tactical insertion.
• • Hardcore players who kill another teammate in last stand now lose the proper amount of points.
• • Players can no longer transfer emblems/backgrounds from Combat Training to Player Match.
• • Player is no longer able to use a primary weapon in Second Chance (rare, specific instance).
• • Improvements to “Community” filters.
  

The new achievements are as follows:

• The Eagle has Landers (35G) – In Ascension, escape on all three lunar landers.

• They are going THROUGH! (35G) – In Ascension, kill at least 5 zombies with 1 Gersch device.

• Space Race (45G) – In Ascension, Pack-a-Punch a weapon before round 8.

• Chimp on the Barbie (35G) – In Ascension, kill a space monkey with a fire trap.

Written Friday, January 21, 2011 By Richard Walker

Forget the wars depicted in Electronic Arts' and Activision's military shooters, Call of Duty and Battlefield. There's a real war between the two companies set to kick off in the courtrooms it seems, as more allegations have been levelled at EA in Activison's lawsuit against them, following claims that EA interfered in its affairs during the whole Infinity Ward mess that resulted in studio founders, Jason West and Vince Zampella setting up Respawn Studios at EA.

Well now the plot has thickened even further, as apparent proof has surfaced in the form of an internal email from EA executive, Lincoln Hershberger, which seemingly brags about how he managed to get the Modern Warfare 2 developers to delay the release of the 'Stimulus Package' map pack to prevent it from interfering with the launch of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which is arguably Modern Warfare 2's closest competitor.

"A couple months ago, I asked Vince to hold back their map pack until after we launched. (He owes me one,)" reads the offending email, which apparently refers to MW2 dev, Vince Zampella. "Given that they've already made a billion, he was cool with that, obviously (Activision CEO) Kotick took it as being belligerent."

EA spokesman Jeff Brown has issued a comment, explaining that the email was sarcasm, and therefore an obvious joke: "This was obviously sarcasm," he said. "It's clear from the email this was a joke and they never spoke. We explained this to lawyers at Activision – who apparently don't have much of a sense of humour."

The emails have been included in Activision's lawsuit against EA earlier this week, which accuses the publisher of actively pursuing West and Zampella after they were dismissed by Acti for 'insubordination'. This would put the duo in breach of their employment contracts under Californian law, if indeed they were seeking work outside of the company.

Added to the public record this week, the emails - that include exchanges between EA executives discussing the potential hiring of West and Zampella - were given to Acti by EA as part of a discovery into the legal proceedings between the feuding publishers. Activision's request to sue EA for $400 million has therefore obviously been approved, and the documents were filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday.

Jason West and Vince Zampella's lawyer, Bobby Schwartz, issued the following statement to Kotaku, in response to Activision's claims:

"Activision's claims of such things as 'tortious interference' are not merely unfounded, they are undermined by the very documents attached to and quoted in its cross-complaint. The contact and communications that Jason and Vince had with EA were entirely lawful. If Activision's cross-complaint proves anything, it is that Activision is consumed with ill-will towards plaintiffs. It is bad enough that Activision refused to honour its contract with them and pay them the millions of dollars they and the other Infinity Ward employees earned from their years of work in developing Modern Warfare 2. Now Activision wants to ruin their ability to earn a living anywhere else. When the trial comes, we will make sure the jury appreciates what Activision is attempting to do.

"As to the allegation that Vince deliberately delayed a map pack for MW2 at the request of one of EA's developers, the allegation is completely false, and at trial it will be clear that this is a desperate attempt by Activision to find some basis to justify its misconduct and refusal to pay what it owes, not only to Jason and Vince, but to all of the other Infinity Ward employees."

And so, the case goes on. And on and on and on...

Take a look at the complete list of fixes delivered via the new update:

• In Versus mode Tanks will spawn in stasis until a human player takes over. Tanks in stasis are invisible and invulnerable, and won't move or attack.
• Tank speed is no longer reduced when on fire.
• Allow players on the Infected team to manually spawn during finales.
• Added a vote option to toggle All-Talk.
• Special Infected that causes a Survivor to stumble into a "ledge hang" situation will receive 50 points.
• Bullets that first pass through an infected character before striking a Survivor are now ignored as friendly fire.
• In Versus mode car alarms will now trigger anytime a Special Infected pulls or stumbles a Survivor into an alarm car.
• Survivor Bots no longer try to melee exploding barrels out of their way.
• Fixed the Sacrifizzle achievement.

xTNPx clan now has a total of 29 members.  Recently added are the following gamers:
xTNPx Nudz
xTNPx SCARFACE2
xTNPx Slayer
xTNPx TWO GUN

We will soon have a Facebook and Twitter accounts available for all xTNPx info.

We just added a new member.  His gamertag is xTNPx NuDz.  His first night playing as a member on Modern Warfare 2 is started with him getting a Nuke. 

That brings the membership to 28.  His brother DEER SLAYER XXL has just been voted in to join the clan.  Hope he can repeat his brothers steps and get a Nuke on the other team too.

On a temporary basis the three clan recruiters will be x TNP x SMOKEY, xTNPx CUBAN & xTNPx HITMAN.  xTNPx CUBAN & xTNPx HITMAN are taking the spots of xTNPx Seal & xTNPx HYPNO until they return from their extended vacation from gaming.  So anybody interested in join the clan just talk to the three recruiters and visit xTNPx.net and click on the info button.

Infinity Ward new map pack for Modern Warfare 2 will be called 'Resurgence Pack'.  It will be available June 3rd and no price has been set as of yet but rumor has it at 1200 Microsoft Points.

It will have 5 new maps and will follow the same route as the 'Stimulus Package' with 3 new maps and 2 classic maps from COD 4.  The new maps will be called Fuel, Trailer Park and Carnival.  The two maps from COD 4 are Vacant and Strike.

Hope they did a way better job this time, I still feel that they owe me a refund for the 'Stimulus Package' DLC.

Welcome to x Take No Prisoners x blog page.

Feel free to leave a comment, suggestion or discuss anything with members here.

 Membership stands at 28 gamers and still growing.

Currently we are an Xbox 360 clan & will be expanding to the Playstation 3 in the near future.

Visit the two sites at www.xTNPx.net & www.xTNPx.org (This site is still under construction.  Some pages are already up and running.)

If you would like to play with member on this game just send an invite.