Everyone is having the download issue it seems. I went and played Call of Duty 1 Campaign while waiting for it to download, for my luck after the last mission the download finished. :)
I think achievements are added this patch and the ones you already should have will be given to you after a battle. I say this because after winning a match I won an achievement saying I bought 50 German planes. I already had 50 German planes before 1.53 and that battle.
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yeah everything looks shiny to me as well. It makes me play on low now when before I played it on Med or high. I tried it on med and it worked on some maps but kicked me out of others and crashed. it even told me it was going to crash.lol
Maybe you guys can go into Options and try to play around with the PostFX settings. You can play around with the settings there and it might make that shine go away. (It is also useful to see bright stuff.)
I love COD 1