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3 lane maps are great but I'd also want a variety of maps like we had in BO, MW2, MW3, COD4, WAW etc. Favela had multiple routes, elevation and excellent long sightlines. Sub base had the same plus a lot of outer action and Afghan offered multiple ways to play and significant flanking opportunities. Now days it's start the match and go either left, right or center and maybe chuck a nade or get ready to fire straight ahead. The MW2 maps weren't forced 3 lane maps; they were just well-designed and varied. Even SnD has become a bit of a redundant mode in recent COD's because the maps just don't offer versatility. Traditional sniping has also been thrown out of the window and replaced entirely by quickscoping. I can't remember the last time we actually had a COD game with an iconic map. Nowadays they seem to be very symmetrical, either small or small-to-medium or just long and narrow. A lot of these modern COD maps are built with eSports in mind where the action is pushed into 3 lanes which diminishes different gameplay styles and brings aggressive sweaty gunplay to the fore.

Team up here so we know who’s going to be on etc I have yet to play this but will be online (PS4) tonight for some action, who wants to hold my hand and show me the ropes?

Some stats from Ubisoft: 2 Ubisoft titles ranked in the top 10 best-sellers of 2018 Far Cry 5 (4th) Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (10th) Tom Clancy communities: Surpassed 70 million unique players -205% surge in Rainbow Six Siege’s esports viewership in 2018 Ubisoft also reported Net bookings for the first nine months of FY18/19 at €1,351.9 million, up 13.5%. Growth was driven by PC and mobile net bookings which were up by 58.1% and 77.6% respectively. Digital net bookings were up 33.9% to €897.8 million. (66.4% of total) Breaking down digital even further. Total digital sales including full game sales and add on content = 66.4% of total net bookings. Add on content/DLC/Subscriptions alone account were up 38.9% YoY and = 32.9% of total net bookings. Ubisoft Q3: CEO Yves Guillemot: "We expect to see record performances for fourth-quarter and full-year 2018-19." Digital net bookings up 35%. Now represent 66% of total vs 56% for the prior year. Recurring player investment up nearly 39%. Back Catalog net bookings up 38%. Here is a look at Ubisoft game sales (revenue) by platform. In the last 9 months, PC has seen the biggest jump, up six percentage points YOY. Mobile also up. Ubisoft Conference Call: PS4 and XB1 install base grew by 21% last year. Switch install base grew 115% YoY. PC & Console growth Esports is developing but still behind traditional sports. Streaming, cloud gaming, AI and other technological breakthroughs will drive games Focusing on building a better internal culture at Ubisoft in order to continue building diversified portfolio Continue to own all IP's in portfolio, can expand to new platforms and media. Focus on internal studio / multi studio collaboration to provide high quality games. Ubisoft says that there are growing number of distribution platforms. Plan to continue driving users to its own store. Expanding to Epic Store with The Division 2. Pre orders already higher than first Division. Pre orders are 6x higher on Ubisoft store. AC Odyssey performed better than expected. 10th biggest seller in 2018 (PS4/XB1/PC) Strong increase in player engagement and digital performance Play time up vs Origins (due to focus on RPG) Will have longer tail FC5 performing well vs Far Cry 4 The Crew 2 had its best month in December. R6S revenue is up YoY Monthly active users up vs last year Rainbow six activity has been growing constantly and has 45m players. Siege esports continues to grow. 205% surge in Rainbow Six Siege’s esports viewership in 2018. For Honor has seen six million new players over the past 6 months. Mobile games are performing well. The Division 2 beta had a record number of players for a Ubisoft beta Campaign has around 40 hours of content Average play time in the beta was 5 hours per player. Majority of Rainbow Six Siege revenues are coming from add on content/DLC. Asia sales are growing for the company Working to release R6S in China No comments on whether Ubisoft will release a battle royale game or F2P title.

Just completed Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. This game is a masterpiece and easily the best out of the 3 I've played through so far. It takes things from the previous games and really improves on them. The levels feel open and feel more free to roam around. The game is hard and I often get seen by enemies, so most of my time is spent knocking everyone out. 😂 The combat and gameplay is easily the best so far, can become really hands on, some enemies are literally super alert to the slightest sounds or sight.

I agree mostly, I just find it interesting how capitalistic corporations can be described as 'left', whatever their mooted socially conscious ambitions might be. The word has been diluted as to be meaningless and used as an easy box to put all manner of conflicting ideologies. I find it lazy. But (a) I think this conversation doesn't belong on this thread and ( I will be more considerate in future in how I present my arguments, and don't take it personally, I don't discriminate when it comes to being an annoying cunt[emoji8] Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

I don't think they'll ever be able to produce such an iconic game like the old MW ones again. Too much has changed in gaming from shitty business practices to how people want sweaty competitive g-fueled gameplay fought on 3 lane maps in eSport fashion despite the brand being 99% casual. I often revisit the old COD's and they just ooze so much enjoyment and varied gameplay and none of the ones from this generation can get close to. Using real weapons in real life locations with credible characters cannot be beaten. The good news is that a few key staff from Respawn have gone back to IW to specifically work on this game and hopefully they can try and capture the brilliance of past titles but the way Activision and the the way gaming has changed; I don't know if they'll ever be able match what they did a decade ago. I am dying for a proper military shooter again like a modern COD or Battlefield - hard to believe towards the end of last gen these games were saturated but I'm sick of all this futuristic fantasy bullshit now.

Give me a suppressed Scar with ext mags again along with the killstreak that gives you ALL the perks and I will build a shrine for this game in my closet and jack off to it.

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Well we were completely outclassed last night, although the two injuries didn’t help us much. Even if we get knocked out it’s still great to see us playing attacking football again, that’s all I’ve wanted.

I think there are a lot of very "modern day" issues that are in conflict with the collective societal experience until very recently. Can an individual determine their own gender when historically it's bestowed upon you by your society. With a few exceptions, like the Castrati singers of Italy (eunuchs castrated before puberty to create singers with a man's frame and lungs and a boy's voicebox) gender and gender roles have been pretty much locked in by your sex. Sexual orientation was a separate concept, whereas the plethora of genders some want society to accept are a hybrid of the two. My personal guess is it's the societal equivalent of a fad and won't last for long before until it's pared back again. It reminds me of the feminist fad of hyphenated last names for children that was briefly popular. It's a way to show how progressive you are, but it's so cumbersome it collapses under it's own weight pretty quickly.

I suppose it depends on who's definition of gender you use. Many use it, incorrectly, as a synonym for sex. I think this largely started in the early 2000s when "harassment" was being pronounced hair-ess-mint because "sex" became a dirty word. Gender was softer and more PC, despite not being the same thing. Gender is a social and/or grammatical construct. Words in many language have a gender, they don't have a sex. Sex is biological and exists with or without a culture. Gender only exists with a culture. That said, I understand this is such a political hot button now that pretty much nobody cares what words actually mean, or even acknowledge that words have meaning. The ability to redefine words at will is a powerful propaganda advantage.