After a couple of days of Modern Warfare 2....Fuck off!

[Valkyira]

So I recently got back into Modern Warfare 2 as a friend of mine got Xbox Live. After about 3 days of playing, I must have received 18 messages from random people asking me to join quick-scoping, no-scoping, boosting, clan initiations and knifing games... One little shit actually asked me to donate $10-$15 so they could buy a new tv.

What the fuck is it with this game and little children asking me to boost? I just want to have a good time, playing the game with my friends. I usually mute everyone but that doesn't stop them sending me pointless messages.

Is anyone else bothered by this? Or is it just me taking it to heart?

 

[dragonslayer32]

I hate it, never before have I wanted to hit children so much. Just do what I do, report the boosters and block everyone else.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Yes, yes, MW2 is evil and wicked and so on, so forth.

I honestly think I could put a thread up listing the amount of MW2 hate threads, and it would be stickied by mods just for convenience.

 

[Valkyira]

I hate it, never before have I wanted to hit children so much. Just do what I do, report the boosters and block everyone else.

You're never going to play against them again so there's no point in blocking them.

I had the worst one this morning... A squeaky pre-teen asking me to join a boosting game and donate $15 so they could buy a new tv...

 

[Valkyira]

Yes, yes, MW2 is evil and wicked and so on, so forth.

I honestly think I could put a thread up listing the amount of MW2 hate threads, and it would be stickied by mods just for convenience.

Did you read the topic? It has nothing to do with the actual game, my friend.

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

Yes, yes, MW2 is evil and wicked and so on, so forth.

I honestly think I could put a thread up listing the amount of MW2 hate threads, and it would be stickied by mods just for convenience.

Thats a good idea, They would know where to look for the most violent threads then.


OT: I've never even played it and have no intention to. I've never even seen it be played in person.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Yes, yes, MW2 is evil and wicked and so on, so forth.

I honestly think I could put a thread up listing the amount of MW2 hate threads, and it would be stickied by mods just for convenience.

Did you read the topic? It has nothing to do with the actual game, my friend.

It had to do with the people on the game, and yes - that's where most of the complaint basis against MW2 lies.

 

[Mr. Cheese]

It's you, these people are the greatest addition to our time. I WILL NOT HAVE YOU BESMIRCHING THEIR GOOD NAMES!

 

[gamer_parent]

if anything, threads like these solidify my resolve to never touch the MW series.

 

[dragonslayer32]

I hate it, never before have I wanted to hit children so much. Just do what I do, report the boosters and block everyone else.

You're never going to play against them again so there's no point in blocking them.

I had the worst one this morning... A squeaky pre-teen asking me to join a boosting game and donate $15 so they could buy a new tv...

I would have went insane if I were you, voice messages can be quite powerful... I think for the most part, they do it to annoy people, some kids get like that on the internet, trying to be almighty and powerful. If you were to actually find one of these kids in real life, they would probably stand there and piss themselves. Also, when they use the word 'fuck' after every other word, like they just found it annoys me as well as them picking a fight with me for no reason. I just have a flat out argument with them, embarrass them and make them quit. I then send them a friends request... Sorry for the rant, felt like I had to get that off my chest.

 

[further]

Kids will be kids. They want to cause trouble, they want attention.
A few weeks ago, I got a message after a game calling me a fucking noob for using an M16. The person in question sounded under the age of 15.
After a few more days, I was playing with silenced scar, and after the game, I got a message from a completely different kid, calling me a fucking noob for using a scar. Go figure.

 

[Vampire cat]

The MW games (and most likely BC games) has one of the worst gaming cultures I have seen in games since I started playing, NO doubt. I think that is rather interesting, does these fast paced FPSs breed assholes and annoyance?

Yes, yes, MW2 is evil and wicked and so on, so forth.

I honestly think I could put a thread up listing the amount of MW2 hate threads, and it would be stickied by mods just for convenience.

I think you should...

Kids will be kids. They want to cause trouble, they want attention.
A few weeks ago, I got a message after a game calling me a fucking noob for using an M16. The person in question sounded under the age of 15.
After a few more days, I was playing with silenced scar, and after the game, I got a message from a completely different kid, calling me a fucking noob for using a scar. Go figure.

Except for quick-scoping/no-scoping (which are terms that should never have been made in the first place), which weapon/tactic can you use and NOT be called a noob for using it? TELL ME!

 

[Treblaine]

How could the Modern Warfare franchise have gone so wrong?

Killstreaks were a nice perk in COD4 but now they are just exploited to all hell, and the weapons have just gotten ridiculous. Why is a knife more valuable than a gun? Melee weapons that one-hit-kill, from any angle, with just a button push, have no place in a competitive multiplayer.

Plus it makes no sense that a small 6-inch blade can instantly kill anyone with a slash from any side... it's not like they've been hit with a lightsabre! I would modify the knife mechanics as so:
-draw time for knife when using rifle
-two hit kill from front (one hit kill if already weakened with fire)
-first hit = severe "blood screen splatter"
-One hit kill from behind if knife-button is HELD which does a grapple + throat slit manoeuvre
-MUCH shorter range of damage... maximum range only does light damage of a shallow cut.

But really the "melee" for close range combat should be hitting them with the buttstock for a stun-effect of dazing them and sending them stumbling back unable to aim. Successive hits kill, and 2x melee damage attacking from behind.

I'd also makes grenades less prone to abuse: variable fuse.

In fact this is realistic, modern military hand grenades have quite inaccurate fuses from as short as 3 seconds to over 5 seconds. So try to cook a grenade for a long shot and you may have it explode in your hand or at the very least high mid-air over the target.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Play it on PC!

I'm not trying to be all elitist, I swear, It's just on PC I don't usually receive messages asking me to do all that stuff.

Must be annoying as hell :|

 

[Polaris19]

The game itself is flawed as well.

I'm trading it in when I go get Reach. I've stopped playing it so no point in keeping it.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

It had to do with the people on the game, and yes - that's where most of the complaint basis against MW2 lies.

Em I have to strongly disagree with you there. A lot of complaints come from imbalanced gameplay due to lack of testing and cut back of several features from the PC release to control modding and squeaze some extra money out of the game from DLC. There are also many other valid reasons why the game is hated and not even have the hate is based around the community.

Why is a knife more valuable than a gun? Melee weapons that one-hit-kill, from any angle, with just a button push, have no place in a competitive multiplayer.

The knife is more valuable than the gun due to an imbalanced mechanic from CoD4 being boost by perks in MW2. The knife is also a one hit kill to keep it the same as the bashing technique from the other games. Being bashed by a rifle or pistol whipped on the skull is an instant kill. Also back then bashing required more skill as you did not lunge forward with it and had to aim the swing arc to hit them with it and bashing duels were quite fun. So with the mechanics of bashing and how they worked so well and that a proper bash from a soldier would either be a kill or knock you out I have to disagree that a 1 hit kill from any angle should have no place in competitive play. I would also like to add it was 2 hits from a pistol to kill unless you bashed then in the head. Thats right you could bash people in the head to kill them which I found great that they took that into account.

OT: Just block and report the people if necessary. They are just looking for similar interested people or the last person is being a twat. If you don't want to join just say no and if they persist in asking just block them.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Wow, i NEVER get messages like those...weird

Pretty much same here. I (almost) never get messages like that. I had literally a couple of messages asking me to join a clan who were boosting to Prestige 10, but other than that nothing. Even then, that was months ago (January, actually). I don't play MW2 as much as some people do, but I'll generally stick my head into the lobbies for an hour or so every day and have so far logged just over eight days of continuous play - I'd say that to only get two booster messages in about two hundred hours of play either makes me very lucky or the OP very unlucky.

 

[JWRosser]

I got a handful of messages but not many. Most are too inaudible to make out anyway. But they are all from kids who's balls have not dropped yet. Some of them make me laugh in game when they act all cocky, or continuously swear, or just take it WAY too seriously.