I have several issues with the multiplayer of Modern Warfare 2.  I am not here to just complain about it but to see if anyone else is having the same issues as I am.  To be honest I love COD and have played every COD that IW has created along with World at War created by Treyarch.  I think MW2 has so many issues that you could go as far to call it "broken".  Looking at the number of sales and the amount of people playing MW2 online at any given time the game is a success but it is loaded with issues.  I can only hope that we get a huge patch in the near future from IW.
 
I am not a bad player by any means.  I consider myself to be an average player.  I currently am a 1st prestige level 56 with a kill to death of 1.16.  I will be playing this game for the next year or so and I would love to have the following issues fixed.
 
Spawn Kills
The spawning system in this game is just crap.  I hate spawning and 5 seconds after spawn you are dead.  I have had, in several cases, being spawned on top of a grenade.  
 
Knife, Noob-Tube, and Akimbo Shotguns
The knife is probably one of the biggest issues I have with the game.  Combined with commando you can lunge 10 feet, magically take 5-10 rounds to the chest, have an instant kill, and laugh at your enemy for even trying to shoot at you.  I have fired a RPG at an enemy and that split second he knifed at me and my RPG round went through him, hit the wall behind him, and he instantly killed me.  They should rename commando to "instant noclip".  I don't understand why the knife, no matter where you hit them, is an instant kill.  The characters must be one huge jugular vein apparently.
The noob-tube has always been a joke imo.  I know you shouldn't complain about something that everyone has the ability to use but sometimes it just gets old.  Some people know they can't out shoot you so they just rely on the tube.  The noob-tube is something that will never been taken out of the game but I would love to see if nerfed so to say.  Maybe make it 1 round instead of 2 and take the damage down a bit.
Akimbo Shotguns are a joke.  Being shot by them up close is fine but at a distance over 100feet when you have a rifle unloading on them and then they kill you.  Just stupid and very unrealistic....
 
LAG
Three green of even four green bars it doesn't matter.  I am not saying all the time but a lot of the time you can shoot 1st with X's showing up on the screen and a guy can turn and shoot you 1-2x and kill you.  There are several cases that you are being shot and you go behind cover to avoid getting killed and die instantly.  You watch the kill cam and notice that according to the enemy screen you never made it to cover even though on your screen you did.  It happens all the time, the same with bullets that you fire.  On your screen you are shooting 10-15x at someone that it shooting right back at you, you die, watch the kill cam, it shows 2 of those 10-15 bullets actually firing on your screen.  One issue that has happened more often is trying to shoot down a chopper or harrier with a stinger.  I will shoot at it, it will miss, shoot again, it will miss, the thing is you can’t shoot the stinger unless you have a lock.  I once shot 8x from a stinger at a harrier and it kept killing me and I never got a hit.  LAG
 
Is anyone else having these issues or others?

Didn't even read this to know... 
 
 
 
You're a little late buddy.

Same, I have more issues on the Harrier side of your problems. Since the update it's like the harrier now has invisible flares or something, seems to be limited to a few maps for me, mainly Afghan.
 
Akimbos are still broke, Tactical Knife is magically "faster" to swing than a normal knife and Comcast don't like black people.....errr......doesn't play well with others.

I love you guys.

You should check around on these forums for the video showing what's possible with the GL. Making you only have one round won't fix a thing :/.

I agree this game is broken. These relatively small things make it highly frustrating, I have no patience left for this game any more. Even when I'm doing well I'm not really enjoying myself. 

" Even when I'm doing well I'm not really enjoying myself.  "

Feels like these threads come up a bit too often? Anyway, yup, MW2 is quite bad, allthough I find that the satisfying moments often outweigh the bad ones. 
 
And I heard dedicated servers were coming for the PC? Might've been some 'tard trolling though.

Tactical Knife is magically "faster" to swing than a normal knife

Gonna post this here cause it's the most relevant and I don't see a point in starting a whole thread, nor have I spotted a thread on it yet.
But some fixes might make it a little better, I'm especially pleased about the carepackage one. 
 
 

Updates to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized
  
• Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection, preventing cases of Sentry Guns inside geometry
  
• Model 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887s
  
• Improved player collision removing cases of getting into geometry and 'elevators'
  
• Mouse latency tweaks for more mouse movement consistency
  
• Fixes to prevent various texture and XP hacks

  

I can't get a Harrier and Pave-low at the same time without  crashing the entire game back to lobby for everyone.... that's fairly broken.

TL;DR 
 
Another bitching thread , someone got knifed , make a fucking bitch thread ¬_¬

" TL;DR   Another bitching thread , someone got knifed , make a fucking bitch thread ¬_¬ "

" Spawn Kills 

The spawning system in this game is just crap.  I hate spawning and 5 seconds after spawn you are dead.  I have had, in several cases, being spawned on top of a grenade.  
 
Akimbo Shotguns are a joke.  Being shot by them up close is fine but at a distance over 100feet when you have a rifle unloading on them and then they kill you.  Just stupid and very unrealistic....
 
LAG
Three green of even four green bars it doesn't matter.  I am not saying all the time but a lot of the time you can shoot 1st with X's showing up on the screen and a guy can turn and shoot you 1-2x and kill you.  There are several cases that you are being shot and you go behind cover to avoid getting killed and die instantly.  You watch the kill cam and notice that according to the enemy screen you never made it to cover even though on your screen you did.  It happens all the time, the same with bullets that you fire.  On your screen you are shooting 10-15x at someone that it shooting right back at you, you die, watch the kill cam, it shows 2 of those 10-15 bullets actually firing on your screen.  One issue that has happened more often is trying to shoot down a chopper or harrier with a stinger.  I will shoot at it, it will miss, shoot again, it will miss, the thing is you can’t shoot the stinger unless you have a lock.  I once shot 8x from a stinger at a harrier and it kept killing me and I never got a hit.  LAG
 
Is anyone else having these issues or others? "

The problem is the people playing the game. It's "cool" to run around with a knife, and I see loads of people with their Blade Master titles as if it's something to be proud of. As one guy pointed out, this is fine when they run straight at you and let you shoot them, but in a map with many corners, these people will run around you and flank you while you're none the wiser.
 
Sometimes you just have to ragequit and see if you find a lobby with players that you can tolerate and that actually use guns instead of explosives and knives.
As for the grenade launcher, it has something to do with the challenges. You need to kill 20 people with the launcher to get the shotgun attachment, and I really want to get Mastery on my gun so I will totally run around with grenade launcher and scavenger and try to get lucky kills across the map. Once I get those 20 kills, I'll stop and put a silencer or FMJ on.
 
However, it seems to me like Modern Warfare 2 is the cruelest, most evil online shooter because of the community. In team games, it's still all about stealing your teammate's care package, using new camping spots and so on. I don't want to blame Infinity Ward, but they really should patch some of the perk combinations. Grenade launcher, one man army and danger close? Oh hell no.