[Sixty]

Aleksandrov, on 26 November 2009 - 09:24 AM, said:

ACOG/Sniper seems to have a lot less sway it's true, or that your TV is too small, Silencer. But in CoD4 you needed to hold breath of you can't pull of any shots, let alone headshots like you can on console. I've never played original on console so I don't know if it's a change but it feels really weird. Oh yeah, no lean.
ACOG/Sniper scope in takes a bit longer time and cover less screen size too now I realise.
Enemies in Spec Ops with Veteran are a bit tougher but nothing we couldn't handle. Akimbo'ing wasn't that great... I admit that on console I'm generally a weaker player so my aim is dreadful.
Weapon variety seems a lot more diverse than the first round, haven't had too much time to try it out. Only did Spec Ops with Silencer to see roughly half the available weapons.


Price already dropped from $118 to $98-ish... Waiting for that miraculous and hopefully inevitable 20$ Xmas drop for me to snag it at around $80. Until then, will have to suffice playing with friends rather than online on the consoles. When I do we should get together for some Malazan/Modcraft steam group gaming going on, if there isn't already one or if any one owns it on PC.

MW2 or 1? Because mw2 multiplayer is more or less shit on the pc from what I hear, what with no dedicated servers and all.

And what do you need to pay $98 for?

[Aleksandrov]

I have the first one also, so if you want to play on the first one you can hit me up also.

Be prepared of the timezone differences though.

From what I've heard from a couple of sources, most of the bad things predicted for the PC version and IW.net came true.
There isn't the outrageous amounts of lag, but usually it takes you a couple of tries to get a good hoster you're bouncing off of.
Oh yeah, cheating is rampant. Need Punkbuster at the very minimum.

Reason I'm getting MW2 is basically I need a good online FPS to tide me over this Christmas, and I can't wait to buy BioShock 2 since I'll be too busy next year to play any games at all.

Oh yeah there's a mod in the works making dedicated servers available, I'm following the progress on that at this stage with great interest.

[Silencer]

Bioshock 2 probably won't be a good multiplayer FPS either,

@Sixty, like me, Aleks has that slight problem of being in New Zealand. So our currency means we pay $98NZ...roughly that translates into 50USD, but ofc for some reason we get it marked up way higher than it should be - if the game is 50USD it should be 75NZD or there abouts...but no, we get charged more. And it's not for shipping either.
Go a few pages back and you'll see us ranting about it. XD

As it is, the game retails for $120 under normal circumstances, i.e. EB Games. D:

I'm on the last mission of Act III as of tonight. Will finish tomorrow. Just over 5.5 hours logged now...and I'm a conservative, tactical player. _-_

[Silencer]

Finished earlier today. Just before I had to take it back. XD

6.5 hours all up, and I must give credit where credit is due, the last three missions or so, from 'Loose Ends', were pretty good. Still, not a campaign I'd be replaying very often, even if I hadn't already done it at Veteran. :S

Ah well, back to the ACII now. ^^

[Aleksandrov]

It's definitely more of a LAN game than a solo game.

When was the last time I played a Call of Duty game for it's SP?

[Silencer]

About when CoD4 came out, considering you played through the campaign before you played online.

[Stalker]

I always start the SP first. Though I played the first 4 missions on this and then switched over to MP for a while.
Depends on who is online to play with.

Finished my 100% on Spec Ops- the Echo missions are difficult but most have a trick to get through them easily.
Working on 100% for SP- I need 5 more intel items to get it.
Also still playing multi often, I love thermal scope on anything. Though my time with the game has been lessened due to Dragon Age.

[Stalker]

Their comments about it are so true, http://www.penny-arc...com/2009/11/30/

I loved it because this is the class I use offline against my friends in the dorm. I have used a nuke with this class and rarely die.
They just get pissed. Now everyone who reads PA knows the trick though hah.

[lokiman]

From this comic I geuss i'm a rapist.

[Obdigore]

What the akimbo 1887's trick or the supply crate trick?

(Akimbo 1887's isn't a trick, it is just amazingly long ranged for a shotgun compared to the other weapons.)

The supply crate trick:
Make class with Marathon, Lightweight, Commando. Have a supply crate (4 killstreak) as one of your killstreaks, when you get the supply crate, do (xbox) d right to pull out the supple crate grenade. You now run about double the speed as when you had marathon on. You can knife with the supply create grenade out. Have fun.

[Gothos]

just finished it. as brilliant as the first one, with overabundance of the Rule of Cool... bloody awesome really only I have that feeling it was even shorter... ah well. good stuff.

[Silencer]

@Gothos, it was shorter. By...quite a bit. But the last three levels were truly epic, yes? ^^

[Gothos]

haha yeah they were! though I have to ask... does collecting those "enemy intel" things make you unlock some sort of level? I think I've got the feeling that something mid-late game was missing...

also, That One Level... defending the safehouse in the Caucasus, it's crazy

[Stalker]

Collecting all of them is an achievement for xbox 360 (maybe a trophy for PS3 too?)

Beyond that, I don't think so. In CoD4 collecting them gave some cheats (like infinite ammo/ black and white mode).
If anything happens, I'll let you know though. I'm currently at 37/45 and getting the last ones tomorrow.

[Gothos]

ah well screw them then if it's just an ach... no time to go looking for stuff in this game. RATAT TAT TA TATA TA >WHOOP< TA RATA TATATA

[Sixty]

Just got MW2 for the 360, though I suck at console (dropping from 2:1 kdr -> 1:2 is not fun haha). Gamertag is Birreh.

[drinksinbars]

will add you to my list for some mutual suckage

[Gothos]

drinksinbars, on 07 December 2009 - 12:09 PM, said:

will add you to my list for some mutual suckage

that probably sounds more gay than you intended

[drinksinbars]

not really, i was watching a carryon movie yesterday and have been talking in double entendres all day

[Slow Ben]

So finally started playing this. First one of these kind of games i've played and the suckiness was all over the place. Finally started to not suck quite so badly last night.

Suck.