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Lionheart1827

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Finally got to try the new maps last night.

Splash-awesome beautiful map, had a ton of fun except for the stupid map glitches. Was hoping some of the slides in the water were reachable but I got the "leaving map" message.

Rise-Not bad, kept getting confused with the layout, only got to play this one once.

Gauntlet-Very cool map. I did a double take when I walked through a door from a city alley into a Arctic tundra, then another door into a jungle.

Skyjacked-Cool looking but infuriating. Putting an overwatch balcony facing the main spawn areas was a stupid idea Imo.

Haven't played the zombies map since I haven't even touched zombies yet.

Hoping future maps have some remakes of WAW and BO1 maps.

Also it was good playing exodus again :)
 
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Rey

Member
Goodacre0081 said:
someone on reddit mentioned the games lighting got an upgrade, so all maps should look different. I haven't noticed yet because I haven't played the vanilla maps since the update.
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I immediately noticed the difference in lighting in the vanilla maps. Didn't see it mentioned in the patch notes.

Sure looks nice to me personally.
 
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No_Style

Member
Sounds like PS4 owners get the pleasure of 30 days of beta testing the new maps for the X1 and PC.

Why don't they just place the "out of bounds" kill wall up high as well?

Rey said:
I immediately noticed the difference in lighting in the vanilla maps. Didn't see it mentioned in the patch notes.

Sure looks nice to me personally.
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I'd like to see a before and after comparison for the other maps because I only noticed Hunted. :(
 
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Valkrai

Member
Lionheart1827 said:
Finally got to try the new maps last night.

Splash-awesome beautiful map, had a ton of fun except for the stupid map glitches. Was hoping some of the slides in the water were reachable but I got the "leaving map" message.

Rise-Not bad, kept getting confused with the layout, only got to play this one once.

Gauntlet-Very cool map. I did a double take when I walked through a door from a city alley into a Arctic tundra, then another door into a jungle.

Skyjacked-Cool looking but infuriating. Putting an overwatch balcony facing the main spawn areas was a stupid idea Imo.

Haven't played the zombies map since I haven't even touched zombies yet.

Hoping future maps have some remakes of WAW and BO1 maps.

Also it was good playing exodus again :)
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Well there is going to be a remake of Moon considering how hard they're hinting at it.
 
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RedNalgene

Member
Creaking said:
Never noticed a difference myself.

Though I will concede that Rapid Fire is neck and neck with Grip as the most neutered attachment in the game. 6.4% increase in fire-rate versus a 7.5% reduction in recoil.
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Is there a table showing all the different permutations of the attachments? I know there are a few YouTube vids that describe the percentages that each attachment adds, but I'm looking for something where I can see the percentages all together so I can decide which ones are most valuable on a gun-by-gun basis.
 
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Creaking

He touched the black heart of a mod
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Saucycarpdog

Member
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Deband

Member
Has anyone had issues lately with the party system. Myself and my flatmate could team up np before the update, last night the only time we could get in a party it said I was unable to host and he didn't have the map pack. We hadn't even choose a game mode yet. Bloody infuriating.
 
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Valkrai

Member
Skittles said:
If they don't remove the astronaut no one is going to play it much
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I think that's a nonissue with Moon, there's a lot more faults. Doing the easter egg on there is completely random and obnoxious and the map is very confusing to navigate around. That and Jugg/Speed Cola are random in No Mans Land.
 
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Rey

Member
No_Style said:
Sounds like PS4 owners get the pleasure of 30 days of beta testing the new maps for the X1 and PC.

Why don't they just place the "out of bounds" kill wall up high as well?



I'd like to see a before and after comparison for the other maps because I only noticed Hunted. :(
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Yeah me too. Hunted and Fringe are the only ones where I did noticed it for now. Not sure if the lighting improved on all the maps.
 
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TheGoreMagala

Member
Daffy Duck said:
Dumb question:

Once ripper is activated do you press r1/l1 each time to kill someone or do you just press the melee button?
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After you activate it, you can just press the melee button.

However, if the ripper is ready and someone is in range, pressing L1/R1 will activate AND cause you to lunge/kill the enemy (in other words, you don't have to press L1/R1 when an enemy is not in sight to activate it, since pressing both buttons when an enemy is in range will again activate and cause you to go for the kill simultaneously).
 
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Skittles

Member
Valkrai said:
I think that's a nonissue with Moon, there's a lot more faults. Doing the easter egg on there is completely random and obnoxious and the map is very confusing to navigate around. That and Jugg/Speed Cola are random in No Mans Land.
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Oh yes, I totally forgot about the nearly 10 minute trek to get jugg if you go down. Something also needs to be done about the blades that cut into the station. Way too annoying to run into one after you go to down to the earth.
 
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jorgejjvr

Member
Saucycarpdog said:
Damn. What are your guys loadouts? Every time I play aggressively as you do I just get shot at by three people. Maybe I'm just playing the wrong mode.
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So, I'll tell you what we both do

We have the same class

Razorback + sight (in this case I use elo, he uses boa)

Silencer, fast mag, rapid fire

Ghosts, scavenger, ante up

We play domination mostly

As far as play style, we do rush, the reason we use the razorback is because it is still an smg, but we challenge ARs as well. It's two in one for me. We do rush, but we stop, look, and pre aim.

We also know the map, and have an idea of where people are coming from

Combat focus and ante up help with streaks

Domination helps with spawns and knowing were people come from, since spawns are easy to predict, not random at all, they are perfect

We are brothers btw
 
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lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
I'm surprised you use Combat Focus considering it kind of sucks. There's a limit to the amount of score you can earn while it's up, so you don't actually get 2x the points for its duration.

I guess it can be a free 500 points or whatever.
 
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TheGoreMagala

Member
lamaroo said:
I'm surprised you use Combat Focus considering it kind of sucks. There's a limit to the amount of score you can earn while it's up, so you don't actually get 2x the points for its duration.

I guess it can be a free 500 points or whatever.
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We usually time it well enough to get 800-900 points from it. Plus, sometimes an extra 100 can make all the difference.
 
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jorgejjvr

Member
lamaroo said:
I'm surprised you use Combat Focus considering it kind of sucks. There's a limit to the amount of score you can earn while it's up, so you don't actually get 2x the points for its duration.

I guess it can be a free 500 points or whatever.
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It doesn't suck, or gotten wraith, raps in a matter of seconds thanks to it. Killing someone in a Dom spot is 300 points, capturing it is another 300. You can get a good 500-800 at times. Also, I have ante up, so every streak is lower by 100. It all adds up, it really does make a difference

I will never understand when people say that it sucks, all the game play in my channel proves otherwise

In this video, from around 2:35 to 3:00

I get 900 points thanks to combat focus

Capture a flag (300), get a kill in another flag (300),end up capturing flag (300).900 total

https://youtu.be/_J_bAskfr7A
 
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lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
jorgejjvr said:
It doesn't suck, or gotten wraith, raps in a matter of seconds thanks to it. Killing someone in a Dom spot is 300 points, capturing it is another 300. You can get a good 500-800 at times. Also, I have ante up, so every streak is lower by 100. It all adds up, it really does make a difference

I will never understand when people say that it sucks, all the game play in my channel proves otherwise

In this video, from around 2:35 to 3:00

I get 900 points thanks to combat focus

Capture a flag (300), get a kill in another flag (300),end up capturing flag (300).900 total

https://youtu.be/_J_bAskfr7A
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I don't think you can even earn 900 from Combat Focus. It maxes out at 500 or something.
 
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GasProblem

Member
Thought they would fix Splash today?

Still a glitchy piece of shit map. Unplayable really with all the people wall glitching. Why don't they remove it from the rotation until it is fixed?

This was my first and last time buying a CoD map pack on day one I guess.
 
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TheGoreMagala

Member
lamaroo said:
I don't think you can even earn 900 from Combat Focus. It maxes out at 500 or something.
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It's possible to earn two capture kills and a capture (300+300+300) with combat focus, and I think that either depletes it or has time for a tiny amount more. So at most maybe 1200 points if you're really lucky? Although the max is probably 1000.
 
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lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
jorgejjvr said:
But if you see my video, I got 900?

Yes, you can.
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TheGoreMagala said:
It's possible to earn two capture kills and a capture (300+300+300) with combat focus, and I think that either depletes it or has time for a tiny amount more. So at most maybe 1200 points if you're really lucky? Although the max is probably 1000.
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https://youtu.be/_SdcNIqIlXY?t=3m27s

Drift0r says you can only earn 500-600 points in total. Has anyone else done testing on it?
 
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No_Style

Member
I don't believe it's a bank as Drift0r said. It looks like it behaves like a buff that depletes more rapidly the more points you get which means you can get a huge bonus if multiple points stacked on top of each other like Jorge did.

In his video: He got 300 + 600. If there was a significant delay between the cap and the kills, it may have exhausted. But since multiple points comboed together, Combat Focus worked on it.

It's also important to note that Combat Focus very mode dependent and not nearly as powerful outside of objective modes like Domination or Kill Confirmed.
 
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jorgejjvr

Member
No_Style said:
I don't believe it's a bank as Drift0r said. It looks like it behaves like a buff that depletes more rapidly the more points you get which means you can get a huge bonus if multiple points stacked on top of each other like Jorge did.

In his video: He got 300 + 600. If there was a significant delay between the cap and the kills, it may have exhausted but since multiple points comboed together, Combat Focus worked on it.

It's also important to note that Combat Focus very mode dependent and not nearly as powerful outside of objective modes like Domination or Kill Confirmed.
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This is correct, you can get as much as time/depletion allows. If I had gotten that other kill, or might have been more than 900

Driftor is wrong, it hurt watching that video, definitely not only for uav and counter. You can definitely get high streaks with it within seconds.
 
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Parmadillo Marshmallow

Member
jorgejjvr said:
This is correct, you can get as much as time/depletion allows. If I had gotten that other kill, or might have been more than 900

Driftor is wrong, it hurt watching that video, definitely not only for uav and counter. You can definitely get high streaks with it within seconds.
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Driftor is great but he has had a lot of errors in his videos lately. So much that he actually made a whole video pointing out his errors.
 
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No_Style

Member
Parmadillo Marshmallow said:
Driftor is great but he has had a lot of errors in his videos lately. So much that he actually made a whole video pointing out his errors.
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As I was digging for more info about weapon stats and charts like that was mentioned above, I stumbled into a backlash against the guy for his misinformation. Apparently a lot of the professional COD players hate him for this very reason. He does good work and I appreciate the information he imparts but it would behoove him to show his work and not just mention "that's what the numbers tell me."

It's also worth mentioning that he doesn't update his videos fast enough (or at all) which contains outdated info as patches change things.
 
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eek5

Member
Daffy Duck said:
Dumb question:

Once ripper is activated do you press r1/l1 each time to kill someone or do you just press the melee button?
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You can either press melee or R1/L1 after the first activation. I use the shoulder buttons since my melee is on face buttons (Tactical layout)
 
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lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
TheGoreMagala said:
Trust me, you can probably get 1000+ score easily, as long as it's all done very quickly.
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Fair enough. I'll trust you guys, and it looked like it did show 900 in your brothers gameplay.

Parmadillo Marshmallow said:
Driftor is great but he has had a lot of errors in his videos lately. So much that he actually made a whole video pointing out his errors.
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It's so hard to find info on the Specialists for this game. Gun stats are easy, but I don't know if there are any solid stats out there for the specialists.
 
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Parmadillo Marshmallow

Member
shanafan said:
So noticing in the kill cams that people are glitching through the water slides in Splash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5yISjCIOiY
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Yep, I saw the barrel of a sniper rifle sticking out of the wall there and I was like WTF? So many glitches on that map it's crazy. Von said they would fix that yesterday.

This was posted Feb 2:

We are coming after Splash exploits and the Hit Indicator issues first.

Like 10AM tomorrow morning first.
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Silver Arrows

Banned
No_Style said:
As I was digging for more info about weapon stats and charts like that was mentioned above, I stumbled into a backlash against the guy for his misinformation. Apparently a lot of the professional COD players hate him for this very reason. He does good work and I appreciate the information he imparts but it would behoove him to show his work and not just mention "that's what the numbers tell me."

It's also worth mentioning that he doesn't update his videos fast enough (or at all) which contains outdated info as patches change things.
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Generally Drift0r is good for general information on how to best use a specialist or gun, but in terms of raw numbers and stats, generally take his info at face value

I really only follow him and Tabor-Time when it comes to BLOPS III, and I find that Tabor is much more thorough when it comes to info on stats (He does challenge help videos however so that could mean more research)
 
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TheGoreMagala

Member
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AnWXe7vYO9s

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YWCKENMhs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nVrWUiX1XA

Some average games that I feel really showcase how versatile combat focus is. I wasn't really trying too hard, so excuse any silly mistakes, there may be some cringe worthy moments there (I'm not sure why but only 3/4 videos uploaded, and not all of them were from the beginning). Oh well, let me know what you think!

I really need to start trying, though. I don't want my stats to suffer. The DLC brought waves of dedicated players.
 
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Skittles

Member
Phazon and sliver, if you're lurking right now I'm ready to play zombies whenever.

Easter egg was finally finished for the new map. Shit was crazy, best one yet. On a sidenote, i don't think moon is going to be remade for a future map pack :p
 
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Valkrai

Member
Skittles said:
Phazon and sliver, if you're lurking right now I'm ready to play zombies whenever.

Easter egg was finally finished for the new map. Shit was crazy, best one yet. On a sidenote, i don't think moon is going to be remade for a future map pack :p
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SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Fuck :(
 
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Silver Arrows

Banned
Skittles said:
Phazon and sliver, if you're lurking right now I'm ready to play zombies whenever.

Easter egg was finally finished for the new map. Shit was crazy, best one yet. On a sidenote, i don't think moon is going to be remade for a future map pack :p
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Yeah, I'll hop on. Should I make a party?
 
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