Modern Warfare 2 : Multiplayer Match Making System

Robert Bowling (IW Community Manager) has confirmed that there won't be a region selection option for multiplayer matchmaking system in MW2.

But don't you worry, for international players like us (Indonesian Gamers) Infinity Wards has set up a new Matchmaking System that will reduce lag. Even though they still doing it with Auto Assist matchmaking system, the function are quite different from previous COD 4.


In Call Of Duty 4, The matchmaking system is looking for the first available game. It doesn't care if you in Asia and the game host is in US. All it matters is to get you into the game quickly, so you will have unstable latency from time to time.

Now in MW2, the matchmaking system will first look for the best connection. It will scan if there is a four signal game available for you. If there are no four signal game for you to join, it will scan and look for 3 signal game available and so on.

This is really good news for us and personally I think it will be better. This system will make us easier to find good signal and hence better competition.

But what if the system doesn't work? Robert Bowling say they will monitor all the international users in the IW forum. And if the current matchmaking system does not satisfy, IW will consider to give players a select region option via patches.

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