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Baron Fuzzlewhack posted:Apparently the HRV Cloak does NOT make an audible pinging noise. It seems that noise is only heard by the user.
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I like this game. I just played it and had a lot of fun with the stock gear yesterday, then tried the premade AK today and it was even better. Does it make sense to keep re-renting the premade every day or should I also get some parts for it? I can't really tell what's a useful piece of gear, so I'm inclined to stick with the premade, as it doesn't seem gimped in any bug way, and I don't want to sink a lot of GP into it only to discover that I really like the HAR better. Also, since the AR is supposedly bad at hipfiring, does it make sense to get a shotgun for a secondary, to fill that CQC role? I'm partially inclined to think that if a guy gets that close to me, I messed up and probably deserve to get killed, but at least I could have a shot at winning the engagement, which seems tricky with the AK. And is there a GP unlock for loadout slots? I feel like 1 loadout slot will get old fast, but I'm reluctant to put :tenbux: into a game unless I think I will be playing for a while.
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Mar 27, 2013 03:55
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You will unlock a second loadout slot for free at level 10 or so. Otherwise, you have to purchase the rest with real money. Personally, I rarely switch guns mid-game so having two loadout slots is already overkill. If the premade AK (or any other gun) works for you, keep renting it! It'll be the most cost-efficient way to use a gun other than the default starting one. Later on when you have a decent pool of GP saved up you can start looking at parts to fit whatever role you're trying to fill, starting with a scope as that's probably the most important part. Also be aware that you can't customize premade guns, just the receivers on which the premades are based. Definitely grab a shotgun as your secondary for close-quarters. If you can aim well, it'll treat you well.
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Mar 27, 2013 04:03
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Second loadout slot is at level 5, I believe. And premades are definitely the way to go at the beginning; I personally used to try a different one every day, but that's just me. After you have a bunch of 3-day trial packs in your inventory, you can activate several all at once and spend a weekend learning the ropes of gun customisation/tweaking with all the assorted free muzzles and stocks you opened. The AK isn't that bad at hipfiring, it's just worse than the AR. But yeah, the shotgun is currently the unquestioned king of CQC support.
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Mar 27, 2013 04:37
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NihilCredo posted:
I feel like the AK is actually really good at hipfire. Using my custom one, I only bother with irons if the guy is at twice effective shotgun range or more.
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I didn't even realize until today that the orginal Blacklight: Tango Down is currently on sale for $1.24 as part of the "Indie Sale" currently going on on Steam. I checked back in on it for the first time in roughly 3 years (Having originally bought it when it first came out on Steam), and surprise surprise: Nobody is playing the GFWL-powered multiplayer. There's a co-op mode though (Which can also be played solo), which I'm currently trying to convince a friend to play with me. It's pretty loving nuts looking at the early versions of concepts that re-appear in Retribution. Like an older version of HRV, and seeing some of the same weapon parts in the customization menus that still exist in the new game. If I end up convincing my aforementioned friend to play some co-op with me, I may record the endeavor and post it here so all of y'all can see the "early seeds" of Retribution. EDIT: Also, the menu music is the dopest poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f32vJ_fmX00 Habermann fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 01:11
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Is the game itself any good?
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Mar 28, 2013 04:23
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Artificer posted:Is the game itself any good? Eh. It's okay but pretty much a standard CoD/Counterstrike clone. It has a neat visual design that is repeated in BLR. The co-op was kinda fun. Maybe I could intrude in Habermann's sessions?  (probably not because GFWL is rear end)
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Mar 28, 2013 04:41
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Artificer posted:Is the game itself any good? It's worth $1.24... Assuming you have 3+ friends to play it with: The minimum player count requirement for a multiplayer match is 6 players, which is impossible to gather through GFWL match-making, and those co-op missions are really tailored towards having partners to play with [but can be played solo if you really hate yourself]. The most interesting things about it are the HRV and weapon customization, which you already have / are greatly expanded on in Retribution. If anything, it's worth buying (For $1.24 and not a penny more) just to see for yourself how far the mechanics have come. "Humble beginnings" and all that. Habermann fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 04:44
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I just accidentally spent all my GP on 50 200GP chance packs because I misclicked. Please make me feel like not killing myself / ridicule me. E: Actually I don't know what exactly I bought. I know that I got a 10% team GP thing, but I don't have 50 new items in my inventory. Is there a way to check purchase history? Futaba Anzu fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 08:34
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pandaK posted:I just accidentally spent all my GP on 50 200GP chance packs because I misclicked. Please make me feel like not killing myself / ridicule me.
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Mar 28, 2013 08:39
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NihilCredo posted:If you got any hardsuit camos, you can easily trade them for more than you spent. Even TSMGs can go for ~5k GP each. If I had known about this I wouldn't have gone and activated the TSMG and Hardsuit Green I'd gotten a while back  . No, but this time around I got none of those. But it couldn't have been the 100GP pack since the 50 pack for that only costs 5000 and I had twice that at the start. Futaba Anzu fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 08:44
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I'd like to take a moment to talk about a really under appreciated piece of equipment: The Firewall breach kit. While the revive and heal injectors are really good overall, sometimes you want something a little different. The firewall kit is awsome because it does so many different things, and has the awesome benefit of being 100% passive . That's right, you don't have to do anything special to get the benefits. No more fiddling with your buttons or deaths due to not being able to switch off it fast enough. What does it do? Well, it does all of the following...
I burned an enemy out of his hardsuit in the last stretch of a siege game and proceeded to take out the scorpion and hold off their entire team untill time ran out. What isn't pictured: the meltdown of the dude who I grabbed the hardsuit from. I was fed well on pubbie tears for the next whole round.
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Maddot_66 posted:I'd like to take a moment to talk about a really under appreciated piece of equipment: The Firewall breach kit.
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Mar 28, 2013 21:45
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Maddot_66 posted:I'd like to take a moment to talk about a really under appreciated piece of equipment: The Firewall breach kit. The HRV recharge buff is more than slight. Hacking everything with on two moves is also awesome for more than just DOM and Siege. Throwing open doors is more useful than you'd think. I love my "hack-o-pack". SwitchbladeKult fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 23:07
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SwitchbladeKult posted:The HRV recharge buff is more than slight. Hacking everything with on two moves is also awesome for more than just DOM and Siege. Throwing open doors is more useful than you'd think. I love my "hack-o-pack". how good would you say it is? I just started using this, so I can't really get a feel for the change.
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Aside from the obvious domination uses, you need to get used to opening and closing doors to control the flow of enemies and how to used it to your advantage. But once you do, shutting a door on an enemy with the flag in CTF is so drat satisfying. e: I love some of these new missions that just popped up with this maintenance  Died a lot? Have 3,000 xp! Azzanadra fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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Mar 29, 2013 01:23
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Azzanadra posted:e: I love some of these new missions that just popped up with this maintenance
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Well drat, I already bought all the loadout slots when they were on sale in the past. Guess what I just found in my inventory after the maintenance:  
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Mar 29, 2013 04:06
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Azzanadra posted:Well drat, I already bought all the loadout slots when they were on sale in the past. What are the requirements for that?
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Mar 29, 2013 04:11
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Got to play against some goons who showed up in siege: maddot, largemargin, scud  Not shown: my team getting decimated the other 3 times.
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Mar 29, 2013 04:24
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pandaK posted:What are the requirements for that? Note that this was the last time they sent the pack out, so if you didn't qualify don't rush it since it's too late. NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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Mar 29, 2013 04:37
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IIRC they said that they would send out those packs on a monthly basis.
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Mar 29, 2013 04:53
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Improbable Lobster posted:IIRC they said that they would send out those packs on a monthly basis.  ) but this was the last wave. There's probably going to be other veteran-type rewards in the future because BLR fans are good at nothing if not bitching for free poo poo.
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I probably should have clarified, I got the package when they shipped originally, and I figured they would only be given once, now I can probably trade the contents for some sweet stuff at some point.
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I've spent the past few days trying out the AR, SMG, TSMG, BFR, and HAR premades... and I keep coming back to the AK. It just feels so strong over such a variety of ranges. With every other gun I either couldn't aim it or had gaps in where I was really vulnerable, but every game where I pick up the AK I was in or close to the top 3, which almost never happened with any other gun. It must be love. The TSMG was a lot of fun sometimes, when I was in the groove for it. Surprise triple kills when sneaking up on groups? I'll take it! I can see that like a speed build with HRV cloak and TSMG would be awesome.
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plehsistential posted:Got to play against some goons who showed up in siege: maddot, largemargin, scud
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real_scud posted:Goddamn you swole, you were loving annoying as balls last night. What was the camera glitch you mentioned when you happened to kill me right as I turned on my HRV? I think he might be talking about the one that sometimes happens when you get into the tank. Occasionally it will be this weird obscured angle that looks like you are stuck in the turret. It sucks because you can't really see anything when it happens. EDIT: Good to know we lost to a fellow goon. I was worried there for a bit.
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I remember having a lot of fun playing this game at launch, but was incredibly annoyed by the menu system. Mainly the opening of the mail tab to open the mail to loot the item to go and open the item just to realize it's something I really don't care about anyway and the match already started. Other than that this game was just a whole lot of fun and I can't believe I let other FPS games take my attention away from this when this is F2P. I think my biggest problem when I played was mainly not knowing where to go or what to try. Partly because an hour after I finished playing around with a weapon I forgot what weapon it was, how it handled and if I liked it or not. I'll need to seriously find a guide or something to make my path to a fattie-high damaged beast a reality. Because who doesn't love that one moment where you can literally just slowly walk forward at the other team and getting a ton of kills.
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Ularg posted:I remember having a lot of fun playing this game at launch, but was incredibly annoyed by the menu system. Mainly the opening of the mail tab to open the mail to loot the item to go and open the item just to realize it's something I really don't care about anyway and the match already started. Other than that this game was just a whole lot of fun and I can't believe I let other FPS games take my attention away from this when this is F2P. Take notes If you start again, rent the AK470 premade and never look back. A recent patch changed the recoil and random spread, so it's less random where your bullets go now. Fatties aren't having the best of times.
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Maddot_66 posted:I think he might be talking about the one that sometimes happens when you get into the tank. Occasionally it will be this weird obscured angle that looks like you are stuck in the turret. It sucks because you can't really see anything when it happens. Yeah, that's the camera glitch I was talking about. You stare at the giant cylinder on the underside of the tank and you can't see anything at all. Is there a way to set it so you can see newly acquired items or something? The new mission reward pack just usually says redeemed and I have to go hunting through my inventory to see if I acquired anything interesting to play with.
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plehsistential posted:Yeah, that's the camera glitch I was talking about. You stare at the giant cylinder on the underside of the tank and you can't see anything at all.
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NihilCredo posted:If you wait in the after-mission screen (the one with XP/GP amounts) the items you won will pop up under Spoils of War. I think it's only for the ones that are automatically activated though; the missions that need to be manually redeemed - notably the bunny hop hourly mission - won't appear there. There's a dev post on the official forums saying that they want to address the issue so that you can actually tell what you won.
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plehsistential posted:Got to play against some goons who showed up in siege: maddot, largemargin, scud If you need an invite hit me up (same name in game as the forum). I can log in to give you an invite sometime this weekend. Sorry that I've ignored BLR the past few days. Been playing Bioshock. So good... Ularg posted:...I'll need to seriously find a guide or something... Read the OP, seriously. It's the best OP ever.
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Mar 29, 2013 22:01
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Read the OP, seriously. It's the best OP ever. I read it man, but I gotta repeat it like scripture to remember it.
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 The Gold/Silver/Bronze packs will go out of sale Tuesday the 2nd of April, so if you were on the fence it's your last chance In other news, one unexpected benefit of running a tank build: since any weapon with runspeed worse than -0.30ish is going to hit the minimum speed cap anyway, you can still make a bolt-action rifle that looks good (read: doesn't have a stupid short barrel) without needlessly sacrificing other stats for useless accuracy, given that speed penalties don't apply any more. Case in point, the Fastest Gun in the East (server):  The last stock has slightly better rate of fire, but the Stabilized lacks a scope-in penalty which makes it much better when paired with lighter scopes. Plus it matches the AK barrel nicely, you get a nice hunting-rifle-ish looking thing. (And yeah, I'll get around to putting an extended mag on it eventually.)
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I've found out that I will always be a rushdown SMG user. I cannot use weapons like the BFR and BPFA and stuff worth beans.
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Habermann posted:On US servers? Habermann. I'll be in-game for the next 15 minutes or so. Just friended you as my Mikhalio tag fun game, a few bad bots but nothing worse than CS:global
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So, just to make sure I'm not missing anyone, here's the current list of in-game usernames still trying to get into the US branch of the clan: - CronoSMagnum - CaptainTolerable - DrLime - Mikhalio I should be in-game for the next 30 minutes or so, for anyone else looking for invites.
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Xenaero posted:I've found out that I will always be a rushdown SMG user. I cannot use weapons like the BFR and BPFA and stuff worth beans. The heartbreak of being a rushdown SMG user is that most of the pubs out there A: think they're God with a sniper rifle, so they always play BFR-only; B: think that the only fun thing to do is snipe hallways, so they won't follow a rush no matter what the mode is, and C: are completely rotten to the point where they can't even get kills sniping a hallway. Of those who don't, most of them have no idea how to assault a point, so when you charge around a corner they'll just sort of stand there staring at it. (Sometimes they also throw a grenade in a random direction.)
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