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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde

Javes posted:

Need some help farming Christmas noobs
I'm done with the family thing so I'm settling in to start drinking and enjoying this ACha christmas (10" and counting). Be on in 2 shakes after I light the fire and fix a cocktail.

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Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:
https://www.twitch.tv/mistermacys

The Christmas pubbies are real.

feverish and oversexed
Mar 9, 2007

I LOVE the galley!
Send me an invite when there's room plz, revotfel

housefly
Sep 11, 2001

Same here. My not-boyfriend is tired, so I've got the night free and can pub stomp some more.

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Got invited to a bunch of search matches on Blops 3, crazy how much better that game is, its nice not dying to orange guns all the time.

Really the only gun I see commonly on it are marshals.

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.
Maybe I should go back to Blops for a while. I miss my specialists with their not lovely weapons and abilities. I got pretty decent at sniping so I could probably finish those pretty quick before moving to the pistols.

Actually, I think I only need to do the SVG-100 to finish them off. I'm fairly certain I did complete the P-06.

housefly
Sep 11, 2001

I'm totally buying blops again. Someone mentioned it was on sale for $20 at GameStop???

Javes
May 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT APPEARING OFFLINE SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL FRIENDS THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY VIDEO GAME TEAM.
The Christmas noobs have brought me a bountiful harvest. I finally decided to spend the salvage and buy the Fallout and not let these lobbies go to waste and lo and behold I managed to get 4 de-atmoizers yesterday (2 in one game)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0UkJQlElXA

(Fuzzy, you need to share your party chat audio :argh:)

housefly
Sep 11, 2001

Holy poo poo Javes!

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


You should all buy the Bomber (Epic EBR). It's REALLY loving GOOD.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

Javes posted:

The Christmas noobs have brought me a bountiful harvest. I finally decided to spend the salvage and buy the Fallout and not let these lobbies go to waste and lo and behold I managed to get 4 de-atmoizers yesterday (2 in one game)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0UkJQlElXA

(Fuzzy, you need to share your party chat audio :argh:)

I think you could have had a triple if you had a bit more time. Its also nice that your group members don't yell gently caress after every death.

venutolo
Jun 4, 2003

Dinosaur Gum

Mill Village posted:

Its also nice that your group members don't yell gently caress after every death.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore

venutolo posted:

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

I can't argue with that.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde
Playing against Christmas pubs? Fun. Playing with them? Not so much. I'm on if anyone is looking to make children cry.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Been playing this with my sister over the weekend, figured I'd give my no-CoD experience impression for the 0 people interested:

Game looks fine, plenty if nice maps without buying packs, weapon balance in MP bugs me a lot. Basically every AR feels like it can instakill you at any range with half a second. I really like shotguns in shooters, so it kind of sucks when it seems that I need to drop two meatshots on someone before they instantly drop me! As a result I've been taking a liking to just running around with Merc (Bull Charge) and the launcher (which has the lowest explosion radius of any launcher I've ever used in a shooter), which has been working well and netting me a positive score.

Unlocks are absolutely grotesque; I like unlocks and progression in games, but after about a 50 hours into the game we only have a quarter of the weapons unlocked (not counting all the variants). This would be less frustrating if it felt like the guns were balanced well against each other, but so many feel like worthless trap picks whereas others are best-in-class even before you account for unlockable accessories like homing bullets, tighter spreads, recoil reduction etc. are factored in. The only shotgun I've seen anyone do well with has been the Rack-9, which seems to be a one-hit anywhere from punch-range to far-mid range, and is Rank 49 (we're up to Rank 16). At times the game feels like it has more in common with EVE Online (spreadsheet simulator where you press a few buttons to feel like you're actually dogfighting) than an actual FPS.

Everyone is indistinguishable from one-another; we're playing very close to a 60 inch TV, and we still constantly miss enemies just standing next to a gray wall or crouching on a tan cliff. It kind of makes me blase about the cosmetic unlocks though, since it makes them seem kinda grind-to-lose.

A lot of the rig abilities feel really tacked on. The Merc, Synaptic, and Warfighter all have a derpy gun as their first payload; either a slow laser that doesnt kill very fast, a super wide gatling gun that might do damage if you get close enough, and two machineguns that kill half as fast as an AR. On the bright side all three have a second payload that actually manages to be pretty good, so theres that.

The Zombie Mode has an INSANE amount of depth, completely different style, loaded with new assets and VA's. It's very arcadey and incredibly fun, and I have played a little of a prior cod zombie mode so its not just "wowow horde mode!". There's an almost rube goldbergian amount of secrets and triggers to set off, lots of fate/fortune cards that dramatically change how you play, all the weapons of the base game, and a ton of unique powerups and grenades. It would be an amazing party game if it still had 4 player local co-op.

Bitching aside, its a pretty fun game, even if theres a lot of...kind of hosed up elements that have gotten absurd over the franchise. I can't imagine how people follow this franchise if every game has this amount of gated weapon unlocks. every gun could be unlocked from the start and there'd still easily be a hundred hours of cosmetics to unlock. If you can handle that the game easily trounces Battlefield's shrinking number of maps and shorter/lack of campaigns or fun modes in terms of content.

Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Dec 26, 2016

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer

Mill Village posted:

I think you could have had a triple if you had a bit more time. Its also nice that your group members don't yell gently caress after every death.

I don't yell gently caress after every death.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

are you all back on blops 3 yet

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Is there an actual community on console for the MW remake multiplayer or is it totally dead? I am considering getting the PS4 legacy pack because its on sale, and 25$ each seems good for IW and the remake.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Oh, I forgot to also say that Terminal is a loving awful map that seems to exist just so that sniper players can have their obnoxious raised sniping spots and wide empty rooms and pretend that their situational one-shot guns are equally useful as everyone's oneshot guns.

All the other maps are fun with cool chokepoints, though.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]
20 scrap away from the Bomber, and I had enough for a box.

This game is piss.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


ACR and Ameli have been data mined :getin:

widespread
Aug 5, 2013

I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.


Neurolimal posted:

Oh, I forgot to also say that Terminal is a loving awful map that seems to exist just so that sniper players can have their obnoxious raised sniping spots and wide empty rooms and pretend that their situational one-shot guns are equally useful as everyone's oneshot guns.

All the other maps are fun with cool chokepoints, though.

excuse you terminal is a fine map


Happy Noodle Boy posted:

ACR and Ameli have been data mined :getin:

The ACR from MW2 is one of my favorite guns from MW1.

Kizurue
Apr 5, 2006

There's somethin' fishy goin' on here...

JackGeneric posted:

20 scrap away from the Bomber, and I had enough for a box.

This game is piss.

Bomber is definitely worth it, probably my favorite gun by far. I don't even run it in AR mode, just run it with a ELO and run it as a sniper.

Superanos
Nov 13, 2009

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Is there an actual community on console for the MW remake multiplayer or is it totally dead? I am considering getting the PS4 legacy pack because its on sale, and 25$ each seems good for IW and the remake.

Yes, there is a large player base on PS4, and should be a big one on Xbox One too. Just avoid the PC version.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

ACR [...has] been data mined :getin:

Oh man, I can't wait until they add a super-accurate, middling-damage gun to Infinite Warfare. Why, such a gun might well come to define the meta.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

SubponticatePoster posted:

Playing against Christmas pubs? Fun. Playing with them? Not so much. I'm on if anyone is looking to make children cry.

I'll never forget that one level 1 pubby that played four games before notching his first kill. :allears:

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.

widespread posted:

excuse you terminal is a fine map


The ACR from MW2 is one of my favorite guns from MW1.

I liked it in MW3. Thing was a drat death laser.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

I got TWO triple kills with the Gravity Vortex Gun today. :woop:

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde

Mister Macys posted:

I'll never forget that one level 1 pubby that played four games before notching his first kill. :allears:
We had a couple of rough spots, but I think we won a game 100-11 this evening. And they stayed for like 4 matches. Also aaron got back to back nukes, then we forbade him from getting any more.

Godzilla07
Oct 4, 2008

SubponticatePoster posted:

Also aaron got back to back nukes, then we forbade him from getting any more.

And I did this without a single Advanced UAV! Thank you Christmas pubs for gifting me this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOG9F8lAuk8

Kizurue
Apr 5, 2006

There's somethin' fishy goin' on here...

Godzilla07 posted:

And I did this without a single Advanced UAV! Thank you Christmas pubs for gifting me this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOG9F8lAuk8

It was a damned good night, at least until my internet poo poo the bed. Sadly the only other option I have for internet is a 5 Mb connection.

Alteisen
Jun 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Got an orange Kbar variant on my Christmas gift of the day.

Went 40-8 my first match with it, I feel like I'm cheating with this thing. :geno:

Keep in mind that I'm absolute poo poo, that just doesn't happen to me, not even after Christmas.

Gordon Shumway
Jan 21, 2008

Vicissitude posted:

I liked it in MW3. Thing was a drat death laser.

The only thing I remember about that gun was FallinInTheBlak endlessly complaining about it, and/or the guy in the corner using it.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

5 more quad feeds, 2 more air to ground.

Honestly I'm not sure what I'm hitting on these air to ground because half the time they sure as gently caress aren't scorestreaks.

Also for some form of voluntary torture I'm doing 50 sliding kills on the RPR. Which loving clown thought 50 of those was a reasonable thing to put in? I use the modular and had to switch from my normal setup to QD, Grip and Laser along with the power slide FTL to get results. Until I decided to bring the Ripper out. That things shreds on SMG mode when sliding and it's really made this challenge bearable.

Maybe after that bullshit I can go back to beating up Christmas noobs.

On a related note I got called a "loving jumping bug" and I'm not sure what that meant but thanks, guy from I think Middlesborough who thought quickscoping a sliding Ripper would be smart. Repeatedly.

Deofuta
Jul 7, 2013

The Corps is Mother
The Corps is Father
Hardcore was the way to go for getting those sliding kills. Unfortunately after getting diamond for ARs, SMGs, and LMGs, trying to use a sniper rifle for any amount of time kills my desire to play. May just have to give up my ambitions for Solar.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I can't even imagine golding another SMG never mind diamonding the stupid things. Hardcore is pretty smart though. Gotta stop forgetting that exists.

Gordon Shumway
Jan 21, 2008

So did they gently caress up something with the holiday gift keys again? It says I have 40 even after I spent them.

Edit: never mind, the problem solved itself.

What's the better NV4 variant? Everyone uses the Fallout one but I will never get a nuke so I don't care about it.

Gordon Shumway fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Dec 27, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Prosperity gives perks every three kills but doesn't have the reduced recoil, instead starting with increased ammo. I like it.

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CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

I know no one plays single player but I'm pretty impressed by it so far. It is certainly a big step up from the rats' nest garbage that was BLOPS3

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