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Call of Duty: Black Ops III Beta Thread [PC/Xbone now up!]

jorgejjvr said:
Have you seen the videos that I and other GAFers have posted? The things that we've achieved in a beta! I can't wait for the game.

Honestly all I've ever played is console, and I guess we all just mastered it, just like I'm sure you're amazing while playing on PC.

Also guys, I've witness and enemy HATR/VSAT, and holy crap it's so hard to shoot down. From what I saw, it either needed three rockets or it was just too quick. You see, it looks somewhat like a small DNA strand floating in the sky, except it's like the Harry Potter golden snitch, that thing rotates and moves around the whole map in a very erratic and unpredictable pattern, that I'm pretty sure it out maneuvered my rockets.

So yeah, the VSAT is hard to shoot down guys.
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Honestly, I kinda wanna get it on PS4 because matchmaking times were literally fractions of a second today for me. That's insane compared to AW on PC.
 
jorgejjvr said:
Perhaps not at relatively long ranges, but definitely short to medium range.

You should check out Drift0r on YouTube, he made a video about it.

By far the most intellectual and composed CoD commentator out there, who provides you with insane amounts of knowledge to use to your liking.
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Yeah, I know of Driftor. Been meaning to check his new videos. Good to know he did one about this.
 
Sorral said:
I just do thermal + rapid fire now. I'm not 100% sure if I'm doing better with rapid fire as sometimes any moment of hitches/lag and the gun won't fire after 1-2 shot.

Used to use first ADS sight and anything else in second slot for a while. FMJ and the one that increases headshot damage didn't seem to do much.
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Sorry, meant nerfed, as you probably guessed.

I'll persevere... See if I can do some damage with it. Love me a semi-auto.
 
jorgejjvr said:
Yup, to level 34. Enough for the HATR, Power Core, Reaper, a new SMG, and the beloved Tactical Mask (probably the only perk 3 I'll use once I get it).
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How you feel about the vesper smg?
I'm liking the fire rate, seems akin to skorp evo
Would need like Extendomags and scavenger for my taste
 
Archpath1 said:
How you feel about the vesper smg?
I'm liking the fire rate, seems akin to skorp evo
Would need like Extendomags and scavenger for my taste
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I feel the same way, actually. I tried it out and honestly I feel it has the potential to be easily one of the best SMGs if used right (like the Skorpion), but the first thought I had after a couple kills was "I'm going to definitely need scavenger with this." So yeah, I suppose I could get some gameplay, but ammo will be scarce.

-TGM
 
Ugh I just realized the beta ends sunday until later in the month. Going to give up my code to someone who can play more. First to quote gets it. Have a friend's wedding the next 2 days.
 
Played this game for 2 hours yesterday.


I know why I never play a call of duty. I try it every year but Jesus, does they suck. Year for year I'm disappointed. When you know battlefield than this just feels so back to the stoneage. See you next year.
 
So, how's the movement and level design? Tried to scan through the thread but there were barely any Exo comparisons, couple of people saying it's as bad as it was in AW, couple of people saying the opposite.

I didn't necessarily hate the Exo movement in AW (I really enjoyed Titanfall, for example), but Exos combined with the awful map design turned it into the worst CoD I've ever played - you kept getting shot from every possible direction ALL THE TIME, there weren't any chokepoints or clear "lanes" etc.

I want to buy Blops 3 and I want to love it, but if the movement turns it into the hectic shitfest that AW was, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to skip it.
 
Muntu said:
So, how's the movement and level design? Tried to scan through the thread but there were barely any Exo comparisons, couple of people saying it's as bad as it was in AW, couple of people saying the opposite.

I didn't necessarily hate the Exo movement in AW (I really enjoyed Titanfall, for example), but Exos combined with the awful map design turned it into the worst CoD I've ever played - you kept getting shot from every possible direction ALL THE TIME, there weren't any chokepoints or clear "lanes" etc.

I want to buy Blops 3 and I want to love it, but if the movement turns it into the hectic shitfest that AW was, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to skip it.
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There is nothing to compare Exo moves to. You have a jetpack that is very much analog boost, a powerslide that takes half of your stamina, and I can't think of what else drains your stamina... but it drains. It's also NEVER the explosive boost that Exo moves gave you - this is more constant movement opportunities.

The movement system shines when you have someone who knows a map and is just riding the walls and rocks to the enemy. It really boosts the skill ceiling IMO
 
Finally got my best Glitch so far. Killed 3 people, then someone from behind is shooting at me; Used glitched and I was the one behind him now and killed him in the process. I can still see my glitch effect he's shooting.
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Revengineer said:
There is nothing to compare Exo moves to. You have a jetpack that is very much analog boost, a powerslide that takes half of your stamina, and I can't think of what else drains your stamina... but it drains. It's also NEVER the explosive boost that Exo moves gave you - this is more constant movement opportunities.

The movement system shines when you have someone who knows a map and is just riding the walls and rocks to the enemy. It really boosts the skill ceiling IMO
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Okay, so.. It doesn't ruin the game like Exo did for AW? It doesn't turn Blops 3 into a hectic, get-shot-all-the-time-from-everywhere killfest?
 
demosthenes said:
Ugh I just realized the beta ends sunday until later in the month. Going to give up my code to someone who can play more. First to quote gets it. Have a friend's wedding the next 2 days.
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Are you one of my friends?

One of the reasons I've not tried getting on is limited playtime due to my wedding. Not only that I skipped the last one due to exo suits etc and Ghosts was shite. Waiting for full reviews and peoples opinions and game vids before thinking about picking this up.
 
Muntu said:
Okay, so.. It doesn't ruin the game like Exo did for AW? It doesn't turn Blops 3 into a hectic, get-shot-all-the-time-from-everywhere killfest?
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If you want a 'normal' CoD, your options are Ghosts or BO2. This is AW-lite in terms of mobility, but it's still nothing like a 'classic' cod.
 
M.Prashanth said:
GAF, the game gets stuck at the post stats screen and it's not heading to the main menu for next game/map search/load. While trying to close the game application, it wouldn't. It then takes me to the frozen post stats screen. Have to un-plug the PS4 power cable to bring it back up again. Anyone facing this issue? This happened in three back to back games a few minutes ago!
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Happened to me twice. Downloaded the beta again and it hasn't done it again. Also you can shutdown the PS4 by holding down the power button for about 10sec. No need to pull the plug.
 
Muntu said:
Okay, so.. It doesn't ruin the game like Exo did for AW? It doesn't turn Blops 3 into a hectic, get-shot-all-the-time-from-everywhere killfest?
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jep_uk said:
Are you one of my friends?

One of the reasons I've not tried getting on is limited playtime due to my wedding. Not only that I skipped the last one due to exo suits etc and Ghosts was shite. Waiting for full reviews and peoples opinions and game vids before thinking about picking this up.
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You guys should just watch streams or youtube vids. You'll get much better feedback from videos itself.

What is see is what you get.
 
M.Prashanth said:
GAF, the game gets stuck at the post stats screen and it's not heading to the main menu for next game/map search/load. While trying to close the game application, it wouldn't. It then takes me to the frozen post stats screen. Have to un-plug the PS4 power cable to bring it back up again. Anyone facing this issue? This happened in three back to back games a few minutes ago!
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This happened to me earlier today. And once yesterday. An annoying bug for sure that will probably be fixed by launch hopefully.
 
Radec said:
You guys should just watch streams or youtube vids. You'll get much better feedback from videos itself.

What is see is what you get.
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True, I'll watch some if I have the time later this weekend. I'm at work but super bored right now so I thought I'd ask anyway.
 
Muntu said:
Okay, so.. It doesn't ruin the game like Exo did for AW? It doesn't turn Blops 3 into a hectic, get-shot-all-the-time-from-everywhere killfest?
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See what's important to keep in mind with the movement in this game confessed to AW is that you need to actually work to build up some speed. That and the fact that the basically of the map is limited to two stories.
 
Well I decided to uninstall. Getting killed from all over the place, almost as bad as Advanced Warfare. Nothing in the series has yet to top Black Ops 1.
 
Downloaded the beta a few hours ago and got roughly an hour of playtime in. Been forever since I played a CoD game and I'm rusty as hell. Played some TDM. Kill Confirmed and one round of S&D. Thankfully, I've only lost one game so far lol. I'll definitely spend more time during the weekend playing some more. Maybe I'll see some improvements
 
Sniping is so annoying in this, removing the autoaim is fine but the immense increase in zoomed sinsitivity have made it almost unusable for me
 
Muntu said:
Okay, so.. It doesn't ruin the game like Exo did for AW? It doesn't turn Blops 3 into a hectic, get-shot-all-the-time-from-everywhere killfest?
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So far it hasn't and the maps seem really well designed to avoid the multi level stupidity that occurred in advanced warfare.

The only problem I have with the game is swimming - I played a game where the enemy team all camped underwater and due to the lack of visibility heading down there was a pain - not enjoyable at all

Hopefully water doesn't ruin too many maps
 
Hate to be a parrot, but the hit detection is really weird. I played a match where I was getting shot, went prone behind two pieces of cover, and I still died.

I watched the killcam and yep, he was just firing wherever and I died. Super odd.

It's shaping up to be a good one so far. However, it's just like AW in the sense that you keep on running every damn time. No rest, no way to catch your breath and regroup.

I'm personally having a lot of fun, but I can tell that I'll be spending more time with Battlefront.

Unless something drastic happens, I think I can safely say that Black Ops 2 was better.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone, thanks to Steam's new refund system, I'll definitely give the game a try when it comes out. 2 hours should be plenty to decide if I like the movement system.
 
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