little_old_man

Great news P-man. I know that it's been difficult to get in lately and I'm sure this will help a lot. THANKS!

Joe Canadian Ruggerxi Pete's favorite: He camps in a house, tripwires the only two access doors and hides underneath the stairs. It's a bit frustrating (and time consuming) trying to get the pimp with conventional weapons, maybe a flamethrower would help Perhaps a roll of duct tape so we can cover his mouth, tie his hands then bash him to death would work much better.

Where do you play? Do you need software or is it somewhere online? I'd enjoy kicking all of your asses :-)

A few years ago I took my family to Fort Point which is a civil war era fort under the Golden Gate bridge. They used what appears to be a very large pool rack or triangle to hold the cannon balls in place. Granted the only movement these things ever see are from occasional earthquakes, and as you can see the salt air does create rust on the cannon and the ammo.

Valley Summer. It's a sniper map, but everybody always tries to go to the same places so it is a run & gun and sniper combo.

Ok, so COD2 has crashed on me 3 times today but I haven't got a clue what to do about it. I went to the error reporting on my PC and this is what it says. Any of you geeks know what the hell this means if anything? Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: cod2mp_s.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4456a34f Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll Fault Module Version: 8.15.11.8603 Fault Module Timestamp: 4a1dd963 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00393bab OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: fd00 Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160 Additional Information 3: fd00 Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

I'm experiencing all kinds of strange things in TDM. In addition to the occasional crashing, every time I start a new game I get an error box saying that this server is for low ping players only. This even though my ping is below 100. When I try it the second time it always goes right through.

Congrats Gomer. I would just like to mention that I consider everybody in the top 16 as winners. :-)

Joe Canadian Pondscumz - The Walking Dead If Gomer was on that show he would've shot Shane, Rick, Dale, Hershel, the walkers, everyone lol Yeah but they would have all be shot in the back :-)

I've crashed in TDM about 4 times in the last week. Glad I'm not the only one, thought it was my PC.

To all of my fellow American COD2 comrades in arms Happy Thanksgiving. To all of my fellow Canadian and French players, happy Thanks for Giving Up day.

So far the only problem I've seen is a conflict between TDM and DM with the file 5.bd627719.iwd which I downloaded just today in order to play TDM. I realize that this may be something we just have to live with, but felt it was worth mentioning.

Good job Rugger

We've had a full house this morning with people I've never seen in TDM. Looks like the changes are welcome and popular. So far only one map that the mods don't work on, but not a big deal. The spawn protection is acceptable to "most" of the players.

Thanks Rugger. You da man.

Is MW3 available for PC yet? I went into my local Gamestop yesterday and they said it would be about a week.

"The TDM spawn points are based on the location of the member of your team who has been living the longest. So if your camping in a house for example your team will start spawning in the house and if another player see's this they kill the guys leaving the house and not the guy in the house shooting out the upstairs window." That may be how it's supposed to work P-Man, but I can guarantee that's not how it is working. In fact where I spawn rarely has much to do with who has been alive the longest on my team. I'm horrible at remembering the names of the maps, but that sniper map (Sith?) with the two castles on opposite sides of the valley, everybody always spawns inside of the cathedral. In the map with the desert town with the two tall white towers that face each other across the map, guy can sometimes sit in those towers for half the game, and I've never spawned inside of the tower. Usually it's in some obscure place on the ground near a tower where the other team has taken up positions to wipe us out. From what I've seen the spawn points are pre-selected by the programs so the teams begin play on opposite sides of the map, and for the most part those points are pretty well fixed for the duration of the game, with a few random spots thrown in for variety. I realize that there may be absolutely nothing that can be done to fix this, but it sure can be a pain in the ass when you're always on the receiving end of getting spawn raped.

Hey Mods, Is there any way to fix some of the bugs in the TDM maps? 1. Auto Balance works "sometimes", but it's usually after the game has been going for at least a few minutes with 2 or 3 times as many people on one team, then you get autobalanced to the other team with no hope of ever catching up the score. 2. Spawn Points: For the guys who are really good and play TDM often, they know exactly where the opposing teams spawn points are, camp out and blow away the other team before they get a chance to raise their weapon. Then they of course immediatly get the gun ship. 3. Gun Ship: Those same guys who camp on the spawn points constantly get the gunship, then nuke the spawn points, killing the entire other team with a single shot. How the Hell is that fair? The gun ship is cool, but if a team has a couple good players and keep getting it the other team doesn't stand a chance. How about getting the gunship after 10 kills, or limiting players to 1 or 2 uses per game? 4. How about some new fucking maps? Seems like the same ones have been there forever. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a great player and I struggle with TDM. Since that's where most of the players are lately I have little choice but to play there if I want to play at all. I know this is sounding like a whine, but you guys that are taking full advantage of the maps glitches are killing it for the rest of us. Hey I get it, winning is fun and so is getting the top score. But we have a rule in all of our servers NOT to take advantage of map glitches. It seems to me that taking advantage of spawn points to massacre the other team then getting the gunship to continue hitting the spawn points is taking full advantage of a map glitches. I wouldn't expect anybody here to walk away from an opposing player if they appear in front of them, so why doesn't somebody fix it so the spawn points are more random all over the map? I'm not bitching about anybody in particular. We all have our favorite maps mainly because we always do good on those maps. I'm guilty of taking advantage of spawn raping myself when the opportunity comes up, but it feels like cheating as opposed to killing somebody face to face. Just my 2 cents, end of rant.

Amazing! http://wimp.com/nasasatellite/

I couldn't help but notice that nobdy has been playing CTF for weeks, and now the server is entirely gone. Is this temporary or are there problems with the server? We need to get back in there are play again, I miss it.

If I could only find a hack that would make Spanky's frags blow up in his hand when he pulls the pin.

Spanky asked me if it was possible to do away with all frags in the COD2 servers. I told him I wasn't sure but thought it was a great idea.

FYI, My PC automatically downloaded several security updates from Microsoft last night, and this morning I couldn't get into any of the multiplayer servers. I removed the updates and the game worked just fine. The updates were labeled as Microsoft.NET Framework 4. There were several with similar names, and I just removed them all.

Sniper maps have their place in the TDM rotation. Small run and gun maps are fun, but when that's all you have out there and the same people win every single round over and over again, it gets boring. Everybody in XI has their strengths and weaknesses, and having a single type of map with the same people constantly dominating the games gets discouraging. Area 51 servers have been getting more popular lately with larger crowds playing. A big reason for it is that the weapon choices even out the playing field, and guys like me who rarely win a round can keep up with the better players, even when I have a higher ping. That's something you admins should keep in mind for the main COD2 servers. Having a large group of players regularly dominating the games takes a lot of fun out of the experience for the rest of us. I'm not complaining (much) and I enjoy almost everything about the XI servers and the members, but when admins and old time players know every square inch of a map and take full advantage of spawn killing and map exploits that the rest of us aren't aware of, it gets kind of old. I'm guilty of it myself occasionally, but I try not to take advantage of things unless I know it's ferzulo or major pain that I'm killing. :-)

Shows how old I am. I just saw this post more than 2-1/2 months late. Fuck I'm older than dirt. Appreciate the thought guys, thanks!