Modern Waaaaahhhhhfare 2

Sent a tweet to Fourzerotwo about a multiplayer glitch exploit. (I'm not putting a link up. Tho no one reads this blog, I ain't adding to the glitch's popularization.) I hope it gets patched quick, tho. It totally sucks.

Last night's MW2 HC TDM was less than satisfying. Apparently, I'm plumbing new depths of suck. I again wound up negative in a lot of games. On the move, trying to go anywhere on any map, I'm everybody's bitch. OTOH, I've decided to try my hand at sniping with the WA2000. I've rarely sniped in multiplayer games. Back in the glory days of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I used to camp the ladder on the beach landing map and pick off enemy soldiers in the radio room doorway, but that's about it. What I want to do is to rack up enough kills with the WA2000 (40, IIRC) to get the ACOG scope. I've been using the ACOG on the SCAR and I like the crosshair/red dot combo of that scope. In CoD4, a lot of folks raved about using that game's ACOG on sniper rifles, so it's worth a try in MW2. So, I've set up my sniper rankup class like this:

WA2000 with silenced SMG as secondary

Claymore (mostly to leave behind to help out my team-mates)
Marathon

Cold-blooded

Ninja

I'm still a bit iffy about it all. Upgrading the weapons is a lot of fun. One of the drawbacks of hardcore, tho, is that a lot of the cool in-game announcements are just not visible. When you get Payback, you can only tell from the money that goes flying off the enemy's dead body. It's also extremely annoying not to have a frackin' compass. I find it a bitch to tell someone where the enemy is when I don't know what direction I'm facing. All in all, I'm enjoying MW2 multiplayer quite a bit less than I did W@W's. I get my ass kicked a lot more in MW2, which probably means IW did a better job of balancing the game overall. I just don't want to admit it. :D On to the links:

• The Modern Warfare 2 PC Dedicated server petition is at 226,000 sigs.
  
• The Modern Warfare 2 PC Post-Release Petition has exceeded 6000 sigs.
• MW2 Knife kills: Montage 1. Ricochet knife kill. (Thanks to bw1231996 of the IW forums!)
• Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle. BSCReview (PS3). VentureBeat (MP). SmartHouse. GameDaily is addicted to MW2 multiplayer.
  
• The South Australia Attorney General is seeking to have Modern Warfare 2's MA-15+ rating removed.
• CoD: World at War's PC patch 1.7 is out.
• World at War Zombies top iPhone app sales.
  

More Gaming Links

• Steam is going to be pre-installed on Alienware PCs.
• Microsoft being sued for its ban on Xbox 360 3rd part memory devices. Good.
• Microsoft has patented a "hint system" for the Xbox 360. The luscious Jessica Chobot has the scoobies on the lawsuit in IGN's Daily Fix.