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Take your time It's slightly heading towards being a camper, but take your time. You don't need to run all the time, only run at times where you know you are very unlikely to be shot or can do anything about it if you are. It's a little bit frustrating, but then balance that with having to respawn. For example, stairwells - no point walking slowly up them ...

I've been doing quite a bit of research on this topic (reading FAQs, watching replays, and consulting with others) in the last few weeks, and I think I can put together a pretty good strategic overview at this point. Know Your Role In CoD multiplayer games, you are generally doing one of three things: Defending - You have an established position and you ...

I have played both games, so this comes from my personal experience. However, I do prefer Halo to Call of Duty. I am mainly comparing Modern Warfare 2 and Halo Reach. This is not exactly fair, as Black Ops comes out in a few weeks, but I haven't played it yet. I've broken these differences down into the follow catagories: Feel The Call of Duty and Halo ...

Camping is a pretty powerful strategy in CoD multiplayer, and it's not just a problem in Demolition, although it is arguably worse there than in most modes once you've taken out one bomb site. The problem with breaking a solid camping strategy is that it generally only takes limited cooperation between a couple of players to set up a good camp, but it takes ...

Peer to Peer servers. As seen in games like Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. These are difficult to administrate. Provide value to donators. This can be in the form of admin privs, reserved slots, statistics ( e.g. kill to death ratio over couple months, leaderboards etc ), special events, etc. Offer to setup video game servers for free. Some ...

Im almost certain Call of Duty didn't add this function. Have you seen them on another server? EDIT: Just had a look. Looks like they didn't, however you might be able to add bots by using this. However it does warn that they will be stupid and not useful. Very unlike the Bots in Counter Strike.

I will try to supplement Quantumgeek's answer Sandbox vs Scripted Halo is a sandbox game, where CoD is a scripted game. Sandbox can also be called nonlinear and scripted can be called linear. For example, a nonlinear game may permit multiple sequences to finish the game, a choice between paths to victory, or optional side-quests and subplots. Lets ...

Another approach to this is to avoid modded servers altogether. You'll know that it is a modded server if you look at the IW column (it should appear between the green check and PB columns). If it doesn't have an X next to it, it is a modded server and connecting to it will likely cause you to download the mods and maps. If it does have an X, it's a ...

I would also advise you to look into setting up a peer-to-peer based service..with the added concept of partial centralization. Basically this says: make a program to spread network info to all computers who are logged in, maintain one or two PCs as servers on some basic connections (or the best you can easily get) just to help with indexing so your client ...

I feel that you should run and gun, but be super careful. I started out slow, crouching and moving everywhere. I had my sensitivity low so I could get a clean kill (not a sloppy spray that you get when you are surprised) and I stick to the walls. Eventually I started sprinting again, but using the same principles. Never sprint around corners, flash or ...

I can't seem to find a good listing of the differences online, so I'll try to compile a short list. If you're interested in my personal opinion, I discussed my feelings about the major changes here. (warning: personal blog link) The first thing to note is that Modern Warfare 3 follows Modern Warfare 2 pretty closely, and isn't as related to Black Ops. ...

It depends on game you are talking about. For example in Minecraft (multiplayer mode) you have: Client mods that help you a bit (mostly interface mods) no need server mod Client/Server mods that may heavily modify gameplay and need mod installed on server and on client of the same version (mostly) Server mods that improve some server functionality ...

Generally what I do, is get all explosived up, and wait for one team member. Grab as many explosives as you can, sticky's, crossbow and the like. Once you have a team member going towards the enemies camping site, try to stick as much as you can even if it gets you killed. The enemies will spawn further away and you can get back about when they do. If your ...

Here are some interesting details about the unfortunate programming error that causes this bug. Credit to Xero|Hawk from the Infinity Ward forums for his research on this subject. After looking into this a bit (as I’m affected myself), I found out that the crash is caused by this piece of code (most likely a little programming mistake): 004ED380 /$ ...

This is a very common problem due to sloppy programming on Activision’s part. It is related to the system’s audio device, e.g. a problem with your sound card drivers, mostly if it is a Realtek or a Sigmatel onboard sound card. Here are some things you can try: Enable Stereo Mix Right-click the volume/speaker icon in your system tray, and select Recording ...

But how are you sure that the server isn't working? Have you tried to connect to that server using your external IP (no the 192.168.#.# IP) from another computer? Or you just want to host a LAN server? Try to ping your own external IP from another computer using the following command in the command line of windows (to open it press Windows Key + R and ...

Without knowing the inner workings of their matchmaking algorithm, first and foremost I believe the matchmaking is by location-- or more specifically, connection speed, which usually means location as well. It searches for other consoles whose ping is under a certain threshold, and if it finds none, it increases the threshold until a good game is found. As ...

In MW3, I think they build the lobbies according to your geographical situation, due to the lack of dedicated servers. That way, if the people you are playing with are not too far from you, the game will suffer less lag. This is just theoretically, as I live in France and often end up with english-and-other-languages-speaking players...

Beat the stragglers and get air support. Flank or suprise your enemy. Campers on console have lag (since connection works in saying where you are and what your doing) I.e. If you jump around a corner they've been sitting for a while, you have the advantage in timing, and showing on their screen slighty later than you actually there (normally 0.6 of second ...

I had this issue and it turns out that my second controller constantly thought it had a headset plugged in. Thus, giving you the mic icon in the chat window, disabling your kinect for chat and no speech coming out of speakers. Try using your second controller as the first player and see if the kinect chat feature works.

If the second player is a silver account, the online chat feature will turn off as that account seems to take precedence when playing online. If you want to chat while playing with a silver account player, you will have to use a headset. This was a suggested answer off of the Xbox forums to a perhaps identical problem. Source: ...

System in Black Ops is (at least on the pc version): get x kills with y and get z CoD credits. These credits can then be used to buy any upgrades you have unlocked levelwise. Ie. get 10 kills with the Galil might give you 500 credits, which you can buy all the stuff you have unlocked so far. So you can't buy a weapon that is only available at lvl 50 if you ...

Find your gun that you are most successful with and then set up perks that will really make that particular gun shine. After that you just need to learn in which spots that setup will be effective and in which spots it will not. Generally on every map you can find places with varying distances between cover. If you have a lot of cover and not much open ...

which call of duty? i did find this site which purports to have links to download and (unofficial) linux server for CoD4 - it will require some windows files from the CD. pardon my ignorance regarding the later games, but do they have separate windows server applications that could be used with something like WINE?

Or you could also unauthorize any download when connecting to a server. This means custom maps and mods. If you do this and try to connect a mod server, Call of Duty will warn you that you can't connect to the server because you miss some files. How to unauthorize downloads: Go to Options->Multiplayer options... and set Allow downloading to No.