CoD 4 - Questions and Annoyances
CoD 4 - Questions and Annoyances
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Kuroblack350

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1,388 posts

229 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Ok, we all know how monumentally cool this game is, but just wondering what people's annoyances are..? My pet hates are:

1. Those chumps that think it's good to stand at one edge of the map and lob grenades in a random manner - twots! 'Wet Work' is a pain for this, it's a grenade fest!

2. Those chumps who have a kill count of 35 in a single game, with a death count of 34!!!

That's really my only critisism of this game - why don't the scores reflect your death rate? Sure some bod who slots 10 and gets killed once is the better player..??

Ah well, back to the 'bloc' for some sniping action smile

ps. Anyone know what the small chart represents (after your name) on the online game summary page..?

fleetelise

2,425 posts

241 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Kuroblack350 said:
ps. Anyone know what the small chart represents (after your name) on the online game summary page..?
reprents the quality of your connection to the host - like a mobile phone signal indicator

Raify

6,556 posts

277 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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1. Knives that work from 5 metres away against a shooting opponent.

2. Helicopters + Airstrikes. They completely spoil the tactical part of the game

Civpilot

6,257 posts

269 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Camping snipers on block wink

Camping snipers who end the game with hardly any deaths and low kills, thus reducing the total team score, thus ensuring the defeat wink

and last but not least....

The "grenade of Gay" perk wink

Everyone plays the game the way they want to play it at the end of the day.

Edited by Civpilot on Wednesday 13th February 10:41

Civpilot

6,257 posts

269 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Why did my post appear twice?

Edited by Civpilot on Wednesday 13th February 11:11

JustinP1

13,363 posts

259 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Raify said:
1. Knives that work from 5 metres away against a shooting opponent.

2. Helicopters + Airstrikes. They completely spoil the tactical part of the game
I agree to a certain extent, but on the other hand the rewards for the 5 and 7 kill streaks mean that you *do* have to be tactical, and it is something else which sways you away from the 34 kills but 35 deaths scenario.

I think the people running around getting 34 for 35 are those wanting quick points to get up a level. That is the way the game is set, so you can run around 100% of the time with small arms and you will probably have a 50/50 success rate.

Kills/deaths is not the be all and end all. There is a reasonable proportion of games I am left with 25 kills for a couple of deaths or less as a sniper, and on the other hand then on the other hand I have been 15 kills for 25 deaths...

...when on Domination I am on a team with a load of noobs who sit and defend a single flag until the time ticks out, and I am the single poor sod sacrificing myself with no support trying to get the difficult 'B' flag in the centre!

Raify

6,556 posts

277 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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The kill streaks are badly thought out.

Get 3, and you have UAV which means you're more than likely to get 5. Wham, hit a few with the airstrike and you have a chopper.

There was no skill involved in getting kills 4-7+ at all.

Kuroblack350

Original Poster:

1,388 posts

229 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Raify said:
1. Knives that work from 5 metres away against a shooting opponent.

2. Helicopters + Airstrikes. They completely spoil the tactical part of the game
Yup, what's that about..?

Nothing quite like emptying an entire clip into a running opponent just for them to knife you. I mean, WTF are these guys made of..?

...And another thing, that 'drop a grenade when you die' stuff is just plain wrongsmile Can't count how many times I've done that...

thetrash

1,860 posts

235 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Kuroblack350 said:
Ok, we all know how monumentally cool this game is, but just wondering what people's annoyances are..? My pet hates are:

1. Those chumps that think it's good to stand at one edge of the map and lob grenades in a random manner - twots! 'Wet Work' is a pain for this, it's a grenade fest!

2. Those chumps who have a kill count of 35 in a single game, with a death count of 34!!!
1. Lobbing grenades is an easy way to get kills at the start of a game because you know where the opposition are roughly going to be. Likewise you know that the other side are going to do the same so it's easier to avoid. Also it's a good way to kill campers who are hard to kill if they have a faster connection than yourself.

2. I play the objective games online mostly and killing as many of the opposition as possible is more important than than trying to get a good kill/death ratio. Getting 10 kills and one death means that you are camping and waiting for people to walk past a doorway,etc and getting an easy skill less kill.

I have noticed lately that sometime if a host team is losing a game they will quit just before the end and the game will result in a draw.

Raify

6,556 posts

277 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Kuroblack350 said:
Raify said:
1. Knives that work from 5 metres away against a shooting opponent.

2. Helicopters + Airstrikes. They completely spoil the tactical part of the game
Yup, what's that about..?

Nothing quite like emptying an entire clip into a running opponent just for them to knife you. I mean, WTF are these guys made of..?

...And another thing, that 'drop a grenade when you die' stuff is just plain wrongsmile Can't count how many times I've done that...
The first scenario has been explained to me as a lag issue (ie, you didn't fire / he'd already kinfed you before you did)

Martydom isn't that bad IMO. At least it punishes the people who blast you in the back at point blank range Tony Martin style.

MK4 Slowride

10,028 posts

237 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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I'm often one of those 35 kills 34 deaths people, but I don't care I like to get stuck in. Also as I'm doing a fair bit of killing I'm preventing the enemy from getting UAV, Airstrike, Chopper etc.

Allah grenade on hardcore team deathmatch is annoying but just means you can't fight alongside your team mates if they have it on.

The idiot kids you get.

My broken mike frown I can't give people shit or swear lots very depressing.


O/T Get my post yet Civpilot?

Civpilot

6,257 posts

269 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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MK4 Slowride said:
O/T Get my post yet Civpilot?
I'm at work today mate, but I have arranged for someone to take in any post as I also have another watch arriving today. Will be online tonight I should think so will drop you a message smile

MK4 Slowride

10,028 posts

237 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Civpilot said:
MK4 Slowride said:
O/T Get my post yet Civpilot?
I'm at work today mate, but I have arranged for someone to take in any post as I also have another watch arriving today. Will be online tonight I should think so will drop you a message smile
I might be on tonight although I think there's football on so could be out & about.

chris watton

22,547 posts

289 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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I have only, thus far, only played in SP. The only ‘annoyance’ for me is the fact that enemies will spawn ‘ad-infinitum’ until you have completed what the level requires you to do. This does spoil the experience a little for me, and shows it’s ‘on rails’ credentials a little too much.

Other that that, I love it!

Rocco Stigfredi

1,801 posts

239 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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grenade spammers.

the fact that nobody ever works together...

scorp

8,783 posts

258 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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High deaths is only an issue in team death match, otherwise having 35kills/34deaths is fine, they might have spent the match been tenaciously defending the HQ for all you know.

TheCaseAce

700 posts

240 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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The fact that everyone else except for me seems to have the superhuman x-ray binocular periscope eyes 'see you from the other side of the map, through a wall, and kill you just by looking at you' perk. Some of the killcam replays you see are just astonishing.

Also annoying - you can't have a red dot sight AND a silencer. I appreciate it's for balancing purposes but FFS. Makes the silencer useless, i think because the standard sights are awful.

scorp

8,783 posts

258 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Raify said:
The kill streaks are badly thought out.

Get 3, and you have UAV which means you're more than likely to get 5. Wham, hit a few with the airstrike and you have a chopper.

There was no skill involved in getting kills 4-7+ at all.
Yeah the heli should come online after 10-12 imho. In hardcore the heli is practically "man of the match".

Nuclearsquash

1,329 posts

291 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Airstrike spammers really really pee me off. It should limit the number of airstrikes available per round, especially on the smaller maps.

Emptying a clip into someone for them to kill you with one shot, but yes that is a lag issue.

Cannot connect to host error when i get an invite from you guys!

MK4 Slowride

10,028 posts

237 months

Wednesday 13th February 2008
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Nuclearsquash said:
Cannot connect to host error when i get an invite from you guys!
I had this, quick re-boot of the box = sorted!