Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II

[The ghost of raids past]

Finished off all the Spec Ops missions yesterday. 69 stars are mine, some of the Echo missions are insane. The only allowed kill juggernauts with explosives one is impossible I think unless you exploit the AI.

After 1 hour of tries finally nailed Pit boss too so 1000/1000 and the joys of multiplayer left to go. I must say I much preferred Veteran on MW2. The finite spawns make it a much more tactical game than rush forward to supress an infinite spawn point and keep going till you hit a checkpoint of Cod 4

[BrianTheNaughtyBoy]

Bloody loving this. Couple of questions:

1. Silenced snipers - does this change the stats of the weapon (e.g. reduced range). It doesn't seem to on the weapon select, but I swear it's less powerful with silencer on.

2. Do you only get 1 claymore? If so, does a challenge unlock more?

Things I've noticed - Many of the maps are huge and on these there's greater opportunity for flanking. I'm finding marathon pretty useful with a silenced weapon. What's "tactical knife"? Some guy was stabbing the hell out of people with it in a game - looks great!

Finding it difficult to get above a 5 or 6 killstreak - probably just need to learn the maps more. I love the balance of the killstreak rewards. Sentry gun or predator at 5 kills is genius. Sentry gun is high risk to collect, but with good placement can get 5 or 6 kills before destroyed. Predator is quick and easier to maintain the streak but only likely to get 1 or 2 kills. Genius. I've got an unlock coming up - what shall I go for? Counter UAV seems sensible but a little boring. Might go for Pave Low.

[louiecat]

Pave low baby. all the way.

getting a 5 kill is not too difficult once you know where to be and hwta weapons work best. Hell, if I can do it anyone can...

[chris_b]

I've got an unlock coming up - what shall I go for? Counter UAV seems sensible but a little boring. Might go for Pave Low.

You can swap them around whenever you want, so you're not commited to one or the other.

That said, I'd agree with louiecat and go with Pave Low seeing as you can just shoot down the enemy's UAV.

[Portland]

That's single player sorted. May have a bash online or try a couple of special ops first.

[chris_b]

You can swap them around whenever you want, so you're not commited to one or the other.

Silly me...obviously I was thinking about how you can re-assign ones you've already unlocked.

(For some reason I can't edit out my foolishness from my previous post )

[benedictw]

It looks like the pavelow is less vunerable to stingers than attack helicopters. Last night I bagged a couple of attack helix with a single stinger each but I couldn't down a pave low cos of the flares.

[Ratsoap]

I think if you use cold blooded as a perk you can nobble the pave lows.

[chris_b]

Just witnessed my first tactical nuke! (But it was deployed by a player named "cheater" who had racked up 33 kills in a 9v9 game when everyone else had four kills or less )

[The Captain]

I really don't honestly understand why people cheat like that, and openly too. Like winning a marathon, but on a motorbike. Pointless.

[chris_b]

It's just another form of trolling I suppose.

[Portland]

It is tedious when you get hackers on, but I don't take it too seriously so not a prob for me.

I did get my first RAGEQUIT on Sunday, I happened to one hit kill the same guy twice within a couple of minutes while he was lurking (very still) in one of the fragile huts. Shockingly plywood doesn't do much to stop a Browning .50 (especially with stopping power up) and as he was just prone laying down LMG fire, he was a shining beacon on hte scanner. I felt I was required to educate him on the the importance of cover as opposed to concealment. Torrent of abuse from an angry American teenager, much of it about being a f*cking backwoods pelt wearing moosefucker (guess he didn't realise my name had nothing to do with location) and then quit. Someone was even laughing at the beginning of the next round when they saw my dreadful kills to deaths ratio and said they'd chance staying on, as I must be the worst hacker ever.

It's nice to know that I may be crap and playing on a lappy as opposed to a dedicated rig, but there are still people worse than me.

Oh yes, and a near miss with the .50 on someone edging round the balcony on highrise led to a twitch evasion and an Assisted Suicide bonus

[betamax]

I'm loaning this off of someone tomorrow to check out the single player. I must not get involved in multiplyer. I must not get involved in multiplyer. I must not get involved in multiplyer....

I'm awful when I start one of these MP FPS treadmills.

[benedictw]

I'm loving this (still). Just levelled up the AUG HBAR - really nice LMG but with a fast reload time. Downside is not a huge magazine - and few bullets - but that whats Scavenger is for.

[Flabio]

On the smaller maps, or those where there isn't much open ground, I'm loving the P90. It just makes such a cool noise as it chews through the ammo