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

Toa TAK

Banned
It's really tedious to get the Pack-a-Punch up and running.
Another plus for Der Riese I mean, The Giant. Just three teleporter pads and you're set.
Is zombies about survival anymore? All I see is people try solving an ester egg.

That's pretty much zombies since Black Ops II.

In Black Ops, there were still easter eggs, but they weren't a necessity to play wave after wave and explore the map. You could always play zombies and chill. Once Black Ops II hit and the campaign guys started with Mob of the Dead, it became more essential to do some of the steps to get better weapons and such to progress.
 

excaliburps

Press - MP1st.com
What the dick is up with the team balancing? Just did a game of domination where there was four people in my team and nine(?) people in the other. How is that even possible?

Also, sometimes a game is about to start, and somehow a 13th player enters the lobby. The game stops the countdown and freezes as it tries to "balance" the team, and then continues when the 13th person leaves or is automatically kicked out.

What even?

Yep. It's borked. I got the game "late" (by this, I mean a day or two from launch), and I was matched up with level 20+ straight away. And then, when I got to level 15-18, I was matched with level 30+ and 40+! WTF, Treyarch? I got owned hard by people running with Sheiva, Razorback and whatever overpowered shit they had.

Also, check this amazing job of matchmaking:
CTP2W1CUYAAvK-_.jpg:large


EDIT: Forgot to add, this was originally 9x6! And yeah, check their levels against ours. Ass matchmaking is ass.

Damn shit is NOT fun.

I did very well with the beta, but now? Can barely contribute to my team. It doesn't help that the stuff I want to use are all gated waaaaay late (Sheiva, M8A7, etc.). What the hell, Treyarch? You knew those weapons/equipment were strong as fuck and you tuck them all the way to the back so early players can murder everyone?

There's just so much shit going on with supers,scorestreaks, wall running, etc. that I have no clue what's happening. Explosions everywhere, UAVs all the goddamn time, noob tubes, one-hit kill pistols...it's just too much for me, I think.

Also, I hate that characters blend in too much to the environment. I can't even see if there's an enemy or just random environmental crap until it's too late. Granted I'm super colorblind, but even so, I don't remember having this problem with past CoDs before. :(

I might just slog through this and drop it once Battlefront releases. At least if I get killed by vehicles, Heroes or lasers, I can still help by taking down Walkers and shit,
 

t0rment

Member
am i the only one who prefer extinction to zombies? i mean, just to play Shadows of Evil past level 10 you need to read a guide or a watch a video, it's just stupidly complicated.
 

RedAssedApe

Banned
Yep. It's borked. I got the game "late" (by this, I mean a day or two from launch), and I was matched up with level 20+ straight away. And then, when I got to level 15-18, I was matched with level 30+ and 40+! WTF, Treyarch? I got owned hard by people running with Sheiva, Razorback and whatever overpowered shit they had.

Also, check this amazing job of matchmaking:
CTP2W1CUYAAvK-_.jpg:large


Damn shit is NOT fun.

I did very well with the beta, but now? Can barely contribute to my team. It doesn't help that the stuff I want to use are all gated waaaaay late (Sheiva, M8A7, etc.). What the hell, Treyarch? You knew those weapons/equipment were strong as fuck and you tuck them all the way to the back so early players can murder everyone?

There's just so much shit going on with supers,scorestreaks, wall running, etc. that I have no clue what's happening. Explosions everywhere, UAVs all the goddamn time, noob tubes, one-hit kill pistols...it's just too much for me, I think.

Also, I hate that characters blend in too much to the environment. I can't even see if there's an enemy or just random environmental crap until it's too late. Granted I'm super colorblind, but even so, I don't remember having this problem with past CoDs before. :(

I might just slog through this and drop it once Battlefront releases. At least if I get killed by vehicles, Heroes or lasers, I can still help by taking down Walkers and shit,

what are they using for matchmaking? is it just best available connection now? i do remember a lot of people complaining about the skill based matchmaking that AW would do...
 

Raptor

Member
I need to stop sliding and wall runing wverywhere, it gets me killed more than I like.

BUt is very fun to do lol.

Gorgon is OP as fuck.....is teh one Im using lol.
 
Loving the MP on this, shame playing in parties was so hot and miss over the weekend, think I spent more time in and out of lobbies than actually playing but when it works it's just as good if not a bit better than BO2.



I got a quad feed on launch night with a lucky grenade, went into theatre mode and no way to export clip that I could see.

Was wounded.

Why dont you guys just use the game dvr on the console. I usually save it first to the ps4 then check theater for it later.

I just started using the sheiva and wow best assault rifle so far and I haven't used high caliber yet. The down side is I feel like I need a secondary weapon when using the sheiva.
 
I'm the only one who dosn't found Gorgon OP?

ADS draw is slow and hip fire is a joke.

Looks more of a situational weapon or to be used as a semi sniper weapon on long clear lanes.

Maybe with a higher knowledge of maps it becomes better but right now I do much better with other weapons.
 

liquidtmd

Banned
Yep. It's borked. I got the game "late" (by this, I mean a day or two from launch), and I was matched up with level 20+ straight away. And then, when I got to level 15-18, I was matched with level 30+ and 40+! WTF, Treyarch? I got owned hard by people running with Sheiva, Razorback and whatever overpowered shit they had.

Also, check this amazing job of matchmaking:
CTP2W1CUYAAvK-_.jpg:large


EDIT: Forgot to add, this was originally 9x6! And yeah, check their levels against ours. Ass matchmaking is ass.

Damn shit is NOT fun.

I did very well with the beta, but now? Can barely contribute to my team. It doesn't help that the stuff I want to use are all gated waaaaay late (Sheiva, M8A7, etc.). What the hell, Treyarch? You knew those weapons/equipment were strong as fuck and you tuck them all the way to the back so early players can murder everyone?

There's just so much shit going on with supers,scorestreaks, wall running, etc. that I have no clue what's happening. Explosions everywhere, UAVs all the goddamn time, noob tubes, one-hit kill pistols...it's just too much for me, I think.

Also, I hate that characters blend in too much to the environment. I can't even see if there's an enemy or just random environmental crap until it's too late. Granted I'm super colorblind, but even so, I don't remember having this problem with past CoDs before. :(

I might just slog through this and drop it once Battlefront releases. At least if I get killed by vehicles, Heroes or lasers, I can still help by taking down Walkers and shit,

All of this.

Seriously - getting my ass kicked again and again by a majority of players 30-40 levels higher than me is getting pretty fucking tired very quickly
 

Jarrod38

Member
Like I said yesterday my team went on a 20 win streak the day before but last night my team could hardly get an streak going. I still believe CoD punishes you when your team is doing well.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
Yeah, one in Mob and another in Origins. It's still something I dislike and shocked me the first time lol.

Right! I almost forgot Origins' one.

They just need to tone it down a notch. Easter Eggs are fun, but they had a nice balance in the Black Ops maps and went a bit further in BOII where it became more of a chore, I feel.
 

fozzy

Member
Anyone on the on ps4 getting stuck at the beginning of the match searching for more players even though there is enough people in the lobby?

Very annoying that it doesn't do it in TDM. I hate TDM.
 

Valkrai

Member
Right! I almost forgot Origins' one.

They just need to tone it down a notch. Easter Eggs are fun, but they had a nice balance in the Black Ops maps and went a bit further in BOII where it became more of a chore, I feel.

I agree a bit. I still like Black Ops 2's easter eggs but it was incredibly tedious to do everything. It was in the first but the second was unbearable at times, especially getting those good rewards.
 

joecanada

Member
Ugh I'd love to get back into some cod but I can see by the thread that it's hitting all my warnings again. Lag, servers, matchmaking.

My buddy just texted me and I told him wait for battlefront for comparison
 
I'm comically bad at this game. Currently rocking a 0.34 k/d. I'm to the point I don't even care anymore. I turn a corner, dead. I go through a door, dead. I jump, dead. I move, dead. lol, I haven't really even bothered to play unless my friends are on because its so deflating. Never been this bad at a CoD game before so I'm at a loss.
 
Ugh I'd love to get back into some cod but I can see by the thread that it's hitting all my warnings again. Lag, servers, matchmaking.

My buddy just texted me and I told him wait for battlefront for comparison

I have had some questionable connections occasionally but for me matchmaking is much better. Lag is hit or miss I do notice people with 3 bars seem to melt me and eat bullets. But over all this is the best cod in years it feels a lot like black ops 2 and I'm loving it.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
I agree a bit. I still like Black Ops 2's easter eggs but it was incredibly tedious to do everything. It was in the first but the second was unbearable at times, especially getting those good rewards.

Supposedly The Giant has an easter egg as well, beyond The Fly Trap. It's supposed to be as small as Call of the Dead. I don't think it's been found yet, though. Everyone's trying to hunt through Shadows.
 

JTripper

Member
Started realistic difficulty about a half hour ago. It's fucking ruthless. I'm sure some welcome the challenge, but in a game like CoD where the bullets are invisible and the pace is the speed of light, that kind of difficulty really doesn't lend itself to well to a game like this.

Still, I'm willing to beat it since it's kind of a tradition for me to beat every new CoD on it's hardest difficulty. Anyone wanna co-op it on PS4? Is it any easier in co-op?
 
Yeah, Activision can have all my money if they just return to the present.. get rid of all of this super soldier nonsense.

Please tell me the gameplay has slowed down from AW's pace. That shit was ridiculous

EDIT: Answered above. Thanks guys

Yes by at least 50%.

Ill be honest with you, as someone who hated Ghosts, and did not like AW; this game is very much back to basics, with some jet pack wall running nonsense.
 

PSYGN

Member
Started realistic difficulty about a half hour ago. It's fucking ruthless. I'm sure some welcome the challenge, but in a game like CoD where the bullets are invisible and the pace is the speed of light, that kind of difficulty really doesn't lend itself to well to a game like this.

Still, I'm willing to beat it since it's kind of a tradition for me to beat every new CoD on it's hardest difficulty. Anyone wanna co-op it on PS4? Is it any easier in co-op?

Can you revive each other in co-op? How does it work?

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Edit: To the guy talking about AW, most people don't play like that in AW, but you can still jump around and slide around a lot especially with Afterburner perk. Most people have crappy vertical aim so that's easy kills if you can manage it. I like to slide to a jump around corners and wall run where people don't expect it. I probably bring back bad memories of AW to my opponents ;P.
I'm now 3.64kd and 380spm in TDM so it's definitely working for me.
I'll say this, though: You have a choice in how you want to play in BO3. You can play defensively and still do well, whereas in AW people can cross lanes easily and traverse the map so quick that the spawn will flip on your ass if you tried to play it slow. That's what's great about this game -- all styles of play are viable. I think you'll be happy to know that more people play it like a traditional CoD game than AW.
 
So I just realized if you press Square on a specialist when selecting you get a Bio, description of the weapon and skill but also, if you use them enough, voice recordings from them talking about their past.

Pretty cool.

Also, there's a Classified armour type you can unlock that's supposed to be Gold but no one seems to know how to unlock it.
 

Bolivar687

Banned
Accepted some more requests and sent a few invites after friend requests. Starting a community party now if anyone wants to join.
 

Klyka

Banned
Dear players, please don't go prone in a close combat engagement. It's silly and doesn't really do anything on PC to help you.

I will write "DAT PRONE" every time someone does it.
 

Risette

A Good Citizen
getting like 6 hitmarkers then dying instantly as the dude turns around is the worst feeling ever. is this lag comp or something?
 

excaliburps

Press - MP1st.com
All of this.

Seriously - getting my ass kicked again and again by a majority of players 30-40 levels higher than me is getting pretty fucking tired very quickly

Yep. Happened to me just now. Entire team of 40s and 50s, while I had a level 13, a level 16 in mine. We got steamrolled. Fucking shit is not fun. I don't care if they're in a squad. Fucking throw them with other high level players.

I'm just at level 28 after playing yesterday. Can't even grind properly. Yeesh. If I had a better alternative as an MP shooter now (please don't say Destiny), I'd drop this. It's like Treyarch got into a drinking game and decided that they want to overclock CoD gameplay to 11 by adding every available "gimmick" out. Wall running a la Titanfall? Check! Supers like Destiny? Check!

Ugh I'd love to get back into some cod but I can see by the thread that it's hitting all my warnings again. Lag, servers, matchmaking.

My buddy just texted me and I told him wait for battlefront for comparison

Yep, if you're on the fence, I'd wait it out. It won't make you a Call of Duty convert -- not by any shot. If you're infuriated by those things before, factor in one-hit kill supers, wall hacks (Vision super) and other shit that will literally mean you can't get a breather in a match.

Even when I do OK, I get pissed since some of the time, the lag is so horrendous that you actually "feel" that your bullets aren't registering.

Yes by at least 50%.

Ill be honest with you, as someone who hated Ghosts, and did not like AW; this game is very much back to basics, with some jet pack wall running nonsense.

OK, but what? How is this "back to basics?" You have friggin' supers that bring a whole new level of chaos to the mix! Add in the weird maps (you can't even tell whether you can go to one place or not), and this is anything but back to basics. I so miss the good ol' MW days.

I'm comically bad at this game. Currently rocking a 0.34 k/d. I'm to the point I don't even care anymore. I turn a corner, dead. I go through a door, dead. I jump, dead. I move, dead. lol, I haven't really even bothered to play unless my friends are on because its so deflating. Never been this bad at a CoD game before so I'm at a loss.

Yep. Same. I do well in some games, but even then, the annoyance of doing well since I'm exploiting shit (supers and Gorgon and fucking camping) sullies the experience.

And I can't remember the maps for some goddamn reason. I can't remember the layout and always get buttfucked.
 
Also, there's a Classified armour type you can unlock that's supposed to be Gold but no one seems to know how to unlock it.

My guess is that you get it by unlocking all clothing for every Specialist. Sort of like how if you want diamond on a set of weapons you need gold on all of them. That's my guess.

I finished Seraph and I'm just about done with Battery. Really excited to play with Firebreak some more.
 

purg3

slept with Malkin
getting like 6 hitmarkers then dying instantly as the dude turns around is the worst feeling ever. is this lag comp or something?

And then you watch the kill cam because you are like "how could he have possibly survived that" and you see that your character on his screen wasn't even shooting...Yeah it fucking blows.
 
am i the only one who prefer extinction to zombies? i mean, just to play Shadows of Evil past level 10 you need to read a guide or a watch a video, it's just stupidly complicated.

I've been a huge fan of all the zombie maps Treyarch have ever made, but this one is just too much. I don't like the bees, or the ritual stuff, or that it has an unlock system. The noir vibe is kind of dumb too.
 

Raptor

Member
I'm comically bad at this game. Currently rocking a 0.34 k/d. I'm to the point I don't even care anymore. I turn a corner, dead. I go through a door, dead. I jump, dead. I move, dead. lol, I haven't really even bothered to play unless my friends are on because its so deflating. Never been this bad at a CoD game before so I'm at a loss.

Im on the same boat, some people are just too damn good and know very well the maps now that I die at every corner, sometimes I respawn and some missiles are raining right there and die again.

Still fun tho and I dont care for k/d ratios, always negative myself, a normal match for me is something like 15/21

:(
 

liquidtmd

Banned
Sorry if answered many times already but not really been reading all of thread, just this page.

If they are insistent on making it connection speed prioritised matchmaking over skill level, how do they expect to attract new players after month 1?

The hardcore are going to be so many levels and weaponed up beyond belief that going into any match will just be an exercise in frustration of getting slaughtered. As expressed above, I'm finding it ridiculous in week 1 facing the bulk of a team 30-40 levels above me. And I'm not a bad player per se.
 

Durden77

Member
Any tips on the easiest way to make your NAT type open? I'm at moderate right now. I kind of remember how to login to a modem and give a specific IP address a pass, but I didn't know if there was an easier way to go about it now.
 

GulAtiCa

Member
I've been playing a good bit since Saturday, and I've been enjoying multiplayer a lot. And I'm not much of a CoD person, bit do get a FPS multi craving every so often. Last time played Ghosts.

One multiplayer mode I miss is the Infected mode. Anything similar to that in this? I know there is the 4 player co-op Zombie thing, but one where you have full amount of players fighting each other in humans vs Infected. Etc
 
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