Are people just able to take full gear into sponsored Dire Marsh? Just killed a guy (completely oblivious and crouch walking out in the open) who has a blue backpack and green weapons with tons of ammo?
Very impressive. I think I've gotten out of Cryo maybe twice out of my 10 matches I've played there.Oh yeah, Vault 3 clear:
Load in with randoms, no mics, guy has Vault 3 key. Play smart, we follow his lead since it's his key, never encounter another team by moving around the perimeter of the map (I've had multiple successful exfils this way), profit
Nothing but gold and purple shield premades today. As predicted getting my shit poked in.
Hold my beer.
It's not entirely the map itself. I actually think the map looks great graphically and mechanically, and the PvE that you experience in there is a lot more fun than the 3 recruits and a grenadier you verse on the other maps. The issues are the matchmaking and the engagements being such close quarters exposes a lot of the balancing issues. Have also encountered squads working together so it's effectively 3v6 which is rarely going to work out for us. My squad are level 75-85 and we're constantly vsing yellow geared level 200's that throw 400 grenades, bubble shields and to a lesser extent now running double barrels and the boss weapon. The rushing of your spawn within a couple of minutes ain't fun either. It's partly our fault in that we weren't in Cryo day one memorising layouts and working it all out while everyone was new to it. It's also partly due to my region having such a low player count. The people that were in there day one and are fully geared up are sitting atop their castle and don't want anyone else getting up there. This is the game, but it's also not fun. I can't imagine how it is for new players coming in now, would be miserable.
We did run it a bunch over a couple weekends a few weeks ago (15-20 runs?) and we only made it to an exfil twice, both times deleted by another team. I'd say probably half of those we were massacred before or just after leaving our spawn area. Hard to learn a map when you don't even get to see it all haha.
I loved Shatterline back when it first came out. The PvP was fun, and the PvE mode was cool as well. Shame they butchered it and then got greedy. RIP.
I'd love to see the inside. Its one of a few I haven't been in yet. Ping me if you want to bang it out.Look what we have here:
Got it from CARRI key template. I've never seen this door opened in all my 225 hours playing this game, must be one of the rarest keys. I haven't seen the Drone Wing door opened either, seen the other two though. The other day I spawned in as a Rook with 3 dead bodies 5 meters away from me and the key room in the basement of Processing open, was able to salvage some leftover goodies.
One thing I have learned from the sponsored loadout mode on Dire Marsh is that the game is infinitely more balanced when everyone starts with the same gear. I'd like to see them do a trial with it on Cryo where everyone pays 5K and you all start with the same loadout. Obviously you can find better stuff once you're in there but that would take away a lot of the imbalance. I know the top players would not like it because it takes away a lot of their power but I reckon it would be worth testing. There is the obvious issue with bringing in keys, etc but they could allow that to be slotted in along with the sponsored kit or some other variation.
Agree. Or making them take 4-6 inventory slots if they really don't wanna separate it out.
Just wanted to say, you're a legend for having that many hours on Battleborn. I liked it a lot, shame it came out too close to Overwatch.I just looked the amount of hours I have on this compared to other games around that time and yeah... the track record I have with games is not so great lol.
The one at the top is Bloodhunt, a VTM battle royale game. Loved it but died on its arse also.
Hah yeah me and a buddy really enjoyed the co-op missions they had.
(guess that's one of the main reasons it flopped as the multiplayer was rather shallow).
Yeah im enjoying the sponsored queue a lot. Hopefully they will rotate the maps for it tho
Agree. I find it one of the most balanced and enjoyable modes right now. Still not a huge fan of the map itself but everyone starting on equal footing is the biggest balance update to date. It's actually the quickest and easiest mode to get a match in my region right now too.
Im pretty sure its a really popular mode. They probably gonna tweak it later to be its own mode
Perimeter is the best PVP map.
South relay/ Station/Columns down to overflow is the best part of the map. I just make a b-line for that area straight from spawn lol. 3 key rooms in very close proximity as well as a bonus, 4 if you count the one at the back of North.
It can be but the amount of teams that camp those corridors with snipers ruins it for me.
Un-fucking-believable
Cryo with randoms, no mics, I go on a fucking rampage with my M77, killing purple shields at a distance scoped, smoking mfs in CQC as they try to breach bubbles with the neutered WSTR. I down once and other Recon downs too, after a couple of minutes our last remaining squad mate revives us both, we regroup, wipe another squad. At this point I'm swimming in purple loot and picked up TWO vault keys. There is one squad left and we are on final exfil, I tell the boys prior to this we need to up our clearance, was reduced to 1 when I died and had my tags taken...
Cue final exfil which of course nobody knows where it will spawn. I open fire on this last remaining squad and give chase hoping they are heading towards their squad mate who found it. He did, they are. And then the above happens...
Now here comes the best part. I get a crew invite from one of the rival runners we just tangled with after the game:
Him: "bro, we could have exfild together!"
Me: "oh, you're the squad that just fucked us at the end?"
Him" "wait, what? You guys knocked us out at the last second!"
Me: "no bro, I got knocked out too, couldn't fucking believe it!"
Him: "damn, must have been the bots, ggs man *laughing* "
Me: *laughing* yeah man, ggs
Pure cinema, would do again
Finding Sunday's are the hardest games as a lot of people are looted up from Cryo.Made it out twice last night in 10 games
Was playing with randoms tbf.
Ah that makes sense. Still had a good laugh though. Getting plenty of kills but without tue co ordination its a lost cause.
Don't have a pro but some lads I was playing with swore that it looked a lot sharper after the update.
