Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare

[Stevisiov]

What if you guys made a NA account for CoD, would it tell you that you need to download the patch or would it recognize that you are in EU?

That might work, but I would have to start over, and I will have cruddy weaponry. So its probably not worth it.

 

[Beerz]

I've tried it, didn't work.

However, I did get a lot of fun killing guys with higher ranks because they saw my '1' rank and thought I was a total noob...

BTW, my NA PSN-ID is TexasBeerz. But I usually only use it to download new stuff from the US PS Store, since the EU Store really sucks.



EDIT: icelt - right on with 'Harvester of Sorrow´, when I first read the words on your post it was exactly what came to mind. I guess you can say I'm a... fan.


Anyone else noticing that some people (more lately), despite not having the Juggernaut, require a lot more bullets to die as well? I'm thinking it's because of the lag, until they fix the servers. That's why lately, with a few hundred thousand more people playing, it's been getting worse.
On one of the matches we did last night (Pipeline), I was using an iron-sighted M4 (recently unlocked), saw Stevisiov90 at a distance and started bursting at his torso. The aim was dead-on, but nothing was happening. Went through an entire clip without the game detecting any hit on the opponent. Changed mags, and while I was short-bursting halfway through the 2nd clip, he spotted me and killed me normally, as you´d do with someone who's standing still for almost 30secs.
After that, I changed to the RPD, and things improved a bit, but not by much, as clear hits were not being detected at times.
Still, on the ones we played that was the only one where I noticed this happening. Still, it's annoying.
I've had some matches where I go through half a mag of an RPD (and they're big) on the same guy, who's standind about 30 feet away from me, just to knock him down, since most of the bullets that hit him don't show up as a hit, as if I'd missed.

Anyone else had this problem?

 

[Stevisiov]

I've tried it, didn't work.

However, I did get a lot of fun killing guys with higher ranks because they saw my '1' rank and thought I was a total noob...

BTW, my NA PSN-ID is TexasBeerz. But I usually only use it to download new stuff from the US PS Store, since the EU Store really sucks.



EDIT: icelt - right on with 'Harvester of Sorrow´, when I first read the words on your post it was exactly what came to mind. I guess you can say I'm a... fan.


Anyone else noticing that some people (more lately), despite not having the Juggernaut, require a lot more bullets to die as well? I'm thinking it's because of the lag, until they fix the servers. That's why lately, with a few hundred thousand more people playing, it's been getting worse.
On one of the matches we did last night (Pipeline), I was using an iron-sighted M4 (recently unlocked), saw Stevisiov90 at a distance and started bursting at his torso. The aim was dead-on, but nothing was happening. Went through an entire clip without the game detecting any hit on the opponent. Changed mags, and while I was short-bursting halfway through the 2nd clip, he spotted me and killed me normally, as you´d do with someone who's standing still for almost 30secs.
After that, I changed to the RPD, and things improved a bit, but not by much, as clear hits were not being detected at times.
Still, on the ones we played that was the only one where I noticed this happening. Still, it's annoying.
I've had some matches where I go through half a mag of an RPD (and they're big) on the same guy, who's standind about 30 feet away from me, just to knock him down, since most of the bullets that hit him don't show up as a hit, as if I'd missed.

Anyone else had this problem?

Funny you should say that as at pipeline you where on the hill, I shot at you multiple times with an m4 also but it wouldn't lock onto you, I went through an entire clip but hit nothing nor get the auto aim. You ran off up the hill so I shot at you again and killed you. You had definetly seen me because you faced me the whole time, yet neither of us hit each other despite firing 30 rounds each. It was very weird indeed I couldn't understand why you wern't shooting back as I had been shooting at you for a while.

 

[Beerz]

Really?!... Man, that was weird. I only saw your fire when they were hitting me!



HAPPY 2008, EVERYONE!!!

 

[Famine]

Lag is annoying me today - I knifed someone and was then shot in the spine. Killcam showed me nowhere near knifing them.

That and unequal assignments of teams. 10 players, three under level 10, 2 Prestiges and 3 in the 30s. The teams? Team 1: Lv 10, Lv 7, Lv 1, Me (Lv 22), Lv 30; Team 2: Prestige 1, Prestige 2, Lv 33, Lv 30, Lv 19.

And then our Lv 30 dropped out. Nice and fair.

 

[Stevisiov]

Really?!... Man, that was weird. I only saw your fire when they were hitting me!



HAPPY 2008, EVERYONE!!!

Yeh I emptyied a clip into fresh air, then reloaded and then I shot at you again. This took place on the hillside right, that is the one you where talking about I assume?

 

[Beerz]

Yeah, we stood there for a while... I was shooting 'at you' and thinking: "this is so sweet; a still target". But the bullets weren't hitting you. Same on the other end, it seems...


I just had probably the worst match ever on Bloc; 7-7.
I'm thinking it was maybe the 3/4 bottle of Jack Daniel's I've been drinking. But right after that, I've done great on other matches. Go figure...

 

[icelt]

BTW, my NA PSN-ID is TexasBeerz. But I usually only use it to download new stuff from the US PS Store, since the EU Store really sucks.

Kinda pointless commentary here but had you known you could have gone with "LoneStarBeerz" or "ShinerBeerz" and then really caught the hoppy flavor of the area... or heck even "PearlBeerz" (an all time favorite of the cheap skate college set ) 12-pack of Pearl bottles was like only $8 back in the day, well in my day at least.

EDIT: icelt - right on with 'Harvester of Sorrow´, when I first read the words on your post it was exactly what came to mind. I guess you can say I'm a... fan.

Glad someone picked up on it. I have a hard time believing there aren't more Metallica fans here. I mean Enter Sandman, Ride the Lightning, Shortest Straw are all near prefect theme songs for this game. Great names for weapons too now that I think about it. "Oh did I just open a quarter slot in your noggin'? Well the Shortest Straw had been picked for you."

 

[Formula1Driver]

isn't it "Ride the Lightning" not "Right the Lightning", anyways I used to be a big Metallica fan but now I am all about Lamb of God, I think their songs would be perfectly suited for the US/IRAQ battles. If I could listen to Lamb of God I would be in the army like right away cause it gets you so pumped like "WHATEVER JUST LET ME GO KILL SOME TERRORISTS!!"\

EDIT: Happy New years by the way guys, hopefully you guys can get the patch sometime in 2008 and then we can do that NA/EU tourney.

 

[Giancarlo]

I played at my brother in-law's last night, and i'm already hooked. Gonna pick it up ASAP.

 

[Beerz]

Lag is annoying me today - I knifed someone and was then shot in the spine. Killcam showed me nowhere near knifing them.

That and unequal assignments of teams.

Yup, it's really weird on close confrontation; you're shooting the guy dead-on, he kills you and the killcam shows you shooting the other way, as if you had no idea where the other guy was.
And team assignment puts (on too many occasions) players with the highest score on the previous match on the same team, Vs those who scored less. Also, with an uneven number of players, it most times assigns the extra player to the already 'best' team...

I played at my brother in-law's last night, and i'm already hooked. Gonna pick it up ASAP.

Awesome, join the fun!


icelt - "Where the Wild Things Are", "Master of Puppets" or "Wasting My Hate" would be totally awesome. Nick Cave would sound really cool over slo-mo game footage. 👍

 

[magburner]

Yup, it's really weird on close confrontation; you're shooting the guy dead-on, he kills you and the killcam shows you shooting the other way, as if you had no idea where the other guy was.

So its not just me then!!! That's so frustrating...

The other type of lag I don't like is the one where you seem to be firing blanks. Last night I basically unloaded an entire clip on a guy at close range and from the rear. god only knows what I looked like on the Kill cam. I was like 'WTF!? Die fatherless idiot who has bears a striking resemblance to his mother genitalia!' Well words to that effect...

Other times, I'll be rattling some guy, and again the bullets seem to be missing their mark, only for him to step out of my line of fire, and promptly drop dead! Lag is funny sometimes, mostly thought, its frustrating as hell!

Are you guys online tonight? Silly question I know, how about an invite yeah? I enjoyed gaming with you guys the other night. Is Mr Claymore going to be online too?

 

[icelt]

icelt - "Where the Wild Things Are", "Master of Puppets" or "Wasting My Hate" would be totally awesome. Nick Cave would sound really cool over slo-mo game footage. 👍

All great serious entries, but how about some gag ones. Like "Singing in the Rain" playing when one gets riddled by an attack helicopter

Speaking of which, does anyone know if they modeled the helos to have relative strong and weak spots, specifically the tail rotor for instance? Or does it simply take a set amount of bullets/rockets, stricking anywhere on the fuselage, before the game considers it shot down?


And of course a Happy New Year to all the GTP lead dealers in the US, NA and those spots across the pond where the real history comes from (to quote Eddie Izzard)

 

[Beerz]

magburner - Those things really make me lose it sometimes.
And I'll be on for sure.

icelt - I think the damage is the same, regardless of where it's hit.
Didn't knew the brands you mentioned, but come to think of it, 'CarlsbergBeerz' would sound good.

Just found my new favourite setup: M4+silencer+Bandolier+Stopping Power+Bullet Penetration (or martyrdom, depending on the map).


Also, found this guy on a match today with a stock M249SAW that killed anyone with 3 or 4 bullets on the torso, WITHOUT Stopping Power! That's a relatively weak weapon (hence the high fire-rate), never saw that happen before.
To make things worse, he had the JuggerNoob (as I afectuously call it these days), which meant direct confrontation resulted almost always on me dropping dead.
Oh, he also had the Last Stand, which combined with the JuggerNoob meant that if I missed a single bullet, I'd be forced to reload and get killed by his M9...

 

[magburner]

Just found my new favourite setup: M4+silencer+Bandolier+Stopping Power+Bullet Penetration (or martyrdom, depending on the map).

Welcome to the club pal, I've been using the M4 silenced for a while now. 👍 I have a slightly different configuration to you though. I use M4+silencer+Bandolier+uAV Jammer+Dead Silence - I'm practically a ghost in game. You need the Bandolier though, because you need to fire almost double the amount of ammunition to drop a guy than without the silencer. I am also starting to use a silenced M16, now that is the part! 👍

 

[Stevisiov]

I am online now, how about a match later.

 

[Beerz]

I'm going online now, invite me. Multiple times if you have to, you know how it works (or doesn't).


Took my M16+RDS for a spin this afternoon (to unlock the silencer and get the 500 points), and had the game of my life on Pipeline; I killed a guy, then got killed, then did a 22-kill streak until the end! That's right, 23-1.


Also, on another match, I picked someone's M14+RDS, and man, that's a SWEET combo. truly awesome combination for both accuracy and sheer power. Can't wait to get back at level 46 to unlock it and use it regularly. I always liked it, but since I never got the RDS, I though it lacked accuracy. Was I stupid...


magburner - don't you miss the Stopping Power? JuggerNoobs must be a (greater) pain without it...

 

[Stevisiov]

I will start a game once I am happy I have a stable internet connection, at the moment its barely functional, I keep getting connection interuppted which ruins everything.

 

[icelt]

icelt - I think the damage is the same, regardless of where it's hit.

Yeah that's kinda the feeling I have too. I keep meaning to try and target the tail rotor as a test, but have yet to remember to do so.

Didn't knew the brands you mentioned, but come to think of it, 'CarlsbergBeerz' would sound good.

Perfectly understandable as they are all locally brewed Texas beers. It probably wasn't clear enough in my original post but I did try with including those links. No big whoop, just playing around

Also, found this guy on a match today with a stock M249SAW that killed anyone with 3 or 4 bullets on the torso, WITHOUT Stopping Power! That's a relatively weak weapon (hence the high fire-rate), never saw that happen before.
To make things worse, he had the JuggerNoob (as I afectuously call it these days), which meant direct confrontation resulted almost always on me dropping dead.
Oh, he also had the Last Stand, which combined with the JuggerNoob meant that if I missed a single bullet, I'd be forced to reload and get killed by his M9...

Somewhat similar, last night in TDM I saw a guy with an iron sighted M-16 (no silencer or RPG though), stopping power and deep penetration just casually walking around picking people off 1 by 1. He was so casual I got the feeling he was ex-military or just kinda a traditionalist in swearing off using the RDS or ACOG. Of course with that weapon if your initial aim is true one three round burst is all it takes, naturally in my hands it usually requires at least 6

I use M4+silencer+Bandolier+uAV Jammer+Dead Silence - I'm practically a ghost in game.

I tried that damn thing once right after I unlocked it and won't go back again for sometime. Of course my aiming still has a ways to progress.

 

[Stevisiov]

I unlocked the G36 today, but my game wont connect so I cannot test it.

p.s beerz are you ever offline on COD4? I don't think I have ever been online when you not on.

 

[Beerz]

What the hell?...
I went online a while ago, did a match, and at the end of that match I got the "DOWNLOADING GAME SETTINGS" screen. Meanwhile, the intermission ended (I still had the DGS screen), and it froze solid while loading the map for the match.
Nothing worked, I had to turn the PS3 off on the Power button.
I put the game on again, and now whenever I try to go online, moments after the DGS screen shows, I get a black screen error saying: 'unable to connect to Activision Matchmaking (error 33)'.

What the hell is that? And should I take comfort in the fact that at least I'm getting an error with an assigned number?...


EDIT: Yeah, I sleep occasionally. Plus, I restart work tomorrow so I'll be on 'a bit' less from now.

 

[Mr P]

I have been trying to connect for the last 15 mins now and its downloading settings screen time again here also

 

[G.T]

It's the same on the 360 as well. Over the past week in the evenings it seems their servers get busy and you can't even download your game settings anymore. Sometimes it randomly freezes, sometimes it loads but your settings haven't been loaded at all without notification. And when they do load, you can't find any games, or "unable to connect to game".

 

[magburner]

Damn those servers are doing my nut in! I had the same as you Beerz, except I was just about to start a round! IW need to get a proper grip of the situation and sort this mess out!!!

 

[Stevisiov]

I have been getting error 33 for the last 20 minutes, I checked online and found I am not the only one with this problem, I have no idea what to do, apparently I have to reset my router, but that is not an option at the moment.

[edit] it appears I am not the only one.

 

[Omnis]

They might be prepping for the content update.

 

[Beerz]

Man, this never happened in Resistance; they have dedicated servers which (for me) work flawlessly, not to mention their online mode has a ton of different things that make everything much easier and damn near perfect.

And I hope this doesn't REQUIRE a router reset, as I don't have one...


Omnis - it would be awesome if that was the case.

 

[icelt]

I feel for you European players especially knowing that the connection patch is just sitting around waiting for approval by some SCEE manager.

Random question - how in the hell do some of these cats keep up a 4+ K/D ratio after 13,000 some odd kills? Should we consider these guys legit or glitchers?

 

[magburner]

They might be prepping for the content update.

I doubt it, IW aren't even back from their Crimbo jollies yet!

 

[Formula1Driver]

I have gotten the "Error 33" a couple times and also got a message saying "You must be signed in with your Playstation Network Account to play" after I have already checked and signed in. The Error 33 one went away for me after I quit the game from the PS button and started the game up again, worked both times for me.