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It’s not a party; it’s a funeral
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
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
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 [...]
Infinity Ward screws PC gamers royally.
Note: This may be a bit of hyperbole given that no one truly knows what’s going on just yet. Time will tell. And soon — the game’s scheduled to come out in less than a month.
Update. Things are continuing to unwind it seems. FourZeroSheep posted an explanation of what the dedicated [...]
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Ignoring Necessary Changes: Good for Business
If you’ve been following stuff, you’ll already know that the next game in the CoD series is slated to come out November 11th. They’re calling it “Modern Warfare 2″ — apparently dropping the “Call of Duty” bit entirely — in order to distance themselves away from Treyarch and their inability to make a decent [...]
An Online Social Experiment
I’ve been getting accused of hacking a lot recently. It’s not that I’ve gotten any better over the past few months — at least not that I’m aware. What’s more apparent is that the average skill level of the players on pubs has dropped as the game has aged. Whatever it is [...]
Don’t let noobs admin your server.
I just got vote-kicked from a CoD4 server because one terrible player decided I was hacking. He went on a crusade of accusations, brought in some of his butt-buddy clan members, and eventually, after about fifteen failed votes, got me kicked.
I’ve mentioned this kind of thing before, and it will probably always ring true. [...]
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The Hardcore Fallacy
If you’ve been around CoD4 long enough, odds are you’ve noticed the trend in public server setups. While there used to be a healthy balance between normal mode and so-called “hardcore” mode, at some point the scales became annoyingly tipped toward the latter.
It’s now somewhat difficult to find a decent normal-mode server without mods [...]
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You’re Not Helping
You know what I’m tired of? Seeing my teammates snipe in CoD4’s “hardcore” mode. Every time I see someone on my team doing it I feel like I should rip on them via text chat, but then I realize I’d have a pointless argument to push myself through, so I never do it. [...]
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Imbalance is fun to exploit