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Well, I've searched the net and I can't find anything so here's the bug in action, This is segment of a round where I got 50 levels....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0c3GjlF7kE

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I honestly thought it was a visual thing until I left the game and saw everything was unlocked...

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So does anyone know how to make it stop doing this? I'm willing to lose 29 levels... (30-1) cause I had to prestige... I'm a casual player... this has ruined it for me.

Ok, what I don't understand is I'm now rank 679 in the world (PC) for score with 5 hours played.... and there are people with higher scores with less played and multiple prestiges... and no one is jumping around shouting about this?

you are in a hacked server...

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I find it funny that the media reviews of this game are averaging in the 80's, but user reviews on metacritic are averaging 3/10.

And that sales figure above is the reason why the industry, especially FPS games are continually falling in quality. sigh, slowly but surely the idiots of the world are destroying my favorite pastime.

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I find it funny that the media reviews of this game are averaging in the 80's, but user reviews on metacritic are averaging 3/10.

Isn't that a notion towards biased media?

And that sales figure above is the reason why the industry, especially FPS games are continually falling in quality. sigh, slowly but surely the idiots of the world are destroying my favorite pastime.

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looks like your in one of those prestige lobbies. happened to me in mw2 on the xbox. joined a game and got crazy xp for kills. of course after 2 kills i realized what it was and disconnected :shiftyninja:

Do you know if there's anyway they can revert this? Not my fault I joined a "hacked server". I kinda want to be level 30 again... yeah, I Prestige'd in order to remove all the unlocks but I'm now 28 levels lower than I was... this game is not what I expected.

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Steam just downloaded a 15mb update for multiplayer, no info on it yet.

Nice, so when I get home from work to day it'll be one of these 3 options:

  1. I'm banned due to joining a server where the host changed his config and I was getting 250K a kill
  2. I'm back to level 30 as before (I wish)
  3. I'm stuck on level 2 still with a prestige under my belt which I never wanted having the feeling of "whats the point in doing this again"

Kinda wishing I had bought this on the PS3 now and not the PC..

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Nice, so when I get home from work to day it'll be one of these 3 options:

  1. I'm banned due to joining a server where the host changed his config and I was getting 250K a kill
  2. I'm back to level 30 as before (I wish)
  3. I'm stuck on level 2 still with a prestige under my belt which I never wanted having the feeling of "whats the point in doing this again"

Kinda wishing I had bought this on the PS3 now and not the PC..

More than likely you wont get banned and keep the prestige.

Similllar thing happened me with MW2, just continued on playing.

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DR3AMxCATCHER

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Ffffuu Elite won't let me sign up :/

It's been down and very slow, so many people trying to access it. I was able to use Elite on the Xbox and see a few maps I played along with the Heat Maps. Hopefully it's up and running soon.

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I picked up the game yesterday and I have about 4 hours in singleplayer and multiplayer and I am loving the game. It is not that much different from MW2 but the changes they made have made the game that much better. I am not disappointed. As for the people finishing the game in 4 hours I really don't see how, I have 4 hours in singleplayer and I am only about 40% done and I think I have died 2 or 3 times.

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I was never a big fan of COD and im not big on BF3 vs COD type discussion but man the graphics in this game looks horrible, I think CSS looks better than this :-( , i think ill see if my friend buys it so i can check it out but I dont think i can buy it if the game looks like something that can be played on a GeForce2 GTS.

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I was never a big fan of COD and im not big on BF3 vs COD type discussion but man the graphics in this game looks horrible, I think CSS looks better than this :-( , i think ill see if my friend buys it so i can check it out but I dont think i can buy it if the game looks like something that can be played on a GeForce2 GTS.

That was a given. CS:S still looks great for what a 6 year old game? Maybe it's just me, but I feel like there's actually a lot more interaction going on with CoD than CS (killstreaks, air support, turrets, etc). I honestly can't believe you did that as a comparison unless you were trying to say games that are that much older look better than this game?

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For single player is 'Veteran' significantly harder than 'Hardened'? I don't really play any FPS games (I think the only one I've played on the 360 is Bioshock) so I opted for 'Hardened'. It seemed ridiculously easy though, completed the campaign in approx 7hrs including exploring ending up with 40/46 Intel items, with aim assist off and only died a handful of times.

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For single player is 'Veteran' significantly harder than 'Hardened'? I don't really play any FPS games (I think the only one I've played on the 360 is Bioshock) so I opted for 'Hardened'. It seemed ridiculously easy though, completed the campaign in approx 7hrs including exploring ending up with 40/46 Intel items, with aim assist off and only died a handful of times.

I didn't try Hardened, but I finished it on Recruit and then started on Veteran. So far it gives you a lot of health for the hardest difficulty, so I imagine you'd be fine with it. I'd stick Aim Assist on though, so you can pop through targets and kill them all without too many issues. It seems the scripted events are the main problems (eg. when you're on the mounted gun on the pick-up in Act One), but it's still very 'doable'. My problem is that I never earned the 'The Big Apple' achievement for finishing the first two missions on Veteran. At the moment it looks like this game is going to be a repeat of Black Ops, since it won't consider my Veteran as finished for whatever stupid reason. Cold Warrior didn't unlock in it so BLACK OP MASTER didn't either. :/

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TheLegendOfMart

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MW3 is garbage, its just a pretty shooting gallery, men spawn constantly until you push forward they even give you 500+ rounds for your gun because they know all you can do is spray at the waves of respawning enemies.

Each mission is a ridiculous OTT setpiece to the next, cant believe i wasted ?35 on this garbage.

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MW3 is garbage, its just a pretty shooting gallery, men spawn constantly until you push forward they even give you 500+ rounds for your gun because they know all you can do is spray at the waves of respawning enemies.

Each mission is a ridiculous OTT setpiece to the next, cant believe i wasted ?35 on this garbage.

Millions of users do not agree with you.

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