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I see they are adding bots into some multiplayer modes and Warzone 2. Nothing worse than shooting recruit difficulty AI fodder. Unlike Battlefield 2042, this decision can't be based on expected lower player counts/mass lobby fills so they are probably doing it to give crap players the illusion that they can do well and go on streaks. No regard to how this will impact experienced players on a annual brand that's been mainstream for 15 years. I watched a couple of Invasion steams last night and the mode just looked so bland especially with enemies that just stood around doing nothing or posed no threat whatsoever. This will probably play a big psychological part in Warzone 2 as Activision aims to hook players into spending money by increasing retention by convincing players they are doing well.
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England relegated from the Nations League meaning we’ll be playing Ibiza and Jersey next time😂 5 games without a win, haven’t scored from open play in 7 hours and our worst run in 22 years - just under 3 months from the World Cup! Harry Kane cannot run the line solo - he spends most of the game chasing shadows and getting knackered. If it wasn’t for the hair and branding, Grealish would still be a championship player and Phil Foden along with many other top club players are completely ineffective at international level. We seem to have no strategy or proven lineup now and it’s getting very concerning. Can’t score, struggle to create and players supposedly valued at £100m+ getting rings run round by 35 year olds or ones barely turned professional. It’s absolutely diabolical quality of football and it’s just so clear as day what needs to be tweaked in terms of the system and lineup.
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Probably lives just up the road from me🤣 Busted: UK police arrest 17 year-old hacker in connection with GTA 6 leaks | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Former Reuters journalist says the investigation is being done jointly with the FBI. Be hilarious if I know this mother or something
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It's hilarious because Activision invited a load of cheaters for their shitty online reveal event last week and they were all absolute shit when they couldn't cheat. The number 1 female COD Warzone player who gets 20 kills a game there couldn't even get 4 kills in TDM and the other night her Twitch viewer/chat bot expired so she plunged down 3500 viewers live on stream. Activision know about the cheating and Twitch know about the botting but they don't do fuck all about it. This is all brushed under the carpet despite a huge amount of cheaters under the radar and many of them are actually affiliated streamers!
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PC beta looks pretty solid. Gameplay just looks so much smoother and more fluid with a mouse and keyboard. There's a few instances of flickering that needs to be addressed but on the whole, it looks decent as should be expected.
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Mirage will probably be another reskin with a needlessly big world and the same old mechanics. Once you've played one, you've played them all pretty much. It's one of just a few successful IP's Ubisoft have left so they will milk these games forever and they all have the same design philosophy and template which I don't like. If they cut down the game worlds by 60%, removed 100+ filler quests along with the level gating and made it more of a crafted experience then they could probably be onto something like The Witcher 3. Sadly this framework is just so safe, uninspired and mentally exhausting to play that I'll probably never buy another AC again. Wouldn't even force myself to play Valhalla for free.
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I was thinking last night how there is 15 years of community feedback, a new COD game every year and probably close to 50,000 lines of patch notes on record, and yet here we are with mini-map and perk controversies less than a month before a game that has to last two years. Some things should just be set in stone or left to be expanded upon. All these edgy changes to make the game feel more fresh is actually doing people are disservice because it's removing staples we are used to and expect.
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Same! I thought they just cut out any excess noise in the editing suite - didn't realise they'd actually go down this route of creating silent props.
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Another thing about the footsteps in the MW2 beta is that they are very loud on a map which is a good test environment; the hotel one basically. This combines interiors with some wood or carpet flooring, stairs and upper levels. Some people are saying they aren't an issue when playing the farm or market map and this is probably the case, but only by virtue of the amount of exterior and quieter surfaces. The more indoor maps they have in the final game with upper areas or non-concrete surfaces, the bigger this problem will be. Personally I didn't have many issues with footsteps when I played but that was only because I played on the hotel map about 3 times but if you have 4-5 maps with this problem then it will turn into something more significant. This has already caused huge problems in Warzone 1 where you could literally hear people on the top floor whilst the other side of a 10 storey building for instance. There are also very smart players who can literally configure their headphones to only pick up on certain elements or enhance others so if they want to soundwhore to the maximum potential then they will to a devastating degree. The dead silence perk is very OP but a staple of the series and it could've been blended in a tier where users could have chosen that or the ability for their gunfire to not show on the minimap - either perk representing an advanced ghost-type one in a competitive slot but instead they've protected people loud with their guns and punished those that move around the map with their feet!
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Sledgehammer did that under Condrey and Schofield with WW2 but they did it in a bait and switch form where they patched the beta to everyone's wishes but then in the final release they reverted all the changes and then told the community to basically screw themselves after we all paid up. Thank god both those dictator pricks got moved on and out the company after that saga and the game improved massively once feedback was acted upon by the remaining employees at the studio but it was just too late in the day to salvage the game. The studio then got pulled apart prior to Vanguard's development - that would have been a great game otherwise but it was instead left to a bunch of people who believes there are 650 genders. Trouble is with Infinity Ward is half the studio is legends and very talented developers and the rest is soy drinking numpties who design the game for themselves and then get deeply offended when the people they are supposed to be making the game for criticise or question their decisions which they can never seem to justify. This beta is nothing more than a waste of time really but it may have saved my £60 so I'm grateful. Victoria 3 and God of War Ragnarok is where it's at this year I reckon.
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FBI Investigating Alleged Rockstar Hacker - IGN WWW.IGN.COM The alleged hacker that leaked around 90 videos of Grand Theft Auto 6 and also targeted Uber is being investigated by the FBI. Seems they are evening striking captured images now..
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So basically in TDM, I can get the second one right at the end of the game even after getting 50 kills😂 Not sure why they have to tweak such a staple of the series just to make it appear they've done something different. Sure it's better than Treyarch giving people 20 perks right off the bat and 60 attachments but I hate all these convoluted and unnecessary game design changes which they cannot justify. That's modern Infinity Ward in a nutshell - do things and in interviews being unable to explain why you've done it and then blame the community. Yesterday I was seemingly earning a depoloyable piece of cover every 60 seconds too!
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Nvidia announces RTX 4090 and 4080 graphics cards, DLSS 3 WWW.EUROGAMER.NET Nvidia has announced its latest generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards at its GTC AI conference - and its new DLSS 3 algorithm, which combines for mad results
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I'm done with the PS5 beta - no point in playing any more as I've seen all there is to see. Gonna give the PC one a go when it's available and then make a decision. I did seem to notice more campy spots today and in some parts of the maps, enemies are really difficult to spot. I've turned off a lot of the effects like film grain and motion blur but there's just so many particle and post-processing effects in play, it's quite jarring at times especially the bullet spread. Also the interface for the post-match report is incredibly cluttered and you can't see all your rewards or unlocks and also the challenge sidebar overlaps your team line up which is kinda silly because 66% of the screen is taken up by empty space or an area which could easily accommodate the small menu. Even minimised, it still sits nastily on the screen. The lack of feedback on how to unlock weapons does not sit well and I hope they ditch this whole tech tree nonsense altogether - having to level up AR's to get an unrelated SMG is a bit daft really. I did have some good games and entertaining matches but I can't really say if I was having much fun overall. I do like how they've added an FOV slider and many other graphical options but I'm looking forward trying this with a mouse and keyboard and higher framerates.
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Statement from Rockstar 30 hours later:-
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Vice City seems to be the name of the setting judging by the metro - could be a district name but more likely the total Florida/Miami location. Protagonists appear to be called Jason and Lucia which fit the Bonnie and Clyde-style rumours revealed ages ago
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Played just over an hour earlier (really not sure how people manage to play 50 in these betas) and thought it was an okay game that plays itself very safe. Some of the changes are quite bizarre i.e the unclear unlock system plus the traditional perk format being reduced to two fixed is also weird. It’s nice that the mechanics are less friendly with slide cancelling nerfed and not being able to select 49 perks like in Treyarch games will make it more challenging and users more adventurous with their selections. Crouch walkers seem very hard to spot though if they are right at your feet. I quite liked the farm map but the hotel and market one were a bit average and nothing we haven’t seen before. Some nice detail and aesthetics but nothing exceptional. Killstreaks also didn’t grab me but I’m glad they’ve ditched the stupid POTG and replaced it with the final kill again. I’ll have another go tomorrow but I’m not majorly convinced about buying a game I stopped playing 3 years ago for another two more. It’s decent enough but maybe not £60 decent. Doesn’t quite have the wow factor the original MW2019 initially had because that was a big step up but this one does seem more refined and has less irritations. A lot will depend on the content available at launch - something MW sorely lacked.
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Take2Interactive striking down the videos which basically means they are legit🤣
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Some early build footage has been leaked and it comes from a credible source that falls in line with things Rockstar have confirmed already. Some GTA V stock assets are being used along with placeholders themselves. Also appears to be running off a PS4 dev kit but that doesn't mean it'll be on that system when it launches. Don't expect these videos to remain up for too long.
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This is funny
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The Captain FREE on Epic until the 22nd along with Spirit of the North https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-captain https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/spirit-of-the-north-f58a66
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Out next month https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7BDN73B?tag=i0e25-21&ascsubtag=01tRy1iT6BPBN6YlgGGbmYZ Nice unit but quite pricey at £105.
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By their own words from the infamous 2019 interview, they created 'safe spaces' for newer players with no regard in how experienced ones could exploit such design philosophies. I love how they've removed slide cancel although I expect they'll buckle and add it back in at some stage but other design choices are rather questionable. Dunno why they don't just stick to the usual tried, tested and proven formula without the need to take the 'edgy' and risky approach. Sound design will never improve sadly because as always feared, it's an engine limitation problem but there's no excuse for them not to include counters to this issue rather than throwing everyone under the bus.
