Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - i just don't care anymore

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MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Zapper posted:

I want a Kevin Spacey camo for my gun!

The sound of the gun firing is replaced by Kevin Spacey going "BANG!"

# ¿ May 2, 2014 20:17

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:08

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Ironsights posted:

I wonder if these Elysium style exo-suits are going to be a core part of the game or just some killstreak. It'd certainly change the map design around if players could leap two stories all the time.

Guessing you'll have the exo-suits by default and they'll be like Crysis and you can call in the big motherfucker as a killstreak and it'll be AW's version of the Juggernaut.

# ¿ May 2, 2014 20:51

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

MizPiz posted:

So what's the over/under that Advance Warfare will end (unintentionally) with Kevin Spacey being the most sensible character in the game and PMCs actually being sympathetic? Since BlOps2 I figured it would be a given, but I'd like something more conclusive.

To be fair, I'm not entirely sure that wasn't intentional on Blops 2's part.

# ¿ May 3, 2014 03:30

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

MizPiz posted:

I could see that, but I just saw it as a means to say the good guys are always good even when the bad guy is sympathetic. There's just not enough to show that you're actually supposed to identify with the character.

I dunno. I got the ending where Menendez kills Frank and the vibe I got sure felt like "Frank had this coming to him."

# ¿ May 3, 2014 07:17

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Javes posted:

An unnamed developer is making the last-gen version of the game.

http://www.charlieintel.com/2014/05/03/shgames-developing-the-next-gen-another-studio-developing-360ps3-versions/

Well it's not Bluepoint cause they just finished TitanFall, so, uhhhh. Bad juju!

# ¿ May 3, 2014 20:57

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

The weird thing is that it really looked like Ghosts was gonna one-up Black Ops 2 in the crazy department by a lot. WALKING DOWN BUILDINGS, SPACE LASERS, AMERICA'S DEAD, HERE'S A DOG :regd09:

, FIGHT IN SPACE, FIGHT ON A TRAIN, FIGHT UNDERWATERRRRRRR, JUGGERNAUTS WITH KNIVES, THE LEVELS CHANGE, WHISTLE AND SUMMON A DOOOOOOG :regd09:

And then it somehow took all that and made it boring as sin.

# ¿ May 4, 2014 04:06

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

The Merry Marauder posted:

So, the Microsoft DLC exclusivity period will be intact through CoD:AWe, and here's a piece on movement and such.

"across all modes," so possibly MP will feature this eclectic mix of abilities as well.

I hope Bobby Kotick went up to Microsoft and told him he was gonna wipe his rear end with that exclusivity contract and got Microsoft to cough up to keep it in place because otherwise not getting out of it really isn't a smart move for Activision.

Heheh, campoflauge. Some editor has a sense of humor. :haw:

# ¿ May 7, 2014 22:16

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

jerman999 posted:

I skipped Ghosts, are people still playing on 360 or has everyone migrated to xbox one?

No.

# ¿ May 10, 2014 19:59

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Hooray, double jumping.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2014 19:27

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Call of Duty is turning into Halo and Halo is turning into Call of Duty. What a bleak, horrible future we live in.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 00:03

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Javes posted:

Titanfall is a good game, a little light on content but the core gameplay loop is really fun.

A little is an understatement.

The core game is drat good but when that loop only lasts a few minutes and it's all there is to do, it becomes rote and boring super fast.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2014 18:13

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Zombie Boat posted:

What about Destiny?

It's gonna be good. SO loving GOOD.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2014 19:00

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Lazyfire posted:

It's great to see these comments and then see people elsewhere on the internet claim Battlefield Bad Company 2 was the best game in the Battlefield franchise because there wasn't a ton of stuff to unlock. People love having a reason to keep playing beyond getting more kills and calling in Titans that die in five minutes.

People keep going "oh what you can't play a game for the sake of a game you need a little carrot to chase after, huh? :smug:

" and I'm like no, you dunce, I need more than 5 minutes worth of loving gameplay for my sixty dollar investment. A campaign, a co-op mode, more than six goddamn players at a time, loving something besides oh hey another stryder oh hey dash core oh her it's dead WHEEEEEEEE SO MUCH FUN

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 03:15

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

I don't consider anything in Black Ops 2's campaign as offensive as Ghosts and the fact that you literally patrolled a giant concrete wall that was there to stop the browns from getting in and destroying America.

Also the fact that America thought it was cool to put a giant loving railgun in space and when the Federation hijacks it, OH MY GOD WHAT A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE, but then when South America builds their giant gently caress off space gun and we hijack it and wipe tons of them out, gently caress yeah space America :911:

Black Ops 2 was fun in its insanity instead of retarded, is what I'm getting at.

God, I hate Ghosts.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2014 02:04

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

I peed a little when he did that jump-up-fly-back poo poo.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2014 20:36

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

They're bringing back Scorestreaks, this is beautiful. I cannot wait for the 11th.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2014 23:30

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

JetpackJeezus posted:

Digital Pro Edition ($100)
- Season Pass
- Atlas Gorge Bonus Map
- Digital Content Pack

This seems like the best one. Seems like you're getting around 60 bucks worth of DLC for 40 bucks.

Kinda want that sweet-rear end steel case, but haha paying 120 bucks for a CoD game.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 00:34

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Wazzit posted:

I mean... you are talking a $20 difference. You are already paying $100 for a COD game.

Point taken but I mean I'm not even sure I'm paying 60 bucks for this. Jet boots Kevin Spacey hoverbike yeah, but I'm still pretty raw over Ghosts when you get right down to brass tacks. :v:

# ¿ Jul 30, 2014 01:06

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Is it the 11th yet? No? gently caress YOU! :argh:

# ¿ Aug 2, 2014 05:03

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

God dammit I'm gonna wind up spending like 700 bucks to play Call of Duty and Halo. :shepspends:

# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 23:13

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

It's the only thing you can do. It honestly really sounds like Sledehammer is taking a honest try at semi-overhauling CoD or at least injecting some much needed new life into it. If you're gonna do that with such a big series, you also need to give the babies who will whine about any kind of change their security blankets.

That thing about upgrading scorestreaks sounds really similar to a rumor I heard last week. I know it probably doesn't mean anything, but man, I cannot wait for the 11th.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 08:10

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

A Dire Weresloth posted:

Overall, this sounds like Black Ops 3. I'm on board.

Kinda makes you wonder if they asked Treyarch for some help. It'd be nice if these guys actually worked together occasionally so there'd be some level of consistency across the games.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 22:00

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Wazzit posted:

I can't wait for January when everyone mysteriously decides that Ghosts was actually ok and we start playing this DLC I paid for.

There's no way this actually happens, right? I found it weird enough when people did it for MW3, but Ghosts has like no redeemig qualities.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 17:42

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Aw yiss

Motha
Fuckin
Swimmin

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 18:13

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Oh god, please don't let us buy Supply Drops, I don't want Call of Pay2Win

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 18:22

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

The Merry Marauder posted:

Create a Class looks very similar to Blops 2, yeah. And the 0 to 4 scorestreaks thing confirmed.

Seems like all that stuff is confirmed, so Classic Mode is probably gonna get announced soon.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 18:27

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Is REISDOOOOOOOOORF the new VONDERHAAAAAAAAAAAAAR?!

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 18:36

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Dunno how you guys are getting "Titanfall" out of this more than Crysis or Halo.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 20:43

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

bluegoon posted:

Another thing, I'd be really careful buying the PS4 version. Ghosts is a technical fuckup on PS4, framerate drops to 20s often because of some crazy frame skipping issue, scoping through those advanced digital scopes drops the FPS etc. Not a fluid experience at all, loving unbearable to be honest.

I mean, granted, that could just be because Infinity Ward is a miserable fuckup of a studio.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 19:44

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

The fact that Modern Warfare 3 was even loving playable, muchless kinda good leads me in the direction that Sledgehammer are masterworkers of technology and that Advanced Warfare will be great.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 20:04

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

The Merry Marauder posted:

There's a great opportunity for team co-ordination here - rather than a bunch of overlapping UAVs, if people within a lobby specialize, you could have

UAV with:
CUAV
AUAV
Oracle
Fast Sweep
etc.

All for a relatively low cost.

What do all of these do? I can't find any list with all the customization options for the streaks.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 00:33

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

The Merry Marauder posted:

They seem largely self-explanatory, but here is a gallery with a few more streaks' modules.

Orbital and Threat Detection are the ones confusing me.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 00:58

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

IM DAY DAY IRL posted:

Now? Towards the end of the BLOPS2 days I'd pretty regularly run a class with a launcher as a secondary because 90% of the time when you'd hear the "enemy UAV/CUAV/w.e" announcement you could drop it within 5 seconds. I started doing this because I had run into a couple games where we played someone who did it to me and it was incredibly frustrating therefor I had to adopt it. It's a bit of a waste of a pick-X slot but can also be helpful while trying to run up your own streaks.

It was especially gratifying when someone would get a heli or a similarly mid-tier streak and you could pop two rockets, die, then spawn and immediately drop it. See also; dropping turrets with EMPs immediately after they've been placed.

PDW+Stock & Laser Sight (or MSMC+Stock and Extended Clip)
SMAW or FHJ
Hardline
Scavenger
Engineer
EMP Grenade
Tactician Wildcard -> Black Hat

Disregard kills, acquire points.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 22:51

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Unless I miss my guess, the C4 loving homes in on you this time. :v:

# ¿ Aug 16, 2014 20:39

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

I dunno about you guys but I really wanna shoot spikes out of my arm at people's heads.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2014 21:11

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Fibby Boy posted:

Sledgehammer games on TTK: "We want it to be closer to Blops 2's ttk."

http://www.charlieintel.com/2014/08/17/shgames-aiming-to-have-advanced-warfares-ttk-time-to-kill-closer-to-black-ops-2-than-ghosts/

I hope there's a balance they can find between "TTK is too high with the movement speeds, game feels clunky and slow" and "You melt a guy if you catch him without boosting." Nice to hear that BO2 is their goal, though.

They've been giving tons of lip service to Black Ops 2 and I don't think anybody's even mentioned Ghosts, which shows they recognize how the community received it at least.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2014 01:28

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

JackGeneric posted:

That happens with every CoD release, just due to the offset of development schedules, but yeah, I'd be fine if everybody ignored Ghosts forever. There were what, maybe two good ideas in Ghosts? Making the underbarrel shotgun work (or work better, at least), and DMRs as a separate class.

Oh, and the support squaddie. Anything else?

It honestly had a few decent ideas. Extinction was cool, I thought Field Orders were a nice idea and the map-specific streaks tied into them were cool. The way they tweaked Specialist was good too.

The problem is that they had these good ideas that were mired in terrible execution. Field Orders didn't work because the high TTK usually meant you got melted before you got a chance to complete them, or there was an equal chance of you getting some asinine gimmick (get a jumpshot kill, wtf?), something simple and easy (headshot) or just plain grotesque ("humiliate", :wtf:

). Extinction was a great idea, but shelling out for all the DLC for a total of four levels is bullshit. And the map-specific streaks on every level except HOTDOG were garbage to the point where you usually might as well not bother. Plus, the presence of Field Orders meant no more Care Packages, which thank god AW is backtracking on.

Also, the revolver was amazing. I felt like a god when I one-shotted somebody with it.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2014 10:46

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

I'm leaning towards Xbox One because getting Halo, CoD:AW and Destiny all on the platform seems smarter to me than getting Halo on one and CoD:AW and Destiny on another.

But if Halo and Destiny get PC releases, I dunno what the gently caress.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2014 06:02

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Parabolic Mic for attachment of the year 2014.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2014 00:35

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:08

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Wazzit posted:

Once per life? What's the loving point? That sounds really dumb. That seems like something that should have been a rechargeable battery and recharge time is different for each ability. But what do I know.

I can't help but think of the Stim ability in Titanfall and how you can pop it to instantly start health regen basically whenever you want. It's not terribly unbalanced in that game because that game (to its great detriment!) is more about farming bots and using Titans than pilot-to-pilot PVP anyway, but it could get seriously out of hand in CoD.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2014 07:24

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