Modern Warfare III

[MrBiron 1,457]

 

Most of the post launch maps are going to be brand new 🤯 From my experience Sledgehammer are generally pretty good at making maps. Much better than IW are.

[MrBiron 1,457]

 

An interesting video from Ace talking about the AMA.

Sledgehammer claim they'll look into disbanding lobbies. I'm pretty sure IW said the same about MW2 and nothing happened.

 

Sledgehammer have said that they and Demonware are looking at desync between players which is what is causing you to seemingly die in just one bullet. I had massive issues with this last night (Tuesday) and I turned the game off because of it. I had 4 or 5 games where I couldn't kill anybody and I was dead as soon as somebody appeared on my screen without any chance of reacting to them.

 

They're tweaking Ghost because at the right now it stops working the second you stop moving rather than giving you a couple of seconds before deactivating. I'm personally happy about this as it's annoying that you can't stop to reload or whatever before you show on the mini map.

[techno 3,511]

13 hours ago, MrBiron said:

 

An interesting video from Ace talking about the AMA.

Sledgehammer claim they'll look into disbanding lobbies. I'm pretty sure IW said the same about MW2 and nothing happened.

 

Sledgehammer have said that they and Demonware are looking at desync between players which is what is causing you to seemingly die in just one bullet. I had massive issues with this last night (Tuesday) and I turned the game off because of it. I had 4 or 5 games where I couldn't kill anybody and I was dead as soon as somebody appeared on my screen without any chance of reacting to them.

 

They're tweaking Ghost because at the right now it stops working the second you stop moving rather than giving you a couple of seconds before deactivating. I'm personally happy about this as it's annoying that you can't stop to reload or whatever before you show on the mini map.

Yeah regarding that AMA most questions were about SBMM but they didn't acknowledge that at all, so not really an AMA😁

[MrBiron 1,457]

10 hours ago, techno said:

Yeah regarding that AMA most questions were about SBMM but they didn't acknowledge that at all, so not really an AMA😁

 

They can't talk about it. SBMM and the whole matchmaking system is handled by Demonware and the game devs have nothing to do with it. It's the Activision execs that shove it in the game.

[J4MES OX4D 10,054]

The EOMM (aka SBMM) is beyond any developer now - it's definitely written and implemented by a specialist uncredited third party team off the back of Activision's concept patents and I'd say its even past Demonware's pay grades as they are more services-based. It's definitely gaming's closest guarded secret right now and although developers know roughly how it functions as a concept (i.e drive engagement and milk the community via willing payees) they probably don't know the precise true functionality or wont speculate because deep down they know just like FIFA, there is artificial manipulations in play that would severely damage the game.

 

They'd be better off just coming clean because it wont make a blind bit of difference. FIFA had corrupt scripting for years that exists within EAFC and it didn't impact the playerbase and the amount of reverse-boosters and cronus cheaters plaguing COD, it hardly matters. The best thing that can happen is Microsoft weed out all the horrible psychological and manipulative crap from these games and just keep it simple like Counter Strike. 

[cyberninja2601 1,106]

On 11/11/2023 at 9:21 AM, techno said:

Well it didn't take long for some to find a glaring issue with the progression system and tbh he's right. Having played yesterday I already prefer this over mw2 simply due to the maps. Also sbmm 🤣🤣 they really need to tone that shit down.

 

 

However

 

 

 

 

Coming back to this, the issue was a non issue in my opinion. I am already done with all the unlocks and its not Christmas yet

 

Did it by playing MP and getting the 3 challenges done. Also winning games. My w/l ratio is about 1.5 so not bad but not stellar either

               playing Zombies (that's good for another 3 challenges) and doing contracts. Contracts count like wins. If you got a squad and play well you can do 8-10 contracts in one game

               playing Zombies and extacting gear and guns which means you don't have to use points for the unlocks. That's how I got all of my lethals and tactical unlocks as well as a number of guns. I had the MCW when I was at level 6 for examples. That's a default gun in Zombies. All I had to do is jump into the game and extract. Took less than 5 minutes. 

 

 

When I checked I had about 6.5 hours of game play in MP and was level 55. At 11 hours I had everything unlocked.  Hardly worth a rant

 

 

[Lurch 1,619]

Enjoying MW3 at the moment — although I haven't played it by myself yet (I only really enjoyed competitive games with a group). 

 

However I have noticed SBMM is really off the boil. One minute you're being slaughtered by monster snorting try-hards, and next you're the one doing the slaughtering, thinking you might actually be alright at the game 🤣.

 

The only thing I've found to still enjoy the sweat-fest games is to hyper play the objective and try to just have a laugh.

[MrBiron 1,457]

Playing solo can be a pain. I have a strike rule now: If I die to 3 bullshit* deaths then I just leave a game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*bullshit deaths are where I die with no time to react. I had one yesterday where I was pre-aiming a door as I knew somebody was coming. Then bullets came at me BEFORE I saw the player walk through the door and I died. Fuck that.

[Lurch 1,619]

2 hours ago, MrBiron said:

Playing solo can be a pain. I have a strike rule now: If I die to 3 bullshit* deaths then I just leave a game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*bullshit deaths are where I die with no time to react. I had one yesterday where I was pre-aiming a door as I knew somebody was coming. Then bullets came at me BEFORE I saw the player walk through the door and I died. Fuck that.

 

Happens far too other, however I can pass over them much better when I'm not playing by myself and my enjoyment of the game isn't directly link with the performance.

[GazzaGarratt 11,066]

On 11/21/2023 at 5:57 PM, MrBiron said:

Most of the post launch maps are going to be brand new 🤯

 

Well, if i'm trying to be balanced here, that was pretty obvious as they released only maps that were remakes. Its clever marketing. Makes them look amazing when they release only new content. Deflects criticism in the way they need it too. I'm still happy for the maps btw! Just not gonna sugar coat it too much as they could've given us a few at launch, they just decided against it.

[IRaMPaGe 3,257]

23 minutes ago, GazzaGarratt said:

 

Well, if i'm trying to be balanced here, that was pretty obvious as they released only maps that were remakes. Its clever marketing. Makes them look amazing when they release only new content. Deflects criticism in the way they need it too. I'm still happy for the maps btw! Just not gonna sugar coat it too much as they could've given us a few at launch, they just decided against it.

 

The new LMG the Taq eradicator, it's part of the weekly challenges. 

Apparently it was available since launch, but was held back. 

 

Makes it look like they are adding and giving us new things. 

It's a promising start to the game, plenty of challenges and things to do. 

 

Already been a patch and 3 weekly events. Not bad considering the game has been out 3 weeks. 

 

3 new maps next week with season 1 launch. 

Also more guns. A new launcher, SMG and AR I think. 

Feels like we are getting lots of stuff. 🙂

[MrBiron 1,457]

Pro tip if you're came grinding and you have one of those "get 25 tac stance kills" challenges: Go into Hardcore Meat 24/7. Kit your gun out with all attachments that help with tac stance spread and then go into your options and make the centre dot on your screen as big as possible. It took me 2 games to get 25 tac stance kills.

[cyberninja2601 1,106]

4 hours ago, MrBiron said:

Pro tip if you're came grinding and you have one of those "get 25 tac stance kills" challenges: Go into Hardcore Meat 24/7. Kit your gun out with all attachments that help with tac stance spread and then go into your options and make the centre dot on your screen as big as possible. It took me 2 games to get 25 tac stance kills.

 

Will keep that in mind thanks. Tac stance is a pain in the ass. I find it's a great way to get yourself killed rather than being an asset

 

Meat is turning out to be a great map for me. 

 

[Diddums 4,346]

Well, I just turned it off, not because I have other shit to do (which I do but corrodoory), or because I got bored, but having had my suspicions confirmed that the MP games are full of bots, I'm now paying attention to it and they're everywhere. In the game I just had there were two which were literally doing exactly the same thing for the entire game. Even when camping they were lying next to each other, they're runing together, shoot ingtogether, had the same weapons, the lot. Someone's just copied and pasted the code.

 

Still, they seem to be more intelligent that most of the cod community and actually cap flags so it's not all bad.

 

Kinda put me off a bit tbh.

[IRaMPaGe 3,257]

23 hours ago, MrBiron said:

Pro tip if you're came grinding and you have one of those "get 25 tac stance kills" challenges: Go into Hardcore Meat 24/7. Kit your gun out with all attachments that help with tac stance spread and then go into your options and make the centre dot on your screen as big as possible. It took me 2 games to get 25 tac stance kills.

 

When Shipment was available, I was doing 2 guns a game on core and I didn't even change any attachments for tac spread, hipfire etc. 

Just my normal classes. 

I didn't even think about it. 😂

[techno 3,511]

Nero did say if you need penetration kills shooting through the fence on highrise counts.

[crippled_viper 258]

On 12/10/2023 at 5:35 AM, techno said:

Nero did say if you need penetration kills shooting through the fence on highrise counts.

Yes that does work. Also, shooting through glass window before it is broken.

[MrBiron 1,457]

On 12/9/2023 at 9:28 AM, IRaMPaGe said:

 

When Shipment was available, I was doing 2 guns a game on core and I didn't even change any attachments for tac spread, hipfire etc. 

Just my normal classes. 

I didn't even think about it. 😂

 

I'd rather stick my cock in a wasps nest than play on Shipment. At least Meat is tolerable. 

[techno 3,511]

5 minutes ago, MrBiron said:

 

I'd rather stick my cock in a wasps nest than play on Shipment. At least Meat is tolerable. 

I know what you mean about shipment but you just have to take it for what it is and it can be chaotic fun😁

[J4MES OX4D 10,054]

This upset so many COD developers it was bloody hilarious🤣

 

[MrBiron 1,457]

18 hours ago, techno said:

I know what you mean about shipment but you just have to take it for what it is and it can be chaotic fun😁

 It's never fun. It's just a clusterfuck of getting constantly spawn killed.

[IRaMPaGe 3,257]

19 hours ago, MrBiron said:

 

I'd rather stick my cock in a wasps nest than play on Shipment. At least Meat is tolerable. 

 

I've been playing meat until Shipment comes back. 

I like the maps, but sorry to say the spawns are worse on meat. 

More specifically hardpoint, I probably have footage of the ludicrous spawns on meat. 

[IRaMPaGe 3,257]

2 minutes ago, MrBiron said:

 It's never fun. It's just a clusterfuck of getting constantly spawn killed.

 

Meat ain't any different mate. 

[Lurch 1,619]

Has anyone tried the DG-58 'One Burst' loadout yet? Apparently it's crazy OP.

[slamminbones 1,809]

10 hours ago, Lurchzy said:

Has anyone tried the DG-58 'One Burst' loadout yet? Apparently it's crazy OP.

I've heard it's a beast in warzone.

I hated going for gold on it took me a while.