Modern Warfare 2: game in progress

“Find Game” is not good enough. It should give 2 options of “Find new game” or “Find existing game”. And why won’t it? Because almost no-one would join the latter.
If I get joined into an existing game the first thing I do is check the scores. If there is 1 death or less I will stay. Any more and I quit. Doesn’t matter which level, I’m out. Don’t the idiots at Infinity Ward realise that when you join an existing game you don’t know what is going on? Apart from the shooting and killing you are lost, at least I am. The fighting moves, you know where people will be and are less likely to be. On some maps you know for a fact where they will not be. This isn’t because of the little map, it’s because you know how the fighting has evolved, you know where deaths you have seen are and more importantly more of an idea where the gunfire came from. I am way more likely to get shot joining an existing game than I am a new start game. And I have lost count of the number of times I have spawn and either been blown up by a grenade or shot by air support before I’ve been able to even move. So dumping me into an existing game means instant exit.

Underpass. Camper’s bloody paradise. Hate the level, won’t play the level. I’ve done my time there, had some good games there but campers and their little heart monitors annoy me intensely. If Infinity Ward can stat my shots then can sure as hell have a “Chicken Camper!” at the end of each level. Drop into a corner for 3 reasons only: 1. Recovery, be there for no more than 10 seconds 2. Reload in the middle of a firefight 3. Care package detail. That’s it. If you sit behind claymores, in a corner and with a monitor you should have a 60s respawn delay. No less. Next time I see one and I’m mic’d up I’ll call them out. No doubt they’ll come after me but that’ll be fun.

How many times have you seen a winning kill where the bullets never hit? Heaps.

Stood over a sniper on Derail, aimed directly at his head, no headshot! Aimed directly at someone crouching in the corner (not a camper) and shot them in the head, no headshot! Shot blindly in the direction of others and got the headshot. In fact I’ve shot numerous on Rundown where I can only see the slightest bump across a good distance and not had a headshot. So wtf is going on there then?

Grenades and Thumper grenades passing straight through objects. Works every time shooting a Thumper into the aircraft cockpit on Terminal. Annoying. Also happens on the sandbags protecting the big machine gun in Skidrow. Even more annoying when there are 2 enemy there, I’m up for a double kill and they hear the noise but get no death. I die fast though.

But lag. I’ve played Burnout Paradise for over 550 hours and I remember no lag ever. They bought proper servers. Yet IW’s decision to host on individual machines brings cheating and lag lag lag. I don’t mind dying but when I’m knifed and the screen comes back to show the killer a long way off it sort of annoys me. Happened earlier on Quarry – I saw him, then I saw him a lot closer and then he shot me at no range at all. I had no chance.

Can’t be alone in hating Infinity Ward for the numerous flaws in this game an I could go on and on and on. Oh – matchmaking? Game earlier. 8 people. My side: 3 of us had prestiged once, the other guy was on his fourth prestige. Other side? No prestige. None. Can’t have been hidden prestiges as I’ve seen this happen many times. Guess which side wins? Guess which side probably hate IW for not having a clue? It’s not like there aren’t enough people around is it?

I think I’ll play Fallout 3.