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Deleted member 17092

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Oct 27, 2017
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Overall I'd say it's the tightest BR game I've played as far as movement/gameplay, but yeah the sound is shit. Can tell someone is nearby but no clue where lol.

Ultimately I'll probably mainly still play D2 with some buds.
 

Deleted member 18400

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Oct 27, 2017
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I know connection quality in COD has always been trash but god damn it shouldn't be this bad in 2018.

Half the time I die and watch the kill cam the other guy is jittering and lagging around at god knows how many hundreds of ping.

I guess it just goes to show, money can't fix incompetence.

Can I ask what system you are on?

I'm about to prestige on PS4 and I haven't had any connection issues at all, neither have any of my friends.

Aside from 1-2 game disconnects in the lobby between matches.

I also played 240 hours of WW2 and had only a handful of connection problems.

You sure it isn't your connection or maybe your ports aren't forwarded properly?
 
Oct 28, 2017
1,855
On PS4, can you play split screen over share play with a friend? For example, could you play duos on Blackout this way, or would you need an extremely beefy connection?
 

impact

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
5,380
Tampa
Who do we ask for a solo queue playlist? I hope Treyarch employees are on ERA. Tired of playing against teams when I'm solo with a podcast on.
 

Solid Shake

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,255
I've never had so many issues trying to run a game on PC. I wish so badly I could get a refund, I like the game but I've spent more time trying to fix it rather than playing it.
 

ara

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,013
I'm certainly hoping for a lone wolves Chaos TDM playlist asap. I'm sorry for quitting, teammates, but there's no way in hell I'm wasting my time playing against a party of 2-5 level 50+ guys with the same clan tag. Fuck that.

I don't think you can even check who's partied up in the lobby? Which is just stupid.
 

Chittagong

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,793
London, UK
Man I am loving blackout but the xp system sucks so much. Playing long ass matches and getting 0 is just so fucking annoying

Yeah, I hope they'd throw a bone for crap players like myself.

I have had several games where I've got to the top ten, at best being number 6 left. Every time what I got out of the 15min match is what Finland gets from Eurovision:

"Zero Points."
 

Hispanicguy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,433
I'm certainly hoping for a lone wolves Chaos TDM playlist asap. I'm sorry for quitting, teammates, but there's no way in hell I'm wasting my time playing against a party of 2-5 level 50+ guys with the same clan tag. Fuck that.

I don't think you can even check who's partied up in the lobby? Which is just stupid.

wicw3.jpg

Look for what I circled. That's how you know people are in the same party.
 

Haze

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,784
Detroit, MI
Reached level 43 last night and had some pretty damn good games. Ajax's shield really is ridiculous, I managed to take out an entire enemy team (and once kill a few guys twice thanks to unlucky spawns lol) a few times with it. One time some dude destroyed it with what felt like less than 10 shots from an ICR - I assume he had FMJ on? I dunno, seemed absurd.

Level gaining really slows down after 30 or something. Was sure I'd reach 52 by Saturday, not so sure anymore.



Where you at? It might be aggressively matchmaking you with others in your area and if you live somewhere where CoD isn't popular, well... I've been playing the regular MP for around 14 hours now and haven't had a single problem so far. Constantly full lobbies. Finland.

e: I mainly play Chaos TDM though, which I'd assume is the most popular playlist

e2: I lied, I only play Chaos TDM. I just don't like Control.

I only play blackout
 

Xater

Member
Oct 26, 2017
8,906
Germany
Requested to join the Xbox Club. GT is XaterMB.

I am enjoying this game a lot. Most fun I had with a COD since Blops 3. Blackout quickly became my favorite BR game as well.
 

Okabe

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Aug 24, 2018
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I love the game I do I have been (trying my best) to play this nonstop but why / what is it that makes blops4 make my GPU temp hit 90 and my computer sounds like a jet taking off regardless of min or max settings or AMD performance tweaks. Does it run bad ? No it's smooth but the sounds that it's making my computer make are absurd I'm in fear of my comp setting on fire.
 

Deleted member 2254

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Oct 25, 2017
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Oh, and I gotta say kudos to Treyarch for making Zombies extremely accessible now. Between the tutorials, the easy modes, the less confusing meta and the bots, I managed to play with my girlfriend who basically never played an FPS before (let alone COD), and we went all the way to like round 43 on XI. We powered up our weapons like crazy, we got them juices, and we mauled zombies left and right. Had we used a better strategy from the get go we could have gone even farther, but it was already lenghty as it was (2h 20m). Black Ops 2 is my all-time favourite COD but playing that game's Zombies maps without experienced players on your side? Good luck getting past round 15.
 

FeD

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Oct 25, 2017
4,275
Are solo and quads points contributing to the same leveling? I just might go solo, most times my team mates in quads haven't done anything to help me land in the Top 10 anyway

no help needed to hide alone in the toilet

I think it's 50 points for top 15/10/5 in solo/duos/quads respectively.
 

ara

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Oct 26, 2017
13,013
I love the game I do I have been (trying my best) to play this nonstop but why / what is it that makes blops4 make my GPU temp hit 90 and my computer sounds like a jet taking off regardless of min or max settings or AMD performance tweaks. Does it run bad ? No it's smooth but the sounds that it's making my computer make are absurd I'm in fear of my comp setting on fire.

I guess your GPU is under full load at all times with the game, which isn't a bad thing but obviously heats up the card which in turn makes the fans spin faster. Maybe try capping the framerate in-game? If the game runs at around, say, 100fps typically, I would imagine capping it to 60 would lighten the load.

I think mine runs at around 120-130, but I capped it to 100 and the GPU is certainly a bit quieter than it is with Forza Horizon 4.
 

JustInsane

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,714
Been using the equipment charge over armour lately, and it's really fun. Having the radiator/9-bang/cluster bomb over and over again is great.
 

Astral

Member
Oct 27, 2017
28,109
I really hope they fix the sound issues soon. I just broke through a window and shot at a guy. I didn't expect him to be there so I died. When I see the kill cam it looked like he just happened to turn around and shoot at me because I couldn't at all hear the window breaking from his kill cam. I don't know if that's just the cam or you literally can't hear a fucking window shattering in Blackout.
 

RedStep

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Oct 27, 2017
2,651
I think it's 50 points for top 15/10/5 in solo/duos/quads respectively.

That's just way too low - basically 80%+ of the players in a given round are getting no progress (aside from trifles for kills). As Blackout is the one mode where you don't get any competitive advantage from leveling up, you'd think they'd be a little more generous. I'd bet that will be adjusted soon, it's straight up dumb where it is now.

I know I've spent the most time in that mode (playing with my son to get him used to competitive MP) and we've made basically no progress in levels. Dumb system.
 
Oct 25, 2017
5,884
Las Vegas
I love the game I do I have been (trying my best) to play this nonstop but why / what is it that makes blops4 make my GPU temp hit 90 and my computer sounds like a jet taking off regardless of min or max settings or AMD performance tweaks. Does it run bad ? No it's smooth but the sounds that it's making my computer make are absurd I'm in fear of my comp setting on fire.


Damn Okabe I didnt know you were getting blops 4. Looks like we'll play anything to pass the time till DMC5 hits.

Im on ps4 unfortunately. We could have done black ops duo together.
 

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Oct 25, 2017
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That's just way too low - basically 80%+ of the players in a given round are getting no progress (aside from trifles for kills). As Blackout is the one mode where you don't get any competitive advantage from leveling up, you'd think they'd be a little more generous. I'd bet that will be adjusted soon, it's straight up dumb where it is now.

I know I've spent the most time in that mode (playing with my son to get him used to competitive MP) and we've made basically no progress in levels. Dumb system.

It discourages even more from taking risks. Getting a top 10 in solo is worth 50 points, what you'd get for 5 kills basically. What's easier, going out of your way to aggro and make sure you kill 5 dudes without going down yourself? Or hiding in the toilet with a loaded machine gun and wait it out? Sure, there is nothing worth levelling for yet, but time played, distance made, damage done, plus any result should be worth something.
 

Hispanicguy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,433
I just unlocked the Strobe Light mod for the SG-12 shotgun. It disables ADS but puts a light on the shotgun to blind people.

This is how it looks from my perspective:


And here's how it looks from the enemy perspective, lmao:

 

ara

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,013
Is the strobe light always on and does it reveal your location all the time or is the effect really visible only when the enemies are already looking at you? I recall someone saying it was crap before, but going by the gifs above it definitely looks useful. I'll have to give it a try.
 

xmassteps

Member
Oct 30, 2017
860
Caved and bought it this morning. I don't know why I bother resisting with these games, end up buying every year. Next time I'm just going to stop kidding myself and pre-order. Looking forward to jumping in!
 

HiLife

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
39,655
THE MOG IS GOAT.

Guarantee I'm setting a trend in these matches with this cancer gun. Blame 3arc lol.
 

5moke5creen

Member
Oct 30, 2017
133
The emblem editor in this is probably the worst one in the series,
no effort at all.


(same can be said about all the terrible title cards as well)

I know what you mean, there aren't many layers / shapes to work with, but with a little creativity I got to this with only 59 layers.

It's possible to make something decent, but complexity has to be reigned in...

Dpq2YUUXUAA2C-K.jpg
 

Hispanicguy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,433
Is the strobe light always on and does it reveal your location all the time or is the effect really visible only when the enemies are already looking at you? I recall someone saying it was crap before, but going by the gifs above it definitely looks useful. I'll have to give it a try.

It's only on when you press LT to aim. So if you hold LT down and walk, it'll always be active and enemies should always see it.

I'm loving the strobe light. Partly because of the bright light but also because of how tight it makes aiming. I was destroying people with it.

I had extended mags 1 & 2 and the attachment that gives you 2 more pellets.



Might switch it up and put Scavenger and maybe substitute extended mags 2 for long barrel.
 

Euan_1981

Member
Apr 23, 2018
330
I'm certainly hoping for a lone wolves Chaos TDM playlist asap. I'm sorry for quitting, teammates, but there's no way in hell I'm wasting my time playing against a party of 2-5 level 50+ guys with the same clan tag. Fuck that.

I don't think you can even check who's partied up in the lobby? Which is just stupid.
This. Played last night and it was literally one of the worst/unpleasant gaming experiences in my whole gaming life.
 

Trisc

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,488
People say this every year. "Last year was so bad but this is so much worse"

To me it doesn't feel like they ever changed the spawning algorithm since CoD4. It's been horrendous every year. S&D is good stuff though.
Last year, the bad spawns were due to badly designed maps. Even still, I didn't died due to being blown up instantly by a glide bomb, spawned in front of the objective as the enemy team captured it, and so on. I died in spawn because the maps were bad and easily allowed the enemy team to trap you there (mostly on maps like Gibraltar and USS Texas).
It's only on when you press LT to aim. So if you hold LT down and walk, it'll always be active and enemies should always see it.

I'm loving the strobe light. Partly because of the bright light but also because of how tight it makes aiming. I was destroying people with it.

I had extended mags 1 & 2 and the attachment that gives you 2 more pellets.



Might switch it up and put Scavenger and maybe substitute extended mags 2 for long barrel.

That's fucking disgusting. I love it and hate it already.
 

Waldini

Banned
Oct 31, 2017
360
So ... I gotta ask ...

I really liked BO3 ...
I hated WW2.
I kinda liked Advanced Warfare.
I disliked Infinite Warfare..

How does this one hold up? Gameplay wise?
 

HiLife

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
39,655
Just had a game where I couldn't board any vehicle in Blackout. Thanks for fucking me over game. The storm ate my ass up.