Th3 R3volution

To start off, I really like MW2, it definately is one of my favorite games I have ever playe, but I see a pretty substantial problem with Multiplayer.

Most of you may not know it but in CoD 4 SOME guns had a characteristic called "Idle" or "Sway". This is when you aim your gun down the sights and the sights move around the slightest bit(I am not refering to Sniper sway).

List of Cod4 Guns with Idle:
-M4
-G36c
-Ak47
-Ak74u
-All pistols(I am pretty sure)


This allowed for guns not to be overpowered at long distances. The guns that had idle sway were less accurate at longer ranges, but usually possessed a higher rate of fire OR a higher damage per bullet(like the Ak47). This balanced the weapons very nicely, so not only the fully-automatic weapons dominated the gaming scene.

In MW2 no gun has idle sway meaning that any gun(except shotguns) can effectively kill you at any range. This put snipers at a huge disadvantage and makes the weapons that are fully automatic the best guns in the game(meaning guns like the Fal are rendered useless when compared to other guns)

I don't mean to come off as a crybaby or anything, but this most definatly affects gameplay, even if you do not realize it. Semi-automaatic weapons have no place.

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Olaf Vikingsson

The FAL is just a TAR with a nerfed clip and no automatic fire anyway. It's like the whole G3 vs AK thing all over again.

IW's balance team seems to consist of a pair of Bonobo chimpanzees using a Macbook.

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Carlos

There shouldn't have been idle sway to begin with. I don't think snipers are at an disadvantage.

Tricky014

There was never any Idle sway on an MP5 and there is no sway on the MP5k, so picking off snipers is quite easy for me, when acog'd most guns sway. Sway is also countered by reduced damage over range for AR's and SMG's.

StonerBoy47

It is a lot better! I'm glad IW didn't add sway to the guns!!!!!!!!!!

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*rz~

Olaf Vikingsson

The funny thing is that lethality has actually been INCREASED from CoD4 standards in most cases. Sniper rifles are just that little bit more obsolete at low levels of play.

At high levels, scope players serve a totally different role. Until there is another weapon that can score one-shot-kills from across the map at the start of a round, the sniper rifle will never become totally useless.

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