Monthly Archives: February 2010

It’s not a party; it’s a funeral

By spamfest | Published: February 22, 2010
Like many pieces of Modern Warfare 2, the party system is not fair. While it can provide a good deal of fun to those within the party, those outside of it can suffer for no good reason at all. Generally those grouped into a party are using voice chat to coordinate amongst themselves. This [...]
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The Hardline perk isn’t that good

By spamfest | Published: February 7, 2010
The MW2 perk Hardline sounds good in theory — it reduces the number of kills you need to get a kill streak reward by one. UAVs come in after two kills, chopper gunners fly overhead after 10, and so on. The problem is that it’s ultimately not that useful. At best it reduces the [...]
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Modern Warfare 2 musings

By spamfest | Published: February 1, 2010
I am now level 27 in MW2. I’m not very good yet but I have managed to figure out how to go positive in most games. Sadly, this involves a lot of playing the opposite way I played in CoD4. However, I’m generally okay with this as my biggest flaw is my [...]
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