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Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?

Javes posted:

I'm a gAMeR



hell ya bruther, game it the gently caress UP

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RichterIX
Apr 11, 2003

Sorrowful be the heart
I haven't looked well so forgive the dumb question but is there a wildcard that lets you use a secondary weapon as primary?

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

RichterIX posted:

I haven't looked well so forgive the dumb question but is there a wildcard that lets you use a secondary weapon as primary?

Yea it's at level 50

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:

Javes posted:

I'm a gAMeR



low carb and sugar free wtf is dis pussy poo poo DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR BRAIN NEEDS GLUCOSE!?!?!?

lol "gluten free"

EAT FASTER!!!!!!
Sep 21, 2002

Legendary.


:hampants::hampants::hampants:

RichterIX posted:

I haven't looked well so forgive the dumb question but is there a wildcard that lets you use a secondary weapon as primary?

What's the advantage exactly?

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:

EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

What's the advantage exactly?

You could grind a shotgun and still run a missile launcher for anti-air utility, as an example.

EAT FASTER!!!!!!
Sep 21, 2002

Legendary.


:hampants::hampants::hampants:

Mister Facetious posted:

You could grind a shotgun and still run a missile launcher for anti-air utility, as an example.

Ah, makes sense I guess. Not sure it's worth a whole point though.

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:

EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

Ah, makes sense I guess. Not sure it's worth a whole point though.

enh, gimmicks gonna gimmick, I guess.

So Icey Seifuku
Dec 26, 2007

EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

What's the advantage exactly?

Dual Melee weapons when they add more of them in a la BLOPS3.

JackGeneric
Apr 23, 2008

[Witty observation]

Mister Facetious posted:

enh, gimmicks gonna gimmick, I guess.

Yes I will.

Kizurue
Apr 5, 2006

There's somethin' fishy goin' on here...

Mister Facetious posted:

enh, gimmicks gonna gimmick, I guess.

You can't tell me it's not fun when everyone runs trash cans or micro turrets that cover the entire map. Or all running psychosis and smoke bombs.

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:
I didn't mean it as a pejorative. More in the line of, "People will do what people will do."

vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I cant get this whole jumping into a friends game in the community to work. I just get error msgs each time.

Peeps invite me! username:oneillfarms

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008

zapplez posted:

I cant get this whole jumping into a friends game in the community to work. I just get error msgs each time.

Peeps invite me! username:oneillfarms

Add me I spam invites same name as here


When is the patch supposed to drop? I'll just leave the PS4 on all day but am.curious

Wonder if I pick up monster if it'll stack to quad exp

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
I really want to like this game but the garbage matchmaker has given me like two wins since I started playing and it's making me start to hate it.

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:
Have you tried playing with goons?
Not joking, by the way. Never play alone (FFA and Solo excepted).

fit em all up in there
Oct 10, 2006

Violencia

I had my best game of Blackout tonight. Two kills in the water. And six all together in the end. Too bad the theater mode doesn’t work but when it does I’ll be sure to upload it.

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.
drat this game still kicks rear end! Was worried I'd be burned out in a week like I usually am but no I've played an ungodly amount and I'm stoked to play all weekend. I'm also someone who's never touched Zombies before but I'm kind of getting into it now -- and it's great, because now when I feel broken and defeated in one mode, I'll switch to one of the two others and keep playing. I'm honestly just impressed at how much content is in this one package

edit: although I've gotta say, while I didn't think I'd miss the story mode, the intel bits and cutscenes you unlock from specialist training are batshit crazy and now that I've seen them I'm a little resentful we won't see another Black Ops story for like 3 years because I want to see where they're going with this. also the performance for Frank Woods is amazing lol I could listen to him talk for hours

goferchan fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Oct 19, 2018

Matazat
Aug 12, 2011

Haven't seen this posted yet so-

There's a pretty ridiculous bug in blackout on PC that allows you to deploy your wingsuit on demand at any height. You can also jump while running on level ground and deploy it which puts you in a super janky animation, making you nearly impossible to hit. You can cross open fields relatively safely because your character model will be bouncing all over the place while you spam your wingsuit. You can chain together run -> jump -> wingsuit -> repeat.

All you do is jump and then hit num pad 3. You can rebind it though, it's something along the lines of "change to seat 3" in the keybinds under vehicles. You need to expand a submenu to see it. I rebound it to a mouse button.

Enjoy it while it lasts!

Thom and the Heads
Oct 27, 2010

Farscape is actually pretty cool.

PantsBandit posted:

I really want to like this game but the garbage matchmaker has given me like two wins since I started playing and it's making me start to hate it.

I recommend never playing anything but TDM and getting comfortable with just quitting matches if you don't think you're gonna have fun. For me, idgaf how fun a game against people who have prestiged three times within the first week of release could be. I'm quitting as soon as I join the lobby.

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:
Remember, with tens or hundreds of thousands of players online, there's nothing wrong with picking up your ball and looking for an easier match up. You bought the game to have fun, not do more work.

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

I solo queue only and play Chaos TDM and win about 50/50 of the time on PS4. The matches always seem pretty well balanced. Is it different across platforms or have I just been lucky?

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mister Facetious posted:

Have you tried playing with goons?
Not joking, by the way. Never play alone (FFA and Solo excepted).

Counter point, solo dom and tdm turn you into a strong and handsome player through the heightening of your two most important senses: paranoia and camping spots overlooking camping spots.

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:

Puckish Rogue posted:

Counter point, solo dom and tdm turn you into a strong and handsome player through the heightening of your two most important senses: paranoia and camping spots overlooking camping spots.

Can't camp if you're being flanked because pubbies are braindead, unreliable garbage.

I say this as someone that literally camped one building to 59-0, 50-0, 43-0, 49-1, 27-1 (twice in one game, on each side), and so on.

Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Oct 19, 2018

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mister Facetious posted:

Can't camp if you're being flanked because pubbies are braindead, unreliable garbage.

That's where the crippling paranoia comes in.

I tend to run solo more often than in groups and it's one of those things you either loathe or love. You just have to play like you're in free for all because if you're watching the left, they'll have definitly got massacred on the right and the entire enemy team have ICR's aimed at your back. All my classes run dead silence and acoustic sensor because of this.

I unironically do think it helps me improve though. Although I have to run sensitivity at triple figures because there's always someone behind me.

Mister Facetious posted:

Remember, with tens or hundreds of thousands of players online, there's nothing wrong with picking up your ball and looking for an easier match up. You bought the game to have fun, not do more work.

This is the best part of blops 4. I played world war 2 up until this game's release and the last month or more you saw the same guys in every lobby because apparently the player base was barely big enough to fill a tdm game.

Puckish Rogue fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Oct 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:
If you don't go deathless, you weren't paranoid enough and your team was garbage.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Prestiging was the worst thing I ever did. Not having dead silence made me just freeze up when people set off my acoustic sensor. Like, I'd go full living statue and hope they'd not see me.

So really they need to add emotes which are static so I can do cool living statue and mime poses when I'm below level 18.

The_Fuzzinator
Oct 9, 2007

I know now why you Cuddle. But it's something I can never do.

Puckish Rogue posted:

Prestiging was the worst thing I ever did. Not having dead silence made me just freeze up when people set off my acoustic sensor. Like, I'd go full living statue and hope they'd not see me.

So really they need to add emotes which are static so I can do cool living statue and mime poses when I'm below level 18.

Careful what you wish for, T poses everywhere.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Puckish Rogue posted:

Prestiging was the worst thing I ever did. Not having dead silence made me just freeze up when people set off my acoustic sensor. Like, I'd go full living statue and hope they'd not see me.

So really they need to add emotes which are static so I can do cool living statue and mime poses when I'm below level 18.

Beta token went to Dead Silence because :lol: playing a single game without it.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Beta token went to Dead Silence because :lol: playing a single game without it.

Bastard.

Manxome Foe
Apr 6, 2005

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
First solo Blackout win yesterday. Feels good man. Also, BostonZombie, Mosquito, Madman and I came reeeeaaal close to picking up a Quads win a few times. Blackout has grown on me.

Democratic Pirate
Feb 17, 2010

Is going Nuketown ever worth it? My buddy and I have dropped there once and the loot was poo poo and the circle was a marathon away.

I did 1800 damage in a game yesterday and didn’t get any downs or kills. Hitmarker city.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
When's the patch gunna drop?

Manxome Foe
Apr 6, 2005

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Democratic Pirate posted:

Is going Nuketown ever worth it? My buddy and I have dropped there once and the loot was poo poo and the circle was a marathon away.

I did 1800 damage in a game yesterday and didn’t get any downs or kills. Hitmarker city.

If you look on the map at Nuketown Island, there is a circular bay on the south of the island, and there's an entrance to the underground bunker there. We usually find a ton of useful poo poo in the bunker. That and we almost never see anyone else down there.



RichterIX posted:

I haven't looked well so forgive the dumb question but is there a wildcard that lets you use a secondary weapon as primary?

It's called Underkill and you get it at level 50 I believe.

Manxome Foe fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Oct 19, 2018

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

Mister Facetious posted:

Have you tried playing with goons?
Not joking, by the way. Never play alone (FFA and Solo excepted).

I haven't yet but I definitely need to. I was actually going to last night, but ended up being busy. Should have plenty of time the next couple days though.

I think the biggest issue for me with the matchmaking is it feels like there's always like 4 people in the match that are just utterly stomping everyone else. I don't know why this dude running around getting quick-scope quad-kills is even in the same game as me, a level 7 guy with the base weapons. With so many people playing this game, you'd think they could fill a lobby with people of relative skill levels.

Mill Village
Jul 27, 2007

The matchmaking is finding matches based on connection. Skill based matchmaking was in Advanced Warfare and it was awful. People would just kill themselves for hours just to get matched against bad players.

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Mill Village posted:

The matchmaking is finding matches based on connection. Skill based matchmaking was in Advanced Warfare and it was awful. People would just kill themselves for hours just to get matched against bad players.

Gotta give people credit for going 0-40 every game via Grenade In My Shoe so they could bully people into quitting MP and get a neat Killer call card. Truly the pinnacle of cod.

Democratic Pirate
Feb 17, 2010

The multiplayer is so different without everyone spamming grenades at the start. Maybe they’ll pop up once everyone levels up more, but for now it’s nice to get in shootouts at chokepoints without tons of grenades coming in (unless Battery has a cluster or her grenade launcher).

Puckish Rogue
Jun 24, 2010

Democratic Pirate posted:

The multiplayer is so different without everyone spamming grenades at the start. Maybe they’ll pop up once everyone levels up more, but for now it’s nice to get in shootouts at chokepoints without tons of grenades coming in (unless Battery has a cluster or her grenade launcher).

I figure tdm will start to see it. Stuff like the tac deploy isn't as useful in tdm so I could see Seraph based classes running frags. Looking forward to pubbies launching hail mary grenades and taking 4 annihilator shots to hit the broad side of a barn. They, of course, will be on my team.

Firebreaks might also gravitate towards it because pubbies are too dumb to figure out reactor core but loving love flamethrowers and masks.

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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:
You want grenades? War Machine's got grenades!
Get a free grenade launcher!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70VMrH3yBg

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