I just had my first 30+ kill flawless game the other day on PC.
Was on Scrapyard, TDM.
I rushed in the beginning and just started out on a rampage, getting almost all of my team's kills and it was just carnage from the very beginning. Kept rushing spawns/stopping to deploy killstreaks until the very end when I started chatting with my friend lol via steam friends. Pred-->Harriers-->Pavelow.
No Chopper Gunner. I'm proud about that .
I played it conservatively (read - let my pavelow do the work for me) once I hit 27 kills, which was my old record. I ended up going 32-0 in TDM lol. Got the game-winning kill cam too. It's generally easier get high scores in objective game modes if you're just going for kills, so yeah, I'm happy that I did mine in TDM, not ground war either. So I almost got half the team kills and didn't even die once
I was running the ever-so-common silenced UMP class.
Marathon
Lightweight
Ninja
When the opposite team has UAV or air support up I just switch to cold blooded and continue to own, or on campy maps I'll slap on SP. I've experimented with rapidfire on the UMP and love how fast it kills, but I've had mixed results overall...I think I'm too used to playing with a silencer.
It's always fun when you completely run out of ammo for both of your guns and have to go on a mad scavenge for a random gun lol. Actually that's one of the things I love most. Killing a ton of people and using up all of the ammo in your primary and/or secondary, picking up a new one that's often completely different and continuing to do the same.
I've actually used this class ever since I started playing, basically the majority of the time. I remember a while ago I barely ever saw another UMP user. Nowadays, I notice that it's become really, really common and it's popular with the pro's as well. Doesn't really matter to me, and honestly the UMP has struck me as one of the harder guns to use. Anything after 3 bullets and there will be some kick, and if you're unlucky you'll have double recoil in the upwards direction which will throw your aim off. I've learned to compensate by now, but yeah. It's not as easy as the point + shoot assault rifles (ACR, SCAR, M4, TAR to a certain extent) or even other low-recoil smgs. It's outshot at longrange by assault rifles and snipers and at close range you generally get cleaned up by secondaries or other guns with a higher RoF, so, no, I don't find the UMP45 unbalanced. It's more of a jack-of-all-trades because its so well rounded, but it doesn't excel in any particular area. Without stopping power it takes noticeably longer to kill at SP's range because landing that 3rd bullet can be tricky because of lag/opponent's evasive maneuvers. At the same time lightweight is almost a necessity because of how fast you can get the drop on people in head to head confrontations, where the UMP will often lose otherwise because of its slow RoF (if the person you're facing is any good). If only I could use SP and Lightweight at the same time....oh man beast.
My KD started off at .7 and is now 2.1 and rising every time I play lol. Definitely was tough initially getting into CoD for the first time - but once you learn the maps and improve your gun skills its quite fun. I do quit mid-game but that's usually due to frustration from some of the 'lamer' tactics in the game, or just random bull/silly mistakes that make me want to join a new game instead.
Anyways I have mixed feelings about the DLC. I barely play DLC 1 right now because of the playlist that it's in. I want integrated playlists where we get to choose game type - IW, make it work. It really can't be that difficult, we already paid $15. $30 worth of DLC for a $60 game is very bad in my book, and this is coming from an avid MW2 player.
Oh and I should probably get around to prestiging sometime. Thing is, there is only one thing I will miss above all else. And that is: cold blooded. Can't play without it ):
I can't wait till I get my new rig and actually start getting FPS at a 1920x1080 without random dips to the 30s, should bode well for me. Also I should be able to start frapping my games, it should be really fun. I feel like I've gotten some decent montage moments but I have no proof at all -_- and even if I don't release it to the general public, it'd always be a fun little side project for myself.