V. Class Creation
A. The Purpose of Custom Classes
Custom Classes are the best thing to happen to First Person Shooters in a long time. They go well beyond the normal scope of weapon and equipment selection, allowing for your character to move, shoot, stab, breathe, and survive exactly how you want.
With that in mind, the best thing you can do is customize your classes to fit your playing style. For instance, I rarely use the sniper rifles. For sniping I use the FAL Assault Rifle with an ACOG or Thermal Scope. Why? Because I am as accurate with the FAL as with the Barrett and I can stay on the move the entire time. Since I’m a run-and-gunner I prefer to keep moving. It keeps monotony to a minimum and doesn’t allow for others to find my hiding spot and search me out.
The important thing to remember when creating your classes is make sure they suit you. Embrace your strengths and use the available equipment, weapons, and perks to exploit them. Oh yeah, and have fun.
B. Class Creation 101
As I said before, you want to build a class that suits your playing style. I’ll give you some basic outlines for creating your classes.
Assault 101:
Primary Weapons: Assault Rifles or Light Machine Guns
Secondary Weapons: Machine Pistols
Equipment: Frag Grenades or Semtex
Perk 1: Sleight of Hand or Scavenger until you unlock more than 1 attachment
Perk 2: Stopping Power (Not in Hardcore matches)
Perk 3: Commando, Steady Aim, or Ninja
Deathstreak: Painkiller or Final Stand
Close Quarters 101:
Primary Weapons: Submachine Guns or Riot Shield
Secondary Weapons: Shotguns or Machine Pistols
Equipment: Semtex, Throwing Knife, Stun, or Flash Grenades
Perk 1: Marathon or Sleight of Hand
Perk 2: Stopping Power, Lightweight, or Hardline
Perk 3: Commando, Steady Aim, or Ninja
Deathstreak: Martyrdom(Only on FFA), Final Stand, Painkiller
Sniping 101:
Primary Weapons: Sniper Rifle or ACOG/Thermal FAL
Secondary Weapons: Any
Equipment: Tactical Insertion, Smoke Grenades, Claymores, or C4
Perk 1: Marathon or Bling if you have 2 attachments
Perk 2: Cold-Blooded, Stopping Power(Regular Only), Lightweight
Perk 3: Ninja, Steady Aim Pro
Deathstreak: Final Stand or Martyrdom
Knifing 101:
Primary Weapons: Submachine Gun
Secondary Weapons: Pistol w/ Tactical Knife
Equipment: Throwing Knife, Semtex, Frag, Stun, or Flash
Perk 1: Marathon
Perk 2: Lightweight
Perk 3: Commando
Deathstreak: Final Stand or Martyrdom
Stealth 101:
Primary Weapons: Assault Rifles or SMGs (All silenced)
Secondary Weapons: Machine Pistols
Equipment: Semtex, C4, Claymores, or Throwing Knife
Perk 1: Marathon
Perk 2: Cold-Blooded
Perk 3: Ninja Pro
Deathstreak: Final Stand
C. Gameplay Style and Custom Classes
So I’ve given you some basic classes to use, but you might still be wondering what type will fit you best. It is fairly straight forward, but here are my suggestions.
Run-and-Gun: Assault 101, Knifing 101, and Close Quarters 101. Stealth 101 might also work here.
Sniping: Sniping 101 and possibly Stealth 101.
Camping: Sniping 101, Stealth 101, and possibly Assault 101 if you think you can survive everyone knowing your location.
Melee: Knifing 101 and Assault 101 with the Riot Shield.
Perks Described | Experience Points
For questions, suggestions, and corrections you can send me an email at jcavin00@gmail.com. Thanks. Have fun and beat some heads for me.
Where are the shotguns? They are by far the best weapons in the game especially the model 1887.
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admin Reply:
November 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
@Random, Fixed.
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JJ Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
@admin, Okay, you do not put Marathon or Bling on a sniper class, the only sniper you should have Bling on is the M21 EBR. You should put sleight of hand!
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Tanks at mw2 Reply:
May 17th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
@Random, u must be a noob if u use shotguns
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Austin Reply:
May 31st, 2010 at 8:28 pm
@Tanks at mw2, Shotguns are not for noobs, but they are over-powerful in this game.
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EGCxVICIOUSx XD Reply:
June 8th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
@Austin, austin are you serious? Have you ever fired a real shotgun? I think they are UNDER POWERED in this game….The 870 I have will make 4 inch groups at 120 yards with sabot slugs.
Max Reply:
June 10th, 2010 at 11:59 am
@Austin, they are not over-powerful, they work fine because of there limited range. But yes, if it wasn’t a video game shotguns would be underpowered because EGCxVICIOUS is right.
Pr1nc30fVoid Reply:
June 27th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
@Austin, Na there great..best shot gun by far is the striker with the fore grip, because it has the farthest range the grip makes good accuracy the fire rate is really good, by far the best HAHA!
Very good article, this guy knows his stuff, I’ve played with him online a few times and he knows how to gun.
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Perhaps its just my playstile, but I never use Bling, except as a way to unlock attachments faster, such as getting credit for the HBsensor and Holo-sight at the same time, other than that, i’d never use Bling. Sure, its useful, but with the ironsights generally being good in MW2, i dont need a sight, and can easily get away with only 1 attachment. I reccommend Scavenger as perk 1. Effectively you have infinate ammo, equipment, toobs, etc. Perhaps, though, for those who have a run-and-gun playstile, where you die often enough, ammo wouldnt be an issue, but I tent to ninja it a bit more, so I get big killstreaks to the point where my SCAR will actually run straight out of ammo without scavenger. Even for runners, spraying off rounds might make you consider the “you have infinate everything” perk as well.
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KosherK Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
@Shadowshear, I actually find Bling really useful for sniping – I often use a silencer and either the thermal or acog… I stick mostly to hardcore so the added advantage of not letting your position known is vital (the silencer also dampens the kickback when you fire giving you a better chance of a second shot). Scavenger isn’t very useful if you’re not moving
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Austin Reply:
May 31st, 2010 at 8:31 pm
@Shadowshear, I also agree with your comment on “Bling” perk. Using this i cant have my “Slight of Hand”! There are much better 1st perks you could use, I suggest “Slight of Hand” or “Marathon”.
Hope this comment helps you all!
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add me on PSN Menace_Is_Back
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for knifing 101 u need a pistol with tac knife! the class has its own destinct playing style, but IMO is most fun in MW2
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If you are sniping, final stand is a great death streak, especially if you stink, if you survive your bleed out (which can happen if you get sniped yourself) you stand back up.
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Austin Reply:
May 31st, 2010 at 8:38 pm
@Connor, I agree with your statement, but the problem with that is wen you get sniped from your enemy, you usually get headshot. I would also warn for all you snipers out there is to go prone every-time you shoot to reload!! Doing this you will prevent getting counter-shot from your enemy. The perks I suggest for sniping are “Slight of Hand”, “Stopping Power” and “Steady Aim”
Hope these tips help you!
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Scavenger is the best perk you can use you can never run out of ammo bling is a terrible perk when you run out of ammo you have to change to your secondary weapons and you get killed easier because you cant shoot as many bullets back with the secondary because the fire rate is small if you use scavenger if you run out of bullets for your primary weapon you just need to go over to a dead body and you get extra ammo.
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i disagree with your choice for secondarys.
on my sniper class i use dual magnums or dual m9s. because if u hear someone coming towards you they have the fastest weapon change and the are very accurate.
and i use sleight of hand because i quick scope mutch better and i cn reload my secondarys fast
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personally i would preferr for a running class (knifing) i would use pain killer because it gives you that little extra to run out there and get a knife kill if you have died so many times, unless of course you go god mode when you run around knifing people. but yeah pain killer is a great way to stay alive for alittle bit longer to get that extra knife kill. i use it and it works great =} but yes final stand works or martyrdom… but for those of you running class lovers try painkiller lol.
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I haven’t seen ONE person mention the SITREP perk…It is SO useful,
A- You don’t run into enemy devices.
B- You can call out enemy devices to your teammates.
C- If you earn the pro version, enemy footsteps become louder….If you have beaches your are in heaven. I.E I can hear Ninja Pro without a problem.
however you sound like a moose and will appear on the baby monitors…But then again if you are rushing on search you should get to your position quickly and not have to worry about getting sound w***ed. Not many ppl use HB sensors on HC search anyways.
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What I like to do is call in a carepackage and stick C4 to it. usually if you wait a few seconds an enemy will come up on it and boom the problem is is that it will atrract more people but if you don’t want or don’t need the reward (ammo for instance) you can just wait and kill.
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man who ever said shotguns are gay must not use one i only carry an m10 with me so anyone who says they suck? try the m10
screw the 1887
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the best perks are scavenger stopping power and commando. there perfect for everything
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my favorite class is:
Acr+ silencer
S-pas + Grip.
Semtex + Stun
Scavenger-pro
Cold-blooded
Ninja-Pro
“Acr” will give you a head shot as a piece of cake from any distance!
with scavenger-pro you’ll be able 2 have enough bullets 2 get kill-streaks,
& with silencer+coldblooded+ninja you’ll make all campers 2 run!!!
my rank is about 600 in PSN.( & I’m not a hacker!!:( )
Also for snipe, i think its better 2 use FMJ + Akimbo raffica slight of hand + cold-blooded+ steady Aim.
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MY best s&d class,
riot shield
rpg-7 X 2
perk 1: scavenger pro
PERK 2: danger close pro
PERK 3:commando pro
stuns and either c4 or throwing knife
avg kdr w/ this class 9-2
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this infiltrator class works amazingly for enclosed areas, especially on variants such as demolition, and search and destroy.
Note: The class is significantly better with pro perks.
Primary: UMP45
Attachments: Silencer
Camo: woodland (any works)
Secondary: SPAS 12
Attachments: Silencer
Perk 1: Scavenger
Perk 2: Cold Blooded
Perk 3: Scrambler
Equipment: Claymore, Smoke Grenade.
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