With all the controversy over the upcoming multiplayer, and what aspects of the demo will apply to it, I opened the IWD files myself to have a look. What I found was quite interesting, the mp weapon information was included, and it infact was different to the single player weapon info.
I replaced some of the single player gun files with the multiplayer versions, to find out what the recoil was like. I then recorded the result in fraps, and uploaded it to the following links. Excuse the quality of the first movie, the flash made the screen pixelate. Use the megaupload link at the bottom for a higher quality recording
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QRkiZIlZKo8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gmPtffc6ecM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAyz7dvTH3w
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/16174/m4-avi.html
Decide for yourself if the multiplayer does infact have more recoil, or whether it is just the same
*edit* People asked for a howto, and I cant add a second page
How to:
1) Open "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare Demo\main"
2) Open iw_02.iwd with a winrar
3) Go to weapons
4) Copy any you want from 'mp' to 'sp', removing the _mp extension from the gun:
e.g
1) delete iw_02.iwd\weapons\sp\ak47
2) copy iw_02.iwd\weapons\mp\ak47_mp to iw_02.iwd\weapons\sp\ak47
I replaced some of the single player gun files with the multiplayer versions, to find out what the recoil was like. I then recorded the result in fraps, and uploaded it to the following links. Excuse the quality of the first movie, the flash made the screen pixelate. Use the megaupload link at the bottom for a higher quality recording
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QRkiZIlZKo8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gmPtffc6ecM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAyz7dvTH3w
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/16174/m4-avi.html
Decide for yourself if the multiplayer does infact have more recoil, or whether it is just the same
*edit* People asked for a howto, and I cant add a second page
How to:
1) Open "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare Demo\main"
2) Open iw_02.iwd with a winrar
3) Go to weapons
4) Copy any you want from 'mp' to 'sp', removing the _mp extension from the gun:
e.g
1) delete iw_02.iwd\weapons\sp\ak47
2) copy iw_02.iwd\weapons\mp\ak47_mp to iw_02.iwd\weapons\sp\ak47
Very interesting :P
I stand by that!
from GF :
"I guess you replaced the SP file by the MP file? well.. now try to just DELETE the SP file. yeah do it
launch the game.. play it... THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT .
actually you can delete all the m16 sp files ( m16_basic/grenadier ) , all the m16 mp files ( m16_acog/gl/mp/reflex/silencer) save the .iwd, start the game and play with the m16 like if you just installed the demo ;D. the only thing I found about those files is : if you delete them all, the game crashes at startup.
Conclusion : Modifying those files just do nothing ;p the recoil/etc info is stored somewhere else (I tried every possible way to check those MP settings too but.. well.. no way)"
actually you can delete all the m16 sp files ( m16_basic/grenadier ) , all the m16 mp files ( m16_acog/gl/mp/reflex/silencer) save the .iwd, start the game and play with the m16 like if you just installed the demo ;D.
the only thing I found about those files is : if you delete them all, the game crashes at startup.
logical
That was the point of the original GF post.
besides my article asked you to decide if the recoil was different or the same with the mp files
but certainly if you look in the files, they differ in values
Mind theres still a debate as to whether the recoil is affected by it or not
This article basically proved that although the mp has a different recoil, its only slightly higher than the sp