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Call of Duty: Black Ops III |OT| No Content For Old Gen

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Overboost

Member
Dailies, Weeklies, and a new Specialist at last. Some important facts from the Treyarch blog and COD Twitter that weren't explained fully in the trailer:


  • Daily Contracts cycle every day at 10:00am Pacific and give free Cryptokey rewards, starting June 14.
  • There are TWO Weekly Contracts, which give you more Cryptokeys and a Mercenary Contract that activates Blackjack.
  • Mercenary Contracts give you access to Blackjack for 60 minutes of game time, and they stack over time.
  • If your time with Blackjack runs out at the start of a match, you'll still keep him through the end of the match.
  • Blackjack has two abilities. Rogue gives him access to the Specialist weapon of his most recent kill, and Gambler earns him random Specialist abilities faster than the normal rate.
  • He also issues a special "Side Bet" that awards a unique Calling Card if you complete it before his 60 minutes are up.
All in all, more free stuff every day/week and a new playable character that can only be acquired for free. Nothing behind supply drops, nothing to spend COD Points on, doesn't seem any grindier than how you would normally play. Feels like Destiny's bounty system to me as expected, except you get more valuable currency than faction rep. Starts Tuesday!
 
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Agent

Member
Contracts and Blackjack look pretty neat. Will definitely bring some new life into the game for me.

angelic said:
Im pleased about this, I hope theres new black market content too.
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I'd be pretty shocked if there were not new ranged/melee weapons and other stuff added. I thought I read there were some being added in the article/video, but can't find it anywhere now.

At this point, I'd guess a ranged weapon may be a Shotgun or Light Machine Gun since there aren't any Black Market drops for those categories yet.
 
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Ganhyun

Member
game has been unplayable the last two days.

I show as 4 bar in the lobby but i can empty half a dingo into someone in hardcore and they wont die, just turn around and 1shot me with whatever they are using. other games have no issues so its COD for me.
 
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Ensoul

Member
Well finally got diamond for the pistols. Took about a month because I have not been playing the game as much. Currently working on the snipers rifles. Need 3 more bloodthirsties with the Locus and everything else with the other 3.

Drakon seems pretty good on hardcore since it's a one hit kill. The ones that are difficult for me are the bolt action guns because my aim is so bad.
 
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Ganhyun

Member
Ensoul said:
Well finally got diamond for the pistols. Took about a month because I have not been playing the game as much. Currently working on the snipers rifles. Need 3 more bloodthirsties with the Drakon and everything else with the other 3.

Drakon seems pretty good on hardcore since it's a one hit kill. The ones that are difficult for me are the bolt action guns because my aim is so bad.
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Hardest sniper for me by far was the Locus. The P-06 flew by in comparison and while the SVG was rough for bloodthirsties, I got them quicker than the Locus since it technically has a larger 1HK box than the Locus does.
 
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Ensoul

Member
Ganhyun said:
Hardest sniper for me by far was the Locus. The P-06 flew by in comparison and while the SVG was rough for bloodthirsties, I got them quicker than the Locus since it technically has a larger 1HK box than the Locus does.
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Meant to say I need 3 more bloodthirsties for the Locus. That gun is a nightmare for me. Problem with snipers is that it may take me a while because using sniper rifles on certain maps just does not work.
 
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Ganhyun

Member
Ensoul said:
Meant to say I need 3 more bloodthirsties for the Locus. That gun is a nightmare for me. Problem with snipers is that it may take me a while because using sniper rifles on certain maps just does not work.
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Unless you are a pro twitch shooter/quick scoper, sniping is definitely alot harder in this game than in previous COD games.

Like you said, some maps are not very good for snipers, and the ones that are tend to only have a couple of good spots that everyone knows and watches for.

Add in the movement system where people can change their position in an instant, including what direction they are jumping, and you end up with an even harder time.


My tip: play safeguard. Yea, its in core, and it can be annoying, especially when you get those teammates that never help move the robot or help defend the point, but forcing people to be by the robot to move it gives you chances to get those sniper challenges done, especially on a map like Hunted where you can snipe from the open window down to the people moving the robot, or down the alley when they try to get in the house, or lay down back near the point when they try to come through the door.

Honestly, thats how I got my SVG and P-06 done so fast.
 
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Agent

Member
The update is out for PS4 in advance of the new things coming out tomorrow.

Patch notes: https://support.activision.com/arti...r-Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-III-on-PlayStation-4

Probably the most relevant changes for most people:

Marshal 16 - Reduced Range

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Optics & Grip
Fixed an issue where Optics and Grip did not stack recoil reduction properly.
Optics and Grip can now be stacked properly for increased recoil reduction.
Adjusted Optic recoil reduction values to compensate for this fix.

Acog
Reduced recoil reduction.

Varix
Reduced recoil reduction.

Thermal
Reduced recoil reduction.
 
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lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
Agent said:
The update is out for PS4 in advance of the new things coming out tomorrow.

Patch notes: https://support.activision.com/arti...r-Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-III-on-PlayStation-4

Probably the most relevant changes for most people:

Marshal 16 - Reduced Range

Attachments

Optics & Grip
Fixed an issue where Optics and Grip did not stack recoil reduction properly.
Optics and Grip can now be stacked properly for increased recoil reduction.
Adjusted Optic recoil reduction values to compensate for this fix.

Acog
Reduced recoil reduction.

Varix
Reduced recoil reduction.

Thermal
Reduced recoil reduction.
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Wonder how much they reduced the recoil on those sights. Probably equal to a grip, as before a few of them had 2X grip reduction on their own.
 
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Ganhyun

Member
Contracts are up.

Per Charlie Intel site they are as follows:

Daily: Get 10,000 score (10 cryptokeys)

Weekly: Win 20 games and get 50,000 score (30 crypto keys and 1 hour of blackjack)

Special: 75 wins (again): 10 free rare supply drops and 1 weapon bribe

Also, looks like there are more new weapons in the game as well.

a new pistol
new shotgun
2 new melee weapons

two new camos for weapons

more specialist themes

I dont know for sure that the 75 win one is back because im not at home and the person who screenshotted it could have never done it.


Edit:

Looking at the weapons, that one melee weapon looks like a Halo plasma pistol that is out of juice and has sharp edges.
Also, that pistol and shotgun use energy projectiles, guessing they are precursers to IW weapons being put in since the games are in the same universe
 
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Repo Man

Member
Ganhyun said:
I dont know for sure that the 75 win one is back because im not at home and the person who screenshotted it could have never done it.
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The 75 win was showing up for me again but it said "Completed" meaning I can't do it again so it appears to be the old one.

The contracts themselves seem like a nifty addition, the daily ( atleast today ) seemed easy enough and I had it done in a few games. The weekly requires a bit of playing though. Can also confirm that on PC atleast this has attracted more players back into the game, pro's and noobs alike and the matchmaking being the utter piece of fucking shit that it is likes to stack pro's in one team and less experienced in the other which results in total clusterfuck games where one team stomps the other.
 
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Najaf

Member
Well I'm done with this game until DLC3 on xbox if not completely.

I just spent 850ish cryptokeys today all on rare chests. No weapons.

I then spent my 10 rare chest bribes. No weapons.

I then used my weapon bribe I've been saving. Got the fucking fire axe.


So 200 hours in multiplayer, level 102 and dark matter done: 20 rare chest bribes and around 2500 cryptokeys spent and I have received ONE weapon from chests, the worthless sword.

The only other weapons I have gotten were the quad rocket and the fire axe, both from weapon bribes.

There are currently, what, 7 actual weapons gated behind crates?! Content that is only accessible through laughable amounts of real world dollars or an exorbitant amount of in game hours and/or luck? No thanks Treyarch. Tell the brass up top that they are losing fans with this bullshit.
 
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Creaking

He touched the black heart of a mod
Najaf said:
There are currently, what, 7 actual weapons gated behind crates?! Content that is only accessible through laughable amounts of real world dollars or an exorbitant amount of in game hours and/or luck? No thanks Treyarch. Tell the brass up top that they are losing fans with this bullshit.
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Marshal
MX Garand
Shadowclaw
HG-40
RSA-Interdiction
FFAR
L4-Siege
Banshii
Rift E9

9 guns

12 melees

1,000,000 dust camos
 
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Ganhyun

Member
so much freaking lag in games tonight. all the freaking assholes who try to manipulate the game out trying to get their contracts and weapons.
 
Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

Member
Saucycarpdog said:
I know people will shout "It travels slowly" but these black market weapons are really starting to push the line between balanced and pay for advantage.
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I agree, imagine what the final list of DLC weapons will be when we are done.

And me here as someone who doesn't get to play for hours on end a day will not get a single one of these weapons. Way to alienate your players.

One Reddit poster claims the new shotgun is OHK at any range, on breach he killed someone on the other side of the map.
 
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Ducarmel

Member
Dumping 420 cryto keys. I only got the buzzcut for that effort. My fifth melee weapon.

I think I'm just going to live with the fact I will never get a gun from the black market.
 
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Valkrai

Member
Daffy Duck said:
I agree, imagine what the final list of DLC weapons will be when we are done.

And me here as someone who doesn't get to play for hours on end a day will not get a single one of these weapons. Way to alienate your players.

One Reddit poster claims the new shotgun is OHK at any range, on breach he killed someone on the other side of the map.
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It's a damn sniper, I wouldn't remotely even call it a sniper. It can one hit kill at any range, it just takes time to travel.
 
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Ensoul

Member
What's the point of contracts? So you can get crypto keys just to cash them in and get taunts and dust camo in return?

Treyarch just keeps adding weapons that most people will never get. It's extremely frustrating and is making not want to play the game. These "carrot on the stick." keys have just taken greed to a whole new level.
 
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Toa TAK

Banned
Ensoul said:
What's the point of contracts? So you can get crypto keys just to cash them in and get taunts and dusk camo in return?
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YES!

Which is meh, but I'm happy we have them anyways. Gives me a reason to play more multiplayer and take a break from zombies every few levels ups.
 
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ShadowsFell

Member
Contracts seem to be messed up, at least for me, at least for today's daily contract. Just completed the 3 Safegaurd win daily contract, and it didn't give me the ten cryptokeys for it. I don't know if yesterday's daily contract, which I completed, did or didn't give me the 10 cryptokeys for completing it, as I wasn't paying attention to if it did or not.
 
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Ganhyun

Member
Daffy Duck said:
I agree, imagine what the final list of DLC weapons will be when we are done.

And me here as someone who doesn't get to play for hours on end a day will not get a single one of these weapons. Way to alienate your players.

One Reddit poster claims the new shotgun is OHK at any range, on breach he killed someone on the other side of the map.
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the video I linked to has a clip where the guy fires it from one window on the new dlc map (forget its name, the white one) to the other and OHK
 
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ShadowsFell

Member
So I got the weekly challenges completed, and it gave me the 30 cryptokeys, but the daily challenge never worked, so I didn't get that 10 cryptokey bonus for the daily challenge. That's lame.
 
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Creaking

He touched the black heart of a mod
I got 5 out of 75 wins, then put Black Ops III away. I might come back for a bit to poke around contracts, but I don't have as much free time as I used to, and I'd rather not spend it in an endless guinea pig wheel.
 
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ShadowsFell

Member
Toa TAK said:
I'm 50/75

I just ran into the problem of not receiving the Cryptokeys after winning my 3 Safegaurd matches. Hopefully they fix that.
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I hope so too.
Creaking said:
I got 5 out of 75 wins, then put Black Ops III away. I might come back for a bit to poke around contracts, but I don't have as much free time as I used to, and I'd rather not spend it in an endless guinea pig wheel.
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I feel you. There are many things I don't like about this game.
 
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Razgriz-Specter

Member
New Seraph gear is hot
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