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I have:
35 Hours of Playtime
Level 62
K/D Ratio: 2.35
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Where is that?
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BFBC2Beta is already rocking my socks, but I too am looking forward to BF3.
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would that make those actual trained vets and soliders turncoats?
12/05/09
I wonder, do these patches come in and fix everything? Like if I am in the middle of a franchise? Or do I have to start again?
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I think "The boxer" would be an awesome song to do, though also very depressing.
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A fairly enjoyable single-player campaign and a handful of Spec-Ops missions can only go so far when the bulk of the game is multiplayer.
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It's pretty humorous that most of these problems would have been quickly and easily addressed had Inifnity Ward released a beta ala CoD4.
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With that said, It's still a fun multiplayer minus the glitch.
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To be fair, it was going to get out anyway. If it wasn't Kotaku, it would've been Joystiq, or GameFAQs boards, or a YouTube video, or Digg, or...
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Hopefully a patch for the 360 version comes out soon as well.
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Here's a fun little experiment: go to Google, and search for "modern warfare 2 javelin" with or without quotes. Heck, I'll make it easy for you.
By my count, there's at least three videos on the front page of search results. That doesn't even begin to cover all of the times one of the gaming blogs wrote about it, or the story's been submitted to social networking sites, or people have talked about it in-game, or [insert scenario here].
It's not a secret anymore. Anyone with half a brain who wants to do it can figure out how to within five minutes. Kotaku isn't making the situation worse, because it can't GET worse.
12/05/09
Honestly I didn't give a shit about learning how to do it, but I learned, just by looking at the damned article.
You said anyone with half a brain who wants to can figure it out in five minutes? Well, 75% of posters around here don't have half a brain.
If you don't think that posting the video on a very high traffic blog doesn't contribute to its spread then you are a moron.
12/05/09
Where else is there left for it to spread?
It's already popping up in matches regularly, maybe even in most matches. Kotaku already ran two stories about it, including this one that also had a link to the video. The video has been viewed ~340,000 times in less than a week, and that's just one video.
Like I said, this is already a bad situation, and I really don't think it's going to get noticeably worse if Kotaku links to the video instead of just writing an article about it.
12/05/09
There's not point trying to have a fun, proper game when you've got one douchebag spoiling it for everyone involved.
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It's kinda part of the thing, if I'm getting this partially right. They can STILL kill you. The only way to avoid it is to just start a sprint chase until somebody shoots either you (and you die) or the guy (and he explodes, and than you die).
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Sound advice there.
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Also I wonder how long it takes before someone says "Well it's in the game, it's obviously not cheating" like some idiot always does.
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The explosion isn't that big, even with Danger Close.
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If he's doing this glitch, he's sprinting for knife attacks at ALL times. You can not PUT distance between you and the other player in any significant fashion, you can only maintain distance, and when you stop to shoot he WILL gain distance on you. The distance, as I understand it, is something like 30-40 feet death, so it has to be pretty freaking distant to kill anyone. And in madly sprinting, you're making yourself attractive to any other target.
It isn't that cut and dry. In some special situations you can cap them, but more often than not, the best you can manage is a 1:1 out of this. It's pretty freaking annoying: In fact, it's so unbalanced that they're PATCHING IT OUT COMPLETELY.
I've barely even played the game (I didn't find enough to like about it, and the exploits weren't even prevalent than, Double-shotgun hilarity aside), and I understand why this is kind of crap.
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Microsoft had a good idea with pushing for the adoption of the headset, but that alone brings it a massive amount of headaches. I was in Hong Kong when I tried playing Halo 3 on my friend's XBL account. I have no friggin' clue how the hell he could put up with all the incessant shouting and cussing on XBL. I mean, I've had gaming marathons where we played Zaft vs Federation on the PS3 and those were pretty exciting with very tolerable noise levels.
XBL was like, one bad concert after another. *cringes*
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Moreso for the kids who shouldn't even be playing the f-ing game in the first place.
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That way, it should at least filter out people who aren't responsible enough to either take care of their kids or can't teach responsibility to their kids or both.
12/05/09
The only similarity really is the amount of profanity and homophobic slurs....
[kotaku.com]
12/05/09
you only described half of the gamer market though...
skinny, pale, limp-armed, gaming geeks...
over-weight, pale, flab-armed, gaming nerds...
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It's 1200 points or $14.99, which is exactly $5 beyond what it should be. I couldn't get into the demo at all. The game's biggest problem is pacing. The interim between plays just drags, even at just a few seconds in length, and the play calling or lack thereof is pathetic, even for an arcade football game. This isn't Blitz. This isn't Tecmo. It's just stale and forced.
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