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

So how are campaign, multiplayer, and zombies this time around? Is it worth a pickup this weekend or should I just stick with Halo 5 for now?

Just finished the campaign on hardened. Wrote my thoughts above and happy to answer any questions while it's fresh in my mind. I wouldn't normally directly compare them but for what it's worth, my feeling is campaign and arena multiplayer in Halo 5 is superior but call of duty kind of scratches a different itch for me normally to halo.
 

Randam

Member
anyone else having problems distinguishing enemies and allies because everyone looks the same?


the specialist system is stupid.
should have been classes and not characters..
 

Klyka

Banned
anyone else having problems distinguishing enemies and allies because everyone looks the same?


the specialist system is stupid.
should have been classes and not characters..

Enemies are dark,with red lights and have no names above their heads.
Allies are light, with blue lights and have names above their heads and big arrows on the minimap.

It's not really that hard.
 

nbraun80

Member
Nope

It's legit bugged I think

Waiting to get another unlock to see if when I clear the new one it goes away

I had that where I unlocked a piece of clothing or taunt for a specialist class from the black market I haven't unlocked yet, so it might be a greyed out class that you rolled something for. it didn't show up as green on the class til i unlocked it.
 

thatJohann

Member
Is the full campaign online coop with up to two players or four? How does it run?

Curious to test it out if anyone wants to try coop campaign with me.

PSN: superjoho
 

mossypne

Member
PS4 Matchmaking/lobby system is broken. Games regularly fail to start as we have 15 out of 12 players and its waiting to more to balance the teams... And during the game it regularly has games that are 8 vs 4 in KC
 

Xeilyn

Member
Man the cerberus is sooooo good and its only 100 points more than the hellfire, really close game aswell

lcKVRCM.jpg
 

ryan299

Member
Everything is overpowered.

I'm trying different guns and I think they are mostly similar whatever you choose in that class.

These guys are messing with our heads so you can basically choose any gun and it will be good.

I think most guns are weak as shit. Feels like everything got tuned down since the beta. Anybody get a blue screen of death on x1? just happened to me
 

Xeilyn

Member
wtf at your KDR compared to everyone else. post that match,I want to see this shit
Sorry i actually didnt save the match. But lets just say that about 75% of the match was spent in 2 cerberus and 2 talons

EDIT: Oh i forgot about theater mode, lets see how it works
 

Klyka

Banned
Sorry i actually didnt save the match. But lets just say that about 75% of the match was spent in 2 cerberus and 2 talons

Every match is saved under "Theater" and then "Recent games".
You only bookmark matches for easier viewing.

But yeah,ok,that makes sense.
 
Playing with someone together is basicly broken for me...

Takes too damn long to find a lobby. Sometimes kicks me or my friend out. Or the Host connection gets lost etc etc...


Did they even test this? When is the first patch?
 

Big_Al

Unconfirmed Member
Loving the Gorgon in this, such a beastly gun despite me being terrible at multiplayer (as per usual!)

I also noticed it has a rapid fire mod at weapon level 15.....
 
I think most guns are weak as shit. Feels like everything got tuned down since the beta. Anybody get a blue screen of death on x1? just happened to me


Never played the beta, I like throwing my money away not knowing what I am going to get.

serious XB1 has the BSOD? ha
 
I got my first prestige! How many prestiges are in this game?

And damn, getting level 7 is going to be the hardest part so I can unlock the Gorgon again. That gun is seriously overpowered, I suck hard without it.
 
PS4 Matchmaking/lobby system is broken. Games regularly fail to start as we have 15 out of 12 players and its waiting to more to balance the teams... And during the game it regularly has games that are 8 vs 4 in KC
Yeah getting this also. Though I've only ever seen 13 people in lobby.

Not yet noticed the imbalance in game, but have in previous CODs.
 

Rixxan

Member
I had that where I unlocked a piece of clothing or taunt for a specialist class from the black market I haven't unlocked yet, so it might be a greyed out class that you rolled something for. it didn't show up as green on the class til i unlocked it.

Think this might be it, thanks
 
PS4 Matchmaking/lobby system is broken. Games regularly fail to start as we have 15 out of 12 players and its waiting to more to balance the teams... And during the game it regularly has games that are 8 vs 4 in KC

so im not the only one getting this while trying to play with some friends...
 
I...I don't know what's true anymore. I've never bought CoD on Playstation because I'm always partial to the Xbox One controller. This year, I swapped after much debated and...I love it. Could I actually like the PS4 controller better than the X1?!? What is this world coming to?
My brother did the same thing.He bought a PS4 for this (SFV) and he loves PS4 controller. Crazy.
 
I'm looking to create a group of players to join in with Domination, TDM and Hardpoint.

Requirements:

  • Microphone
  • Twitter account to organise sessions

PSN ID: Starfleets
 

Skel1ingt0n

I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Played for about an hour this afternoon.

I typically can't stand CoD - but for some dumb as hell reason, I always seem to buy them and play them for a few hours... guess to just try to see the hype.

Anyway, as is typical, I seriously fucking hate the ridiculously low TTK in this game. It seriously devolves into a game of hide-and-seek more than anything. THAT SAID, I gotta admit - this one seems to actually be pretty fun; really love how everything comes together so tightly.

The controls are solid. The wall-running well done - almost like it more that TF's based on my early impressions. And the maps are really pretty great - something I really haven't said about any FPS lately. I *hate* that train/railway one - but otherwise, the verticality and opportunity to take different paths are all really nice.

Overall, positive first impression - something I didn't expect to have. Also, runs great on my PC. Much better than AW did.
 

Randam

Member
Enemies are dark,with red lights and have no names above their heads.
Allies are light, with blue lights and have names above their heads and big arrows on the minimap.

It's not really that hard.

don't see a difference.

and sometimes the name of your comrad while only pop on after some time.
 

mossypne

Member
Yeah getting this also. Though I've only ever seen 13 people in lobby.

Not yet noticed the imbalance in game, but have in previous CODs.

Funny that there are this lobby issues... but hey we had a beta right?...

This issues are really getting annoying :/

Yeah it makes no sense. We had none of this in the beta yet it seems to of gone backwards. The Party Matchmaking is just broken completely.
 
Finished it earlier...

For a campaign that started reasonably well, I thought, it fell off the rails in the latter stages. From a story POV it was convoluted and awful, imo, but pretty much because it's clear Treyarch have ideas that go beyond what really suits CoD as an IP. There were some cool setpieces etc but...eh...maybe I made a mistake in getting back to CoD for the first time since BLOPS1 with this.

Although I didn't really like Halo 5 that much I think I probably preferred broad strokes of that campaign, although the movement in BLOPS3 felt really good in the early levels, as I would imagine Master Chief etc should move in Halo 5, to some extent.

I did like some of the later missions a bit but it felt like as the game went on your options got a bit narrower in terms of traversing the environment and what enemies responded to certain abilities. Shame.
 
Just when I start to feel like I'll never be good as I once was, and that the new kids have replaced me, I finish a game 1st place (first time) with 22 kills and 3 deaths with a 7.33 K/D ratio. Feels good---
---Though I see I still have mountains to climb. Damn, that score is crazy.

Random question: do I unlock anything for multiplayer by doing campaign? I see I can gain XP and such. I assume that all goes to my multiplayer character? Or nah?
 
As a fellow old gamer (40 years old) who also knows without any doubt whatsoever I am not as good at MP games as I once was, just realize it is not only you.
I believe it is very simple as to why, at least in my situation...
I just do not have the time I once had to dedicate to playing the games. Less time = less familiarity with the maps, weapons, intricacies, best spots, the list goes on and on.
Sure, some people are just naturally gifted at FPS MP and they do not need time, but I believe that most people do.

Since I have realized it is not that I suck, but I do not have the time needed to dedicate to get as good as the players who are better than me, well, it is what it is. I accept it, and still have fun.

Perhaps it has also helped me that I know my K/D ratio in a video game is truly irrelevant in the grand scheme of this thing we call life. It literally has no affect on me either way. It just does not matter.

So play and enjoy. If you do not enjoy it, find something you do. Life is to short.

Agreed, I haven't had stuttering lag or any of the other traditional COD problems in the mp, which is refreshing

And after days of suffering, I finally found a gun I'm good with (aka the gun that will help me adjust to aiming in this game, boost my confidence and allow me to finally use other guns more successfully)

Some pretty good game play of min with the Kuda and Pharo

Kuda
https://youtu.be/AkS1PPxqP_c

Pharo
https://youtu.be/XmZyl67fYMI

Ps: ceberus + wraith + raps is awesome
That was some nice shooting! But forgive me: what is the ceberus?
 
Just when I start to feel like I'll never be good as I once was, and that the new kids have replaced me, I finish a game 1st place (first time) with 22 kills and 3 deaths with a 7.33 K/D ratio. Feels good---
---Though I see I still have mountains to climb. Damn, that score is crazy.

Random question: do I unlock anything for multiplayer by doing campaign? I see I can gain XP and such. I assume that all goes to my multiplayer character? Or nah?

SAME HERE, I was sucking so bad these last two days but I've been on a roll today. I feel like Tom Cruise from Edge of Tomorrow running up on these walls XD
 
I think most guns are weak as shit. Feels like everything got tuned down since the beta. Anybody get a blue screen of death on x1? just happened to me

Having not played COD since the the days of Black Ops 1, its weird to me that the guns take more than 3 hits to kill. And BO1 was a weird change from MW2, where it seemed like pretty much everybody used stopping power and every gun killed in 2 hits.

People are already gravitating toward the Gorgon because it kills in 2 hits, but it's slow and unwieldy to use if you aren't just going to camp. There's nothing like the BO1 FAMAS/AK74 or the MW2 UMP that was just the ultimate weapon.
 
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