COD6 MW2 thread of inferior Clancy SP, sweet SpecOps and energy swords MP

[drew]

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So, I wonder if the console versions also have hidden game modes.

just gonna go ahead and quote this again for good measure

[Beezy]

Marathon, Lightweight, Commando and any random submachine gun with rapid fire is the most fun class to use when playing Domination. The gun doesn't even matter much because you'll hardly feel the need to use it. Whenever I wasn't sprinting around capturing bases, I was sprinting up to people and knifing them in the face. I got like 20 kills like this on Favela.

[Himu]

one more week and get to play this via multi

[brawndolicious]

Marathon, Lightweight, Commando.

That's a good combo. I did that for ctf and got them up to pro within a few days, the pro of commando apparently lets you take no damage when you fall.

[Beezy]

Yeah, I'm gonna try to get all 3 of the to pro with this setup. I've never used any of them before today.

[Himu]

anyone mind telling me what mw2's class system is like?

[duckman2000]

Marathon, Lightweight, Commando.

That's a good combo. I did that for ctf and got them up to pro within a few days, the pro of commando apparently lets you take no damage when you fall.

Effective, and lame as hell. Anyone who uses this, at least in TDM, is a major lame-o. The bunny hopper of MW2.

[Beezy]

It's just for fun, Debbie Downer. Anyone who gets killed by this repeatedly sucks or they're a dirty camper who deserves to get stabbed in the back.

[cool breeze]

anyone mind telling me what mw2's class system is like?

there isn't one

you pick a main gun (assault, machine, or sniper rifle), side arm (pistol, shotgun, smg, anti-air), attack equipment (grenade, sticky grenade, throwing knife), special grenade (stun, blind, smoke) and a set of modifiers called Perks.  Examples of perks are infinite run, faster reload, and not showing up on radar.  Things get upgraded as you use them.  So, kill enemies using the scope view a lot, and you'll unlock a new scope to customize your gun with.   

[CajoleJuice]

Marathon, Lightweight, Commando.

That's a good combo. I did that for ctf and got them up to pro within a few days, the pro of commando apparently lets you take no damage when you fall.

Effective, and lame as hell. Anyone who uses this, at least in TDM, is a major lame-o. The bunny hopper of MW2.

Can't wait to use this to piss off people like you.

[duckman2000]

Can't wait to use this to piss off people like you.

It's not a big issue (especially not if you have a proper stealth and detection class), it's just fucking lame. Halo style lame. 

[duckman2000]

Chief lametards digging critically lame shit, big surprise there.

[CajoleJuice]

Can't wait to use the AC130 that I got from a care package for a 4 kill streak.

[Ganhyun]

ugh. played tonight and seriously, we thought the other team was bad the other night when the bore squad played, this was worse. The entire room camped the whole match on scrapyard. Literaly, the whole other team went full camp with claymores, snipers, silenced guns, and camped the back. Then to make matters worse half of the team I was on were snipers sitting in the other building on the opposite side of the map. so basically, myself and 2 others try to take out the campers..... not too much fun really. But apparently the other team was a group of friends and did that on every map, thinking it hilarious. I shoulda known better, but they did that shit on 3 straight maps. Camp of Duty indeed. They were also good at the camping and had alot of communication. Could never take out more than 1 or 2 before a splooge of grenades and such hit me.

[duckman2000]

Still sounds better than games filled with monkey-armed hoverskaters with infinite energy swords.

Might get rid of Scrambler but not sure yet, would have to get silencers then 

I find that scrambler mostly works to the detriment of the user anyway.

[GilloD]

This IWNet stuff really isn't cutting. I didn't have too much trouble earlier, but I left it on "Finding a Match..." for 45 minutes and didn't get a single bite. In countries where CoD is less than a RELIGION, this sucks. Asia is big on dedicated servers. Fuuuu. I finally got a match that was hilariously laggy. The kill cams were like dispatches from some alternate dimension. And it kept giving me Challenges I didn't complete. It was like "AWESOME 10 PRONE KILLS WTG" when I didn't even crouch, let alon lay prone.

[GilloD]

You thought you could move to Korea and there wouldn't be any consequences? 

I don't have a problem with any other game I own. Just CoD2. There are tons of dedicated servers in Japan and Korea for every other title. Or I can just scan a server list and find something wit suitable ping. And earlier today there was no issue, but tonight I literally couldn't play.

[CajoleJuice]

Ninja >>>>>>> Scrambler

[demi]

Not much tips really. Just run through, using only 1 or 2 bullets per sign and dont miss

[MCD]

God damn, I cannot get the trophy for The Pit.  How do you run this thing in under 30 seconds?  The closest I've got is like 32.5.

just did it in 28 sec.

pick handguns only and try not to miss, wasting 2 or 3 bullets is ok as long as you don't shoot civilians and be as fast as you can (SWITCH TO YOUR OTHER WEAPONS FASTER THAN RELODAN!). and when shooting try not to stand still, move slowly as you shoot.

and you can try using your knife at the last 1 or 2 enemy signs.

[MCD]

SPECOPS

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

[ManaByte]

Still sounds better than games filled with monkey-armed hoverskaters with infinite energy swords.

Might get rid of Scrambler but not sure yet, would have to get silencers then 

I find that scrambler mostly works to the detriment of the user anyway.

Exactly. Nothing tips someone off to your location more than their radar getting scrambled.

[CajoleJuice]

Just witnessed my first nuke. It was a guy on my team. So awesome.

[The Fake Shemp]

Way to not play with us, you anti-social jerk.

I rocked tonight, per usual.

[CajoleJuice]

Nukes > people

[GilloD]

The M4 sucks asshole. I was lighting people up, pumping them full of lead and still dying all over the plac. The thing shoots spitballs or something

[The Fake Shemp]

I had someone on Facebook defriend me because I trolled him about the PC version of Modern Warfare 2.

[The Fake Shemp]

Who the hell gets upset about an Internet troll?

Borys, I guess.

Prole trolls me all the time. I don't go, "FUCK YOU!" and delete him off my contacts.

[duckman2000]

Just witnessed my first nuke. It was a guy on my team. So awesome.

The nuke effect is pretty weak, though. It doesn't do shit to the map, or the players.

Quake 3 engine 

[Stoney Mason]

Played about 3 or 4 hours of Spec Ops for the first time with a relative out in Cali.

Damn fun stuff.

[duckman2000]

Having played a bunch of GRAW2 recently, I feel that the whole chopper gunner thing is just shit poorly made. They should have made you a Blackhawk gunner instead, and added some element of risk by exposure to it.

The engine does look pretty dated when you're not looking at player models.  When will the use a new one?  Maybe CoD8?

Do they have a reason to bother? MW2 is basically the same as MW, and it hasn't hurt it, in sales or "critical" reception. Hell, they even managed to manipulate some writers into gushing about their "dynamic objects," like the exploding lamps. This series is definitely reviewed in a vacuum.

[cool breeze]

MW2 looks way better than CoD4.  CoD4 was drab and ugly, the only thing that saved it was how smooth everything ran.  It's more a testament to the locations and design rather than the engine pushing polygons and all that shit.

[duckman2000]

How is this any different? You have some nice mountain levels, ugly orange battlefields at dusk, and such. Texture quality may be slightly better, but there still isn't a single good texture in any given level (well, at least not on Xbox 360). The backgrounds range from rather nice (again, the mountains) to bug ugly. And the snow levels do not hold up well to similar levels in recent games. And lighting is hit or miss, with shadows being complete misses.

Honestly though, I think the worst idea they had was that damned ghost mask. It looks so bad.

[pilonv1]

This IWNet stuff really isn't cutting. I didn't have too much trouble earlier, but I left it on "Finding a Match..." for 45 minutes and didn't get a single bite. In countries where CoD is less than a RELIGION, this sucks. Asia is big on dedicated servers. Fuuuu. I finally got a match that was hilariously laggy. The kill cams were like dispatches from some alternate dimension. And it kept giving me Challenges I didn't complete. It was like "AWESOME 10 PRONE KILLS WTG" when I didn't even crouch, let alon lay prone.

Join the club, trying to find games in Australia is pathetic. Every game is two yellow bars or less.

[brawndolicious]

The game looks fine when you're just running and gunning at a smooth 60fps.  It's not trying to do high detailed environments and most of the game is outdoors so you don't have a chance to really analyze over-analyze any textures.  Honestly, I thought that AC-130 co-op level felt more viscerally entertaining than anything in Uncharted 2 (from what I played of it).

[cool breeze]

How is this any different? You have some nice mountain levels, ugly orange battlefields at dusk, and such. Texture quality may be slightly better, but there still isn't a single good texture in any given level (well, at least not on Xbox 360). The backgrounds range from rather nice (again, the mountains) to bug ugly. And the snow levels do not hold up well to similar levels in recent games. And lighting is hit or miss, with shadows being complete misses.

Honestly though, I think the worst idea they had was that damned ghost mask. It looks so bad.

Because it has actual color and contrast between them.  It's not Mirror's Edge, but a lot of elements in the game still pop.  It was just all around more appealing to look at than CoD4, which as I said above, was incredibly drab, and flat, brown, etc.  Killzone 2 was also pretty drab, but with all the effects going on, it managed to provide character (hurrr) to the bleakness.  It's just personal preference in the end.

[duckman2000]

How is this any different? You have some nice mountain levels, ugly orange battlefields at dusk, and such. Texture quality may be slightly better, but there still isn't a single good texture in any given level (well, at least not on Xbox 360). The backgrounds range from rather nice (again, the mountains) to bug ugly. And the snow levels do not hold up well to similar levels in recent games. And lighting is hit or miss, with shadows being complete misses.

Honestly though, I think the worst idea they had was that damned ghost mask. It looks so bad.

Because it has actual color and contrast between them.  It's not Mirror's Edge, but a lot of elements in the game still pop.  It was just all around more appealing to look at than CoD4, which as I said above, was incredibly drab, and flat, brown, etc.

I think your memory of COD4 is hazy. The fight towards Whiskey Hotel could be set in Bog, and the Caucasus levels, of which COD4 had many, are interchangeable between the two games. What MW2 does have is snow, but that snow is so shitty looking that it would be better off without it.

edit: well, I guess there are the Afghanistan levels too.

[brawndolicious]

side by side, you can definitely see some higher detail and better lighting.

[duckman2000]

side by side, you can definitely see some higher detail and better lighting.

I thought you said the detail didn't matter in such a fast moving game? Which was already a shitty argument when it was used to defend Resistance, and it hasn't gotten any better with age.

[Beezy]

decent enough, nowhere near GOTY.

Did you play online at all? MW1 and 2 aren't loved for their campaigns.

[MCD]

CAPTAIN PRICE

SOAP MACTAVISH

[brawndolicious]

side by side, you can definitely see some higher detail and better lighting.

I thought you said the detail didn't matter in such a fast moving game? Which was already a shitty argument when it was used to defend Resistance, and it hasn't gotten any better with age.

It doesn't mean anything in the real world if the textures and poly counts are a little higher in a game like this.  I'm just saying, some improvements were made on those things but mainly it looks like it was the lighting/particle effects that they improved in the sequel.  I can't tell exactly what they did to it but everything has just a sharper look to it and the colors are more saturated.  In the campaign, there's definitely a lot more attention paid to building the setpieces so I guess that should count as an improvement.

[Jansen]

commando + lightweight + marathon =

gonna try covering my back with a shield the next time i play.

[demi]

gonna try covering my back with a shield the next time i play.

I tried this in SpecOps and it doesnt work. Is it multi only?

[brawndolicious]

In splitscreen deathmatch, the shield isn't 100% bullet proof either.

[Beezy]

commando + lightweight + marathon =

gonna try covering my back with a shield the next time i play.

I never thought of that!

[MCD]

Saw it couple of times in multi, pissed me of as well.

[cool breeze]

commando + lightweight + marathon =

gonna try covering my back with a shield the next time i play.

I never thought of that!

There is a message in the game that even tells you that the shield projects even when it's on your back.

[Vizzys]

beasting with the m16 + stopping power earlier today, like 2.0 kdr every game

so easy to get double and triple kills it almost feels too cheap, but then without coldblooded it feels like eyes are on you at all times so eh

[GilloD]

The lighting is pretty terrible sometimes.  When soldiers are walking toward a light source they practically sparkle and glow, which shouldn't be happening on ACU material. 

You people are terrible.

[drew]

is it just me or is there no benifit to using the TAR > the SCAR? besides the benefit of easy xp gains via low level challenges of course

the TAR and SCAR seem to equal out by way of fire rate and damage

[cool breeze]

TAR is way better at close range.  SCAR is better at long range.  Both are adequate at medium range.

I use the TAR because it has the benefits of an SMG but can still do right at long range.

[The Fake Shemp]

TAR sucks, SCAR for life.

[Beezy]

I was using the TAR in that match where I ended up on the other team and destroyed you guys, Willco.

[drew]

now that thats settled, this has been a point of debate within my house:



the one i use is middle row, 5 down, which i have concluded is supposed to be the Hungarian flag

heres where it gets confusing, the italian flag uses the same colors, aligned vertically, but the green stripe should always be first, the hungarian flag is never shown vertically and i attribute this to infinity ward's error...but if they could mess that up then they could easily mess up the colors on the italian flag

on the next page theres something that looks more like the flag i want except it has a weird black circle emblem that ive never seen on any version of the hungarian flag

god forbid i have been going around reppin italia

[brawndolicious]

yeah, that's a reverse italian.  The one with the black "wheel" emblem is Indian.  There's no Hungarian at all.

I'm going by this list:
http://www.themodernwarfare2.com/mw2/multiplayer/callsigns/titles-flags/

what I use is the iranian one, thinking it might upset some redneck.  so far, every other flag emblem I've seen has been mexican or american so I probably don't even get matched up with anybody outside of california.

[GilloD]

yeah, that's a reverse italian.  The one with the black "wheel" emblem is Indian.  There's no Hungarian at all.

I'm going by this list:
http://www.themodernwarfare2.com/mw2/multiplayer/callsigns/titles-flags/

what I use is the iranian one, thinking it might upset some redneck.  so far, every other flag emblem I've seen has been mexican or american so I probably don't even get matched up with anybody outside of california.

All I ever see here is the Korean flag. Haha. Guess IWNet works.

[drew]

ive seen a couple german, a lot of canadian, some american (usually army guys), and that green and white one with the orange stripe

i cant believe they dont have a hungarian flag, maybe ill throw a request infinity ward's way but im pretty positive nothing will be done as everythings set in stone

[Brehvolution]

I got to lvl 12 so far. I'm home with a sick kid so I've been playing for almost 3 hours straight. Got my clan tag too. Play with me tonight, nikkas. 
Let's flood a server with [BORE]

[Kestastrophe]

i'll be on