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I think you’re playing the game wrong if you’re not actually shooting people in normal 6v6 gamemodes 😂

Where am I going? well where I went is HC. HC, or Tier 1 as it was, is always my go to when playing solo. Having played so much core in a party, I had forgotten how campy HC can be; the first game was TDM on Dome and we only won before the timer as I was running round and got 32 kills as everyone else was too busy sitting on their thumbs in corners. Still it's great playing some HC and getting used to the super quick TTK again. Not to mention being able to more easily level up the rubbish guns.

Thank you. I feel with such a witty, well written and strong rebuttal to my post that I have no other option than to change my opinion and and whole stance on SBMM.

Nope, I'm still going to complain about it 😄 Because having a "casual" playlist with SBMM and a competitive playlist with SBMM is such fun. This just makes it even more ridiculous they've kept SBMM in "casual" playlists. The big complaint about SBMM being in "casual" playlists is it makes every match a competitive game just without the rank. I'm not really a fan of it and still stand by that the casual playlists should be solely connection based and competitive SBMM.

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But at least you have keys for it now 😂 As I cleaned it the weekend, have a photo of mine, a Leon 1.8 FR.

In MW2019 it was Kill Chain.

It wasn’t a problem on MW2019 though.

Scorestreaks are definitely the way to go. It’s less important if you just play tdm but objective games modes scorestreaks are the only way. Though given the score is basically the same as kills in TDM it makes you wonder why it’s not scorestreaks as default. I just wish they’d have brought back the perk that allows streaks to count to other streaks.

No, it’s just a usb battery bank I had already. The only accessory Valve officially offer is a dock to connect a mouse/keyboard and monitor.

So I bought my first Steamdeck accessory the other say in a Deckmate. I only went for the basic one as I won’t be vesa mounting the deck or anything like that but I have say so far it’s a great bit of kit. The base of it is a frame that clips on to the deck with a mounting hole over the Steam logo and also handily comes with 2 memory card slots too. Which means you can clip in things such as a stand But the main reason I got it was it includes a sticky mount so you can mount a usb battery bank to the back And they also include a sticky mount, so even with the battery on the back you can use the stand Now I just need to find a small usb c cable and I’ll be good to game on the move for 5-6 hours even on modern demanding titles.

Meh. If we all apologised for dodgy sites we visited we'd all be spending the rest of lives apologising to everyone else. The pros, cons, technical skill, requirements, ability or morality and legality of deep fakes are all interesting discussion points but what sites some random person has visited? I struggle to care less. Obvious that's caveated that the sites someone visits are legal.

That is literally my argument, game modes are, like maps, content and so new game modes is new content. Also like maps, until they're released to the wider community it's impossible to know for certain how well, or badly, they will be received. I'm glad it seems we agree on the first part but who decides if it's "actually new and innovative"? oh right, yeah, that would be the community which the community can't have an opinion on unless, and until, Tier1 got launched. The only difference between Kill confirmed being a shitty variant of TDM that attracts minimal amount of players is it turned out that the community liked KC. Had the community taken to Tier 1 like they did to KC, we would be praising the change but again they, and we, couldn't know if Tier1 was better or worse without actually trying it. What I load of bollocks, I've never said you can't criticise Tier1 or any other part of the game. The part I took umbrage at was you crying out they need to add new content (which, again, I agree with) but then moaning that Tier1 is shit and they shouldn't have even added it to the game. And before you say I'm twisting your words again; What I'm saying is you CAN criticise the game, you CAN criticise any of the content (maps, weapons, UI and even game modes), you CAN even criticise the lack of content in the game. But you CAN'T also then lambast them for trying to add something to the game simply because it turns out after playing it the community doesn't like it. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and we can say, now having played it, that Tier1 doesn't work but we didn't know that, and we couldn't know that, before actually playing Tier1. Back in the days of DLC map packs we got what we got and if there was a shitty map in the mix then oh well. But we live in the age of patches and downloads that mean they can add, remove or fundamentally change the game over time and I don't know, maybe it's just me but I'd quite happily play a bad game mode, or even 10, as long as they keep trying instead of only re-hashing the same 10* game modes from the last 15 years. *CBA to count the actual number.

Ok, let's make this easy, you get to choose one of the following options to moan about but they are mutually exclusive so you can't pick both Option 1 - Actual new content is added to the game but you don't get to pick what it is. So this could be new maps which you're so hung up on or it could be new guns or something else entirely like, I dunno, in a totally hypothetical scenario maybe add a new or slightly altered game mode that gets added to the game and is open to be changed based on community feedback instead never being in the game. Or Option 2 - All content added is only content from old CoD's. I'm not saying you can't criticise CoD just don't be contradict yourself in the span of about 5 posts.

Of course you can compare game modes and maps - we buy the game and have a certain level of expectation of what we are getting for that money. If the game launched with 100 multiplayer maps yet all the textures were shitty low res do you think people would be praising the number of maps or complaining about the textures? You may not implicitly buy the textures, they just form part of the whole as maps and game modes do too. You're getting caught up in the details though, I'm not, and have not, praised Tier 1 itself; with most people preferring core I haven't played enough of it to really have much of an opinion. But if they just release the same TDM, Domination, FFA etc. for the next 10 years but with new maps you aren't buying a new game you're buying a £60 map pack. Which is exactly the criticism CoD took a lot of flak for not so long ago. So what I'm willing to praise Tier1 for is that they tried something different, not that they succeeded, or that they shouldn't revert back to regular HC, but simply that they tried to give us something more than a map pack. In the same vain as adding Warzone and, more recently, DMZ. They have play testers but there isn't really any guaranteed way to know if something is going to be a success (Warzome, DMZ), or will alienate the community (Tier1), until it's launched to the wider community. Now again, me saying that doesn't mean I agree with the small number of maps or them re-using old maps as new content - I don't. However if they add actual new maps and you don't like one or all of them you are going to complain about the quality of them, as would I. But your criticism of Tier1, that it's needless and pointless change that they shouldn’t have done, is more equivalent to saying because the map(s) are rubbish they shouldn't release any new maps again. Which is nothing but rubbish and flies in the face of you spouting off wanting new content. Clearly the solution is you should go work for Activision so they can make sure any future changes are James approved.

30 I believe.

What an inane anology, that would completely change how TDM would be played. Tier1 is HC with less HUD and a little more health - changes? yes, but not fundamental, or stupid, changes like your suggesting. However I think you're missing my point. You don't see any contradiction between saying they should have launched with the same game modes as previous CoD's instead of trying to tweak things and saying you don't want re-hashed content? They tried something new and that should be praised even if, as it seems, the general consensus is the change isn't actually for the better. But how could you know it wasn't for the better without them launching the game with Tier1 instead of HC?

Because you’re basically saying they shouldn’t have made any changes so have brought Hardcore back without any changes then moaning about them bring back an old map. Both gamemodes and maps are content and re-using either is re-using content. Just because, I assume, you liked Hardcore and don’t like Tier 1 doesn’t make it any less hypocritical to moan about one and not the other.

So if I've got this correct, they shouldn't be bringing back old content but how dare they make changes to a game mode instead of bringing back a carbon copy of the old mode?

I've started reading Leviathan wakes by James Corey as I finally caught up and finished watching the Expanse last year which is a great series and well worth a watch. Though it only covers books 1-6 in the TV series as there's a time jump between the end of book 6 and 7 so the TV series doesn't wrap up all the story lines and I want to know how it ends so thought I better read the books. And knowing there are a few differences between the books and the TV series, I also thought it best to start at the beginning. So far so good though only 100 pages in to book 1 of 9 so this could take a while to get through it all 😄

Ah yeah, there's a better chance we'll still be on Academy in March 🙂 My little video covers how to install the pack but yes, you need a Minecraft account to log in to the FTB Launcher. So if you don't have the vanilla game, you'll need to buy it though you'll need to make sure to get the Java edition (Not the Windows 10, PE or Bedrock or whatever it's called on the store)

Due to someone *cough* Matt *cough* irradiating the last server, FTB Academy is now live on the server for all to play. The server does run a whitelist though so you won't be able to join until I have your username. I can add to the whitelist almost at anytime so drop me a message here or whatsapp and I'll add you.

Honestly we probably won't be on Academy by then as larger packs are usually done in a few months but Academy is not a large pack though we shall see. However you'll still be welcome on the server if/whenever you want to jump on and can go through some of the basics of modded 🙂