Oh, capital! Unfortunately, I can’t see myself buying CoD 4 anytime soon: I understand that a lot of it’s value comes from the great multiplayer experience, and I don’t tend to play multiplayer FPSs on account of the fact that they’re too frustrating. Single-player games tend to have variable difficulty and a shallow learning curve, but every time I’ve logged into an online FPS match that wasn’t Team Fortress, it feels like I become an instant recipient of a hundred different caffeine-high-skillful-twitch-gamer shaped beatdowns.
(That’s kind of why I like TF2, actually: it lets you feel like a good teammate without having any skill with FPS twitchery.)
I’m actually not sure; it’s been years since I played, and the last time I fought him I used lethal weapons with the assumption that the tranq gun wouldn’t be effective.
Ah, so what you’re saying is either the competition in Team Fortress blows or that your fragile ego won’t let you get better by getting your ass whooped?
Are you talking about dropping dude behind the ferris wheel and laying down trip mines by the cars? That was possibly the coolest level I’ve played since GTA: Vice City’s drunk driving mission. I passed it by laying prone on the ferris wheel platform (best view you can get) and by taking the waves down early before they get cover and while they’re still bunched up. You’ll have to occasionally get up and move around the back hill to keep them from outflanking you on the right.
I’m saying that you don’t need amazing FPS skills to be a good medic, engie, or heavy, and that when you only play three to five hours of FPSs a month you want to spend those hours having fun, not sucking with the future promise of getting better.
This is true. The troops coming out of the choppers are the least of my worries, though. Also, another hint. If you place the claymores before he tells you to place the claymores, he gives you more (but I’m at the checkpoint JUST past that).
I have two methods on this stage. Method 1: The checkpoint is about 10 feet to the left of my gimp sniper. I pull out the AK and kill everyone that comes down the first helicopter. I run over and grab the RPD that one drops. I go back and shoot the people coming down from two more choppers (they’re close to being timed jut right where you can shoot one as he comes down the rope and then go over to the other chopper). Then I shoot the dog that comes. Then I reload the RPD and then the AK and I wait. Usually two people will come out in front (that’s the front relative to where I’m facing) and I can take them out…all the while, machine gun fire is coming in through the cracks in the cement blocks. I usually fall prey to a shotgun guy coming up behind me and giving me the business.
Method 2: run like a pussy past the bumper cars and get on my belly next to the structure. I may or may not plant C4 in front where anyone would have to come in to get me (I can see their feet when they’re running towards me anyways, so I can use gunfire). Apparently the Russian troops have x-ray vision because they lob grenades pretty precisely to where I’m hiding. I have to crawl or crough and walk away from those places, but not too far, because the guns of many Russians are pointed towards me. After this, it’s a run towards the gimp and to the chopper, but I can’t quite make it back to the gimp yet.
