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DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
Turned my Xbone on for the first time in months. Hoping to download as soon as I get through 30,000 updates.

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DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Freaquency posted:

How are you not using it as an All-in-One Entertainment System (tm)?

I had my satellite dish run though it for all of 2 days before I was sick of having to turn on/off another thing every time I wanted to watch TV.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

venutolo posted:

I'm always disappointed by how slow the Xbox Live CDN is. I went through the same update process the other day, and the updates download so slowly.

I'm very excited to teamkill you in new and exciting ways.

I haven't checked out the new stuff in this game at all. Is team killing back? IS THERE GOING TO BE A SPREADSHEET!? I'M SO EXCITED!

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
Jesus Comcast, get your poo poo together. I'm only at 60% downloaded so far. Looks like I wont be on until tomorrow.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
Finally got it downloaded and played some HC KC level with a pool before heading into work. Seems pretty cool so far. So much verticality!

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Pretty_Llama posted:

You are the worst person ever.

Hopefully team XsnipezxX is ready for a reunion tour tonight on the xbone.

Got my pro-tier gaming snacks ready. See you guys around 5:00 pm CST.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
Hey TyWebb, is your brother getting this game? We need to get the band back together. Where is Knight2m?

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Thumbtacks posted:

Apparently everything is down right now. Could it be dedicated servers?

probably not :smith:

I can't get into poo poo right now, stuck at fetching profile.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

tjones posted:

I kinda like solar.

I dont mind it. I like Terrace and Detroit the best so far.

Turns out I somehow turned off message notifications, so I didn't see any of the game/party invites you guys were sending me. Sorry!

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Pretty_Llama posted:

Remind me never to get in a foxhole with Jack - he runs at the first sign of danger. We were in the middle of a back and forth round capping A when the enemy called in a Vulcan - the coward jumps off the point with one tick left to let me get cooked. You are on team XxXsnIpezX 2.0 probation.

That was a solid win - we all went something like 10-25 and somehow pulled it out. Some guy on the other team went 43-3 with 10 caps. It was good to have a crew that was willing to put up with a round like that and not jump ship because we weren't up 150-10.

Way to go Jack.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
And the AW service just took a poo poo. Hooray, I didn't want to play tonight anyways!

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
I've been in a few matches that had like 10 on 2 or 9 on 3. Not sure how it happens, but its boring as gently caress tying to chase down 2-3 guys, especially when the game thinks its a full lobby and never balances.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
So apparently strafe kills aren't necessary for the camo challenges on ARs? I just got diamond camo on my BAL even though I still need like 20 strafe kills for that camo.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
If any of you are struggling to get strafe kills for the camo on the ARs, do this:
1) Unlock the grenade launcher
2) Go play hardcore dom or hardcore KC
3) Jump up in the air and launch some grenades
4) ????
5) Profit!

I needed more than 20 strafe kills and got them in like 3 matches this way.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
This game is so loving broken, which sucks because its fun when it does work.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Nighthand posted:

I have been using the XMG/Shield combo exclusively in hardcore for days and yeah the rage is amazing. People get so mad when "that fucker with the two machine guns" kills them, especially when I lock down and get longshots from across Terrace or something.
I may have to try this. I've been using the noob tube and semtex lately and I've gotten a TON of glorious rage mics. Terrace is the best map every for this. Start at the top and just keep double jumping your way down all 5 or 6 levels, lobbing grenades as you go. I just wish you could reload explosives using scavenger. I'm pretty close to unlocking overkill so I can have 2 primary weapons with noob tubes on them, I can't wait for that.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Pretty_Llama posted:

I really appreciate the game deciding its time to log off by breaking at some random point each night. Last night's was a new one - it's nice to have some variety. First it would randomly mute the players on my team (and tell me unable to unmute them when I tried) then it finally just locked up and showed all of my friends list as offline. Sweet.
Yeah, that was certainly a thing. One minute I'm playing the game, the next second I'm back at the Xbox home screen and it takes 10 minutes to reconnect to Xbox live and fetch my profile. Stupid game.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Pretty_Llama posted:

What happened to everyone? The only other person on last night from 8 to 9 EST was Frequency that I saw.

Playing alone is rough - I just don't get the pubbie mentality of completely ignoring any and all objectives.

I'm stuck in Toronto for the next few days. I'll be on late next week and next weekend.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
Having spent a good part of the day grinding out no perk/no attachment kills for 3 different ARs, I can say for certain that this game is unplayable without using hard wired. So many loving system hacks.

Mister Macys posted:

Is it because the games aren't as good though? Ghosts certainly, but AW is at least as good as BLOPS 2.
Ghosts sucked. I wouldn't say that AW is as good as BLOPS2, but its certainly better than ghosts.

venutolo posted:

I so very strongly disagree with this.
Holy poo poo you're alive! Please play on XBONE more!

DJCobol fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Dec 15, 2014

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Mister Macys posted:

I said Ghosts wasn't as good as previous CoD's. I don't see how you could have read that differently.

I was disagreeing with your statement that AW was as good as BLOPS2.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Give me more than 10 slots, and quit making me flip between 2 screens to see them all dammit!

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Fatty_McLumpkin posted:

Wasnt the last clan war during Thanksgiving? That's why i wasn't on. That and I didn't even hear about it until it was too late. I'll def. be around for the next one.

No, it was the weekend after Thanksgiving.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

FallinInTheBlak posted:

Okay great, thanks. It also seems that it doesn't count wins for you if you don't have the BOYS clan tag in use because I know I've played and won more than 5 games for domination - either that or the app doesn't work.

I haven't used the BOYS clan tag in a while now, because when playing with other goons, a lobby full of people using the same clan tag tends to scare people away.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

BCRock posted:

That said, playing this game solo sucks so I'd much rather play with goons and finish bottom 3 every round then play solo and finish top 3.

I'm 50/50 on that. Playing with goons is fun, but honestly when I play with goons I'm not so good by comparison. On the other hand, I had a series of hardcore dom games earlier where I was just making GBS threads on some pubbies, having 40+ kills and 10+ caps in a single match. The rage mics were glorious, and I pretty much carried my team for a good 3-4 rounds. All those times I was pretty much dead weight, I now know what it feels like to be a Venutolo or a Ty Webb.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Fatty_McLumpkin posted:

Cobol.. was it you who I kept buttslamming on accident the other day?

Yup

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
So did we get anything for winning that clan war?

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

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Grimey Drawer

Nighthand posted:

Unless the app is bugging out again, we're back up to Platinum division! Looking forward to the next clan war (3 days from now) where we all fail to take nodes and go back to Bronze.

Edit: we have also earned a bunch of clan tokens I guess, but they don't do anything yet.

Is there a way to convert clan tokens to bitcoin?

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
I'll be playing BLOPS2 if anyone wants to join me. gently caress this lovely rear end game.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
XBL appears to be down again, and when it's not down, the game/XBL still work like poo poo.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Fatty_McLumpkin posted:

in previous wars we would easily have 2-3 6 man teams going after nodes. That would turn a high number node into about 15 minutes of work. When there are only 4 people playing at any given time.. makes it kinda hard.

The other night it was just me and Cactusmas playing CTF with a bunch of pubbies, and we only needed 42 wins to cap the node! We stopped after 2.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer
Game is totally down right now? Nah, thats cool Beachhead/Sledgehammer. I didn't want to play at all today anyways.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

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Grimey Drawer

Apple2o posted:

Is anyone else getting kinda put-off by the design direction of this whole 'pick 13' stuff? I swear with every new cod game my guy can do less and less. 90% of people in this game are running a 3 slot SMG and extra perks. Half the perks are worthless. I almost never see exo abilities or grenades (for a good reason). About the only good new thing here is customizable killstreaks, and even then the point system/balancing is way off and results in almost nobody ever getting streaks (kill confirmed) or non-stop streak spam (dom). Maybe I am just bad or something but I am seeing this as easily one of the worst cods to date.

I don't mind it. It works pretty good for how I play. Most of my classes have a primary weapon with 3 attachments, and then for my kill streaks I use UAV (threat detection, support, speed), care package (support, better odds, double tap), and sometimes the remote turret (support, sentry, 360 or hardened). I'll probably take off the remote turret soon though because it seems like everyone is running blind eye these days.

My only variants are the perks since I almost never use the grenades, secondary weapons, or exo abilities. Hardwired is a must to not have to deal with system hacks. I use toughness when playing regular dom. If I'm tubing, then I use danger close. KC or TDM games I use low profile. Lastly I usually use blind eye, and if I have room, cold blooded.

I've never been good enough to reliably chain together enough points/caps/kills to get the higher kill streaks, so being able to pick stuff like a good UAV or a good care package and slap support on them is great compared to Ghosts where you had to pick from an entire group of lovely support items if you picked that class. And for me, its better than BLOPS2 because the best I could usually do there was UAV/CUAV/Turret. It wasn't until MONTHS of playing that I could finally start getting nice things like VSATS or escort drones. With that being said, for those of you that are actually good at this game I can see how the kill streaks suck. One of my favorite parts of BLOPS2 was always the beginning of round 2 in dom games when our teams would always have like 2 VSATS, a lodestar, an EMP and a swarm to call in.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

CALL OF DUTY! :rock:
Grimey Drawer

Gordon Shumway posted:

This is also the first COD game since MW3 where I do not have the most kills with C4, and that's only because there is no C4. I'm hoping Treyarch brings it back. Also, I've been hoping for the return of the flamethrower attachment since Black Ops 1.

I didn't start C4ing until the end of BLOPS2 and into Ghosts, but I really miss it. Its better than tubing.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

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Grimey Drawer

Shannow posted:

I managed to get a double kill on hardpoint calling in a care package the other day. Both victims were suitably annoyed.

I've triple killed teammates by calling in a care package at the beginning of round 2 on HCDOM, and as everyone is running away from the initial point, boom. Care package to the head. To me, that's even better than having Mascot or Jack goomba stomp me like 4 times in a row on the B flag on Terrace.

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

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Grimey Drawer

Fibby Boy posted:

Hardcore sucks.

Look how wrong you are. LOOK!

DJCobol
May 16, 2003

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Grimey Drawer
This game is dumb and if you still play it you are dumb which means I'm dumb.

I especially like the fact that the first map pack has been out for a while now, and they are advertising the second one, but I still can't play any of the new maps unless I'm playing moshpit, and even then I seem to get stuck with search and destroy. I'd rather stab my dick off with a rusty spork than play S&D ever again.

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DJCobol
May 16, 2003

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Are there seriously 30 prestige levels now? WTF?

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