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Reiley posted:Okay that works too! Also when we're both around we could try the clan invite again, I wanna be GOON. My goal is to be online by 8 pm EST if not sooner. You should join up the mummble server!
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SwitchbladeKult posted:The only give away I remember going that fast was the Intel pack. Also, the Raptr stuff doesn't start today. I know. I meant I've got a class tomorrow.
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 23:13 |
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are you still looking for more officers? I'm fairly active right now and wouldn't mind helping out a bit. What exactly would I do?
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 23:33 |
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Does anyone else feel like this when we roll up on a server in our multicolor power ranger armor?
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 00:31 |
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I would much rather be equated with a dalek then a power ranger for sure. This is how I imagine most of the pubbies at the end of match.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 03:17 |
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See, that just makes me feel like one of the random mooks vaguely working for the Daleks who gets offed 10 minutes into the episode.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 03:19 |
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I'll be honest, I really just want the free shotgun. If someone gets it and already had it, let me know and we'll see if there's something you want as a trade.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 04:35 |
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My Har build. Tap fire and win. Twostep, Rhino, Collapsible stock, 3x Merica fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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Miss-Bomarc posted:I'll be honest, I really just want the free shotgun. Sure. You can trade me for mine. I'm looking for a sniper helmet or a new pilot camo. If that's not possible just make me an offer. I'm flexible. Edit: Had some delicious tears tonight. Meet the twins. They are my new laser guns/headshot generators. Still trying to decide which one is my favorite. The better performer is the AR but the sounds them M4X makes are so lovely. Reiley posted:Okay that works too! Also when we're both around we could try the clan invite again, I wanna be GOON. Somehow we missed each other. I was looking out for you. rallyyy is your in game, yes? SwitchbladeKult fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Somehow we missed each other. I was looking out for you. rallyyy is your in game, yes? Yeah that's me, and I just got it. Thanks!
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 07:02 |
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Sure. You can trade me for mine. I'm looking for a sniper helmet or a new pilot camo. If that's not possible just make me an offer. I'm flexible.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 14:45 |
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The subject of tournament rulesets came up again last night in the middle of a TDM Seaport match. The pubbies had a raging hard-on over forcing all the participants to run “all default”. I’m not sure if that’s the case, I don’t follow the event scene in BLR too closely, but they were thrilled that everyone was going to be in 200 HP armor. They proceeded to cry buckets saying that having over 200 HP was OP. It hurts my brain even now when I think about the idea that having anything but 200 HP is over powered. The guy was so butt hurt that he was complaining that “90% of the people run 220+ HP builds”. Mind you I was doing decently well last night running 182 HP build. I just shake my head and sigh. So, what do you think about rulesets and equipment restrictions?
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SwitchbladeKult posted:The subject of tournament rulesets came up again last night in the middle of a TDM Seaport match. The pubbies had a raging hard-on over forcing all the participants to run “all default”. I’m not sure if that’s the case, I don’t follow the event scene in BLR too closely, but they were thrilled that everyone was going to be in 200 HP armor. They proceeded to cry buckets saying that having over 200 HP was OP. It hurts my brain even now when I think about the idea that having anything but 200 HP is over powered. The guy was so butt hurt that he was complaining that “90% of the people run 220+ HP builds”. Mind you I was doing decently well last night running 182 HP build. I just shake my head and sigh. I can understand stuff restricting certain gun parts or the number of heal injectors but forcing default gear is really dumb.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 16:51 |
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The problem is not "over 200 is overpowered", because yeah it's generally better, but nobody forces you to run a speed build if you don't think it's worth it - and depending on the game mode it may actually be worth it so the option should be left available. The problem is that there are some items above level 30 that either: a) no single player needs to have to be competitive, but a team should really have access to (Firewall pack, possibly HRV Cloak) b) provide an admittedly small improvement over lower-level gear, but even a small advantage tarnishes the meaning of competition (Break Guard armour, arguably Fox+Cat helmet) I like the variety and I think if those are problems it's better to just ban/restrict a few items than to kill the whole customisation, but where do you draw the line? I.e. which level can you expect participants to be if they want to be on even ground? Now consider that given the small player base you probably can't afford to exclude Americans from European tournaments or vice-versa, but asking them to play with low-level alts most likely puts them at am actual disadvantage. So I can understand playing it safe with a rule of "Level 1-10 gear only", or hell even "Level 1 gear only", but I see no reason to go as far as "default only". I hope the announced "scrim pack" solves this issue, but we'll have to see.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 17:32 |
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I’ve always been admittedly opposed to restrictions. Even if certain items are objectively better why is that actually a problem for competitive play? Does everyone using the Fox+Cat helmet and the Breakgaurd chest negatively impact things in the grand scheme? Is it game breaking? Does it prevent people from mastering the systems of the game? Yeah it might look a little silly visually (so would everyone wearing the same level 1 armor) but outside of that I see no problems. In fact, I’d even argue that the best players would avoid using those armors while becoming experts at combating that particular setup at which point people would change their armor load outs to something else which then the best would learn to dominate and on and on it goes. Right now I build my guns to deal exactly enough damage to most efficiently kill 224 HP builds. If you came at me with a 226 HP build or a 230 HP build you’d have a much better chance of defeating me in a firefight because I’d need that one extra bullet. You’d also be no worse off if you came at me with a 182 HP build as it would take the same number of rounds to kill you as it would a 224 HP build. That’s really the beauty of this game! All the configuration options give this game a huge amount of depth. Every time you take an item out of the game over some silly misguided and, in my opinion, incorrect notion “fairness” you make the game shallower. Blacklight doesn’t have the best gun mechanics and to me this kind of stuff is its real draw. Thinking through gun configurations and armor loadouts, what depot items to bring to the field, what grenades to equip, do you want to heal or carry a shield, etc are keep me coming back. Only two things to me seem on the boarder of being game breaking: heavy depot item refills and datanodes. Being able to spam swarm rockets at a spawn point seems a bit out of balance and the datanodes allow you to actually break through stat caps and do weird things that make the game unfair in a number of ways. In tournament play I would probably ban the use of datanodes but I’d be on the fence about heavy depot item refills. Spamming depot items seems to be more of a cream the noobs tactic that wouldn’t work on more experienced players outside of siege.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 18:41 |
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I hope they do another promo for the silver camo. I want to be shiny.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 18:50 |
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Raptr Rewards are live in ~1 minute
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:28 |
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It's live.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:33 |
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For those curious: there were about 5000 packs for each one to start. I doubt it'll be difficult to get your own.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:34 |
Claimed mine. 4,215 remaining.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:34 |
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anyone else having problems redeeming the codes?
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:34 |
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Also note: Facebook connect is working again.Dalmuti posted:anyone else having problems redeeming the codes?
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:35 |
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Dalmuti posted:anyone else having problems redeeming the codes? I don't think they're working yet.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:35 |
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but but i demand my gratification be of the instant variety
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:36 |
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Apparently they messed up on my redemption and I got 2 ak470s and 2 shotguns in my mailbox. Uh ok
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:36 |
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Dalmuti posted:anyone else having problems redeeming the codes? Yes this always happens when there is a giveaway of free items. If you get the "There was an error sending your items." that means it was successful.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:37 |
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Also they are permanent.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:39 |
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Except the gold camos, they're 30-day. On the plus side, the shotgun is actually the receiver, not the Metal Storm premade. (It's good because you can put the damage barrel on it now.)
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:40 |
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Oh yeah, looks like the weekly weapon pack gets updated to whatever the current weapon of the week is, so you won't be stashing hundreds of each weapon.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 19:54 |
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I actually have a question about the weekly weapon packs. I bought one, just to try the BPFA out, and when the transaction finished, all of my GP disappeared. I'm fairly certain the weekly weapon packs are supposed to be free, so is this a bug or something else?
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The Jumpoff posted:I actually have a question about the weekly weapon packs. I bought one, just to try the BPFA out, and when the transaction finished, all of my GP disappeared. I'm fairly certain the weekly weapon packs are supposed to be free, so is this a bug or something else? Relog and your money'll come back. It's a bug and you still have money.
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gibbed posted:Oh yeah, looks like the weekly weapon pack gets updated to whatever the current weapon of the week is, so you won't be stashing hundreds of each weapon. Nuts.
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Mauser posted:Relog and your money'll come back. It's a bug and you still have money. Oh good. I thought I'd lost 1k GP for a moment. Thank you!
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gwrtheyrn posted:Apparently they messed up on my redemption and I got 2 ak470s and 2 shotguns in my mailbox. Uh ok Hmmm... I spammed the redeem page until it accepted my codes but didn't log in to see what I got. Now I'm curious whether or not I got multiples too.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 20:34 |
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I've got around 5 permanent Machine Pistols now accidentally. Uhhhh. Woops. At least I've got the AK 470 to play around with so that's fine.
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Artificer posted:I've got around 5 permanent Machine Pistols now accidentally. Uhhhh. Woops. Goodbye economy!
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 20:37 |
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So I'll trade them for something? Like maybe an extended mag for the MP or the TSMG? Yeah they're probably not going to be worth much after this.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 20:46 |
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Got mine 3367 elite, 2792 noobie and 2886 experienced left. Hooray bonebreaker helm i don't need to buy ak I don't need to buy and shotgun I don't need to buy VVVVV Definitely perms. All of them Merica fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 25, 2013 |
# ? Apr 25, 2013 20:51 |
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Anyone confirm all the rewards are perms? I haven't had a chance to log in yet, just redeem, but I need to.know I'm going to have amazing hair.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Anyone confirm all the rewards are perms? I haven't had a chance to log in yet, just redeem, but I need to.know I'm going to have amazing hair. The camos are 30 days, the rest are permanent.
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