Prestige Mode?

December 21, 2007, 4:41 PM

Ok So in Call of Duty 4 when you unlock prestige mode it says you loose everything and you've gotta earn everything back. Does that include acheivements, some of my acheivments I unlocked were down to luck, perseverance or just a lot of time spent shooting peeps. Do you keep these or is it just the guns, camo and Perks?
All in all is it worth it just for a new insignia.

December 22, 2007, 7:35 PM

Well, although I've yet to play online yet, from what I've read I'm assuming that you just lose your guns, perks and anything else unlocked from playing online. Achievements are still kept so you don't need to worry about them.

April 26, 2008, 3:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Dazz

Ok So in Call of Duty 4 when you unlock prestige mode it says you loose everything and you've gotta earn everything back. Does that include acheivements, some of my acheivments I unlocked were down to luck, perseverance or just a lot of time spent shooting peeps. Do you keep these or is it just the guns, camo and Perks?
All in all is it worth it just for a new insignia.

Depends on how much you care about your rank. If you'd rather keep mowing people down with the P90 than crawl back to rank 55 from 1 again, then don't enter Prestige Mode.

As the kind sir above me already said, you only lose unlockable weapons, equipment and perks. Your achievements are safe. The M16 is all you really need to do well, so I say go ahead and enter Prestige Mode.

April 26, 2008, 3:20 PM

But you lose the .50 cal sniper. I hated having to climb back up to get that back. Did prestige once, hated it, and stayed at 55

April 26, 2008, 3:29 PM

The .50 cal sniper is a beast, but with Juggernaut, I often struggle to get a ton of kills with the thing...even with Stopping Power. Bullshit, I tells yah!

April 26, 2008, 3:33 PM

nahhh, Rock Stopping power and iron lungs and you're golden. Shoot someone in the leg and their whole body disintegrates...digitally of course.

April 26, 2008, 11:46 PM

I always though prestige was basically for online bragging rights...and the higher the rank the better you are

I only ever got up to 6th prestige rank 23 until I couldn't be arsed anymore...it does eventually become pointless imo but its all good fun anyway.
Go for it!

April 27, 2008, 6:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Mercurial

I always though prestige was basically for online bragging rights

Yup. That's exactly it. Nothing more to it.

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Originally Posted by Mercurial

...and the higher the rank the better you are

Not really. With CoD4's ranking system, players can progress merely from playing the game--not necessarily from succeeding at it. Obviously, you can progress more quickly if you're skilled. Rank can be extremely deceiving on CoD4. I've played Prestige 10 players who can't remember where the fire button is.

April 27, 2008, 9:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Mister Poop

I've played Prestige 10 players who can't remember where the fire button is.

Hahahaha xD

My theory works for me though, 1.32 W/L and 2.34 K/D ratio ftw!

I dunno though, it gets boring after while, based purely on the fact, it is bragging rights. In CoD5 or whatever they call it they need to add extra stuff into online play that you can get once you hit a certain prestige mode...or at least something worth playing for.

April 27, 2008, 4:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercurial

Hahahaha xD

My theory works for me though, 1.32 W/L and 2.34 K/D ratio ftw!

I dunno though, it gets boring after while, based purely on the fact, it is bragging rights. In CoD5 or whatever they call it they need to add extra stuff into online play that you can get once you hit a certain prestige mode...or at least something worth playing for.

Snap! 2.34 k/d ratio? That's damn good considering how much you've likely played if you're prestige 6.

I agree. There should be some extra incentive to play when CoD5 releases (or CoD6...since Infinity Ward isn't developing CoD5). Also, ranking up should be more difficult. I think the ranking system on Halo 3 does a better job of seperating the veteran and rookie players.