Brief Hands-On Report--Call of Duty 1.4b2 Update

The updater, while still a beta, is available for download from MacUpdate.com. The update contains the files to be installed manually that bring the Mac edition of Call of Duty to version 1.4, on parity with the Wintel version. It also adds Punkbuster anti-cheat support and a new map, Stalingrad, to the Mac edition.

We downloaded and installed the 1.4b2 files. Call of Duty launched with no problems, maintaining our preferences, so we played a "few" games. There are many more Wintel servers than were available among just Macs at version 1.3. We were able to play on many servers, those with and without Punkbuster enabled.

During 2 hours of play we had one lockup, though, the first we've had with Call of Duty. It happened as we were attacking in Danville and a team mate next to me tossed a grenade. We don't know if it was the server or our game client that caused the problem but we couldn't clear it without holding down the power button to force a shutdown. The offending server was still running when we got back up so it was probably our client.

We played servers with friendly fire on and did not run into any servers with people engaging in team killing as we found among Mac servers running v1.3 and reported in yesterday's comparo.

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