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Liberatore posted:Game assigns you to the closest data center, then matches within that. If it can't find players, it matches you within a different DC. loving crazy because I live in Maryland. I never ever get matched with Americans.
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Carecat posted:Bandit's electric traps, too situational to be useful? They are great at taking out drones but the chances of anyone ever standing in one or hitting a wall with one seems hugely low. They would be a good gently caress you to anyone who enters a window but that's as big a crap shoot as putting them on a wall. We used them to surround a hostage, so when they lingered outside the window, I popped Smoke's gas and they jumped in to try and smash and grab the hostage and more or less died to the barbed wire.
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Shadowlz posted:loving crazy because I live in Maryland. I never ever get matched with Americans. Makes no sense to me. Check what data center you're connected to. Brazil's only one is "sbr", I believe. In Maryland, you should be connected to "eus" (East US).
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Liberatore posted:Bandit's batteries are pretty good for their ability to prevent Thermite from breaching reinforced walls, if they don't have a Thatcher or in some cases, Twitch. Badit + barbed wire or a ballistic shield on a chokepoint is good at slowing them down
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Liberatore posted:Makes no sense to me. Check what data center you're connected to. Brazil's only one is "sbr", I believe. In Maryland, you should be connected to "eus" (East US). Yeah I was connected to sbr. No clue why it's doing that. I'm not on any vpns or anything. I ping like 180-270.
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Dec 2, 2015 15:28
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So to anybody on the fence about the Xbox version, don't be! This game is a total blast other than the spotty hit detection and horrors of playing with pubs. I also love how they categorize every kind of victory and defeat imaginable. I especially love if you lose during overtime as you get a "Heartbreaking Defeat" 
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Shadowlz posted:loving crazy because I live in Maryland. I never ever get matched with Americans. I'm also MD  and have never not been on us east in any game, except when it's by choice.
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I wish they'd just let you pick whatever datacenter you wanted. They said you would be able to at launch but nope.
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Dec 2, 2015 16:25
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I guess it's some routing tomfoolery going on. Hopefully they will add the feature to pick your own data center soon. I'll just play with goons or something till then. Sometimes I get lucky and get WUS instead of SBR.
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So last night us goons in the channel played against Matimi0 with 850 people watching. And won. Shadowlz posted:loving crazy because I live in Maryland. I never ever get matched with Americans. I'm in the Baltimore area as well, and the only time I notice playing with non-Americans is if I'm in a group with other people who use a different data center. Otherwise I usually have a great ping (Eastern US data center gives me like a 19 ping so I'm pretty sure it's in DC or something) and most everyone else in the server does as well. Dvsilverwing fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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Dvsilverwing posted:So last night us goons in the channel played against Matimi0 with 850 people watching. Nice, find the stream and post the highlight man! Also where's everyone finding this the cheapest on PC? Need it for myself and to put in the OP.
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Made a dumb thing out of some beta footage for the sake of it (and because that Idris Elba trailer was too silly to not take the piss out of) Gotta say, for as much as they've been pumping up the PVP for those HOT ESPORTS MT DOLLARS, Terrorist Hunt really feels like an unsung successor to the co-op of the old games. It's really nice to see Bad Company-esque destruction with much tighter level design and in a more quaint lil' context. I've also had pretty decent luck with communication and no intentional teamkills or elitist bullfuckery yet, so that's a real plus.
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Keket posted:Nice, find the stream and post the highlight man! I got it for a little over $45 CAD off of cjscdkeys.com, which I've dealt with before and seems relatively trustworthy, but their site is laid out like trash and they sent me an actual picture of a retail box code, which definitely implies the risk of stolen-out-of-the-back-of-a-truck keys. I wouldn't blame anyone for giving it side-eye, so G2A's probably the safest bet, if you can't get a decent price on a spare Nvidia code off Ebay.
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I had a few people intentionally TK but the game was pretty quick about taking them out of the game so it wasn't really an issue aside from one round's loss. Anyone playing this on a console really owes it to themselves to get a good set of headphones if they don't have one already; surround sound is such a boon to locating enemies that it's practically a handicap just using a television
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The soundwork in this game reaches borderline-DICE levels of masterful engineering, sometimes arguably surpassing that. Sound occlusion tends to be pretty barebones and crappy in most games, especially for footstep sounds, but the amount of effort they put into it here gives a sense of dread kinda akin to hearing someone actually scurrying around a floor above you. That's a real difficult thing to do in the wild world of game sound design. Granted, none of it's HYPER REAL and actual voices still carry a bit too far, but the reverb lends them enough credibility and honestly i'm surprised at how much VO the AI alone has for everything. I mean, it's not uncharacteristic for these games, but with how little they needed to care about that stuff they definitely put some effort in.
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Cameras are also a great drama-creating design idea. There has been a few tunes when I am flipping through camera and hit upon an entire attacking team stacking up right above a ceiling that looks suspiciously like the one that is right above me at that very second and no one bothered to bar. Then the world explodes
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Moartoast posted:The soundwork in this game reaches borderline-DICE levels of masterful engineering, sometimes arguably surpassing that. Sound occlusion tends to be pretty barebones and crappy in most games, especially for footstep sounds, but the amount of effort they put into it here gives a sense of dread kinda akin to hearing someone actually scurrying around a floor above you. That's a real difficult thing to do in the wild world of game sound design. Yeah the sound is awesome. Also a lot of neat visual effects like dust off the basement ceiling when someone sprints across it and lights flickering when explosions go off. The debris carry a nice weight and things don't tend to fly across the room in a glitch spasm.
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So I know there isn't a "best " operate because they're all unique little snowflakes but is there a worst? So far everyone I've used seems to have some use on every map but are there any guys are just flat out inferior ( as in outclassed by another operator, etc)?
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Sgt. Cosgrove posted:So I know there isn't a "best " operate because they're all unique little snowflakes but is there a worst? So far everyone I've used seems to have some use on every map but are there any guys are just flat out inferior ( as in outclassed by another operator, etc)? Doc is pretty situational. He's really good if Rook is on the team though because his extra armor makes people get downed instead of killed WAY more often. It's really easy to kill Twitch and Bandit's devices too, but they're still pretty useful. Mute and Thermite are almost always taken though.
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I don't think there are any stand-out poo poo ones, but i think its more 'you should always have at leased X on your team' which is usually Thermite and maybe castle/whoever does the tazer poo poo. Also yes, you owe it to yourself to get some good headphones for this loving amazing game. And thinking about it, I'd much prefer watching competitive games of this than watching competitive CS.
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The sound design is amazing for this game. In Counter-Strike you can tell where people are by what they're running on, same thing here. There are different things around the map to indicate position, broken glass, broken boards, tarps, each has a different sound when people run on them. The booming reverberation of the attackers running above you is insane in making the tension come to life. Its also pretty important to situation awareness.
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Dvsilverwing posted:I'm in the Baltimore area as well, and the only time I notice playing with non-Americans is if I'm in a group with other people who use a different data center. Otherwise I usually have a great ping (Eastern US data center gives me like a 19 ping so I'm pretty sure it's in DC or something) and most everyone else in the server does as well. It's in Virginia. There's also DCs in Texas and California, possibly Iowa and/or Illinois. Outside of the US, there's ones in at least Singapore, Ireland, Tokyo, São Paulo, Hong Kong and Netherlands. Sgt. Cosgrove posted:So I know there isn't a "best " operate because they're all unique little snowflakes but is there a worst? So far everyone I've used seems to have some use on every map but are there any guys are just flat out inferior ( as in outclassed by another operator, etc)? IQ's device is pretty much only useful as a counter to Pulse; She has a good gun and she's fast, so people still like her, but she's easily the worst attacker. Kapkan's booby traps won't even slow down decent players, but he has C4 and a great loving SMG.
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Sgt. Cosgrove posted:So I know there isn't a "best " operate because they're all unique little snowflakes but is there a worst? So far everyone I've used seems to have some use on every map but are there any guys are just flat out inferior ( as in outclassed by another operator, etc)? Its pretty balanced but some operators have a broader use than others, some I don't really like are: IQ: She has low armor and her ability lets her see electronic devices which is super situational because most devices are focused in the objective area and Thatcher (who has medium armor) has EMP grenades and plenty of them to deal with most electronics, so when I play as him I preemptively toss nades into the objective room to clear out devices. She does have great primary weapons to choose from and gets the other LMG (the other being Fuse) Sledge: Most of the time his ability is not useful as everyone will have breaching charges or otherwise, however since his hammer isn't powered by electricity he can deploy it on things covered by Mute jammers (specifically Castle walls with a jammer behind them), however he exposes himself to shots if they enemy knows he's at the window. Twitch: The drone is useful, but once again the EMP grenades do the same thing and cannot be countered by things that counter drones. Only benefit is it can scout as well. She also looks like a gimp and has a great weapons selection. This is all my opinion, some goons here pick IQ every time and I laugh at them off mic because of it while they proceed to carry with the LMG. Captn Kurp fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Cameras are also a great drama-creating design idea. There has been a few tunes when I am flipping through camera and hit upon an entire attacking team stacking up right above a ceiling that looks suspiciously like the one that is right above me at that very second and no one bothered to bar. Then the world explodes I just wish they let the Defenders plant their own cameras the way the Attackers can position their drones. Once you learn the camera placements it's easy to train yourself to shoot them every round. It's not like they aren't super-obvious, they glow red whenever a defender is looking through them. Speaking of positioning your drones, try to put them high rather than low. I like to jump on bookcases, boxes, and anything else above eye-level. The common terrorist is physically incapable of looking up, use this to your advantage. If you have eyes inside the objective room, winning the round should be a given.
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Liberatore posted:It's in Virginia. Okay so pretty close to DC, anyway.
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IQs ability is situational but it has its uses. It's great in t-hunt because the AI likes to drop nitro cells all over the place. You can also use it to help Thatcher guide his nades or as a quick scout if you didn't find the location during the setup phase since the room with all the traps is the one you'll be going to. Basically, IQ compensates for bad teammates.
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IQ can straight up detect the bomb/biohazard which can be useful in T-Hunt, but is pretty useless in MP.
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Moartoast posted:The soundwork in this game reaches borderline-DICE levels of masterful engineering, sometimes arguably surpassing that. Sound occlusion tends to be pretty barebones and crappy in most games, especially for footstep sounds, but the amount of effort they put into it here gives a sense of dread kinda akin to hearing someone actually scurrying around a floor above you. That's a real difficult thing to do in the wild world of game sound design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6ZWRSiqpQ Audio Director explains propagation with stick figures.
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IQ is invaluable for thunt's "entire room of C4" situations, but she really depends on your teammates actually listening to your warnings. I've called out stuff plenty of times and then saw a teammate just charge in blindly and get blown to hell
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Who are THE BEST operators? From beta my limited experience is that: Thermite, Ash, Mute, Tachanka, Castle were all pretty good
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Jerkface posted:Who are THE BEST operators? Thermite and Thatcher are a must have for every attack team. Fuze is just behind. For defense it's not as marked. Mute or Bandit are nice to have but now that we have Thatcher they aren't as good as they used to be. SMG are apparently terrible 
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I also forgot Kapkan, who has the choice of an auto shotty (great!) and his SMG had insanely good iron sights, so you dont need to splurge on a red dot.
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Jerkface posted:I also forgot Kapkan, who has the choice of an auto shotty (great!) and his SMG had insanely good iron sights, so you dont need to splurge on a red dot. 
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kalstrams posted:Glaz also is quite good. It's like they purposely made no bad Russian operators. Tachanka's turret is basically a death trap that will sometimes get you one kill, and anyone who dies to a Kapkan trap is a certifiable retard. Their guns are really good at least.
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Orv posted:Tachanka's turret is basically a death trap that will sometimes get you one kill, and anyone who dies to a Kapkan trap is a certifiable retard. Their guns are really good at least. You obviously haven't seen Gamesguy play as Tachanka.
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The Tachanka turret needs one of two things to be useful: Make it remote controlled - helps Tachanka, helps IQ, makes Thatcher even better. Make it shoot through shields - helps Tachanka, makes it a viable counter to shields but keeps the extreme vulnerability to anything that isn't shields. And I'm sure goons can come up with even more changes that would make the turret not a death trap or at least a death trap that's worth risking.
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DatonKallandor posted:The Tachanka turret needs one of two things to be useful: Just give it a shield imo
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