Your top 5: Things that grind your gears in MW2 multiplayer!

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effilctar

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One rule: always include an explanation. I know you're contributing to the discussion by simply telling us your five things but... not by much. We want reasons why you hate certain things, write as if you're trying to persuade someone to hate it too.

Now, without further ado, here are my top 5:

5: Care Package; Ah the care package. If you're a new player and are finding difficulty getting a high killstreak, call in a care package with a 4 killstreak(3 with hardline) and have fun with your little present from your friends in the sky.
Now I never really had a problem with this until yesterday afternoon whilst playing demolition. I am not exagherating here when I say that everyone on the opposing team had the care package reward. What annoys me about this is that there is only one killstreak reward which requires less kills than care package(UAV) and all the awesome killy ones require more kills. Infinity Ward never balanced out the care package rewards so the chances are you'll get a good reward most of the time with the occasional UAV.

4: The difficulty curve; This is probably just me but until I unlocked the ACR, the only way I could ever get a positive kill/death spread was by using a sniper and ranger akimbo combo. I'm all for rewarding hard work but as soon as you unlock the dual rangers you are a god of Modern Warfare. This in turn makes it harder for newer players and forces them to more objective based gameplay because when in a dual with a level 50, Scar-H vs ACR, who's going to win?

3: M9 w/ Tactical Knife; Now, I don't have much of a problem with this weapon combo, reward for hard work and such, no, my problem with this weapon is the people who use it as if it were a primary weapon. Everyone wants to take advantage of the better weapon unlocks but some just abuse the add-ons to the extent that it is in most ways a primary weapon to them, such as the grenade launcher or the akimbo weapons.

2: Model 1887 bling; Yet again, nothing wrong with Model 1887's Akimbo, simply the people who use them as a primary weapon, in particular the people who assign perks specifically to make the guns more powerful. I'm talking about Having Model 1887 with Bling(allowing akimbo and FMJ), stopping power and steady aim. This set-up gives the guns a ridiculous range and as I play objective based games which involve a lot of camping around one spot, it is all too easy for such a player to sneak up on you.

1: Tactical Nuke Whores; Now, I have no problem with someone wanting to get a tactical nuke in team deathmatch or free-for-all, but the reason this is the top thing which grinds my gears is that a lot of the time in objective games, there will be a bloke abandoning the actual focus of the game and running around trying to get as many kills as he can to unlock that nuke, and I personally believe that a player should not be rewarded for neglecting the objective of the game, especially not if their team is losing by a wide margin.
 

comadorcrack

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5. Marathon, lightweight, Tactical knife/Akimbo 1887
4. Scrambler
3. Counter UAV
2. Campers
1. Helicopter Gunner. It last just far too long!
 

effilctar

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TheNamlessGuy said:
5: It's not fun
4: It's full of whiny kids
3: It's just not fun
2: It's overrated
1: It's not fun
*Evil Eye* you neglected the first rule.
 

GundamSentinel

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3.The stupid amount of killstreak rewards flying around, half of any game is dodging Pave Lows and AC-130s...
2.Kids with mics, do I really need to explain?
1.Model 1887 akimbo, go practice your aiming, freaks.

Other than that I have no major points.
 

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My reasons for not liking it.

5. I do not have LIVE due to having no money so no online gaming for me.
4. See above
3. See 5
2. See 5 again
1. My mate is better on local split screen then me. Bastard...
 

DoctorNick

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5. I don't own the game, and cannot usually play it.
4. When I can play it, it's on split screen at my friends house and split screen can burn in hell.
3. My friend usually kicks my ass.
2. The cut-scene for the tactical nuke is really lame, using a nuke should be exciting dammit!
1. While I will probably buy this game, it will not be for some time because it ain't worth $60.
 

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Furburt said:
1. The ping (I played the PC version)
2. THE PING
3. THE PING
4. [HEADING=2]THE PING!!![/HEADING]
5. The hackers.

I can't give any specific reasons, but those explain themselves pretty well. I haven't played MW2 since.
Oh God the Ping
 

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1: Unlockables mean that new players are stuck with rubish weapons while the pro's get a much uneeded boost in arse kickery while the newbies get their asses kicked doubly hard

2: One hit kill melee attacks are acceptable in single player but in multiplayer melee attacks having insta kill just means that people can run and knife everyone.

3: Killstreaks, again infinity ward, why do you insist on tipping the balance in the favour of the team that is already winning? The arguement is presumably for flow but how does a tactical nuke help with flow exactly?

4: Deathstreaks are lame, Martydom? the grenade doesnt go off until the guy that knifed you has gone to stab my teammates eyes out, what is the point? Painkiller only helps for the first 10 seconds so you really have to rush to have it in effect.

5: Akimbo shotguns, They are neither fitting with the military feel nor do they make any sense for balance they are as bad if not worse than the knife
 

Kermi

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5. Lag that means I die when someone rounds a corner, because on their screen they strolled around the corner, lit a smoke then put their gun gently against my head and put their dick in my mouth as they pulled the trigger - instead of what I saw on my screen which is the insta-death a suffered while the enemy charged directly into my sights like I was shooting smoke.

4. People who collaborate in free-for-all games by using tactical insertion to repeatedly spawn next to each other and build up their killstreaks.

3. Akimbo 1887s.

2. Marathon/Lightweight/Commando + Tactical Knife (or worse - care package marker which makes you run at the speed of light).

1. People who complain about perfectly reasonable gameplay mechanics.
Oh no! All the best weapons are unlocked at higher levels! Uh, no. Honestly, once you prestige and have to start over with the FAMAS and M4A1 you learn it's not your weapons that sucked, it's you who sucked. Once you get used to the game you'll do fine - the more experienced players have the advantage like any other FPS. Besides, the pre-made classes work just fine if you haven't unlocked the perks you want for your custom classes.
Oh no! Killstreak rewards just give an advantage to the team that's already winning! Sure you can get anything but a nuke in a care package, except that most of the time it's something like a UAV, Counter-UAV or ammo which have limited benefits. If you do call in a Pavelow, Chopper Gunner or Harrier you're probably going to lose it to a Stinger or Javelin missile about ten seconds after you call it in.
 

Zephyer

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5: crappy maps
I don't think there's anything to say about that. The maps get old quick, and there probably should have been more of them.
4: Kids with mics.
Thank god there's a mute button.
3: People who whine in textchat about how everyone else is "cheating" instead of playing the game and pulling his/her weight for the team.
2: AC-130 and Chopper Gunner in carepackages
Really, it's like we're just seeing them too often now. Besides that, whats up with all the people trying to steal other players care packages?
1: People who can't use anything but their noob toobs.
You know who you are. Learn to aim and try a different weapon once in a while.
 

Vigilantis

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5. Maps got old...real quick by the second day of playing Modern Warfare 2 I was begging for a change up.

4. Nukes are annoying, I find myself often checking the scoreboard and scanning the kills and death ratio of everyone on the other team making sure none of them look to be building up a nuke, and if they are I have to take a good 5 minutes hoping to find them before they get it off

3. Campers, they get annoying at times and you end up camping to try to make back your losses

2. Tired of seeing everyone with dual shotguns run around like the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgement day with huge crowbars for hands

1. The "bullet lag" that shows me firing a RPG on my screen but instantly disappears if I am killed before the missile hits the ground. This also goes for the bullets, I'll unload atleast 5 bullets into someones head but if they kill me before the bullets hit the bullets apparently disappear in mid air. And then as if the game mocks me on the Kill Cam it shows me standing there like with a blank expression on my face. (This is not a connection problem mind you)
 

Professor Cubbage

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5.Thermal sights
What happened to actually using your eyes?
4.Noob tubes
It's basically 2+ free kills every life then you get people dying just to get more.
3.Nuke boosters
Ruins the game for everyone.
2.Akimbo 1887's
Especially people using them as a primary weapon. At least the tactical knife takes some skill.
1.Campers
OH MY GOD YOU FUCKING CAMPING SONS OF FUCKING BITCHES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!