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Pegasus Actual
Member
Remember, shield guys are more afraid of you than you are of them! One good way to learn how to beat them is to just play as one, and see all the ways people beat you. You'll realize that shield life is tough.
They are super loud, so it's best to deal with them before they are in a troublesome position. They are also super slow. If they want decent protection they need to crouch walk. That means you can run away. If they chase they're exposed to fire. And if you're a fast character, you're just going to plain outrun them anyway.
Keep in mind that they'll often have a buddy. Keep an eye on the riot shielder, and definitely shoot him if he tries to kill you, but don't have tunnel vision. If there is another guy, you probably want to deal with him first.
They can easily be baited. It takes them a second to get into ADS to get a credible shot on you. They really really want to do that. You just have to make them think they have an opportunity. So one prized tactic is the 'fake run'. Sprint away from them for a half second, then turn on them. Time it so they're going to decide to ADS as you turn back, and blow their head off.
Blitz is kind of a special case, because he has that stupid concussion charge. With him, if he tries to concuss you, and it fails, chances are you're about to get a free shot. It's really hard for Blitz to tell if he got a clean stun on you, so use that to your advantage.
And never underestimate the YOLO knife charge/stun. You're vulnerable to hip fire spam as you near, but if you have a covered approach, or the element of surprise... YOLO!!
Some examples of fighting riot shielders:
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pegasus Actual/video/19529413
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pegasus Actual/video/19370960#t=50
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pegasus Actual/video/19370697
Also... when fighting Blitz it's handy to be able to run away while blind:
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pegasus Actual/video/19529671
I don't even know if the knife stun thing works against Montagne when he's fully deployed, here's a silly fight I had before I had any idea of how to fight riot shielders:
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pegasus Actual/video/17570657
Regardless his shield takes a while to retract, so you just need to keep track of him, not dedicate your whole life to discouraging him like I did there.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Nice tips Pagasus
Especially the fake run
Especially the fake run
OdysseusVA
Banned
ElzarTheBam
Member
Haha I can't remember if I was in that. I feel like I can remember hearing this happening but I only heard Mike and Evolved.
OfTheOverflow
Member
So does anyone know what's up with the Ubisoft Challenges? They've just disappeared for my friends and I. Possibly respecting the tragedy in France re: the GIGN challenge for Bastille Day perhaps.
Yeah Ubi announced they'd be suspending the GIGN challenge due to what happened in Nice. Every account will receive the flag charm sometime next week.
From the subreddit
The matchmaking in this game is all over the place. I play 8 games where it will take no time to find all players and then the next 4 games can take 3 minutes just to find a game. I've also noticed anytime I get a good team going and we all pick for a rematch we get thrown into separate games that are already on the 3rd round and having no clue what map or even game mode its. As for the netcode it's either with you or against you. I was on Oregon in the Office area with the stairs and someone busted throw the door so I processed to empty a magazine into Ash but that person two shots me with the pistol. If they could fix matchmaking issues and netcode issues Siege could become a great game.
ThomasAnderson
Member
Un ranked is 100x more for than ranked for me. Everyone just running gunning and having a good time. Don't think I'll ever go back. Or maybe I just suck, lol.
Nappuccino
Member
My friends just started playing the game again, and we're having a lot of fun. However, I keep hard crashing. Game freezes on a still image and I have to manually restart my PC. Nothing else works.
I run on a 660 and I have a i5-4690k but I haven't overclocked it. With my settings I generally have a 76fps, so I don't think the game is pushing it too hard and yet, best I can tell, this is the only game that causes me to crash within a single hour. As you can imagine, this makes playing ranked matches rather tedious.
I've done basically everything short of a clean install of windows. Anything I might be missing? (Verified game cache -- also it was a fresh download just last week, updated drivers, driver cleansed and updated again, checked for memory issues with memtest, tweaked some in game settings, stopped a number of resource hogging programs etc.) I've read that there can be some Steam / Ubisoft compatibility errors but I haven't found much about how that error manifests itself. Long story short, any ideas for things I could try before doing a clean install?
Thanks in advance.
I run on a 660 and I have a i5-4690k but I haven't overclocked it. With my settings I generally have a 76fps, so I don't think the game is pushing it too hard and yet, best I can tell, this is the only game that causes me to crash within a single hour. As you can imagine, this makes playing ranked matches rather tedious.
I've done basically everything short of a clean install of windows. Anything I might be missing? (Verified game cache -- also it was a fresh download just last week, updated drivers, driver cleansed and updated again, checked for memory issues with memtest, tweaked some in game settings, stopped a number of resource hogging programs etc.) I've read that there can be some Steam / Ubisoft compatibility errors but I haven't found much about how that error manifests itself. Long story short, any ideas for things I could try before doing a clean install?
Thanks in advance.
I've been playing on XB1 for the last couple weeks or so, and there's a very healthy base in my experience. Avg. MMing time in casual is ~40-1:30, 60-2:30 in ranked. Typically there's a mic or two on each team.
chalkitdown1
Member
Nothing more satisfying than when a lure goes really, really well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1VbK8tmMgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1VbK8tmMgM
Nothing more satisfying than when a lure goes really, really well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1VbK8tmMgM
Not bad. Not sure if I would have had the patience to wait but GJ. Did you win the round?
IbizaPocholo
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OfTheOverflow
Member
Yeah I've got some scummy kills doing that. One in particular who was prone in a corner of the train museum area and the round had just started. Was able to knife his foot through the wall while rappelling. Life isn't fair lol. Battlefield 3 had this problem too, but they fixed it with BF4 afaik
chalkitdown1
Member
Just about. Went to 1v1
Nothing more satisfying than when a lure goes really, really well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1VbK8tmMgM
Do Frost traps prevent the person getting trapped from looking around? Cause if he had looked to his left he could've let his teammates know where you were.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
It's $20 right now on Best Buy with Elite Membership Status. Is it worth it at that price?
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
Yes. Yes it is.
chalkitdown1
Member
You can a little, but I think it's very limited. Maybe 45 degrees either side from the way you were facing when you got trapped.
Also, interest in this seems to have dropped off a cliff lately. Not just on GAF, but very few of my friends still play it, either. They really need to update it more frequently than once every 3 months.
The other day I was thinking it would be cool if there was a ~5-10% chance of a difficult quicktime event that allows you escape Frost's traps yourself.
Things will probably fluctuate again once S3 and the new ops come around.
Sooo I have been playing ranked quite a bit and It DEFINITELY gets harder the higher rank you are. I currently am bouncing around between level 2-3 Gold.
Curious about if you guys have been adjusting your sensitivity for PS4?
I've had mine at default since launch but am realizing that may have been a mistake.
Curious about if you guys have been adjusting your sensitivity for PS4?
I've had mine at default since launch but am realizing that may have been a mistake.
RodanCeros
Member
I've been leaving feedback through XBL whenever I am egregiously killed by a teammate, and I just got a message telling me they took action against one of the offenders. Feels good, feels really good. Its probably just a temporary ban, but I am fantasizing that they bricked his console 😊
OfTheOverflow
Member
Yep, doesn't look like it did you any favours
Went full crazy and took the sights off some of my weapons and chucked on suppressors too. The casual usage of "rip" has never been more abused. The compensator as an attachment is invaluable.
TimeEffect
Member
Excited for season 3.
I really hope we see a lot of default operators buffed or given new life
Doc, Castle, Glaz, Montagne, Twitch, Tachanka,
I really hope we see a lot of default operators buffed or given new life
Doc, Castle, Glaz, Montagne, Twitch, Tachanka,
RodanCeros
Member
Is there a posted timeframe for the next season? I just started playing this month but I'm already looking forward to new Operators.
salty_Josh
Member
Between July and end of August
They'll do a reveal at the xbox finals this weekend (july 30th) and we'll probably get an estimate then. PC finals is the weekend after, so I'm guessing it'll come out some time after that
Bring up the scoreboard -> highlight their name -> Enter -> Vote to kick.
alpinestars1980
Member
Yes, there is, as detailed above. However, it's broken quite often. Surprise.
Anton Sugar
Member
From their blog:
Interesting changes and additions. Tactical Realism sounds like it could be fun! I don't know how I feel about the silent operator and interrogation system, though...I wonder if there will be more intentional team kills if your buddy goes down and you can see him but can't get to him in time?
Interesting changes and additions. Tactical Realism sounds like it could be fun! I don't know how I feel about the silent operator and interrogation system, though...I wonder if there will be more intentional team kills if your buddy goes down and you can see him but can't get to him in time?
Shit, an operator that doesn't make sound while moving can do some really nasty flanking.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Really looking forward to that favela map.
Anton Sugar
Member
I hope they have a way to track a "Mercy Kill" kinda thing. I mean, if I'm incapacitated and far enough away that I can't be revived, but a teammate can shoot me...I'd prefer to be shot dead than give up the positions of the my team.
Maybe I am just not that good at sneaking up on people but I gotta feel like it is going to be pretty damn hard to interrogate someone without putting yourself at a huge risk of being shot by the other team.
As soon as it happens the person being interrogated is going to say "Fuck help being interrogated" and likely teammates will be close by to come to his aid. It better be a pretty quick deal to figure out where the enemy is or you are kinda fucked.
The attacker sounds pretty sweet but I am not really likely the fact that every defender is a roamer now. I dont really like his weapons but I play as mute a lot right now because no one picks him and wants to stay in the room anymore. This new operator is going to make it 6 solid roamers on the defender side (Jager, Bandit, Frost, Valkeryie and Pulse).
grandwizard
Member
FINALLY ANTI CHEAT
Caviera sounds good. I'm concerned about them making yet another defender with high roaming potential and an auto shotgun as well as c4. Her interrogation ability makes it so you will probably want to send 2 people to take her out when you know shes roaming as well as one could be too big a risk.
Agreed. I don't think the devs know that even without roam friendly classes, Siege is still a game where flanking the attackers is extremely powerful just because of how the maps are designed. Attackers have to dedicate people to watch way too many routes as they are on the attack already, and then you have defenders made specifically to exploit flanking and it just gets tiresome. Every game you have a Pulse or Valkyrie popping out of a window somewhere and taking out half the team with a c4 or auto shotty spam before they can react.
Caviera sounds good. I'm concerned about them making yet another defender with high roaming potential and an auto shotgun as well as c4. Her interrogation ability makes it so you will probably want to send 2 people to take her out when you know shes roaming as well as one could be too big a risk.
Agreed. I don't think the devs know that even without roam friendly classes, Siege is still a game where flanking the attackers is extremely powerful just because of how the maps are designed. Attackers have to dedicate people to watch way too many routes as they are on the attack already, and then you have defenders made specifically to exploit flanking and it just gets tiresome. Every game you have a Pulse or Valkyrie popping out of a window somewhere and taking out half the team with a c4 or auto shotty spam before they can react.
FINALLY ANTI CHEAT
Caviera sounds good. I'm concerned about them making yet another defender with high roaming potential and an auto shotgun as well as c4. Her interrogation ability makes it so you will probably want to send 2 people to take her out when you know shes roaming as well as one could be too big a risk.
Agreed. I don't think the devs know that even without roam friendly classes, Siege is still a game where flanking the attackers is extremely powerful just because of how the maps are designed. Attackers have to dedicate people to watch way too many routes as they are on the attack already, and then you have defenders made specifically to exploit flanking and it just gets tiresome. Every game you have a Pulse or Valkyrie popping out of a window somewhere and taking out half the team with a c4 or auto shotty spam before they can react.
Ya, it is getting more and more nerve racking just entering the building now as an attacker. Watching flanks constantly, checking for valkeryie cameras everywhere, watching every window and every spot that is not reinforced could be a small kill hole.
I wonder what the statistics are of win ratio being on attacking/defending. Blackbeard is a great attacker and can be pretty OP hanging outside of a window but Buck is kinda useless imo, I would rather have almost any other attacker than him.
grandwizard
Member
Another thing I forgot to mention is the new trick defenders use with window barricades where they melee them twice at the very bottom so it doesn't show any damage, then they are able to instantly pop out on people without any noise of busting a barricade to make it vaultable. Siege is really turning into flanker's paradise and I'm missing some of the more straightforward fights of pre-frost Siege.
