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Call of Duty: Black Ops III |OT| No Content For Old Gen
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Yeah but it doesn't excuse how poorly told it is and how dull the campaign actually is.
I just want that HG40 ;_;
bolkiebasher
Banned
Bought the game at launch and still playing it. My KD ratio was about half of my BLOPS 2 at first :-(. But after a few weeks got used to the maps and new movements, and I'm even doing better than in BLOPS 2. Once you find a specialist you really like, it gets better. Also, although I don't like jumping around, it's very handy when being shot at when you don't know where it comes from: saves lives
.Yeah. M8 is great, is one burst kill, if every bullet hits.
Prestige 9 and lvl something 40+. Master prestige here I come. Any master prestiges here?
TheGoreMagala
Member
Prestige 10 isn't master prestige. Prestige 10 level 56 is master prestige.
I'm a master prestige, level 66.
Would you like to play together?
If you care about stats, I mostly play domination, have a 2.83 K/D (working on a 3.00), 4.80 W/L, and 551 SPM in Dom. I've called in 400+ Motherships, with an average of 12 kills per use.
ShadowsFell
Member
I much prefer the Sheiva. It's a two-shot with incredible accuracy. The M8A7 is still good though.
ShadowsFell
Member
The spawns flip often on most maps. We have unlimited sprint/a silly movement system, among other things to thank for that garbage.
TheGoreMagala
Member
So is the Gorgon.
ShadowsFell
Member
Yup, which is why it's my second most-used gun. But the Sheiva is even more accurate than the Gorgon and has much better handling. The Sheiva is semi-automatic I know, but I love both guns. I was talking about the Sheiva in comparison the the M8A7 anyway.
Another reason why I found the MX Garand pretty disappointing. It kicks a lot more than you'd think it would.
HeartlessNobody213
Member
Thought I would ask this here. Can anyone tell me how to get new melee weapons? I've heard it's from supply drops but I swear I've opened so many and never gotten a single new weapon.
The real answer is that you don't.
TheGoreMagala
Member
The chances of getting any new weapon is less than one percent. Even less than that if it's a melee weapon, and even less if it's a specific melee weapon that you want.
Good luck with RNGsus.
Based on a Youtube video using Reddit math and such, you have a 1% chance or less of getting a new weapon from a rare supply drop.
Which means this guy needed to go play the lottery when this happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_GggpR6ZI
This is the first campaign that I simply cannot force myself to play through. I just don't have fun playing simulations. I miss actually feeling like I was playing for my life or something. Maybe it changes further in but I'm not sure if I'll ever get that far.
HeartlessNobody213
Member
Thanks for the quick response guys. Damn didn't know it was a less than one percent chance.
Remember playing a game and someone dropped the sword. I picked it up and had a blast with it.
Remember playing a game and someone dropped the sword. I picked it up and had a blast with it.
TheGoreMagala
Member
Technically it's less of a simulation and more of a
dream
The dream of a dying brain.
Well when you make your own IP's shelf life a year by virtue of releasing a new entry every November, they're probably doing great if they're getting people to buy dlc in march/april. I doubt costumer satisfaction is very high on their list of worries.
The RNG nonsense is putting me off playing the game. I'm regretting buying the season pass now that I know it won't get me any weapons. Knowing that I could play for a hundred hours without getting any of the new guns--let alone all of them, which is the ideal goal--just sounds like a colossal waste of time.
And all they have to do is offer some way to guarantee these weapons, even if it means buying them directly. But no, they have to drive their ridiculous micro transactions to the nth degree. Having the best selling game and season pass of the whole generaton thus far just isn't friggin enough for them. They have to further abuse the player bases time and money.
Yeah, I read all that stuff awhile ago and that knowledge didn't help. Maybe it will get better and the "simulations" will take place in a jungle or warzone. The chapters I've played so far seem sort of claustrophobic.
TheGoreMagala
Member
I'm not sure if you'll get much of what you're looking for.
To offer a different perspective. This game is competing for my time. I'm an active street fighter player and dark souls 3 is right around the corner and these are basically my two favorite gaming franchises. This generation has made me open world RNG fatigued to the extend that if you insist on squeezing 100 hours out of me for something that should realistically take ten minutes, I'm just going to stop playing. Wherein if you gave me my shiny toy you would have kept me in the game and watching the streams so you could assault me with doritos and mt dew commercials as you see fit. But yea in the end they really dont give a shit. It is a business. They may as well just make a banner in the updates that reads 'fuck you we already got your money'.
*edit* Furthermore I think the weapon drop rate has also basically made TDM unplayable. The second one team gets more than a 8 point lead half the other team quits. I don't condone it but honestly I can't say I blame them. People want those cryptokeys.
Playing coop does help but not by much. For me, I forced myself to play this campaign which is weird because I've never had to (even the bad ones like Ghosts and Advanced Warfare).
There's a lot of issues with it aside from story issues. I'll try and detail it but spoilers. No story spoilers though.
Most of the enemies you'll run into the game are pretty much bots that take an absurdly amount of bullets. There are human enemies but it's not enjoyable until you reach the simulation portions of the game. Enemy Within is a fantastic level purely because of how trippy it is and it gives you different enemies (Nazis and Hellhound-like dogs). I would like the last mission because it's another simulation level however it takes way too long to complete and overstays its welcome. Also imo, none of the maps outside of those are very memorable.
Thanks for the head's up.
Hmm, not enticing at all. Thanks for the information.
Man I kinda felt guilty for thinking "I guess I'd throw out 2.50 or so for a WWII throwback weapon or something like that" back then before it was apparent that they'd add them to supply drops, but boy this scheme is even more cynical and probably way more effective.
I actually thought about getting the season pass back around February but this bullshit and the stupid PS timed exclusivity made me think otherwise.
I actually thought about getting the season pass back around February but this bullshit and the stupid PS timed exclusivity made me think otherwise.
Honestly I wish it was part of the DLC packs like Black Ops 2 with the Peacekeeper. Would save me a lot of frustration in the RNG loot. Supposedly there was going to be DLC weapons in Awakening but Activision forced Treyarch to put them in supply packs.
TheGoreMagala
Member
So I was using Seraph to change things up a bit and doing my thing (doing it well, of course) when someone got the nerve to message me saying that combat focus was for noobs. Naturally, I simply told him that I understood and that I'll just use the Ripper next game. I wished him good luck, as well. He left when the fourth RAPS was called in, as did three other enemy teammates. They never got to see my Mothership..
Also:
*facepalm*
Remind me never again to play completely solo. I had a 4.80 W/L and it went down to 4.75 for no legitimate reason. They didn't outgun or outplay me, they didn't do better. They just managed to avoid one person (me) long enough to feed off of my....less than intelligent teammates and get streaks. I mean, when I call in two motherships and we still lose, that's just not okay. THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH ONE MAN CAN DO. In what world does someone going 7-42 with 1 capture and defend get second place? I am seriously done, from now on I need at least one partner to play multiplayer with. I can't handle the stress.
Also:
*facepalm*
Remind me never again to play completely solo. I had a 4.80 W/L and it went down to 4.75 for no legitimate reason. They didn't outgun or outplay me, they didn't do better. They just managed to avoid one person (me) long enough to feed off of my....less than intelligent teammates and get streaks. I mean, when I call in two motherships and we still lose, that's just not okay. THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH ONE MAN CAN DO. In what world does someone going 7-42 with 1 capture and defend get second place? I am seriously done, from now on I need at least one partner to play multiplayer with. I can't handle the stress.
TheGoreMagala
Member
Hmm? In what sense? Enlighten me.
I'd play with you if u were on the XB1. From your videos you seem to be on PS4?
TheGoreMagala
Member
Ah, yes. If only, because then we could play together. But hey, apparently there's that rumor about making PSN and Xbox Live players capable of playing together, but I'm not sure if that was proven false or if it's actually something in the works.
But yeah, I'm on PS4, sadly.
MS offered it. Not sure if Sony is willing to play ball on it.
TheGoreMagala
Member
Yeah, they added all sorts of new memes and such as win gestures. They even added Shia's "just do it!"
And of course there's the dab, whip/nae nae, the hotline bling, the dance from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, etc.
My favorite is one where you're character draws a heart while looking adorable before reenacting what this guy does:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1IwlbussE
Although it's less funny on Reaper, Spectre, and Firebreak since they don't really have facial expressions.
Getting 6 kills with the gravity spikes in one game such a pain. I have 3 so far and that took me hours.
I am even having a hard time getting 4 kills in one match with the overdrive. Every single time I use the overdrive the same bullshit happens:
I get an assist.
The person takes about 10 bullets but wont die.
I get killed right away.
Someone is using Kinect armor.
I get hit with the crossbow
Someone uses their gravity spikes on me.
I cannot believe I am having this much trouble getting kills using overdrive.
I am even having a hard time getting 4 kills in one match with the overdrive. Every single time I use the overdrive the same bullshit happens:
I get an assist.
The person takes about 10 bullets but wont die.
I get killed right away.
Someone is using Kinect armor.
I get hit with the crossbow
Someone uses their gravity spikes on me.
I cannot believe I am having this much trouble getting kills using overdrive.
ShadowsFell
Member
Don't forget that Crane Kick gesture from The Karate Kid!
Daffy Duck
Member
Yes there is that, and a whole load of others.
Yeah it seems like they added in a lot of meme taunts as well. Saw Hotline Bling, and personally got the DO IT one.
TheGoreMagala
Member
I got the Karate Kid one for Spectre. It's hilarious, you'd never expect him to do that.
constantstatic
Member
send me an invite sometime im always down to play and sick of playing solo myself. I do hate the mothership though it drives me crazy because it takes all the kills and stays in the air for so long. I feel like that streak is a bit selfish when in a party.
We are already friends my psn Id is crocodileslogic. its been a minute since I have played with you or your brother.
May as well. Lately whenever I have been using 30 keys I have been getting a taunt, decal and a common camo.
Although I doubt it wll come cheap. I am thinking 90-100 keys for a weapon.
The rumor/leak suggests something more like 150 Cryptokeys or 1000 CoD points. Hopefully it'll be a permanent installation for that price though. If it's a weekend thing and costs that much, that's pretty awful.
Still saving up though.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
Banned
Not worth it, especially if you roll a crowbar or wrench, they're basically collector's items. Give me those OP crossbows.
That is crazy. I have about 30 keys. It will take me a week to save another 120 keys.
I like Treyarch and I am enjoying black ops (and I am not saying anything new) but these weapons in the crate are just plain shitty. I bought the $100 version so I can have all the maps so there is no way I am paying a cent more to buy weapons that should have been included in the version I bought.
I agree. I have the crowbar and I never use the thing at all. It is just a skin for a knife.
I'd be mighty salty if I saved up 150 cryptokeys and got another crowbar. I got the Garand the other night from a rare crate and like it quite a bit though. The reload function is easy to work with. Now all I want is the Shadowclaw but I'll stick with the 30 key crates. I usually just open commons but lately they've been awful and just not worth it.
I haven't spent money, but I think I've opened about 60-70 rare crates since the original extra weapons got added in.
I have the ShadowClaw (got it a week after the first weapon add) and I got the Iron Jim last night. That's it. Lots of time played and keys earned and spent.
I have the ShadowClaw (got it a week after the first weapon add) and I got the Iron Jim last night. That's it. Lots of time played and keys earned and spent.