Stimulus Package

Stimulus Package is the first downloadable map pack released for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on March 30th for Xbox 360, the second being the Resurgence Pack. It was available for the Xbox 360 thirty days earlier than for other systems. The downloadable content includes five maps. Two maps make a return from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: Crash and Overgrown. The map pack was released for the Xbox 360 for 1200 Microsoft Points, or $14.99US, on March 30, 2010 and will be available worldwide on the PSN by May 5th, however North American PS3 users will be able to play a day earlier on May 4th. PC users will receive it worldwide on May 4th 2010 for a price of $14.99US or £11.99.

A site was launched to promote the map pack, called mapathy.com. The website stated that the "cure" for "mapathy", defined as a state of indifference to the same old maps one has been playing for the last several months, was coming to Xbox Live on March 30th.



Despite rumors of the inclusion of other new content such as Special Ops missions, Challenges, Callsigns, Perks, and weapons, Infinity Ward Creative Strategist Robert Bowling denied those rumors and they do not appear once downloaded. There is a "Stimulus" playlist which allows you to play every game type on the new maps. There also is a "Stimulus Hardcore" playlist that allows you to play Hardcore Team Deathmatch, Hardcore Ricochet HQ Pro, and Hardcore Ricochet Search and Destroy on the new maps. Both playlists do not support the Xbox 360's 'party chat' function. The 3rd Person Cage Match game mode has been removed with the update included with the map pack.

Maps

 * Crash
 * Overgrown
 * Bailout
 * Salvage
 * Storm

Trivia

 * The names "Stimulus Package" and "Bailout" are most likely references to the actions of the Obama & Bush administrations during the recent economic recession in America.
 * Upon the release of the map pack, many players were unable to join a game, regardless of if they had the map or not. This was due to an issue regarding the order of which two updates (map and game) were installed. The issue has since been resolved, although some players still experience the problem, even after downloading the map pack (only confirmed on PS3).
 * Changing classes with One Man Army now adds 1 additional second of change time for each consecutive use, up to 6 uses. Therefore, in theory, One Man Army Pro becomes standard One Man Army after 3 uses. This is to discourage the use of Grenade Launchers with OMA, while still being functional enough to not affect more legitimate uses of the perk.
 * If a Stimulus map is voted, there is a higher chance of the next map also being from the Stimulus package.
 * The Stimulus Package update also (re)enabled Pave Lows counting towards killstreaks.
 * The five maps seem as common to get in a multiplayer playlist as the original maps, even though there are less. This is possibly done for balancing reasons.