I’ve had a cracking weekend so far. Xbox live is still playing up every now and again so I wasn’t able to send any friend requests initially but, once I did manage to get playing with the DToiders, well, WOW, what a difference having good people on your internetz makes!

DTOIDERS RULE!!



Atheistium, NihonTiger, Martijn Mumbles (pronounced Mar–tine), xomb13 and a few others managed to indoctrinate me in the church that is CoD4 and much fun and japery was had. Let me recount some of my highlights for you.

I was a total newcomer to the world of online CoD4. I’d literally never played a match when I first went in and boy did it show. I took to following people around but a lot of the time they knew the maps so well that they’d lose me if they got even a few metres between us! Everyone was already high level, map ready and kicking ass before I even saw my first enemy. Who gunned me down and ran on like it had never happened. Devastating. Yet, somehow, even with a liability like me on the team, we won all out matches! I levelled quickly and even managed to bag a few kills here and there. A very cool game, I thought, though I can see why people hate some of the Perks. Great when they’re yours to use! Sucks when they’re used against you.

This was my performance for the first several games...







I sometimes have win!

Of course, the winning didn’t always occur. We faced a proper clan at one point, rather than our rag-tag, laugh-a-second crew and had our asses handed to us. But overall, we won more than we lost and had a hell of a lot of fun doing it! Some of the matches were so close everyone was on the edge of their seat. One match in particular stood out for me.

It got tied 730 – 730 and a few of our team had just died. I was alone in a large, grey room, lit up green by my night-sight. Three of the enemy walked into the room in formation. Now, a real soldier would have gunned them all down then and there. I whimpered and hid in a corner! “Guys? There are loads of them right in front of me! AHHHHHH!”

BLAM BLAM, BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM!!

The screen went grey and we’d won! I’d taken out one of them and someone else must have taken out the last guy.

“No man,” said xomb13, “you took out both of them! Fucking yes!!”

=D

WOOHOO!

Most of the time I have lose

Now, ok, the rest of the combat had a more traditional feel to it. I accidentally picked a sniper rifle and had to have my ass saved numerous times by MartijnMumbles, one of the shots taken over my head as I crouched and fumbled with my rifle. I saved him later but I think I owe him another 5 or so before we’re even!

I got flash-banged in a small room, the world swimming and my vision slowing down. Two enemies slinked in, guns turning to my huddled body. Suddenly, atheistium stormed into the room from the side door and, without pausing or even noticing my presence, double-taps both and moves onto the next corridor. LIKE A NINJA!! She did this later as well! Having a really bad round, she started moving up one side of a long, uphill street. “Watch out,” I cried, “there’s loads of them over there!” I took aim and watched as, one by one, each of the targets was taken out, one knifed and two shot.

But I always have LULZ!!

Perhaps my favourite moment was when my friend Don Joff, who’d joined us for a few round, got killed by a lucky shot from a guy on the other side of a window. I’d picked up the shotgun off a body previously and blew the guy away but Don was down, his pistol pulled for a last stand, with no-one to shoot at.

“I’m sorry man!” I blubbered, crouching beside the body. “I got him for you, buddie! Just hang on, a medic will be on the way soon. Don’t you give up on me soldier! No…no….NOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Classic.

Anyway, what was more fun than any of the shooting and blowing stuff up was definitely the crowd. Couldn’t have asked for a nicer, funnier bunch of troops for several hours of roaming around battlefields.

THANKS TO YOU ALL!! You made CoD4 a good game, not the development team.

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