i tried a different set of perks yesterday - bling (M4 w/ACOG and M203), scrambler and lightweight. whilst i had a decent domination game on derailed (second highest scorer with 1310XP) i didn't do any better in TDM or a High Rise domination match...
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I'm only 4 levels from reaching my first prestige.
Bling, Lightweight and Scrambler?
That is a one of the worst set of perks possible.
Bling will slow down your ADS time(compared to SoH), meaning that you'll probably need to move slower, ADS ahead of time, and in general play more defensively. While Lightweight gives you almost no advantage in a defensive situation, and Scrambler actually lets the enemy know where you're at, often before they even see you. There is no synergy between those perks.
If you like that build and do well with it, more power to you, but I would never willing, in any situation or game type I can think of, choose to use it.
That is a one of the worst set of perks possible.
Bling will slow down your ADS time(compared to SoH), meaning that you'll probably need to move slower, ADS ahead of time, and in general play more defensively. While Lightweight gives you almost no advantage in a defensive situation, and Scrambler actually lets the enemy know where you're at, often before they even see you. There is no synergy between those perks.
If you like that build and do well with it, more power to you, but I would never willing, in any situation or game type I can think of, choose to use it.
I'd have to agree-you're working at cross-purposes there.
My current setups...
Core: used on Sabotage as primary setup.
FAMAS + Grenade Launcher + Red Dot Sight
SPAS-12 Shotgun
Frag
Smoke
Bling Pro
Stopping Power Pro
Ninja Pro
Core 2: also used on Sabotage, use it when I need to get around quicker, or when bomb planting/defending.
FAMAS + Red Dot Sight
Thumper
Claymore
Smoke
Marathon Pro
Stopping Power Pro
Ninja Pro
Hardcore: Used on S&D games.
FAMAS + Red Dot Sight
Thumper
Claymore
Stun Grenade
Marathon Pro
Cold Blooded Pro
Ninja Pro
Pissed Off class: used when I'm not having a great game.
SCAR-H + Grenade Launcher
Thumper
Frag
Flash Grenade
Marathon Pro
Hardline
Ninja Pro
Core: used on Sabotage as primary setup.
FAMAS + Grenade Launcher + Red Dot Sight
SPAS-12 Shotgun
Frag
Smoke
Bling Pro
Stopping Power Pro
Ninja Pro
Core 2: also used on Sabotage, use it when I need to get around quicker, or when bomb planting/defending.
FAMAS + Red Dot Sight
Thumper
Claymore
Smoke
Marathon Pro
Stopping Power Pro
Ninja Pro
Hardcore: Used on S&D games.
FAMAS + Red Dot Sight
Thumper
Claymore
Stun Grenade
Marathon Pro
Cold Blooded Pro
Ninja Pro
Pissed Off class: used when I'm not having a great game.
SCAR-H + Grenade Launcher
Thumper
Frag
Flash Grenade
Marathon Pro
Hardline
Ninja Pro
i was basically messing around with different perks to see what they were like.
i'm now using Sleight of Hand Pro, Cold Blood and Steady Aim Pro. M4 w/FMJ and an AT4.
tried out the M240 and didn't much like it. think i'll stick to M4.
got my 300th kill with the M4, my 10th grenade kill and was promoted twice up to First Sergeant 1 today.
i'm now using Sleight of Hand Pro, Cold Blood and Steady Aim Pro. M4 w/FMJ and an AT4.
tried out the M240 and didn't much like it. think i'll stick to M4.
got my 300th kill with the M4, my 10th grenade kill and was promoted twice up to First Sergeant 1 today.
I'm glad it's not just me that has a ultra-cynical class set up for irritations.
Mine's;
ACR + Grenade Launcher
OMA
Stopping Power Pro
Commando Pro
Claymores
Favourite at the moment is using that on Salvage. The house situation near to flag C in Domination, you always get two or three people permanently setting up camp in there on the second floor. I'll just find an angle and then keep firing noobtubes up through the windows until they get the idea that they're not going to be safe sitting there. Ever!
OT but I started working my way back through W@W the other night on veteran. Nice to see that some things never change with Treyarch. How to represent the increase in difficulty; more enemy soldiers? smarter enemy soldiers? more accurate enemy soldiers? No, we'll just have them throw more grenades at you!
got a 'game winning kill' last night on TDM on 'Scrapyard'. in the big building at the one end, guy was by the door, ducked back behind it (outside) and i shot him through the door with my FMJ!
later had a shit game of Sabotage on 'Estate'. ended up with only 40XP for two assists. kept getting killed by a camping bastard near B no matter what i tried.
got promoted to First Sergeant II though...
later had a shit game of Sabotage on 'Estate'. ended up with only 40XP for two assists. kept getting killed by a camping bastard near B no matter what i tried.
got promoted to First Sergeant II though...
Is it just me, or are aimbots and wall hacks becoming more common on X-Box Live?
The most overt display came a night or two ago when I was playing a team deathmatch game on Estate. I spawned next to one of my team in the basement of the house, and watched my teammate get killed as bullets punched straight down through the ceiling above us killing him, and then me. I thought it looked odd, so I watched the kill cam, and sure enough the enemy was on the 2nd floor of the house, shooting straight down at us through the 2nd story's floor and the 1st story's floor also down into the basement, using an RPD with FMJ. And it was aimed fire, without an UAV or heartbeat sensor, or anyway of knowing we were in the basement.
I've run into wall hacks a bunch of other times, but generally they are not quite so overt and in my face.
The most overt display came a night or two ago when I was playing a team deathmatch game on Estate. I spawned next to one of my team in the basement of the house, and watched my teammate get killed as bullets punched straight down through the ceiling above us killing him, and then me. I thought it looked odd, so I watched the kill cam, and sure enough the enemy was on the 2nd floor of the house, shooting straight down at us through the 2nd story's floor and the 1st story's floor also down into the basement, using an RPD with FMJ. And it was aimed fire, without an UAV or heartbeat sensor, or anyway of knowing we were in the basement.
I've run into wall hacks a bunch of other times, but generally they are not quite so overt and in my face.
Aaahhh, I finally unlocked my beloved ACR again.
Just got my TAR back last night. I always have a special slot for it. Its called TUBE.
^
Last night after I unlocked the grenade launcher for the ACR, I decided to use it just for the heck of it, since I didn't have any sights unlocked for it yet. Next game was on Scrapyard; the timer counted down, and the match started. I flipped my grenade launcher on, aimed over the middle of the map towards the opposing corner, and fired.
BOOM! Double kill First Blood. Normally I hate people who do that kind of stuff, but I just had to try it. It was hilarious.
Last night after I unlocked the grenade launcher for the ACR, I decided to use it just for the heck of it, since I didn't have any sights unlocked for it yet. Next game was on Scrapyard; the timer counted down, and the match started. I flipped my grenade launcher on, aimed over the middle of the map towards the opposing corner, and fired.
BOOM! Double kill First Blood.
Normally I hate people who do that kind of stuff, but I just had to try it. It was hilarious. 
Well, tonight I got it in my head that I was going to get a nuke...
I went with a Pave Low, AC130, Nuke setup.... FAMAS RDS/Silencer, M93R (mini-FAMAS) RDS/Silencer, Bling Pro, Stopping Power Pro, SitRep Pro, Flashbang and Semtex and I was playing Ground War playlist...
There were plenty of unremarkable games where I couldn't get a good killstreak started... But there were a few games that stood out.
First, I was on Storm, Domination... Not a lot of Ninja Pro on the other team so I can hear their approaches, I do a pretty good job and get up to 9 kills... I unleash the Pave Low.... It gets me to 11 and I unleash the AC130... I get 8 kills out of it, they shoot it down probably 50 percent of the way through the timer, and then the Pave Low goes down a couple of seconds later... so I guess I got their attention. I take out another two guys... but then a riot shield guy runs up the stairs... I'm out of flashbangs and my semtex, so I have to take him on the hard way... just as I do my jump and shoot down at his head attempt another guy runs up the stairs and POW.. AIMBOT! That's right, I lost a very doable nuke at 21-0 to some asshole with an aimbot. That was probably the most frustrated I've ever been with this game, and anyone who plays MW2 online knows how frustrating it is on a regular basis
I thought I should probably quit at this point, but I'm a glutton for punishment, so I decide to swap out the AC130 for chopper gunner... aware of the fact that I can't deploy it until my Pave Low goes away... anyway Storm, Domination comes up again a few games later... hanging around defending A... again... unfortunately the entire team left this time for greener pastures leaving them to start spawning there... I somehow am winning a series of 3v1 in close range with my decidedly medium to long range setup... and get up to 9... I unleash the Pave Low.... It's shot down without getting a single kill. I kill another two guys and try to run for some cover... but they must've seen me break for my hiding spot because as I bring out the laptop to unleash the chopper gunner... I see a guy round the corner and shred me to bits. To add insult to injury the Chopper Gunner is also shot down without any kills. It really sucks though, because the 11 kills I got were probably the most impressive I've ever gotten without killstreaks... I've gotten longer killstreaks, but this was a real highlight reel, minus the reward fails.
Karachi, Domination comes up, and we're spawn trapping them pretty good at C after a while, the kills are coming but I use up all my ammo, have to pick up an ACR FMJ off of some unfortunate corpse... for some reason we actually take C so I got to attack A... get the Pave Low... it starts racking up kills... I get the Chopper Gunner, but can't deploy. I pop up out of my hiding spot and score an epic triple kill, and my Pave Low eventually goes away. But someone else got a Pave Low in... so I have to stay alive a while longer... eventually his Pave Low goes away... or maybe it's shot down, not sure, it didn't seem to take that long now that I think about it... and I go to deploy my Chopper Gunner. A couple of seconds after I bust out the laptop, while the Apache is still making its way to the map I get smashed with a stun grenade.... I KNEW I should've moved after the triple kill, that was three pissed off people who could make a break for payback. We had gotten A back too so it was coming from the C side which was now my flank as well, where I had no support... OK, it's a bad situation... BUT, my Apache is coming in for the save, I locate the cursor that indicates my position, and I see the bad guys approaching, I line up the shot, squeeze the trigger... HOST MIGRATION! My Apache flies uselessly to where a building blocks the shot and I'm killed, I don't even get up to what would have been 25 kills because the migration took so damned long that I lost half of my Apache time to it. Sooooooooo frustrating.
Final game of note, Domination on Overgrown. I usually mash the skip button and beg everyone to do the same when that map comes up... I swear 40 percent of the games I play end up being on Overgrown for some reason. But, I know it's a longer range map where my FAMAS setup has a decent chance to survive, so I don't even try to round up the usualy failed skip. Starts off pretty badly, I hit some sniper with about 4 bursts to the head, but apparently they were hitting the top of the tank or whatever, because he never got all that hurt, and eventually sniped me, over by B... I have trade a couple of kills with them as we get pushed back out of A as well, so after I die in my attempt to save A, I start working from C, around the bridge on the gas station side towards B. Anyway, they're camping the building right next to B pretty hard, as people often do... I'm picking them off in windows, running out the front, etc... there's a whole bunch, I think they're spawning there... we push pretty hard and almost take B but in the end we all get wiped out except for me.... I'm at a streak of 8 at this point, with at least 4 angry bad guys in open space coming for me... to make matters worse i get hit FLUSH with a flashbang as I'm trying to withdraw... by some miracle my completely random blind retreat gets me behind a box. I had tried to go prone but I was next to the box in a way where it plain wouldn't let me, and I didn't know because I COULD NOT SEE! For some reason nobody manages to kill me even though I was shot once or twice... I get my bearings and pick off a guy for kill number 9... I run away towards the gas station as fast as I can and deploy the Pave Low to let it do the heavy lifting. At this point I'm down to just a little bit of M93R ammo and nothing else anyway...
I make it around the gas station and hide in that nook behind it, hoping that nobody saw me... Anyway, one guy did apparently see where I went, and rounds the corner with G18s of all things just as I started to feel comfortable in my hiding spot! I fire off a Raffica burst in a complete panic, and it kills him with me about half dead... but is that it? Of course not... he had Martyrdom death streak... the grenade indicator pops up, and well, he's on one side of me, no time to run across, and on my side... I'm stuck in my hiding nook... I run to the very corner of it, the grenade explodes, making my screen completely red, but doesn't kill me. At this point I know my hidey hole is completely compromised, our attack on B has completely failed, but we have taken A, so I'm pretty much clear across the map from anyone that's on my team. I start running along the edge of the map towards the ravine, as soon as I'm healed... just as I dip into the ravine... I'm shot again... I make it to the other side, go into the deep grass and plop onto my stomach. *pop* *pop*, I'm shot again! So I make another desperate sprint past C, and behind one of the hay bails just in time for the Pave Low to finally go away, springing my Apache to do its work. Most of them hole up in that building by B where I can't really get to them, but enough stay outside and keep spawning to where I earn the tactical nuke, and earn maybe another 5 to 7 kills with the Apache before it leaves. At this point I have no interest in getting disconnected or something and deploy the nuke immediately, finishing the round at 45 and 6! Should've been 47, but 0.5 seconds before it hit some jackass on my team scores a double kill Danger Closer Thumper style!
The other team (well, the 50% or so that's in a clan) compliments me on the nuke, appreciating the fact that I earned the Pave Low pushing forward and not camping at the back, but they assure me that I'm not going to get another. I agree with them with them wholeheartedly, explaining that there's no way I'm not going to end on that and play another round!
I guess all's well that ends well, but man that was a struggle!
I went with a Pave Low, AC130, Nuke setup.... FAMAS RDS/Silencer, M93R (mini-FAMAS) RDS/Silencer, Bling Pro, Stopping Power Pro, SitRep Pro, Flashbang and Semtex and I was playing Ground War playlist...
There were plenty of unremarkable games where I couldn't get a good killstreak started... But there were a few games that stood out.
First, I was on Storm, Domination... Not a lot of Ninja Pro on the other team so I can hear their approaches, I do a pretty good job and get up to 9 kills... I unleash the Pave Low.... It gets me to 11 and I unleash the AC130... I get 8 kills out of it, they shoot it down probably 50 percent of the way through the timer, and then the Pave Low goes down a couple of seconds later... so I guess I got their attention. I take out another two guys... but then a riot shield guy runs up the stairs... I'm out of flashbangs and my semtex, so I have to take him on the hard way... just as I do my jump and shoot down at his head attempt another guy runs up the stairs and POW.. AIMBOT! That's right, I lost a very doable nuke at 21-0 to some asshole with an aimbot. That was probably the most frustrated I've ever been with this game, and anyone who plays MW2 online knows how frustrating it is on a regular basis
I thought I should probably quit at this point, but I'm a glutton for punishment, so I decide to swap out the AC130 for chopper gunner... aware of the fact that I can't deploy it until my Pave Low goes away... anyway Storm, Domination comes up again a few games later... hanging around defending A... again... unfortunately the entire team left this time for greener pastures leaving them to start spawning there... I somehow am winning a series of 3v1 in close range with my decidedly medium to long range setup... and get up to 9... I unleash the Pave Low.... It's shot down without getting a single kill. I kill another two guys and try to run for some cover... but they must've seen me break for my hiding spot because as I bring out the laptop to unleash the chopper gunner... I see a guy round the corner and shred me to bits. To add insult to injury the Chopper Gunner is also shot down without any kills. It really sucks though, because the 11 kills I got were probably the most impressive I've ever gotten without killstreaks... I've gotten longer killstreaks, but this was a real highlight reel, minus the reward fails.
Karachi, Domination comes up, and we're spawn trapping them pretty good at C after a while, the kills are coming but I use up all my ammo, have to pick up an ACR FMJ off of some unfortunate corpse... for some reason we actually take C so I got to attack A... get the Pave Low... it starts racking up kills... I get the Chopper Gunner, but can't deploy. I pop up out of my hiding spot and score an epic triple kill, and my Pave Low eventually goes away. But someone else got a Pave Low in... so I have to stay alive a while longer... eventually his Pave Low goes away... or maybe it's shot down, not sure, it didn't seem to take that long now that I think about it... and I go to deploy my Chopper Gunner. A couple of seconds after I bust out the laptop, while the Apache is still making its way to the map I get smashed with a stun grenade.... I KNEW I should've moved after the triple kill, that was three pissed off people who could make a break for payback. We had gotten A back too so it was coming from the C side which was now my flank as well, where I had no support... OK, it's a bad situation... BUT, my Apache is coming in for the save, I locate the cursor that indicates my position, and I see the bad guys approaching, I line up the shot, squeeze the trigger... HOST MIGRATION! My Apache flies uselessly to where a building blocks the shot and I'm killed
, I don't even get up to what would have been 25 kills because the migration took so damned long that I lost half of my Apache time to it. Sooooooooo frustrating.Final game of note, Domination on Overgrown. I usually mash the skip button and beg everyone to do the same when that map comes up... I swear 40 percent of the games I play end up being on Overgrown for some reason. But, I know it's a longer range map where my FAMAS setup has a decent chance to survive, so I don't even try to round up the usualy failed skip. Starts off pretty badly, I hit some sniper with about 4 bursts to the head, but apparently they were hitting the top of the tank or whatever, because he never got all that hurt, and eventually sniped me, over by B... I have trade a couple of kills with them as we get pushed back out of A as well, so after I die in my attempt to save A, I start working from C, around the bridge on the gas station side towards B. Anyway, they're camping the building right next to B pretty hard, as people often do... I'm picking them off in windows, running out the front, etc... there's a whole bunch, I think they're spawning there... we push pretty hard and almost take B but in the end we all get wiped out except for me.... I'm at a streak of 8 at this point, with at least 4 angry bad guys in open space coming for me... to make matters worse i get hit FLUSH with a flashbang as I'm trying to withdraw... by some miracle my completely random blind retreat gets me behind a box. I had tried to go prone but I was next to the box in a way where it plain wouldn't let me, and I didn't know because I COULD NOT SEE! For some reason nobody manages to kill me even though I was shot once or twice... I get my bearings and pick off a guy for kill number 9... I run away towards the gas station as fast as I can and deploy the Pave Low to let it do the heavy lifting. At this point I'm down to just a little bit of M93R ammo and nothing else anyway...
I make it around the gas station and hide in that nook behind it, hoping that nobody saw me... Anyway, one guy did apparently see where I went, and rounds the corner with G18s of all things just as I started to feel comfortable in my hiding spot! I fire off a Raffica burst in a complete panic, and it kills him with me about half dead... but is that it? Of course not... he had Martyrdom death streak... the grenade indicator pops up, and well, he's on one side of me, no time to run across, and on my side... I'm stuck in my hiding nook... I run to the very corner of it, the grenade explodes, making my screen completely red, but doesn't kill me. At this point I know my hidey hole is completely compromised, our attack on B has completely failed, but we have taken A, so I'm pretty much clear across the map from anyone that's on my team. I start running along the edge of the map towards the ravine, as soon as I'm healed... just as I dip into the ravine... I'm shot again... I make it to the other side, go into the deep grass and plop onto my stomach. *pop* *pop*, I'm shot again! So I make another desperate sprint past C, and behind one of the hay bails just in time for the Pave Low to finally go away, springing my Apache to do its work. Most of them hole up in that building by B where I can't really get to them, but enough stay outside and keep spawning to where I earn the tactical nuke, and earn maybe another 5 to 7 kills with the Apache before it leaves. At this point I have no interest in getting disconnected or something and deploy the nuke immediately, finishing the round at 45 and 6! Should've been 47, but 0.5 seconds before it hit some jackass on my team scores a double kill Danger Closer Thumper style!
The other team (well, the 50% or so that's in a clan) compliments me on the nuke, appreciating the fact that I earned the Pave Low pushing forward and not camping at the back, but they assure me that I'm not going to get another. I agree with them with them wholeheartedly, explaining that there's no way I'm not going to end on that and play another round!
I guess all's well that ends well, but man that was a struggle!
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i was playing domination on Rust yesterday and got 12 kills and 12 assists for 96 deaths but did i get a streak? did i buggery.
it was mad though there was a streak reward going off about every other minute as someone either deploys a precision airstrike, a harrier or a stealth bomber. several emergency airdrops and care packages coming on both sides too, i managed to nick someone's airdrop and bag the Sentry gun, set it up, get one kill and then it gets destroyed.
got a great kill though, where some OpFor guy dives in the oil pipe at the side. i hose the pipe with my M4/FMJ. note where the + gets the X for a hit and then loose off another burst at that point and BAM! deadmeat.
had a great one Tuesday, my 300th M4 kill on Underpass. guy was camping/sniping opposite C. i was behind the shipping crate in front. he finally stops firing - reloading i 'spect - so i half step out, blaze off a long burst and hit him - distance shot (+50XP) with no scope - against a sniper! i'm using FMJ now, and was amazed i got a distance kill with no scopes...
it was mad though there was a streak reward going off about every other minute as someone either deploys a precision airstrike, a harrier or a stealth bomber. several emergency airdrops and care packages coming on both sides too, i managed to nick someone's airdrop and bag the Sentry gun, set it up, get one kill and then it gets destroyed.
got a great kill though, where some OpFor guy dives in the oil pipe at the side. i hose the pipe with my M4/FMJ. note where the + gets the X for a hit and then loose off another burst at that point and BAM! deadmeat.
had a great one Tuesday, my 300th M4 kill on Underpass. guy was camping/sniping opposite C. i was behind the shipping crate in front. he finally stops firing - reloading i 'spect - so i half step out, blaze off a long burst and hit him - distance shot (+50XP) with no scope - against a sniper! i'm using FMJ now, and was amazed i got a distance kill with no scopes...
I had a good run this weekend, including a single game jump from upper L27 to mid-L29(34Kexp) but I noticed a lot more BS going on. Too many games with hacks-and I am not one to complain if it happens once in a while but seriously, 3 hours of it last night! One game, a guy named Neighborhood G went 27 and 2. His 2 deaths? We double-Harrier ed him for one and used a B2 for the other. Nothing else would kill him, including a 4 tube attack by me and a teammate that caught him in open ground...This kind of crap was going on all weekend. Someone needs to regulate.
I still get the normal horde of messages offering 10th prestige lobbies, but in the last week or so they have started claiming to offer aimbots and wall hacks and other crap in those lobbies as well.
Hopefully they can patch a fix on all that crap soon.
Hopefully they can patch a fix on all that crap soon.
Yeah, the aimbots and wall hacks are out of hand. Turns out, the glitch is infectious and persistent so just playing on the same team as someone who has it can give it to you-if they have the gate opened for you. I don't want that crap....
Wait.... you mean that even if you leave the specific server, you'll still have the hacks? I haven't played in a couple weeks- is this still mainly an X-Box issue or has PC playing gotten pretty rough too?
Yeah, the aimbots and wall hacks are out of hand. Turns out, the glitch is infectious and persistent so just playing on the same team as someone who has it can give it to you-if they have the gate opened for you. I don't want that crap....
