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Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I'm not sure when it changed but putting cryo mines on wallride areas over death drops (like that curved part on frost) give you an assisted suicide kill. I'm fairly sure that didn't happen when the game first came out. If I remember right I'd just get a hit marker and they'd show up in the kill feed as a dumb dummy.

This makes it the best part of the game.

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Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I like the dragon calling cards. I like getting them. The one I don't like is killing ground scorestreaks with aerial scorestreaks because what the gently caress.

I have 2/10 due to lucky scarab hits

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Nov 23, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mill Village posted:

Ghosts made you destroy airborne streaks with a Loki. You basically had to earn it, then purposefully die a bunch in hopes that somebody calls in a Chopper, then call in your Loki and somehow destroy it.

I never bothered with that challenge on ghosts, which sounded like a smart decision. The aerial on aerial this time round was easy as the THOR is above most things and as the warden is roughly 9 feet off the ground you could hit it with any offensive aerial scorestreak. Well I never tried the apex but who knows.

I guess once I finish the apex challenge I'll just keep bombardments, scorchers and trinity rockets on hand and only use them when someone calls in a scarab, angry robot thing or a sentry gun they will put under cover.

loving stupid challenge.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

As this is a safe place I'd like to state that my first prestige unlock was the ballista and marked for death combo. No regrets.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Nov 27, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I found the vulture kills dragon calling card really easy. All you need to do is shoot the enemy not enough to kill him, but enough for him to be one shot, then die and let the vulture maybe kill him.

It's good that the vulture is "watching my six" so unless I am fully camping and looking up to watch his useless laser tracker all he does is video dope GoPro action of all my deaths before firing staples at the enemy.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

IM DAY DAY IRL posted:

every single time I see a vulture I shoot it and it dies and it's hilarious so I love it thanks for tuning in

why waste the two bullets when you can wait for a slight breeze or the sound waves from a grenade 40 feet away to do the job for you.

e: i got the vulture calling card third after the warden and thor and that sums up how bad the scorestreaks are in this game. Basically Robot guy, thor and scorchers should be your only setup. robot to get kills, thor to get kills from space and the scorchers to kill yourself when you're a kill away from one of the other two scorestreaks

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 29, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Stux posted:

alright see you guys next year then i guess rip

There is one called the s-ravage. It's a cool name.

Don't worry about killing or poo poo, look at that dope name. (Stands for poo poo ravage.)

The best shotgun is the reaver machete because you explode people with melee and it helped me max out my Wraith mission team thing early on. I don't think I ever fired it though...

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mill Village posted:

There's a RAW and an NV4 nerf coming. :negative:

loving good

Silenced NV4 and RAW's are all well and good when I'm playing a 5 perk pick-up class but man there's really no need to use anything else unless your mission team demands you akimbo some pistols like a goddamed man.

A few long shot/point blank combo medals and 3 more quad feeds and I have the killer calling card, earning me the respect of the few children on IW that have found how to view the calling cards they don't have. Sorry dragon card, but gently caress your ground scorestreaks killed by aerial scorestreaks challenge.

After that I'll probably just run around with the Ripper or akimbo auto epic Kendell pistols until I reach nirvana.

Gordon Shumway posted:

I like the SPAS (or the S-Ravage if you would prefer that) simply for style points. That's why I always ran around like an idiot with the Model 1887 in MW3.

Oh, sure if you're going by "wanting to look baller as gently caress and annoy people when you land that kill" then the Savage Ravage is the way forward. It's the only shotgun I use when mission teams ask for shotty kills but man it can be infuriating.

I got the other epic Reaver in a crate last night but can't remember what it does and I will never use it.

Mill Village posted:

But its pretty slow so it can lose against faster weapons at closer ranges.

I have more point blank kills off the RAW then I do off any SMG or akimbo pistols. It really does not like missing.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

SubponticatePoster posted:

Guess I'll be good then because gently caress getting sniper kills on these tiny maps Wraith!

EBR in assault rifle mode.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mister Macys posted:

Pro tip: almost nobody uses the EBR in assault mode in Gun Game.

I'm not the least bit surprised.

I actually used it as my main weapon for a while. the recoil is hilarious but I love it. Quite fun when you don't want your "get energy weapon kills" challenge to be "oh well I have this RAW/erad and a rudimentary understanding of aiming."

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mill Village posted:

IW had a surprise for us in this update, the Drone Package now unlocks at Level 4. I'm so glad I didn't blow my Perma Unlock token on it.

gently caress

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

it is a lovely game

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I had a vulture get a double kill on B in DOM so needless to say I appreciate the buff.

And yes, they were afterlife medals.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

i clicked the cod tv thing on the game and am watching a bunch of guys using the OSA over and over.

i did see a k-bar once but mostly just OSA's.

Oh look another OSA.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I saw someone fall off the map during hardpoint and it made me feel better about my various suicide leaps.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Was that the game that ended 250-249? That was a fun match.

I think so. A previous hardpoint on that map was crazy too. Think it was someone from Orbit wallriding above that lava area on the beams I didn't even know you could jump on and getting a triple kill.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Marked target is evil as gently caress and I am glad I unlocked it with a prestige token.

UNLIKE THE DRONE PACKAGE.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

widespread posted:

I got it. Run Marked Target/Cold Blooded/Hardwired/Silenced NV4 (preferrably Flatline but eh whatever works). Boom, you're now part of the meta.

There fallout variation is also acceptable as 99% of the people use it despite never getting near a nuke.

E: Vulture and phase shift. Get involved, it's a lot of fun.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Starting the "no silencers in my loadouts" club but offsetting this by noobtubing from great heights and finishing with airborne hip fired headshots so that people still call me a cheap prick.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

my scuf (TM) barely registers when i jump on the back paddles and wow my K/D is mostly in the 0.30's when i can't soar like an eagle

also to whoever was above don't buy the ripper, the legendary is better.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Good news: fixed my scuf.

Bad news: already ordered a new one.

Worst news: whenever I go into create a class I get the error "unable to look up table 'mp/loot/weapon/iw7_arvlassic.csv' in the fastfile" so the OSA is literally so broken it broke my loving game.

Great

E: oh they nerfed it. Well good now please fix my game because I can't play multiplayer anymore.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Dec 10, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I am in version 2 of "turn it off and back on again" in my live chat with Activision support and when I close my eyes I see world's burning.

Completely ignoring that I told them I tried this and even deleting and reinstalling the game.

E: We're on to version 4 of "turn it off and back on again" but this time we're up to 5 minutes powered off.

I asked why this when we've literally done this 4 times already with power down times of 2-3 minutes and how 2 more minutes will help, but apparently it's the last step and then it can be pushed to the higher up team who will be laughing uncontrollably about me doing this 5 loving times when blatently I just need loadout 1 clearing.

edit 2: ok I am now on with my second activision agent as the first one said I had to recontact them rather than just loving tell them the last thing didn't work.

e3: if they thank me for one more thing I'm going to cry

ed 4: ok now I am essentially starting over with a new person but have a cool support code that I can use to tell them apparently gently caress all

e 5: this guy fixed it in about 5 seconds and now I am questioning why I spent 30 minutes in various states of "turn the PS4 off whilst singing" and "clear the cache of your turned off PS4 with only the power of Kabbalah."

e 6: new guy told me to have fun on the game and rock some players, he has taken all my anger away with his charm

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Dec 10, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

BobbyBaudoin posted:

Ask him if he's single :allears:

the chat is now closed but I will always remember you, Hubert.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Alteisen posted:

I think I've seen the stupidest guns can possibly get in this game, then I bump into a guy using a 3 burst pistol that kills at insane ranges and its impossible to react to because of the sheer killing speed of it. :geno:

A dope rear end gun given to the loyal.

I just got the Phantoms epic taunt in a free 10 key supply drop and it is pretty cool. Uses his gun to shoot down a plane or something. Reminds me of the epic taunts from blops 3.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Dec 11, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I spent half of last night sitting a scarab near major wall run areas and let me tell you: people do not wall run as much as you want. the only time I saw someone some bitch on my team jumped over my scarab and killed the guy wall running whilst he himself was wall running just as I detonated it.

I don't know why I do challenges on this game they are torture

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

victrix posted:

The air challenges are beyond stupid. Ten triple kills with bombing streaks that are affected by spawn protection. I called in a triple bombardment on an open air hardpoint claimed by the enemy team and got zero kills :downs:

Oh and blow up ten ground based scorestreaks with air based streaks. Sure. Like pubbies call in ground based streaks? Like you're going to hit a loving Scarab with one?

I also like the buzzkill challenge on Active Camo, it's even worse than the Heat whatever one from BO3. I think it unlocks at 54? I'm like 7th prestige and I think I have 2 camo kills.

Feel free to remember that a trinity rockets triple kill does not count because...*shrugs*

I think only my warden and ap3x have ever counted for that?

I'm on 4/10 on air to ground. Don't expect it to be past 6/10 by the next COD.

Also the map that is in space and on fire or whatever? If you miss the ground on it and your trinity rocket goes through into space, sit tight for the time limit to run out. I just spent 10 seconds waiting for my last rocket to maybe hit space debris or infinity wards office.

E: got my scarab wall ride on Frost the very next game. I love you Frost. Got my ground streaks master card and never have to use a scarab again. I am also in love with the karma-45. It's blowing my k-bar, OSA and ripper games out of the water.

Guess as I still have to get my dragon master card...hmm...scorchers, bombardment and warden? Need a lone triple kill and 6 air to ground.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Dec 14, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

IM DAY DAY IRL posted:

the karma45 is good, the variants are great, but I still get buttfucked by kbars and NV4s regularly :shobon:

Running silencer, ext mags and foregrip I don't usually have a problem. Although I'm either above them or behind them so they can suck it with their stopping power/zero recoil. I'd run quickdraw instead of ext mags but no fucker bothers with SMG's so I don't need it.

Orion is the only team I don't have maxed/above 40 so I don't have the Phobos yet but the "built in specialist" legendary karma is working really well for me. The Phobos I'll definitely use though as it has good hipfire in the air which is My Thing.

Javes posted:

I remember the Vector and pre-nerf MTAR being very good in Ghosts.

Two of my favourite guns in Ghosts. Along with the honey badger. Of course any gun was good when I spent my entire Ghosts career camping like gently caress.

Javes posted:

Speaking of double jumps, I put on propulsion for the first time in a while and my god is it absurdly powerful.

I watched some dude get a nuke without ever hitting the ground on SPACE MAP WHICH IS ON FIRE.. It was also abused like gently caress in the recent CoD MLG tourney by some British chap. I just don't like any other Reaper loadout so I tend not to use it, despite it being exactly what my playstyle wants.

Godzilla07 posted:

What's the purpose of the EBR again?

Use assault rifle mode. Exclusively. If the Osiris didn't ruin the iron sights on it it'd be even better.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Guys the space map is called Mayday just like the best Extinction map.

ok fine I will try and remember this but you owe me

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

who needs aim assist when you are hip firing them in the back as you swoop down like a motherfucking eagle?

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

My basic strategy with any non RPR smg is: don't ever be in front of them.

Doesn't necessarily mean flank all the time or rely on your thrusters, it just means outmaneuver them. In earlier cods I couldn't do this reliably without stock but these days with perception, phase shift and the sound on enough to hear boosters and footsteps it's only the people ADSing on long range parts of maps that should be catching you off guard. Or someone running dead silence, cold blooded and hard wired but hell if they are doing that they deserve it for being Metal Gear Solid as gently caress.

On a side note I run with the legendary karma/rpr:

Ext mags, grip, silencer

Phase shift and perception/fuzzy ghost and heightened senses

Ghost, scavenger, dead silence and hard wired.

Only thing I change on the OSA/NV4/K-bar classes are the attachments.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

I got most of my ap3x and rx8's via ARE mode legendary RPR. Amazing weapon.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

BO3 is literally an antique now. It is time to move on. We're here for you.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

IM DAY DAY IRL posted:

the ICR was good :colbert:

No recoil guns are always the best to choose if you like a bit of a camping session.

Sometimes I just like to settle down in an area of three different camping points, and randomly rotate through them every 1-2 kills. You know, when I want a rest from noobtubing from the skies and want a peaceful match which ends in PS messages calling me a oval office. Crack out the NV4 Flatline/RAW, slap on ghost and use active smudge + heightened senses.

"YOU'RE PLAYING LIKE A oval office MATE, I'M RUNNING AROUND HERE WITH A loving KNIFE SON AND YOU'RE loving CAMPING YOU oval office."

Yes I'm English so I get the best hate mail senders: The English working class. Specifically, Birmingham and Manchester's working class.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Dec 16, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

BrokenKnees posted:

Word on the street is that Activison provides the drops/cod points for some of the bigger youtube superstars for their videos, on top of whatever fee the video costs.

please don't ruin the magic for me

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

HVR Gemini is the best gun.

This is not open to discussion.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Nerf the vulture.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

The akimbo butcher is like shooting people with two ejaculating dicks. 5 shots at the range where we could feel one another's breath before the guy put me out of my misery.

gently caress that gun.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Javes posted:

Invective and Mammoth are the best epic variants you can craft. The Ripper probably isn't worth the 4,000 salvage but the increased smg RPM is nice and reduced idle sway is helpful in AR mode.

Edit: beaten

Yeah what these two said. The invective is pretty disgusting.

E: it's cool that now the fixes have been made to many AR's, MLG is as NV4 rampant as the rest of the game.

E 2: although elevate and envy are K-bar happy.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 18, 2016

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Knife.

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Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

victrix posted:

Good, more impetus for them to nerf that loving gun, since they seem to love to ride the mlg dong

NV4 Fallout Reactive Armor is the nerd tryhard gear of choice. We pooped on a clan using that setup the other night in Dom (despite losing to a team of five newbies), that was satisfying. I hope the diamond shotgun I was using on them made them extra salty.

Killtime on the NV4 is lower than the other ARs, but, the delta between best and worst AR is pretty small (ignoring the OSA which is a sub in AR form :P), and more importantly, because of its stupid good accuracy, it hits its actual ttk more often than other guns with, you know, recoil.

Since flinch is minimal in this game its tough to throw someones aim off even if you hit first, which makes fighting the NV4 at any distance miserable, and I'll never get tired of dying to a hipfired hollow point NV4 when I'm using a sub or shotgun :allears:

Mostly I'm just sick of seeing it everywhere. All newbies use it because its the first unlock and its easy to use, and a shitton of pubstars use it because it (was) the only easily accessible nuke variant, and then a good number of actually skilled pubstompers use it because, well, its good.

End result: Not unusual to see half the killfeed being the NV4. Blech.

(despite my bitching, the NV4 is the only remaining standout gun that bugs me, and its not even close to the level of the pre-nerf BO3 Vesper - pretty much all of the ARs/subs/LMGs/pistols are good and usable, and the Longbow and Reaver are both strong, the NV4 is mostly just annoying)

The minimal flinch and baller accuracy combo is such a pain with the NV4. Basically you need to get in their face with an OSA because an smg won't kill it in time even in a hip fire battle.

gently caress the NV4. (First gun I got gold camo on in this game. :D)

Now, the real heroes are the men (there are no women in IW) who wrestle the OSA recoil like a crocodile because if you are near someone, they will die. Akimbo HVR? Epic reaver? Reactive armour and an NV4 with laser and hollow? OSA is going to take you roughly from behind.

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