Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 forces players to forget their practiced techniques and readjust. The new shooter plays somewhat differently than its predecessors. Now they are trying their hand at Bunny Hopping and failing miserably. MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus is enjoying it.
What kind of trick is this? Bunny Hopping and Strafe Jumping are quite old. These tricks became known through old-school shooters like Quake, Unreal Tournament, and Half Life. The idea is: You become faster than originally planned and keep hopping.
By hopping, you lose no speed and can – depending on the game – choose a new direction in the air and make turns. Hence the “Bunny” in Bunny Hopping.
The techniques were popular among gamers of the early generations, especially in tournaments, to gain an advantage. In modern shooters, they are rarely possible in that form anymore, but some still support Bunny Hopping and Strafe Jumping.
In Valorant, Bunny Hopping still works, and Strafe Jumping techniques give you a boost in Apex Legends. In Modern Warfare 2, players are trying it out as well.
See the trailer for the beta of Modern Warfare 2 here:
Why is everyone trying this in Modern Warfare 2? Currently, the beta of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is running on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. In this, players are noticing some differences from the CoD titles they usually know.
One of the biggest: the “Slide Cancelling” is missing, a technique where a slide is ended by a jump to generate high mobility. This way, it is harder to get aimed at. In Modern Warfare 2, this doesn’t work as well anymore.
To still have some kind of vertical advantage, players are now hopping around the maps as if they had chugged a bottle of gummy bear juice. Some are even literally darting around corners just to throw themselves down horizontally with a professional belly flop.
Does that hurt? Certainly for the soldier. Does it work? Not really. And it causes some long-time Call of Duty fans to complain and whine loudly. I can only laugh about it.
“We just want to run around like idiots”
This is what the community says: Currently, there are several threads on reddit where fans are airing their grievances. They curse that Slide Cancelling has been removed and that Modern Warfare 2 instead relies more on tactics.
The game demands that players only constantly linger around corners with their guns raised, lie in corners, or dishonorably camp by aiming at entrances in the hope that someone will show up:
That bothers some. They should stop pretending to be hyper-realistic, that players shouldn’t act like war veterans. This is simply no longer Call of Duty, some of them write in their comments. “You just want to run around like idiots and not play tactically,” quotes a user in the title of his thread and adds:
Dammit, that’s exactly what I want. That’s what CoD has been for 13 years. An online daycare, as it was once called. Do you think the kids are lining up their shots tactically at every corner? 3 minutes standing still thinking they are war veterans? No. […] People at Infinity Ward. I respect your desire to change things in CoD. Just don’t try to create a damn new IP along the way.
Is it really that bad? Dissenters argue that Modern Warfare 2 is not one of the World War parts or the Black Ops series, like the last parts Vanguard and Cold War. Modern Warfare has always been more realistic.
One user explains: “The people at Treyarch (Black Ops) and Infinity Ward (Modern Warfare) cater to two very different play styles. Modern Warfare 2, even with all the changes, is not far from what Modern Warfare 2019 was.”
Supporters admit that the games under the CoD franchise might be better suited, but they do not completely condemn the decisions.
Meanwhile, I’m just having fun.
Gummy bears are constantly jumping in front of my gun and it’s great
If you’re wondering whether Bunny Hopping works in the new CoD… no. At least not for those trying it. And my advice to everyone is: don’t even try it, but take advantage of the fact that everyone is desperate.
I’ve never had so many people jump right in front of my gun, jumping around a corner like they are being chased, just to get a one-shot kill from me completely on instinct. For me, that’s excellent, I haven’t had a single match with a negative K/D, no matter how bad I was.
Jumping makes you less mobile and hinders you, making you easier targets. Use it only when necessary. Not as a weird trick where you then complain that tactically advancing players are taking you out.
I keep playing CoD repeatedly, and the Modern Warfare parts have always been my favorites in the series. The new Modern Warfare 2 does a better job living up to its name than most MW parts I can vividly remember.
The matches really feel like “modern warfare,” where I don’t just slide around corners coolly and take out 3 guys with one hand, then bounce up like a young god and continue sprinting.
I find this discussion amusing and I hope it stays that way. My stats are happy.
If you want to improve, don’t jump around like Super Mario. Instead, check out the 10 settings that will make you better in Modern Warfare 2 – fresh from CoD expert Maik Schneider.
