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I have been asked by a lot of players what I have been doing for the last year.. Well I have started going fishing again which I love! I have attached a couple of pictures of some of the larger Carp I have caught for your info.. There are a number of Yanks that fish for Carp in Houston and the numbers are growing but many consider them "trash" fish. They are huge fun to catch and they were ALL returned to the water

@Sitting-Duc

Whoa whoa whoa... I know I'm still kind of new, but is this how you do things around here?! You posted this topic...21 hours ago??? Is that all the time you give for everyone to see your post and respond to it? I'm just seeing this now. This is a big change and I'd think you'd give at LEAST a few days for people to see the post and respond to it. Before I start my rant, let me preface with a few notes: 1. I am fully aware that the change you implemented ONLY affects spawn protection from killstreaks, NOT direct out of spawn at the beginning of the round or after being defrosted. 2. I use Combat Medic and am 99% sure* they do NOT get extra time added to killstreak spawn protection, ONLY direct out of spawn. For killstreaks, it is 5-6 seconds for everyone, no matter what perks you use (*please correct me if I'm wrong here). Okay, on to the rant... This is in response to Sikon's thread about nobody playing late at night ("Hello, Hi, How you doin'?!"). RobMC chimes in, saying many have left because the server has been overrun with hackers. He believes they can add extra time to spawn protection to help them get kills? (never heard that one before). Then Jester mentions how spawn protection after using the RC Car is part of the problem (WHAT???). TL;DR: Sikon: Hi! I can only play late at night, but nobody is on anymore. RobMC: There are too many hackers now. On top of seeing through walls, they can add time to spawn protection. :( Jester: Yeah spawn protection from RC car is the problem. We should get rid of it. Rugger: Cool. Will do. So to fix the hacking problem, you want to reduce spawn protection from killstreaks?! Stating the obvious here: this is a team game with an emphasis on defrosting your teammates and good communication. The team that defrosts and communicates better tends to win. This is why I use Combat Medic 99% of the time and spend most of the game looking for frozen teammates on my minimap to defrost (and yelling at everyone to "GET THE HELL OUT OF SPAWN!" lol). On top of using the RC Car and UAV Defroster to help with that, I will use spawn protection to run to a spot that allows me to defrost anyone deep in enemy territory. This is literally the reason there is a Combat Medic perk - to have that extra time to get further from spawn/into enemy territory to defrost teammates. Another benefit of having that extra spawn protection from killstreaks is being able to infiltrate enemy spawn to take out the campers. I feel like many of the people complaining about getting shot in the back are the ones camping spawn surrounded by bettys or clays, waiting for people to appear in their scope. IMO, the two go hand in hand. ^THIS I'd ask everyone: if you're sitting there frozen and there's only one player still alive, who would you rather it be? The guy sitting in spawn, not moving, surrounded by enemies, waiting to get one last kill to pad his stats? Or the guy running his ass out of spawn, stealthily trying to defrost teammates to give you a second chance at winning the round? If you think making this change is going to somehow impact or lessen the hacking problem and bring people BACK to the server, I am sorry, but I beg to differ. It's only going to make it more frustrating to the players who are trying to help their team by getting to a safe place undetected to defrost teammates and take out campers. I vote to keep it as is. Oh wait...the voting is now closed.

I dunno, these days there is a lot here in America that makes others fed up with it all want to move elsewhere. Well, not America. America is great and always has been and always will be. But %90 of the people that inhabit it... not so much. They suck. Other than that, welcome. Just stay away from Disneyland and all the parents with SUV sized baby strollers who think they are entitled to push everyone out of their way. And then get mad when you dont. After that experience I vowed never to go there again.

It does sound like it's catering to lazy people who want their style of play accommodated. It's Cod4, the maps are, by definition, small; that's intentional to facilitate fast-paced game play. People who want to hide the back of their spawn & don't want to be bothered to pull their eye out of their scope to see what's going on around them should have to deal with it. It's not a sniper server. If they want to play a certain way, great. Should I also get a bespoke accommodation to bail me out the numerous times I'm frozen in enemy spawn, having been caught hunting for my killstreak rewards & them subsequently stolen? Or perhaps the number of &/or lethality of their clays & nades should be nerfed? If I'm a heavy gunner that isn't Bromo, should I get more rounds to keep the enemy at bay in the middlin' portions of the map? I mean, I already have to run across the entire map to play with them in the back of their spawn, even as they're also hiding behind clays, betties, emp mines, etc. That's not enough? To be clear, I'm not mad about it. I'll still get back there, just not as often. And the usual suspects will still flood their spawn with tears! The real detriment to a fast-paced game such as this is when you have 4+ spawn campers & the game, as it does, rapidly reaches critical & they are either oblivious to or also apathetic to moving their arse to defrost in the few remaining seconds they are afforded. But it's a team game, & that's part of it. But if it's going to be made a campers' choice mod, you might as well make it a Battlefield server.

Whats a kill streak ???

Pretty big change but this is how changes should be approached I think, few in number to get a general feel and then reverse course quickly if appropriate. For the love of god though, could the issue of turning into a killstreak finally be solved? Literally everyone I say this to has agreed (although maybe there are those who disagree?) that it is very frustrating when you try and turn into an rcxd and it takes away your gun, someone appears out of nowhere and you are left defenceless. Sometimes the screen even goes black and you still get killed.

The change has been made, it should take effect on the next map change Only after a killstreak, you will have only 2 secs of invisible spawn protection and combat medics will have 3 secs.

I miss guns..

killstreaks,,,hahaha they are for the weak,,hehehehe

If you think someone is hacking do this to get them banned, go to spectate and video them playing and send the file to an admin or myself. This is only for COD games Here's how you take a video: 1) activate the console in-game by pressing the console key, which is located just beneath the ESC key. 2) Enter "/record" into the console to start recording a demo. If you want your demo to have a specific name, for example in order to remember whom or what you recorded, use "/record DEMONAME" instead. 3) When done with the recording, either leave the server or enter "/stoprecord" into the console. 4) You can now retrieve the demo from your Call of Duty 4 directory, in the /main/demos folder. If you recorded a demo on a modded server, then the directory is /mods/MODNAME/demos Get the demo file send it to an admin and the player will be banned if they are hacking as you say. Or send it to me and I will ban them if they are hacking as you say they are.

Hey @Twinklstorm if I remember correctly you are working in the medical field in The prairies. I hope everyone is staying safe. I know our medical workers in Canada are really tapped out right now. Just thinking of you all, hope things settle soon. I know we have many more medical workers in XI. Just saying thanks. Wayne

Carps are the best ones to fish at, with pike as a realllllly close second. Awesome catch

As long as i don't have to move ingame due to some update, I'm down with changes. Give those newbies some training-/sidewheels to try and get into a positive k/d score. We'll still run 'em over!

@ShadyBrady I had plenty of people like the comment and message me, so I went ahead with it, if it doesn't work it's always an easy change back According to @Sammy the mod creator, combat medics get extra spawn protection time from killstreaks, I don't use combat medic so I don't know this for sure, I just go by the guy who created the mod Just give it a try for a couple maps and see how big of a change it is, before saying its going to make gameplay worse. You might like it.

Can't wait to see how many people cry over this I don't get killstreaks so this won't affect me lmao

Welcome to America @Sitting-Duc

Anyone have any other feelings about the amount of spawn protection time? If not I will go forward with it tomorrow morning

Reduced Spawn protection when coming back from a kill streak not the spawn protection that you get when you respawn from being frozen @Sikon you Idiot lol.

And what about the death streaks thats all i can get LOL

This is only for kill streaks, not on death respawns

all tho it is a good idea it also makes the spwn protect useless freezetag was the most fun when your down in a corner the other team putting presure on you but one or 2 smart players using the spawn protect to free their whole team a win like that is priceless. you talk about less skilled players maybe in killing but there are more skilled players using the spwn protect to unfreeze their team that knife cuts on both sides.

They are a BLAST to catch! But won't eat them! The Mule of fresh water!

Get ready for people with the heist perk complaining about not being able to steal as many packages because players won't be ranging out as far. Also, for me it's not so much about 5 extra seconds as just being invisible & being able to move to anywhere other than where I went into the killstreak reward before again becoming visible; the whole element of surprise thing.

welcome @Twinklstorm that is the sound @Ruggerxi makes when he farts!

You're an idiot.

Didn't think you were THAT old.

COD4 MW2 Freezetag players, big change is coming to the servers, this will mainly affect the very good players that constantly get killstreaks. Right now players are invisible from spawn protection when they leave their killstreak for 6 seconds, if you have combat medic you have 9 secs. So the really good players are invisible and in spawn protection a good amount of the time while us not so good players are sitting ducks for you to easily sneak up on and knife or kill us. I was thinking of changing it to, 2 secs of spawn protection which will give 3 secs to people with combat medic. This is only after leaving your killstreak

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Guns now identify as cordless hole punchers.

2.26 seconds?

Happy Birthday

LOl, & no, I wasn't. Tryin' to place me in situations I've never been.

Happy Birthday everyone !

Have a GREAT birthday everyone!!!!!

He must be a first class >IDIOT<

Good times !!!

Oh okay, I miss understood. I thought both was being reduced.

Go for it Rugger, let's give it a go! 2 secs invisibility... and only 3 seconds for the medics... sounds like a plan.

Carpe Carp!

Covid has been a disaster for me, fishing is one of the few things I enjoy, until covid I could turn up at my local lakes on any day and guarantee to find a peg, sometimes alone, sometimes only 3 or 4 there (big lake). Post covid you have to fight for space, literally at times, they're all on furlough and it's a cheap day out.

I'll need to buy a bigger fucking hard drive

Happy birthday all!!

Happy Birthday folks.

Happy Birthday and have a great day