When Activision announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered, the publisher shocked fans by confirming it was the campaign only.
This left a big gap for many Call of Duty fans who consider Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer to be among the series’ best.
Activision never really explained the omission, and Modern Warfare 2 Remastered launched in March 2020 in campaign form only. Since then, a group of modders have taken it upon themselves to remaster Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer – filling the void left by Activision – and the early results are promising.
Currently, 11 people are working on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered multiplayer mod, which is built using the mod tools provided by the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Project lead Gunoftruth, an automation engineer during the day, Call of Duty modder of seven years by night, tells Eurogamer the project owes its existence to Activision.
“The motivation for this project all began when Activision announced they had no plans on releasing the multiplayer remaster for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2,” Gunoftruth says.
“We want people to be able to enjoy and replay Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 in new graphics.”
It’s early days (a few maps are completed, with the majority of weapons ported), but the mod team have already had to make a few tough decisions while working out what to keep and what to ditch from the original Modern Warfare 2. Gunoftruth says Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer had some considerable issues that were never sorted out, and so the modders have run polls to let people interested have their say. For example, should the mod use the campaign remaster animations, or the original animations? Should it include the original fire sound, or the sound from the remaster?