There’s skill in becoming an M203 master, though.
I often go around under the name “Nube Tubington” and use nothing but the noob tube but I try to make spectacular shots through the window on the other side of the map. I wish I had an instant replay feature to do highlight reels of some of my shots.
Of course sometimes I can make a shot at 150 yards, right above an obstacle, through a window, and kill a guy around a corner and I’ll still get “FUCKIN NOOB” - whee.
I found it very useful early on just to gain points to unlock the ranks (and better perks). If it works, use it.
Which soldier starts out with that grenade launcher? I think the two guys I’ve tried so far just have a basic weapon with iron sights on it. I haven’t managed to kill anyone yet!
And how on Earth do you put a grenade through a window you can’t even see?
Pure manliness.
Map knowledge, my boy. Map knowledge. Over that bombed-out building is another bombed-out building, but if you put your crosshairs there and pull the trigger, you’ll fling it through the window.
What irritates me is for a “tactical shooter” you get annihilated using tactics. I couldn’t adjust to run-n-gun.
I am salivating waiting for Modern Warfare 2.
To be fair, I think Rainbow Six is more of a “tactical shooter”. Call of Duty does require a slightly different approach from Rainbow Six, and different yet from Halo. Effective camping will get you far in Call of Duty.
I can’t argue that. Coming from the Ghost Recon servers I played, I expected more communication and teamwork than I saw on COD4. I’ve no experience with Halo or any of the WWII online shooters.
Keep on chugging along until you get the really good weapons and perks - it took forever, but I finally got enough rank and achievements to get all the weapons and perks, and now I’m kitted out with a P90 with a scope, and either the RPD or the M60 with scope (depending on the map), extra grenade perk, stopping power and double tap. I am really not that good, but with that loadout, I can kill 12-year-old punks good and dead (meaning, their avatars, of course).
Honestly, I get less crap from other players on Free-for-all games. Even though I get slaughtered more often, its great fun - especially Killhouse. I love Killhouse. Mmmm. . . Killhouse. I know what I’m doing tonight.
Where was I? Oh yeah - many of the Killhouse “24-7” servers (that only serve the Killhouse map) will kick players for camping and bunnyhopping, so this somewhat levels the playing field. Besides, there really isn’t anywhere to camp in Killhouse without getting capped in the head sooner or later.
I didn’t literally mean learning to memorize locations to fire at to hit a spot blind. I just meant shooting through multiple obstacles to hit a target.
There probably are people who memorize the exact pixel locations and such. I remember once playing with these 2 guys on a s&d map where they memorized this pattern of artillery fire for every map. They both had double noob tube kits, and every round would start and they’d both launch grenades at predetermined spots where they knew most of the enemy would be 3-12 seconds after the start of the map and slaughtered half our team. Sort of impressive in a sad way, but annoying.
I just like making highlight reel shots with the noob tube so I try to practice long range shots. I also like killing people with an unexploded round to the head from 10 feet away.
I’m getting excited about the noob tube. Is it available right away? Which class of soldier do I need to select to get it?
Yeah. It’s smart to know places and grenade them when you think the opposition is going to be there. It’s like in the World at War map that’s small, you can just chuck grenades in the beginning and carpet bomb people off the initial spawn. Same for the Modern Warfare map with the shipping containers.
I think the grenade launcher is available right away on the M-16, if memory serves me right. If not, check your perks in the Barracks and see what you need to do to unlock it.
What you really want is to create your own class eventually, but in the short term, I think the standard Assault class gives you the M16 with tube by default. In the beginning I pretty much stuck with this one until I unlocked a few other weapons and perks.
Also, I looked at the kit I described below, and realized for my Overkill classes I can’t do stopping power or double tap (since they’re both unavailable with Overkill selected) - I’m not at home so I was going by memory. Now that I think of it, my go-to class is usually: P90 silenced, RPD (scoped), FragX3, Overkill, and Deep Impact (or Last Stand - depends on the map).
I really should start a new character - I’ve forgotten what it’s like to play without two primary weapons (Overkill is the most. awesome. perk. ever.).
I can’t offer advice on COD but here is what I did when playing Counter Strike (actually, it’s Condition Zero but they’re all the same shit):
Play in different servers until you find one that matches your style. In CZ, I found a server where the clan members were all older guys. They’d actually play to complete the objectives and punish people who did otherwise. This, along with a strict no profanity policy, weeded out almost all the annoying little kids.
After adding the server to my favorites, I only played there. This eventually got me familiar with the regulars and established me as a regular.
Now, I have a lot more fun playing that game than I ever did before. I get to play with “friends,” no one cares how bad I do, and I got better at the game at a faster pace than I would have playing at random servers.
It makes for a way more pleasurable experience.
How do you run a COD4 server? I searched for a dedicated server program a while back and couldn’t find one.
I have the hardware to run a server (4 ghz cpu, 4 gb ram, 200K/s upload rate), so we could get some smallish 3v3 headquarters SDMB games going or something… if I could figure out how to actually run a server. Anyone know?
If you figure it out post it here.
By that I mean both how you managed to do it and your server address!
iw3mp.exe +set dedicated 2
I have a similar rig, and I’d like to know this as well. When I used to play BF1942, I believe doing that was pretty simple, ie, embedded in the software. I just don’t remember how to do it, and I haven’t tinkered around with COD4 enough to know with that game.
Aha, thanks.
There doesn’t seem to be a definitive list of server settings anywhere, but I guess I can piece it together from bits and pieces.