yessss i'm back

had a 42 - 21 game

12/15/2009 10:28:39 PM

what do you guys prefer (harrier strike or attack helicopter) at 7 kills?

12/15/2009 11:23:37 PM

harrier

12/15/2009 11:25:59 PM

^^ neither seem to do anything

12/15/2009 11:27:25 PM

really depends on who & where u are playing... both should be shot down in a couple seconds.. the harrier just has the bonus of an airstrike


i prefer emergency airdrop now.

12/15/2009 11:32:19 PM

i think i'm out of the game for the next few weeks - doing a bit of traveling and moving. maybe be back at the end of the year or early next year.

12/15/2009 11:32:32 PM

I like the harrier strike. you can get a good airstrike in a strategic location on objective based games, and it sticks around for a few seconds to let you advance before it gets shot down.

12/15/2009 11:41:27 PM

For the online challenge where you have to get a 3 melee kill streak is there something else that you have to do, like not die or something? I got two triple melee kill streaks and a 5 melee kill streak just running around knifing people last night but did not get the challenge.

12/16/2009 7:22:35 AM

Did you unlock the challenge for the 3 melee kills yet? Seems that some streaks you can complete without having them unlocked (grenade/semtex paybacks comes to mind) Others you won't complete until they are unlocked.

12/16/2009 8:12:12 AM

i'm sick of all the fucking glitchy matchmaking. played about an hour last night and if i didn't wind up in someone's private match, i wound up in a match with unlimited ammo.

12/16/2009 8:19:51 AM

the balancing of teams really really needs to be worked on... this morning got into a lobby and played several matches where the other team had 4 of 6 players who had prestiged and were currently level 50 or above... meanwhile everyone on my team was a 40 or below non prestige.... i understand the whole keeping people together that are lobbied together but this is kinda ridiculous... wasn't even fun

12/16/2009 8:42:43 AM

play mercenary

12/16/2009 10:33:59 AM

^^ welcome to call of duty, i don't know if modern warfare 1 was as bad but WaW was terrible

i'm at level 30 and am usually placed into games with all level 50 and above players

12/16/2009 11:53:27 AM

Is there actually supposed to be a matchmaking system? I had just assumed that everyone was thrown into games at random. When I first started playing about a week ago most of the games I played I was the only one under level 40 or so.

12/16/2009 12:03:36 PM

I thought it was random............

12/16/2009 12:28:00 PM

I though it adjusted based on the player performance in the previous round, dunno though

it is pretty shitty when you get a well-coordinated team that communicates against you and a bunch of noobs that run straight into the meat grinder one by one over and over

especially on the objective modes

12/16/2009 12:34:19 PM

lol, rank/prestige have never been indicators of playing ability anyway... just time played. The game uses experience for rank, which is an almost entirely non-competitive system. If you see your team full of people <50 who haven't done prestige yet against a bunch of prestige people, anything can still happen. Those prestige guys could be bad players who just play a lot, and your team could be made of people who have been playing for a while but started a new account (or just good players who don't have much free time).

And if you're worried about getting partied against groups and clans, just play mercenary. That's why it's there.


As for the team-balancing system, for people who are just jumping into a game lobby, it's either random or based loosely on past performance... but anyone who has been in the lobby since the previous game is placed based on their performance in that previous game. New Team A is made up of Team A's top player, Team B's 2nd best, Team A's 3rd best, and so on (and vice versa for New Team B).

I'm not entirely sure how it organizes this when people join a lobby as a group... but again, if you're excessively worried about that, just play Mercenary.


Also, not sure how widespread it is, but there's supposedly some glitch going on right now where people can sometimes end up in a random private match when trying to join a game through matchmaking. That's probably going to be the next thing they patch out, whenever that happens. (It'll also probably come with a balance fix for the 1887s as well -- either they're reducing the range or they're just making it so they can't be used akimbo. Probably just range reduction)

[Edited on December 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM. Reason : .]

12/16/2009 12:54:30 PM

holy shit

http://www.break.com/game-trailers/game/modern-warfare-2/modern-warfare-2-unlimited-ammo-hack-video.html

12/16/2009 2:55:17 PM

^

Quote :

"holy shit"

12/16/2009 2:59:12 PM

^^

Quote :

"holy shit"

12/16/2009 3:15:20 PM

I was just in a game like that last night! It was amazing... until some dumbass ended it by calling in a nuke. I was actually thrilled to be in it because I thought I might have a chance to get some of the challenges completed. The question I have is how do you cause this to happen? It would be invaluable for me since all I care about now is quickly getting to 70. What is the private match XP glitch which is mentioned at the end of the video?

12/16/2009 3:27:15 PM

Quote :

"The question I have is how do you cause this to happen?"

After a bit of Google-ing, seems like it's something that can be done to private matches, and other people can end up in them due to the recent "matchmaking sometimes puts you in a private match" bug. Probably has to be set up from the host side, which for 360 probably means having a modded box.

Not sure what the private match XP glitch is, and I don't really care to look it up right now.

12/16/2009 3:36:33 PM

Yeah I saw my roommate in a match like that once, it was retarded he was just spawn camping with an LMG and raking in the XP

[Edited on December 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM. Reason : ]

12/16/2009 4:15:11 PM

HOW DO YOU DO THAT!?!?!?!

12/16/2009 7:00:54 PM

i thought private matches dont count towards leveling up, challenges, or leaderboard stats.

12/16/2009 9:17:07 PM

^It's a glitch in the game. You can create a private match (custom rules and stuff) but it counts as a real game and will put people into it through matchmaking

12/16/2009 9:18:37 PM

Holy shit that's fucking insane.

Someone either tell me A) that's just a XBOX thing or B) How the hell to do that

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 2:35 AM. Reason : Good, its just an XBOX thing....glad I got PS3!]

12/17/2009 2:22:02 AM

^Actually I seem to remember hearing about the private match glitch (being put into them through matchmaking) happening on PS3 as well. Could be wrong, though. And it's also basically completely unpredictable as to whether you'll get anyone on matchmaking to join or not. And they claim to be almost done with the patch to fix said bug.


PS3 has its share of hacks, as well... like a lot of people getting to max level/max prestige instantly and padding their stats to unreachable levels somehow. And thanks to the unreliability of information from internet forums, the infinite ammo hack MAY actually work on PS3 as well, without even needing a modded console (though it's entirely possible that this was just bullshit).

12/17/2009 2:48:58 AM

Incase anyone cares...there is a free CoD MW2 game guide as an iPhone app.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/call-duty-modern-warfare-2-game/id339134682?mt=8

12/17/2009 2:52:48 AM

Quote :

"Two killed in drone strike in Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Two people were killed in northwest Pakistan early Thursday morning by a suspected U.S. drone strike, Pakistani officials said. The strike occurred at about 4 a.m. in North Waziristan, according to local administrative and intelligence officials. Two missiles struck near a vehicle in the village of Datta Khel and two suspected militants were killed, the officials said. The U.S. military routinely offers no comment on reported drone attacks. However, it is the only country operating in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones, which are controlled remotely."

after seeing this on cnn all i could think of is... Harriers awaiting your mark

12/17/2009 10:26:08 AM

obviously their UAV wasn't online

12/17/2009 10:40:08 AM

A nice organized list of all the callsigns and emblems and how to unlock them:

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

12/17/2009 10:43:06 AM

should i feel guilty for bypassing UAV at 3 kills and setting my kill streak up at 5/7/11?

i'm figuring someone will call in a UAV

if not we're fucked - i usually hang back until someone does

12/17/2009 10:46:10 AM

not guilty...entrepreneurial

12/17/2009 10:50:58 AM

It depends on how I am playing and how good my team is...

If I think there are better players, I use the UAV for the team

12/17/2009 10:51:36 AM

UAV is pretty useless on any hardcore mode because everyone and their brother uses cold blooded...

12/17/2009 11:07:48 AM

^not any game i've played.

and if that really is the case then so are predator missiles.

12/17/2009 11:29:57 AM

predator missiles you can still see people, they just dont have the red boxes

so you just guide it it slow until you pick up some movement then speed burst to the target

12/17/2009 11:33:13 AM

I've played in plenty of hardcore matches where UAV and a Pave Low will be up, but there are not dots on the radar and the Pave Low gets zero kills - even without being shot down...

Or a sentry gun will just have guys running at it head on and stabbing it.


Killstreaks in hardcore are almost all worthless... except for airstrikes

12/17/2009 11:36:35 AM

Yea pretty much, though if you know the maps well, or its an objective game like HQ, the you can usually time air strikes to kill people because they have to be there.

12/17/2009 12:31:57 PM

^^^Yes, I've been one of those idiots to teamkill because of this...
you can't really see their outfits, either, so it's hard to distinguish who's who.

12/17/2009 12:42:29 PM

Haha 3/4 of our team got TK'ed because some noob saw a bunch of people on the objective and figured we were the enemy, instead of listening to the "Ok guys we almost have it cap...BOOM..."

12/17/2009 1:14:31 PM

seems like every time i get to my chopper gunner, my team already has 7400 points in TDM and i dont really get to use it much

12/17/2009 1:14:46 PM

last night I got the tactical nuke and as soon as I pressed the d-pad arrow to use it the game ended. I was

12/17/2009 1:19:59 PM

^dude, that sucks. Sorry i've been ignoring some of y'all's game invites. Every time i'm already in a game with 3 or 4 friends. The one game i did play w/ y'all a couple nights ago i played like ass (of course). I appreciate the invites, hope to play soon.

12/17/2009 1:57:02 PM

Any kill steak 11+ on TDM is extremely tough to launch before the end of the round

12/17/2009 2:35:46 PM

yeah seriously. You guys just need to hang back and let me do all the killing next time.

v I got off about 12:30 last night and you werent on.

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM. Reason : v]

12/17/2009 3:25:53 PM

i hope i didnt play last night after i got home from the bar...cause after i locked the door and took my shoes off, i blacked the fuck out

12/17/2009 3:26:33 PM

lol

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM. Reason : x]

12/17/2009 3:30:49 PM

I'm sure your K : D will have the answer

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM. Reason : it made a smiley]

12/17/2009 3:31:43 PM