Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II

[Muttley]

the fanatic rush most players have to the nearest or last sighted red dot.

OMG! Up until now I'd been so busy concentrating on trying to spot the enemy before they spotted me I'd never even seen the red dots on the scanner.

[RiK]

Just finished SP on hardened, managed to grind my way to finding all the intel too. A few of them were pure fluke though (like the one near burger town for instance) and I don't think I'd have spotted them otherwise.

Still says I've only completed 90% of the campaign though so I guess it expects me to do veteran too?

[Ratsoap]

I don't think I'm ever going to bother trying Veteran. No Fighting in the War Room was one of the most frustrating experiences ever (after Blowtorch and Corkscrew on WaW). I just don't have the patience for it.

Unlocked the 'Ranger' in MP last night, which is a sawn-off shot gun, and more importantly, unlocked Ninja Pro, which is the equivlent of Dead Silence. Stabby Stabby!

[louiecat]

tried my hand at sniping yestrday on Estate (which I have renamed "The Norman" due to the house that reminds me of Psycho.
I found it very frustrating but when I did get 2 one shot kills it was rather satisfying. I was playing the role on Domination which helped, but still I don't see how one can get good enough to get 10 plus kills in a match using these weapons: everyone is movig around so fast!

That said, I had a session of TD on Wasteland and was repeatedly killed by a Gilly boy who simply crept around popping peebs on the move with his rifle - how?? the hip reticule is crap on the sniping weapons.

With regard to Wasteland though - I had a great moment there this week when using the radar to identify nearby enemy and simply made sure my arrow on the radar was pointing at them, lay down in the grass and opened up my lovely L86. "Double Kill!" came up on the screen.....ahhhh, that radar can be very useful on the right terrain....

Unlocked the heartbeat monitor and put it on my Famas....can't say it has made much difference in my performance, but has made me feel a bit more confident moving around!

[Ratsoap]

ACOG sights on the snipers can help with fast moving punters. I've tended to avoid the heartbeat sensors for deathmatches as I tend to keep looking at them, rather that what's actually happening. This leads to getting kilt a whole lot.

Really liking being able to take out killstreak rewards. You can even use other killstreak rewards to do it. My harrier took out a pave low with an air-to-air missile the other day. And rather stupidly, I took out my own pave low with an AC-130.

[Terrypantsman]

I don't think I'm ever going to bother trying Veteran. No Fighting in the War Room was one of the most frustrating experiences ever

Amen to that.

unlocked Ninja Pro, which is the equivlent of Dead Silence. Stabby Stabby!

Ninja is now a compulsory perk for me, bloody gits with motion sensors etc.

but still I don't see how one can get good enough to get 10 plus kills in a match using these weapons: everyone is moving around so fast!

once you know the maps you will find out the bottle necks, with the right position and players that leap before they look It should be like fish in a barrel. If you don't move from cover to cover in this game you get spanked even more so than 4 I reckon.

oh and I hate Estate at the moment, still figuring out the best style of play for this map as well as learning such a detailed map the fact that gilly suits make you almost invisible is the reason I see nearly everyone with motion sensors on this map at the mo.

Unlocked the 'Ranger' in MP last night, which is a sawn-off shot gun,

is that as funny as the double barrel 12 bore in WAW, the noise and splat action of that was aces

unlocked extra mags for M4 last night hardly worth it, might as well stick to Scavanger perk. I think extra mags and the shotgun attachments seem the most useless to me at the mo.

Really liking being able to take out killstreak rewards. You can even use other killstreak rewards to do it. My harrier took out a pave low with an air-to-air missile the other day. And rather stupidly, I took out my own pave low with an AC-130.

Thats good to know didn't realise harrier took out a chopper

[turk182]

Theres still to many boring little gits sitting around sniper picking people off on deathmatch modes , which really makes it annoying. Although it is satisfying to get a revenge kill now with extra XP.lol

[Ratsoap]

Yeah, raining death from above on campers is one of the highlights of the whole experience.

[louiecat]

can you put a silencer on the Ranger?

[Bod]

I don't think I'm ever going to bother trying Veteran. No Fighting in the War Room was one of the most frustrating experiences ever

Amen to that.

Veteran is a lot easier on MOD II than it was on the original. There are only a couple of levels which require a bit of swearing.
I managed a run through on veteran in about 7 hours.

[turk182]

I'm sure I read that they actually remove auto generated spawn points for finite body count even on these difficulties.

[The Captain]

Having battled my way through COD4 on Veteran without enjoying it that much, I can confirm that MW2 is a lot more balanced in this regard. You'll still lose your hair but there isn't endless spawning any more.

[louiecat]

I have absolutely no intention or desire to play this on anything but Regular. The thing I have loved about both MWs is the sheer entertainment value - the sense of reality wrapped up in hyper reailty where the guns feel great and you really feel each headshot - its easy but also challenging, a game that -as all good games should be - is not about a massive skill level or endless degrees of patience, but is about immersion, action and JOY!!

[ESY]

It felt like everything clicked last night in multiplayer. Oh my! I took on some of the good advice on this thread (basically, don't run and gun or you will get your ass handed to you). I took a supporting position and gave covering fire when I could and before I knew it I was deploying a predator
This is really something special but I guess anyone reading this thread already knew that!

[louiecat]

apologies for not making it in the end tonight - hope someone else could host and you had a fine time blasting !