Battlefield Report: September 17, 2008
Editorial
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THIS REPORT IS LATE SOLDIER
THE ARMY DOES NOT TOLERATE HAPHAZARD WORK
SLOTHFULNESS CAN GET YOUR [[garbled]] PLATOON KILLED
HEAD DUTY FOR THREE WEEKS SON STARTING NOW
DEPLOYMENT IS NOT A [[garbled]] OPTION
[[suggest: I WILL]] TELL YOU WHEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DEPLOY
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Like Halo: Combat Evolved, I dare say that Modern Warfare changed the face of combat shooters that are played in the first-person perspective. The default controls of Modern Warfare have been ported to plenty of other shooters, securing its niche as one of the definitive games of this generation...so far.
With Modern Warfare 2 on the horizon, will its predecessor hold its place as one of the most popular online games played today? We don't know, but the recent flood of Modern Warfare 2 information has inspired your resident gun nut to return to the original; quite literally the first current-gen game that landed at the McLaughlin home.
Killstreaks are an event that occur several times in an online match, sometimes devastating and sometimes impotent. Getting three kills in a row without dying will grant you a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) scan, which shows the location of each enemy on your radar (provided that they do not have a jamming perk equipped). Five kills in a row is good for a one-time airstrike, and seven kills will get you an attack chopper that buzzes around the map for 30 seconds, mowing down anyone in the open.
LMAO! it should be talk like a pirate week
i never got into CoD4 multiplayer mostly because of XBL idiots. i can hold my own a lot better in other games, but for CoD4, you either need to be one of those guys that play 24/7 and learn every trick etc, or play with a group who actually communicate and work together. i've always been a bit annoyed by the perks and weapons too. a green player is under-equipped up against well-equipped seasoned players. that just doesn't make sense to me. i'd like a game like this that i can just pick up and play with my wife (oh yeah, forgot to mention, no split screen). i like the killstreak rewards in theory but i was rarely able to use them since i rarely got more than 2 kills before dying. obviously i've never found a good group to play with.
i'm hoping MW2 will be a little easier for noobs. i'm sure i'll like the campaign, i usually do, but i'd like to have some fresh multiplayer games i can really get into.
He still couldn't find me if I just moved to a different spot or hid in the bushes. It was fantastic! He was a good sport and we had fun together, he shipped off for a tour after that, but I saw him online a few times last fall. Hope he's well.
On the flip side, it also has a Veteran playlist that you can only reach after level 20, I think. I can't remember exactly.
There's also the Lone Wolf playlist, which doesn't allow parties, so the matchmaking will keep everyone around the same level.
Hopefully these sensibilities will carry over to Modern Warfare 2.
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