The Nuke...

[CheckD3]

It's something you can't end up trying to get. The more you want it, the less chance you have of getting it. I remember when I won 18 FFA matches in a row, after the first few wins I chalked it up to a fluke, but every match I assumed would be my last one of the night since i planned on going to bed after it was over. Finally after 15 wins I went to bed, won 3 the next morning

I can't get the AC or chopper gunners w/o packages nowadays, unless I get lucky, but I find my style of playing is a mobile get in get out strategy, I once died 40 some times and had teen kills and was top of my team. It depends on how you play, some people can win w/o it, but the mode helps. Domination camping and running is a good way to get high kill to death ratio, as people are worried more about the points than the kills, and pulling in a chopper then a gunner seat reward can get you the nuke if you work at it, but the more you try the worst it'll get

 

[zombiestrangler]

My highest was 24 kills on demolition in sub base. Didn't have it unlocked though so it doesn't really matter. Right now I'm just trying to get extended mags for all the guns, which is a much easier goal than a nuke in my opinion.

 

[omega 616]

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I like you have yet to hit that magical button of doom but my highest kill streak was 30.

I basically go to what I know to be a higher traffic area, claymore 2 doors and crouch walk everywhere. Stay in one large building, don't sit in a corner camping move around but only in a confined space.

Harrier, chopper gunner, nuke is the best kill streaks, once you have the harrier up, hide sit in a corner with a shotgun in a quite area and prey nobody has a stinger. Scavenger and stopping power are musts. Be a dick and use over powered stuff, UMP (silenced) and AA12 Extended mags) are good.

Plant claymores in a certain way, like imagining walking through a door, it should be facing the direction your walking, so that runners will trip it by basically stepping on it and by the time it goes off they should atleast get a hit marker, alerting you to them and lowering there health preemptively. If you make the claymore face the door they will trip it at max range then by the time the explosion happens, there well past it and thinking "lol, noob".

Spoiler: like this

|_______V/_____|

Walking from the bottom of this spoiler box to the top. V = claymore, / = door

Hope that makes sense.

Granted there will be games were your playing with a bunch of morons and the other team could be winning tournaments but if I can get a 30 kill streak you can, I sometimes struggle to get a UAV (usually when I run and gun or the more popular, shoot and scoot)

 

[Above]

Congrats man, love using the UMP45 to get 'em.

 

[omega 616]

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The EMP is far from useless, when they have 2 harriers and a pavelow flying around, drop the EMP and your score will rocket, it will take down all three and make them play hardcore with more health.

Although if the enemy team is dominating that much, chances are you won't be able to get a 15 kill streak.

 

[pha kin su pah]

Uninstall the map packs, seriously, whenever i party up with friends who don't have either of map packs. i think after 10 TDM games, there wasn't one where i picked up under 30 kills.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Hope that makes sense.

Granted there will be games were your playing with a bunch of morons and the other team could be winning tournaments but if I can get a 30 kill streak you can, I sometimes struggle to get a UAV (usually when I run and gun or the more popular, shoot and scoot)

Ever notice how you always seem to end up on the godawful team where every one of your team-mates runs out into chopper gunner fire, refuses to shoot down air support, camps in corners instead of capping flags and generally sucks?

Then you're playing really well and suddenly boom, unavoidable Predator missile to the face.

Probably happens due to me playing alone, if I had a clan to back me up said task might be a bit easier.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Uninstall the map packs, seriously, whenever i party up with friends who don't have either of map packs. i think after 10 TDM games, there wasn't one where i picked up under 30 kills.

Hmmm... now that's an interesting idea. I guess its mostly the casual players who don't have the map packs.

 

[wooty]

I got my nuke in an airdrop once, the luckiest haul ever.

 

[mattttherman3]

ME2, I wanted to beat it on insanity, well on the collector ship I got stuck, as an infiltrator, so I restarted the game as a soldier and wrecked that place(and the game eventually).

 

[open trap]

Never tried, i just played search with friends, no fun without em, and any other game type will kill me.

 

[Macheteswordgun]

I've gotten it once on a friends account. I've only played one match lol

 

[lex.nero]

Being a stealthy ninja got me a nuke on Sub-base, every other map was camping like a *****. Got my first one on Afghan... Felt good man.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Kit yourself with this class:

FAL with teh toobes.
Akimbo TMP's or the RPG'z
Semtex.
Stun Grenades.
Scavanger Pro.
Stopping Power pro
Scrambler pro.

Harrier jump jets.
An Apache
Nuclear strike.

And camp somewhere un-obvious with a good view of the map.

It should work if not, the good old Marathon, Lightweight, Commando pro tactic should work.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Got the full nuke barracks unlock thingy through mainly normal play, dont like keeping it as a killstreak though as using it always seems a little stupid..

However, an easy method of getting nukes is to use a UMP with silencer, akimbo G18's, slight of hand / scavenger, stopping power and ninja pro. Harriers - Chopper gunner - Nuke.
It's horribly overpowered.

Oh and claymores, always claymores.

Kit yourself with this class:

FAL with teh toobes.
Akimbo TMP's or the RPG'z
Semtex.
Stun Grenades.
Scavanger Pro.
Stopping Power pro
Scrambler pro.

Wut, a single TMP is rather good (although prefer the PP2000), but akimbo has horrendous accuracy and a tiny magazine size.

 

[PrimoThePro]

I play for the fun of killing e'eryone, not to get anywhere. Ya, I'm probably that guy who prevented you from getting the nuke.

 

[Barry93]

I ain't never gonna get that nuke!

I've tried everything....

Running and gunning (very bad idea).

Watching vids on youtube of Hutch, Seananners, Thunder, Blame Truth, XCal, etc etc...

Camping in a corner like a pussy with Scavenger and a claymore.

Being a stealthy ninja.

Running Harriers, Chopper Gunner, Nuke - Harriers, AC130, Nuke.

I've even done the total MW2 douche move and played TDM in Domination.

Perhaps it's just my 30 year old reaction time getting the better of me, but I think I'm just destined to forever fail in this stupid (and yes, I know, pointless) compulsion I have to get that elusive nuke.

After getting Commando knifed on 24 kills yesterday, I don't think I want to even try anymore after the rather embarrassing level of rage it caused me

For those of you have have done it... tell us how you did it?

For those, like me, who have never gotten one... share your stories of failure and how you were prevented from getting it.

Coming from someone who got 13 nukes in two days: play domination (no respawn timer, easy camping kills), use the harrier, chopper gunner and nuke (obviously) as your kill streaks. The harrier and chopper gunner will do all your work for you; I once got 7 kills in a row, then those 2 kills streaks got me up to a 39 kill streak, only to be ended because my team won.

Use whatever class you want, as long as you're not running around, that would put your fate in that hands of luck; It's much easier to get kill streaks when you camp.

I would recommend ACR (no recoil, unlimited range) with heartbeat and silencer and the AA-12 with extended mags and grip, Perks: Bling, Stopping power, Ninja, all of which are on pro. You can't go wrong with that class. It's a noob class, you'll get a ton of hate mail from angry 10 year olds, but you're going for a nuke, so who gives a shit.

I have had my fair share of failed nuke attempts on a 24 kill streak; mostly due to claymores, n00b tubes, random grenades, and just plain bad luck. I don't use it anymore, if you able to get a 25 kill streak, why stop there? Why let the carnage end?

First nuke is always the hardest. Just use the harrier and chopper gunner on domination, then you'll see how easy they are.

 

[Vilhjalmir]

The first time I did it was on Free For All of all places highest KS though is 38 and that was with Harrier, Pavelow, AC-130.

Yeah, but I went Harrier, AC-130, Nuke.

FAL w/ FMJ and RDS
secondary was..idk, probably just M93 raffica FMJ and RDS.
Semtex and Flash Grenades.

Bling Pro
I actually had Hardline Pro on just for kicks which made all the difference, got sniped right after i got the 24th kill.
and Ninja pro for the heartbeat sensors.

It was in Rundown and I just snuck around from place to place near the gas station and all the bushes in the back of the map, countering all the attempted revenge kills Not sure if the details helped but yeah, I'd stick with the high KS-style at the least. GL and HF!