Modern Warfare 2 and its problem with nuke boosting

All multiplayer FPS games have problems with spawn killing, and MW2 cleverly took care of that with deathstreak perks. What wasn't as well addressed was the issue of camping, which is actually reinforced by killstreak bonuses. And if people are getting a match-ending 25-kill nukes more than very, very infrequently then something is wrong.

[TheHater]

Last night were this was happening. It annoyed me so much. I was the host. So as soon as he call his nuke in, I ended the game and he f234king him over. He send me a message and I reply telling to get some skillz rather than boost with his butt buddy to get kills

[Alcon Caper]

nice move!

[guitarded77]

I had my first experience with douche boosters last week.... I now have a personal vendetta against these d-bags and will kick their butts every chance I get. Good article... more people need to be aware of these holes.

[WildArmed]

nice. I Should do that xD
was playing Mw2 online last night and oh it was frustrating how the same person was dieing by the same guy.. o_O
then BOOM nuked..
heck I didn't even see the AC-130 come in..
I know people who get the 25 kill streak legitly with a AC-130 killstreak, but i hate boosters

[QUNE]

How do you know if youre the host? I can only tell if Im the host after I leave (and it looks for a new host).

I have a slot reserved for these boosters with SitRep perk. I love hunting these people down. It doesn't take too long to figure out that they're boosting.

[TheHater]

As soon as a game starts, press the select button. The person with the full 4 bars is the host. Usually if you are the host for the first game, you will be the host for the next game and the games after that until you quit.

[ottoman_239]

what if everyone in the game has 4 bars, how do you know who is host then?

[goflyakite]

This is MW2 we're talking about here, the connections are never even/all four bars, so you don't have to worry about that.

But like the guy above said, at the start usually everyone will have a one bar/low bars for a second while the host will always have four.

[ambientFLIER]

"This is MW2 we're talking about here, the connections are never even/all four bars, so you don't have to worry about that."

Maybe you need to upgrade your dial-up. My connection is 4 bars 75% of the time, and 3 bars the other 25%. The other players are the same way.

[bacon13]

Never came a across Nuke boosters yet. I'm happy to say I've killed my fair share of shield boosters however. Camping and legitimately nuking go hand in hand. After all of the matches I've played, I find it next to impossible that someone can effectively maneuver around a map and get 25 kills without dying. Without camping the nuke would be impossible and there in lies the problem.

[KRUSSIDULL]

Noobs boost I got 10 Nukes during prestige 3 (for the emblem) without needing to boost.

[WildArmed]

one of my friends has done over 50 nukes, and he proudly displays it on his comment/motto box.
Sure says he loves boosting =/

[pegger24]

I ran into this was yesterday. At least, the first time I realized it was happening. We all just teamed up on them and they then quit. I think all it takes is someone noticing and letting everyone else know what is going on and where the people are doing it

[MiloGarret]

I ran into this a while ago but didn't realize what was going on. They were in the airplane in afghan, me and my friend were said "what the fück are these retards doing?". We shot them both and killed them again when they respawned, I did this so much I ended up getting a nuke, thanks to those guys.

Which was funny, but I would have enjoyed the moment so much more if I'd actually had the brains to understand what they were doing...

[Socomer 1979]

seriously, its been 3 games already with mw1, world at war and now mw2.
i wonder if some of you guys have recently tried playing socom confrontation. its pretty hardcore. a very satisfying 3rd person shooter that you should be able to get for cheap.

i find it very hard to take call of duty seriously thanks to socom.
the first thing that throws me off is the audio of mw2. i have a very good surround sound system & its very noticing, almost blatantly annoying.

[bjornbear]

i can't understand how people play the MP on this.

Last night had a split screen MP sesh with friends and man the game just sucks.

as we all came to the conclusion, MW2 is "Unreal Tournament with realistic-looking toy guns" because lets face it,

no matter how skilled you are in MW2 MP, the MP is just headless chickens killing eachother.

HOWEVER - the Special Ops was AWSOME and probably the coolest thing about the game.

[goflyakite]

I'm just waiting for Bioshock 2, then BFBC2.

MW2 is terrible unless playing with friends.

[BenCrazy424]

I hate socom after zipper gave it to slant 6 to ruin. The old ones are great, this (confrontation)game just is not up to date with the way the controls (running button is not r3 and when i do change the settings, have to press it constantly to run) are set up and sometimes it is just too damn hard to jump over easy things.

If socom had the control setup like this gen of shooters, i would play it 24/7.

They did keep the button to speak in the mic which I wish all games with mics had!!!

[ambientFLIER]

No, we don't play it anymore. We simply gather and talk about strategies and problems on games that we don't play...

[Blow Out Your Brains]

I played on 360 up until level 55 and I'm currently 30 on PS3, team deathmatch all day and I never have seen a nuke detonate :/

[Bgibbs]

I know what you mean, I play on PS3 and I don't think I've come across nuke boosters yet. If I have I didn't notice. It seems like its a bigger problem on Live than it is on PSN

[S-T-F-U]

Roll on the 5th of March.

[KingKiff]

Seriously its not a good game...

[maniacmayhem]

It's a great game!

[KingKiff]

lol

[MiloGarret]

90% of people who call other people "noobs" online are regularly the worst players of the game of which they claim to be good at or games in general.

They are the first to camp, first to attach the noob-tube, first to use cheap perks and tactics, and first to leave due to what they percieve to be lag (which it isn't).

[iistuii]

Another MW2 hate thread.....sigh..Keep hating. I am on level 58 and ive had 1 yes 1 Nuke in any of my games. So either stop going on about it every time theres a MW2 thread & get over the fact that we the millions enjoy playing it.

[Chnswdchldrn]

if the f@cking game was better

and had beta testing

good developers

better graphics

less camping

etc

[iistuii]

Camping.? if you wanna run around like an idiot and get shot, tough. Camping is where your trying to capture a base like in BBC2 beta and they have snipers everywhere just aiming at the base, that's camping..but hang on you call it tactics if someones sniping on BBC but camping on MW2.

[MiloGarret]

Yeah campers really suck huh?

If only there was a way of telling where they're sitting... like.. like a camera that shows you where the guy was sitting, or how he killed you! Wow, that would be great, it would make camping really hard to those guys because all you'd have to do is check that, ummmm, killcam (or something like that) and then go and shoot them in the face.
Wow, that would be great.

But would they allow that in hardcore? No, don't think so. Maybe then they could point the camera STRAIGHT at where the shot came from to at least give you a hint.

morons.

[Johnny Jiron]

only thing I see in there is the shield boosters. I just wedge in between and let them kill themselves. Good for a laugh. Otherwise yeah lot of annoying exploits. I wanna meet the chick that gets turned on by this cause I can't see any other reason to do it.

[Dacapn]

I think this is more of a testament to how messed up Call of Duty's gameplay system works. It's the only FPS that I can think of right now that makes the game easier for "skilled" players to win(aka killstreaks) and easier for "unskilled" players to lose.

An innately screwed up multiplayer game.

[STICKzophrenic]

Completely agree.

There's like 15 Killstreak Rewards, and like...four Deathstreak Rewards, which all suck from what I can tell.

I fail to see how Copycat is beneficial at all. Painkiller doesn't do much either.

Compare those with Predator Missiles, Harriers, AC130 Gunships, Pavelows and Nukes, and it sure does favor the people that don't need the help to begin with.

I play for fun, but it isn't much fun to rarely get any kind of killstreak going, and then to keep getting killed by a freakin' gunship that the person doesn't even need to control.

[MiloGarret]

"Compare those with Predator Missiles, Harriers, AC130 Gunships, Pavelows and Nukes, and it sure does favor the people that don't need the help to begin with."

Brain, use the brain! Put on cold-blooded. If you want you can add scavenger because you might run out of bullets without stopping power, I alternate between marathon and sleight of hand. Cold blooded also rids you of turrets, UAV and thermal vision. Best perk in the game. I usually play wih cold blooded and silencer attached to my weapon, that way there's no way they'll detect me. On some classes I also added ninja so I'll walk silently and be undecteble by heart beat sensors.

Create classes to counter any sort of setup. Create an anti air class immune to killstreaks with which you can take down helicopters etc if they happen to kill you.

I think the main reason people dislike this game is because they don't understand it. Everything has a counter or comes with a weakness, except noob-tubes and commando, basically. Think less that you are playing to kill, and more to stop others from killing (by killing them...).

[STICKzophrenic]

I see what you're sayin', but you play against 8 people...I find it hard to believe to have a loadout that can counter everyone.

I dunno, I guess I just can't figure out what perks are best for me.

Maybe I'll try the ones you suggested next time I play.

[SuperbVillain]

besides all the MP issues..it just gets repetetive and boring after a while..im thinking about trading this game with someone for Ucharted 2

[iistuii]

Great game, but don't fall asleep in between rounds on the Multiplayer. Once a games over then it's back to matchmaking yawn

[jjohan35]

Yeah I never understood that in Uncharted 2. I sometimes want to beat the top guy in the previous match or avenge him or whatever. But everyone leaves and then the game goes through matchmaking all over again.

[Imallvol7]

The Nuke and the Killstreak perks are so much fun but at the same time cause such a problem. It makes people camp! How do you fix this? I do not know.

At times I feel like the game is hardly a shooter though with most people getting more than half their kills with killstreak bonuses.

[Shichiro]

I can't imagine (no offense) of how bad a team must be to not kill the booster. Okay, you can say they have their own location of finding one another blah blah. BUT it is hard for me to believe not one person came across that guy and killed him. Well I play ground war like 95% of the time (I don't care what you think, it's what I prefer) and finding the other guy who's about to get nuke isn't so hard. All in all, I do agree that it's sad that these people think they're good from boosting nukes. It was one thing about the prestige hack but this nuke crap is just beyond....ugh no words.

EDIT: I also read that opinion about unsportsmanlike playing which includes CAMPING. I lol'd so hard.

[Blinding_Solo]

What do you expect. Almost all COD's have the worst players when it comes to
breaking the gameplay. Glitches and boosting is the main problem with the multiplayer as well as their horrible spawn system. When they make their next game I hope they address these issues because this can sometimes ruin the gamers experience.