There it is, simple math: BFBC2 > MW2. The only part that worries me is the whole rental-agreement for a dedicated server. Hopefully the mod community will come out in full force after the MW2 debacle. I’d like to host my own private server and have it show up on the public list of private servers. If I have to rely on a 3rd party to host my server, I have no doubt that whatever hacks come out for the game will work on my server. At least I’ll be able to kick hackers and insta-ban them, well, one can only hope.

Care package runners are still too fast, and by care package I really mean any of those package grenades that allow you to run as if you’re speed hacking. Model 1887’s still have too much range, although they did make somewhat of an improvement. I still feel cheap using them, so i’ll continue to skip them in favor of the previous shotgun. But the big problem I have is with the various texture and XP hacks. I think their fixes lasted on the order of minutes or hours rather than days.

After seeing the aimbot and wall hacks proliferate throughout the Modern Warfare 2 servers, I decided to find out just how easy is it to get these hacks and what kind of people actually buy these things. Check this guy out, he seems desperate! If his skill at FPS games is anything like his ability to spell and punctuate, maybe I could sell him auto grammar assist, what do you think?

I normally use the guided missile or Counter UAV with the Harrier and either the Pavelow or Chopper Gunner, but I decided to mix it up one match and selected Harrier, Emergency Airdrop, and Pavelow. The kills needed for these three are 6, 7, and 8. When I got all three in a row, I got a new title. I say challenges because I think it’s a challenge to complete the tasks in order to get all the titles and emblems. And they’re hidden because there’s no instructions on how to unlock all the titles and emblems!

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.

Scavenger is an often overlooked perk, and many times for good reason as Sleight of Hand’s reload speed and aiming speed mean the difference between life and death for a run-n-gun offensive player. Marathon is a no-brainer for stabaholics, but Scavenger has its moments too. It all depends on the loadouts of your teammates, the map you’re playing on, and probably most important, the game type.

I’ve seen several people play with the riot shield with varying degrees of success. If you have more deaths than kills but you win the round and have a higher score than some people with more kills than you, you’re doing something right. But what if you could get the kills and help your team mates out by playing as bait? Here are my three main riot shield loadouts.

Frag grenades won’t work because you can’t cook them forever, and once you pull one out you can’t switch to another weapon. But the semtex timer won’t start until you let go of it or die. So this is probably a technical glitch. This will be a suicide run, but when you die the semtex will drop and explode the javelin. If you don’t have the javelin pulled out, this won’t work because only your current weapon drops to the ground. If you have the danger-close perk enabled, the resulting explosion will be even larger. I wonder if using last stand with this would have any effect, such as kills from the afterlife, or assisted suicide points for the enemy.

I got booted with this message after watching a replay of a guy using an aimbot to instantly target my head while simultaneously being able to see everyone in the game, right through the walls.