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[Toa TAK]

This Easter Egg is going to be the death of me. THREE attempts this week and each time we all died at the boss. It's as if every time I close mien eyes all I see is our FAILURE.

I mean, I've called in around 600 Motherships and I'll have you know that at least whenever I call one of those bad boys in, the enemy team is guaranteed to die about 30 times if they don't quit first.

Then again like I said it is all about the user and not the equipment/weapon/streak in question. Truth be told, I've seen people who are lucky to get 5 kills with it. So again I still feel like it's all balanced and relies more on player skill than superior stats.

I barley remember the last time I saw a Mothership in game. It was my teammate and he got 6+ kills with it if I remember correctly. But it's still a rare sight so I'm pretty comfortable saying that the Hellstorm is as bad as it gets (at least you can shoot down the Hay8er).

 

[TheGoreMagala]

This Easter Egg is going to be the death of me. THREE attempts this week and each time we all died at the boss. It's as if every time I close mien eyes all I see is our FAILURE.



I barley remember the last time I saw a Mothership in game. It was my teammate and he got 6+ kills with it if I remember correctly. But it's still a rare sight so I'm pretty comfortable saying that the Hellstorm is as bad as it gets (at least you can shoot down the Hay8er).

Even then, I disagree. I run the Wraith, RAPS, and Mothership and I purposely deploy the Wraith and RAPS at the same time (when applicable) to make sure that both streaks have a greater chance of not getting shot down. They're amazing on their own but when they're deployed simultaneously they're almost unstoppable. Often the enemies don't know what to shoot first. The RAPS deploy ship enters and exits quickly, making it hard to destroy. Meanwhile, the enemy has to deal with those spiky balls of death AS WELL AS a stealth helicopter that can turn invisible shooting them down.

 

[Toa TAK]

Even then, I disagree. I run the Wraith, RAPS, and Mothership and I purposely deploy the Wraith and RAPS at the same time (when applicable) to make sure that both streaks have a greater chance of not getting shot down. They're amazing on their own but when they're deployed simultaneously they're almost unstoppable. Often the enemies don't know what to shoot first. The RAPS deploy ship enters and exits quickly, making it hard to destroy. Meanwhile, the enemy has to deal with those spiky balls of death AS WELL AS a stealth helicopter that can turn invisible shooting them down.

Remind me to NEVER play against you in COD.

 

[someday]

Even then, I disagree. I run the Wraith, RAPS, and Mothership and I purposely deploy the Wraith and RAPS at the same time (when applicable) to make sure that both streaks have a greater chance of not getting shot down. They're amazing on their own but when they're deployed simultaneously they're almost unstoppable. Often the enemies don't know what to shoot first. The RAPS deploy ship enters and exits quickly, making it hard to destroy. Meanwhile, the enemy has to deal with those spiky balls of death AS WELL AS a stealth helicopter that can turn invisible shooting them down.

And people wonder why so many are excited about a remastered Cod 4 and it's 3 simple killstreaks lol. Though I think you and your brother are among the very few who use the mothership. I've only encountered them four times, maybe, and twice I was on the same team as the person that called it in. The last time was a couple of days ago and I left the game the first time I was killed by it.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

For Core, my favorite guns, in order:

VMP
Man O War
KN44
Kuda
Sheiva
HVK

Some people really like the Razorback, but I find it underwhelming. It's an SMG that is similar to an AR, but IMO its ROF is too slow up close (even with rapid fire) and it typically is outgunned by AR's at range.

Edit: at first I would recommend running both quickdraw and fasthands until you really learn the handling of the guns. Even then, those two items are still pretty essential with unlimited sprint and face to face gunfights happening frequently. Every few milliseconds saved to ADS counts.

All of those are good weapons, but I'm a strong advocate for using the Razorback (at the very least with rapid fire and fast mags if you feel the rapid fire is depleting the ammo too much).

Some potential combinations can be:

-Using a suppressor and ghost for stealth (as well as hard wired, blast suppressor, and dead silence).

-Using flak jacket, Hardwired (possibly cold blooded), and tactical mask for objective play

-Using blind eye, scavenger, cold blooded, engineer, two EMP grenades, the Blackcell, the care package streak, and Seraph's combat focus to be a enemy streak destroyer (and get extra points from it as well as change the content of your own care packages). Note that this class will take 9/10 points.

-Dead silence and Awarness (please don't do this I will hate you). In all seriousness though, it's a great combination (regardless of how annoying it can be) if you have a good headset since you can hear people from great distances via footsteps. Just be aware that smart enemies can find ways to counter this combination.

-Ante Up and Combat Focus (Ante Up makes scorestreaks 150 points cheaper and combat focus adds a multiplier to your score).

-Fast hands, QuickDraw, and gun ho.

-Sixth sense, Tracker, and Awareness as well as possibly dead silence (I will hate you x10). You will be able to know the directions of enemies near you, see trails of footsteps, and hear enemies.

Also, use a specialist that makes up for any flaws your class might have OR that take an advantage of your class and strengthens it.

My personal class is the Razorback with the BOA 3 sight, rapid fire, fast mags, suppressor, with Ghost and Ante Up and Scavenger. I use Spectre's Ripper.

(Anyone else can feel free to leave their own combination)

 

[TheGoreMagala]

Remind me to NEVER play against you in COD.

Not to mention those rare moments when I'm either extremely mad at the enemy or am low on time left in the match and I call in the Wraith, RAPS, AND the Mothership at the same time. You are unable to comprehend how rage inducing it can be to have everything I mentioned before PLUS a giant ship hovering above your spawn with three independent miniguns and rockets ready to kill you when you spawn. Note that the Mothership takes at least 6-9 rockets alone to take down (I'm leaning more towards around 9, since I can survive quite a large amount of rockets). Thankfully, unlike my brother, I've never had someone Power Core my Mothership and take it down instantly (but it's happened to my other two streaks).

Edit: Sorry for double post.

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

-Dead silence and Awarness (please don't do this I will hate you). In all seriousness though, it's a great combination (regardless of how annoying it can be) if you have a good headset since you can hear people from great distances via footsteps. Just be aware that smart enemies can find ways to counter this combination.

-Ante Up and Combat Focus (Ante Up makes scorestreaks 150 points cheaper and combat focus adds a multiplier to your score).

-Fast hands, QuickDraw, and gun ho.

-Sixth sense, Tracker, and Awareness as well as possibly dead silence (I will hate you x10). You will be able to know the directions of enemies near you, see trails of footsteps, and hear enemies.

Ha ha you would hate me x10 then since I almost always run sixth sense, fast hands, awareness, and dead silence as my perks (unless I'm going for the 5 attachment challenges or something).

But you're still way better than me so I would hate you x100 with all those streaks up!

 

[Rand0m TAG]

Fames pretty good and addictive lol. Need to figure things out but like it so far. Some things bother me but it's stupid fun

 

[kuYuri]

Guys

This comeback ACTUALLY happened

Please watch

https://youtu.be/EKtuvx9kLnA

Finally got a chance to watch this, I would have been salty as hell if I was the other team, lol.

 

[Repo Man]

Finally golded all secondaries, feels so good not having to play gimped loadouts anymore. Close to prestige 9 too, think I'm gonna perma unlock the Sheiva and have a proper go at it.

 

[angelic]

Beautiful 1 shot kill on hardcore the Shieva, a mobile death machine - needs a silencer though, it cracks loud as hell when you fire. Rapid fire and stock, absolute killer.

 

[Repo Man]

Beautiful 1 shot kill on hardcore the Shieva, a mobile death machine - needs a silencer though, it cracks loud as hell when you fire. Rapid fire and stock, absolute killer.

Cheers, might give that combo a go, I usually tend to run with quickdraw and grip though.

 

[angelic]

Quickdraw is totally viable too, pop that on with silencer and play some mid to long maps like infection or hunted, you'll be picking people off at distance before they can blink. Recon, varix and thermal super useful too.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

Fames pretty good and addictive lol. Need to figure things out but like it so far. Some things bother me but it's stupid fun

Add me if you got the PSN version:

TheGoreMagala

So what do you think about it? What is it that you need to figure out and what are the few things that bother you?

 

[tearsintherain]

If you are a solo player and meh at FPS (KDR at 1 or less), like me, I find the following loadouts really good

- Ghost (when you can get it) - not being caught by UAVs is nice
- Overclock - get the good shit faster
- ante up - faster scorestreaks
- Hard Wired - make yourself immune to so much annoying stuff

Now loadout your scorestreaks so you have UAV, crate, and something else cheap (I use RC although it kinda sucks for anything other than SnD), you are getting scorestreaks up ALL THE TIME with this build. Don't need to go 10-0 to get cool stuff out, just a few kills or objectives and you have 3 items up on your SS. Plus as a guy who rarely goes above 5-0 in KD, its nice getting HATRs, RAPs, etc randomly with crates and just tasting, for one brief moment, the glory that top players must dine from.

A lot of the perks and talents are built around teams, like someone having your back so you can be facing one way and your buddy another. Playing solo, you need to just sort of assume you are going to die more often. I play silent 99% of the time since my wife is talking to me or I am watching TV or twitch or something, so the sound perks don't do much (even when I have sound on they don't help me much haha)

Gun wise I find honestly little difference between M8, KN44, VMP, Man-o-war, Kuda, etc. They all work great for me and just practicing with the same gun helps a lot.

Also don't be afraid to quit a game. Sometimes I get into games where I am just chweed up and spit out right away, going 0-6 within a minute or two. If the skill disparity between your team and the other is that high, just quit and find another lobby. No fun in going 3-30 over 5 minutes.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

If you are a solo player and meh at FPS (KDR at 1 or less), like me, I find the following loadouts really good

- Ghost (when you can get it) - not being caught by UAVs is nice
- Overclock - get the good shit faster
- ante up - faster scorestreaks
- Hard Wired - make yourself immune to so much annoying stuff

Now loadout your scorestreaks so you have UAV, crate, and something else cheap (I use RC although it kinda sucks for anything other than SnD), you are getting scorestreaks up ALL THE TIME with this build. Don't need to go 10-0 to get cool stuff out, just a few kills or objectives and you have 3 items up on your SS. Plus as a guy who rarely goes above 5-0 in KD, its nice getting HATRs, RAPs, etc randomly with crates and just tasting, for one brief moment, the glory that top players must dine from.

A lot of the perks and talents are built around teams, like someone having your back so you can be facing one way and your buddy another. Playing solo, you need to just sort of assume you are going to die more often. I play silent 99% of the time since my wife is talking to me or I am watching TV or twitch or something, so the sound perks don't do much (even when I have sound on they don't help me much haha)

Gun wise I find honestly little difference between M8, KN44, VMP, Man-o-war, Kuda, etc. They all work great for me and just practicing with the same gun helps a lot.

Also don't be afraid to quit a game. Sometimes I get into games where I am just chweed up and spit out right away, going 0-6 within a minute or two. If the skill disparity between your team and the other is that high, just quit and find another lobby. No fun in going 3-30 over 5 minutes.

Use engineer to reroll crates.

 

[angelic]

Ante up gives a very tasty +150 after the recent patch, stick a care package streak on and engineer, you can get 3 crates a game with a little care, and reroll them into RAPS etc. I mistakenly double tapped a sentry crate and rerolled it into a CUAV, which upset me for about 10 minutes.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

Remind me to NEVER play against you in COD.

And people wonder why so many are excited about a remastered Cod 4 and it's 3 simple killstreaks lol. Though I think you and your brother are among the very few who use the mothership. I've only encountered them four times, maybe, and twice I was on the same team as the person that called it in. The last time was a couple of days ago and I left the game the first time I was killed by it.

It's not the most I've destroyed a team, but it's a clear example of the power of streaks. To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to the game or the score, so it took me a while to realize that we were losing bad and that I had to activate my magical powers. I started it in round two since like I said I was pretty much lollygaging during the first one.

It's quite an amazing comeback, as well.

 

[M.D]

Finally finished with the golden armor. Being able to unlock them, that is.

I think I'll just stick to Ripper for now, feels like this took forever, and I don't even want the golden armor on other specialists I might use.
The police body armor I got for Seraph along with the hat thing looks sick

 

[Camp1nCarl]

Decided to finish up the campaign and my game won't go past a cutscene in Demon Within. Hall mentions getting back to CIA to be "debriefed" and then the screen fades out and the game stops (sometimes freezing my xbox too). Retrying the mission didn't help either. Is there a game breaking bug on that mission?

 

[Toa TAK]

Yoo first prestige on zombies (finally).

It's not the most I've destroyed a team, but it's a clear example of the power of streaks. To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to the game or the score, so it took me a while to realize that we were losing bad and that I had to activate my magical powers. I started it in round two since like I said I was pretty much lollygaging during the first one.

It's quite an amazing comeback, as well.

Magical powers is right. Either you or your teammate sold their soul to the devil midmatch to win that.

Finally finished with the golden armor. Being able to unlock them, that is.

I think I'll just stick to Ripper for now, feels like this took forever, and I don't even want the golden armor on other specialists I might use.
The police body armor I got for Seraph along with the hat thing looks sick

Oh man, I want golden armor, but after everything I had to go through with Outrider I'm not sure if I want to keep going with it. lol Maybe one specialist per prestige. I really dig the robot.

Decided to finish up the campaign and my game won't go past a cutscene in Demon Within. Hall mentions getting back to CIA to be "debriefed" and then the screen fades out and the game stops (sometimes freezing my xbox too). Retrying the mission didn't help either. Is there a game breaking bug on that mission?

It's a common bug, but every time I see resolution to it (and it happens on PC, too) it's usually just save and quitting then going back to the checkpoint. *shrug*.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

Magical powers is right. Either you or your teammate sold their soul to the devil midmatch to win that

Maybe that's the secret to all my skill! Although in all seriousness it was slightly my fault for not trying my hardest from the beginning and for taking so long to decide to actually put in some effort in the middle of the match. I had to play that game much more conservatively than I normally would since the enemy team had gained pretty much all map control and I needed to guarantee my streaks since I knew that was the only way to win. That one teammate was a surprise as well and surely helped, but in my opinion the match was decided when the Mothership got called in/earned.

 

[ANBUcaptainACID]

If i gt a melee weapon gold thats NOT the knife, will it count towards dark matter?

 

[Grexeno]

If i gt a melee weapon gold thats NOT the knife, will it count towards dark matter?

Only the Combat Knife counts towards Dark Matter

 

[ANBUcaptainACID]

Only the Combat Knife counts towards Dark Matter

All that work for nothing...

 

[jorgejjvr]

Whats your setup?

I mostly play razorbaxk

Silencer, fast mag, elo, rapid fire

Ghosts, scavenger, ante up

Anyways, anyone want to play?

 

[patchday]

quick question- Did Activision ever address the dlc weapons only being available through random drops? Isn't everything unlocked in Arena mode (including DLC guns)?

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

Anybody on x1 want to play either zombies or multiplayer tonight?

 

[angelic]

All that work for nothing...

no because to get dark matter on a DLC weapon you'd need to gold it anyway, so its not a waste.

 

[TheGoreMagala]

Bleh, I've been plagued with nothing but bad games tonight. I'm not sure if it's the enemies, my teammates, or just me becoming tired over time, but my performance has dwindled for tonight. I have been having really close games (some without streaks, it's crazy!), and I dislike that (though it can really get the adrenaline pumping). I'll probably freshen up and return to my normal Mothership self tomorrow.

 

[ShinMaruku]

I mostly play razorbaxk

Silencer, fast mag, elo, rapid fire

Ghosts, scavenger, ante up

Anyways, anyone want to play?

Sorry I missed your invite I was testing how my ps4 cleaning had went. Maybe tommrow we can do some.

I rock Pharo

elo,stock and quick draw.
I need to really understand how to best use ante up....

 

[angelic]

Sorry I missed your invite I was testing how my ps4 cleaning had went. Maybe tommrow we can do some.

I rock Pharo

elo,stock and quick draw.
I need to really understand how to best use ante up....

whats to understand, you put it on and you get a 150 start, if you love HXCDs its your lucky day, and 4 kills for a care package. Super useful, I always rock it in hardcore, last night I sat in a corner on combine with a haymaker + extended mags, got 8 kills from a corner and ended up with a guardian, sentry and cerberus. From 8 Kills!! Its a beautiful thing

 

[M.D]

Yoo first prestige on zombies (finally).


Magical powers is right. Either you or your teammate sold their soul to the devil midmatch to win that.

Oh man, I want golden armor, but after everything I had to go through with Outrider I'm not sure if I want to keep going with it. lol Maybe one specialist per prestige. I really dig the robot.

It's a common bug, but every time I see resolution to it (and it happens on PC, too) it's usually just save and quitting then going back to the checkpoint. *shrug*.

Outrider is not that hard, you can get lucky with the bow and complete that challenge pretty easily.

Rejack and Prophet are by far the most annoying, and Firebreak is probably the easiest along with Ripper.

It was pretty fun doing this challenge but now I'm 100% Ripper ;p

 

[angelic]

Shameless late night camping, abusing ante up, loads of care drops. The gameplay is dogshit I just wanted to show how powerful ante up is now. Oh and it was a lobby of campers I just wanted to give it back to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Soupv131w

 

[angelic]

Just another quicky, I use a claw grip so I jump and slide with X and O, fingertip for X, finger side for O, no SCUF required.

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

Just another quicky, I use a claw grip so I jump and slide with X and O, fingertip for X, finger side for O, no SCUF required.

Or just play bumper jumper


Btw whats up with the horrible connections on XboxOne? Ping always jumps all over the place and its just a hitmarker galore...

Really not a fun experience..

 

[angelic]

Bumper jumper still leaves you with crap on L3 and R3 clicks, I like those for one off items like grenades and smoke.

 

[lamaroo]

My only problem with bumper jumper is I have to take my hand off the right stick to throw tacticals. Not a big deal thankfully, and I'd rather have access to jumping while aiming than crouching/sliding while aiming in this game.

 

[Repo Man]

Fairly productive weekend. Went from Prestige 8 level 53 to prestige 9 level 32. Diamond camos for secondaries and AR's which just leaves me with the Razorback and LMG's all of which are guns I like and have made decent progress already.

On a side note. Got my missus into this too but the game starts stuttering like fuck on her PC which is almost the same as mine ( GTX970, Core i5 6600 and 8 gigs of ram ) I play at max settings with shadows on high instead of extra and my cpu is a previous gen i5 4690k. She plays at 1080p and I play at 1680 x 1050. The stuttering looks like shes running out of memory and if she leaves the game it takes a long time for the desktop to appear which again suggests the game is eating up her ram but mines alright. Could it really be a case of her higher res causing more ram usage?

Think I read somewhere that the game likes its ram but I didn't think a small bump in resolution would cause that many issues. She seems fine when the settings are dialled down a bit to medium / high and whats weird is that if I set her game to same higher settings as mine the fps is perfectly fine but just that it starts randomly pausing as if the memory is full.

I might just up the ram to 16gb and see what happens, just find it all a bit strange.

 

[Nabs]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the ram.

 

[M.D]

What is it with this stupid game putting me in games in progress that will never be won non-stop? That's what I get for an hour now and I'm playing TDM, it's not like there's a fucking lack of games going on

 

[jorgejjvr]

Anyone down to play?

 

[Ganhyun]

so, ive run into a troll.

I was playing, and got 1 kill away from a mothership twice. guy team kills me. I say something about it and he laughs. I get close again and he does it again!

I report him, block him, leave the lobby, and wait a few minutes. This guy has managed to get into 4 out of my last 5 games and makes sure to team kill me each time i get close to a mothership.

I dont know this person. Who the fuck gets enjoyment out of that? Also, why is someone I blocked able to join my damn games almost every time!?!?!

 

[angelic]

damn, thats annoying. In his mind he's basically fullfilling the role of a rogue player, and is probably quite unhappy in his personal life. I get wound up by people online all the time, if they try lame tactics on me I get offended they think that would work, if they do dirty stuff like TK me for my crate im offended they're spoiling the game.

Just take a breath and relax, then if I were you I would follow him everywhere, stand infront of him, try and get 2 more TKs off him on you so he gets kicked. At least this isnt Eve or Elite Dangerous, people lose days and weeks of gear on those things.

 

[Jake2by4]

I've swear the last couple have been lag central on ps4. The would freeze a couple of seconds. Has this been happening to anybody else?

 

[M.D]

I've swear the last couple have been lag central on ps4. The would freeze a couple of seconds. Has this been happening to anybody else?

I got this problem after the last update. It happened a lot but not it seems to happen less and less.

 

[jorgejjvr]

It's been pretty laggy for sure

Regardless, anyone want to team up?

 

[Jake2by4]

It's been pretty laggy for sure

I've seen host leaving and host migration lately. Only seen this maybe 5 times i've played this game.

 

[ShinMaruku]

It's been pretty laggy for sure

Regardless, anyone want to team up?

If you are still on I can do a few runs testing my new set up.

 

[The Last Wizard]

I've swear the last couple have been lag central on ps4. The would freeze a couple of seconds. Has this been happening to anybody else?

I thought it was just me but I'm lagging every damn time I play and it's annoying, I can play FFXIV no problem but I lag like crazy on blops-_-