Greboth
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1 hour ago, Lurchzy said:
Why does Sony PlayStation have early access if Microsoft own Blizzard?
Simple - $, or probably more accurately, $$$$$$$$$
Sony have previously paid for special access or content to come to PS before Xbox. So it could be that contract, which may have been signed before MS bought Activision, is still in effect. Or potentially MS don't care about PS having content first - the console war really happens in the early years of a generation so by now it's relatively settled not to mention consoles are, or were for a long time, sold at a loss with money being in the games. MS gets the billions a year from the game either way so don't care too much about shifting less consoles.
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I’m can’t do Sat 23rd and don’t think Matt @Luseth can do that day either.
I’m free the others though.
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I just completed this quiz.
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My Score57/100
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My Time231 seconds
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That depends what exact question you’re asking.
Are longshots easier in hardcore? most definitely.
Are platinum challenges easier in hardcore? not always.
The amount of camping that goes on in hardcore means less kills and so less long shots. That’s fine for some guns, like the M4, as they’re just so difficult to get longshots in core ao it’s better to do slowly in HC than not at all. Other guns though, like the ISO hemlock or fss hurricane spring to mind, are piss easy in core and I think probably makes them quicker to do in core.
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I need to unlock the M13c as AR's are pretty easy to platinum so should be a relatively easy one to do.
Up to 42 platinums now, so only 9 to go - single digits baby! Basically just continued working through the SMG's and Marksman rifles. Marksman, I think, I've only got the Tempus Torrent to finish but I've got most done already. SMG's I'm working on the PDSW and about halfway done with, I think, only the BAS-P and Fennec left to do but I imagine they're going to be horrendous for thinking I need to play some hardcore for them.
That puts me at 46 total, add the M13c, FR Advancer and Carrack is 49. So need to find a couple more......hmmmmm. Battle rifles suck but maybe hardcore? Launchers maybe? But I think I'm track to have plats finished by MW3.
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22 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:
Their last expansion sold abysmally and currently has a mostly negative rating on Steam. Call of Duty cannot afford to ever put itself in a position especially if they want to keep the brand alive. Destiny 2 is all but dead in the water now because this model has failed to bring players back and grow the game even being free.
No, Destiny 2 is all but dead in the water as Lightfall is shit expansion that neither critics or fans like. However The Witch Queen reviewed well by the media and players and as a consequence did well. Which you can't attribute to the model being bad, even if they released the DLC as new games, if Destiny 7 Lightfall did badly the series would be on it's knees too.
22 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:The franchise is probably too stale and it being far too late in the day to explore something like this. What keeps COD fresh is it being a new game so if you take that away then you have to persuade existing owners to pay a premium to come back
I'd agree the franchise is too stale but that's also an argument for trying something different like a continuous game to revitalise it. There's a mountain of problems with the servers of the old COD's coming back online. But you only have to look online to see peoples interest in playing the old CoD's. Now imagine, you could play those old CoD's
You mean the "fresh" COD you've spent how many posts moaning about having so little content and new content just being rehashed old content? You do also realise that when MW3 comes out, MW2 players will have to pay to come back too?
I'm not saying it will work if they go this route, it probably won't. But an annual release of CoD has a lot of the same problems of a continuous game with DLC's.
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15 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:
Because the existing games are usually on their last legs long before then and then further demanding people buy an expansion for a game they don't play at full price wouldn't see many people coming back especially at a premium. Would also start splitting the playerbase and leave departed players alienated and possibly not coming back. MW3 is an isolated case because Activision did not plan ahead adequately and I wouldn't expect them to repeat this again. If they wanted to do down this avenue, it should've been done years ago and done properly, however the series was too busy pissing around with boost jumping, wall running and going back to World War 2. I don't believe they've made a game that offers a confident foundation for them to build upon either but MW2019 would've been a good starting point and then they go and follow it up with a highly inferior game.
It's definitely possible for this to happen - Siege, Fortnite, Apex and CS maintain strong playerbases and even grow still to this day but COD always struggles with this respect and until they produce a game that has lasting potential and a cemented design, then they will forever be releasing annually rinse and repeat. If only they released COD Online worldwide and supported that...
You don't think Destiny sees a significant drop off in players over a season and then a peak when new DLC is released? The problems you mention though do impact games such as Destiny too, how many players don't return due to the amount of content passed. Though Destiny somewhat get round this by giving older content for free or bundled in to newer DLC. Sticking to the Destiny comparison though, I don't think CoD need to release a game that has lasting potential and a cemented design - Destiny 1 was good but there was also a lot of problems with it, one similar to recent CoD was content. But the sticking power of Destiny has been down to Bungie adding content as well as tweaking and changing movement and mechanics over time to improve things. MW2(022) suffered from lack of content and there's a few issues that people really hate, like slide cancelling, but the core game is fine IMO to build on. Not to mention, CoD players drop off over the year but peaks again with the release of a 'new' CoD. If they release a DLC pack with as much content as a full game, I don't think it's unreasonable to think a similar number of players would return.
If MW3 does basically end up being DLC for MW2(022) then it will be an interesting experiment to see how well it does.
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Maybe it's just my old eyes but can't say I particularly noticed a difference in movement between MW-2019 and MW2-022.
If characters, guns etc. all carry over to MW3, I wonder if Activision will go a Destiny style route with CoD. I know the games are so vastly different but rather than a 'new' CoD each year, why not do it as a huge DLC pack that adds on to the existing game.
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It's going quite well for me and I'm getting through them quite well as I'm now up to 35 platinums so closing on Polyatomic.
That's
12 assault rifles (all except the new FR advancer as I've not unlocked it in the battle pass yet)
6 Sniper rifles (again, all except the new Carrack 300 as I've not unlocked it in the battle pass yet)
5 Shotguns (MX guardian I'm working on gold currently so should be done soon)
3 SMG's - VEL46, MX9 and Vaznev. I've got gold on the rest so shouldn't be too bad getting long shots
3 Marksman rifles - EBR14, SPR and LM-S. The rest are gold and halfway through the Lockwood Mk2.
7 Pistols - that's all of them.
For those counting along, that's 36. I did the GS Magna at lunch today but it hasn't counted for some reason. It does seem camo's have been bugged since the update as I noticed a few times guns I know I have platinumed don't show it unlocked in the challenges. I think the Lachman sub or the Lockwood Mk2 are the next guns I'll do so I'll have to keep an eye on if they register.
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Stick drift seems to be such a personal thing, my PS4 controllers did succumb to it eventually so I got a PS5 bundle with 2 controllers to have a back up. But over 2 years later and I'm still only using 1 controller yet in the same time period some people have gone through multiple controllers.
As for scuff, I haven't looked in to them though this more due to having modified my standard controller. I bought the PS4 back buttons when they came out and switching to the PS5 it was tricky playing without them. So I fitted some ExtremeRate back buttons on my OEM controller not long after I got it and they work well enough. Had I not already got a spare controller and spent the time and money modding a controller, I probably would have gone with the Sony pro controller even if the price does make my eyes water.
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Chatting about it the other day, I think we all played it a little too video game linearly (go here, do this, go there, kill that) rather than taking advantage of the openness it offers. As Elliott was saying, at the end, about some of the things we could have done. Also I watched a little of Critical Role's season 3 campaign, not so much for the entertainment of it, but it's interesting seeing how they play in terms of interaction with each other, asking more in character questions to the DM or even more random things like pickpocketing an NPC, going to get a beer mid quest or even just walking off as a fight takes place. But all that is going to come with experience of DnD as it was quite bitty as we kept needing to ask questions on what to do or what we could do. Not to mention more familiarity with your character and getting used to playing that role.
But it has definitely piqued my interest and would definitely be down to having another go. I appreciate for our first go, or goes, a one and done is best but I do see the appeal of a much longer campaign though, this is FG, so we'd never manage to organise it for more than a few weeks 😄
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Meet Greboroth, A ranger and the bastard son of a Noble elf and his human mistress.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sheet-pdfs/Greboroth_105073996.pdf
Embarrassed and disowned by my father I hide my elf heritage as I wander from town to town tracking and killing the monsters and evil that walk in the wilds. I prefer to be alone in the wilds but the towns I find along the way do provide a good, warm, and safe nights rest. Not to mention mead! Unfortunately on this night, I found myself drinking in a strange dwarf tavern. I knew I wasn't welcome as the sign hung above the door read 'no pointy ears' but I knew if I kept my ears covered I could pass as human and the Dwarves make the best mead. I drank one cup of mead, then two, three and four...drinking until the dawn. Seeing the sunrise I knew it was time to leave but in getting up to leave in my drunken state, I slipped on the mead all over the table and falling to the floor I revealed my elvish side to the tavern. Instantly I could feel every Dwarves blood boil at an Elf in their tavern so I tried to make a run for it but I couldn't run faster than their axe which hit me in the back. As I lay dying, I heard the Dwarf walk over and mumbled that no-one is welcome in a tavern full of drunken dwarves.
- GazzaGarratt, IRaMPaGe, Lurchzy and 3 others
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It's good to be back on 7 days, few games for me strike that nice balance between things to do and fear of dying.
Most of the changes are QOL ones and are genuine are for QOL so the game is nicer to look at and to play now. The only thing I'm not sure on it the change to books but some of that is confusion on how they work as there seems to be quite an overlap between some books and skills. Maybe I should spend the next quiet night on the server to read through the book levels and skills and figure this out rather than blindly reading everything 😄
- phil bottle, IRaMPaGe and TurboR56Mini
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38 minutes ago, Luseth said:
I may get chance to jump on this some point this evening, can I check which server I want to be joining? Is it the unmodded one?
Yes, it's an unmodded server 🙂 Sent you the server details on whatsapp as probably not a good idea posting IP and password publicly 🙂
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This is quite the update. Good to see a graphics update without a, or much of a, performance hit.
Maybe summer isn’t the best time but would be good to get FG together again for this.
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I just completed this quiz.
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My Score42/100
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My Time248 seconds
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Overall it's not the beating of the Steam Deck that the marketing material made out (shocking I know!). Still the Ally has some pros against the Steam Deck though most of the Deck's positives stem from it being a more mature product with a large community supporting it (coming up with controller maps, for example). It will be interesting to see the uptake of the Ally and how it develops over the next year.
Though as Phil mentioned, there's somethings the Ally just can't get around like the lack of track pads. I'd imagine the low wattage performance is also baked in as it seems it's just a limitation of the chip being used which is why the Ally wins at higher TDP's.
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Well see what it brings, I quite liked that Cold War and Vanguard gave MW2019 a 3 year life cycle until MW2(022) replaced it. So a MW3 expansion would be nice to extend MW2 rather than a whole new game. But we know it'll probably be a full priced new game with less content so James will have lots to moan about 😄
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Well thanks to an idiot the M4 is now platinum too 😄 I had a game of hardcore domination on shoot house and a guy kept trying to snipe the wall but was rubbish so gave me 21 longshots in one game.
I'm trying to do the events camo's too, whoever thought of adding a challenge for melee kills from behind in a game where you can hear someone coming from 4 miles away and where half the players run a riot shield on their back needs to be bitten in the balls by a dog, choke on a chode or playing in traffic with a blindfold... or even all 3 at the same time.
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Platinums are going well, I already had the Hemlock but finished the Lachman 556 the other night.
I then tried the M4 but even with every attachment for range, accuracy and recoil it’s still pretty bad so moved on to the TAQ56 which I’m at 9/25 so shouldn’t be too long.
Last night I managed to Platinum the broadside too. So moved on to the Lockwood 300 which I’m already up to 8/20 so again should be done soon. But then on to the rubbish shotguns.
So 3 down, 2 half-ish way and 46 to go.
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Since my post, I’ve finished the shotguns. I’ve gone back to the Broadside to get the longshots.
I’ve also got gold on all the LMG’s. Some were easy as I only needed mounted kills or such but I had ranked up some had to play with a number of games to unlock the challenges.
I’ve almost done the LM-S too and just need the 3 kills now. Then all marksman rifles will be gold too.
I definitely think Hardcore is the way to go for longshots. As many guns accuracy sucks that longshots in core would be a pain.
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Who's getting MW3? (pre beta)
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Just interested in the general feeling in FG for MW3 so poll time 🙂