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Ahahaha, using the whole "Knife Class" thing with Marathon Pro/Lightweight Pro/Commando Pro is damn funny.

It's not useful 100% of the time but there's something nice about taking a break from the usual COD-style bullshit and just running around the map at super speed like an idiot and shanking everyone you come across. You can seriously lunge about ten feet through gunfire and still get people, it's ridiculous.

In the German version, you are able to prevent the explosion by pressing L1 R1 L1 R1 A B A B

This is exactly what I do whenever I'm playing free-for-all on Rust. It's surprisingly easy to rack up killstreaks just by running laps around the corner with the pipe that leads to the top of the central structure. Doesn't work for shit on larger maps, although I've been able to pull off knife-only five-kill streaks a couple of times just by darting around the house in Estate like a maniac.

Tried the knife thing last night and won a game on Estate with around 23 kills. Shit was hilarious when used with the riot shield, but much more useful with the knife.

Yeah, people let their guard down like crazy when they think they've got the house locked down on Estate. It's so easy to come in through the basement or using the log pile in the back to reach the second floor and just clean house when you're doing the knife thing.

Also knife class works on EVERY MAP, you just have to learn the fine art of bob and weave. That or keep a silenced weapon to pull out on the off chance you get caught in a long distance fight with little cover. I use the Pistol/Tac Knife and a silenced M16. Works wonders, especially halfway through the game when people aren't expecting you to just sight up and shoot them in the head when they turn a corner a ways from you.

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ALSO: Emergency Air Drops are the next best thing ever.

I was playing earlier with Kid/Vagrant Mugen and managed to rack up two Care Packages and an EAD, so I turn to him:

"Yo help me lock this area down I gotta drop this shit"
"aight dawg we got this"

We set up in an open parking lot, dump the signal grenades and take a knee. The EAD comes first and as we're picking them up the two regular Care Packages drop, and I turn just in time to see a big ass box fall out the sky and kill Kid. I could not stop laughing. If there is ever a kill-cam in this game I would actually want to watch, it would be that.

Can you imagine that shit, a big ass box coming down in slow-mo and hitting you right in the dome. I love MW2 more and more I play it.

I played through campaign two times on hard and veteran. Not such a big difference unless you get surrounded.
I loved the cinematic feeling, just like the first one, it had a lot of dramatic moments which I love in FPS games because it just looks more awesome through he viewpoint of a person, like being caught by a teammate or making leap of faith.

I'm a level 20 on multiplayer, I don't play as much because I pretty much suck. Sometimes I do well against people on my own level and then other times I get something like 4 kills and 11 deaths.
I did the mistake of getting precision airstrike while I should have gotten a chopper so now I need to wait 3 more levels before i can choose it.
I haven't touched spec ops yet because I'd rather hit it co-op. So if there are a few PS3 users who want to try it then go ahead and invite if you see me online.

Yesterday I was playing on Rundown and got killed by an exploding fire hydrant.

I did not know that could happen.

Shortly afterwards, I was knocked dead by a supply crate. :(

AHAHAHA, oh wow. So the game lets you join your friends Mercenary Team Deathmatch lobbies when they're in pre-game mode which I thought they wouldn't allow since that defeats the point, but damn is it funny.

Mo0 and I did this for about an hour and a half, and while sometimes you end up on the other team it's still great because of Party Chat.

"Is that you running up this building?"
::runs all the way around and stabs Mo0 in the back::

When we did get on the same team (a lot) we would run around all KNIFE SQUADRON and EMERGENCY AIR DROP mode, fucking people up all day (I think I went 38-5 or something stupid with a Chopper Gunner a bunch of other shit). Bait-and-switch is the best tactic. Have one dude run through an area and have the second come in and stab everyone in the back when they come out of hiding to kill the first one, who usually makes it away because of the bullshit speed.

Shit, we even had a random third guy start doing the knife shit with us. This. game. There's so much to hate about MW2 but if you play it all the wrong ways it becomes the funniest thing in existance.

Clearly I need to try this bullshit with you because all I see is the former, and get absolutely none of the latter in.

I tried to focus on pistol kills to get the tac knife but that only ended up pissing me off more.

Too bad you can't get any knife bonus with the best gun in the game, the 1887 shotgun.

The matchmaking in this game is retarded. Team A is full of level 15 noobs, Team B crowded with level 50+ pros. Match ends 1500-7500. What a surprise. Seriously.

It took me a couple of days to get the Tac Knife. Sometimes I'd have to stop and shoot people instead of knifing them when I got the drop on them. It's a lot easier in Merc TDM though. Once you hit 50 and get Akimbo pistols it stops being such a pain to do.

Also, lmao 1887 shotgun. People running around with those in Akimbo mode is the most ridiculous looking shit I've ever seen in my life. It looks like a dude with two long ass twig arms when they're sprinting.

But I'm here all night tonight. Hit me up in chat and we'll roll on dudes.

E: I joined yesterday after you left Skills, stabbed Toku and Desert about a million times, and they told me about how you ragequit.

Huh? Last night I quit because Toku couldn't hear me, or refused to acknowledge a single god damn thing I said.

I told him I was going to bed about half a dozen times, but he is pretty good at not listening. :(

Somewhat related to connection issues and ability to talk.

Game thinks I have Open NAT again (which I do). Haven't changed any router settings. Only read as open on day 1 and today, every other time I tried it was "moderate". I musta got me some magical mystic router powers.

This is because being a white canadian male you don't speak the language.

I talked to him just fine! Something about purple, grits, and Skills leaving if I recall correctly.

I was playing some hardcore headquarters this weekend, and I managed to kill 5 guys with a single Predator. There's a challenge for that. I was feeling good about it, until two minutes later, the only guy on their team who I did not kill with said Predator won the round with a Nuke.

Is anyone else finding that the matchmaking is getting worse? Of my last 20-or-so attempts to get in a game with other people it has randomly booted one of the people or not connected them on at least half of the attempts. I mean, it wasn't great to begin with but it seems to be getting worse.

Yeah the matchmaking sucks most of the time. First day I tried it people were already at incredibly high levels and maybe the game gave up trying to find a suitible match and decided to throw me in with high levels. Although Levels really don't mean shit here since I've seen 50's with 2 kills 14 deaths.
The biggest issue I've had on ps3 is that it has frozen on lobbies quite a few times and the connection to the host really isn't the best.
I pump a guy full of lead and he kills me with a headshot, I proceed to watch the kill cam only to find out that I never even shot the gun>?

We had a problem like that only once the other day but since then it's pretty much been business as usual.

We usually play as groups of 2-3 though, so not sure how that compares to how many you bring.

Penny Arcade! - Witchblades

It's like it's specifically ABOUT TAILS

Knifing people is the only way to make team deathmatch not boring as hell.

It's funny because Vagrant and I were playing this morning and somebody went "Why were the last ten kills knife kills?"

It never stops being fun. Ever.

I'm also learning to snipe, given the few rounds we've run into where knifing doesn't work.

But fuck yes, knives.

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Ahaha, it's so TRUE. People using the knife build actually move so fast they skip movement animations, and lunge from impossible distances.

So I learned how to do the like, 3 step infinite airdrop glitch today. It's hilarious and so god damn easy. This game is so fucking broken. All I need is hardline, then by 2 kills I'm pretty much guaranteed a shit ton of UAVs, pavelows etc. for the rest of the match.