Cite? That sounds hilarious, I’ve gotta read this.
I know DICE is playing up that angle.
Unfortunately, Bad Company 1 wasn’t a very good game.
I’d have to disagree, but it’s still the closest thing the 360 has had to a PC-calibre multiplayer game. 24-player multiplayer, long draw range, destructible enviroments, balanced weapons, vehicular warfare, pretty decent multiplayer lobby with friends-list support and so on and so forth.
The single-player was pretty meh, but it was slated as a tag-on with the chief focus on the multiplayer. The Battlefield series have always been primarily about the multiplayer, so that kind of surprised about nobody.
Having more people in a game = PC caliber game? I’d disagree. Also, I’m not a huge fan of vehicular warfare. In any case, we’re starting off a hijack, and if you want to continue, we should probably do so in PM.
Wow, what a game. I don’t normally play multiplayer shoot em ups but I decided to get this one because everyone seemed to be raving about it and I didn’t want to be left out.
At the risk of sounding arrogant, I seem to be pretty good at it! I’m beating people with much higher ranks than me and haven’t been lower at the end of a game than anyone lower-ranked than me except (I think) once. Still a newbie to multiplayer shoot em ups, and cod, and cod mw2 I am consistently coming second or third. Have won twice.
Anyway, many players seem to drop grenades when they die, killing their killer.
At first I thought this was just quick reactions on their part, but now I think my character is doing it - I get ‘you got your revenge’ after I die. What’s going on?
Also, a lot of players do the close-quarter knife kill either as a main tactic or when they need to reload. I haven’t tried that yet.
Anyway, I think my ‘level’ is something like 22 or 23.
ETA: I can even do pretty good after 4 pints of beer.
ETA: Is it possible to play using more than one ‘profile’? I’d like to not sully the profile by deciding to play whilst very drunk and being rubbish.
ETA: Like now (talking about it has made me want to play it)
Dropping the grenade is the “Martyr” perk. When you die, you drop a nade. Pretty good chance of killing someone when you die that way. In my experience, one time out of three, that guy would be an enemy. :eek:
As far as the knife melee attack, I’ve killed a few guys that way. Pretty much always it’s a spaz reaction rather than an intentional thing. My friend claims that, in character, my guy would life a bad guy in the throat when suprised by him coming around a corner suddenly, then go “OMGIMSORRYAREYOUOK?!”:rolleyes:
So since I’m pretty sure I don’t have the martyr perk, how/why is the game saying ‘you got your revenge’ while I’m running around after respawning, to find my next victim?
I like the fact you often seem to respawn close to where you died - allowing you to get your revenge on the dude that killed you.
In one game, I learned a lesson: Don’t sinlge out people who are clearly better than you. It might seem like a challenge but you’ll just end up having a low score. In the Airport level there was a guy in the plane taking people out with a sniper rifle. As soon as I’d twigged this I went after him. I headed for the cockpit, he took me out from the rear of the plane. I headed for the rear, he took me out from the cockpit. I headed for the middle. He took me out from the cockpit. At this point I gave up on him and just chose to avoid his line of sight and go after the people doing what I generally do - run like a bugger everywhere and kill those you encounter. Difference being - I usually win the close quarter gun fights.
You get “Payback” when you kill someone who has killed you. You get extra points for this.
In this game, Martyrdom has been scaled back considerably. In the last game, you could enable it so that every time you died you dropped a grenade. In this game, it’s a perk that is only enabled after you’ve died several times without a kill (and only lasts until you get a kill).
Also, I find knifing (melee) to be much improved in this game. In fact, I’m one of those assholes that has a class almost specifically dedicated to knifing. Even had a guy in one match tell me “If you knife me one more time, I’m going to fly to your house and punch you in the face!”
I knifed him a couple more times.
I’ve been playing MW2 multiplayer for a week or so. I am now level 29 or something. But lately I am getting pwned really badly. I’d be lucky if I get a kill or two while I am getting killed all the time. Then I did the edit at the .cfg file described here and everything became clear.
Looks like I routinely get 1-2 bars while all others get 5+. For example there was an instance where I throw a grenade, I see an enemy, I turn to face him and shoot some rounds and then I die. On the killcam I am still throwing the grenade when the enemy shoots and kills me.
I don’t know what changed, but as it is the game is unplayable for me. 
Looks like there are very few players in MW2 lately and I am forced to join servers from another country.
That’s crazy. It sounds like night and day with the experience that’s on the PC and the console. That’s not to say that they didn’t happen to fuck up the console version too, but there are tons of people playing it online.
Clearly, Infinity Ward screwed up so bad on all fronts with multiplayer, nobody’s completely happy. The game is good and fun, though. Don’t get me wrong. It’s just that they found ways to fuck up the little things.
There are plenty of people playing it - over 100,000 at peak times - so it’s not an issue of being unable to find anyone. It’s an issue of console style matchmaking being an unambiguously completely shitty experience and not even all that good at the limited things it attempts to do.
Keep in mind, the Steam numbers aren’t the multiplayer numbers.
They are. Since there’s a seperate executable for single and multiplayer, steam stats has a seperate list for each type. I’ve seen the multiplayer 48 hour peak hover around 100k whenever I look. And another 20-40k in single player IIRC.
Well look at that. That’s what I get for not actually checking before making a post. MW2 is seriously popular.
I’m not sure how it compares to COD4, which is still very active. There are very few steam-hours in cod4, but that’s not really a reasonable comparison because almost no one bought cod4 on steam whereas you have to register through steam for COD6. Last I looked the xfire stats put cod4 ahead of cod6 in recent play, but that’s somewhat of a self-selecting (although wide) sample size.
Yep:
107,054 107,054 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
28,466 30,089 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Those numbers are current/48 hour peak. More popular than it deserves to be. CS/CSS combined crush it. Man, people love those games. CS 1.6 has 65k and it’s what, over a decade old now? (Not 1.6 specifically, of course)
SenorBeef, I don’t know where you get these numbers.
Hovering the mouse pointer over each game type will tell you how many players are currently there. Yesterday most players (about 20,000) were on Team Deathmatch and about only 5000 on Free For All. All other game types had fewer players and some as few as 300.
I found out that selecting team deathmatch gives the least lag, I guess because it has the most players and I am connected locally. Selecting anything else gives monster lag or no connection at all. I don’t like team deathmatch (I prefer FFA) but I am stuck with it because it makes the game somewhat playable.
The numbers come from Steam’s website. They list stats for what their users are playing at any given moment.
I got MW2 for Xmas
I installed it in the afternoon on Boxing Day, and finished the single player in ~5 hours. The actual campaign gameplay itself was good, but I am very disappointed in the length of it.
I’ve played a little bit of multiplayer, and the mp system works OK, but I do miss being able to find a couple of favourite servers, and seeing the same people on those servers.
My biggest problem with the game though? No lean. I never realised just how much I rely on that ability until you don’t have it anymore. Particualry on urban levels if you want to just peek around a corner to take a shot, and you can’t. :mad: