If you’re like most people you have a “home” server or a server that you play on regularly. Sometimes it’s because the general skill level of the people who play there is about equal to your skill level, maybe it’s because you like the rules on that server(no marty, no claymores, no bunny hopping, ETC), or maybe it’s some other reason.

I’m always looking for fun servers to play on so I figured why not make a post and ask people to link to their favorite servers. In the comments link to your favorite server(s) and list what kind of server it is too S&D, TDM, HC, SC, and so on.

Personally I like S&D SC servers. Many servers don’t allow Marty or toobs but I don’t really care about that, my main concern are the maps the server has in rotation and if it’s HC or SC, I will not play on HC servers…ever.

I had been playing on eGO’s S&D server but the strict language rules turned me off, the final star came when I got warned for saying “WTF”. I mean we are playing a game where the goal is to KILL people. Even the characters in the game use some foul language yet I’m getting in trouble for saying “WTF”? Lol, no thanks.

I’ve recently been playing on raov server. I like this server because they don’t allow 3 x Frags and since I like to rush a lot this is very benificial for me. Not only that but you can say whatever you want in the server except for racist words. I like all the maps they have in rotation except for one and the people that go on there are usually pretty cool.

Here is the server info for raov:

List your favorite server(s) in the comments! And don’t forget to check back here when the release of MW2 nears as we will have atleast 1 MW2 server.

I usually stick to the stock maps but I was feeling a little bored tonight so I ventured onto this custom server and it wasn’t too bad. It’s almost like a little CSS mixed with a little COD4. The guns had much less recoil and the sniper rifles didn’t have any sway/hold breath which was cool.

As you can see from the video, all guns have skins and red dot laser sight. If it’s night time the RDLS turns into the long green beam like you got in single player mode. I only stayed on for 3 maps, no idea how many they have in rotation. Oh, and the G3 was fully automatic which was really awesome. I’m sure there were other things about some of the guns I didn’t try too but I don’t know for sure. I did check the M16 too in order to check if it was fully automatic but unfortunately, it wasn’t.

The people talking were a tad bit annoying but whatever, who am I to complain? It’s their server and they pay for it so they can saw WTF ever they want to.

If you’re up for a different kind of COD4 experience you may want to check it out some day.
Here’s a little video I made real quick so you can see some of the features.

So yea, I have been playing COD4 forever and never really got into sniping. Sometimes when I’m really bored and lazy I’ll go camp in a TDM and pick off noobs but it gets boring pretty quick.

I know there is some sort of method to sniping in COD4 where you have to move or jerk right before or after you take your shot, I’m sort of getting the hang of it…I think. I played on a TDM Killhouse map last night and tonight to start off with. I’m thinking if I play on a FFA server it will help me with speed because speed is the key. Anyone can camp and get kills all day but I want to be able to rush with my sniper rifle and actually be deadly with it in S&D matches.

If you want to see some good sniping, go into a promod server and watch some of those guys snipe. Granted some of them are probably hacking, but most of them are legit and very good. I really enjoy watching a really good sniper do their thing.

Here is my video I made last night and tonight, I’ll make another one in a few weeks probably.

Oh BTW, you may see me in game I use the name “Barry” or “b34nz” and usually play in S&D servers.
My xfire is barry4, feel free to add me.

So here’s the deal, as many of you know, COD4 and Windows 7 x64 don’t get along very well. More specifically it seems that PunkBuster is the one that’s not playing nice. I’ve tried all the different “fixes” you see online and none of them work.

The error that most of us get is something like “Windows API Error ######”

It’s something to do with punkbuster and Windows 7. PunkBuster has already stated that they have absolutely no plans on fixing the issue until Windows 7 is released to the public. So for all the people who are BETA testing W7 they are basically telling you to go pound sand. The weird thing is WaW works fine, so it’s obviously not a huge deal and would require minimum work on the part of evenbalance to fix the problem.

So, how can you still play COD4 on Windows 7?

I use cracked servers and it works beutifully,  the NoBS servers are the ones I use, I listed the one I use the most below. BTW, I have a legit key, in fact I have two legit keys, so don’t accuse me of being a pirate.

If IW makes Evenbalance fix the damn issue for us, then I will happily remove this post. The community has begged and pleaded Evenbalance to help us but they don’t give a damn, so unless IW gives them a push I doubt we will see any help.

In the meantime, here is the server I play on using COD4 AND Windows 7 x64. You can search gametracker for others, this just happens to be my favorite server.

SC Search & Destroy

HC TDM

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Here’s a list of the usual error codes given when Call of Duty crashes, for the sake of search engines and allowing people to find this post:

API Kick 131124:

Known cause: BF2Amp
Solution: Don’t use it

Known cause: PowerStrip
Solution: Get the latest version. Old versions of PS cause this kick.

API Kick 131126:

Known cause: Researching - Contact Evenbalance Support for troubleshooting - EvenBalance Support Ticket
Solution: Unknown

API Kick 131127:

Known cause: Researching - Contact Evenbalance Support for troubleshooting - EvenBalance Support Ticket
Solution: Unknown

API Kick 131129

Known cause: Trojan.Horse.BackDoor.Agent.BA
Solution: ID and remove it using AVG or other AV program (AVG recommend, currently only AV detecting this 11/28/05)

In NOTEPAD write this:

Than change the *FILE* to the filename infected and save this as REMOVE.BAT file. Run it in normal mode and the trojan BackDoor.Agent.BA is OUT.

Now, the hard part appears to be finding the name of the dll. The dll is write protected, and is unable to be deleted normally. Try the free version of AGV to tag the DLL. Also check out http://www.symantec.com/…/backdoor.agent.b.html

Known cause: Proxy.L Trojan
Solution: Remove with AV or Trojan remover

Known cause: Trojan horse Downloader.Agent.AL
Solution: Remove with AV or Trojan remover

Known cause: Trojan horse PSW.Delf.2.A
Solution: Remove with AV or Trojan remover

API Kick 131133:

Known cause: Ventrillo Voice Overlay - Possibly other overlay programs. (ATI tool tray from Omega Drivers suspect)
Solution: Disable overlay program

Known cause: DxTweaker
Solution: Disable DxTweaker program

Known cause: Older TSO - Causes a “Missing/Corrupted API” kick
Solution: Update TSO to latest build

API Kick 131135 - disabled as of 12/01/05

Known cause: Tiny Firewall
Solution: Uninstall it for a quick fix. Looking for options to disable API hooking and keep it installed.

Known cause: Kaspersky
Solution: possible options

Known cause: Ad-Aware
Solution: appears to load files on boot or run that stay active. Reboot and do not enable to play.

API Kick 131136

Known cause: Running BF2 in compatability mode
Solution: Disable compatabilty mode, do not run other programs in compatability mode at the same time.

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UPDATE: Here is the thread. Someone else even comes in and tries to tell them they ban a bit too fast and names off other people they banned for no reason.

So have you ever been banned from a server for hacking? Some of you have probably been banned for hacking because you were hacking, but it’s a different story when you weren’t actually hacking.

It’s a weird feeling, at first you’re angry and pissed off. After 20min or so you get a nice feeling because you were playing so good they actually thought you must have been cheating, there really is no better compliment in a video game than being banned for hacking when in fact you were not hacking.

I haven’t been banned form a server for a couple months like this, it’s almost nice for a change. I wasn’t even angry or rude in the thread I made on the clans site until some needle dick came in running his mouth and being rude, then I went ahead and let them have it. [picture contains NSFW words]

The clan in question is [CAg] which I thought was a decent clan. I notice them in many of the S&D servers I visit so I really didn’t expect this, figured they wouldn’t be this noobish.

So there it is, I just wanted to publicly vent. Not a big deal, I can find a different server to play on but I did like the server. It was a SC S&D server with killcam and a decent map rotation. I’m actually looking for a new “home” server, I play on NoBS server a lot and they’re cool people, decent map rotation, but I want to find a server where the players are mostly all better than me. You can’t get better unless you play with people who are better than you. Unfortunately I’m in a weird spot and it’s starting to look like my only option is a ProMod server which I really am trying to hold off on. ProMod is OK but the people who play there take the shit WAY seriously, I kind of like a more laid back environment.

I am trying to work with the |mele| clan as we speak to find our own server. I am offering a blogroll link on both this site and modernwarfare2.net in exchange for a free COD4 server. INX Gaming gave us a server but it was in the UK and our pings were horrible so we had to scrap the deal. If anyone knows of a U.S. based game server host that wants an awesome link in exchange let them know about me, or let me know about them. These two sites get well over 200k unique visitors per month of highly targeted traffic.

Between this site and modernwarfare2.net we get over 200k unique visitors per month, we are looking for a game hosting company that can give us a COD4 server and when it’s time, a couple COD6 servers. In exchange, you can get on the blogroll as well as a blog post thanking your company for sponsoring us with a link back to your site with your desired anchor text. You can also have an ingame scroll if you so choose. If you’re interested, you can email me at B.M.Goodknight@gmail.com

Screen shots of traffic stats will be sent upon request.

Also posted here.

I’m so sick of having to visit multiple “download sites” to get my god damn Call of Duty patches. Half of the sites try and force you to signup for an account on their crappy site in order to get the patch. I definitely notice this trend of forcing people to signup is getting worse as time goes on. With COD4 you could usually get a legit download link on your first try. Now you have to click 3, 4, 5, or more times to finally find a direct link that will allow you to download the patch without signing up for an account at the host site, which BTW will almost certainly end with spam…I mean a “newsletter” subscription.

This message is for IW, Treyarch, Activision, or whoever is in charge of this shit, CUT IT OUT. You make millions upon MILLIONS of dollars of the Call of Duty franchise, stop allowing these download sites to bully your users into signing up for an account. If nothing else, host the god damn file yourself and act professional. You can afford the bandwidth. At the very least, tell these stupid websites that if they force a signup to get the download they will be removed from the hosting list.

Below is the “mirror” sites to download the WaW 1.3 patch. Let’s see how many of them try and force a signup to get the patch, shall we?

Download Mirrors:

• Aggregame - http://www.aggregame.com/ - FORCED SIGNUP
  
• Ausgamers - http://www.ausgamers.com/ -  LEGIT DOWNLOAD
  
• Big Download - http://www.bigdownload.com/ - LEGIT DOWNLOAD
• Call of Duty HQ - http://www.codhq.com/ - FORCED SIGNUP
• ComputerGames.ro - http://computergames.ro/ - LEGIT DOWNLOAD
• FileFront - http://www.filefront.com/ - LEGIT DOWNLOAD
• Fileplanet - http://www.fileplanet.com/ - FORCED SIGNUP
• FPSAdmin.com - http://www.FPSAdmin.com/ - LEGIT DOWNLOAD
• Gamershell - http://www.gamershell.com/ - LEGIT DOWNLOAD
• GamersLifeLine.com - http://gamerslifeline.com/ - SITE WONT LOAD
• Hypernia.com - https://support.hypernia.com/ - LEGIT DOWNLOAD
• MyCallOfDuty.com - http://www.MyCallOfDuty.com/ - They aren’t even hosting anything, this is just a forum post with links to the other sites on the list?
  
• PlanetCoD - http://planetcallofduty.gamespy.com/ - FORCED SIGNUP
• WorthDownloading.com - http://www.worthdownloading.com/ - Terrible navigation, once you reach the final place to download, it finally starts after like 14 seconds and the download speed is atrocious.

Remove those forced signup sites, it’s rediculouse. I just want to download the patch, I don’t want to signup for spam.

>> discuss it more in the forum <<

So I came across this image a few days ago and saved it to my desktop. It’s pretty cool, it shows all kinds of different stats for each gun in COD4. It shows damage, reload times, and various other stuff. Click on the image for a larger view.

>> discuss it more in the forum <<

A server company offered me a game server in exchange for text links. What should I do it for? COD4 or COD5? My personal favorite is Call of Duty 4, but maybe a COD5 server would be more active? What do you all think? Which should I choose?

Also, what game modes? TDM? S&D?

One of the big complaints from people about WaW was the crap guns and I tend to agree. CustomCOD has released a skin pack. I assume this only changes the texture and not the actual power or performance of the weapon? I can’t test them myself because I quit/uninstalled CoD5 and went back to 4.

Here are the weapons that he converted for Nazi Zombie:

-USP .45
-Desert Eagle
-Mini-Uzi
-MP5
-P90
-AK47
-M16
-G36C
-M14
-G3

-M82A Barrett .50 cal
-Dragunov
-Frag grenade
-M4M203 (M4 with grenade launcher)
-Winchester 1200
-M1014
-M249
-RPD
-M60
-M4
-RPG-7

Also, apparently this is only for zombie mode, not sure why they made it for zombie mode only, but here is the download link: Download Nazi Zombie Modern Weapons

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