Call of Duty Online...Multiplayer...

Mauldor · 21-12-2004, 15:45

I wish to ask some of the Experts on some tips on this game...
Let me explain if I may...I have played MOHAA (all versions) since it was born and can happily run about shooting and get shot no problems. Some games I do crap (bad days I guess) and some Im a man on a mission...

FarCry - Total noob at this game but I go online and my deaths to kills tally up not so bad and there is a feeling of fairness so far..The same can be said of RTCW, SOF2 and so forth....

Now onto this game, as this is annoying me you see. I join a server, it can host 64 players on a TDM type game. I run about and shoot people, it seems to have no effect. I think to myself then the Machine gun is probably crap, so i siwtch to a rifle. I right click, get this guy in my sights and shoot - nothing. I switch back to Machine gun, I creep around and there is a guy crouching down looking outwards. I get right next to him and let rip....He turns around and shoots me in a couple of shots (he also has machine gun).

Now I dont wish to call the "other" team a bunch of cheaters as its there server (so they will probably kick me anyhow) and one guy is running like a mad man and mowing down my side, killing easy 10 of us before reloading.

Now i must be doing something wrong here...I tired a few other servers and not quite the same but def not the same level of killing as say MOHAA - the most i score in one server is 9 with 52 deaths (man thats bad). I thought of my ping, between 33 and 54 - so surely not that..

Anybody give me some insight into this game before I stop plyaing it??

Bifta · 21-12-2004, 16:23

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Originally Posted by Mauldor

I wish to ask some of the Experts on some tips on this game...
Let me explain if I may...I have played MOHAA (all versions) since it was born and can happily run about shooting and get shot no problems. Some games I do crap (bad days I guess) and some Im a man on a mission...

FarCry - Total noob at this game but I go online and my deaths to kills tally up not so bad and there is a feeling of fairness so far..The same can be said of RTCW, SOF2 and so forth....

Now onto this game, as this is annoying me you see. I join a server, it can host 64 players on a TDM type game. I run about and shoot people, it seems to have no effect. I think to myself then the Machine gun is probably crap, so i siwtch to a rifle. I right click, get this guy in my sights and shoot - nothing. I switch back to Machine gun, I creep around and there is a guy crouching down looking outwards. I get right next to him and let rip....He turns around and shoots me in a couple of shots (he also has machine gun).

Now I dont wish to call the "other" team a bunch of cheaters as its there server (so they will probably kick me anyhow) and one guy is running like a mad man and mowing down my side, killing easy 10 of us before reloading.

Now i must be doing something wrong here...I tired a few other servers and not quite the same but def not the same level of killing as say MOHAA - the most i score in one server is 9 with 52 deaths (man thats bad). I thought of my ping, between 33 and 54 - so surely not that..

Anybody give me some insight into this game before I stop plyaing it??

The trick with CoD is to spray a little! I get excellent kill ratios that way, you do that in MOHAA and you'll probably empty a magazine and hit absolutely nobody, you ask Ramrod!

Richard M · 21-12-2004, 16:30

I've been playing this online for ages and now I tend to only play the United Offensive maps which is much better with CTF, it's a bit like the UT2004 game Onslaught.

I like to play the original CoD maps with a BAR or an M1 but I only use them from a distance because I find that I can get more kills with a pistol (you also move faster).
The key is getting as many rounds into the enemy as possible in the shortest time so a long cock/reload time like with many of the rifles is going to get you killed.

Oh and aim for the head.

MadGamer · 21-12-2004, 16:40

but where can i obtain a list of CoD Servers for online play?

paulyoung666 · 21-12-2004, 16:48

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Originally Posted by Bifta

The trick with CoD is to spray a little! I get excellent kill ratios that way, you do that in MOHAA and you'll probably empty a magazine and hit absolutely nobody, you ask Ramrod!

so thats where i have being going wrong , now i wonder if there is a mod to set the submachine gun to 3 round bursts

Richard M · 21-12-2004, 16:59

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

but where can i obtain a list of CoD Servers for online play?

Is this a trick question?

Bifta · 21-12-2004, 17:04

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Is this a trick question?

Replace the term "trick" with "stupid" ....

21-12-2004, 17:04

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Is this a trick question?

That's what I was thinking

skyblueheroes · 21-12-2004, 17:38

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Originally Posted by Bifta

Replace the term "trick" with "stupid" ....

Mauldor · 21-12-2004, 18:35

So what your saying (i think) is Im trying to play Cod like MOHAA and thus getting no-where...It would explain a lot tbh. On MOHAA for example I cut my teeth on Deathmatchs (madness all round) and played a lot of server with rifle only as that is a bit more testing then say Machine gun.

One of the things I miss on CoD is Smoke granades, I use every move known to man such as lean, chuck smoke in a door way, run upstairs - jump out of window and kill them from the back as they are waiting for me to come out of the smoke.

What I still dont get though, ref the server i was playing on (and no - i dont think they were cheating) was how i unloaded a mag into the guy standing right behind him - in real life his Guts would be all over the floor even with a British SMG (which is plain crap). I dont mind the realism in games and I can understand shooting across a map with a machine gun on full auto is at most going to kill some birds flying by.

I guess i will just have to keep playing and maybe i'll "get it" at some point, most games I can pick up and play online and generally apply what I have learned from most other FPS games and not do so bad (as in get some kills). I was not the only one complaining about the server though, many on there where saying much the same - not sure if this was to do with 1.5 patch or not.. Oh well

paulyoung666 · 21-12-2004, 18:40

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What I still dont get though, ref the server i was playing on (and no - i dont think they were cheating) was how i unloaded a mag into the guy standing right behind him - in real life his Guts would be all over the floor even with a British SMG (which is plain crap). I dont mind the realism in games and I can understand shooting across a map with a machine gun on full auto is at most going to kill some birds flying by.

most likely he wasnt really there , he just appeared as though he was

Mauldor · 21-12-2004, 19:03

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

most likely he wasnt really there , he just appeared as though he was

AHh I get your drift - NTL BB -- CoD -- He he

MadGamer · 21-12-2004, 19:15

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but where can i obtain a list of CoD Servers for online play?

Is this a trick question?

No its not a trick/stupid question at all. Everytime i go to multiplyer there are no servers at all in the list.

Richard M · 21-12-2004, 19:46

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Originally Posted by Mauldor

One of the things I miss on CoD is Smoke granades...

United Offensive has smoke nades.

Neil · 21-12-2004, 20:21

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

No its not a trick/stupid question at all. Everytime i go to multiplyer there are no servers at all in the list.