Call of Duty Players Are Really Mad About Red Dots - Kotaku
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, out October 28, will stand by controversial design decisions even after its strained beta weekend, developer Infinity Ward says.
The long-standing ability to slide-cancel—which allowed players to manipulate sliding into a super-fast run—is gone, and, in a move that has replaced some players’ eyes with infernal flames, Infinity Ward decided that mini-maps will no longer display red dots when players shoot their weapons.
“Currently in the MW2 Beta, we only show enemy player dots when [an unmanned aerial vehicle] is active,” Infinity Ward wrote in a recent community update blog.The dots are gone, and Infinity Ward seems uninterested in bringing them back, though it maintains in its blog post that it is continuing “to gather feedback on how the game is playing in regards to this topic.”.