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Call of Duty: Ghosts |OT| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9GBR3B0LE
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Liferebooted
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Meh, Blops 2 on pc barely ever hit 2500 people online for the past 10 months.
Victory Red
Member
I dont understand how anyone can complain about "getting shot in the back" in the first few weeks of a game's launch.
NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE GOING!
Of course everyone is running around lost, they dont know the maps. So of course you are going to die a lot, you may be standing right in the middle of the map and not even know it.
I like to camp as the day is long, but I'm dying a lot because I'm moving around too much because I dont know what trends to expect for each map.
Give the game some time and let people learn the maps, figure out paths and vantage points.
NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE GOING!
Of course everyone is running around lost, they dont know the maps. So of course you are going to die a lot, you may be standing right in the middle of the map and not even know it.
I like to camp as the day is long, but I'm dying a lot because I'm moving around too much because I dont know what trends to expect for each map.
Give the game some time and let people learn the maps, figure out paths and vantage points.
Major Williams
Member
This is how I feel internally as well... "Am I camping in the middle of a mutual spawn area?" "Am I even running towards the action?"
Frustrating...
Also, I am liking some of the aspects of this, except for using points to unlock attachments on the guns... I may not like a gun right out the gate, and I have to choose to invest in the gun to see if I really like it or not with attachments. Kind of upsetting.
Victory Red
Member
Agreed. I don't like the points system for unlocks. It takes a while to experiment and get everything all set up.
I'm a level 19 now and finally feel like I have the classes (all 3 of them!) where I like them.
yankeehater
Member
I really hope they let us respec our points. I was in the same spot, not doing well with any of the starting guns without scopes, so I spent points buying a scope for a gun I will most likely drop.
backflip10019
Member
Eh, I don't know if that's true. Last night when I was playing as a 6, I was being put up against 28s, 27s, 26s who have played way more of the game than I have. I'd imagine they have at least a basic understanding of the maps whereas I'm completely new to the game. Guess the issue stands in matchmaking.
GodParticle
Member
For people complaining about spending points to unlock something with the potential to not like it, why aren't y'all going into local squad mode and trying them all out first? Everything is unlocked there from what I've seen
Couldn't be less true. Copious amounts of lag online + very little health. "Gunplay" has nothing to do with anything here. You either get the drop on someone or you dont (and you die, sometimes right after you spawn).
yankeehater
Member
I had no idea. I will check that out.
Interview with Chance Glasco from Infinity Ward at Brasil Game Show a week before the game came out
http://youtu.be/7fMtp6Gz9lA
http://youtu.be/7fMtp6Gz9lA
Yup, Black Ops II is ways and ways more 'playable' than Ghosts.
Mechanized
Member
From the gameplay vids I've seen the PS3 version looks really muddy. Is it actually that bad? How is Blops 2 on PS3?
You have a copy? Go play it then!
Seriously though I'd just dig on in and see what you like and dislike before someone else tells you what is bad and what isn't.
lol My PS3 is doing the automatic update so I'm waiting for that to finish and then I'll jump in.
I've been messing around with the vector w/ muzzle brk for a bit more range. I'm liking it but only on smaller maps like that freefall map, which is an awesome map that I can only seem to find in the damned mosh pit.
Victory Red
Member
Last night I was in a room where I was getting destroyed by two guys using K7s.
They looked/felt like the UMP45 of MW2.
MaximusPayne
Member
Wow, I had the 360 hooked up to my 1080p lcd 47 inch tv and it looked muddy. I plugged it up to my 720p 50 inch plasma and it looks crispier and better. It's wierd but I guess plasma is better for gameing anyway.
MaximusPayne
Member
The maps are larger so you better get the drop on someone with these. ARs seem to be the way to go.
Dominican Power
Member
These maps have too much shit going on and the spawn system is dreadful. I look at someone and I'm done. Activision has run the franchise to the ground. We've been getting nothing but subpar quality since MW2.
See you next year then? ;p
Dominican Power
Member
I just got it, so I'm going to keep playing it until I'm sick to my stomach.
Give it sometime. It's a chaotic mess to start, but once you get used to the paths and understand flanking routes, you'll have a better time. I suggest either doing local bot matches to familiarize yourself with the maps and weapons or just keep playing gametypes like blitz where you tend to start on one side of the map per half.
Hip Hop
Member
I think you have a good chance of liking it. It's comparable to MW3 and fairly different from BLOPS2 (I'm the opposite, hated MW3, really liked BLOPS2, and I hate ghost with a burning fiery passion of everlasting hatred (and great contempt)).
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Major Williams
Member
I had heard those who skipped on BO2 have no trouble picking Ghosts up from MW3 and doing well with it.
When I went from MW3 to BO2, it was really tough to get good with it. Going from BO2 to Ghosts I think will be a similar struggle.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
I like it more than BOII. The BOII maps were a letdown for me. Felt it was too small and not enough diverse terrain.
Ghosts maps are some of the best I've played, IMO. That's because I like maps with crazy terrain and design. I prefer larger maps than smaller ones. More skill involved and and more tension rather than the smaller maps where it's designed to just rack up kills. It's not Halo where skill is required.
I think Nuketown is the worst MP map. Horrible. No skill involved.
Dominican Power
Member
It's so hard to spot enemies in this game and when you do you're dead in an instant.
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Let's not get all crazy and start talking about skill in a modern COD game.
Anyone understand how operations work? I just don't get what the 13 days countdown is, and does pressing X and buying new ones do the same? How do you get second tier challenges? What the hell was wrong with the old challenge lists?
besides that I'm having fun. I hated BO2, but this is a big improvement over that imo. I can actually knife people now. Ha
besides that I'm having fun. I hated BO2, but this is a big improvement over that imo. I can actually knife people now. Ha
Skill is more than just point and shoot. Every game requires skill to be good at, if every one is able to get a 5:1 KDR or more easily in the game then you have to wonder how they'd get there if everyone could get it because if someone has to compensate for all those kills by their deaths.
Ozzykamikaze
Member
Why, with such large maps and so few players on them, must I be spawned at the end of another player's barrel? There are probably 20 other places I could spawn where I'd have to run for 10 seconds just to find someone, and I pop up with my back to an enemy. It's baffling.
SlackAdjuster
Member
I swear its part of their formula to keep action "intense". We don't want you running anywhere with nothing going on for 10 whole seconds. Get in there and fight!
illmatic19
Member
Do dogs really have more HP than players?
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Deleted member 325805
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Yeah, and their lunge is massive.
8bitForLife
Member
whats the consensus on the ps4 version its my first call of duty since cod4
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Deleted member 325805
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K7 if it's Strikezone (?) as it's the only "CoD sized" map in the game. Generally Honey Badger though.
True, the maps are larger, but is it just me or do the SMGs fire like lasers? (Especially the vector with a grip). For that reason, I've been doing fine even on big maps with SMGs.
Other observations:
They got rid of Demolition and Search and Destroy, my two favorites, WTF?
Most maps don't have discernible routs, or the routs peak out at other ones, meaning a million lines of site to guard against, and death from any angle. This adds to the utility of SMGs. Gotta be quick.
Spawn system still fucked. They said they fixed this in MW3, which became obviously false when I and a teammate spawned in full view 3 feet in front of an enemy (he saw us pop into view). Have spawned near enemies here, but nothing that bad yet.