I've not been having too bad of a time on my Veteran run. Admittedly, I'm only at the market, but Wolverines! was nowhere near as hard as I thought it would be.
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Okay...FUCK whoever thought up the genius gamechat-only-or-you-get-kicked idea. It is now impossible for my friends and I to have any amount of communication without some jackass telling us exactly how "faggy" (?) we are, or some other jackass to talk about how stoned he is. Granted, we can mute them, but this never should have been implemented
I'm not sure if anyone has tried to offer a suggestion to this already (i'm like 8 pages behind)
But for anyone trying to play multiplayer with their friends, here's an alternative to party chat:
Step One: Go to Xbox.com and log in to your account
Step Two: From your profile page, click on Privacy Settings (it's just to the right of your avatar)
Step Three: The top option should say Voice and Text. Set it to Friends Only. Save.
Now whenever you play "Modern Warfare 2" multiplayer you'll only hear people you are friends with.
Basically, you set your "Voice and Text" option to Friends Only. BAM, problem solved . I'm not sure if you can do it from your console though. The website only explains how to do it through Xbox.com.
Maybe we could add this to the OP for anyone else wondering how.
You're a god among forumers for finding this. Thanks.
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Oh, I've been wondering this, is there any difference between the holographic sight and the red dot beyond the shape of the dot you're looking at?
so about the cold blooded perk, it says to destroy 40 enemy killstreak rewards. Is just shooting down aircraft and taking out sentries or is there more to it.
It makes sense that hijacking an enemy care package would count towards it, but I can't confirm that.
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I was really annoyed that when I fired up the campaign they had to ask me about playing through the offensive content. Anyways, continuing in spoiler:
I feel like similarly bad things have been done in video games. Maybe people will interpret it differently because you are supposed to shoot civilians, but anyone who gets seriously upset over that needs to calm down. On to the actual substance of the airport scene. I feel like it does a nice job of exposing how terrible war is. It draws parallels to civilian causalities in full scale battles, but the chapter is more poignant because it is a condensed slaughter. I don't know how I feel about the end, when Allen (or whatever your dude's name is) dies. It illustrates how indispensable people are in war, and how ultimately pointless Allen's sacrifice was. But there was no development afterwards, and you were whisked away to Brazil. By doing that, I think that my actions actually lose power. IW sets up an interesting scene, but then doesn't explore the concepts at all.
Whatever. I came for the multiplayer. Single player is mostly just an interactive movie.
It was good, though it didn't have the same shock that CoD4's ending did, and the plot was so full of holes it was incomprehensible.
Some questions (if they're answerable/anyone can be bothered):
2. Why the hell does Shephard shoot Roach and Ghost and go all crazy?
From what I can gather, I think Shephard wanted the war to continue, and anything that would implicate Makarov in the airport assault and possibly end the war and Shephard's quest to be the modern-day Patton needed to go away. That included the surviving members of Task Force 141.
Shepard mentions losing 30,000 troops at the blink of an eye and that's why he's pissed, was this anything to do with the *COD4 spoiler*
Nuke detonating in COD4 in Paul Jackson's campaign
I just realized something...
Modern Warfare 2 = The Rock. The pissed off General who tries to get recognition for all the men who died under his command... except instead of being semi-sane like Ed Harris he's just completely insane and, uh, ends up getting a whole war going and crippling the U.S. and... and... I still haven't figured out exactly what his long term goals were. Seriously. Someone help me here.
Then you have the flares scene which is a huge homage to the end of The Rock with Nic Cage using the flares to call off the air strike on Alcatraz. I, ah, can't think of any other scenes from The Rock and MW2 actually.
Anyway, I guess Modern Warfare 3 = Invasion of Russia. I'm surprised the Russians haven't denounced the game or whatever what with the whole Russian airport massacre etc. etc.
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Okay...FUCK whoever thought up the genius gamechat-only-or-you-get-kicked idea. It is now impossible for my friends and I to have any amount of communication without some jackass telling us exactly how "faggy" (?) we are, or some other jackass to talk about how stoned he is. Granted, we can mute them, but this never should have been implemented
I'm not sure if anyone has tried to offer a suggestion to this already (i'm like 8 pages behind)
But for anyone trying to play multiplayer with their friends, here's an alternative to party chat:
Step One: Go to Xbox.com and log in to your account
Step Two: From your profile page, click on Privacy Settings (it's just to the right of your avatar)
Step Three: The top option should say Voice and Text. Set it to Friends Only. Save.
Now whenever you play "Modern Warfare 2" multiplayer you'll only hear people you are friends with.
Basically, you set your "Voice and Text" option to Friends Only. BAM, problem solved . I'm not sure if you can do it from your console though. The website only explains how to do it through Xbox.com.
Maybe we could add this to the OP for anyone else wondering how.
You're a god among forumers for finding this. Thanks.
I have to head off to work now, but I'll add this to the OP when I get back.
It was good, though it didn't have the same shock that CoD4's ending did, and the plot was so full of holes it was incomprehensible.
Some questions (if they're answerable/anyone can be bothered):
2. Why the hell does Shephard shoot Roach and Ghost and go all crazy?
From what I can gather, I think Shephard wanted the war to continue, and anything that would implicate Makarov in the airport assault and possibly end the war and Shephard's quest to be the modern-day Patton needed to go away. That included the surviving members of Task Force 141.
Shepard mentions losing 30,000 troops at the blink of an eye and that's why he's pissed, was this anything to do with the *COD4 spoiler*
Nuke detonating in COD4 in Paul Jackson's campaign
I just realized something...
Modern Warfare 2 = The Rock. The pissed off General who tries to get recognition for all the men who died under his command... except instead of being semi-sane like Ed Harris he's just completely insane and, uh, ends up getting a whole war going and crippling the U.S. and... and... I still haven't figured out exactly what his long term goals were. Seriously. Someone help me here.
Then you have the flares scene which is a huge homage to the end of The Rock with Nic Cage using the flares to call off the air strike on Alcatraz. I, ah, can't think of any other scenes from The Rock and MW2 actually.
Anyway, I guess Modern Warfare 3 = Invasion of Russia. I'm surprised the Russians haven't denounced the game or whatever what with the whole Russian airport massacre etc. etc.
also the bathroom scene
also, RE: Ghost
the same voice actor voiced Ghost and Gaz
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Then you have the flares scene which is a huge homage to the end of The Rock with Nic Cage using the flares to call off the air strike on Alcatraz. I, ah, can't think of any other scenes from The Rock and MW2 actually.
The shower scene is straight out of The Rock. One of the Rainbow Six games used it too.
Okay...FUCK whoever thought up the genius gamechat-only-or-you-get-kicked idea. It is now impossible for my friends and I to have any amount of communication without some jackass telling us exactly how "faggy" (?) we are, or some other jackass to talk about how stoned he is. Granted, we can mute them, but this never should have been implemented
I'm not sure if anyone has tried to offer a suggestion to this already (i'm like 8 pages behind)
But for anyone trying to play multiplayer with their friends, here's an alternative to party chat:
Step One: Go to Xbox.com and log in to your account
Step Two: From your profile page, click on Privacy Settings (it's just to the right of your avatar)
Step Three: The top option should say Voice and Text. Set it to Friends Only. Save.
Now whenever you play "Modern Warfare 2" multiplayer you'll only hear people you are friends with.
Basically, you set your "Voice and Text" option to Friends Only. BAM, problem solved . I'm not sure if you can do it from your console though. The website only explains how to do it through Xbox.com.
Maybe we could add this to the OP for anyone else wondering how.
You're a god among forumers for finding this. Thanks.
Okay...FUCK whoever thought up the genius gamechat-only-or-you-get-kicked idea. It is now impossible for my friends and I to have any amount of communication without some jackass telling us exactly how "faggy" (?) we are, or some other jackass to talk about how stoned he is. Granted, we can mute them, but this never should have been implemented
I'm not sure if anyone has tried to offer a suggestion to this already (i'm like 8 pages behind)
But for anyone trying to play multiplayer with their friends, here's an alternative to party chat:
Step One: Go to Xbox.com and log in to your account
Step Two: From your profile page, click on Privacy Settings (it's just to the right of your avatar)
Step Three: The top option should say Voice and Text. Set it to Friends Only. Save.
Now whenever you play "Modern Warfare 2" multiplayer you'll only hear people you are friends with.
Basically, you set your "Voice and Text" option to Friends Only. BAM, problem solved . I'm not sure if you can do it from your console though. The website only explains how to do it through Xbox.com.
Maybe we could add this to the OP for anyone else wondering how.
You're a god among forumers for finding this. Thanks.
IW gets microsoft to remove this in 10... 9...
Why?
Wasn't IW's thing they didn't want dead folks talking to live ones? This just looks like an additional filter, thus adding more restriction on who you can talk to, not less. I don't see why IW would care.
Ok, stupid question, but is it possible to gain weapon EXP in private matches? I really want the tactical knife addon, but it seems suicide to try to kill that many people with a pistol in a normal game. I might have a chance if I do a deathmatch game with my friends and we all agree to pistols only or something.
The effects and awe moments were great, but the actual story had way too many plot twists, to the point where it diluted the effect. I also didn't think the end tied up the whole russian war loose end. Do we presume that the attacks stopped? Soap and Price obviously are exiled after being labeled traitors, and I would think in the end Shepard would get his way - that is, to be painted a hero and an influx of patriotism (not that a major attack leveling DC would not have already done it). I always like COD storylines, and I liked this one overall, but there I felt it was too "omg twist" the entire time. Where was the consistency?
Ok, stupid question, but is it possible to gain weapon EXP in private matches? I really want the tactical knife addon, but it seems suicide to try to kill that many people with a pistol in a normal game. I might have a chance if I do a deathmatch game with my friends and we all agree to pistols only or something.
The USP was my favorite pistol (not counting the M1911) in CoD4, so I actually still put it in a fair amount of my builds. I've been having way too much fun with the M4 and SCAR to use my secondary though
Also I got two AC-130s from care packages today, makes me wish I could actually get a hardlined 10 kill streak so I can rain death more often. I'm completely fine with care packages and Predator missiles though
Big surprise, all of the Army dialogue sounds unauthentic.
Modern Warfare 2: Things Are Oscar Mike Edition
edit: dammit boomer.
As far as I can make out, it means 'on the move'. One of the guys in ODST says it as well, but it took until now for me to actually try and think about it.
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Okay, so for some reason I've yet to understand, Cpt. Price fires a nuke. Then, we cut to some astronaut just chillin in space while a full-scale invasion happens in America and a few seconds later--boom, the ISS is blown up and said astronaut dies.
Wait, what. Why did Price fire the nuke and why did it blow up the ISS?
Okay, so for some reason I've yet to understand, Cpt. Price fires a nuke. Then, we cut to some astronaut just chillin in space while a full-scale invasion happens in America and a few seconds later--boom, the ISS is blown up and said astronaut dies.
Wait, what. Why did Price fire the nuke and why did it blow up the ISS?
Price detonated the nuke in Earth's upper atmosphere in order to cause a huge Electromagnetic Pulse right above the main force of the Russian invasion in America, disabling all but their basic ground troops. Yes, it would hurt the American technology in the area, but as was pointed out earlier in this thread, we just have to bring in tanks and helicopters from a few states over, Russia has to bring them in from fucking Russia, so the EMP hurt them a lot more than it hurt us. Price's analogy was using a large explosion to remove the air and suffocate an oil fire.
The part with the ISS was just the most Michael-Baytastic way of showing the nuke going off. The ISS was a casualty, not the target. It was hit by the nuke's shockwave.
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The effects and awe moments were great, but the actual story had way too many plot twists, to the point where it diluted the effect. I also didn't think the end tied up the whole russian war loose end. Do we presume that the attacks stopped? Soap and Price obviously are exiled after being labeled traitors, and I would think in the end Shepard would get his way - that is, to be painted a hero and an influx of patriotism (not that a major attack leveling DC would not have already done it). I always like COD storylines, and I liked this one overall, but there I felt it was too "omg twist" the entire time. Where was the consistency?
Just finished it as well, and I would have to agree with you. Too many plot twists, none of which were really tied up. I was actually let down. They were probably hoping their cool knife throw ending sequence would distract people from the fact that they had no real ending. I think the story was told very well; there just wasn't much to it.
I love riot shield so much. I've only seen maybe 3 other people using them in the 6 or 7 hours I've played so far. Because of that it seems people have no idea how to handle them, and when I come charging around the corner they usually shit their pants.
Good players will sidestep and knife me, or stick some semtek to it and run but the majority so far just cry as I bonk them over the head with it.
Okay, so for some reason I've yet to understand, Cpt. Price fires a nuke. Then, we cut to some astronaut just chillin in space while a full-scale invasion happens in America and a few seconds later--boom, the ISS is blown up and said astronaut dies.
Wait, what. Why did Price fire the nuke and why did it blow up the ISS?
Price detonated the nuke in Earth's upper atmosphere in order to cause a huge Electromagnetic Pulse right above the main force of the Russian invasion in America, disabling all but their basic ground troops. Yes, it would hurt the American technology in the area, but as was pointed out earlier in this thread, we just have to bring in tanks and helicopters from a few states over, Russia has to bring them in from fucking Russia, so the EMP hurt them a lot more than it hurt us. Price's analogy was using a large explosion to remove the air and suffocate an oil fire.
The part with the ISS was just the most Michael-Baytastic way of showing the nuke going off. The ISS was a casualty, not the target. It was hit by the nuke's shockwave.
Stop spreading lies!
There are no shock waves in space. They pretty much fucked up the physics on this one. The nuke detonated waaay too far away to actually blow away the space station.
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I've not been having too bad of a time on my Veteran run. Admittedly, I'm only at the market, but Wolverines! was nowhere near as hard as I thought it would be.
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You're a god among forumers for finding this. Thanks.
It makes sense that hijacking an enemy care package would count towards it, but I can't confirm that.
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Whatever. I came for the multiplayer. Single player is mostly just an interactive movie.
I just realized something...
Then you have the flares scene which is a huge homage to the end of The Rock with Nic Cage using the flares to call off the air strike on Alcatraz. I, ah, can't think of any other scenes from The Rock and MW2 actually.
Anyway, I guess Modern Warfare 3 = Invasion of Russia. I'm surprised the Russians haven't denounced the game or whatever what with the whole Russian airport massacre etc. etc.
I have to head off to work now, but I'll add this to the OP when I get back.
also, RE: Ghost
IW gets microsoft to remove this in 10... 9...
Why?
Wasn't IW's thing they didn't want dead folks talking to live ones? This just looks like an additional filter, thus adding more restriction on who you can talk to, not less. I don't see why IW would care.
Also:
Anyone? Bueller?
My humor detector is broken. I must have heard people bitch about that in almost every game I've played.
Nope, for exactly that reason.
I've been running around a bit with the .44 that's included in one of the stock classes. It's good fun.
Also I got two AC-130s from care packages today, makes me wish I could actually get a hardlined 10 kill streak so I can rain death more often. I'm completely fine with care packages and Predator missiles though
You talking just pistols or machine pistols too? I just got the G18 (2nd machine pistol) and its actually really nice to just use as a primary weapon.
Unless the G18 has the tactical knife addon, it's not included in what I'm talking about.
So who's hotter, Shakira or Biel
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Fucking IW/Activision...
the army uniforms are wrong too...
i kept trying to figure out what Oscar Mike ment, i have never heard that being used once since ive been in the army
Modern Warfare 2: Things Are Oscar Mike Edition
edit: dammit boomer.
As far as I can make out, it means 'on the move'. One of the guys in ODST says it as well, but it took until now for me to actually try and think about it.
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But then again those guys are assholes who never listen.
Especially Oscar.
Seriously. It seems like they simply watched Generation Kill for research.
That's right. We say Charlie Mike (Continue Mission) in the Army.
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Fucking respawn points and continues. When you die the game should destroy itself.
Wait, what. Why did Price fire the nuke and why did it blow up the ISS?
Hurrrrrr
When a game developer has a multi-million dollar budget they could at least hire a consultant to make the game feel more authentic.
Is Generation Kill any good
Because I've been thinking of watching it
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The part with the ISS was just the most Michael-Baytastic way of showing the nuke going off. The ISS was a casualty, not the target. It was hit by the nuke's shockwave.
Good players will sidestep and knife me, or stick some semtek to it and run but the majority so far just cry as I bonk them over the head with it.
Yeah, but once you see it, it's becomes blatantly obvious that IW just ripped the dialogue.
Stop spreading lies!
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