cyberninja2601

If is that good a cod, no one is spending time reading.

I guess I am old school. Parents should be spending time with him reading and some social skills instead of planting his face in front of an iPAD and filming it.

Yah. Got two crates yesterday as well. Some kind wanted level up is weapon and we just started doing contracts casually and squad came up and announced they were friendly so we joined up. Wanted to do the weapons cases so we rolled with them. Went really well first time. The kid and I went in again and found another squad and did the same We were particularly lucky. The extraction was almost right next to the case so we didn't get anyone chasing us. His gun went up like crazy

I agree with @Luseth When you say stuff like "thousands of innocent people" and the number is 60 is hard to be credible in the rest of the argument

that's always the case. They probably got a bonus for reducing cost. However if Halo disappeared would it be a big deal to gamers. On steam they average the 30 day average is less than 5000. Comparatively Warzone is 120000, witcher 3 is 43000, Skyrim 27000. An 11 year old game is has about 600% more players. So if I am running a business and I am microsoft I wouldn't sweat closing down something that generates 5000 players a month and I would put my money into candy crush or fruit ninja. Sucks for those 60 people but with those numbers MS probably didn't think about it for more that 10 seconds.

60 people out of 10000 is pretty minuscule. They probably expect the Activision merger to go forward and these people are a victim of that. I read that azure, sales and Marketing were hit hard.

Where did you see that any of the layoffs have anything to do with Gaming? I've seen no such indication. The announcements I have seen are pretty generic All the major tech companies are laying off. Part of the problem was that Exec management were spending like druken sailors and hiring anything with a pulse. The pay packages people were getting to jump ship were simply insane. Engineers where getting $340K to switch jobs at Apple, amazon, google, intel, Facebook, MS, Netflix. The packages were much better than employees that were there so that cause those people to jump ship too. g So now things have slowed down and they realize of shit our costs are way to high. We need to get them under control. The numbers are quite high but the majority of companies are in the 5% range. It always the employees who suffer but I have been in tech long enough to know that this is something you have to plan for as it happens all the time. I've been laid off 3 times over my career. Intel being one of them and they hired me back 8 years later. Shit happens in this industry the worse part is all the H1B visas in the USA. Those people now have 60 days to find another job or they have to go back to their countries. Some have been in the country 15 years and are raising families there but those are the conditions for those visas. Given the current situation most probably cannot be hired in time.

Maybe the people that we added had squad mates that ran away. I've had awesome squad fill games. People tend to be genuinely interested in doing the missions when that happens. With 6 people it's pretty had to fail. I also like the shock on other squads that attack you when they realize they just stirred a hornets nest and have to take on 6 motivated players than now are going to fuck them up This afternoon when we were doing it, we were rocking 3 LTVs going spot to spot. Great fun. You can't do that at all solo since there is no one to man the turret.

I don't think so because I have revived entire squads. Stonemountain has also done it on a number of his videos. I think he even did it with a solo.

You do know that you can ask for help from a squad that downs you. I would in a case like that ask for help and say that you are running solo. Once you killed someone, they aren't a risk to you so a lot of people are more trusting at that point. The game is also a hell of a lot of fun running a x6 squad. I did that this morning and told the people I had to go because I had a meeting. They actually extracted me in so I would get my mission. There are a lot of dicks in the game, but there are a lot of helpful people too. Some of the later missions benefit from large squads.

My only suggestion would be to gear before you do something difficult. Get your 3 plate vest and large backpack. Gas mask. Precision airstrike. Revive pistol, Revive kit, Plenty of stims. Once you get going, plates/plates/Plates. Try to get a number of good extraction perk streaks and then go for those missions. Carry in a sniper rifle and a good AR/LMG. I like having a thermal also just to spot people/AI I also tend to avoid cars. They make noise and are visible on the map. I Climb the towers and parachute instead. People seem to rarely look up I do squad up however and assess the squad. If there are newbies without microphones, I don't go for anything difficult and don't risk my gear as much

I've gotten a lot of people to team up. What I do is I say I can see you, don't shoot or our squad will return fire. I also ask to party up The only reason to shoot is the hunting a squad contract or the picking up tags mission I know you run mostly solo but if they think you are rolling a party they might leave you alone. I would say use proximity chat to scare them away. If you are solo you are easy pickings. Just occasional say that you have they operator in your sights. Do you want to ping if you want to engage. They might just decide to run at that point. It does happen a lot however. This morning my team killed 9 operators in our deployment just because they decided to shoot at us. We all rock a thermal sniper and ping the bad guys these days so it usually doesn't end well for them. It would be impossible for a solo player like you to survive that When we go to extract we take a car and I get out before the extract point. My team mates go to the opposite end of the extraction point. So if people attack they attack the two in the car and I am typically behind them so they get wacked 🙂

Happy Birthday, now I am off to hack your personal accounts which will specifically ask me when you were born 😉

Maybe he should exercise more and play video games less. Candy ass wimp

I wanted to add that extracting is preferable to anything else in this mode. You get the extraction bonus and an bonus perk if you did a contract. The most I have gotten to is 10 perks (which meant 10 consecutive successful extractions). Those are the same perks as MP. Getting those makes you near godly so it is friending players to get out successfully is to me preferable than getting the 100 xp for an operator kill and their loot.

I went with engage only if there is a mission. Could have been try to squad as well. If I am in a good squad that communicates I even "bait" the players when asking to squad up. I run a thermal sniper now. Tell them where they are and that I will shoot to their right then I do it. Squad up or die 🙂. After that they usually do. Another option could have been, kill one (with the sniper) and wait for teammates to come and revive. Then take them out. If they are solo I tell them to ask for help and I revive them which makes them part of the squad. I tend to try to help the Solo guys. They are usually not a concern When we run 6 to a squad we pretend there are 3 of us. That way if others engage they get a big surprise.

Then try the shield + gun, double time, fast hands, dead silence. Run after them. A lot of people when the see the shield the try to run away, switch to gun and kill them. Might even work if you soften them up with the shield first although I haven't tried that

Well played (it's actually 17+ in the USA).

If only. How does a 6 year old learn to bring a loaded gun to school and shoot the teacher.

I guess you try when you no longer get banned for being mean to 13 year olds 😉

DMZ came out with Building 21 which is a harder mission and different Area. The loot is different but not essential. There are 5 tiers of missions for the 5 factions. I think a content provide has just recently completed them all with his Squad. That aspect is more of challenge if that is what you want to do. I'm at tier 3 at this point and I don't think I've played MP in 3 weeks. It takes me no time at all to get a lobby so I can only assume that people are playing.

You are up there but not alone I understand your complaint. However I don't agree with your perception of what COD is. What you are both complaining about is MP. Not COD. COD has been repackaged into MP, Co-op, WZ, DMZ. When go on the WWII site, I believe they make that quite clear. What purchase is MP, co-op and campaign. Those make your life easier if you play DMZ, Raid, WZ because you can level up you shit much quicker or you can chose to play that aspect. But they aren't dependent on each other What I believe people need to accept is that COD is not the product it use to be and the free content probably has more weight than that $69 content. The publisher will invest where the money is As for Raven/IW they don't make the decision. Activision does. Raven is even an Activision company That is true. If you look at their shareholder reports Their purchase games generate $900M (which is all of them) their subscriptions at $4.2B I believe. More than 4x. Why do you all think that Overwatch and destiny went free to play COD mobile generated $1.7B since release WZ I believe generated $800M in downloadable content in 2021. I didn't see anything for 2022 and Q4 just ended so that information should be available in the next few weeks That aligns a lot with what I am saying. I don't believe however they deliberately starve. They just have a limited number of developers and they invest in what generates the money. All tech companies do. It's also a lot easier to generate a black skin with a red LA on it that a decent map. That skin gets you $24. Pretty easy money. I don't remember how many maps the last blackops had. But it seemed like people always voted for the same ones, so I never played a number of them. All that to say that you know dam well that if Shipment, Nuketown, Range, Rust come up, that's what you are going to be playing so it really doesn't matter how much they add because people always go back to the same thing.

That's surprising. That would mean you can't get camos unless you have the paid version.

Well the created a game which actually is doing better than ever and quite frankly most people seem to like otherwise they wouldn't be making the boatload of money they are making yes the care about the money. Microsoft cares about the money. Google cares about the money. Goodyear cares about the money. Intel cares about the money. Even charities care about the money. That's the fiduciary obligation. Given the beat all sorts of records, mission accomplished However people have bitched for at least 10 years that COD was same old/same old and needed innovation. So they went off and did Warzone (which copies other battle royals but did it), the did Co-op mode (which is in the paid version), they added raids (which complements Co-op), they did DMZ, the did a MP and they did a campaign. Then said they would add maps for the next 2 years. Everyone bitching about the number of maps, seem to be the people who only played 1 map 24/7 so I fail to understand why the number of maps is the issue. If there was 16 maps, people probably still would have played shipment all the time. I can also see why content creators bitch. SBMM makes it hard for them, so no flashy videos. DMZ/Warzone/co-op is actually a lot of fun to play. It must be boring as hell to watch. So they aren't getting their view and they aren't getting the money (but activision is and so the bitch about the game). I paid $69 for something I put I don't know how many hours into. But I am willing to bet it's more that 69. So at about $1/hr I feel I got my moneys worth.

I think you can use DMZ (or Warzone) for some of those. It's probably easier than MP as you can just focus on the AI or a few other players at a time