DA, you realise that the average K/D ratio across the whole cod playing population will be just under 1.00 ? (just under due to suicides). For every person with a positive K/D ratio there's someone with a negative. So not everyone is owning, you probably just have lots of friends who are improving
Kill streaks are now based purely on on-the-ground kills you make yourself, not kills from kill streak rewards.
'fraid you're wrong. The only kill streak rewards that don't contribute to your streak are things taken out of care packages/emergency air-drops. Otherwise nukes would be impossible to get
The only other possible exception is the pavelow, it seems to be bugged somewhat, sometimes it counts towards your streak, sometimes it doesn't. But all other non care-package rewards do.
So anyway, I'm lovin it atm. My 2 loves in CoD are sniping or using shotguns. So I LOVE the fact that shotguns are generally a lot better in MW2. The last shotgun you unlock - the 1887, is preposterously good. It's range is insane, you can 1 hit kill with it from surprisingly far. And once you unlock akimbo for it it rapes so hard, never have to be caught reloading as you can be firing one while reloading the other. Some of the most fun I've ever had in a CoD game. Plus the reload action when you have it as akimbo is *awesome*. Think Terminator 2 how he spins the shotgun round when on his motorbike
Intervention being my favourite weapon, I've always loved sniping.
Another thing which no one has mentioned about MW2 which I like a lot is the callsigns. I kinda like trying to unlock all the titles/emblems, especially the rare harder to get ones. There's a **** load of them so it could keep you going forever trying to get them all. Could be something for people to stroke their epenis on...'Look at me, I have this rare hard to get emblem!'
Some of my concerns have been lessened somewhat. When the game first came out the games were stupidly frantic with all the killstreak rewards. But I think enough people have twigged by now that most of them are ridiculously easy to take down with 1-2 stingers. So they're much less powerful now.
Still not quite so keen on some of the maps, think they've overdone it on trying to make them complicated tbh. It's too up-down warfare rather then side-to-side. As each damn building seems to have 3 storeys of windows people could be poking out of. And I thought chinatown in CoD4 was bad. But I'll get used to it.
Anyway I finally prestiged last night. Pretty pleased with my K/D ratio so far. At 2.24 and rising. I go through phases though, for a few days it dropped to 1.9 or so, but I've had a good few days and it's on the up.
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