Modern Warfare 2 devs defend return of controversial Last Stand perk ActivisionModern Warfare 2 features the return of Last Stand (albeit under the name Survivor), an infamous perk from Call of Duty history and players are already up in arms about its reappearance. Over the course of Call of Duty history, several perks have consistently annoyed players to no end. Though different games have sought out to innovate on the franchise\u2019s perk system, one perk in particular has made a divisive return in Modern Warfare 2. Last Stand is officially back for the latest entry of the Modern Warfare saga and players are pushing back against its appearance in the hotly anticipated shooter. Amid player outcries, members of Modern Warfare 2\u2019s development team have defended their decision. Modern Warfare 2 devs claim Survivor perk can be used as a \u201ctool\u201d Players are getting their first taste of Infinity Ward\u2019s next Modern Warfare offering this weekend, while discovering that Last Stand is well and truly back under the Survivor rebrand. However, despite its condemned history, Infinity Ward dev @goku4smash defended its inclusion, explaining how it is balanced. He said \u201cMaybe you got shot across the map, or spammed through a smoke.\u201d \u201cMaybe you took a 2v1 with your teammate and he got the trade before the other guy finished you off,\u201d continued the Multiplayer Design dev. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be the best tool in the game in every situation, and that\u2019s okay.\u201d Amid pointing out Survivor\u2019s practicality in the heat of battle, the dev also pointed out how they have given the perk an overhaul to keep Modern Warfare 2 balanced: \u201cYou don\u2019t have a gun if you\u2019re downed w Survivor. You cant shoot back. There are no i-frames.\u201d \u201cYou can be killed out of \u201clast stand\u201d before you hit the floor. It only triggers off of bullet damage. And it can only be done once per life.\u201d However, the devs justification isn\u2019t sitting well with some players. Players such as Twitter user @JROConz said \u201cSo whats the point of it then lol. Just get it out of the game.\u201d Others like @IBrovail are wondering \u201cwhy does this perk even exist\u201d as many call for Dead Silence to emerge in the game instead. Infinity Ward are allowing players to give feedback via Reddit after playing the Open Beta. It remains to be seen whether serious changes will appear in the game\u2019s full release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Modern Warfare 2 devs defend return of controversial Last Stand perk ActivisionModern Warfare 2 features the return of Last Stand (albeit under the name Survivor), an infamous perk from Call of Duty history and players are already up in arms about its reappearance. Over the course of Call of Duty history, several perks have consistently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}