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Post by Gamma on Dec 7, 2016 13:19:35 GMT -5
Didn't Drift0r release a video about how he doesn't like Infinite Warfare?
Did you end up trying Titanfall 2? Want to know your thoughts
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 7, 2016 13:33:30 GMT -5
All of this talk made me realize that I did not spend nearly enough time BO3 deserves. Got it through preorder but only played 1 prestige. I should pick it up again this holiday season. Hopefully it still has pretty strong player population. This year being the first year that I did not pick up any ActiVision games (neither CoD nor Destiny, I guess you could say Overwatch is kinda ActiVision, oh well), I somehow end up with a very crowded game lineup: 1) TF2: lots of fun, already said too much about it 2) Halo 5: the last free update is coming out this week and 343i added a great feature: custom game browser. Now players can find and join custom games to enjoy community created game modes and maps! 3) Rainbow Six Siege: a somewhat hidden gem from last fall with free DLCs that UbiSoft just announced year 2 content, picked up at a discount; 4) Overwatch: the GoTY winner that I just picked up at discount; 5) and BO3 that I need to retroactively play to get my $$$'s worth Also, it is worth noting that all of the games mentioned above besides BO3 offer free post launch free DLC content, a great way to sustain player population, but a practice that ActiVision refuses to accept.
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Post by illram on Dec 7, 2016 14:19:04 GMT -5
I agree salvage earning is ridiculously low. Also the mission teams rank up is beginning to get monotonous and I have only done 1.5 of them. It makes no sense to (a) not be able to switch to another mission if you complete the active one and (b) have clearly more difficult missions (e.g. stick x players with a grenade) worth the same as easy ones.
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Post by iw5000 on Dec 7, 2016 15:07:37 GMT -5
I agree salvage earning is ridiculously low. Also the mission teams rank up is beginning to get monotonous and I have only done 1.5 of them. It makes no sense to (a) not be able to switch to another mission if you complete the active one and (b) have clearly more difficult missions (e.g. stick x players with a grenade) worth the same as easy ones. Why put dozens and dozens of cool upgradeable guns in the game, if a person will never be able to get to all of them? It's just ridiculously stupid. For example. I have the NV4 Fallout (Legendary) I'm doing the math on this. I need another 3,456 salvage points to get to 4,000 to get the Epic version, the Flatline. At my present pace, that's probably another month or plus of playing. To get ONE freaking gun. Just one epic gun. What about the other 27 Epic guns in the game? Where does one find the time to get them? Am I supposed to quit my job and just play 24/7? Log 750 hours on this game? Of course not. What Activision wants is me to get frustrated at the above, and open my wallet. Start buying CoD points to play the lottery game, so as to get more salvage points that way. They have a dying player base, so the goal now is to get those playing, to spend hundreds of dollars on this game. So even if the player base drops from say 22 million down to 8 million....they can still get some money back.
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Post by iw5000 on Dec 7, 2016 15:13:07 GMT -5
All of this talk made me realize that I did not spend nearly enough time BO3 deserves. Got it through preorder but only played 1 prestige. I should pick it up again this holiday season. Hopefully it still has pretty strong player population. Black Ops 3 was in hindsight, a pretty good game. Immensely better than that Advanced Warfare, and considerably better than BO3.1 (CoD IW) Five lane maps don't work well. I would say it's kind of a fail.
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Post by GodMars on Dec 8, 2016 8:42:27 GMT -5
What Activision wants is me to get frustrated at the above, and open my wallet. Start buying CoD points to play the lottery game, so as to get more salvage points that way. They have a dying player base, so the goal now is to get those playing, to spend hundreds of dollars on this game. So even if the player base drops from say 22 million down to 8 million....they can still get some money back. And we have people on this forum that feed that very system and are a part of the reason why it exists. If players didn't enable them, Acitivision wouldn't do this.
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Post by PSIII on Dec 9, 2016 12:45:51 GMT -5
The only way BO3 looks good is because IW and AW are the worst in the series.
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Post by illram on Dec 9, 2016 15:10:03 GMT -5
I've never seen blatantly obvious persistent bugs last this long. Have we reached a new low in developer quality?
I'm really trying to like this game, I really am.
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Post by GodMars on Dec 9, 2016 17:38:51 GMT -5
I've never seen blatantly obvious persistent bugs last this long. Have we reached a new low in developer quality? I'm really trying to like this game, I really am. Congratulations, you've reached the second stage of grief: anger.
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Post by hard1ine on Dec 14, 2016 18:53:11 GMT -5
I've never seen blatantly obvious persistent bugs last this long. Have we reached a new low in developer quality? I'm really trying to like this game, I really am. IW hasn't made a good game since CoD4. They need to switch with Raven and be the support team.
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Post by PSIII on Dec 15, 2016 22:25:21 GMT -5
I've never seen blatantly obvious persistent bugs last this long. Have we reached a new low in developer quality? I'm really trying to like this game, I really am. IW hasn't made a good game since MW3. They need to switch with Raven and be the support team. Corrected. No problem. I think all the devs need to turn into support teams. Activision itself might as well be the main developer. All that matters to them are their CoD points.
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Post by PSIII on Dec 16, 2016 0:04:38 GMT -5
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Post by PSIII on Dec 16, 2016 1:24:53 GMT -5
Blow me, sweet cheeks8-)
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Post by kylet357 on Dec 16, 2016 13:46:02 GMT -5
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Post by kylet357 on Dec 16, 2016 15:54:07 GMT -5
kylet why are all your memes terrible
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Post by pachiderm on Dec 16, 2016 18:24:27 GMT -5
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Post by Gamma on Dec 17, 2016 7:51:51 GMT -5
Even the specialist killstreak and MOABs couldn't detract from the fact that it was, on the whole, shit.
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Post by illram on Dec 17, 2016 12:04:53 GMT -5
Meh, it was OK. Not the worst, not the best, just OK. Maps were weird.
I spent $10 on 11 rare drops last night for the 50% off sale. First and last Cod points I have ever bought. I feel dirty.
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Post by GodMars on Dec 17, 2016 12:20:38 GMT -5
Meh, it was OK. Not the worst, not the best, just OK. Maps were weird. I spent $10 on 11 rare drops last night for the 50% off sale. First and last Cod points I have ever bought. I feel dirty. Dirty, or foolish?
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Post by illram on Dec 17, 2016 13:16:56 GMT -5
Meh, it was OK. Not the worst, not the best, just OK. Maps were weird. I spent $10 on 11 rare drops last night for the 50% off sale. First and last Cod points I have ever bought. I feel dirty. Dirty, or foolish? More like you finally went to the back room at the strip club and it was just a more expensive lapdance type of dirty. I'm sure you all know the feeling amirite??
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Post by GodMars on Dec 17, 2016 16:03:50 GMT -5
More like you finally went to the back room at the strip club and it was just a more expensive lapdance type of dirty. I'm sure you all know the feeling amirite?? No. I don't gamble and I don't pay for lap dances.
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Post by Will on Dec 17, 2016 23:57:44 GMT -5
Tried out the free weekend. Was really excited at the prospect of them including the campaign in it - to be quickly disappointed that it won't let you play past the first mission Hopped into the multiplayer for a couple of hours - what the heck is the point of 3D movement if every single map is 2D? Also sad to see they still have a pay-to-win weapon system, made even less accessible through RNG. Can't really blame them though, the profit to be made off the "whales" must be exponentially higher with the RNG rather than direct get-what-you-buy. Back to Titanfall 2 for me though.
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Post by illram on Dec 18, 2016 1:34:06 GMT -5
No. I don't gamble and I don't pay for lap dances.
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Post by wwaa on Dec 21, 2016 14:03:57 GMT -5
DLC1 announced, 3 new maps + MW2:Afghan-remake, but still no Leaderboards, just LOL , I cannot believe it's for real.
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Post by PSIII on Dec 21, 2016 18:50:14 GMT -5
And a 2500 CoD Point box offer to boot.
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Post by iw5000 on Dec 21, 2016 21:16:59 GMT -5
DLC1 announced, 3 new maps + MW2:Afghan-remake, but still no Leaderboards, just LOL , I cannot believe it's for real. The don't want to release the leaderboards before Xmas. The reason? Because the pedophiles who run this game don't want us to see just how bad the sales are. They show us the leaderboards, people will instantly see just how small the player base is on the consoles. That might affect sales. So they have hidden them. And when i say bad...i mean like HORRIBLY bad. Every indicator out there is showing that sales are off about 50% or more from Black Ops 3. THAT is how bad it is. Read this article from Forbes; www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/12/10/analysts-say-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-retail-sales-are-down-nearly-50-from-black-ops-3/#31b173d112cb" But no matter how slice it, the numbers that are starting to come out for Infinite Warfare sales indicate that something may be very wrong with Call of Duty." Of course, there are some notes to that. It's just physical sales, not downloads. But again, BO3 was a download game too. It's also just new consoles. But again, everyone has a new console these days. So all in all, it's still just an atrocious showing by this game. Even myself, i see it on my friends list. Out of 147 friends, i'm only showing about 25 who have this game. These were ALL pretty much CoD players on my friends list. That's just nuts. Regardless of sales, this game is just tired and done. Let me list some of the problems i see (in no particular order) - No leaderboards on a game that is supposed to be an A listed game. They are hidden still, in the second month. - Everything is impersonal and boring. Every player character looks like either like Master Chief from Halo, or a robot. Yawn - Maps are shitty. Mostly all space cargo container maps. - The tired CoD FPS format, running on the same dated system, but now faster, making lag issues even more noticeable - More fighting in space. No one likes this bullshit anymore. - The game is 100% pay to win now. You want a top tier gun? You can't get enough salvage points. It's all about buying your way to them. - A game that is still trying to redefine itself by making things faster and twitchier. People don't want that. - There's really not one original thing in this game. From taunts, to streaks, to guns, ....everything has already been done in prior games. - Map control and tactics are a thing of the past. It's now all about ADD Adderall based fast twitch/jumping/silding 1v1 frenetic gameplay. - Sliding and jumping mechanisms that are almost approaching the issues that Advanced Warfare had. People don't like it. - Shoot someone in the back? They probably won't die as you can jump/slide faster than the speed of a bullet. Nice. - Tons of interesting guns to use, unfortunately you are going to either have to play 1,000 hours to get them all, or buy them. - CoD pedophile points. Give Activision $19.99 and you'll get 20 Rare Care Packages. Good lord, what a ripoff. - A player base that is still sizable enough, and retarded enough, to buy the above said CoD Points. I don't say all the above as someone doing shitty at this. I'm probably putting up a 1.50 to 2.00 KD average per night playing, and i have put in the time to play this game, now well into my 2nd Prestige. So i say all the above, as someone who has put in extensive time on the game. This game doesn't suck like Advanced Warfare, but with that, it's just tired. It' dated. It's jumped the Shark. You can't get anything in this game just playing, without spending extra money, so why bother with it all? I have never said this before, but Call of Duty is dead. This game is over.
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Post by illram on Dec 21, 2016 21:28:19 GMT -5
But we're getting free animated calling cards for christmas!!
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Post by iw5000 on Dec 21, 2016 21:30:23 GMT -5
DLC1 announced, 3 new maps + MW2:Afghan-remake, but still no Leaderboards, just LOL , I cannot believe it's for real. The don't want to release the leaderboards before Xmas. The reason? Because the pedophiles who run this game don't want us to see just how bad the sales are. They show us the leaderboards, people will instantly see just how small the player base is on the consoles. That might affect sales. So they have hidden them. And when i say bad...i mean like HORRIBLY bad. Every indicator out there is showing that sales are off about 50% or more from Black Ops 3. THAT is how bad it is. Read this article from Forbes; www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/12/10/analysts-say-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-retail-sales-are-down-nearly-50-from-black-ops-3/#31b173d112cb" But no matter how slice it, the numbers that are starting to come out for Infinite Warfare sales indicate that something may be very wrong with Call of Duty." Of course, there are some notes to that. It's just physical sales, not downloads. But again, BO3 was a download game too. It's also just new consoles. But again, everyone has a new console these days. So all in all, it's still just an atrocious showing by this game. Even myself, i see it on my friends list. Out of 147 friends, i'm only showing about 25 who have this game. These were ALL pretty much CoD players on my friends list. That's just nuts. Regardless of sales, this game is just tired and done. Let me list some of the problems i see (in no particular order) - No leaderboards on a game that is supposed to be an A listed game. They are hidden still, in the second month. - Everything is impersonal and boring. Every player character looks like either like Master Chief from Halo, or a robot. Yawn - Maps are shitty. Mostly all space cargo container maps. - The tired CoD FPS format, running on the same dated system, but now faster, making lag issues even more noticeable - More fighting in space. No one likes this bullshit anymore. - The game is 100% pay to win now. You want a top tier gun? You can't get enough salvage points. It's all about buying your way to them. - A game that is still trying to redefine itself by making things faster and twitchier. People don't want that. - There's really not one original thing in this game. From taunts, to streaks, to guns, ....everything has already been done in prior games. - Map control and tactics are a thing of the past. It's now all about ADD Adderall based fast twitch/jumping/silding 1v1 frenetic gameplay. - Sliding and jumping mechanisms that are almost approaching the issues that Advanced Warfare had. People don't like it. - Shoot someone in the back? They probably won't die as you can jump/slide faster than the speed of a bullet. Nice. - Tons of interesting guns to use, unfortunately you are going to either have to play 1,000 hours to get them all, or buy them. - CoD pedophile points. Give Activision $19.99 and you'll get 20 Rare Care Packages. Good lord, what a ripoff. - A player base that is still sizable enough, and retarded enough, to buy the above said CoD Points. - Gaming rewards that make a huge deal out of animated emblem cards. Whooohoooo!!! There's one thing new!!!I don't say all the above as someone doing shitty at this. I'm probably putting up a 1.50 to 2.00 KD average per night playing, and i have put in the time to play this game, now well into my 2nd Prestige. So i say all the above, as someone who has put in extensive time on the game. This game doesn't suck like Advanced Warfare, but with that, it's just tired. It' dated. It's jumped the Shark. You can't get anything in this game just playing, without spending extra money, so why bother with it all? I have never said this before, but Call of Duty is dead. This game is over. UPDATED. Thank you to the above...how can we forget about animated emblem cards!!!!
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Post by illram on Dec 21, 2016 21:36:17 GMT -5
I'd play the shit out of a MW2 remake but I wonder if the lackluster sales this time around make them ditch the "remaster" strategy.
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Post by PSIII on Dec 22, 2016 3:07:30 GMT -5
I didn't even think about the player total shown on the leaderboards. You're probably on to something there. That said, didn't Ghosts lack some stats too? It's been so long, I honestly forgot. That game lacked a lot of basic shit that was patched in later.
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