I've done this twice actually, once in Derail on the second story of the three story building. I knew the guy was there and saw him right before the flash went off as he ran into the room I was in, so I chucked the knife towards the door and hit him. The other time was blind luck I believe in terminal.
See, in my head I know this is true, and maybe it's because I use the thermal scope (which I've heard is somehow less accurate or something) but there's so many times that I'll hit someone in the chest at close range and it won't be enough to kill them. It's just so inconsistent for me. Sometimes I can get a one hit from all the way across the map with a shot to the chest, other times I'll have a guy coming straight at me who I manage to quickscope a shot to the chest on, but he kills me because for some reason it wasn't enough. Infuriating.
I got a red dot for 'newb tubing'. (The kid was an asshole, so I felt justified.) I use it when I'm in free-for all and to piss off random strangers who take this game way too seriously. When I hear someone grumble about "fuckin' newb-tubers" I can't help myself, I make it a mission in itself to gear up with a grenade launcher and send one his way. The sole purpose of this game is to blow-up, stab and shoot people. It's a fun game, but that's all it is at the end of the day. The Javelin rocket launcher seems to get some panties in a bunch too. It got me to thinking, what are your thoughts on using the grenade launcher? I can say that I'll change, but I won't.
I always use the grenade launcher. Why would I not use an attachment that generally gets me a few kills per game? It's available to everyone so I can't see what the problem is.
Because it takes no skill whatsoever to get kills with it, you can spam like crazy and reach all across the map. Plus you can imagine how frustrating it is when I have the jump on you, you're down to the last few points of health possible and suddenly you pop off a single noobtube round and end up winning the fight. The way I see it, its like death streaks, you're being rewarded for sucking.
Roomate got the game a few weeks ago, started playing late one saturday night and haven't really stopped. Hit me up with a request on XBL, gamertag: Roostah89
This. I think the most frustrating thing about it is when I'm in a one-on-one battle with someone and I get behind cover real quick to heal or something, I die to a launched grenade. Lo and behold the killcam shows he literally could not see any part of my body, but because of the explosive radius of the grenade, he killed me by hitting the spot right next to me. Since I'm behind cover and can't see him, it's impossible for me to kill the guy, but he can still kill me with his noob tube. And before anyone says that regular grenades can kill someone behind cover too, they are not the same. Either they'll throw it and my seeing the grenade indicator will give me time to run, or they will cook it and (in theory) I could pop out and shoot them while they have the grenade in their hand. Not so with the launcher. In that case I get instantly killed while behind cover without warning, or the moment I pop out they can still kill me on sight. Finally, extending this rant way further than necessary, the argument that "everyone can use it so what's the problem?" is asinine. Every person on the map could camp too, but that would be a pretty boring game because no one could kill anyone. Admittedly, a match where everyone just grenade launched each other all day long may be fun in it's own right, but when I don't want to use that style of play, it really sucks (and is a legitimate complaint, which is what I'm getting at) when I have to alter my style to the lowest common denominator because otherwise I will get my shit wrecked. Until I can pick "No Launchers Team Deathmatch" this will continue to be a problem. Edit: I may take this shit too seriously...
I'll admit I used the noobtube for a while, for the express purpose of getting my Danger Close done. After that, I haven't gone back. I may bitch and moan when I can't get a kill and seem to have a bullet magnet around my neck; and those times generally outnumber the ones where I cut a swathe of death through the enemy. I'm a streaky player. But no matter how my fortunes are going, I play online to test my skill against other players. Banging stuff out of a launcher just doesn't do that for me. Personally, I'd much rather earn each kill through skill and cunning. But I also accept that not everyone plays like that. Some people (maybe most) just play to win. Launchers can help with that. The fact that their ammo is generally restricted to two, that I've seen, gives an indication that the developers sought a balance to the argument. Mind you, despite realising that, I will still threaten to chuck my controller at the LCD every time I eat a launched grenade from halfway across the map, and then commit to hunting the bastard down and filling him with buckshot. Each to his own.
I'll admit that I've been a noob-tuber in the past. I even had a class built around it with danger close and one man army so that I could replenish my supply of grenade rounds. It was really for when I just wanted to fuck with some people in a ground war match, or when I was drunk and that's about all I could do. However, I will say that even though the noob tube can be effective, although cheep, I still tend to perform exceptionally better when I play for real with either my M16A4 assault class or as a sniper.
I have a new pet peeve I've ran into three times the last couple days. Nothing pisses me off more when I finally get a chopper gunner, and literally cannot use it in the match because the air space is too full right now. I've sat there for minutes trying to call it in only for the match to end. Seriously, three times the last two days I have not been able to call it in because of this.
They need to make a new fucking game-type. Team Deathmatch - No Launcher. Fuck the grenade launcher. It's all I would play. Sure I like demolition and what not. But when you're trying to rush the bomb site and the other team has just strategically positioned noob-tubers to fuck you up the minute you turn a corner, its just no fun. Go bling with heartbeat sensor and the tube on demo and you can fuck someone up before they even know they can get fucked up.
I think there is something as annoying as the noob tube in the game. Stun Grenades. Holy shit are these infuriating. Nothing like have a nice killstreak going and having some body toss a couple random stuns your way just to come out at you at some off angle, rendering you useless for 10 seconds.
The only thing as bad is Tac-knifing. I know some of you do it for fun, which is cool once in a while. But there are some people who just do it every fucking match. And it's not like they are winning, if i see you you are dead but its just plain fucking annoying when you've cleared an area, you're moving carefully and one of these assholes comes sprinting behind you and kills you.
I have one whole slot built for tac-knifing. Marathon pro, Lightweight pro and Ninja pro, with a riot shield for shits and giggles. I can get a ton of kills with it, but I also wear a ton of deaths because I start getting targeted pretty quick. It's even more fun to rush in with the shield and bash them to death with it, because you know that's embarassing as hell.
I don't put Tac-Knifing anywhere near the bitchery of the noob tube. You can't spam a tac-knife, you have to actually see the person to kill them, and you have to get close to them to kill them. If you guys want to see some real bitching go to Infinity Wards Forums and spend a couple of minutes looking around. People complain about every gun/perk/killstreak you can think of. According to them if it can kill you in the game, it should be removed.
Playing some Groundwar today and got put into a 'hacked' lobby. Played a new game mode called "Global Thermonuclear War". A nuke in the center of the map, you have to be right next to it to get a point, first team to 100 points wins. Who ever gets the last point gets all the nuke kills and it counts as a Tactical Nuke killstreak. The guys that hacked the server said there were a lot of new game modes and some new maps coming soon, one of the maps is to be the White House.
I always thought they should combine the new and old maps. If you look in the corner of Karachi (the side that you run up the stairs to get onto the upper-upper roof) you can see what looks to be a building under construction (not unlike the CoD 4 map) If they could integrate both maps at once, it could make for a better time (if you like big maps). Just my 2 cents.
I don't know about CoD 4 maps at all but Karachi was actually done by the same designer that made the de_karachi for Counter-Strike 1.6. Hence the nearly identical layout.
I didn't start Noob tubing until I prestiged. After I prestiged I stopped caring about being "cheap" and started using it to piss off the 13 year olds that jerk off to this game. There is no bigger satisfaction than some 13 year old prepubescent kid yelling into his mic.