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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:

:aaa:

They're bringing back the motion tracker? Are they insane? Do they have any idea what I would do to teams with that thing?

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Gordon Shumway
Jan 21, 2008

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Since we'll be dissecting the gameplay videos as they come out here's a map layout from one of the beta maps:



Standard Treyarch design. 3 main lanes with 3 intersecting points. It's going to ultimately rely on how good or bad the spawn system works but this looks "safe" as far as design goes.

This map looks reminiscent of Redwood and I am cool with that.

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer
Pretty excited to remake my robot man build in 1111. Rcxd, that mini walker tank toy, and whatever a third robot streak is.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


So what specialist are you guys going for? Aside from Ruin that is as I’ll 100% main the closest thing to advanced mobility.

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum


https://i.imgur.com/vzCzeJA.gifv

https://twitter.com/dril/status/541298222044819456

https://i.imgur.com/uRKajqc.gifv

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]

Mister Facetious posted:

:aaa:

They're bringing back the motion tracker? Are they insane? Do they have any idea what I would do to teams with that thing?

I like how we're already starting to sort out our team comp. Jacs has called dibs on Ruin, Macys wants Recon, and I'm interested to play Crash or Torque.

E: Great minds think alike:

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

So what specialist are you guys going for? Aside from Ruin that is as I’ll 100% main the closest thing to advanced mobility.

JackGeneric fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 19, 2018

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer
I'll probably pick the guy with barbed wire because Prophet isn't a thing and I can just wire in random spots to annoy people.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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

Bumper Stickup posted:

I'll probably pick the guy with barbed wire because Prophet isn't a thing and I can just wire in random spots to annoy people.
I want to run that guy just because he has the riot shield. gently caress my KDR, RS/C4 all day errday. Otherwise I'll just pick whatever poor schlub y'all don't want to run.

housefly
Sep 11, 2001

Wait is it exclusive so that you can’t have an all Ruin team or whatever? Or are you guys just talking cosplay in your shooty mans?

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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

housefly posted:

Wait is it exclusive so that you can’t have an all Ruin team or whatever? Or are you guys just talking cosplay in your shooty mans?
Only one type of specialist per team. This is dumb and bad because no gimmick games. I dunno if they'll change their minds later but I doubt it.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]

housefly posted:

Wait is it exclusive so that you can’t have an all Ruin team or whatever? Or are you guys just talking cosplay in your shooty mans?

In the build that's been shown, teams cannot have more than one of each specialist. It'll probably be obnoxious to race pubbies for the character you want, but the specialist-exclusive gear seems good enough that I could see why they might not be eager to let players stack them.

E: Which is not to say that I agree, but I can at least see where they're coming from.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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

JackGeneric posted:

It'll probably be obnoxious to race pubbies for the character you want
One more reason to never play with pubbies.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
Are they hard coding classes into COD wtf

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Waroduce posted:

Are they hard coding classes into COD wtf

Welcome to Call of Overwatch.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]

Waroduce posted:

Are they hard coding classes into COD wtf

Unlike BLOPS 3, where your specialist only informed what super you got, or IW, where specialist got you a super and a passive trait, BLOPS 4 gives each specialist a unique piece of equipment that can be used more frequently than their super.

Or you can give the unique equipment up and use a grenade, so grenades are gonna have to be real good.

JackGeneric fucked around with this message at 18:01 on May 19, 2018

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:

JackGeneric posted:

In the build that's been shown, teams cannot have more than one of each specialist. It'll probably be obnoxious to race pubbies for the character you want, but the specialist-exclusive gear seems good enough that I could see why they might not be eager to let players stack them.

E: Which is not to say that I agree, but I can at least see where they're coming from.

With 5v5, worrying about pubbies will be way less of an issue, my problem is going to be the lack of character choices after the first month.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

I call dibs on Seraph IF she has Combat Focus, otherwise I don’t care.

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer

SubponticatePoster posted:

I want to run that guy just because he has the riot shield. gently caress my KDR, RS/C4 all day errday. Otherwise I'll just pick whatever poor schlub y'all don't want to run.

You're thinking of Ajax. Dude I want has razorwire and a barrier with a microwave. Ajax has a 9bang flash grenade and ballistic shield with attached gun.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]

Mill Village posted:

I call dibs on Seraph IF she has Combat Focus, otherwise I don’t care.

She does not.

The confirmed operators:
  • Battery: Equipment: a sticky grenade that explodes into multiple bouncy explosives. Super: War Machine
  • Ajax: Equipment: A flash/concussion grenade that can be cooked to explode multiple times. Super: Riot Shield and Machine Pistol
  • Torque: Equipment: Razor wire that slows and damages enemies. Super: A piece of placeable cover that also emits a Guardian-like microwave field.
  • Firebreak: Equipment: A reactor core that damages and reduces max health in a radius. You can sacrifice your own health to make it last longer. Super: Purifier
  • Crash: Equipment: An ammo pack. Ammo gained from this also gives increased score for kills. Super: A gun that heals and buffs max HP through walls.
  • Recon: Equipment: A gun that fires a motion tracker that the whole team can use. Super: Vision Pulse, but it affects the entire team, not just the user.
  • Ruin: Equipment: A grapple gun. Super: You have a nice fuckin' day now.
  • Seraph: Equipment: A team-wide tac insert. Super: The Annihilator

Also, not formally confirmed, but there's a Nomad-looking dude who shoots traps from a slingshot and whose super is probably summoning a dog.

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer
Changed my mind. I call dibs on Nomad.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
I just want to run flak jackets and stand on a point with my M60 and Scythe through pubbies like Moses parting the Red Sea as explosions and fire rain down around me I will visit upon them great Vengeance of biblical proportions insallah

widespread
Aug 5, 2013

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


Well if we’re calling dibs then gently caress it I’mma start on Battery and be That rear end in a top hat With Armor And Explosives.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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

Bumper Stickup posted:

You're thinking of Ajax. Dude I want has razorwire and a barrier with a microwave. Ajax has a 9bang flash grenade and ballistic shield with attached gun.
Even better, no overlap.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Also please start working on your character stories as I’ll be running strictly RP chat only lobbies.

Kizurue
Apr 5, 2006

There's somethin' fishy goin' on here...
It's going to be a blast trying to do camos for specialist when you can only have 1 per team.

Kizurue fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 19, 2018

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.
http://www.twitch.tv/thexclusiveace/v/262885424?sr=a&t=4105s

Looks like they're really going for it with Ruin's voice lines.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


This has has been relatively good with “leaks” in the past and this sounds like the best way to move forward

- Branch off zombies to its own DLC season pass. Which is basically what’s already happening anyways.
- Free monthly map release as opposed to 4 maps every 3 months.
- Supporting the MP aspect of the game as an effort to keep the Blackout base coming back.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

JackGeneric posted:

She does not.

The confirmed operators:
  • Battery: Equipment: a sticky grenade that explodes into multiple bouncy explosives. Super: War Machine
  • Ajax: Equipment: A flash/concussion grenade that can be cooked to explode multiple times. Super: Riot Shield and Machine Pistol
  • Torque: Equipment: Razor wire that slows and damages enemies. Super: A piece of placeable cover that also emits a Guardian-like microwave field.
  • Firebreak: Equipment: A reactor core that damages and reduces max health in a radius. You can sacrifice your own health to make it last longer. Super: Purifier
  • Crash: Equipment: An ammo pack. Ammo gained from this also gives increased score for kills. Super: A gun that heals and buffs max HP through walls.
  • Recon: Equipment: A gun that fires a motion tracker that the whole team can use. Super: Vision Pulse, but it affects the entire team, not just the user.
  • Ruin: Equipment: A grapple gun. Super: You have a nice fuckin' day now.
  • Seraph: Equipment: A team-wide tac insert. Super: The Annihilator

Also, not formally confirmed, but there's a Nomad-looking dude who shoots traps from a slingshot and whose super is probably summoning a dog.

I’m still calling dibs on her for the team tac-insert.

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.
I will mandate that we have a Crash on our team due to the ammo packs. Also, they increase score :siren:

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.
Aw, I wanted Battery. I'm a loving surgeon with the War Machine.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

Looks like several people from Respawn are rejoining Infinity Ward.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/8kor11/the_original_infinity_ward_team_from_respawn_have/

Oh Ranon Sarono is the guy with the awesome gun animations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbcRhDCbcM

Mill Village fucked around with this message at 02:33 on May 20, 2018

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Javes posted:

I will mandate that we have a Crash on our team due to the ammo packs. Also, they increase score :siren:

Generic called dibs on her.

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:

Mill Village posted:

Looks like several people from Respawn are rejoining Infinity Ward.


*EA closes studio beginning of next fiscal quarter*

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
Content has been removed, what did it say? Is it this article? https://gamingintel.com/2018/05/20/original-modern-warfare-developers-return-to-infinity-ward-cod-2019/

limited
Dec 10, 2005
Limited Sanity

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

- Supporting the MP aspect of the game as an effort to keep the Blackout base coming back.
This whole battle-royale thing is probably going to fail hilariously. I'd love to be wrong, but they can barely get connection / hitbox poo poo right with a dozen players in a tiny map, let alone however many more they finally decide on. :downsgun:

Still, at least they've finally twigged that map-packs are dumb, and split the player base. Going to guess the microtransaction profits finally outstripped them. :allears:

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib
Seems like there's still a season pass, but just for zombie maps. The people that actually play that mode deserve having to pay for new maps.

limited posted:

Still, at least they've finally twigged that map-packs are dumb, and split the player base. Going to guess the microtransaction profits finally outstripped them. :allears:

How many players can id Tech 3/Quake 3 handle?

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Lambert posted:

Seems like there's still a season pass, but just for zombie maps. The people that actually play that mode deserve having to pay for new maps.

Zombies has been the only reason to get a season pass in the last 2 years. I was never into the BO zombies but those maps get ridiculously complicated and they have a continuing story being told so the people into them are definitely willing to pay for it. Hell, they actually remaster the previous zombie maps for BO3. IW’s zombie modes was pretty fun and the best way to make keys to buy boxes so I ended getting to really enjoy and learn those maps once they clicked for me.

Kizurue
Apr 5, 2006

There's somethin' fishy goin' on here...
I'm just going to go ahead and call dibs on whatever specialist I can select at the start of the round before the rest of you jerks. Does that count?

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Kizurue posted:

I'm just going to go ahead and call dibs on whatever specialist I can select at the start of the round before the rest of you jerks. Does that count?

That's the one I'm going to pick.

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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:
Nuh uh, I called it first. :colbert:

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