What a strange two weeks this has been for my CODBO2 experience. A few weeks ago I finally decided to wade into the "HardCore" lobby and try my skills at it. I had only been playing Core (TDM, in both cases), but had heard some good things about HC.
People were right! HC was great - fewer bullets needed to kill a target being one of the biggest benefits. My KDR was going up (from like, mid 70's - SHUT UP!! I KNOW!! - to upper 90's) and I was thinking I was on track to break that elusive (for me) 1.0 KDR mark. Win/Loss went up, as well. I think mainly because I was playing with better people. Teams I was on were winning more than losing, obviously). My last 20-40 game average saw my KDR go up to about 2.0 - 2.5!
And then last week, something happened.....I don't know what........but it all came crashing down to Earth for me. I suddenly can't hit the broadside of the barn on the Studio map! I can't hit ANYTHING!! I'm on losing teams more often than not now - in large part due to me, not others on my team. And my 20-40 game average is now about what my career stats show....about a .94%.
So, i don't know what's wrong. I went and started playing against the bots just to try and practice. I'm not sure if it helped. I could blame "lag", and my connection isn't the best, for sure. But I'm not going to take that easy way out.
Anyway, how about you vets? You ever hit a slump like that? Is that all it might be? Or should I just resign mysel to the fact that I SUCK AT COD!?!
But, a few good things have happened as well. Played some HCTDM last night with some guys that were REALLY good. Didn't talk crap on the mike and even though I didn't do much talking with them, they were calling out enemies for me. now that's teamwork! Also, I aciidentally shot one of them while I was trying to take out an enemy. The team mate walked in front of me. But instead of getting mad, the player apologized to me! Really cool guys and I sent them all friend requests and now I'm just waiting like a cheeze-eating-pimple-faced-high-school-boy, hoping that the prom queen will accept my invitation to the dance, for a positive reply from them all. They weren't a "clan", either. just some guys who were having fun. So that was a high point for me this past week.
Also, I was playing the game this afternoon with my son and a teammate sent us a friend request that we accepted and the guy is super cool and just a little better player than we are. So it'll be fun doing some games with him. At this point, my son and I decided to go back to Core and try that again for a while. of course, the difficult part was remembering that you have to unload a whole clip on an enemy to kill them. but, I did go 19-0 on Hijacked and went through my score streaks twice in the match. So that also lifted my spirits a bit.
Anyway, blah-blah-blah......I know. if you read this far, thanks. How's your COD week been going?