But there are some many different tactical points to hold on each map - and if it's a one side versus the other, there are equally powerful positions to hold on each side.

Crash has the sniper tower.
Strike is a nice set of smaller streets, but with varying strong points for smaller scale battles within the map.
Crossfire Has a large street with two sniper positions at each end but plenty of places to advance on those positions without revealing yourself.
Ambush is a nest of buildings with no real way to tell exactly where people are.
Pipeline allows for long range combat, but with an underground section to mix it up.
District is insane - a two way sniper position but with major vulnerabilities from each side so you need a good team to defend you or you could hold up the market place.
Bloc is there for the snipers amongst us to have a real sniper fest, two buildings opposite each other.
Downpour (my least fav map) is just a mess of long grass and hiding places.
Vacant - for the shotgunners amongst us.

And so on.

Yeah but the maps play the same everytime, basically after 10minutes of playing you know exactly where the enemy is coming from so you can just camp them.

Only the map with warehouses and buildings is interesting because you cant really be sure where your enemies are. Coz they can be up on the second floor or coming from below in the tunnel.

I guess I need more grander scale in my MP games. CS, COD and their clones are too simplistic for me.

See I disagree with the camping - because the kill cam specifically prevents you from doing that (unless your playing against retards).

But I also play the (15? or so) different game modes too. Headquarters being my fav at the mo.

By camping i meant camping the choke hold places, where you know people will come through. For instance the map wheres the large open space between and two multistory buildings on the left and right.

This is what i mean by camping. I set one of the claymores facing the door, i know somebody will walk in from there. So i place the claymore, run upstairs and wait above the entrance where the hole is so i can shoot them in the back of the head if anyone makes past the claymore. So he sees me on the kill cam. But once he is dead i make my way down, set another claymore, pick up his weapon and this time wait in the second corridor he has to go through in order to get up where i was. And the circle continues.

(Edit: The above mentioned strategy can also be done with satchel charges, as they are also instantkill)

Alot of the maps have these very badly planned chokeholds where you can get lots of kills by being patient.

I do not play the bomb placing and defending on public server. Too many people with different playstyles and so on.

Yeah, but you only get 2 C4/Claymores - so you can't do that forever. Besides, If I just got claymored there, next time I went there I'd be looking for the explosives (As you can shoot them, and Claymores are highly visible due to the red light/bomb squad perk). If I didn't want to go in there myself I'd just frag in there.

Where specifically is this location? Because there aren't that many places where you can't find a second way in - It depends on if I'm being moby dick (after my whale) or playing smart as to how many times a person in one place would kill me.

The only real problems is if you try to cross a street with a sniper in it - so I don't generally cross streets (that aren't covered in smoke)

What is your Steam name? Mine is Peltz999 so add me to your friend list the next time you play the Orange box.

I have no idea - I haven't logged in to steam in god knows how long. I have orange box for the 360. Is it compatible with steam?

No idea

Love this game, it literally hates me or i dont know what. Half of my shots land god knows where and just 5 minutes ago i shot this guy in the head 3 times because he was peaking out arnound big metal barrel and no fucking headshot.

Aargh!! It really pisses me off. Atleast it didnt matter much, im still on positive side with my kill count, 380 or so.

It's that Estonian backbone internet connection that's getting you man. You need to convince your government that a 56k modem connection just doesn't cut it any more.

Actually, early this year i changed my connection and im now on 12mbs connection. It costs me around 450eek (1USD=12Eek) so its around 35-40dollars a month.

Average ping in UK and DE servers is around 70-80. Although when i do server look up its 55-65 but the ping in server list is never correct.

Imo its funny that when you call in airstrikes, the fighter planes dont shoot down enemy helicopter. They just fly by and drop their shity bombs.

I can understand everything else in the game but the Heli is literally bullshit. It really should be taken disabled in MP games.

The helicopter is awesome - because (and no offence) it only gets a lot of kills against a team of idiots.

Why? because they are VERY easy to take down. If everyone on the other team just put one clip of pretty much any gun in to it, it drops. That's not including LMG's or RPG's. How can the disable it in MP when it's specifically designed for MP? Besides, they suck more in Hardcore when you don't have a radar to find the bastard.

My only grip with Air strikes is that you can't choose what direction to bomb. Let's say you have a long street, the air strike comes on at a random angle and sometimes only 1 or 2 bombs ever hit the ground, the rest crash in to near by buildings. Seeing as there is no destructible scenery then that's just no good. A simple solution would be a click and drag system. You click where you want them to air strike, then pull in the direction you want them to air strike before you let go of A/mouse button.

Prestige 6 now!

In my opinion, any kind of instant hit aimbot in a Multiplayer game is a bad idea, it should have never been in the MP game.

Autoaim is not good no matter how you implement it. Anyway, the pc version defenatly seems like a poor port since you can fire SMG full auto more accuratly than 3 bullets from a pistol, defenatly something that has been overlooked.

And the US weapons seem to be a tad bit superior to others. MP5 and M4 are the prime candidates here.

I'm glad I didn't get the PC one - the helicopters aren't THAT accurate in this. Yeah, they'll kill you, but if you're at full sprint you can normally get away with just a scratch. But like I said, on a good team the helicopter will be taken down as soon as it gets there anyway.

I think the most powerful weapons are the M16, the AK-47, MP5 and the P90.

Friggin awesome weapons. I love silencers now. Sucks that I can't have a silencer AND a red dot sight, but oh well. Rumour has it that at 10th prestige you CAN have 2 attachments, but I doubt the validity of that rumour.