Advanced Player’s Guide to Modern Warfare 2′s Multiplayer

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:16 am · 30 Comments

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Notable Secondary Weapons

You’ll unlock a few Secondary Weapons between levels 19 and 39. My two favorite are the Glock and the Striker. The G18, or Glock Model 18 is a machine pistol with a 31 round clip, while the Striker is a 30 round semi-automatic shotgun. Both are excellent short to medium range secondary weapons and both have their use in an MP match of any type.

The Glock, in particular, is a personal favorite. It’s a beast of a short range weapon, with stopping power that compares favorably to even the Magnum .44, but with full auto.  Sure, it kicks worse than a drunken mule, but at short range, it really can’t be beat until your unlock the sawed off shotgun called the “Ranger” at level 42. My preference is to put a silencer on it and take unsuspecting foes out silently which will keep me off people’s radar for a few more seconds, which is extremely useful in a Demolition or Domination match type.

The striker is just an all around useful shotgun. Its faster firing rate and comparable lethality makes it the preferred shotgun over the SPAS, and its control-ability makes it preferable to the arguably more lethal AA-12.

Notable Perks

Of the Perks that you unlock between 19 and 39, Cold Blooded, Final Stand, Ninja and Bling are the most immediately useful. Bling allows you to put two weapon attachments on your weapons, which is fantastic for obvious reasons. Final stand is the same as the CoD4 final stand and is also useful for obvious reasons. Of note, you will not be able to revive teammates who are in Final Stand, as you could do in World at War.

Of the new perks, Coldblooded and Ninja may be the most useful. Cold blooded allows you to be undetectable by Thermal Scopes, Air vehicles, UAV’s and sentry guns. Ninja, on the other hand, makes you invisible to heartbeat sensors and Ninja Pro makes you move silently. These two perks are most useful when used together to make you invisible to your enemy. These perks are extremely useful if you’re facing enemies that are getting a ton of kill streaks, as you’ll be invisible to enemy AC-130′s, Harriers, Attack Choppers, etc. This allows you to use the Stinger without fear of being killed by the enemy aircraft before getting the shot off. These perks can also be used effectively without the other, although, it really depends on how your enemy is playing. During Team Deathmatches, you’re most likely to see players with heartbeat sensors, which makes Ninja very useful to get the drop on your enemy.

Mix and match these weapons and perks as you see fit and enjoy, because after level 40, everything changes…

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  • MikeyZeroG

    Great tips. I keep searching for the perfect combination of weapons and equipment. I’m at level 40, and I’m trying to upgrade my M16 so I can equip the heartbeat sensor.

    What’s up with people talking about how the M16 and Famas are newb guns because they’re too powerful?

    I even heard a guy in a match saying that this one guy on the other team sucked because he was killing everyone, but doing it with the Famas. Are we supposed to disregard these guns??

    • DEL673

      One thing about COD is that a good deal of people that you run into randomly like to whine a whole bunch. I have heard nearly every excuse from a losing team on why they lost and how it does not count. Even one time that they were distracted by a guy speaking German in chat (guess they forgot to mute him).

    • petergriffen1990

      yea what Del said, Dont lower your kdr becuase noobs cry they have the same chance to use that gun… but they dont prolly cuz they cant aim which makes them the noob

  • petergriffen1990

    you have to understand this about the G18 it does kick like a horse being branded but it stops it gets to a certain spot and it stops…get in a private match with a buddy thats willing to help you and shoot right in the middle of his chest and watch the first shot hit his chest then it jumps right to the head for an extra 50 points

    and blast shield is great great great for headquarters becuase when my clan is spawned far from the target we call big boom and we nade the spot with everything we have… and there is always at least 1 guy still in there with blast shield to kill us as we walk in thinking its empty

    also let me add if you have good friends head quarters is great for powerleveling… im not gonna tell you how but some should already know… and its also good for your kdr if you are on the winning team

    btw i’m on lvl 66 by nov 24, 2009 ill be lvl 15 of my first prestige

    i’m gonna leave with this Communication is the key!!

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      I absolutely love the Glock. It’s my preferred side arm.

  • Steve

    Couldn’t disagree more on the P90. Perhaps it’s not quite as accurate as the UMP45, but having that 50 round clip really comes in handy. My usual load out is that, silenced, with the holographic sight. It’s excellent close quarters and and is usable at long range. It’s definitely not a god weapon, but I definitely find it the most effective of the SMG’s.

    Having said that, spot on with the AUG-HBAR. Been working on leveling up with that one and have found the combination of accuracy and big clips to be quite nice.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      Well, I’m talking to the player that is between levels 19 and 39. For a more experienced player, the P90 isn’t bad at all, but I’m finding that the mini uzi is my preferred sub machine gun of them all. It’s combination of firepower, fire rate and accuracy is unsurpassed, IMO.

  • MikeyZeroG

    For me, the heartbeat sensor has really helped my kdr. It takes away a lot of the frustration I sometimes feel in games like this. I get taken by surprise a lot less, and I get the jump on guys a lot more.

    Obviously not everyone agrees that it’s the most advantageous loadout. What are you guys using instead of the heartbeat?

  • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

    My favorite load out posts will be later this week.

  • http://Www.youtube.com/inf3rnalslave NubWithATub

    I freaking love the glock, i use the acr and as soon as i enter any building i change to glock as it just mows down everyone in the building with its incredible fire rate! Btw u made meh sadface cos u didnt acxcsepte ma fwiende requezzstez. :’(

  • Eeymanjones

    Nice article, I’m not that good at fps games online, but this one is really fun even though I die a lot.

  • Chubbaluphigous

    I love the SCAR. I only use it in my Ninja class. Since I don’t use bling, and just run with a silencer and iron sights. I need it’s accuracy to nail distant enemies. I love counter sniping snipers with iron sights and no stopping power. I wish there was a way of knowing if they watched the kill cam. Some of those kills are too good to go unseen.

    Even though I only use the SCAR in one class, I almost exclusively play that class.

    • MikeyZeroG

      I know what you mean about wanting them to see your kill — I had an amazing throwing knife kill yesterday that definitely deserved a careful review.

      My favorite kill so far was crouching from gun fire behind a car, and then sticking a semtex to the car before running away — instant car bomb :)

  • Luigij

    hmmmmm good tips i guess but you forgot to mention scavenger as a perk??? unlimited ammo? whats wrong with that? and when you get to pro you get more mags to start with. in a contest between scavenger pro and bling pro i say scavenger pro ANYDAY!!! and as for not having stopping power?? i can kill people in 4 bullets with my stopping power class!!
    my best class is:
    M4 red dot (stopping power=4 bullets with like NO kickback!)
    Stinger
    Scavenger Pro
    Stopping Power Pro
    Steady Aim Pro

    with that class i get about 35-40 kills a game and about 5-8 deaths :) best class ever!!

  • Helio

    Is there anywhere I can go on the web to try to add Friends and/or get into a group/clan to learn with?

  • http://www.ontargetairsoft.com airsoft guns

    Good tips, i just hit level 70 the other day and have been using for the most part the M4 with stopping power, marathon pro and commando pro.

    Its just hard to beat the low recoil, good damage and rate of fire the M4 puts out. It also has a good clip size.

    I tried the AK47 but man that thing has so much kick its hard to use other then close in!

  • http://rko Mist

    The only issue I have with your breakdown of weapon choices is the AUG as the supreme LMG. Any well experienced MW2 player knows the RPD is a 2 shot kill with stopping power, or 1 to head and with sleight of hand pro (fast ADS) and grip you can snipe from across the map easily with the iron sights alone. Most high end players and clans use this combination.

    The only weapons that I purposely avoid are the dual model 1887s with FMJ glitch,or thermal scopes and heart sensors on anything. Also I never use the care package knife glitch.

    My reasoning is that I am very, very good at this game as it is. And I don’t need the almost saddening advantages offered by these overpowered options to win my matches. I do it out of respect for opponents and find that most people using the choices above, are not really that great of players and need every edge they can get just to level the playing field.

    As a honorable gamer, its my duty to play like a good sport and avoid obvious overlooked problems instead of taking advantage of unbalanced aspects of a game.

    P.S. I don’t use cheat codes for games either! Ever!

    • CONVERGE77

      Mist,

      Truer words have never been spoken about the glitches. I’m a decent player (1.57 ktd ratio) and I can handle getting beat by people who are better than me, but I absolutely lose it when I get killed by those ridiculous shotgun and knife glitches. As you said, those players typically aren’t good and I notice they die alot, but it still pisses me off if I notice them having any success in the game.

      I differ with you slightly on the heartbeat sensor and thermal though. I don’t use the heartbeat sensor because I find it distracting (been killed too many times while watching it) but I have no qualms about using the thermal simply because I’ve played against so many snipers who use it. I will say though that it borders on cheating, but I also feel that way about the Scavenger perk (unlimited grenades/claymores) which I always use to counteract the SCAR’s small clip.

      All I’m looking for is an honorable, fair match but sometimes it feels like you have to fight fire with fire and it’s just not fun for me.

    • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

      It’s a game Mist, not one on one Samurai combat. Get a grip.

      I’ve already discussed the RPD in the Newbie guide. This guide was for tips on weapons you unlock after level 18.

    • Shane

      The 1887′s with FMJ glitch and the care package speed boost where patched out of the game a long time ago along with the unlimited care package glitch. I don’t know why people are still talking about them. It would be the same as people talking bout how EA can’t keep their servers up for Bad Company 2 which I believe is now fixed as well it seems.

  • James-Broughty

    I have to agree Lono, boys/girls, it’s only a game. i suggest u go out and get urselves partners (boyfriend/girlfriend whatever ur sexual preference is and i didnt mean a clan partner as im sure ur far too good for that) and enjoy life a bit instead of sitting in ur pants stuffing ur face with high cholestoral food.

    the weapons and perks are the same for everyone, so instead of proving to urselves how good u are, i suggest u “cheat” and use them like the rest of us and improve ur game that little bitty better.

    ur not that great otherwise u wouldn’t be sitting behind a computer screen telling ppl how good u are, u’d be doing it for real and putting ur life on the line in Afghan…wonder if u’d use ur perks out there…..

  • http://mlcmag.ning.com nero_4_life

    Point of correction, the best light machine gun is the LSW why? because compared to the the Aug-h, its not as accurate but has a much higher fire rate and equal damage, thsi accuaray issue can easily be resolved by the grip attachment. Also the LSw has more rounds per clip. no need 4 stopping power

  • James-Broughty

    play hardcore, u wont need stopping power…but what do i know? im no expert like u guys

  • DonnHarry

    @ James-Broughty:

    Not that it has anything to do with COD, but your comment about high cholesterol foods is irrelevant since it’s well accepted that cholesterol content of food has no influence over serum cholesterol levels in the blood. The body regulates cholesterol very well and when a high cholesterol food is ingested the liver simply produces less cholesterol at that time. There’s a proper feedback mechanism in play so eating cholesterol is a non-issue.

    As for COD, i change my mind about what’s my favourite all the time and can usually do OK with any gun. I find the G18′s to be somewhat of an exploit and Tube’s piss me off inexplicably.

    Honour is missing from games these days. No one’s saying you have to perform special COD rituals and bow to your opponents before commencing war, but taking advantage of unbalanced elements of the game just makes it less fun to play. It’s like using an aimbot, i don’t see what’s fun about it?

  • PointlessKiller

    Class 1
    Primary: P90 w/ silencer
    Secondary: Anything
    Perks: Marathon, Lightweight, Ninja/Commando
    Ultimate Speed FTW. P90 was really hard for me to get used to, but it’s really strong, fast, and accurate, everything I need for when an enemy notices me before I can close in for the knife. I love sprinting past the enemy’s line of defense and then just messing around with them. Tea bagging prone snipers, lining up the perfect head shot, shooting the floor around them, etc. etc. But I never send someone a message to turn around. Most of my deaths are from cocky stunts like this but I seriously doubt I could ever kill someone after telling them to turn around. I have horrible luck when it comes to that lol. Probably my favorite part of MW2 is the knifing classes. I play the game too much like Assassin’s Creed. As for the glitching.. It’s not all bad. Some of the stuff is pretty fun as long as you don’t seriously abuse it (“Javelin Glitch”). Lol I remember back when that was still going on… The first time I tried it I ended up running around a building being chased by an entire team. We just kept running around and around in a big circle and I got an emergency airdrop from knifing before I even got to see if the glitch worked. Surprisingly, none of the enemies tried to run the opposite way.. they just kept following me. Lambs to the slaughter
    >:D

  • http://www.yahoo.com Jarrod

    I am a beast with the Scar-h

  • jeffzie

    please stop using the g18′s, it pisses me off more than the akimbo shotties used to be.

    noobiness scale

    G18>HB sensor camp> akimbo shots>tactic knives

  • http://none aersixb9

    I think this guide and many others, as well as many players, place too big an emphasis on weapon selection and perks and not enough on tactics and teamwork. I should note that I frequently play with the .44 as my primary, and do about 75% as well with it, mostly due to watching where my team is and is covering (with the assumption that hostile players can’t go through them too quickly without making a bit of noise, which is usually true) and moving with my team and covering an open area, as well as avoiding long or wide open areas. Weapon and perk selection matters very little if you move effectively with your team and use cover, as well as a bit of anticipation and foreknowledge of where the other team is and will be, which is usually approximately in the direction of all the loud noises and is also the direction your teammates tend to be facing and moving towards. Note there are frequent flankers and wingmen, so if you’re in a group and everybody is facing the same way, cover the back because someone’s probably flanking and is about to get a bunch of back kills, albeit in a pretty suicidal manner. I should also note that your initial weapon selection matters little unless you die constantly, and I’ve even seen people suicide for a quick reload. One key factor in staying alive and/or getting high killstreaks is keeping an eye out for fancy guns to replace your empty gun, and I should note most of the other players tend to bring nice guns, especially the ones that don’t die out in the open, where it’s hard to pick up a gun without getting shot.

  • http://N/A bloodhound

    how can i unlock my cheat console in multiplayer because we want to try and connect that way because whe dont always pick each other up on the server bud if whe connect by the console whe pick each other up i have traid everything evan seta thereisacow bud it only works in single player please i am asking help me

  • Claude

    I use 5 classes and at level 31 I’m still experimenting. I use Martyrdom on all of them.

    1. Assualt

    Primary: FAL w/ Grenade Launcher
    Secondary: .44 Magnum w/ FMJ
    Equipment: Semtex Grenade
    Perk 1: Sleight Of Hand Pro
    Perk 2: Hardline Pro
    Perk 3: Scrambler

    2. Ninja

    Primary: P90 w/ Red Dot Sight
    Secondary: .44 Magnum w/ FMJ
    Equipment: Throwing Knife
    Perk 1: Marathon
    Perk 2: Lightweight
    Perk 3: Commando

    3. Flyswatter

    Primary: MG4 w/ Grip
    Secondary: Stinger
    Equipment: Blast Shield
    Perk 1: Sleight Of Hand Pro
    Perk 2: Stopping Power
    Perk 3: Steady Aim Pro

    4. Dead Eye

    Primary: .50 Beretta
    Secondary: PP2000 w/ Red Dot Sight
    Equipment: Claymore
    Perk 1: Sleight Of Hand Pro
    Perk 2: Stopping Power
    Perk 3: Steady Aim Pro

    5. Shotty Man

    Primary: Blast Shield
    Secondary: AA-12 w/ Red Dot Sight
    Equipment: Frag Grenade
    Perk 1: Scavenger Pro
    Perk 2: Hardline Pro
    Perk 3: Scrambler

    I love the .44 Magnum and always ass-rape the competition on Kirachi and Invasion with my Shotty Man class…