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[Rixxan]

think im gonna start playing arena

pretty tired of pubstomping

gold hero camo unlocked for every specialist, dark matter unlocked, maintained a 3.2KD and 560SPM whilst doing so blah blah

finally getting tired of it bros, gonna switch it up with some arena for sure, maybe even dive into zombies finally

 

[Nabs]

Nuclear with the Iron Jim (streak starts a minute in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8VQB4hs2c

Make sure to watch at 1440p if you can.

 

[Rixxan]

mmm, dat FOV

every time i see PC footage it makes me wish i picked this up for PC

edit: lol - dude went full gordon freeman on those scrubs

 

[eek5]

lol.. jesus

I'd probably quit the game forever if someone on the other team did that

 

[someday]

lol.. jesus

I'd probably quit the game forever if someone on the other team did that

I think the only reason people stayed was for the chance to take down the power core. Instead he just used it as bait lol.

 

[CartridgeBlower]

Is there any way to play Domination without having literally 3/4 of everyone NOT going for the flags? Is hardcore any better?

 

[Ensoul]

Is there any way to play Domination without having literally 3/4 of everyone NOT going for the flags? Is hardcore any better?

Unless you're playing with a clan or group of friends then the answer is no. A normal game for me is going 12-35 because I'd be the only person going for captures. Got sick of it so I quit domination altogether.

 

[No_Style]

Yeah. I don't bother with Domination without GAF bros.

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Is there any way to play Domination without having literally 3/4 of everyone NOT going for the flags? Is hardcore any better?

Honestly objective modes aren't the best in this game. Just play tdm, kc, or ffa.

 

[CartridgeBlower]

Yeah, I pretty much only play TD, but miss the days of CoD4 where (at least it felt like it) way more people actually cared about getting flags. It seems like only a few people every couple of games would be jackasses, but now that appears to have been reversed. Only a few actually aren't.

 

[No_Style]

It's a consequence to feeding everything into a global KDR. What an idiotic move that was.

 

[Norwegian_Imposter]

It's a consequence to feeding everything into a global KDR. What an idiotic move that was.

Eh?

 

[No_Style]

Eh?

There's a global KDR rating that is prominently displayed on the Barrack's stats screen. It takes your KDR from different modes and averages it.

I'm saying some people go to objective modes for easier kills and ignore objectives.

 

[Ensoul]

Developers could make kills worth zero points in objective modes and it would not matter; people are obsessed with the KDR and every company that makes COD feeds into that.


The thing is it is an easy fix:

1) The only stats in domination that should show are captures and defends. For demolition it should be defuses and plants etc.
2) No one can see you stats but you.

Developers just refuse to steer the game away from KDR which makes objective modes unplayable.

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Developers could make kills worth zero points in objective modes and it would not matter; people are obsessed with the KDR and every company that makes COD feeds into that.


The thing is it is an easy fix:

1) The only stats in domination that should show are captures and defends. For demolition it should be defuses and plants etc.
2) No one can see you stats but you.

Developers just refuse to steer the game away from KDR which makes objective modes unplayable.

Be honest and tell me, if they did that:

1. Would as many people play objective modes at all?
2. Would their sales increase?

 

[OG_Original Gamer]

My favorite now, is Safeguard. Most matches are ground war, I prefer it to core, I get bored pretty quickly there. I feel like it's a greater challenge to play, TDM, Domination, and Safeguard in ground war. I use my specialists unique capabilities to shutdown the robot. To clear a location to capture point B. Or just the win. I have a blast.

 

[Thebeardofknowledge]

think im gonna start playing arena

pretty tired of pubstomping

gold hero camo unlocked for every specialist, dark matter unlocked, maintained a 3.2KD and 560SPM whilst doing so blah blah

finally getting tired of it bros, gonna switch it up with some arena for sure, maybe even dive into zombies finally

You play search ?

 

[Metfanant]

Nuclear with the Iron Jim (streak starts a minute in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8VQB4hs2c

Make sure to watch at 1440p if you can.

This is the reason I play HC TDM...

 

[Khaos_Knight]

The same thing happened with me when I got a PS4 and Advanced Warfare. It's the controller. From what I gathered, the controllers that come with the PS4 can't even last a month.

I haven't seen that, but in my case, I can't tell you how many times I've tried to slide and ended up just crouching. Gotten killed so many times from that.

Ok so it was my controller. I opened it up last friday to see if there was anything wrong with the analog assembly and I didn't see anything wrong with it but I blew some air into it in case there was just some dust in there. I haven't had any issues with the sprinting ever since. I even managed to get the diamond camo for the assault rifle yesterday.

I don't know what to do now that I finished the assault rifles. Might go for the LMG or Launcher diamond camos.

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

Anyone have quick knife camo tips? I'm at ~100 kills and it's been a major hassle.

This is actually the only weapon I'm struggling with.

 

[Waldini]

Thank god that Double XP thing is almost over. The amount of horseshit I've seen the last couple of days was .... well, lets not go that way.

The amount of sweaty-games ... the amount of dying behind corners or enemies pre-firing with no UAV, no Sixth Sense ... goddamn.

 

[Daffy Duck]

My favorite now, is Safeguard. Most matches are ground war, I prefer it to core, I get bored pretty quickly there. I feel like it's a greater challenge to play, TDM, Domination, and Safeguard in ground war. I use my specialists unique capabilities to shutdown the robot. To clear a location to capture point B. Or just the win. I have a blast.

I love GW Safeguard, it's a great mode, and for the most part people try to play to get the robot to the endpoint, and then there are the moment where both teams play it o the full round limit and go for kills/challenges.

It's rather good fun.

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

Anyone have quick knife camo tips? I'm at ~100 kills and it's been a major hassle.

This is actually the only weapon I'm struggling with.

Nevermind! I found the secret: Free-For-All

Edit: Got Dark Matter... finally.

 

[The Ummah]

Just ran into a party on PS4. One guy had a shotty with a ridiculously fast rate of fire, one hit killed everybody. Obviously something funny was going on, because it just looked like he was cycling weapons. I'm done with this.

 

[KenjiGlove]

Nevermind! I found the secret: Free-For-All

Edit: Got Dark Matter... finally.

Oh, congrats. I've slowly been working towards that. Those shotgun headshots take time.

Thank god that Double XP thing is almost over. The amount of horseshit I've seen the last couple of days was .... well, lets not go that way.

The amount of sweaty-games ... the amount of dying behind corners or enemies pre-firing with no UAV, no Sixth Sense ... goddamn.

Maybe they're using Awareness? It's a pretty good when it comes to situation like this.

 

[Waldini]

Just ran into a party on PS4. One guy had a shotty with a ridiculously fast rate of fire, one hit killed everybody. Obviously something funny was going on, because it just looked like he was cycling weapons. I'm done with this.

That's because some guys know what to do with a certain weapon. A shotgun (which fires one bullet at a time) can be reloaded faster when actually cancelling the reload. When the number of the amount of bullets currently loaded goes up, you can cancel the reload. This "saves" time but should be considered a glitch. Same thing happened in BO2. There's alot of recurring errors/glitches that were actually fixed in BO2 but happen in BO3 ...

Maybe they're using Awareness? It's a pretty good when it comes to situation like this.

You mean they can HEAR me when I'm standing still and using Dead Silence/Awareness myself? I'm pretty okay with people using their ears though ... but I tend to look at the perks/weapon I get killed with. When I'm not seeing Sixth Sense/Awareness I get skeptical. Usually killcams show that the enemy actually saw me when I didn't see them. The delay (or lag compensation) this game sometimes generates in order to actualy have people with (shit)bad connections is frustrating.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Just ran into a party on PS4. One guy had a shotty with a ridiculously fast rate of fire, one hit killed everybody. Obviously something funny was going on, because it just looked like he was cycling weapons. I'm done with this.

Yeah, shotguns are really bullshit in this game.

 

[The Ummah]

That's because some guys know what to do with a certain weapon. A shotgun (which fires one bullet at a time) can be reloaded faster when actually cancelling the reload. When the number of the amount of bullets currently loaded goes up, you can cancel the reload. This "saves" time but should be considered a glitch. Same thing happened in BO2. There's alot of recurring errors/glitches that were actually fixed in BO2 but happen in BO3 ...

Thanks for the info, I was so confused. This is my first time seeing it. I really wanted to get a couple levels out of the way while 2xp is still going on, but that killed it for me.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

That's because some guys know what to do with a certain weapon. A shotgun (which fires one bullet at a time) can be reloaded faster when actually cancelling the reload. When the number of the amount of bullets currently loaded goes up, you can cancel the reload. This "saves" time but should be considered a glitch. Same thing happened in BO2. There's alot of recurring errors/glitches that were actually fixed in BO2 but happen in BO3 ...

I mean, they do technically fix them. You can't reload cancel the Blackcell anymore (or it's a lot harder to do so) if I recall correctly.

Anyways, I've actually experienced what that guy was saying (at least I think I have). It only happened once, though. In short, there was some dude using Dead Silence/Awareness in Aquarium and using the Haymaker. I found it odd how he killed me so fast. Upon looking at the kill cam, I noticed he had rapid fire and fast mags but was doing this weird thing (essentially it look like he just kept switching weapons/tapping triangle as he was spraying the Haymaker) which caused the Haymaker to shoot around as fast as a Kuda.

I would take it that it's either a glitch that anyone can do, or that guy was hacking in some way. I know how a normal Haymaker works but that speed was not fathomable.

 

[Ensoul]

Be honest and tell me, if they did that:

1. Would as many people play objective modes at all?
2. Would their sales increase?

I'd rather have half the amount of people playing objective modes and and actually do the objectives than what's going on now.

What increases the sales is how good a game is not whether or not people can see their stats in objective modes.


Anyway frustrating night of playing for me. I am normally okay at TDM but for whatever reason nothing was going right at all. I am using the Weevil to get it gold and I swear I was shooting guys 7 times and they were not dying. Then I would walk two feet, look right, no one was there than a split second later I'd die from a person right where I looked. That or I would get flanked all night.

The only reason I played so much was because it was double XP. I need to start Fallout 4, which I never even player and I bought it day 1.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I feel like guns are so inconsistent in this game. I can get melted in a fraction of a second by someone using the exact same gun and attachment combo as me but it takes me much longer to kill a person with that combo. I know it's not my connection, does this game have lag compensation? It feels like sometimes I get hit by more than a single bullet at a time from a single person, like the server held his commands in its buffer and dropped them on me out of order or something.

 

[Waldini]

I feel like guns are so inconsistent in this game. I can get melted in a fraction of a second by someone using the exact same gun and attachment combo as me but it takes me much longer to kill a person with that combo. I know it's not my connection, does this game have lag compensation? It feels like sometimes I get hit by more than a single bullet at a time from a single person, like the server held his commands in its buffer and dropped them on me out of order or something.

That's lag compensation. I'm experiencing the same thing.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I wish COD would drop hitscan and go with bullet physics. It makes DICE games so much more consistent with weapon kill time, plus having better servers.

 

[Ensoul]

I feel like guns are so inconsistent in this game. I can get melted in a fraction of a second by someone using the exact same gun and attachment combo as me but it takes me much longer to kill a person with that combo. I know it's not my connection, does this game have lag compensation? It feels like sometimes I get hit by more than a single bullet at a time from a single person, like the server held his commands in its buffer and dropped them on me out of order or something.

That is exactly what happened last night. I know the Weevil isn't the most powerful gun but I can normally bring someone down in 4 shots or so. Not last night, 7 or 8 shots and they were still standing. All night this was happening. I have not been this frustrated in a long time playing COD.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Maybe it's because I've been playing Nuk3town 24/7 during 2XP, but the lag compensation was killing me for most of the time. I did get one good game my best so far actually though on Hardpoint.

https://youtu.be/JJiKiRoG0_E

 

[GravyButt]

So seasons pass (ps4) seem worth the investment so far??

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

So seasons pass (ps4) seem worth the investment so far??

Not at all. You can't disable them, they are baked into the game. So not only is your matchmaking pool so much smaller, but a lot more tryhards buy the DLC so you'll be facing better players more often.

 

[Thebeardofknowledge]

So seasons pass (ps4) seem worth the investment so far??

Don't listen to SG she/he has no idea what he's talking about
The maps are great and definitely worth it

 

[Silver Arrows]

Don't listen to SG she/he has no idea what he's talking about
The maps are great and definitely worth it

I'd say out of the current maps, only Rise and Gauntlet are worth it. Each other one has really glaring problems.

You do get The Giant for Zombies which, while maybe a bit too simple, is still a much better map then Shadows of Evil, and below Der Eisendrache.

 

[GustyGardens]

Damn, I had some really good matches this weekend and ranked up quite a bit, thanks to the double XP buff.

Also, just wondering, but is Ghost not a viable perk anymore? It seems like people knew exactly where I was while enemy UAV was up. Maybe I wasn't as sneaky as I thought.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

I got some pretty good games this weekend, so expect a lot of videos from me soon.

Here's some 91 Kills, 7 Deaths gameplay. Two Motherships too, which is nice. Hope you guys enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vmJE8Nu81y4

 

[Ensoul]

Damn, I had some really good matches this weekend and ranked up quite a bit, thanks to the double XP buff.

Also, just wondering, but is Ghost not a viable perk anymore? It seems like people knew exactly where I was while enemy UAV was up. Maybe I wasn't as sneaky as I thought.

The only way they know where you are is if you're standing still. I use ghost because I am sick of shooting down UAVs non stop.

Don't listen to SG she/he has no idea what he's talking about
The maps are great and definitely worth it

The new maps are just okay. The hijacked remake map sucks because you're always getting shot from the back, side or up above. Gauntlet is rarely picked. Splash and Rise are okay I guess.

 

[RunningRiot]

Nevermind! I found the secret: Free-For-All

Edit: Got Dark Matter... finally.

It is wasted on the likes of you.

 

[yankeehater]

Damn, I had some really good matches this weekend and ranked up quite a bit, thanks to the double XP buff.

Also, just wondering, but is Ghost not a viable perk anymore? It seems like people knew exactly where I was while enemy UAV was up. Maybe I wasn't as sneaky as I thought.

Yeah this was such a great weekend. I went from level 20 prestige 3 to level 30 prestige 4 and I hardly played. I just kept cycling guns and going for big xp challenges. I hope they do another double double weekend again soon.

 

[eek5]

Just ran into a party on PS4. One guy had a shotty with a ridiculously fast rate of fire, one hit killed everybody. Obviously something funny was going on, because it just looked like he was cycling weapons. I'm done with this.

Sounds like jitter mod. Been around forever but easy as shit to do because of hardware like cronus max which is sold at Best Buy.

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Damn, I had some really good matches this weekend and ranked up quite a bit, thanks to the double XP buff.

Also, just wondering, but is Ghost not a viable perk anymore? It seems like people knew exactly where I was while enemy UAV was up. Maybe I wasn't as sneaky as I thought.

Pretty sure you need to be moving faster than the base walk speed in order for Ghost to be active. So that means sprinting, or ADS with an SMG+stock (which is slightly faster than the base walk speed and just puts you over the hump to activate Ghost). Honestly, it's too hard to be CONSTANTLY running, so if you stop for a sec to peek around a corner, you get pinged. Not worth it IMO.

So seasons pass (ps4) seem worth the investment so far??

Personally I like the new maps a lot, but I'm going to buy DLC packs individually until I'm done with the game. I doubt I will still be playing BO3 beyond the second or third DLC, which is where you start to save money with the season pass. Note that you should either buy NO DLC, or ALL DLC (thus released), or you will have a very hard time finding matches.

 

[yankeehater]

Pretty sure you need to be moving faster than the base walk speed in order for Ghost to be active. So that means sprinting, or ADS with an SMG+stock (which is slightly faster than the base walk speed and just puts you over the hump to activate Ghost). Honestly, it's too hard to be CONSTANTLY running, so if you stop for a sec to peek around a corner, you get pinged. Not worth it IMO.

Thank you for this, I use ghost all the time and I had no idea that it only worked while running. I will have to try and rethink my base perks now.

 

[kaskade]

I feel like guns are so inconsistent in this game. I can get melted in a fraction of a second by someone using the exact same gun and attachment combo as me but it takes me much longer to kill a person with that combo. I know it's not my connection, does this game have lag compensation? It feels like sometimes I get hit by more than a single bullet at a time from a single person, like the server held his commands in its buffer and dropped them on me out of order or something.

I thought I was going to do much better with the M8A7 when I finally unlocked it. I played a few rounds and it was difficult to get a grasp on. I probably should've gave it more time but I wanted to prestige and get a good amount of levels back. Maybe I'll use my unlock token on it.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

Thank you for this, I use ghost all the time and I had no idea that it only worked while running. I will have to try and rethink my base perks now.

I apologize, but I know for a fact that Ghost works if you're walking at base speed even with an LMG. So as long as you continue walking forward (even in a circle), you'll be okay. You can also do very long started to the side to activate it.

However, anything LESS than base walking speed will deactivate it. Aiming down sights (unless its stock with an SMG or Shotgun), finding cover, etc.

The thing is that Ghost is very quick to deactivate and takes a while to activate, but trust me, base walking speed is enough.

 

[yankeehater]

I apologize, but I know for a fact that Ghost works if you're walking at base speed even with an LMG. So as long as you continue walking forward (even in a circle), you'll be okay. You can also do very long started to the side to activate it.

However, anything LESS than base walking speed will deactivate it. Aiming down sights (unless its stock with an SMG or Shotgun), finding cover, etc.

The thing is that Ghost is very quick to deactivate and takes a while to activate, but trust me, base walking speed is enough.

Just to be clear if I am ADS with a rifle it will deactivate? I usually only play with Ar's, and I am almost always aiming down the sights as I move around.