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Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

PC Call of Duty is better than console Call of Duty in every way.

On the other hand, no one plays PC Call of Duty.

Which is why I'm going to get the bone version. I know most of us CoD dummies will be on xbone.

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Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

"Surprise! A whole bunch of people that we gave free trips to and flew out to play video games all day really liked our game!"

You don't say.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Mister Macys posted:

I'm sensing a tone of sarcasm in your voice at what can only be described as "the best first person shooter since Black Ops 1".

Actually, that will probably end up being true. All multiplayer FPS have been crap for years now. This one I expect to be a little bit more of a polished turd than the rest, though. That's why I'm preordering this one as opposed to just buying it at Best Buy after the fact. I still feel dumb, though.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Captain Matchbox posted:

3 shotguns? Maybe next time, call of duty

But what if they are OP like the Ranger and 1887 were?

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Lolcano Eruption posted:

What's the best/guaranteed way of getting a full set of Mountain Dew/Doritos armor?

Buy 10 20-oz of Gamer Fuel?

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Knifegrab posted:

Ugh I can't decide if I want to preorder the base game or be a loving moron and go for digital pro. Will normal players ever be able to play the digital pro only map?

It seems like the pre-order bonuses always go up for DLC at some point. I can't imagine CoD:A&W will be any different in that respect. I pre-ordered physical in case this CoD is as bad as Treyarch games and then I can stupidly trade this in at Gamespot for Dragon Age or something.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Carecat posted:

And here we are gambling on another sequel :smith:

Well, this time around things are DIFFERENT. A new developer, a longer dev cycle, truly next-gen, etc. etc. etc.

So, when it turns out awful, we're going to be even MORE jaded when the next Treyarch title comes out next year (which we will all pre-order because).

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Dalai Trauma posted:

Stop making me use the app, god.

So, I forget how this works. Do they just update the Ghosts app for A&W? I can't wait to glom up my phone with a bunch of CoD apps that I look at once a year and then never again. But I didn't find an A&W app in the App Store. So yeah.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

GET MY BELT SON posted:

I'm on mobile somebody add me to bone list

What's your gamertag?

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

afkmacro posted:

Might as well go buy BF:hardline now too since I'm being retarded.

jfc man, I'm as stupid as the next guy in here, but have a little self-respect.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Stubear St. Pierre posted:

it's being made by Sledgehammer who made MW3 which was absolutely godawful

Here's why A&W could be different:

wikipedia posted:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was known to be in development after a legal dispute between Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella and Activision resulted in the pair being fired from the company. Several dozen Infinity Ward employees followed West and Zampella as a result of the ongoing dispute, causing Activision to enlist the services of Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software to assist development of the title. The game was said to have been in development since only two weeks after the release of their previous game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Also reported was that Sledgehammer was aiming for a "bug free" first outing in the Call of Duty franchise, and also set a goal for Metacritic review scores above 95 percent.[LOL]

So, to sum up, they were brought in to finish MW3 after disgruntled IW left. They were given less than a year to finish the entire game and make it bug-free.

Reasons why A&W will be pretty much like every other CoD:

Because Call of Duty.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.
jfc the lies we tell ourselves. :suicide:

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Cialis Railman posted:

Oh this game's coming out soon



Amazon has shipped my copy out. They say it should get here Mon. by 8pm. Last time I pre-ordered a game off amazon, UPS took their sweet rear end time and strolled up at like 7:59pm.

If some reason, it gets delivered before 5pm, I will probably end up "coming down with something" and leaving work early. I assume everybody here will be double or triple prestiged by then?

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Quabzor posted:

Everybody check out the ghosts thread If you haven't seen it yet.

In archives? Or

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.
I've been watching a few streams now, and it seems like all of the streams I've watched have had at least a couple times where they stopped shooting a guy because they thought he was dead, and then they died. That makes me think TTK is a bit higher than what people are used to, even if it's a fraction of a second higher.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.
PSN times out when I try to join a party. Yay

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Knifegrab posted:

Is there any way to skip cutscenes in campaign?

Don't play campaign? Besides, why would you want to skip any of them? KEVIN SPACEY BALHAGSLASHDSDS

After playing this a fair amount last night, I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than Ghosts. Also, because I'm bad with money and have poor impulse control, I pre-ordered the PS4 digital edition yesterday instead of waiting for my Xbone version to arrive from Amazon today.

Hopefully tonight I can actually join parties with you guys after I get some homework done. If the PSN party thing still doesn't work, I will probably end up on Xbone, after all.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

sba posted:

so if I were to do something stupid like buy this for PS4 too, do your stats carry over from one platform to the other?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

no

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Baron FU posted:

Trip report from some connection testing.

10 PS3 games I had host in 8/10, the 2 I didn't host were 4bar games.
10 PS4 games I had host in 0/10, 9/10 were 1 bar the other was a 4bar.

Both my playstations are wired. I don't know what the hell is going on. Just happy I got the digital version for both.

I thought this lovely franchise was supposed to have dedicated servers on Xbone and PS4.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

dreffen posted:

Tactilol to the max



This was several pages back but reminded me of this:

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.
Alright, I just added a bunch of you weirdos on Xbone Live. I started out on PS4, but PSN is terrible by not letting me join parties most of the time and my PS4 controller is making GBS threads the bed right now (analog stick falling apart and won't fully charge). So, I'm switching over to Xbone even though the PS4 guys I played with were awesome and I love you and you're the best it's not you it's PSN.

I finished SP last night and it was definitely much better than Ghosts. But, to be honest, my opinions are weird because I freaking loved the BF4 campaign, which I played on Hard since that's what DICE said they tuned the campaign around. So, I can't objectively tell if military shooter campaigns are good anymore. I'm pretty sure MW3 and Ghosts were bad. Only played 10 minutes of Blops 1 before I got bored, and never played Blops 2.

Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

I_Socom posted:

I've just bought a PS4 and AW. The last CoS I played was MW3 on the 360.

What do I need to know about the :pcgaming: next gen 1080p60 :pcgaming: world of CoD? Is it still full of quickscoping fuckheads? How the gently caress do points and loadouts and poo poo work in multiplayer? And what's the Akimbo 1887 / FMG-9 / danger close+scavenger dickhead combo of choice for multiplayer?

Probably the SAC-3 speed build. Basically akimbo SMG's (only ones in the game, i think?) and you want Gung Ho/Scavenger so you can shoot while sprinting and sliding. Then, mapvote Detroit and SMG your way to Prestige.

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Finster Dexter
Oct 20, 2014

Beyond is Finster's mad vision of Earth transformed.

Smilin Joe Fission posted:

Sorry if this isn't the best thread for this, but I figured people here probably know more about CoD Ghosts than any other active threads. X-posting from Steam sale thread:

I picked up CoD: Ghosts for $15 since I've always enjoyed the CoD games despite their share of problems. Apparently the game really likes 6 gigs of RAM or more, but from what I've read it will run in 4 (which I have). I've literally never seen a game before that claims to require more than 4 gigs of RAM, so I wasn't paying attention.

Am I correct in assuming that the Steam version has all the proper patches, etc already applied to allow it to run in 4 gigs? So far I can't get past the loading screens and into an actual mission, but I'm trying to figure out whether that's due to not having some patch that I need, or if I just need to tweak the Advanced graphics settings. I already have everything at near minimal settings. With a 2.8 GHz Core i5, 4 GB RAM, and GTX 460 w/ 1 GB of video RAM it doesn't seem like I should have to turn everything down to the bare minimum. CoD MW3 (edit: and Black Ops II) ran at near maximum graphical settings in the highest resolution with no problem, so Ghosts must be horrendously non-optimized and inefficient in comparison.

Anyone had luck playing the game on a similarly powered system? What settings worked if so?

There's a CoD thread in Imp Zone somewhere and I think most of those posters got the PC version.

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