mason_pat

You lose almost everything, including CoD points. Things like weapons, attachments, camouflage, pretty reticles, lethal, tactical and equipment items, facepaints, killstreaks, all perks, all pro versions of perks, challenges (not lifetime challenges), kill streaks all disappear
 
You retain:  
Playercard pictures/layers/backgrounds.  
Your emblem (the one that goes on your playercard) 
Clan Tag 
Lifetime challenges 
Lifetime stats
 
So, spend your money on buying layers, or playercard related things before you prestige.

Yes, it's basically the reward system from an MMO. 
 
I also don't recall the Battlefield unlocks being particularly difficult to reach.

" @mason_pat: @ajamafalous: I don't care if an individual rage quits in a one-on-one game like Starcraft or Street Fighter, but people doing so in other team-based games can have an effect on the other players.  For example, I was playing Black Ops today on Nuketown.  It started as a 4 v. 4 match, but the other 3 people on my team decided to leave as we were getting massacred.  That left me against 3 other people (one person also left on the other team), making it kinda fun in its own way, but not necessarily in the way I was planning to play.  Sure, if the game is generally chaotic and there's not a lot of communication going on between the players it won't change much, but for certain games like Counterstrike, a single member leaving can affect the other players kind of badly.  "

Yeah, I already said this once, but the server is on Hardcore mode, which is just awful.

" @Zor said:

" but from what i can tell of your last comment you meant to connect people's reactions and not the actions themselves. "

Yeah, that's precisely what I meant.  But it's true, people probably wouldn't react the same way to a more egregious act coming from Jeff.  It was just weird to see several really weak arguments supporting rage quitting.  I can understand "If you're not having fun anymore, than quit", but just saying "It's normal for Call of Duty" is stupid. "

When he talks about change, he means more like fundamental gameplay mechanics need to be changed because they're starting to feel stale. Things need to change the same way the original Modern Warfare changed shooters, and it needs to happen soon (well, as soon as releasing these types of games is no longer very profitable, which might take a while) Incorporating something like Spec Ops does not contradict this. If anything, it's a mode that added a tonne of value to the game, and feels fresh. 
 
At least, that's how I remember it.

I think the Chicago server is on Hardcore... absolutely can't stand it. In normal mode there is an element of "If I see you first you're dead" - it's super true in hardcore. Doesn't feel fun or challenging  
 
Edit: I think it was the Los Angeles server - but it's fine now and not hardcore

Yeah, too bad the server list was fixed after the TNT 
 
Oh well, at least we can find the server

As far as I can tell, you must search manually. The /connect command doesn't seem to work.

I was playing on "Treyarch DOM #5" (I think) and my friend was unable to find it despite turning off all filters. So, I am guessing the problem is that some servers just don't show up on the server list for some people. Not sure why.