Played it till level 32 last night, all in multiplayer, thanks red bull and 5 hour energy shots
anyway, Lon's review is really good, so i thought i'd just add my thoughts on MP's perks/kill streaks and some of the guns i tried.
GUNS:
MP5K- essentially a MP5 upgrade, hits a little less powerfully, but fires at a better clip. About as accurate as the old MP5 as well, mid range shots are makeable, but difficult at times.
UMP- I really like this gun. Slower than the MP5K, but hits harder. Found it much more stable in the mid range game. Can and will make longer shots.
SCAR assualt rifle- Great gun. Like a M4 with more stopping power. Good at all ranges, as is to be expected from a rifle. Can kick alittle to much for my taste.
M4- One of my favroite from MW1, seems to have lost some of it's stopping power, which is saying something since it didn't have much before. Still deadly accurate, but takes half a clip to put anyone down.
P90- I hated this gun in MW1. Was all over the place, and took far to many rounds to kill someone. Now, its the exact oppiste. My best rounds of the night came with this gun and a holographic scope. Deadly powerful now, also very stable. Made midrange shots with ease, and mow'd people down up close.
This was easily the best Sub for me as a rusher.
NEW PERKS/ PERKS WHO'S PRO ADDON IS WORTH NOTING:
Scavenger- interesting perk, especially with no ability to pick up rounds without it. Also can pick up grenades.
Slight of hand - the pro version of this is incredible for rushers, your gun snaps into aiming mode so fast it will make your head spin. a joy to use.
Cold blooded - Awesome for avoiding the kill streaks, as it makes you for all intents and purposes invisable to thier aiming mechinsims.
If you want to be the most popular player on your team, equip a stinger and this, and gun down every enemy KS vehicle that appears.
Hard line: This is going to be a spot of contention with some players who have a problem with people who may not be as skilled with the guns running up kills.
You can use it to set off insanely easy long kill streaks if you rush and are half way decent. by that i mean the following:
2 kills: UAV
4 kills: Pred
6 Kills: harrier
I was running the above for awhile, and it ment i pretty much had a UAV up for our team at all times during the match. alot of times i got 2-3 harriers a match, simply because i had a constant UAV and was rushing, and as such it really took no skill for me to get 2 people for the uav, use that to get the drop on two more, hide, and drop a predator on a group of people.
I don't particularity care, but i can see hard line as a rallying call for the "too easy in multilplayer" crowd.
allright, killstreaks then i have to get back to work:
Care package: I dunno about this one. for one thing, it takes awhile to drop, and unscrupulous teammates (like me) are going to take a shot at stealing your KS/ammo. On the other hand, I can see it being very useful for traps.
I sat across from a guy who tossed one of these and we picked off enemy after enemy as they came to steal it.
A fun perk, but i question how many people will suck it up for the team and equpi it. Here's hoping the other team does though, nothing like killing an enemy player and taking his AC-130 crate
Counter UAV: Love this one. Jams the enemy radar screen for 30 seconds. when i first heard about this reward i thought it would only CANCLE a current UAV, but it blanks them for 30 seconds. Awesome when someone gets one of the strike KS's and can drop it on people who have no idea it's incoming.
Predator missile: by far my favorite perk, insanely fun to drop on people. I love when you catch a group of 2-3 people out in the open and you can see them panic and start to run as you kick the thrusters in.
And remember to ask them if they got that thing you sent them as it crashes into them
:D
Sidenote: you can also take out enemy KS vehicles like the choppers and harrier with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhw_1cGcgc&feature=player_embeddedHarrier: This one is crazy. It summons a two pass air strike and sets a harrier up where you point. Can be used to devestating effect in objective based games. Mine were rountinly gunning down 3-6 people before they left the map.
oh, it can also shoot down enemy copters.
last one i unlocked and use:
PAV-LOW: devastation copter. Needs three stingers to be shot down. absolutely murders people. no other way to describe it. It's an amazing chopper.
Also, it can be up WHILE a harrier is up. I was running:
predator
harrier
PAV-LOW
at the end of the night, and twice i get them both up. it was silly.
endnote: why on earth does no one shoot KS's down??
I ALWAYS equip the stinger as my launcher. The ks rewards are just too awesome to leave up on maps. they can change a game. but there's a simple counter....
A stinger takes a harrier out in one shot. it takes 5 seconds. yet i think i only had ONE shot down all night. I shot down 10 or so on my own.
things a stinger shoots down in ONE SHOT.
Harrier
Enemy UAV
every copter but the PAV low
the AC-130.
Things that take a whole 3 stingers to shoot down (or mabey two...it went down after two for me, but i thought someone was lighting it up with their gun)
PAve-Low.
SHOOT DOWN VEHICLES PEOPLE.