Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II

[Flabio]

Was playing earlier and one guy ended the match twice in a row with the nuke. Everyone bailed out of the lobby after that.

[Portland]

Steam just popped something down - has the much vaunted shottie patch appeared?

[BrianTheNaughtyBoy]

Great to see infinity ward patching the range of the shotguns (1887s). I was a bit worried that they'd take the "we designed it this way so it must be right" approach. It is/was clearly too powerful for a secondary weapon. I hope they fix some other bugs - there seems to be a problem with killstreaks, with a bug in counting up the number of kills on occassion. Very annoying when you've finally got up to double figures and don't get your reward.

Finally got a game winning kill with an AC-130 yesterday and at the same time got the 5:1 challenge. Playing almost exclusively with silenced weapons still. ACR with ACOG and silencer + stopping power (for maps requiring longer range kills), or SCAR with silencer + scavenger and hardline (for closer sneaky maps). The ACR is a beast despite it's low damage. I've only just realised the importance of accuracy on the assualts. It's obvious really, but if you don't land the shots on the target, all the power in the world counts for nothing.

Still loving it despite the bugs.

[benedictw]

Yeah I switched back to the AUG HBAR from the M240 for the same reasons. I'll trade the larger clip and faster ROF for something that reloads faster with heavier damage.

[BrianTheNaughtyBoy]

Yes, my other main class is AUG HBAR with grip and red dot, bling, stopping power and steady aim. That's mainly for maps where it's death city, so silencer seems fairly pointless (i.e., highrise, scrapyard, terminal).

[Muttley]

I must be improving a bit. Managed to complete the first two single-player missions on veteran difficulty last night.

[Anders]

Playing the PC version and I've not had too much trouble with cheaters, although I've had a couple of abusive usually racist idiots on voice, but they're easily muted.

There seems to be a load of players who accuse anyone better than them that they are cheating. No, you didn't kill me because you can't aim for shit, not because I'm cheating.

And, I really don't get why people moan about campers - the game gives you a kill-cam, a map and grenades - if you keep getting killed by a guy crouched in a corner, then really you should just give up.

It's always been like that, though. Some people are quick to accuse others of cheating and I guess they're even more paranoid now, when there really is a lot of cheaters around. The camping thing I don't get either. I get accused of camping in Domination where you're supposed to defend the points you capture.

[Ratsoap]

Bottom line is a lot of people don't like losing, so will accuse you of anything if it makes them feel better about getting whooped.

[benedictw]

I had a guy on last night, on hardcore - rank 13, first time round - and he was a serious teamkiller and suicider. He appeared to do this on a even-odd game basis (possibly to avoid an automatic boot). I watched him during the deathcam and he was triggering explosives and dieing and later on, shooting the rocket launcher at his feet and dying. He meleed me at least 3 times (in one game!). Serious suicide fetishisht or what? Somehow our team kept winning - even with his -300 or -400 points tagged on.

[Terrypantsman]

I managed to get about 9 kills last night as part of my winning score of 26 while chatting to me bro.

Combination of scavenger pro and claymore, sniper camping in the blue building on Underpass, had about 3 claymores planted at one point.

They just kept on running straight through the door and "BAM" up the stairs 'BAM' I kept on putting down claymores in the similar places and they just kept on comming 'BAM' nine kills in a row, While talking about my Niece. No fucker even attempted to put a grenade through the window or proceed with caution and I had about 3 claymores planted at one point.

Christ does this make me a cheating camping cunt

[benedictw]

Claymores are my teh secret weapon at the moment. Your big danger is someone who knows that they are there or takes the time to look round corners. Which is why most of mine are inside the door pointing across rather than pointing out of a door.

Weirdly, I've stopped using bling pro and a red dot sight. I'm going for scavenger pro (hence the claymores...) and the heartbeat monitor. I'm really surprised I'm still hearing people running around - is there any perk 3 perks worth having apart from Ninja pro?

[Flabio]

For perk 3, if I'm playing you I'll be picking the one that delays claymore detonation (you get a nice satisfying 'click' then about a second to react before it goes off)

I still pretty much run everywhere, but thats mainly cause I seem to mostly play Domination which often needs it.

[Ratsoap]

Claymores are my teh secret weapon at the moment. Your big danger is someone who knows that they are there or takes the time to look round corners. Which is why most of mine are inside the door pointing across rather than pointing out of a door.

Weirdly, I've stopped using bling pro and a red dot sight. I'm going for scavenger pro (hence the claymores...) and the heartbeat monitor. I'm really surprised I'm still hearing people running around - is there any perk 3 perks worth having apart from Ninja pro?

Depends a lot on your play style really. I always tend to use ninja. Steady aim is good when combined with lightweight and a SMG/Shotgun combo, you can play like Unreal Tournament then. Scrambler sucks balls for FFA and TDM, but is probably useful in other game modes. Commando is essentially MW2's answer to the bayonet in WaW.

Patch for the 1887 this morning apparently, so there should be some comedy to be had today. I just wish they could patch out 'NE1 WANNA BOOST 4 A NUKE IN F4A'. Cunts.

[Flabio]

All Scrambler seems to do is tip people off that you're nearby because their map display starts to blur out.

[RiK]

It's always been like that, though. Some people are quick to accuse others of cheating

I had to chuckle the other night as some kiddie that sounded about 9 was screaming at me and calling me a 'fucking noob faggot' every time I killed him in FFA. I think maybe someone needs to educate him on terminology a bit because at the time I had a 26:4 K/D and he was on 1 for 20...