Turning the Corner

The last couple of days, a friend from NY has been crashing at my pad while he does some 1st Assistant Camera work on an indie feature film shooting out here. This means my QT w/ the trusty ol' PS3 has been severely diminished this week. And while I've been sleeping at a decent hour, I have been going through some withdrawals.

And yesterday and today, I figured I start my morning off with a few games. I was apprehensive of this at first - seeing as it usually takes me a game and a half or so to get warmed up. And why would I want the depression of getting continually raped BEFORE I start work? But something strange happened. I actually played BETTER than I do at night! You know how some pitchers end up pitching better during day games vs. night games or how someone like Brett Favre (towards whom I have much, much hatred) always seems to play his best games on a Monday night? Well, that's me over the last 2 mornings.

Earlier today marked probably my BEST COD game EVER. I was playing Team Deathmatch in Sub Base using my "Daily Special" class - ACR w/ holographic sight, akimbo .44 magnums, scavenger pro, stopping power pro, and ninja pro, with claymores and stuns. I had the 5-7-9 killstreak rewards setup - predator, harrier, pave low. Now I've read that there's a bug with Pave Lows where its kills do NOT count towards your killstreak UNLESS you get a kill with your weapon BEFORE the Pave Low gets a kill. Now I don't really care too much about killstreaks right now, I just want to get a decent score with minimal deaths.

Boy did I ever. I posted a 27-3 thanks to air support that just RAPED in that game. I guess the other team didn't have any anti-air folks and my harrier actually stayed up for more than 4-5 kills. Unfortunately, I got caught just chillin' letting my harrier work and I got knifed. But not before I got the Pave Low! I waited for my harrier to get destroyed and then I called it in. Holy crap! I've never seen so many "+100"s show up on my screen in such a short amount of time.

I was very apprehensive about going with a 5-7-9 killstreak setup at first because I usually can't compile killstreaks like those. I used to roll with a UAV, predator missile and a precision air strike. Because at least I'd get some points by calling in a UAV. But I'm finding the new set up isn't as impossible as I thought.

So there you have it - my own PR in COD. [side note: How lame is it that I'm actually proud of an achievement in a freakin' video game?!]