Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SegRat

You guys are all way better than me. I think my kill death ratio is a pathetic .46. I still get game at 3-14. Only certain maps I'm that bad. When I try to aim, my gun is all over the place. I can't stop on my target quick enough. I usually swing my sights right passes the target. It get really frustrating.

What's your controller sensitivity set at? That almost sounds like what happens to me when my slow ass reflexes run into my teenager's high sensitivity settings.

If anyone else has played the game on your console, once in a while the settings will get screwed up & yours become whatever the last person's were. Dunno how that happens, but I've run into it several times over the past few years & it's a nightmare for a old slow guy like me.

edit to add: Also, if your performance is noticeably map influenced (as mine has been, maybe not as much on 3 as previous versions though), see if you can figure out what's helping/hurting you. Until Black Ops I was hideously bad at every run n' gun small map, much much better on long ones. Last two versions it's been almost reversed for me. Either way, with most maps there's ways to accentuate your strengths & reduce your negatives (although not always enough, I still can't play Carbon on 3 for shit).

[Neon_Chaos]

Jon, what I do in Carbon is stick to the flanks of the map. They are pretty straight foward. The houses and the middle of the map are killboxes that i completely avoid.

[Neon_Chaos]

Small tip that has worked for me... for those looking to hipfire, PP90M1 with silencer and steady aim, set sensitivity to 3... Hipfire all you want. equip with assassin preferrably.

[stevew]

Those akimbo FMG9 bitch guns are really fucking annoying. And final stand is such a fucking piece of fucking shit.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

Those akimbo FMG9 bitch guns are really fucking annoying. And final stand is such a fucking piece of fucking shit.

Did we have a random encounter?

edit: Actually, I used twin FMG9's for the first time in the last trip through prestige, and I'm totally a martyrdom guy instead of final stand (even unlocked it early with a prestige token)

[stevew]

I pretty much gave up on attempting to play the game with any kind of strategy recently. It's all SMG rapid fire, all the time. There's basically no point in using an assault rifle when an SMG can take you out rapidly from any point of sight. I finally pushed the K : D over .7 for a minute this morning. XBL is still way way harder than PS3 IMO.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

I pretty much gave up on attempting to play the game with any kind of strategy recently. It's all SMG rapid fire, all the time. There's basically no point in using an assault rifle when an SMG can take you out rapidly from any point of sight. I finally pushed the K : D over .7 for a minute this morning. XBL is still way way harder than PS3 IMO.

If you attempt to use any common sense, the harpies will just scream about "camping".

That said, I'm almost exclusively an assault rifle guy & I've managed three straight weeks of 1.00+ FFA K ... and I still suck pretty hard at this game.

I'd suggest giving some additional consideration to your positioning, see if you're doing things that make you more prone to getting your ass shot off before you get at least one kill out of it.

[stevew]

I think the most fun I get is destroying air support. Especially before they get one kill from their pavelow. Also, you can get up to 3 points with one shot on a strafe run, if you take out the 2nd chopper in early enough.

[SegRat]

Originally Posted by stevew

I think the most fun I get is destroying air support. Especially before they get one kill from their pavelow. Also, you can get up to 3 points with one shot on a strafe run, if you take out the 2nd chopper in early enough.

+1.
That seems to be the only thing I'm good at with this game.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

I think the most fun I get is destroying air support.

My 2nd prestige token unlock (after Overkill) was the Stinger

[SegRat]

I used the FMG9 gun for the first time. I had over 10 kills in each game. My new favorite gun.

[Marc Vaughan]

I'm either Tru Geek or Marc C0der depending on whether I'm sat on my UK or US account ....

If you ever play against me and I'm any good its my eldest son, if you shoot me up like a pinata then its me

[SegRat]

Why dont you see more of the recon drone, the little RC helicopter? I used for the first time and had about 20 assists. It was the first time that I had the most points.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SegRat

Why dont you see more of the recon drone, the little RC helicopter? I used for the first time and had about 20 assists. It was the first time that I had the most points.

I think most people seem to be running Specialist, followed by Assault, with Support trailing behind. That would limit the amount of recon drones we see. You're right though, it can be a point-scoring beast in team play games, especially on a small map like Dome. Sucks on Arkaden though, assholes are mostly inside (although if you can get it launched in the mall then it does okay)

[Neon_Chaos]

Prestige 8. Grinded it out on Domination with my friends today.

I found myself sticking to the PP90M, Striker, and Barrett for most of P7.

I found Domination more favorable for grinding. Was able to get to my EMPs almost twice per match.

Support killstreaks are the shit. Nothing like hitting an EMP when they have choppers and an AC130 out there.

[Neon_Chaos]

Just hit Prestige 9. I think I fell in love with the RPG. The quest for P10 continues!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Got Prestige 5 last night myself

Quite a bit of Specialist point whoring along the way, but was fun to get the Alive For 5 Minutes and Play Entire Match Without Dying titles/call signs quite unexpectedly and without completely camping to do it.

[SegRat]

How much or often do you guys camp? Personally I hate campers. However that is probably because I get obsessed with trying to kill them.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I do a considerable amount of strategic waiting, if that's what you mean

Over the years, particularly with MW3, I've become more of a shoot-and-scoot guy rather than pure camping. I mean, if I hear someone coming around a corner, it seems idiotic to me to turn a high percentage chance from behind into a 50-50 (or much worse) proposition by running out to meet them head on. And then it's on to the next opportunity.

Still, I'm extremely patient. I have a real knack for being someone's first blood kill, so I'll almost always sit tight at the beginning of a game. On a good day I'm probably a 1.00 K/D player, that's simply as good as I'm going to get over any length of time. I can't just give shit away easily.

And before it even comes up, I'll noobtube someone's ass in a heartbeat, without any real hesitation about it. Even moreso now in 3 where they've been nerfed considerably. I see that as using a tool as the developers intended, unlike quickscopers, who I consider a form of gaming life lower than anyone other than outright boosters. I always hated it but once the devs flatly acknowledged that it works only due to a glitch, my hatred became downright justified.

The other thing that I'd really like to see changed - in terms of playstyle - is to reduce (if not eliminate) the impact of controller sensitivity. Makes the game far too twitchy & reduces even remotely intelligent play horribly.

[stevew]

I block/report all quick scoping bitches that I see. Since it seems like you do play vs a similar set of local people, maybe it works? Doubtful.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

I block/report all quick scoping bitches that I see. Since it seems like you do play vs a similar set of local people, maybe it works? Doubtful.

I "avoid" all of those as well and it works least to some extent as far as I can tell. It seems to be pretty reliably sticky as far as avoiding dumping you back into a lobby with one of them during the same gaming session.

Over time it becomes less reliable, occasionally I'll run into the same horse's ass a few days down the road (and I'll actually remember their name or whatever)

[SegRat]

How do you block a player?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SegRat

How do you block a player?

AFAIK you can block messages from a player but not the player himself outright.

The closest thing to that would be using the "avoid this player" tool,which does seem to minimize the chances of ending up in a lobby with them again (just as "prefer this player" makes you more likely to be in a public lobby with them)

[Neon_Chaos]

After almost 250 hours of playing time, finally hit Prestige 10. Whew.

They added more prestige levels too, but i won't be actively pursuing them.

[MacroGuru]

Been grinding a lot more lately as I can't drive to much at night right now and the girlfriend is allergic to my cats...makes for some lonely nights lately.

TriadicGoblin if you see me on.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Got Prestige 6 yesterday, used this go round to get the rest of the Specialist titles. Really had pretty good success, by my standards at least, with the second LMG (name escapes me atm). It's quite effective as a camping weapon on Village and if you finally get the heartbeat sensor then it becomes very effective indeed.

[BrianD]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Got Prestige 6 yesterday, used this go round to get the rest of the Specialist titles. Really had pretty good success, by my standards at least, with the second LMG (name escapes me atm). It's quite effective as a camping weapon on Village and if you finally get the heartbeat sensor then it becomes very effective indeed.

The second LMG is my favorite weapon. It packs a very good punch, and can do so quickly with the rapid fire attachment.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Double XP weekend in case you're looking to level

[stevew]

Have you bought any of the extra shit Jon? I need to play more. Lately I've been too lazy to game(how tragic).

[JonInMiddleGA]

Bought the DLC map drops (I'm not an Elite subscriber) this week ... honestly they're pretty bad IMO, and my son's opinion of them was even lower than mine I think.

If you aren't gaming frequently with friends, or aren't into spec ops co-op play then I wouldn't be in any big rush about them. 6 maps in all, 2 are spec ops missions, 4 are multi-player maps but of those 4 most are weak sauce stuff like "Carbon".

Liberation seems the most playable of the bunch although it seemed to get the most hate at least initally. Black Box is just an f'ed up mess of a map, Overwatch is a bewildering multi-level maze that maybe people smarter than me can figure out but it seems like random chaos to me, and I have yet to play Piazza for more than a few seconds, have never gotten it for a full FFA match yet but I've watched my son play it a couple of times in other modes, it doesn't look terrible but nothing particularly special about it either IMO.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Incidentally, the servers have now been down for several hours apparently. "Let's have a double XP weekend guys ... but for increased comedy value let's manage to crash the servers at the same time"

[Poli]

I enjoy playing MW3 in the evenings. Xbox polirules

I only wish a coward like kodos would unblock me so I could shoot him 1100 times. After all, he deserves it.

/shot

[JonInMiddleGA]

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[stevew]

Is there any way to play FFA with people that are in your friends list? I'm guessing a private game would be the only option.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

Is there any way to play FFA with people that are in your friends list? I'm guessing a private game would be the only option.

There's a convoluted way to do it actually, luckily my son is here to explain it to me.

One person joins an FFA game, with one or more open spots in the lobby (or spots that open up)

The others - who are already in a party with Player One - then get a verbal heads up from Player One that there's open spot(s) in their lobby, they then do "join session in progress" (found on Player Ones gamer card/profile). He says the trick here, which is really all about reaction time in order to grab the open slot in a lobby, is for all the subsequent players to be waiting on Player One's profile, so that when he gives the heads up to "Go", they've got a chance to actually get into the lobby. (You're saying "Go Go Go" to them in Party Chat)

Sometimes it takes a few tries to get everybody in, just depends upon the volatility of the lobby really.

Make sense?

[stevew]

Ah, yeah. Sort of like how you can end up on the opposite side of a team death match with a friend.

[Poli]

I hate a FFA where two or more aren't actually playing FFA.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Poli

I hate a FFA where two or more aren't actually playing FFA.

I don't run into that problem all that often though. There's still boosters for sure, but it's certainly unusual now as compared to MW2.

What I'm angered beyond words by are the modded controllers / sensitivity to 25 guys. Renders the game damn near unplayable for me. Well, that & the lowest form of gaming life on the universe (short of boosters): quickscopers.

[stevew]

Busting up boosters was kind of fun in MW2.

Playing with Quickscopers is awful though. Especially when a pretty good player does it.

[stevew]

Not sure I've ever seen the modded controller thingy. What does it look like?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

Not sure I've ever seen the modded controller thingy. What does it look like?

Hyper options basically. Automatic dropshots, auto rapid fire, some auto quickscope (not sure whether that one works on MW3 or not tbh).

At one point I think my son knew as many kids playing MW2 with modded controllers as without them. Was a big issue for a while there (he's anti-cheat, actually quit playing with about half his friends because of it).

[tyketime]

I just bought MW3 on Saturday when I saw $40 price. It's been months since I played Black Ops. Tough to start over again. I first need to learn the maps.

[Poli]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I don't run into that problem all that often though. There's still boosters for sure, but it's certainly unusual now as compared to MW2.

What I'm angered beyond words by are the modded controllers / sensitivity to 25 guys. Renders the game damn near unplayable for me. Well, that & the lowest form of gaming life on the universe (short of boosters): quickscopers.

Not necessarily boosting but teaming together to lock down an area. If I wanted a team, I'd do that instead.

[Poli]

Is the dropshot where the jerks hit the deck in a microsecond? I hate that.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Poli

Is the dropshot where the jerks hit the deck in a microsecond? I hate that.

Yup, that would be the dropshot. Kind of the opposite of the "Halo jumpers", which are annoying in their own way, just not nearly so effective as the cheap ass dropshot.

[Poli]

Modded controller you say? Guess I'll make note of those that do that and avoid em from now on.

[Neon_Chaos]

Currently at Prestige 12. Levelled uP the riot shield in drop zone. Played more demolition than usual too.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by Poli

Is the dropshot where the jerks hit the deck in a microsecond? I hate that.

Yeah, it's why the bulk of the time I am aiming for the crotch, they drop, I am hitting the head.

[Poli]

Really enjoying the RC copter...though I don't follow the 'bad signal' bit. Not sure how and when that pops up.

It's fun, though!

[gstelmack]

Then you'll love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwMbJ3UosQ

(Disclaimer: I'm working on this game)