rootninja

The only useful text chat is the friendly team chat. The public chat that defaults to the ‘t’ button is useless. The only thing you’ll see there is whining, complaining, and other types of spam. I found it not only useless and annoying, but distracting sometimes. 1/20th of all text is team chat, so it’s much less intrusive.

Everything in the configuration file I describe below is user interface stuff. There’s no hacks or cheats available here. If you really suck at this game and need handicapped assistance (aka aimbots), then get lost. If you start cheating, the game will be far less challenging and interesting, but enough about that…

Edit this configuration file:

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\call of duty modern warfare 2\config_mp.cfg

Set this line:

seta cg_teamChatsOnly "1"

While you’re here you can also reposition where the chat text comes up, so if you want to move it out of the way, into the corner or something then play with the numbers. And while you’re here, you may as well fix the ping bars. I suggest either 5 bars or 10.

seta cg_ScoresPing_Interval "20"
seta cg_ScoresPing_MaxBars "10"

or

seta cg_ScoresPing_Interval "40"
seta cg_ScoresPing_MaxBars "5"

There’s also mouse acceleration. If you like this, but don’t have it set in windows, you can set it here.

seta cl_mouseAccel "0"

If you use this, make sure you turn down your ‘look’ speed. You’ll probably need to set it really low so that fast mouse movements don’t throw your view into the air or make you spin 180 degrees!