MW3 - did you stand out in the rain?

Originally Posted by L3nny

Make sure you sign up for the Call of Duty Elite thingy, gives you double XP for a couple of hours, managed to get to level 15 already! And I am carp!

http://www.callofduty.com/elite/whats-included

Well I spent a few hours playing online and gradually got better, upto level 15, come off line and played a few missions on the actual game, just gone back online and it's reset my level back down to level 1, I don't understand, proper pi55ed me off.

Originally Posted by grimey121uk

At least BF3 is a completely new game from BF2, new engine with new graphics and the sound is absolutely amazing on my Onkyo amp and Kef speakers

That's because BF2 came out in 2005! You need to consider how much of a new game it is compared to Bad Company 2 (not much)

Originally Posted by hongman

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I looked at some cod quick scope vids and it put me off tbh. There's no way I'd survive long enough to have some fun on that.

Ditto. I watched some MW3 gameplay and it was frightening, reminded me of why I never really got on with online play. If you don't commit to playing it 12hrs a day you don't stand a chance.

The guy I was watching was one shot, one kill. It was really cool watching him call in air drop supplies and then using a laptop to target missiles, but then I'd never get enough kills to acquire that.

I'll probably buy it when it drops down to £20 say, but at the moment everyone seems to be warming me up to the idea of getting BF3.

[Drew Carey]

Originally Posted by Stenno

Ditto. I watched some MW3 gameplay and it was frightening, reminded me of why I never really got on with online play. If you don't commit to playing it 12hrs a day you don't stand a chance.

The guy I was watching was one shot, one kill. It was really cool watching him call in air drop supplies and then using a laptop to target missiles, but then I'd never get enough kills to acquire that.

I'll probably buy it when it drops down to £20 say, but at the moment everyone seems to be warming me up to the idea of getting BF3.

Don't be put off by the vids etc you see on Youtube. The people that mostly post those tend to be the top top few percent.

Plus they will most stick to "Hardcore" modes. Most people who stick to the regular modes of play vary vastly but all are beatable, occasionaly you will get a superb player - but not often. I play on average, at most 1 hour per day....as will have days when I don't play. Once you get the hang of it its easy, if you stick to "Mercenary" then you also don't get teams ganging up etc.

I'm a free for all kinda guy. It's one of the game modes I find enjoyable because of the speed involved and the fact they're normally small maps.
MW3 just isn't different enough from previous versions to make it particularly exciting for me... and I LOVED MW2. I played it for about 5 hours yesterday and I think I'm level 28 or 29, got a decent class already so I'm just not motivated to explore and use the other weapons.
All in all I'm pretty disappointed.

[Drew Carey]

I agree, it is no more than a polish of MW2......but for me that is good. MW2 was the better of the COD's for me, this is slightly better again - seems smoother plus I like the return to unlocking things rather than buying stuff.

They were never going to be revolutionary.....would put off too many fans. I quite like the tag collecting games though - you kill someone, then collect the dog tags to confirm the kill. It stops campers a bit which is good.

I hope, that they call it a day after this one and do something different....but I imagine it will roll on again next year to a different genre again. For now, happy days as quite like it so far.

I forgot to mention that it had slipped my mind of just how angry and aggressive online game play can make me. My mic was playing up last night whilst trying to play with friends... I was NOT a happy bunny

[Skip]

Bought my first ever FPS this week - BF3 on the PS3 - just playing single player mode at the moment - its great - although my roughly aim with L1, shoot and hope for the best style of shooting will probably see me last about 2 seconds per spawn online Hopefully by the time I finish SP mode I will have improved a little!

The online play annoyed me at first last night, there seemed to be a UAV on constantly so that coupled with no idea of how to get round the maps, I died a lot in the early games.

I soon got better though and once I had unlocked classes it was easier.

Gotta start all over again tonight cos it reset back to level 1 for some fecking annoying reason.

Hurts me to say, black ops gun battles are much better, Im not keen on the game but if you have a face to face gun battle, you've got a chance, with mw2 and 3 I have sometimes put half a clip in a player and he's had a lazy shot and killed me with one shot, don't seem right somehow, happens loads less on black ops.

Btw, confirmed kills is brilliant, I played this the most.