r/MW2

General Shepherd was right and the newer MW games accidentally prove it more than the originals did. Everybody remembers the betrayal and instantly goes “evil warmonger” but if you actually look at the timeline from his perspective the dude basically watched the entire global balance collapse because of one nuclear attack. The US loses 30,000 marines in one second during COD4 and after that literally every government in the series becomes weaker slower and constantly reacting instead of preventing threats before they happen. Shepherd saw that the world had already changed and realized the old rules were useless against groups like Makarov who were willing to sacrifice entire countries just to create chaos.

People always say Shepherd only cared about revenge but thats not fully true because most of his actions are focused on restoring military power and unity through fear. He understood something the other characters didnt. After the nuke the world stopped fearing consequences. Terrorist groups in COD are constantly operating across borders infiltrating governments manipulating civilians and triggering wars because every major country became too politically cautious to respond aggressively. Shepherd believed the only way to stop future catastrophes was creating a stronger more centralized military structure that people would blindly support again.

And honestly the games prove him partially right because after his death everything gets worse. Way worse. Makarov escalates into full global war. Entire cities get invaded. Governments collapse. Chemical attacks happen. Europe turns into a battlefield. Civilian massacres increase. Even Task Force 141 spends half the time disobeying governments because official systems are too slow or corrupted to handle modern threats. Shepherd looked insane at the time but the series basically shows his fears coming true step by step after he dies.

Another thing people ignore is that Shepherd never trusted intelligence agencies or politicians anymore after the nuke because COD constantly shows those groups hiding information causing delays or protecting their own interests over civilian safety. In MW2 alone the CIA operation with Allen directly contributes to World War 3. One undercover mission completely spirals out of control because governments think they can secretly manipulate terrorism without consequences. Shepherd probably saw that entire structure as broken already.

And the biggest reason COD fans hate hearing this is because the player emotionally experiences the betrayal through Ghost and Roach. Thats what makes Shepherd remembered as pure evil. But strategically his worldview actually fits the series perfectly because almost every conflict after COD4 proves that small decentralized extremist groups became more dangerous than traditional armies. Shepherd believed nations needed overwhelming military authority again before the world completely destabilized.

Even the famous “the more things change the more they stay the same” line gets misunderstood. Shepherd wasnt saying war never changes in a cool villain speech way. He was basically saying humanity keeps pretending morality alone can stop violent people when history repeatedly shows force usually decides who survives. Thats why he becomes obsessed with creating heroes martyrs and patriotic narratives because he thinks public fear and military unity are the only things preventing total collapse after the nuke.

The crazy part is that if Makarov never existed Shepherd probably goes down in history as a controversial patriot instead of a monster because his core argument was that the world had become too weak to stop people willing to ignore every rule and then immediately after his death the entire planet basically proves his paranoia correct.

I recently built a PC and want to play MW2. I found the best way and safest way is to play on IW4X. On some videos I’ve watched apparently there’s a way to get the game for free on Steam. Is this true and if so how ?

Mw2(2009) Bring Back Mod Tools , Dedicated Servers and 64 max player limits

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/7c430a83-7e53-f111-9a90-7c1e52b6bb23

My game crashed, froze mid game and now I can’t download my profile for backwards compatible games at all. It says it can’t connect to Xbox live, but my internet and regular games are fine. Any ideas? Tried clearing cache, soft resetting, etc.

Update: no fix yet, seems like a lot of people are having this issue. I’ve tried everything to do with my internet, DLS, account authentication, recurring payments, everything. It still won’t connect to Xbox live in the 360 emulator.

Xee owner of the server is a cheater

I struggle to get more than 3 gun kills most of the time and yet I can get triple kills easily with these guns + steady aim. Same with the AA12. For me these are the most overpowered things in existence.

Okay not the most overpowered but still incredible in CQC, beats almost everything except shotguns

I have two different original Modern Warfare 2 CDs and neither of them are working on my PS3. The PS3 can identify them on the menu, because the name of the game appears and so does the logo and the image of the soldier when I select it. But when I try to start it, a message shows up saying “An error occurred during the start operation. (80010514)”. When I only had the first CD, I thought it was just damaged. But today I got the second one and I think it's unlikely both of them are damaged. All of the other CODs I play on it work just fine (BO2, MW3, WaW, Ghosts), so there's nothing wrong with the PS3. Is there anyway to fix this? Is it some king of bug or something?

Hey guys,

I grew up playing Call of Duty 4, MW2, Black ops 1&2 and MW3.
Since yesterday i've start playing MW2 and MW3 again.. what a feeling. I feel 13 again hehe.

The only thing is... there are not much players left...

We should revive this game.. its much better then the new cods from the last 10 years.

What do you guys think? is it doable to get a few 100 players a day back on these games?

Have a nice day😉

Have been playing mw2 for the last couple of months and my free trial of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ran out, so I paid for the Essential Game Pass subscription level, but am not getting this error message when trying to play online…

“The current profile is not allowed to play on Xbox live”

Do I need the ultimate game pass to play online? I own the game. Made sure no privacy settings somehow changed, logged out and logged back in, did all the tricks, still won’t work.

You have to choose one for a thermal sight. Lower recoil or higher damage

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