Modern Warfare 2

get hype!!!!!!!!!

Soap is in the game as a "grizzled vet" NPC.

Single player enemies will have "customized" weapons similar to the multiplayer component of COD4.

The ice mission shown to GI demonstrated the game's open-ended approach to combat, showing how stealth can be implemented if the player chooses.

While the gameplay is open-ended, the story is "on-rails".

Infinity Ward realizes that the "invisible line" where enemies will stop coming in COD4 wasn't great, so they're trying hard to eliminate that. Also, they are lengthening the single player past the 6-10 hour mark of COD4.

"Special Forces Mode" is a major part of MW2, a series of missions in the spirit of the Mile High Club from COD4. It will also have co-op in this mode. Gears-style bleed-out-and-partner-revive will be used.

Co-op apparently won't exist in Story Mode.

Riot shields will be implemented in the game.

Zakhaev's former associate, Makarov, is the "new face of global terrorism."

Snowmobiles are used as a form of escape in the demonstration. Unclear whether or not the player will drive, shoot, or both.

Players will alternate using the two triggers to climb ice-walls.

Movable turrets will be used in SF mode and Single Player, no official word on online use.

IW wants to implement an accomplishment system to online, as they want to make their players famous.

Online mode will use a "Live-Patching" system, where IW can manipulate spawn logic or certain parts of a multiplayer map without doing a full-blown patch.

Another demoed area shows an enormous desert setting where Task Force 141 drops into a wasteland and must navigate a "lengthy trek" to a fully-rendered valley with scattered caves, reminiscent of Iron Man.

IW is focusing on details for the COD4 sequel, citing iced-up tire treads in the Russian level.

The game will run in 60fps (duh).

siked for this!

not naming this thread "call of duty: modern warfare 2" will end in duplicate threads and tears

when is it expected ?
what does open-ended gameplay mean ?
My problem with the CoDs is the on-rail thing which is a bit annoying.

due in November.

Cannae wait.

november 10

there goes another 400hrs of my life

My problem The thing that is awesome with the CoDs is the on-rail thing which is a bit annoying awesome.

― AleXTC, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not naming this thread "call of duty: modern warfare 2" will end in duplicate threads and tears

― s1ocki, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:37 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm... : /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji_Y13COqTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PMRFkx07g&feature=channel_page

fucking gies it.

all over my face pls

silenced shotguns and silenced sniper rifles? have IW jumped the shark?

Customizable Kill Streaks. Possibly the most anticipated new feature is a pretty darn cool one. You now unlock kill streaks as you rank up, and though you can still only take three into a match with you at one time, you can at least have some control over how many kills you need to rack up to use them. Some of the kill streak rewards require three, four, five, six, seven, nine kills… In addition to old favorites like the UAV, there are things like a care package that's parachuted in and grants you a random upgrade; stationary sentry guns you can put down to beef up defenses, especially in objective-based games; and of course the AC130 gunship, which requires 11 kills to use (and which, consequently, I did not see). Best of all, it seems like kill streaks stack, since I was able to use my five-kill Predator missile, then immediately activate the four-kill care package right afterwards.

Death Streaks. Death streaks? Yes, you will now be rewarded for dying too many times in a row, in an effort to prevent frustration for those just getting into Modern Warfare 2. The only two in the demo I played were Painkiller, which starts you with a triple health boost after you're killed three times without making any kills of your own, and Copycat, which lets you use the loadout and perks of the last guy who killed you for one life.

Secondary Weapons Replace Pistols. No more piddly sidearms. Well, not quite true; pistols are still in there if you want them, but you can pass up the lo' Desert Eagle in favor of tactical shotguns, automatic machine pistols, and other nice gear to augment your primary rifle. All these secondary weapons can take attachments just like the primaries can, so if you want to throw a suppressor or digital camo on your shotgun, more power to ya.

Fancy New Equipment Instead of Grenades. Toss out your frag grenades, if you want, and replace them with some nifty gear that serves a variety of other purposes. Perhaps you would prefer Semtex timed sticky explosives? How about some throwing knives? The most abstract but perhaps coolest piece of equipment I saw was the tactical insertion, which looks like a typical flare when you throw it down. In practice, it acts as a mobile, single-use spawn point, so anytime you're moving into a heated area, throw one down and that's where you'll restart if you die.

Experience Boosts Galore. It seems like you get experience point bonuses for doing damn near anything in the new game. I'm not just talking headshots; any stylish or meaningful kill is going to give you some kind of experience boost. Kill a guy just before he's about to get a kill streak? Bonus. Take out the guy who just killed you? Bonus. Get the last kill in a match? Bonus. IW says the leveling (which now caps at level 70) has been tweaked to take the faster accumulation of points into account, and you'll get something gameplay-related for prestiging this time around. They aren't saying what, though.

Callsigns. Infinity Ward has been playing a lot of Street Fighter IV. The title and emblem system from that game is reproduced almost exactly here, with dozens upon dozens of descriptive phrases you can unlock and slap on your profile to give other players a sense of exactly how you've been putting it down online. The titles and emblems you can get will correspond to your behaviors, so if you spend a lot of time camping or you rack up a ton of melee kills, everyone will know it. The titles I saw in this demo version

NO BETA. THERE IS NO OPEN OR PUBLIC BETA PLANNED FOR MODERN WARFARE 2. NEITHER OF US (YOU OR ME) WILL PLAY IT UNTIL IT'S OUT. THAT'S KIND OF A BUMMER. INFINITY WARD PLEASE RECONSIDER.

I get to work on the MW2 campaign at my job! I already submitted a request for a free copy! exclamation points!

how so!

Gotta say - the death streak thing sounds HORRIBLE. You're telling me I now have to shoot a shitty player three times more than he shoots me to kill him (every third life)!

it really does sound like they're throwing their all at it

I'm cautiously optimistic

so... this is rumoured to have a 3rd person/SOCOM mode o_O

^^confirmed btw

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/700231/TheFeed.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=twitterblog&utm_campaign=so-0907-twitterthefeed-700231&cmpid=so-0907-twitterthefeed-700231

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm the opening of this game is fucked

it's going to upset a lot of reviewers, for sure

spoilers, obv:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QQxUnZFsE

yikes

i bet you don't have to play it like that, though

oh the video is down :(

I haven't been this excited for a game since GTAIV.

seen it now and i reckon abanana is right.

Are more people here gonna play on XBOX or PS3? Could we have a quick rundown of PS3 gamertags in this thread, for my benefit so I don't have to chase them down?

“The scene establishes the depth of evil and the cold bloodedness of a rogue Russian villain and his unit. By establishing that evil, it adds to the urgency of the player’s mission to stop them.

“Players have the option of skipping over the scene. At the beginning of the game, there are two ‘checkpoints’ where the player is advised that some people may find an upcoming segment disturbing. These checkpoints can’t be disabled.

“Modern Warfare 2 is a fantasy action game designed for intense, realistic game play that mirrors real life conflicts, much like epic, action movies. It is appropriately rated 18 for violent scenes, which means it is intended for those who are 18 and older.”

^^activision's statement on the leaked footage

that is really a lot of civilian murdering.

only 10 days till this out and info is leaking left right and centre

weapons list is out, perks list is out, prestige rewards being rumoured, campaign videos leaked too

SPOILERS

tactical nuke kill streak wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09NeDrZxPw

fight against grenade spam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLxFkWv5SM&fmt=22

disappointing.

nooo

nnnnghh no game shop in town I work in, don't want to pay exhorbitant pre-order prices, can't get to midnight launch at cheap supermarket ggggggggggggggguhhhh

They charge you extra for preorders in England?

scotland. nah it's just supermarkets tend to do big games as super-cheap loss-leaders while pre-orders are all RRP and activision are scalping cunts when it comes to MW2's RRP

Well, while you're saving your five "squid" or whatever I'll be levelling up to destroy you

So the CoD in space rumors were true?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=robhx9Fgdag

loving the lack of hype on ILG :)

I really hope shopto despatch my copy today: GF is away for the weekend = 48 hours of solid MW2 and some hardcore poopsocking

Heh, we were selling this yesterday for £65. But we nearly ran out, and had to bump it up to £75. It's still selling. And this is what, a <10 hour game? People are dumb!

i played the multiplayer of the first Modern Warfare for months, sometimes several hours a day. Easily 200 hours plus. I prestiged!

For coz it's a 300+ hour game!

JimD, it's really all about the multiplayer. Single player campaign is more like the bonus content.

I just checked and I played a little over 64 hours of CoD 4 multiplayer, so I think that's a pretty good value. Probably the only game I played more in the last few years (ever?) is Team Fortress 2.

Does the new game have an aracde mode that unlocks, like the last, and if it does, can it be played multiplayer, like in World at War?

I had 400 hrs logged on CoD4. 700 on SFIV. that's funemployment for you (except the 400 on cod were when I was a lolwyer o_O)

:O

:O'll me about it

700 on SFIV? jesus, no wonder you were so bitter

:***********(

^tears of bile

it's a great game, but that much online with that game would ruin it for anybody

(maybe even if the online play worked - just dealing that that many random internet assholes 1on1 would/probably has driven me crazy)

26 in sainsbury's grab it while it's hot

hype... rising...

excellent price - have they launched early or is that tomorrow?

tomorrow

it's £20 (!!!!!!!!) in makro

ridiculous, just ridiculous really

http://www.makro.co.uk/servlet/PB/menu/1153441/index.html

I was at a store yesterday (in Hollywood) that said they had over 300 pre-orders!

yeah, my local asda had 900 (!!!!!!!!!) pre-orders

mw2 is crazy

600 on 360, 300 on ps3

^^^ fanboy

I reckon I'm going to struggle tomorrow.

should be ok if you swing by sainsbury's at opening

this is def going to be sold out

Are peeps planning to do the story mode first or go right into multiplayer?

seeing as I suck at multiplayer...... It'll be story for me.

or... co-op?

I'll probably level up a bit in MP first (at least unlock hardcore modes) and then start the SP; I expect my li'l ro will want to co-op at some point

li'l roman?

hah, li'l broman

lol i just reserved a copy for midnight launch tonight. im a nerd imo

imo too iirc

you forgot the subject there

this leaked last week btw

So? GTA4 leaked like 18 months ago

no, I mean the game can be dl'd over the intertubes if you're a thieving 360 thief

I hope the single-player story has a bit more variety, rather than run to point A, shoot, run to point B do something else. Rainbow Six Vegas is the only realistic shooter that's gotten that right in my book.

Multiplayer can be fun, but I hate getting stuck with a bunch of 14 year olds who have nothing else to do but play. There should be a MP mode that requires age and employment verification.

^
http://i34.tinypic.com/315y3vq.gif

I got it :D

oh god system update whyyyyy

PS3

ok it's pretty fun. impressed so far (tho the graphics seem a big step back after uncharted). ice-climbing. snowmobiling. shooting civilians.

can't wait to shoot the civilians tbf, going to go pick mine up in a minute

going to pick up yr civilians?

10th prestige edn comes w/some civilians to shoot along w/the NV goggles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3E2X1KcyZg

Woah, lol @ sainsburys just now. They've been open for 90 mins and their stock hasn't arrived yet, so the store is FULL of panicky 13 yr olds and their harrassed mums. Staff looked near suicidal. I didn't hang around.

I was pretty far back in the queue at Sainsbury's In Crystal Palace, no problems though as loads of kids got refused the game for being under 18, oops. Thought I was going to get taxed on my way out by gangs of irate 14 yr olds.

Just played it for an hour but needed breakfast and coffee (definitely coffee) it's v v v intense, and twists right from the early bits. And Loud? very. very very very.

Picking mines up this afternoon. I'll be MP on PS3 from 9 tonight. Probably not touching SP until Sunday.

serious question: what's so great about the CoD games?

http://i36.tinypic.com/1y93m.jpg

coz isn't going to work today is he

Didn't see him online on the game earlier when I was playing, but I've had to pop into town and now nneed to cook dinner, won't get back on til after the boy's gone to bed.

Did realise though that I'm about 2/3s of the way through already, unless act 3 is waaaaaaay bigger than the others.

Jordan - with the earlier ones, it was just a very solid WW2 story that really felt like they were placing you on the battlefield. For the time, there was just a lot of stuff going on in those games all at once that was really crazy (basically like playing the opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan). With the first Modern Warfare, what made it really stand out was 1. The change to modern times & weapons and 2. The multiplayer...

CoD 4 multiplayer was just so much faster & smoother & had such a great hypnotic feel that made it more intense than other (console) multiplayer games. It just felt about perfect. On top of the feel, it had a great leveling mechanic, where as you ranked up, you unlocked different weapons & abilities that kept the game feeling fresh even as the hours piled up. The maps were good, and besides the leveling up perks, there was also a slate of different game types that you could switch between - from straight up deathmatch to more objective team based stuff (nothing that hadn't been done before, but again, nothing that hadn't been done as smoothly before).

Picking mines up this afternoon. I'll be MP on PS3 from 9 tonight. Probably not touching SP until Sunday.

― antexit, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you know it specifically like says "WE RECOMMEND YOU PLAY SINGLE PLAYER FIRST" when u try to multi before completing the campaign?

i agree with what jeff said about multi, but i also want to add that the storytelling in the single-player was just really inventive and smart and surprising.

he storytelling in the single-player was just really inventive and smart and surprising.

very true

xpost - Probably because most (all?) of the maps come out of the single player part, it kind of spoils the single player if you play the multi first, but still - the multi is the meat of the game and the real attraction, yes?

I didn't really get too into the single player campaign in Call of Duty 4, for whatever reason - it took me like six months to actually finish it, though I was glad I did as it unlocked the arcade mode, which I thought was a lot more fun & wish I'd spent more time with. I guess there's no arcade mode in this one though? Seems like co-op mode replaced it?

xpost - Probably because most (all?) of the maps come out of the single player part, it kind of spoils the single player if you play the multi first, but still - the multi is the meat of the game and the real attraction, yes?

― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, but as i said i really like the stuff they do with single player so i'm going to finish it first. (it's apparently also pretty short)

I'm actually probably going to play the single player first this time too (maybe because I'm a little worried the multi is going to end up feeling too much like just more of the same?). Actually I think I'll probably play and hour or two of the single and then play some multi or something like that. I actually haven't played a single player FPS for quite a while, so I'm looking forward to it.

nnnnnnnnnnggggh

so good

damn you all to hell. Perversely i don't have this because my xbox is at a friend's house waiting for him to hackz0r it, if i had it in my flat i'd have bought this and would be playing it now. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ultra_realistic_modern_warfare?utm_source=videoembed

any ps3ers having trouble getting trophies?

do any of you have jobs?!

I have a job, I'm lolbritish so I'm playing now and it is sick

I'm a lolstudent. I just came back at lunch to check out the MP before I return to the library but I got scolded for it! I won't be able to play the SP until the weekend and OH IT HURTS

I hgad a week's holiday I needed to use, fell at the right time - ie this and FM10, a winning (time-destroying) combination.

fancy men 10? is that a porno?

I think that's the UK title of MW2

25:9 you never lose it *blows on knuckles*

fm10 = football manager 2010, I spent the vast majority of Monday playing it.

I checked your stats earlier Coz, just before I bottled a bit of free for all and played spec ops instead (the sniper fi level is a hell of a lot of fun) level 8 within the hour? not bad at all.

25:9 you never lose it *blows on knuckles*

― coz (webinar), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:37 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

enthusiasm for this game... waning, ha

i don't think my ratio in cod4 got above 1. cod5 i thought was lame and never got past level 15

this was all before my hueg tv tho.

tangos on your left

it's basically an expansion pack of cod4 but that's enough to refresh my enthusiasm for its MP: more new unlocks to gorge on

Just got this...

tangos on your left

― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:15 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

fuckin goddamit. son of a whore i just LOOKED over there what the FUCK.

50,000 people used to live here

must admit, when I was on front of the top deck of the bus this morning I was very busy staying frosty and checking my corners for Tangos.

cdn't hear ur voice message, dan m : /

Our leaders prostituted us to the West, destroyed our culture, our economies, our honor.

this is a message

damnit - it's sitting right here in my bag ready to go home and play - I should just leave work right? I have people trash talkin' me through IM and sms right now and I'm not even home playing - DAMMMMIT. When I got off the bus for work today, there were literally ten guys bee-lining for Hancock center Best Buy right along with me with the intent of grabbing it before work. One guy yelled - 'there's gonna be some killin' tonight' and everyone laughed. Someone just texted me and said there is no 'old school' mode in MP - W...T...F...?

So glad Russians are the go-to video game bad guys again.

what to say... it's brilliant. it's just as smooth and tight as the first one and the new stuff they've thrown in is both really cool and pretty well balanced. not played on search and destroy yet but will be interesting to see how the heart monitor plays out there... wasn't nuked once in the 3 and half hours I played tonight

then today was a GOOD DAY.

this game has the most pathetic manual

WILL TAKE ANY OF U FUCKERS ON IN A CAGE MATCH

all Activision manuals are like three pages long now.

does this game have magics?

maybe a little too America Fuck Yeah thus far

having never played any Call of Duty game ever, can you guys explain how these play?

Forks - have you ever played a first person shooter, where you walk & sprint around shooting stuff? Well, this plays exactly like that

watching some gameplay videos, this seems to be another one-man-army run & gun, despite attempts at realism.

C'mon Jeff, be serious! Actually, I've never played a CoD either.

watching some gameplay videos, this seems to be another one-man-army run & gun, despite attempts at realism.

― abanana, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no you're usually with a bunch of dudes... fwiw

wha - I was (pretty much) being serious. If you've played another FPS, they're all kind of similar. This is a very solid one, with high production values and a fantastic multiplayer suite.

The single player really is just like a light gun game (a shooting gallery) where you control the movement too - there's no puzzles or anything like that - just forward movement and shooting lots and lots of folks. Honestly, if this game was only single player, I wouldn't buy it. The way they design single player really turns me off (after playing an hour or two of it tonight, the hate came flooding back).

But the multi is pretty much just one crazy adrenaline rush. Maybe comparable to a more fully developed version of Countestrike (more modes, weapons and variety & better graphics)? It's like two different games in one (maybe three? I've yet to try coop).

the little of the co-op I actually tried was pretty neat

I really like what they've done with the custom kill streak rewards (so far). It gives the multiplayer the feeling of a lot more variety, even if they make the matches that much more frustrating at times. I guess eventually we'll learn how to avoid or deal with all this new stuff. It's a lot riskier to use them too, since you're vulnerable longer when you're using some of them, I think? I also really like when matches end showing a sweet final kill.

totally didn't expect that scene to be so gratuitous. it's set up with maybe two lines of dialogue.

Damn. It's been a long time since I beat a game in one sitting. Holy hangover. I think this is some of the best level design I've ever seen in a FPS. Events are really seamlessly integrated, and it's on rails to the extent that you always know where to go and what's happening but only once or twice did I get the "fuck why can't I jump over this fucking privet hedge" feeling. Also all the scenes in America are fucking WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN. Please tell me some of those maps are in MP.

Speaking of MP, did I always suck so bad at it? My five games can be best summed up as

http://www.fersht.com/chess/No8/BlackpawnsandfeltsLR.jpg

The n00b-assisting deathstreak features don't help much, either.

xp yeah, "No Russian!"

Lucky because presumably your character doesn't speak any!

pawn felt?

pwned

wha - I was (pretty much) being serious. If you've played another FPS, they're all kind of similar. This is a very solid one, with high production values and a fantastic multiplayer suite.

The single player really is just like a light gun game (a shooting gallery) where you control the movement too - there's no puzzles or anything like that - just forward movement and shooting lots and lots of folks. Honestly, if this game was only single player, I wouldn't buy it. The way they design single player really turns me off (after playing an hour or two of it tonight, the hate came flooding back).

But the multi is pretty much just one crazy adrenaline rush. Maybe comparable to a more fully developed version of Countestrike (more modes, weapons and variety & better graphics)? It's like two different games in one (maybe three? I've yet to try coop).
--Jeff LeVine

dude how bad would it be if they decided to pad it out with PUZZLES

Like portal with terrists to kill? Sign me up.

actually don't, just remembered how infuriating stupid wee jumping bits can be in FPS games.

s1ock - I wasn't saying there should be puzzles - that would indeed be awful

<3 u AC130

antexit - five multiplayer games isn't enough. You need to unlock some better perks and guns and you'll be able to do better. Game starts out pretty harsh if you're matched up with people who have considerably better stuff than you.

I just got to the Red Dawn part, so hopefully the single player will get better from here on out, maybe? I really hated the Favela level, as it did the typical Call of Duty thing I hate the most, where they just scatter an insane amount of enemies throughout the level to slow down your progress and to kill you over an over again in the same two feet, before you can move that extra foot forward to get to the next checkpoint. I guess you feel like you accomplish something when you get past the sections like that, but I just find them no fun to play.

It also kind of bummed me out in the snow level, when they introduce that great stealth-like mechanic and then only let you use it for a minute or so. Would have been happy doing that much longer! Also why introduce a climbing mechanic, then do nothing significant with it?

Picking up Intel is a hoot, huh? Working laptops in blizzard, subzero conditions - some days I want to live in COD world.

i dunno to me it's fun to figure out tactically how to advance in those sections—who you need to take out first and how etc etc

"Wasteland" multiplayer map is recycled from CoD... 2? It's kind of shameful that I know this.

xp Slocki

yeah, I love that! Especially now that you can actually clear a path tactically, rather than being forced into constant forward movement by respawning enemies.

One of the baddie skins in the favela level looks disturbingly young, did anyone else notice this?

xp Jeff, yeah I know. I'm L4 now, and not likely to improve until I figure out why my wireless router isn't working :( :( :(. But I don't see why I lose out 65% of the time when I clearly have the drop on a guy. The R1 L1 mechanic is just a way to spice up what's practically a cutscene, I'd think (it crops up again in a different context). It'd be functionally useless in something like MP, anyway.

bottled out of joining a free for all deathmatch again this afternoon. Need to rip the plaster off and go out there and get shot to bits. The thought of sucking so badly at online play is just so dispriting though. What with being insanely competetive and all.

that's kind of why i'm shying away from this

^^^^
same here. I couldnt get a good kill streak to save my life in the first iteration, how could I stand a chance with these new and improved kill streaks?

btw the story in this game is kind of retardo

*** SPOILER ***

russia invades the US because they find an american body at an airport massacre? wtf... the first one wasnt like a BRILLIANT story but i thought it was done pretty well... this is just stupid

watch yo back haxors

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) this week booted as many as 1 million players from its Xbox Live gaming service due to the company's belief that they modified their consoles to play games illegally downloaded from file sharing sites.

"All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty, and result in a ban from Xbox Live," Microsoft said in a statement.

The move comes amid this week's release of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", the mostly highly anticipated Xbox 360 game of the year.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/peripherals/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221601267

just grind out some levels until you unlock good guns and perks... you can all draft behind my leet skillzors if you want?

my two lame tipz for improving in fps:

get used to much higher control sensitivity that default. bump it up in stages if you need to.

crank up brightness and contrast on your tv and/or you xbox vid output. or get a bigger tv. u need to see.

other than that, don't listen to me, i'm crap. the basic unit of play is the "duel" where u and another asshole have locked with each other and are firing. all other things being equal, if you can win those, you'll do fine, and i never do :/

key to being good at cod is taking note of any incoming UAVs and helis, noting who has died when they die, and keeping track of who is alive on your team and the other via the scoreboard... listen, too, for footsteps and claymores and other shit

anyone around tonight for some MP?

xps. Contrary to that I would suggest lower sensitivities are better. Much more accurate at distance. Obviously it means you turn slower but that isn't such an issue if you look in the right directions while moving to minimise the chance of being blindsided.

u may be onto something

rethinking it it might not be so applicable on the console as it is on the PC. On the PC you can have a crazy low sensitivity and still turn round quickly with some frantic mouse activity. Not so possible on your 360 pad obviously when you're stuck at the same speed.

SPOILER

Slocki, isn't the implication that the American government was directly responsible for the massacre? The one body found of the terrorists was an army guy. At the very least it would seem like the American was an agent provocateur. But yes there's a lot of dumb/incomprehensible stuff in this plot.

I need someone on PS3 from whom I can draft behind his l33t skillzors.

SPOILER

yeah, but WHY would the US army slaughter a bunch of randos in a USSR airport?

dude why NOT

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_koAFb4pEcTs/RbD7lpaMXZI/AAAAAAAAAEo/ipU7DuRh7XI/s400/23279210.jpg

tankguythumbsup.jpeg

I'm up for multi, but I think my mic might be f'd.

Really enjoying having Lucius Vorenus give me orders.

"you think with your penis"

1.23 million first day sales in the UK, thats double the previous record!

Is anyone else having trouble getting on the MP network on PS3? It seems totally fuxored to me, and I don't think it's my connection.

I'm slightly tempted to quit as somehow I have 420 kills and 420 deaths for a perfect 1.0 k/d ratio, but the game is too much fun

stoner achievement

intervention (sniper) w/bling (silencer & acog) and cold-blooded and ninja

nnnnnnnngggggh

finally unlocked hardcore more. game is soooooooooo much better

"Finally"??? Isn't that like at level 40? The game has been out for 48 hours. You guys are nuts.

tried again today, I'm too old and slow for this shit.

gonna go out and buy this somewhere in glasgow in the next 15 minutes or so, not be able to play it til tomorrow morning tho :(

apparently morrisons are doing it for £25 but cba going to Partick so going to waste £20 out of laziness.

so I was in the top deck of a house, upstairs all empty, all is well, no-one to spot from windows, so (pathetically) camp at the top of the stairs.... fucker runs straight up them and fills me full of holes, I never even saw him!

unlocks at like level 17, sucktexit

I tried xHxCx mode but I don't know the levels well enough yet.

Anyone tried the co-op modes?

Happiness is... lucking into a team deathmatch where everyone sucks worse than you.

http://www.golding.ca/maggie/images/snoopy.dancing.jpg

woo, getting a free copy from work~

where do you work, awesomeland??

I freelance for the digital word-of-mouth agency that handles A Certain Game Store's conversational marketing. It's just a few hours a week, but it's a little extra money and I get to write off all my game purchases (not to mention internet bills).

conversational marketing = posting on ILG?

naw, y'all's traffic ain't high enough; more like posting on GAF/CAG/1up boards. also I can't cuss when I'm "working".

lol conversational marketing. you're the enemy, dawg!

lol, I used to pay my rent by blogging for the paparazzi; if anything this is a Great Ethical Leap Forward.

I need training wheels for multiplayer. My sorry level 3 ass vs. 10 dudes at 35+.

yeah, high level dudes just have better gear and perks. it's dispiriting.

everybody only ever seems to camp on cod these days; I don't remember it being as bad when I played it but maybe I just suck now

I think maybe everything is just a little more evened out in this game (compared to 4) because of the addition of death streaks. So far it seems like I've yet to go on any kind of crazy run (9 is my longest kill streak), but after the first few games, I haven't had any crazy awful streaks either. Also everybody is still learning the maps (I don't even think I've seen them all yet). You do have to grind a bit, but I feel like after level ten or so (an hour and a half?) your perks & weapons are good enough to be competitive.

I've mostly played free-for-all and haven't noticed a ton of camping.

The one map I really dislike is Estate. Also not so sure about the Airport one that feels like it's right out of Rainbow 6.

Are some of the maps hardcore-only or am I just still too confused by most of them?

The heartbeat sensor is like fucking cheating btw.

yeah def feel like HC is kicking my ass right now due to unfamiliarity w/the maps. have switched backed to normal in the interim to level up to 25 (for cold-blooded) then 29 (for ninja) then I'll try again

just on newsnight review w/paul morley and peter miller (?)

kirsty wark's a level 36 3rd prestige it turns out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQpcO8x6NNY

everybody only ever seems to camp on cod these days; I don't remember it being as bad when I played it but maybe I just suck now
― coz (webinar), Friday, November 13, 2009 6:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seems I'm not alone w/this experience - lots of discussion of GAF about whether maybe the maps encourage camping w/their size; I think it's a combination of that and people's typical fear of the unknown

COZWN that is such a DISTURBING VIDEO

coz - I think people have forgotten just how much camping there was in CoD4, maybe? There were big maps in 4 too, right? The balance of map size seems about the same to me. One of the things I'm thinking might be a problem though is that there seems to be too much killstreak stuff up in the air for too long. It's sometimes like after the first 30-45 seconds of a game it's no longer safe too move around freely outside for most of the rest of the match. I think this is really helping encourage people to spend more time hunkered down. Especially in free-for-all 1. most people don't bother carrying an anti aircraft weapon 2. shooting at an aircraft for a while is like an open invitation for somebody to get a free kill on you.

just went 18-0 o_O

my little bro has a 24 kill streak : /

do u get XP for shooting down aircraft in this one? i always thought it was dumb how shooting down a helicopter in the last gotcha zip

coz that video is sort of nauseating

ok i finished the single player and

*** SPOILERS ***

the story in this game is... what? it's terrible! do we even KILL marokov in the end?! it was totally unclear. it just like switches to shepherd and his even plan to... to do what, exactly?

really, really terrible storytelling in this game. disappointing.

same kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPr8tbImUo

I always thought the maps for COD4 (and now this one) were too small for the number of players.

There's one map (desert oil rig or something?) where I routinely spawn behind someone to shoot them, or in front to have them shoot me.

I played a stupid amount of this today

up to level 31, cold-blooded and ninja unlocked, learning the maps, getting along swell

cold-blooded + stinger missiles = never having to worry about heli kill streaks ever again

yes I did name one my classes EPIC FAL

lol

Completed the single player on hardened, enjoyed it, took me just shy of 9 hours i think. Looking forward to getting fired into the multiplayer, i'm off Monday to Thursday so that will probably be pretty intensive.

Milo - I enjoy the tiny maps like Rust every now and then (I think that's the only really tiny one this time?). They just break things up and are the most crazy. A good chance to use your shotguns. Less "serious." You can always back out if you hate a particular map (like I do with Estate).

For people who have beaten the single player - does that unlock any other modes? Just wondering if I should bother...

p.s. co-op seems pretty awesome, but I wish it was you could just play any chapter you want without having to star the earlier chapters...

once u get cold-blooded and the stinger, the game completely changes because you're not at the mercy of the air support kill streaks

i can barely get this game started lol, no idea what i'm firing at. too real for me.

friendly fire will not be tolerated!

finally took the plunge - 5 kills 18 deaths, oops. The number of times I got killed while having someone in my sights was v v annoying, guess that's when you get sloppy.

seriously though, why are level 30 guys who are obviously pretty good running round in free for all? easy kills to level up? lame.

that's just IW's shitty matchmaking I think : /

suprised there is any matchmaking going on at all!

fuckit, i will most probably be picking this up 2nite

:D

prepare to suck, until it 'beds in'

Porkpie - do you know what free-for-all means?

jeff levine w/the sick burn!

have you tried any of the other modes, pp? if I see you on we can party up. no worries if you don't use your mic.

target acquired

from target

Is there an option to mute other players automatically? I hate having to do it for each person, and I have zero interest in hearing some squeaky-voiced kid crying repeatedly because "that should have killed you!!!"

Finally won my first free for all, I'm up to level 17, I think. I tend to stay on FFA until I feel like I'm not a liability in other modes.

there's a global setting somewhere in the xbox prefs to only allow friends to chat to you (it should allow friends of friends too imo but that's by-the-by)

Got sucked into the single player tonight and finished it up. Overall, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. For every section that aggravated me to no end (getting stuck at a horrible save point where I had to do the same ten seconds over and over because it saved when I was almost dead and four or more guys were shooting at me happened more than a few times), there were some genuinely great, jaw dropping moments too.

I think what I enjoyed best were the more stealthy, calmer sections. Maybe because they were the easiest? Or just for the atmosphere. I wish those sections had been longer. Really, the whole game should have been longer. I beat it (or regular) in 6 hours and 7 minutes and I was taking my time. If they'd taken a little more time, perhaps the story wouldn't have been such a total incoherent mess, especially as the game moved towards the end (or maybe the middle of a trilogy?).

Basically, I enjoyed playing any time you had to deal with a reasonable amount of enemies and hated the game anytime it set you in a big battlefield with a hundred dudes shooting at you (though some of those moments were damn visually impressive). Felt like there were too many times over the course of six hours when you are knocked to the ground helpless. Wasn't playing the game for the story, but the lack of any attempt at clarity towards the end became distracting, causing some disconnect as obviously you're supposed to care about what you are doing but can't figure out what the fuck you are doing. Was surprised that they basically used the same ending mechanics as Metal Gear Solid 4. Actually felt a lot of MGS influence in the game, like they were trying to do a more streamlined, more Hollywood version of the same.

Closing credits were great.

Bummed for no arcade mode (but will not pay extra for it if Activision puts it out as DLC).

i'm mostly (?) thru the single player, my impression is good!

played up thru level 3 in free-for-all and i'm just as terrible as i remember.

I'm finding single player quite dull so far, tbh. I can't imagine ever going back and playing levels for fun, as I did with the first Modern Warfare. Co-op mode is fun though, haven't really given multiplayer a chance yet because I'm having too much fun playing Battlefield 1943.

The sneaky sections are way better. Having waves of enemies come after you while you blast away gets boring.

there's definitely some good levels in single player but overall i feel they really dropped the ball. it doesn't have the great big "wow" moments of the first game and the infamous airport scene is gratuitous and kind of terrible, especially in service of such a weak story.

i suppose i'd better get up to this whilst my free gold trial is still in force

when you come out of the bunker and see the national mall all wrecked up, by relfex i started looking for super mutants...

ok, pathetic begging here. coz, and anyone else who's any good at this, what do you do? i'm pretty good at locking on and shooting -- i was suprisingly great at B1943! but i realized i don't have much of a strategy beyond, "uh walk around until you i see someone." is "lern tha maps" the only answer? i really hate camping, should i learn to love it? how do you think thru what your next move shd be at any given time?

(fyi i am not about to choke on my own snot and punch a wall over here)

goole - I'm not saying I'm any good at this, but here's my quick thoughts. Obviously the game plays very different from Battlefield, so forget about that. It depends what mode you're playing, but in general, the game plays very fast, so you gotta think fast. You really don't want to be in big open spaces or over-exposed, but you don't have to camp - you can keep moving, but try to move in a good way, i.e. it's better to have your back to a wall or the edge of a map. It's good to be looking forward, but also to be aware of what is around you (and behind you). It's good to use the mini map which shows people's locations after they fire (unless they are perked against it or using a silenced weapon). Keep in mind, other people know your location too after you've fired, so it's a good idea not to stand there - it's a good idea to try to get in a location where you can look back on where you were just firing your gun as it's likely somebody will be moving towards that location. It you have a good stereo set-up, you can also hear the sounds of where people are firing from or if they're trying to sneak up on you. Having the right perks and weapons to suit your play style is extremely important. You have to experiment to see what works for you.

I usually keep an eye on the last couple of dudes on my team to go past me and then look out for them getting killed or killing, then I'll know there's action nearby. I listen out for footsteps, and stalk round the map slowly. I don't tend to camp up, unless I know there's someone nearby or I have a care package out as bait. I only play hardcore tho so it's a lot slower and people don't just run and gun so much. I frequently check the scoreboard to see how many ppl are dead/alive on each team so then I can get a sense of how much traffic there is on the map and how up against it I am, e.g. on skidrow there's one room ppl tend to camp, if I check the board and 4 of my dudes are dead but their team is all alive you can pretty much bet they're camped out there, so it's then about working out a way to get in behind that defence

learning the maps is crucial, as is levelling up to get good perks and weapons (not necessarily levelling up your dude to get weapons but levelling up the weapon itself, e.g., the M4A1 which is the starting assault rifle is really good but it's really, really good when you unlock the silencer or holo-sight)

if you're around tonight, I might be on so we can play some

the game only plays fast in normal, in HC mode it's sloooooooooooow

thx alot u guis. pretty sure i'm moving thru the maps too quickly and aimlessly. B1943 matched my instinctive playstyle a lot more naturally, as it rewards reckless self-sacrifice! careful snipey ish is a sure loser, and the back-and-forth action is a lot more linear

i have no idea what any of the perks do! still haven't got to lev4 where that opens up (tho lol i am typing on the internet). a dude threw a knife at me last night, ffs...

i have dinner plans (an brand new irish fish and chips place -- lol america) so tonite may not be in the cards. but i'm sure i'll be on an alarming amount of time in the near future

For whatever it's worth, my current go to load-out is

Perks...
Sleight of Hand - Faster reloading / Faster aiming down the sight
Cold-Blooded - Undetectable by UAVs, air support, sentries and thermal (though used stopping power to start)
Steady Aim - Increased hip-fire accuracy

Kill Streaks...
3 - UAV
6 - Precision Airstrike
7 - Harrier Strike

Death Streak...
3 deaths - Painkiller: Double health for ten seconds after respawn.

Primary Weapon - SCAR-H
Secondary - Shotgun (can't remember which one)

Sticky grenade and two flash bangs.

Having the shotgun as a secondary is great, as whenever I end up in tight quarters or on a particularly small map I switch over to it for easy easy (one hit) kills.

mine is
bling pro - 2xattachments on primary and secondary weapons
cold-blooded
ninja pro - invisible to heartbeat monitors and silent steps

4 - care package
5 - sentry
7 - harrier strike

martyrdom

FAL w/holo sight & silencer
magnum w/FMJ

semtex and stun grenades

jeff why do u use flashes over stuns? stuns give a similar effect (less blinding, but they do slow down movement) but their biggest plus point over flashes is that they give a 'register' when they hit, so they're good for throwing into rooms when unsighted

Actually I almost never use them - just have them equipped - I don't know why. I'll try switching over to stun tonight.

quick qn: do you have to have a certain perk equipped to satisfy the pro requirements for it?

yes

well shit

You want to learn the maps well enough so that if a camper kills you, you know how to get back to where he is and take him out after watching the death cam shot (obviously doesn't apply in Hardcore). It's weird how many people will just stay in the exact same spot after getting a kill, considering the game shows you exactly where they are (though there are a couple of spots I've seen that make it very difficult to dislodge a camper from as they're very protected).

In free-for-all, I feel bad shooting a guy who is shooting up at an aircraft, but I can't help myself

The pro requirements on the perks are mostly pretty low, I think you can usually unlock the pro stuff just a handfull of games after you've equipped a perk (5-10 games?).

cold-blooded pro needs you to destroy 40 kill streak rewards. that's pretty arduous

How do you destroy a kill streak reward? Just kill a guy who has a kill streak going on? Or not get killed when somebody is using a kill streak?

shoot down the UAV/sentry/pave low/care package chopper/harrier

For the cold blooded pro reward "No red crosshair or name when targeted" does that means at any time? Like with any gun? Cause if so, I'm equipping a FIM-92 Stinger and getting to work.

yup, it's quite a nice perk but I do worry you'd get team-killed a lot on hardcore : /

I feel bad shooting a guy who is shooting up at an aircraft, but I can't help myself

winners don't do drugs!

got a grip of this tonight, and found single player to be pretty basic and nothing all that.

played a couple of games at multiplayer, and got second in my last game! which was nice, played well and got some nice killing streaks going.

used all the tips from jeff and coz :)

we have a game going on xbox just now w/myself, jim and porkpie

For the cold blooded pro reward "No red crosshair or name when targeted" does that means at any time? Like with any gun? Cause if so, I'm equipping a FIM-92 Stinger and getting to work.

― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

explain?

aw i just retired for the night.

for future sessions
gametag= antzattax

xp

would love to set up a private match just to kill each other off to see the wild ass streaks i know i will never get otherwise...

ggs jim & porkpie. sorry for inviting u into a hardcore game chris, it's pretty brutal huh? jim was tearing it up in that last game (22:4)

wild ass streaks?

i guess that is what i said, yes

private match in your pants

dry cleaning perk, u&k

holy crap hardcore games really are great thanks for the invite, I was totally outclassed, but it did make kills a real buzz, doesn't help me level up as much as running round the edge of say, rust. Or hanging in the outdoor bit in terminal waiting for folks to cross/come out of the big-assed window. But wow, really enjoyed it.

as for Porkpie - do you know what free-for-all means? well, duh. I'm sure you know what I meant, but congrats on the really super zing.

hey, cozen you big jobbie i think you killed me when i was nearing my best killstreak (>_< )( >_<)

By luck I think that round was my best performance yet in this game. Had been playing lots of normal team deathmatch, think hardcore might be the way to go. GG guys.

FAL with stopping power on hardcore is pretty neat, lots of one shot kills.

s1ocki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger

"The stinger is usable in multiplayer as a secondary weapon. It can lock onto killstreak vehicles and comes with 2 rockets. The drawback is that it cannot be fired without a lock-on and thus can not be fired at infantry. It is sufficiently better than the AT-4 in taking down killstreak vehicles particularly vehicles such as the UAV and the AC-130 due to better tracking system and a faster rocket speed. It takes one rocket to bring down UAVs, Attack Choppers, and Harriers. It will take two rockets to bring down a Pave Low and three to bring down an AC-130, depending on whether a person is using the Danger Close perk."

Unlocks at Level 30

FAL w/out stopping power on HC is one hit kill btw

jus saying

so what's the deal with HC?

xp. INTRIGUING!

but Jeff what does that have to do with that particular perk ?

To unlock the "pro" version of cold-blooded, czn said you have to "destroy 40 kill streak rewards. that's pretty arduous," which means, "shoot down the UAV/sentry/pave low/care package chopper/harrier." Since the Stinger can do most of these with one shot, it seems like the grind wouldn't be so bad, and since I'm running cold blooded, pro would obviously be better. Lots of xposts today!

ahhh! sorry, i thought you meant that perk would work well WITH a stinger.

I got used to the rapid pace of leveling up early on, but now that I've hit thirty it's taking FOREVER. It takes so damn much EXP! Is there a consensus on what's the best mode to earn EXP?

search and destroy (500 points per kill) but the people who play that are HARDCORE.

for levelling up weapons I use headquarters or sabotage but you only get 50 pts a kill on those modes so it's not so good for levelling your little dude

Best part about cold-blooded is running up to a sentry gun and melee attacking it out of commision. Shooting down aircraft with the stinger is also big fun and big points.

you can shoot down aircraft with the first rocket launcher they give u (at the beginning of the game). i just realized it can lock on too!!

although not BIG points for that. is it more points with the stinger? it's 50 with that guy.

(at least you get points for doing that now - not giving youxp for shooting down helis in the lst one = huge oversight)

http://www.snotr.com/video/3357

just tested - stinger is faster than the first rocket launcher and it has two rockets, you can't shoot it at humans tho, only vehicles

omg that video

The difference in weapon damage is kind of funny when IRL they're firing the same round.

I wish more free for all players had watched the game theory scene in A Beautiful Mind when it comes to choppers and stuff.

in which case is it the same round?

and shouldn't different weapons firing the same bullet or shell ACTUALLY cause different damage depending on barrel length etc?

yes but that wouldn't apply with a rocket /war nerd

hmmm am waiting for a work call (one of the true benefits of working for a company with the head office on the other side of the world) and have stuff to do....... but really want a couple of games, especially as I sucked so bad in a team deathmatch this morning, estate seems much too open for me, didn't enjoy it at all. The map I played the first hardcore on last night may be my favourite, open but with a decent, flowing set of cover pieces. (can't remember what it's called - open field, graveyard, bunker complex in middle). Not too keen on derail either though.

yes but that wouldn't apply with a rocket /war nerd

― goole, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya but where does it say they cause different damage?

so again, someone tell me why hardcore is so much better?

no idea!

xp

cos it's HARDCORE

(porkpie: it's called wasteland)

ya but why is it hardcore

personally, I just find it more a thoughtful and thrilling game type - normal mode just seems dumb and unfair in comparison - often I'll get the drop on someone hit them with three clean shots and still get killed because they have a better connection, this isn't an issue in HC where it's 1 or 2 hit kills. all of the weapons are useful too - as opposed to normal where pistols are useless

what im really asking is what is the diff exactly

normal mode is hectic and fun in its own way but it often just feels like lots of running around killing and dying over and over and over whereas HC actually feels like a team deathmatch

higher damage, no map, friendly fire on (right?)

oic, sorry:

lower energy (1 hit kills)
no map except when UAV enabled
no reticule or HUD
no kill cam

friendly fire, yeah

No HUD, no indicators, just you and your weapon sights (and ears) and the weapons do proper damage too.

as Coz said, it's thoughtful, you are more....careful and aware (or I am anyway) which suits me, you don't get the runner/gunners sprinting round, or don't seem to anyway.

x-posts there

if you run and gun and sprint around like a maddie you tend to die a lot

i did it exactly 1x in cod4, got waxed repeatedly, had to listen to much disgust and derision over the mic

no HUD at all?? crazy.

not even ammo/weapon shit?

I don't think so, no ammo readout anyway I think?

same scoring?

I think so, you don't get the constant flashing up of +100 etc. but the scores tally up roughly the same iirc

yep, you just seem to get fewer kills what with people being way more careful and that.

Grenades are a bitch though, especially when you're just running your tv's speakers.

i got my 50th HS with an assault rifle on Cozen :D

fucker ;)

are there only about 5 or 6 maps in this game?!

yeah there aren't many. No doubt a map pack with 3 or 4 maps in a couple of months costing 1200 points :rollseyes:

I think there's 17, but some are mode dependent. It does seem like in each mode you just see the same 5 or 6. A few of them seem very similar too (the city / skid row ones)

There's supposed to be at least two map packs coming.

in which case is it the same round?

and shouldn't different weapons firing the same bullet or shell ACTUALLY cause different damage depending on barrel length etc?

The game has to have some progression, it would be boring to have the same gun with a few accessories and that's it, but it's still amusing at how one out of a class happens to be SUPER BADASS.

"Invasion" feels like a modified COD4 map.

lol i am watching the credit sequence right now!

wait it's not a move set, it's a... museum? what?

hans zimmer!

"production babies?"

ah

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/564592

so what's the deal with care package - why is it so great to randomly give one of your teammates some ammo?

The care packages can be anything, all the way up to a nuke (apparently). They're also a good way to lure enemies into kills.

sucked really bad last night, couldn't get my eye in at all.

just played a pretty intense deathmatch game where for some reason it was just me vs like 4 other guys

The care packages can be anything, all the way up to a nuke (apparently). They're also a good way to lure enemies into kills.

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:56 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so it's in the hopes that you get a good killstrike thingy and the ammo is just the booby prize?

this lovely brit gamer is quite upset about this game

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/18/brit_gamer/

czn already posted that!

(i figured it was czn!)

(j/k!)

sucked really bad last night, couldn't get my eye in at all.

― problem chimp (Porkpie), Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:14 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

^ this is me right here. 1 on 12 the first time on the favela map, ragequit heyo

anybody else finding MW2's multiplayer a hell of a lot easier than COD4's? My kill-to-death ratio is inverted.

:(

I'm doing better, but still suck. I don't like camping, so I tend to run around and get shot a lot.

PS3 multiplayer has been terrible for a couple of days. Hard to connect with people and laggy.

i'm finding the multiplayer a lot harder than COD4, I have my good games, my alright games, and then my plain awful games (a lot more often than the good games). My kill to death ratio is inverted, but in a bad way, my ratio is about 0.91 if memory serves. I've played this for more than a day online already :|

Currently loving the throwing knives. Absolute garbage and deprives you of having an actually useful piece of equipment but killing someone with one while flashbanged was pretty awesome.

For me the multiplayer has been about the same. At first I thought the kill streaks went overboard, but now that I've learned about the easy counters, it seems like kill streaks are even less powerful than in 4. I can't believe they've even added in a counter to the UAV!

My k/d ratio has been hovering around 1.07

curiously mine is getting worse rather than better. Was 1.1 for a while when I'd only played about 5 hours :/

What do you mean by easy counters? As in ease in shooting down planes and such?

The easiest counter is equipping Cold-Blooded, which makes you "Undetectable by UAVs, air support, sentries and thermal," so basically the major kill streasks become useless against you. In fact, you can now walk right up to a sentry gun and one hit melee attack it out of existence. Air support is indeeed easy to shoot down, especially with the stinger (some take multiple shots), though in theory, with cold-blooded, it doesn't really matter since they aren't shooting at you (I guess it matters, if you feel like helping your team).

jim - 1.1 was my high too. I'm at around 17 hours! Tonight I climbed up to 1.08, but ended up dropping down to 1.06. It's a little frustrating because I don't feel like I'm getting any better, despite putting in so much time. I don't yet see much that I could be doing different to get better results either...

jeff, I'm sure you know, but you can shoot down UAVs too! I always make a point to

I've shot down a few. Got cold blooded pro unlocked tonight too - doesn't feel any diffferent though...

i got my 30 throwing knife kills! Have also got a payback with throwing knife, called "ATM"; throwing knife kill while blinded as mentioned above; and throwing knife kill as the round clinching killcam kill at the end of a round (altho that was slightly cheap as the dude was afk). Just need to get someone downed and then finish them off with a throwing knife to get to the point were i never need to use them again. Can't be any harder than the challenge in COD4 of killing with an fb, which I did by downing someone and twatting them on the coupon with one.

ggs

did you rage quit dan m?

haha no my router dropped the connection

I have a new mic now, tried an old cell phone headset and it works pretty well.

My ratio is a solid .5

just got a pretty obscure challenge: survive being hurt by an enemy and then backstab them

got that nifty ATM callsign too

coveting some dudes "my little pwny" callsign

I actually played well last night, being in the party definitely helped me a lot.

i have made the pun my little pwny before. Want that callsign.

the throwing knife is actually alright: insta-kill, comes out quick, and is replenishable

the challenges being called "carnie" is pretty racist tho, imagine if they were called "pikey"

yeah but it's hee haw use when you know an enemy is a wee way off and throwing an explosive over in that direction might get them but instead you have a god damn knife.

don't think carny has a racial connotation unlike pikey?

killed someone across half the map earlier w/the throwing knife

/blows on knuckles

yeah, ur probably right abt 'carnie'

pistols are the shit tho

carny means scary carnival-working dude surely?

like 'pikeys'

doesn't pikey have a different etymology? or is that entymology? which is the one that's about bugs?

This is pure racism. I am a "carnie" of 22 years. There is much history in show business. Carnies once had their own language "Kizzary" and had ties with gypsies. We are hated even above clowns. I'm sure their are a lot of bad "carnies" but it is just like any other occupation. You have your good, bad, and ugly. I am a senior in Safety Engineering. So that in itself blows your pitiful theory. So, get your facts straight, evolve into somebody worth expressing their opinion.

The closed mined Bed weter that wrote about carnies , Has no clue what so ever what being with it is all about , I am a Carnie and proud to to be , i have a masters In tv and radio, but would rather be with REAL people, Please dont voice your shit if you dont have a clue! You are probley som lazy green help that could not take carnie life , Im sory . I have been called a gypsy I say thank you I wish I was

anyway, carnie. done. too me as long to get the last 5 as the first 25, for some reason.

u need to prestige to get my li'l pwny apparently : /

covet the "<3", "owned.", "OG" and "end of the line" (this last one u need to get 5 nukes for) titles

how you get <3?

read in isolation that is a very sad post.

<3 = blow yourself + an enemy up with a holding grenade

ah right, that's an easy one, done that before by mistake.

u can get a cool little 8-bit 'soap' icon if u get a 10 kill streak w/out any streaks equipped

might try get tht one next

hmm, that sounds pretty sweet. Doubt i'd be able to get it without some difficulty since my streaks are heavily predator missile based :(

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/callofduty/images/8/8a/8-bit_price.jpg

Super Price Bros

add me to the 24 hour club :(

you played for 24 hours straight?

in a club?

i think i'm getting better at this? ratio is .6something

i am not enough of a marksman (or a camper) to make the FAMAS work, and funny i never see anyone else using it. running with the USP and the first launch tube was much more enjoyable

lol, spoilers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THU2H5_nadQ

:D

One of my profs asked me yesterday whether he should get this for his 12-year-old son, who likes Left 4 Dead and Halo, for Christmas. I described the airport scene. He turned a shade of green and gave me a look like I'd fallen forever in his estimation.

did he slap u

no, Western U

isn't there an option to bypass that scene? altho, i must admit i didn't notice the option and played right through it.

SPOILER ALERT

funny, i get the impression you don't have to actually do any of the killing [in the airport scene] but as soon as the scene started i let loose with no hesitation, all the while to myself "wow this is fucked up"

(oh yeah, i sold this already sorry. at least it's saved you all from an ass kickin!)

When they asked you at the store why you were selling it, did you say "I don't want to kick the asses of my internet friends"?

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Callsigns

the screengrabs at the bottom of this aren't...real, are they? insane.

(do not click if you don't want some fun ruined)

professor shd get his son brave fencer musashi for xmas imo

DMZed my PS3, multiplayer is way better now.

Do any of you worry about camo patterns? I barely have enough slots to work on items I need to level up on + have the right classes for certain styles without getting involved in camo patterns.

DMZed?

DMZ: This is a feature that is included on some routers but is not in Internet sharing software. A DMZ allows a single computer on your LAN to expose ALL of its ports to the Internet. When doing this, the exposed computer is no longer ‘behind’ the firewall.

--some website

u never heard that term s1ocki?

demilitarized zone

One of my profs asked me yesterday whether he should get this for his 12-year-old son, who likes Left 4 Dead and Halo, for Christmas. I described the airport scene. He turned a shade of green and gave me a look like I'd fallen forever in his estimation.

Did you ask him why he thinks it's fine to kill soldiers or alien life forms but not okay to kill people in an airport?

315275th most accurate player in the world.

your mother must be kvelling

why can't u carry a handgun as a primary weapon?

haha, you love the pistols too much, man.

I haven't played this for ages. Been too busy, and got stupid friends coming round to play pro evo tonight and plans tomorrow with the girl, and Sunday dinner at the parents on Sunday so total weekend of wasteage not playing MW2, damn!

isn't that DMZing like massively risky? or is ps3 sweet and super because of linux build?

I just want a magnum as my primary and a stinger as my secondary :(((((((

u so crazy!

okay geniuses tell me wtf is up with the SHIELD.

it's insane fun but i don't get the point? maybe it's not team deathmatch appropriate. maybe the no spawn modes? it gives you "distraction" xp if ur team picks off people shooting at you, but i couldn't tell if this was added to the team total.

but yeah walking into a crowd + turret = me lol'in

SHIELD I still don't get either

I do know you can run at someone who is shooting at you for a couple of yards with it and bonk them on the face which is funny

--

babysitting my li'l bro today - he is a total fkn crackshot, going to get him to farm xp for me

man is this the bro with the 24 kill streak? my bro is 28 and can't kill for shit let's trade.

2 days after it came out he got rrod too so he'll be champing at the bit to play, I'm just going to sit him in front of the box w/bread and water on tap

played extremely drunken spec ops with a good pal (who currently is in the shower trying to get himself ready for work at yon sky park) remembering how much of a belter gaming experience this game gives.

the words "last night" were meant to be in there but whatever.

suffered horrendous lag this morning which ended with me rage-quitting after getting killed repeatedly whilst inadvertently spinning in a corner like a loon.

Have had a week off the game as well and you can really get horribly rusty.

loving the ACR (so much so that I've unlocked its extended mags) and loving the tactical insertion (not having to run back to the fight in objective-based modes is a god send)

anyone else play demolition mode? it's like sabotage but better... and I already LOVE sabotage!

QUESTION

whats the diff between red dot sight and holographic sight??!

ANSWER

dunno

RESPONSE

well find out dude

I played a fair amount of demolition last night, enjoyed it a lot, gives a bit more purpose than team deathmatch too. Mind you I think I was the lowest ranked player (am only at 15 or so, most were at least 30 odd) and got rinsed rather often.

Am loving the M4 tbh, apart from the chronic muzzle climb. Pain in the arse to bling up anything new though - do we know which AR has the lowest recoil?

there are STATS out there, I'll try and hunt them down

I swear by the tactical insertion for objective based game types

yeah, guy I was on same team as last night had it perfectly set up to land him back at a perfect cover point on...... rundown iirc.

Always do best on terminal for some reason, and it seems to come up so rarely. Estate comes into it's own on demolition I think.

just got a 33 kill streak o_O

dude

that is pretty phenomenal, my best is a lacklustre 8.

some grouping research here: http://denkirson.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=417

unlocked eveything on the FAMAS, using it with the AA. i went back to the UMP and started to really suck again, tried the SCAR but it's just not the same. is it possible that i'm in love with the FAMAS??! how can this be??

i like domination a lot but it's hell on your kill ratio.

just annoyed I didn't have the nuke equipped : /

I reported my first offensive gamertag today - 'burn a spook420'

haven't seen many offensive gamertags but a lot of folk have the clan tag "BNP".

funniest interaction i've heard was three french guys (quebecois maybe) chattering away, and this pre-pubescent little bastard telling them TALK ENGLISH DO YOU KNOW ENGLISH thru the whole match. in the next lobby one of them says in a perfect sleazy frenchy man accent, "whaaat. do you want to suck my cock, leetle boy?"

Only four people on my firend's list are playing this - weirdly, three of us currently have the exact same 1.04 k/d ratio.

maybe it's a fight club situation and yr all the same dude

if they don't support this game w/title updates, playlist tweaks and map packs it's going to be a fucking travesty... cod4 was the biggest mp game of all last year, refused to drop in price and held the live top spot forever and it only got one map pack and a few new playlists and minor tweaks

I want matchmaking refinements, gun tweaks, new playlists, and new maps

--

is anyone going to prestige?

let u kno when i get there...

what do u mean by playlists? like, game types?

yeah, there were all these grand plans to introduce new gametypes (abt 6-8 iirc) to cod4 then they only introduced 2 I think... and still didn't even introduce them in cod6 : /

it's easiest enough for them to do, they don't even need to do a title update (which would require submitting to M$) I think they can just push it down the tubes

these ones never made it:

Multi-bomb Search and Destroy

Multi-bomb Search and Destroy starts every member of the attacking team with a bomb. So everyone has the opportunity to plant if they’re good enough.

Hardcore FFA

Even faster paced Free For Alls, where every bullet counts and playing smart is key for a solid k/d ratio. Standard Free for All rules, with Hardcore mode enabled for extra damage, no HUD, and no health re-gen.

udden Death Sabotage - Currently Testing

Sabotage with no respawns. Fast-paced and intense Sabotage. No more hiding with the bomb until time runs out for sudden death. Increased XP per kills to encourage Team Deathmatch mentality. Defend your objective, while attempting to secure the bomb and plant on theirs. Once you’re dead, you’re dead. No second chances. We’re currently testing to see if this can be implemented without a patch.

Second Chance Search and Destroy - Currently Testing

Search and Destroy with 1 respawn each. This completely revamps your Search and Destroy tactics. No longer will lucky frag or well-placed claymore end your chance of victory. Each player has 1 respawn, creating longer more thoughout attack / defend strategies. Eliminate enemy players, and cut off their reinforcements while you defuse.

huh interesting.

my guess is they didn't want to dilute the non-TDM player base any more. if they want ppl to play other stuff they could just halve the xp in TDM and double it elsewhere.

my brilliant idea wd be a "level segregated" TDM mode, kinda like the intro mode in cod5, only for the whole thing -- u only get matched with ppl in your level grade, w/in 10 say. after you prestige, yr out. i guess the x-treme noob-unfriendliness of this game is not a problem they need to worry about solving, given sales, heh

not to be a cynic, but, from a business perspective, this

cod4 was the biggest mp game of all last year, refused to drop in price and held the live top spot forever and it only got one map pack and a few new playlists and minor tweaks

makes perfect sense. don't spend resources to chase revenue you're getting like mad anyway!

it makes some sense but otoh creating map packs can't be all that resource intensive esp. when IW seem to like stealing modder's maps and when they can charge 800pts for 4 maps tht the community would have gobbled up it seems a bit silly that they only released one pack

yeah who knows. maybe the build-test-QA time on those maps is much longer than we think, and they didn't think they had the time to get them out while the iron was still hot? maybe they played it conservatively and didn't bank on cod4 having the longevity it did.

ah wtf do i know, of course i'd love more maps. seems like w all the titles etc they are expecting people do be into this for a looong time

i'd love a "spawnpoint domination" type game but as a B1943 fan i wd say that wdn't i

jim, how did u get ur FAL title?

so i finally got to 30 and got the stinger and... why is this better than the initial rocket launcher? it only has one "bullet" - do u get more as you complete tasks?

it has two bullets, the initial one only has one bullet

how do i get 2 bullets i want 2 bullets

just called in my first nuke ooh yeah

i know this game isnt remotely realistic but how do you nuke an area where you and your bros are hanging out w/o hurting yourself HOW HOW HOW!!!

Well, there's definitely going to be at least two map packs this time. I don't know the release schedule. Both will be exclusive to the 360 for a limited time (I don't know for how long, but I assume just a few weeks or a maybe a month?)

It does seem like the more I play the less maps I see. I wish if you stayed in a playlist it would cycle through all the maps, instead of semi-randomly(?) selecting each time. None of the maps are awful, but none really grab me either - they're all just okay. If I had to pick a favorite it would probably be Quarry. Maybe Favela...

Czn - did you have a nuke perk equipped or was it out of a crate? I've still never seen a nuke go off, though I've been in a few EMP blasts. I've recently switched to using the supply crate as my first perk - have got some great stuff that way (only once have I got stabbed in the back while opening my crate)... been wondering if it's possible to get a nuke that way and what the odds are...

S1ocki - The stinger has two shots by default. You lock on and shoot and then you lock on and shoot a second time, sort of like with a bolt action rifle where you aim, shoot, then reload before you can shoot again. Which means between shots you have to let go off the right trigger / R1.

jim, how did u get ur FAL title?

just unlock all the different stuff for the FAL, grenade launcher, shotgun, extended mags etc.

I had the nuke equipped - my loadout was 7 harrier, 11 chopper gunner, 25 nuke. the hard bit is getting the first seven. the harrier gets you to 11 pretty quickly and then the chopper gunner is OP and it just snowballs from there

I ended up 35-3

u get better titles for being nuked than u do for nuking :/

my v first attempt at hardcore i joined a game in progress, was in it for about 30 sec before someone nuked it. toxic title achieved!

I am a man more nuke'd against than nuking

My longest killstreak so far is 5 =\

I have some respectable-ish games where I have a couple kills over .500 but I just cant seem to pull off a good streak..

S1ocki - I meant to say let go of, then hold down L1 / left trigger to reload the stinger. Shameful that I still can't tell the difference between left & right :(

i'd lol if they just imported the cod4 maps. i'd lol and then play the shit out of them.

I've only got the chopper gunner once and it was shot down before I got three kills :(
It seems like I get a lot of kills with the Pave Low though.

I don't think it will be CoD4 maps, but I think we will see more re-purposed areas of the single player game brought over to multi

Jeff, you like Quarry??? You're crazy man. Seems like unless you're a sniper all you can do is camp out or run around blind corners waiting to get killed.

i love that map! just stay out of the middle.

least favorite: afghanistan.

I like the airport a bunch, and that one with the foxhole/tunnel thing is fun when the inevitable bottleneck comes. Is afghanistan the one with the toxic waste? That one can go fuck.

The thing about Quarry is it's pretty big (but not too big), has a lot of elevation changes and feels the most different from the old maps. It's got a lot of different areas where things can happen. I'm not crazy for it or anything though. Overall, I feel like the maps are just arenas for the extremely solid gameplay - none of the maps really do too much for me. I know they won't, but I'd love to see them release a couple of abstract maps, something in the vein of the orange couterstrike ones.

In regards to prestige, this time around I don't think I'll do it. It's just no fun going back to the early load-outs. I'd rather just play around with the different advanced stuff more. Had a bunch of fun yesterday just running around with the mini-uzi and the perks that let you constantly sprint and sprint faster. Felt like a totally different game. Of course I was getting killed a lot, but constantly moving that fast was pretty hilarious.

Also don't know if I have it in me to climb all the way up to level 70.

How do y'all feel about riot shield antics? I kind of enjoy running around absorbing damage but find that its pretty hard to get kills.

I've never tried it once! Every time I see a guy using it it's like he has a big "stab me" sandwich board on.

Ive seen a couple of good coordinated shield/shooter teams but cant seem to pull off the same with my friend. Usually its just a bunch of double kills.

I've also never tried the riot shield (but I will). The guys who are using it crack me up, especially if they're going solo. There's something very weird / cat & mouse about it. I like the way it changes things up, but if they aren't being supported it's too easy just to back away from 'em or flank 'em to shoot from the side or behind. There's very few places on the maps where just protecting your front is all you need. It's probably more useful defending some of the headquarters or something like that, but difficult in practice to be at the right place & time to be effective.

there is a funny moment when a shield guy shows up and everyone kind of freezes. even if ur not on the mike you can kind of hear everyone going oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. they're kind of scary to come up on, in a horror-movie kind of way, cos your muscle-memory gets shorted out. i am shooting!! he's not dying!! slapping semtex on them is hella satisfying tho.

wacking someone on the head with the shield is pretty satisfying

I covet the JUGS shield kill-streak emblem too

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/callofduty/images/8/8a/Juggernaut.jpg & http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/callofduty/images/2/23/Jugs.jpg

must admit I take special satisfaction in wasting people with bnp tag.

acog sight = sucks balls, only using it to get the thermal.

thermal is not much better

Acog is useful IMO
I'm definitely always getting killed by guys using it.

is it me or are there no night levels?

Is anyone else kind of surprised by all the weed references in the unlockable callsigns? I know I shouldn't be, but still.

prestiging this time at least gives you more custom classes, more titles/emblems and more challenges

I'm tempted to do it once but it's slow going now I'm up in the 60s

xp: there's a clever ("clever") beastie boys ref in one one of them

was in a demolition game last night and at least 5 others were prestiged from what I remember.

I don't know what it is about the acog that I don't get on with tbh, it feels...bulky

I noticed tht the acog on the SCAR has no sway; the sway is horrible with the acog on snipers

Anybody else going to pick up Call of Duty Classic this Wednesday?

Is anyone else kind of surprised by all the weed references in the unlockable callsigns? I know I shouldn't be, but still.

― everyone stop (dan m), Monday, November 30, 2009 3:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i am delighted

pretty funny tht in modern warfare the most powerful gun is a fkn 120 yr old shotty

has anyone else had the dissatisfaction of being raped over and over by someone dual wielding those? it'd be OK if it wasn't for their range, most shotguns only work close to mid and even then only at the closest edge of the mid range and it takes a few shots to kill. with the 1887s they can kill from close and all the way through the mid range to the edge of the long range almost and all in one hit

basically
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/725404532_HhdVE-L.jpg

sounds like this dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owu0YahHIDE

getting sick of american kids called me conezy too

lol

akimbo 1887s

;_;

game's a bit of a mess at the moment, tbf; needs some tweaking:

- javelin glitch
- afghan rock glitch
- akimbo 1887s
- infinite care package glitch
- care package grenade double-speed running
- horrible camping

- being unable to filter matchmaking by region; no offense but why wd I want to play against americans through lag

Marathon + Lightweight + Commando... drives me crazy that you're shooting a guy 15 feet away from you and he can still run all the way up to you and melee knife you to death

why is akimbo 1887s a glitch

what perks do u guys usually rock

s1ocki - 1887 isn't a glitch, but it's overpowered... watch the video shaane posted about ten posts up. In another day or two you won't see anybody using anything else

i use bling (fal with heartbeat monitor and ACOG), cold blooded, and ninja.

what is great about FAL

i've been using a silencer all the time but i'm starting to fear it's just killing my range.

yeah, the knife runners are apparently annoying but it's not such an issue on hardcore mode; I can see why the build u mentioned, jeff, coupled with a tactical knife would be killer in the normal modes

EPIC FAL

the FAL was the best rifle I had unlocked and that's why i use it. Although the M16 looks like it might be as good/better (similar stats but 3 shot burst instead of one shot, might help when aiming is somewhat astray).

game's a bit of a mess at the moment, tbf; needs some tweaking:

- javelin glitch
- afghan rock glitch
- akimbo 1887s
- infinite care package glitch
- care package grenade double-speed running
- horrible camping

― coz (webinar), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 3:45 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

can you splain everything but the double 1887s? assuming the last on is a joek...

- javelin glitch

equip the javelin as a secondary, semtex as ur equipment, and danger close as perk 2; once the game starts switch to the javelin and then hold RB to start yr semtex. while holding RB press Y and you'll put the semtex away and the javelin will come out. now when you die your javelin will go off and kill everyone in the vicinity. this is lethal on objective based modes

- afghan rock glitch

dunno how to do this but there is a rock you can get inside and you can see out but people can't see in, you can then kill with impunity; similar to going under the map in cod5

- infinite care package glitch

again dunno how to do this one but apparently u can spawn infinite care packages

- care package double-speed running

put the care package as a kill streak and marathon as perk 1, now when you get a four kill streak, don't call in ur care package, instead switch to the care package grenade and you can now run double the speed (faster than lightweight) and because u have marathon on ur sprint is infinite; this is devastating on capture the flag

forgot one: - cold-blooded pro glitch

equip cold blooded as ur perk 2 and go into a match. wait till someone releases one of the bigger kill streaks (pave low, chopper gunner, e.g.; i.e. the kill streaks tht don't disintegrate when shot down but spin round and round like the chopper in cod4) now when it has been called in shoot it down with a stinger or ur gun. as it spins to the ground start shooting it, every bullet tht connects counts as another successful take down. it's possible to upgrade ur cold blooded from 0 to pro in one match using this

they're all little things but they add up. the glitches are pretty obscure but don't underestimate the propensity for the xbl community to exploit them

imo the biggest problem is the akimbo 1887s; when you level up and start getting matchmade with level 67s you'll notice there's lots of them about and as jeff says I reckon will def be the goto gun in the next few weeks if their range isn't severely curtailed (a 1/3 of what it currently is would be reasonable; they currently go the length of the plane on terminal)

there's really nothing u can do against them inside a certain range

yeah those other ones sound like straight up bugs. how in the fuck anyone every found them is a little o_O to me, but so is a 25 killstreak so there u go

the akimbo 87s rrreally seems like something that shd have been caught in playtest

one think i like (off the subject kinda) is how the barrett 50 was like the holy grail weapon in cod4, in MW2 it's like, here have it. level 1. which is funny in a meta-game way but does make me question the realism of the game (i know, i know, realism), because those guns are utterly nuts irl

like, in cod4 i had a certain confidence that each weapon was designed, initially, to simulate real performance, and then they were all gamed and tweaked to balance each other out in one way or another. in MW2 i'm getting the feeling things are much more fictitious from the beginning. which shouldn't really matter, as a competition issue, but it does, because i like to complain.

pretty sure oswald used akimbo 1887s back in '63

I really hate only getting one claymore.

Also this annoys the shit out of me:

- being unable to filter matchmaking by region; no offense but why wd I want to play against americans through lag

Although tbh playing w/ dudes like coz is fun b/c they're not brainless idiots like most everyone else out there.

btw anyone playing on XBL my gamertag is fugexlac, add me & we can pwn 2gether

oh, that's you! you're good, damn

heh yeah, unemployment ftw

coz can we play tonight

was on live earlier and Coz wasn't on and hadn't been today.

I got the 1000 kills with the FAL, was going to keep it in my load out to try and get all the headshots to complete that too but decided not to, will go back later to do that I think. I'm getting slightly better. Played 5 or 6 games earlier and only had more deaths than kills once and had 2 really good games with 20 odd kills and 10 or less deaths.

haven't encountered the 1887s much to my knowledge but the javelin thing seems fairly prevalent.

stupid, random question: do any of you know what this '10 inch storjana' meme is all about?

nevermind, got it

lol whut

okay apparently in the game there are Russians who say something that sounds like '10 inch storjana' (or something like that). it came up on a thing I'm doing at work and my coworker and I were both ????? about it and needed to know whether it was some kind of sexual innuendo or not.

and...

yeah i'm on the edge of my seat here

cutty I am on xbox sorry pal ;_:

goddaamn u

I would like to thank the internet for educating all these wee fuckers about the Javelin cheat. Headquarters is almost unplayable until it gets fixed.

ah i do kinda heard 10 inch storjana.

My favourite is when the A-rabs (or OpFor or whatever they call them) say something that sounds like "jam sucka". You feel like you're playing alongside Zack De La Rocha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Bz64VwRWQ&NR=1

tango sucka!

gah kept getting javelin fragged in a couple matches last night... infuriating. is there any smart counter-measure?

Don't get within 50 feet of anybody else / don't play

I thought it's been patched out on PS3? 402 updated his twitter to tht effect

update hsnt been released yet

ah. 1.05 for matchmaking is out. 1.06 for javelin etc glitches is still in pipeline

wish this (or anything) was on mac

u cd play halo?

I think if you stab them they dont explode but Im not 100%

Seems like most of these dudes are playing headquarters. Domination seems ok.

oh yeh TANGO SUCKA.

My k/d is now 1.00. I'm even steven.

Really enjoying the M1A16.

ts: tango sucka vs bambi!

Im finding that hardcore more suits my pussified style of gameplay vs everything else. On certain maps I end up in the top 3 pretty frequently vs bottom feeding in the other modes.

So what did they patch on 1.6 besides the javelin? Did they tone down the COCK SUCK

haha! The COCK SUCK akimbo 1887s

DOG FUCK akimbo 1887s

question:

when you have someone in mid-range rushing you, do you a) look down the sights and take your chances b) hipfire c) switch to a secondary weapon d)try to beat him to the melee e)?????

i already told you!!!!

b

d) in a panic usually

I have sucked ass for the last few days, I don't know why. Still getting good bars but lag seems longer and it feels like I'm moving slower in the game.

Since 1.05, has the spawn system seemed weird to anyone? I feel like I'm spawning in between people shooting at each other (or having other people spawn in front of me) way more often.

single player post:

remember the opening scene of the brazil levels? i think i've figured out what it references:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s195/Liberator13/collateral.gif

wish this (or anything) was on mac

― crazy farting throwback jersey (gbx), Monday, December 7, 2009 2:50 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

I think there's an unofficial hacked port to the mac, or you could bite the bullet and bootcamp it (did this a few days ago)

I've still yet to see a nuke (despite playing an absurd amount of multiplayer, broke 5,000 kills). Not sure if I should be smiling about that or frowning...

*polishes nuke title*

i am getting this today, kill total inflation incoming

I've still yet to see a nuke (despite playing an absurd amount of multiplayer, broke 5,000 kills). Not sure if I should be smiling about that or frowning...

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:18 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bizarre, i've seen a couple...

I have been nuked, but never gotten one before. It's too hard to give up the AC130 imo.

Sure enough - first game I play after the above post, somebody finally dropped a nuke. It dind't feel like it was legit though - probably boosters?

Nuke is the EMP effect?

this game is not good for old people, there is so much noise and i can't see anyone and then i am dead :((((

Nuke is the EMP effect?

― smashing aspirant (milo z), Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no that's emp

my Dad bought a CoD game and spent an entire Sunday creeping up on one German. he told me he gave up b/c the game takes too long. I think this is what happens when you haven't played Doom/Quake and aren't used to feeding people your shotgun to the face.
― bnw, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:41 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bnw u have turned into ur dad!

I've been nuked twice, but I was in matches at the time with mid-level guys-- I suspect they dropped in CARE packages-- is that even possible?

I don't see why anyone would sacrifice the third slot in your killstreaks for something you have barely any hope of hitting unless you're a camper asshole or a cozen-like lunatic

brave fencer cozeny

Could someone explain to me what the point of the FAL is? It seems to have the exact same stats as the SCAR but it doesn't have full auto. Who needs that?

i expect on the HC modes with a scope it's a good sniper weapon

it's pretty good in hardcore where it is a one hit kill. no recoil either

SCAR has a really low clip size and hardly any ammo either; I prefer the ACR. it does less damage than SCAR but if u use FMJ w/it tht increases the damage and bullet penetration and it doesn't have a gimped clip

I don't get these guns that are only any good if you use FMJ. How the hell are you supposed to get 300 kills in the first place?

i like the no recoil on the fal

how do you get to carnegie hall, antexit

http://grab.by/18co

Thanks Slock1 and THANKS FOR NOTHING goole

FAL is good irregardless of FMJ, FMJ just makes it better

i like the m16, very similar to fal but with 3 shot burst, which makes it maybe slightly worse from long range but a lot better for hipfiring when you're close to medium.

what is the best noob class?

http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/explore_and_learn/elst_carnegieKids.html

M16 w/noob tube, thumper & grenades
scavenger
danger close
commando

just run around blowing shit up w/out prejudice

or: riot shield on yr back, pistol w/tactical knife, marathon/lightweight/commando then just run abt knifing cunts from half the map away

anyone who has unlocked tactical knife, M16 and danger close is not a noob

yeah true; tho only tac knife of those is actually difficult to unlock, the others just take time

what's the noob tube

It's a real shame this game doesn't have a Halo 3 like match replay feature, so you could see what people were doing in some of those crazy matches (like last night when somebody on my team went something like 45-3).

After experimenting with a bunch of different load outs, I've gone back to maining the SCAR with FMJ attached + stopping power and have been getting pretty good results... it's a VERY powerful combination. Seems like I'm winning 9 out of 10 head to head gunfights if we both come across each other at the same time. I can only get 4-5 kills though before running out of ammo and having to pick up somebody else's gun, or switch to my shotgun. The SCAR is super powerful up close and medium range and can even be fairly good at long range (almost sniper gun effective).

huh

noob tube
http://www.cod4central.com/images/cod4weapons/cod4noob.jpg

grenade launcher?

whats thumper

thumper
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/callofduty/images/b/b2/Mw2_Thumper.jpg

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Thumper

i'm kind of in love with it right now! half-heartedly trying to unlock the FMJ challenge with the UMP, but most of my kills (such as they are) are with this thing.

xp

what's the noob tube

ahaha this works on so many levels

Best class/game to surpass noobdom is, imo, free for all. You learn the maps, you learn to kill anyone in front of you. Take the RPD, use it with the grip as soon as you unlock it. Best gun in the game if you ask me. Take the PP2000 as a sidearm. If you feel like you can't kill dudes fast enough, use stopping power. Use marathon to start with. Steady aim is another good one because you're going to be firing w/o aiming a lot, probably.

The matchmaking in this has become all kinds of broken. I keep getting dumped into big team games when selected regular matches, and even free-for-all seems to be filling up with 18 people sometimes for no reason. Yesterday I got dumped into the middle of an 18 person free-for-all on Rust, which was the stupidest thing I've ever seen - you would spawn sometimes right on top of two other players! I was also somehow in a game of Domination that glitched out so there was no score cap - the match went on for like fifteen minutes until there was so many kills and points for it to keep track of the game ran out of memory and crashed. These big team games are just complete garbage / chaos though - I don't want to play them :(

I got this and started playing the single player - what I don't understand is who is 'Sgt. Follow' and why is he always on my team

new infinite ammo glitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAuohk1VAew

Update in Test now: 1887s Balanced. Public "private" Match fix. Infinite Ammo fix. Prestige Hack on PS3 fix. Texture Hack on PC fix. about 3 hours ago from web

http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo

balanced for normal or HC TDM or both?

i've only seen RUST once... is that weird

I think its mostly a free for all map.

and it's way too small even for FFA! It's like eight paintball nerds shooting each other in someone's backyard

people who use the 1887s can suck a big hairy shlong iirc

Every once in a while I will hear the lamentations of my enemies' women on Rust, but most of the time I think it sucks ass. I don't know how anyone manages to get kill streaks on that - I'll win or hit top 3, but it's at two or three kills in a go, never six or seven.

slocki i found your fb page http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=1887&init=quick#/group.php?gid=232099506082&ref=search&sid=645300326.2953715010..1

ha coz already found it

K4leb C0ulter December 19 at 5:55pm Reply
Hey, I want you guys to send me a message of times that the Models have screwed you over, whether it be a killstreak block or a camping sniper that you know can't snipe. Message me back and I'll put the best ones on the group page. You can also post them on the pages yourselves.

memories...

lol

Chr1s Br0wn joined the group Petition To Get Rid Of The Model 1887 Shotguns From Modern Warfare 2.

Luc R3b joined the group Petition To Get Rid Of The Model 1887 Shotguns From Modern Warfare 2.

what? seemed like the go-getting sort of movement I could get behind in these troubled times.....

I'd like to see everyone from this board join that page (which other than us seems to have about a dozen members of the same midwestern high school)

i played with s1ocki last night. we were at the bottom of the results :(

people who use the 1887s can suck a big hairy shlong iirc

― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Friday, December 18, 2009 2:02 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this is pretty gay, pls to patch in xbox

i played with s1ocki last night. we were at the bottom of the results :(

― crazy shituations (cutty), Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we were playing against some SERIOUS gangsters in that match tho. we should play again.

yeah for sure! wish you head a headset you funny jew

i actually do it was just uncharged. but now it's charged so

What did 1.07 patch?

solution to 1887s = be a camping asshole

either that or get better at the game, n00b

you guys all use custom classes or what? what's the best? i'm so bad at this.

customize bro

build a class that works 4 u

what works for you, handsome?

The RPD class for free-for-all leveling-up that I outlined above is one of the best ones I've put together. I change my custom classes a lot but I basically always have one for camping/sniping, one all-around with a rifle I'm comfortable with, one with a stinger or javelin launcher for shooting down aircraft, and two others that I mess around with. Since I primarily play hardcore and/or a sneaky kind of style I almost always have cold blooded and ninja for perks. Lately I've been trying to get "pro" on some of the other perks so I've been using marathon and scavenger.

Basically slocki is right, you need to just try new stuff when you unlock it and see what you like best. I happen to like being a sniping dickhead a lot of the time.

i like using a good assault rifle (currently m16) or SMG (p90) with a red dot sight. if it's deathmatch or FFA map i try to use perks that hide me, like cold-blooded, scrambler or ninja, and i use silencers. otherwise i'll be a little more boombastic. stopping power is good when you're getting used to aiming and stuff. marathon and the fast reload one are also both super handy.

for secondary weapons i like a good shotgun, like the AA or akimbo rangers or this new buddy i just unlocked.

fav rifle: m4a1
fav smg: vector
fav sniper: w1200
fav lmg: RPD
fav machine pistol: pp2000
fav shotgun: akimbo rangers
fav pistol: lol useless imo
fav launcher: javelin or thumper (but haven't unlocked rpg-7 yet)

wait, w1200 is not a sniper, whatever that weird brown one is is the one I was thinking of

whats the diff b/w diff snipers, i never use them

why is the rpg last to unlock anyway, it seems like one of hte worst...

i have no idea how any of the air strike stuff works. do you have to unlock that stuff?

monica seles class ftw:
riot shield (on back)
magnum w/tactical knife
marathon
lightweight
commando

just run abt the whole time stabbing fuckers

whats the diff b/w diff snipers, i never use them

They're all pretty equal, power-wise, but the EBR seems like the weakest. Intervention is single-shot, the others are semi auto. W2000 (the one I couldn't remember above) is my fav because it has low recoil. They all suck really bad with acog instead of the normal sights.

using shotguns on stabby dudes w/ classes like cozwn posted is a lot of fun too imo

monica seles class ftw:
riot shield (on back)
magnum w/tactical knife
marathon
lightweight
commando

just run abt the whole time stabbing fuckers

― cozwn, Monday, December 21, 2009 5:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i was working a class like this but i got so pwned

how do you get tactical knife?

cozen what are your thoughts on the m9?

tht's the handgun right? so good; w/a steady hand and a good eye you can basically snipe ppl across the map

I'm a fkn handgun sociopath tho :/

tactical knife is 150 kills w/the pistol

cutty - how much have you played? I think one of the keys to getting better at the game is just to play it a lot & to try not to get frustrated or over emotional. The more you play the more you naturally should be picking up the maps and match-up tactics. Reflexes are pretty important, so it's probably not really a game to play when drunk or stoned. Like others have said, experimenting and finding load outs that work for you is good - pretty much everything can be made to work, but you have to think about match ups to some extent. Maybe watch some videos of guys racking up killstreaks on youtube, just so you can see how they're playing and see if you can incorporate some of those ideas into your style. Try to be aware of your surroundings and be anticipating where people are going to be... a lot of times people camp or end up in the same places - throwing a grenade ahead of you where you think somebody might be is a good way to pick up an few extra kills, also stun grenades are good as there is a reaction when you've hit somebody with one on a guess. Sound can also be a good clue, as you can hear where people are firing from or even walking near you and try to react accordingly.

Try to be aware of your surroundings and be anticipating where people are going to be... a lot of times people camp or end up in the same places

this is the single biggest thing, learning the maps and especially the long distance shooting lanes

so it's probably not really a game to play when drunk or stoned

ah, i see

ya the great thing about this and the previous one was that they're insanely frustrating at first but have this enormously satisfying learning curve where you just start to intuit where people are going to be and what their strategies are.

it's actually why i stopped playing deathmatches in favour of the other games, i like the tactics and strategizing involved with capturing a piece of land or trying to hold it. it's more interesting than just running around trying to kill anyone you run into.

you playing tonight?

just a coupla cool guys playin some modern warfare

get a ps3 dood

i most totally likely will be :/

so it's probably not really a game to play when drunk or stoned

beg to differ

I'd promised myself not to play anymore until they got the 360 patch up and running, but I went back to this for an hour or two tonight, and I don't know... we'll see what it's like after the patch, but right now, I just don't feel like it's nearly as good of a multiplayer game as CoD 4 or maybe even World at War. Not just talking about all the glitching (one game I was in was at three times normal speed! and I had to quit out of the game to get rid of it), but, especially after playing a lot of CoD 4 over the last week, this game just doesn't feel balanced. When I'm playing 4, I feel like I can be competitive with just about every kind of gun, and it's fun to try them all out. Here they've put in so much stuff, but.... too many times, you die and it's just completely frustrating, because there was just nothing you could have done - you had no chance. I mean, I can still do okay, but I've pretty much made up my mind, it's just not fun the way CoD 4 is / was.

so basically xmas is ruined

I will probably never play this game ever, but... it does strike me as weird, won't you have a sizable class of people how have put in ungodly hours - regardless of skill - who get tangible benefits that help them crush players all the more? (Like a P2P MMO) Or is the playerbase just simply large enough so that this isn't an issue? Obviously ther will always be an elite class of players, but by feeding the compulsive it seems that the difference will be accelerated. Not to get overly Sirliny...

oops, P2P should be PvP

ya well it's not like the guns scale better and better. plus the really good ppl "prestige" which brings them back to basics.