Happy Boredom

Reviewing my stats I realize I had a nice 8-game win streak on Feb 17th. That was a good one. I think I had 2 40-kill games and a couple HQ shutouts. I don’t know who my teammates were but they definitely knew how to cover a flag.

Goddam that took forever. 2 days, 2 hours to finish basic Call of Duty. Too bad that took 3 months. Other people play more consistently than I do but I’m sure they probably level up faster too.

Aside from playing headquarters, how do you go about getting extra points? My habit has to been to finish the 150 kills to get marksman III for a weapon and then move on to the next. For example I will get my 150 kills on the STG before moving onto using a MG44. I do not bother with sniper rifles because I know I am the worst with them. Of course I suppose different guns are better suited for different levels. For example I don’t have a chance on Dome unless I have some type of automatic weapon. The more bullets the better.

I don’t level up on Expert (headshot) performance until I’ve finished all Marksman challenges for non-sniper guns because I’m also poor at headshots. I only get maybe 1 or 2 headshots per game.

Just curious what other methods are out there. Maybe you finish Marksman I for all weapons then move onto Marksman II? Maybe you try to complete Marksman AND Expert challenges for a weapon? I’m just looking for new ideas to make Prestige 1 more interesting.

The average skill level of weekend Call of Duty players is lower than that of the weeknight player. Since it was raining all weekend I sat down and played CoD for the better part of an afternoon. This is one of only a few chance’s I’ve had to play CoD on a Sunday afternoon. It became clear that the players are not as good as the weeknight people. I had a couple 40+ kill sessions with under 15 deaths. For me that is a pretty high kill rate.

The nice thing about the weekend is that there were a lot more players. There were consistently about 100,000 players which is quite a bit more than the 70,000 players I’m used to seeing on a weeknight. That gave me a chance to play some game modes that I don’t usually see like War and Ground War. Typically there are not many War players when I’m online (10PM Pacific = 1AM Eastern). If I try to play on a weeknight I cannot get a good connection to War/Ground War because there are only maybe 300 players in each game mode and it they all live in Australia (AUS clan signs). That limits my weeknight games primarily to 4 common modes: Deathmatch (free or team) and Headquarters, Search & Destroy.

I finally hit Level 65 with a total of about 2 days, 4 hours of game time. I’m going to savor Level 65 a while before I prestige up because it’s nice to finally have all the guns and the flamethrower. The flamethrower is awesome. Headshots with a double tap DP28 have been very easy to get.