@Scaff:
Maybe your right, I don't know, I was just throwing up ideas anyhow.
I too, like you have started playing the Spec-Ops missions, and they are superb. I have not played co-operatively yet, but I plan to some time. 👍
Hmmm... Those pesky riot shields, or, as I like to call them, 'the cloak of invulnravbility'. I was playing domination on Derail last night, and I came across two guys on the opposing team using them to great effect when capturing points.
In one instance, I fired a 40 directly at them when I saw them trying to capture A, but it was having no effect. I decided instead to aim for the wall directly behind them, and place a 40 there, but it still had no effect. I can't understand that. I assumed that the user was only protected from damage that was directed at their shield. Not so, I didn't even get the 'x' in my crosshairs to show that they had taken even a glancing blow from the 40.
I really feel like the only reason the game would be disturbing (and this applies to just the No Russian (airport scene) mission, is if you were somebody directly affected by 9/11 or some other terrorism.
I'm usulally gung-ho about killig innocent civilians in games, but 'No Russian' is very disturbing. I don't know why, but I am a grown man, and I quite literally had to stop shooting, because I was disturbed by what I was seeing and doing.
I honestly had to ask myself some serious qestions after playing 'No Russian'. For instance, why was I shooting at all? Why, without qestion, was I willing to follow the orders of someone I didn't even know? Was it acceptable to kill others just because everyone else was?
IW should be praised for 'No Russian', becuase it, like the AC130 level from COD4, raise some profound questions.
wallrunner
It's quite useless I've found in non-hardcore matches, because you're playing a lot closer and someone not able to tell you're an enemy (which is especially easy due to the vast differences in uniform) usually gets shot down quickly anyway.
Cold-blooded is not usless in core! I use it all the time, and I can tell you that it has saved me many times on many occasions, and allowed me to pull of manoevers that I could not do if I was not using it as a perk. It is how you use the perk that decides on whether it is useless or not.
I have a ghost famas setup that is undetectable (except for the ninja bug), and I can tell you that I have had great satisfaction and sucess in launching guerilla attacks, particularly in domination. Just because you are invisible to radar, does not mean you can run around like a mad man. Cold Blooded comes into its own when it is used as part of an overall strategy, and not just as a perk in itself.
Chopper or harrier, just floating in one spot, I wait for the lock-on, then it somehow avoid the target that is in my face. One time on Skidrow, the chopper was flying so low, it couldn't fly over the main building, so it was stuck. As it fought to fly over the building(it wasn't happening), I "locked on" my stinger, then fired. That chopper was so close, and was flying so low, the target literally looked like the broadside of the barn. It missed. 
