How is steady aim working for you? It seems to me it doesn't do a hole lot, at least with the guns I have tried. Better than without, but still horribly inaccurate when not zoomed in.

In 4 hours I am a lvl 14. I started off really rough, not knowing the maps and getting owned left and right. I finally got my KDR right below 1:1 with a couple nice rounds. The MP is as intense as the SP. A lot of maps. 24 player maps are a little full--I could not image 32!

Steady aim is a must for hip shots imo, you can see the difference reflected in the reticles. Some weapons are better for hipshots than others regardless. The M4 is somewhat effective at close range, but the MP5 and the P90 shine in that department. I use hipshots at close range with the M16 too, but it's a little more hit or miss. It's worth noting that movement kills hip shot accuracy with or without the perk. I still fall into that trap from time to time, and I'm sure if you could see my accuracy it wouldn't be the 20+% it was in the beta, because rather than going for long range kills 90% of the time I'm running and gunning with SMG's quite a bit more often. The P90 is vicious.

Stopping power is something that I have a hard time giving up, even for Overkill (two primary weapons). Out of all the perks I don't use, I think deep impact must be the most useful.. I should probably make a kit that includes it, but I haven't gotten to that yet.

Speaking of precision though, I really want to unlock the M14. I was hoping to get there tonight, but I'm only at level 42 and I haven't been gaining a lot of quick experience tonight. I'm going to go play some more in a few minutes.. hopefully I can get in a good sabotage server. That seems to pull in the XP rather quickly.

Another good question, in addition to your favorite loadouts/kits (which no one has answered yet)--does anyone have any favorite maps yet, or how about modes? For team togetherness, Sabotage and Search & Destroy are the best modes imo. My favorite maps right now sorta depend on the mode. I'm still very fond of Overgrown for objective types.. hell all the beta maps are still very exciting. Crash and Vacant are both also wonderful objective maps (Crash is also a great TDM map). Out of the newly available maps, I think Showdown is one of my favorites. Bloc too.

Man those LMG's are too good. With deep impact, you can just shoot through the whole level :P

Nice long article on CoD4: http://www.cbwgaming.com/index.php?pg=games&action...

Btw, P90 sucks... way too good! :P

Join the Xfire brigade :P

Anyone know

- How much extra Jug health?
- How much more damage stopping power does?
- Radius/Damage increase with Sonic Boom?

Also, what guns become quite accurate with Steady Aim?

Longish CoD4 walkthrough http://www.gamespot.com/features/6182435/p-1.html

Someone on the IW forums was looking for more detailed stats for the perks. The only real chance we have of getting them is for IW to respond. I find Steady Aim to be pretty helpful when using hipshots personally, I find it especially useful on the SMG's (MP5/P90/Skorpion/Etc) but as I mentioned in that other post I use it on almost all of my loadouts.

I just played a crazy game. It was Sabotage on Shipment.. with 30 players. This map might be too small for 18 players, and it's certainly not the most suitable map for Sabotage. I'm absolutely amazed that anyone managed to plant the bomb successfully, but we did it. When all was said and done, it was a lot more fun than I expected going into it, but I wouldn't volunteer to do it again. It was basically elbow to elbow, standing room only.. just crazy.

It seems like a lot of people are stuck up on the campaign still. I never quite understood this need to finish the SP before playing MP, so get to it, so more people can discuss the badass multiplayer!

Someone had said previously that they didn't understand why I was so in love with this game--and I really wasn't then--but I sure am now.Not to my knowledge. My advice: turn the settings down in game and on the driver level too. It's playable for me @ 1024x768, everything on low except textures, normals, and model detail, which are all on "normal." I'm not satisfied with the performance either, and I haven't touched SP (where it might be worse)--that's why I'm working on upgrading w/i the next month and a half.

What are you running it on? You should be able to max it out on a C2D (or Quad) and a G80, if that's what you're running. Maybe there's something else at fault. Ace posted this before, but a rundown of it's performance on several boards, all running on an X6800 I believe:

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce...

Ya and once he figures out what's wrong, he'll only have the best version of the game on his hands. I'm 100% satisfied with the version I bought, and my rig sucks compared to Slab's. Once I upgrade next month though, it's on. Maybe Slabs just needs to play MP to unlock the performance upgrade ;)

Slabs, if all else fails, maybe ask someone on the IW forums for help? I know people running it @ 1920x1200 on E6600's and 8800 Ultras. Probably not at 60fps, but it's still running "well" for them. I can't imagine there isn't a software related issue at hand that's screwing things up for you.

Anyway.. I just unlocked the deagle.. and while all of the pistols have the exact same specs, I'm still going to keep using it. I don't think it's fair that you don't get any additional stopping power when you consider the fact that you can't attach a silencer. But I guess they couldn't make it the cannon that it is in CSS. It just looks and sounds so cool anyway. I don't want to use anything else.