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[No_Style]

Speaking of which, have you guys seen this?

https://youtu.be/4RmA9Jd_SKg

Just wanted to comment on this after watching it and other videos in this guy's channel.

1. He knows his stuff and has great methodology for determining real latency.
2. He presents all the info in an organized easy to understand manner which is not easy.
3. Black Ops III's 'net code' is surprisingly poor compared to CS:GO and BF4. I'm surprised by the 20 Hz tick rate for receiving updates in a game such as this.
4. Console players experience higher latency than the charts indicate because he was testing on PC @ 144 Hz
5. The lag compensation for high ping players is far too generous in BLOPS3. I suspect it's generous because they can get away with allowing clients further from the servers to play and have some semblance of smooth play.
6. I suspect all the above are driven by dedicated server costs which is a shame.
7. I feel for players in markets that don't have a nearby datacenter for dedicated servers.

 

[Skittles]

Sometimes I feel that's all that they do Zombies wise. I wish we could get a simple, to the point Zombies map like Nacht der Untoten again.

The Giant is super straight forward and probably one of the best simple maps they've released. The new map is supposed to be 50% bigger than The Giant.

 

[Rixxan]

Double cyptokey weekend, oof

 

[STILLethal]

3.0+kdr for the 1st time and it just keeps going up, all past CoDs were in the 2.5-2.95 range. this is the easiest CoD ever made for me.
I blame (or thank?) Treyarch for making the match making so shit, can literally play for 10 hours straight and have 2-3games that have good players on the other team.
Would love it if they would switch it to skill based match making...doubt it, will probably be done with the game sooner than thought cause of this

 

[TheGoreMagala]

3.0+kdr for the 1st time and it just keeps going up, all past CoDs were in the 2.5-2.95 range. this is the easiest CoD ever made for me.
I blame (or thank?) Treyarch for making the match making so shit, can literally play for 10 hours straight and have 2-3games that have good players on the other team.
Would love it if they would switch it to skill based match making...doubt it, will probably be done with the game sooner than thought cause of this

I experience the same thing you do, and I would rather experience that than constant skill based match making all the time 24/7 for each and every game.

 

[eek5]

I think FFA is going to be the best game mode for double crypto keys. You get wins the fastest there so you'll be getting double for every win then whatever time you play. 3-4 CK for 3-5 mins sounds pretty good.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Going to play now guys

If you want to join

Or if there's a room already made let me know

 

[Skittles]

I'll hop on now

 

[jorgejjvr]

I'll hop on now

Great, we only need one

Let us know when you are there. I'm not the host this time... Not sure who is

 

[Skittles]

Gonna be a little bit, forgot i didnt update my firmware lol

 

[Pure_Phazon]

Great, we only need one

Let us know when you are there. I'm not the host this time... Not sure who is

I'm hosting right now, but I gotta hop off for a sec.

 

[ShinMaruku]

GGs guys time for a short break.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Gonna be a little bit, forgot i didnt update my firmware lol

It's my room now

 

[jorgejjvr]

COMBACK OF THE CENTURY!!!!

 

[No_Style]

That one match against the other Jorge was annoying with UAV and CUAV spam. Easily the most I've witnessed against GAF crew. I think I was the only one knocking that shit down too. :/

Trying the Engineer perk and it's super useful. Replacing Blast Supressor for now.

 

[jorgejjvr]

That one match against the other Jorge was annoying with UAV and CUAV spam. Easily the most I've witnessed against GAF crew. I think I was the only one knocking that shit down too. :/

Trying the Engineer perk and it's super useful. Replacing Blast Supressor for now.

How about that combine comeback?

Also, done for the day?

And not to brag... But maybe Jorges in general are good haha xD. Definitely an annoying one

 

[jorgejjvr]

Okay so here's the comeback of the century

Started on a losing game about 70-150

And yes, we won... And in about 5 minutes

https://youtu.be/hjXjTwNXomQ

 

[No_Style]

How about that combine comeback?

Also, done for the day?

And not to brag... But maybe Jorges in general are good haha xD. Definitely an annoying one

Yeah. Just told my bro that I've seen 3 Jorges online and they're all good players!

I was wondering how you managed to ramp up so quickly, I will check out the video later.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Yeah. Just told my bro that I've seen 3 Jorges online and they're all good players!

I was wondering how you managed to ramp up so quickly, I will check out the video later.

Haven't watched it myself after recording yet xD

But I believe I got things right away by getting a bunch of kills on B from the beginning

And I guess throughout it all, combat focus helped

After the beginning rush, I just kept getting my stuff

 

[crashnburn]

Weekend warrior crew checking in. Hopefully can grab some games with GAFers after work tomorrow. Can't wait to watch that comeback by jorge...

 

[jorgejjvr]

Weekend warrior crew checking in. Hopefully can grab some games with GAFers after work tomorrow. Can't wait to watch that comeback by jorge...

Let me know what you think

 

[Pure_Phazon]

GGs as always gaf. Think I'm gonna stock up on cryptokeys till the weekend is over. See how much I can amass.

 

[Skittles]

Alright, invite me whenever

Edit: damn, Just barely missed the gaf train

 

[excaliburps]

Okay so here's the comeback of the century

Started on a losing game about 70-150

And yes, we won... And in about 5 minutes

https://youtu.be/hjXjTwNXomQ

Holy balls! Haha! That was simple to watch like it's easy, but damn. Bwahaha! I'm used to playing with you guys that I'm not surprised. Nice footage! See, this is why this gen is awesome. People can accuse you of cheating, you just show them your footage.

I'm jelly how quick you can drop enemies. I run the exact same setup (even down to the camo) but takes me twice due to my shit connection. That said, you definitely are better at rushing than most of the people I've seen. Your aim is on point too.

Does Ante Up help a lot? What do you do for those who sound whore?

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Anyone else not giving a shit about emblems, calling cards, or paint jobs in this game? I don't know why, but I don't even care enough to make my Stargate Command emblem that I've used since Black Ops 1.

 

[Calabi]

I'm raging so much with this game at the moment when I'm shot six times in a row in the back and I'm near the spawn it drives me crazy. I think I may need a break.

 

[Ensoul]

I'm raging so much with this game at the moment when I'm shot six times in a row in the back and I'm near the spawn it drives me crazy. I think I may need a break.

That's me.

I did watch the video a few posts up and I have no idea how people do that well. If that was me trying to cap flag "B" there is a 100% chance I would have been flanked from the back or side within 15 seconds.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

There is just too much bullshit going on anymore on COD. It's gotten worse and worse every year as the game has gotten more hyperactive and spastic. If the next game isn't a return-to-form World War II game I'm done. I gave Treyarch a chance with this one, and while fun can be had its fleeting. If I didn't need a palate cleanser game when I get overloaded on Fallout 4 and Star Wars Battlefront I wouldn't keep this game.

Maybe I'll give zombies a try finally after 8 years.

 

[SlimySnake]

Guys, just play TDM. Every other mode in this game is broken like that amazing Jorge comeback video showed. All you need to do is get Wraith and then raps and mothership will win you the game.

I played a domination game the other day with a rocket launcher and all the perks to make me invisible to ground and air streaks. I took down 9 UAVs. 2 Wraiths, 2 RAPS deploy ships, 1 Talon and 2 HATRs. In fact, in the second round of that game thats all i did.

In TDM, the only time you have people calling in RAPS is if they get lucky with a care package. The only time you have people spawn raping you is if your team is fucking terrible and lets people run around all three lanes with gay abandon.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Holy balls! Haha! That was simple to watch like it's easy, but damn. Bwahaha! I'm used to playing with you guys that I'm not surprised. Nice footage! See, this is why this gen is awesome. People can accuse you of cheating, you just show them your footage.

I'm jelly how quick you can drop enemies. I run the exact same setup (even down to the camo) but takes me twice due to my shit connection. That said, you definitely are better at rushing than most of the people I've seen. Your aim is on point too.

Does Ante Up help a lot? What do you do for those who sound whore?

Ante up is only one kill less, or 100 points less for the streak. I want to get to my streaks as fast as possible, it's up to the individual.

And thank you! I went straight for B and tried to keep my ground. After that was done the goal was to rush as much as possible as there was not enough time. Everything happened to go perfectly.

I've tried most guns in the game, and the razorback is both my smg and assault rifle, I use it as both.

I don't find myself losing against people who sound whore, nor do I see myself dying by a lot of people that carry awareness. My technique is to know the map and the spawns. A couple of times here and there I hear something and turn around, I only use simple apple head phones tho, and no awareness. Mostly, I just know where to go, and where people are coming from.

Guys, just play TDM. Every other mode in this game is broken like that amazing Jorge comeback video showed. All you need to do is get Wraith and then raps and mothership will win you the game.

I played a domination game the other day with a rocket launcher and all the perks to make me invisible to ground and air streaks. I took down 9 UAVs. 2 Wraiths, 2 RAPS deploy ships, 1 Talon and 2 HATRs. In fact, in the second round of that game thats all i did.

In TDM, the only time you have people calling in RAPS is if they get lucky with a care package. The only time you have people spawn raping you is if your team is fucking terrible and lets people run around all three lanes with gay abandon.

I don't think this is correct.

Tdm is camp heaven.

You are making it seem like anyone can get wraight, raps and mothership. You also make it seem like anyone can comeback when the enemy team is 50 points away from winning.

It is not easy, even if it looks it, and not everyone can do it.

Tdm is no fun, there's no objective to do, the spawns are more random, and people love to camp.

Anyone could have easily killed me just ONCE and no streaks for me. They only had to keep one flag and they would have won.

Domination is fun, challenging, and having an objective makes it better.

The spawns also makes sense, and you have to be good. You don't destroy like that or get a wraight by chance, you have to work for it.

It's also a thrill when you come back on a game that seems impossible

 

[Ensoul]

Guys, just play TDM. Every other mode in this game is broken like that amazing Jorge comeback video showed. All you need to do is get Wraith and then raps and mothership will win you the game.

I played a domination game the other day with a rocket launcher and all the perks to make me invisible to ground and air streaks. I took down 9 UAVs. 2 Wraiths, 2 RAPS deploy ships, 1 Talon and 2 HATRs. In fact, in the second round of that game thats all i did.

In TDM, the only time you have people calling in RAPS is if they get lucky with a care package. The only time you have people spawn raping you is if your team is fucking terrible and lets people run around all three lanes with gay abandon.

I like TDM but there are the issues I have with it.

1) The games only go up to 75 points (Why not 100 like kill confirmed?)
2) You don't end up with enough experience points and if your goal is to level up in COD playing only TDM will twice as long to accomplish this.

That why I moved away from TDM and just stick to Domination and KC. You die more but you usually end up with 50% more experience points.

 

[Skittles]

There is just too much bullshit going on anymore on COD. It's gotten worse and worse every year as the game has gotten more hyperactive and spastic. If the next game isn't a return-to-form World War II game I'm done. I gave Treyarch a chance with this one, and while fun can be had its fleeting. If I didn't need a palate cleanser game when I get overloaded on Fallout 4 and Star Wars Battlefront I wouldn't keep this game.

Maybe I'll give zombies a try finally after 8 years.

There's a 0% chance of that happening in this day and age. Gonna have to look for another series at this point for some WWII-esque action. Also, be careful with jumping into zombies. They made the base map this year quite complex(The Giant is far simpler though, if you have the season pass). So I would suggest reading some guides or watching some videos to get the hang of it first

Guys, just play TDM. Every other mode in this game is broken like that amazing Jorge comeback video showed. All you need to do is get Wraith and then raps and mothership will win you the game.

Domination isn't that bad. The only time I see comebacks like jorge's is when the enemy team is literally retarded and not one of them have a launcher class. I'm always amazed when I see scorestreaks last as long as they do considering the game pretty much gives you a free rocket launcher(blackcell too good). I'm just dumbfounded that people don't have a single launcher class considering you have 5 class slots and get more when prestiging. I literally kill myself if I see someone going off so I can switch to my launcher class. A lot less stomps would happen if people took those streaks seriously

 

[Metfanant]

I'm raging so much with this game at the moment when I'm shot six times in a row in the back and I'm near the spawn it drives me crazy. I think I may need a break.

Spawning is just plain broken if you ask me..or more accurately..than speed of movement/size of the maps breaks the spawning completely..

You can predict when the spawns will flip in a TDM...but you have to convince yourself to think completely illogically lol..it was never this bad pre-Advanced Warfare

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Hm I don't know, I've been playing core tdm exclusively for the past couple of weeks, and knowing where the spawns are and when they flip is key to that mode. I've definitely gotten the hang of the spawn flips now. They happen really fast and frequently in tdm. In fact, sometimes the game will flip so fast that by the time I spawn in, the enemy spawn is already behind me and I have to do an immediate 180. I see so many people just charge forward after spawning. I always take 1 sec to check the map before moving. Once I learned the tdm spawn mechanic it became much more fun for me. It is predictible, despite what some people say.

And if you're getting caught from behind, awareness and headphones...

 

[excaliburps]

Anyone else not giving a shit about emblems, calling cards, or paint jobs in this game? I don't know why, but I don't even care enough to make my Stargate Command emblem that I've used since Black Ops 1.

I don't. I used to care enough in Black Ops 2 that I even created (slowly and painfully) a Mega Man 8-bit emblem. Haha! Now? Don't care. I do see some cool ones though. Unfortunately, us being able to download some is never going to happen it seems.

There is just too much bullshit going on anymore on COD. It's gotten worse and worse every year as the game has gotten more hyperactive and spastic. If the next game isn't a return-to-form World War II game I'm done. I gave Treyarch a chance with this one, and while fun can be had its fleeting. If I didn't need a palate cleanser game when I get overloaded on Fallout 4 and Star Wars Battlefront I wouldn't keep this game.

Maybe I'll give zombies a try finally after 8 years.

This is mostly due to the Specialists. I'm liking Black Ops 3, but not as much as Black Ops 2. There's just so many shit to consider. Scorestreaks, explosives, bullets, and now Specialists. I long for the Modern Warfare days to be honest where it was just gunfights and yes, killstreak spam. Haha!

I hope the next CoD by Treyarch goes back to basics.

I suggest playing the Safeguard game mode. Less scorestreaks since it's harder to get it in that mode (each kill is only 50 points), and there's an objective that should be easy to know where the clusterfuck action is.

Ante up is only one kill less, or 100 points less for the streak. I want to get to my streaks as fast as possible, it's up to the individual.

And thank you! I went straight for B and tried to keep my ground. After that was done the goal was to rush as much as possible as there was not enough time. Everything happened to go perfectly.

I've tried most guns in the game, and the razorback is both my smg and assault rifle, I use it as both.

I don't find myself losing against people who sound whore, nor do I see myself dying by a lot of people that carry awareness. My technique is to know the map and the spawns. A couple of times here and there I hear something and turn around, I only use simple apple head phones tho, and no awareness. Mostly, I just know where to go, and where people are coming from.





I don't think this is correct.

Tdm is camp heaven.

You are making it seem like anyone can get wraight, raps and mothership. You also make it seem like anyone can comeback when the enemy team is 50 points away from winning.

It is not easy, even if it looks it, and not everyone can do it.

Tdm is no fun, there's no objective to do, the spawns are more random, and people love to camp.

Anyone could have easily killed me just ONCE and no streaks for me. They only had to keep one flag and they would have won.

Domination is fun, challenging, and having an objective makes it better.

The spawns also makes sense, and you have to be good. You don't destroy like that or get a wraight by chance, you have to work for it.

It's also a thrill when you come back on a game that seems impossible

- You prefer it to the Pharo now?

You tried Fast Hands? Not sure if I want to use that. I don't rely on Perks that much except Ghosts and Scavenger.

- Agree here. I tried TDM. Nope. Too much of a clusterfuck. Spawns are super random to the point that they spawn behind me (literally see 'em spaw out of nowhere in the killcam) and it's too chaotic in a bad way. I prefer Dom, Safeguard or any other with objectives.

TDM might be fun, but not my cup of tea.

There's a 0% chance of that happening in this day and age. Gonna have to look for another series at this point for some WWII-esque action. Also, be careful with jumping into zombies. They made the base map this year quite complex(The Giant is far simpler though, if you have the season pass). So I would suggest reading some guides or watching some videos to get the hang of it first


Domination isn't that bad. The only time I see comebacks like jorge's is when the enemy team is literally retarded and not one of them have a launcher class. I'm always amazed when I see scorestreaks last as long as they do considering the game pretty much gives you a free rocket launcher(blackcell too good). I'm just dumbfounded that people don't have a single launcher class considering you have 5 class slots and get more when prestiging. I literally kill myself if I see someone going off so I can switch to my launcher class. A lot less stomps would happen if people took those streaks seriously

Agreed. Tip to everyone: have an anti-scorestreak class with Engineer, Scavenger, Cold Blooded, Black Cell, EMP grenades.

I have one and immediately shoot down RAPS ships, Wraiths, etc. I do die from 'em from time to time, but you get lots of points for taking them out, and you help your team win...well, people don't care about winning but there's that benefit.

 

[Rixxan]

i disagree with the notion that black ops 3, when compared with previous titles, is more overwhelming or "spastic".

this is the first release in a while to curtail the abuse of spammy garbage, including overwhelming air support

this game (although not directly related) took a disorganized and undefined movement system from AW, and tempered it into something that flows with map design, theres nothing overwhelming about some basic wall running or double jumps.

there is also a serious cut back on noob toob type explosives, and subsequently i have found that my "random" deaths are probably at an all time low when compared with other cod titles

add in the fact that high end streaks are easily destroyable or otherwise rather underwhelming (mothership is only really worthwhile in domination - powercore is weak - gi unit is meh). i mean, in the rare occurrence someone drops a raps on my team, i take out my launcher, and bring it down in 10 seconds

specialist abilities are balanced across the 10 archetypes, and none of them break the game

so yeah, i dont get the complaints

 

[Calabi]

That's me.

I did watch the video a few posts up and I have no idea how people do that well. If that was me trying to cap flag "B" there is a 100% chance I would have been flanked from the back or side within 15 seconds.

Spawning is just plain broken if you ask me..or more accurately..than speed of movement/size of the maps breaks the spawning completely..

You can predict when the spawns will flip in a TDM...but you have to convince yourself to think completely illogically lol..it was never this bad pre-Advanced Warfare

I wouldn't have minded much but it was on Uplink, the one mode you probably shouldn't get flanked as much. I cant remember the map name but its the one with the barns. I dont think it was due to spawns this time, at least I hope not. Just clueless team mates that run down one alley to other side of the map, and leave the enemy to have free reign over the map.

I dont play much TDM but I do get annoyed with team mates, when they push the spawns so they flip and go in weird places. I am beginning to learn the spawns with help from XclusiveAce.

 

[Silver Arrows]

i disagree with the notion that black ops 3, when compared with previous titles, is more overwhelming or "spastic".

this is the first release in a while to curtail the abuse of spammy garbage, including overwhelming air support

this game (although not directly related) took a disorganized and undefined movement system from AW, and tempered it into something that flows with map design, theres nothing overwhelming about some basic wall running or double jumps.

there is also a serious cut back on noob toob type explosives, and subsequently i have found that my "random" deaths are probably at an all time low when compared with other cod titles

add in the fact that high end streaks are easily destroyable or otherwise rather underwhelming (mothership is only really worthwhile in domination - powercore is weak - gi unit is meh). i mean, in the rare occurrence someone drops a raps on my team, i take out my launcher, and bring it down in 10 seconds

specialist abilities are balanced across the 10 archetypes, and none of them break the game

so yeah, i dont get the complaints

I'd say that it depends on the gametype. I know for me, Cerberus works extremely well in Domination.

 

[Rixxan]

I'd say that it depends on the gametype. I know for me, Cerberus works extremely well in Domination.

yeah, definitely

but cerberus isnt really a "high end" streak reward

it also feels balanced, and a few launcher hits drop them quick

 

[Hikami]

I suggest playing the Safeguard game mode. Less scorestreaks since it's harder to get it in that mode

Really? I get most of my scorestreaks in that mode lol. Well, in the Ground War version anyways.

 

[Radec]

I like TDM but there are the issues I have with it.

1) The games only go up to 75 points (Why not 100 like kill confirmed?)
2) You don't end up with enough experience points and if your goal is to level up in COD playing only TDM will twice as long to accomplish this.

That why I moved away from TDM and just stick to Domination and KC. You die more but you usually end up with 50% more experience points.

They are bumping it to 100 kills this weekend. It may or may not stay.

 

[TheSinkingKnight]

I know this is totally off-topic, but does anyone who has an Xbox 360 and Black Ops 1, could you check the leaderboards to see how much time I played in the game? I'm on PS4 now and I don't feel like paying for XBL just to check it out lol.

 

[GasProblem]

Double cryptokeys on ps4.

 

[RS4-]

I can't even find a match.

edit - nm, took a while.

 

[GasProblem]

Yeah matchmaking got a bit slower for some reason. Lot of people getting on maybe.

Got disconnected in one match, and now in a lobby without a map showing up.

 

[SlimySnake]

I like TDM but there are the issues I have with it.

1) The games only go up to 75 points (Why not 100 like kill confirmed?)
2) You don't end up with enough experience points and if your goal is to level up in COD playing only TDM will twice as long to accomplish this.

That why I moved away from TDM and just stick to Domination and KC. You die more but you usually end up with 50% more experience points.

I agree with point 1. Makes no sense and has made getting 6 kills with special weapons pretty much impossible unless you go off on a insane kill spree with your special weapon.

I am on Prestige 8 level 40 after 5 days and 10 hours of play time, and i pretty much exclusively play TDM. I get 9k points per game and thats without any challenge or camo bonuses. Of course, I am like six weapons shy of getting dark matter camo so all those camo challenges helped i am sure.

I don't think this is correct.
Tdm is camp heaven.
You are making it seem like anyone can get wraight, raps and mothership. You also make it seem like anyone can comeback when the enemy team is 50 points away from winning.
It is not easy, even if it looks it, and not everyone can do it.
Tdm is no fun, there's no objective to do, the spawns are more random, and people love to camp.
Anyone could have easily killed me just ONCE and no streaks for me. They only had to keep one flag and they would have won.
Domination is fun, challenging, and having an objective makes it better.
The spawns also makes sense, and you have to be good. You don't destroy like that or get a wraight by chance, you have to work for it.
It's also a thrill when you come back on a game that seems impossible

TDM is anything but camp heaven. Sure good players can hold down a lane in 'SOME' maps, but the three lane setup pretty much allows for flanking. My biggest pet peeve is my team going to the enemy spawns and flipping the spawns. This happens every game. Hardly campy.

I agree that objective modes are more fun. I am a big MAG guy and i played objectives in KZ games, but there are way too many killstreaks in the air in domination. Every time i play that mode, its a blowout. Every single time. And thats because of how easy it is to earn points to get that first Wraith and Raps. Just look at your video. You got Four kills and got your wraith because you got lucky with Capture Kills and Capture points. That's it. Once the raps are on the ground, its impossible to take down the wraith unless you are rolling cold blooded and blind eye. So that team fucked up for a mere FOUR kills and you proceeded to annihilate them. Four kills man. That's not even good enough for a UAV in TDM with Ante up.

The worst part is the spawn raping you do with the mothership. it's not fair. it's not fun and its not balanced to die a fraction of a second after you spawn 6-10 times in a row.

Domination isn't that bad. The only time I see comebacks like jorge's is when the enemy team is literally retarded and not one of them have a launcher class. I'm always amazed when I see scorestreaks last as long as they do considering the game pretty much gives you a free rocket launcher(blackcell too good). I'm just dumbfounded that people don't have a single launcher class considering you have 5 class slots and get more when prestiging. I literally kill myself if I see someone going off so I can switch to my launcher class. A lot less stomps would happen if people took those streaks seriously

Right. But like i said earlier, i took down 9 UAVs, 2 RAPS, 2 Wraiths, 2 HATRs and 1 Talon in one round of domination by myself and we still lost. Pubs are dumb and while i can carry them in TDM, in Domination either I take down the killstreaks or kill people. I cant do both. Maybe if i rolled with three to four friends but playing solo in Domination is suicide unless you get put into the team with people like Jorge.

 

[jorgejjvr]

I don't. I used to care enough in Black Ops 2 that I even created (slowly and painfully) a Mega Man 8-bit emblem. Haha! Now? Don't care. I do see some cool ones though. Unfortunately, us being able to download some is never going to happen it seems.



This is mostly due to the Specialists. I'm liking Black Ops 3, but not as much as Black Ops 2. There's just so many shit to consider. Scorestreaks, explosives, bullets, and now Specialists. I long for the Modern Warfare days to be honest where it was just gunfights and yes, killstreak spam. Haha!

I hope the next CoD by Treyarch goes back to basics.

I suggest playing the Safeguard game mode. Less scorestreaks since it's harder to get it in that mode (each kill is only 50 points), and there's an objective that should be easy to know where the clusterfuck action is.





- You prefer it to the Pharo now?

You tried Fast Hands? Not sure if I want to use that. I don't rely on Perks that much except Ghosts and Scavenger.

- Agree here. I tried TDM. Nope. Too much of a clusterfuck. Spawns are super random to the point that they spawn behind me (literally see 'em spaw out of nowhere in the killcam) and it's too chaotic in a bad way. I prefer Dom, Safeguard or any other with objectives.

TDM might be fun, but not my cup of tea.



Agreed. Tip to everyone: have an anti-scorestreak class with Engineer, Scavenger, Cold Blooded, Black Cell, EMP grenades.

I have one and immediately shoot down RAPS ships, Wraiths, etc. I do die from 'em from time to time, but you get lots of points for taking them out, and you help your team win...well, people don't care about winning but there's that benefit.

I still pick the pharo from time to time, but I mostly now play with the razorback, so yes I currently prefer it

 

[TimeEffect]

Man the KN44 was my fave but lately it feels very hard to use

Man O War is my new fave. Feels a lot better, meaning i get more kills

Also, is team balancing a real issue? I swear I get so many 1-22 players


Can someone tell me if high caliber is worth it?

I feel like I need grip and quickdraw on my man o war, but fast mags seems important too

 

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Guys, just play TDM. Every other mode in this game is broken like that amazing Jorge comeback video showed. All you need to do is get Wraith and then raps and mothership will win you the game.

I played a domination game the other day with a rocket launcher and all the perks to make me invisible to ground and air streaks. I took down 9 UAVs. 2 Wraiths, 2 RAPS deploy ships, 1 Talon and 2 HATRs. In fact, in the second round of that game thats all i did.

In TDM, the only time you have people calling in RAPS is if they get lucky with a care package. The only time you have people spawn raping you is if your team is fucking terrible and lets people run around all three lanes with gay abandon.

Eh, I call in RAPs in TDM no problem. Going on a 12-13 kill streak isn't anything crazy. Probably not going to do it every game but it isn't very uncommon. The only issue is that by the time you get a RAPs in TDM you have such a big lead that it's just a cherry on top. We'll see how it goes with 100pt goal posts.

I've also come back from 20-30 down in TDM so it's not like comebacks are impossible. Should be even more common now that you have a longer runway to work with.

Spawning is just plain broken if you ask me..or more accurately..than speed of movement/size of the maps breaks the spawning completely..

You can predict when the spawns will flip in a TDM...but you have to convince yourself to think completely illogically lol..it was never this bad pre-Advanced Warfare

Using teammate positions and new teammate spawns makes predicting spawns really easy in TDM. The only times things will get real bad is if your whole team is moving up and you are lagging behind.

 

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I agree that objective modes are more fun. I am a big MAG guy and i played objectives in KZ games, but there are way too many killstreaks in the air in domination. Every time i play that mode, its a blowout. Every single time. And thats because of how easy it is to earn points to get that first Wraith and Raps. Just look at your video. You got Four kills and got your wraith because you got lucky with Capture Kills and Capture points. That's it. Once the raps are on the ground, its impossible to take down the wraith unless you are rolling cold blooded and blind eye. So that team fucked up for a mere FOUR kills and you proceeded to annihilate them. Four kills man. That's not even good enough for a UAV in TDM with Ante up.

Ha, I just watched and it was only 3 kills. Two captures and 3 kills while capping B and then all hell broke loose for the other team. I would have left lol. That can't have been any fun for the other team especially after being up for the first half. It's sort of amazing how one person can make such an absolute difference in the outcome. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not though.