I picked up the game yesterday, played some single player (the game is frakking awesome, btw)…aaaaaaand I decided to go online and try out my skilllz against the general populace. I am an ex-military guy, I’ve got reasonably fast reflexes, know how to shoot weapons, etc…
Turns out I have no skillz. I was getting “pwned” and catcalled for being a “noob” the entire time.
Back to singleplayer!
Jesus, some of these guys just camp out (and I don’t know the maps) in an impossibly concealed location and just spring seemingly out of nowhere to kill me.
It’s frustrating being no good. Dammit. Buncha teenagers. Get off my lawn.
I would recommend you play on maps with the game type “Headquarters”. This type has a fairly fast respawn time yet a capture the flag type objective. You’ll get better faster. Personally, I prefer the MROA server of this type that is generally highly populated, as moderators are often present to kick anyone getting out of hand in chat.
Unless you are one of those weirdo’s who play on the XBox or something, in which case I can’t help you.
I feel that way with pretty much ALL online play. Halo…just call me cannon fodder.
I’m pretty good at things like PGR4 and Forza Motorsport 2, but find myself getting creamed because I have all the nannies turned off, and everybody else has 'em turned on.
I know how you feel. As a 33 year old guy I don’t do much online gaming because I easily get tired of being insulted by 14 year old kids who play 7 hours a day. Not that I’m overgeneralizing or anything.
It helps a lot if you have a group of people that you play with regularly. Or turn off the voice chat and turn on some Metallica.
Every once and a while I’ll play “Warhawk” for Playstation. It’s a fun game, I like flying around in an airplane. I really hate it though when I get pwned by some bastard 13 year old, who is calling me a noob, and I can hear that his balls haven’t dropped yet.
“Fucking noob, learn to fly!”
Damnit, I’m a veteran with 3 air medals, over a hundred combat hours, YOU learn to fly! Ok, I don’t say that, but I think it.
And damnit, those people do not understand the concept of radio discipline.
You probably need to experiment with your weapon/perk combos.
I find the M16 (I think it’s the M16…the first assault rifle choice, anyway) with red dot sight, desert eagle, and for the perks stopping power is essential - more damage for your guns. Also play with juggernaut (more health) if you’re having trouble on 1-on-1 confrontations, martyrdom (drop a live nade when you die) is a cheap tactic, but effective.
Play with overkill (two main weapons) to find your style, I prefer to snipe with assault rifles (M16 is accurate enough for this, but also won’t leave you SOL in close quarters), you might prefer the SMG spray-n-pray, or tanking it with the shotgun, or using one of the sniper rifles. Overkill allows you to experiment with these play styles in one setting.
Be aware that what works for one map may get you an ass-kicking in another. Sniper works well on the ship/countdown/bloc map (lots of lines of sight), but not too good in ambush or crash. Likewise SMG’s do well in shipment, but not to good in pipeline. YMMV, experiment!
Keep moving, keep turning, shoot anything that moves. You’ll get a couple of team kills like this to start but you will quickly learn to hold fire when you see a green player name.
Use your grenades, if you see a clump of red on the other side of a building or through a choke point chuck a grenade in their direction. With luck you can get 2+ kills with a grenade.
For the objective type modes: headquarters, search and destroy etc. Concentrate on the objective, many players play like its a deathmatch and go for kills, go around them and get the points for completing the objective.
I get trashed at that game and I’m not even old. I figured it was because my TV was too small to see anything that wasn’t within knife’s range of me. So I bought a giant TV (wasn’t just for the game, honest)… and still got killed just as often. Oh well, at least movies look nice.
That’s part of the reason I like Left 4 Dead campaign mode, teamwork is much more important than your ability to snapshot someone a quarter of a second after they pop into view.
Your main problem is map knowledge. You’re just hopping into it now and the game has been out for what, 2 years? If you knew the maps and the camping spots (camping, the one big blight on Call of Duty), you’d be a lot more formidable and would be able to tinker around with weapon kits and what not.
I presume you’re playing on the PC, and then we Xbox folks can’t help you out at all. Multiplayer is a pretty good experience for Call of Duty. Teamwork is important in all multiplayer games, too, which is why it helps to play with folks you know, at least initially. Otherwise, you’re just going to walk into trap after trap and get blasted from seemingly nowhere until you learn.
I find that most older, established PVP type games tend to have a high annoyance to satisfaction ratio, simply because the vets outnumber the noobs. You can bull through it and become a skilled player of course, but it can be a frustrating experience. I’ve taking up flying on WWII:Online against players who have been there for many years. I’d like to think I’m getting better, but insta-death isn’t much of a teacher.
Oh, and Least Original User Name Ever is right. Learning the maps on games like COD will vastly improve your playing abilities.
Oh, I know that map knowledge is half the battle. I played BF 1942 online forever, and after that I just fell out of the online gaming scene.
I suppose I thought I was just going to jump right back in there and make some noise. unfortunately everyone knows where all the spawn points are and they camp out and wait for witless prey like me, just wandering around trying to figure out the map.
A question: when I first started playing BF1942, a friend helped me learn all the maps by basically having me host a game as a server and then lock it to anyone but us two. We would then run around the maps, figuring out where all the emplacements were, etc and that really helped.
Does COD4 have that feature so I can make myself alone on maps so I can crawl around and get the general lay of the land?
Don’t forget the value of the grenade attachment for assault rifles - it ain’t called the n00b tube for nothing. You can rack up a decent kill count without being particularly skilled; just fire n forget.
