Any of the 360 crew gonna be on around 18:00 EST tonight?
My buddy and I have started playing in a squad pretty regularly, and we'd like a couple of decent sqaud mates.
I'll be on a little later (say 7pm EST) but, yeah, Tuesday is my typical play night. GT = Jefe414. Also, define decent squadmate :P
Has a mic and uses it.
I usually (as in, 95% of the time) use LIVE party chat instead of the ingame chat. Other PA'ers or my RL friends will hop into the chat and we can coordinate games then tactics.
I'm also a longtime lurker, first time poster - would love the chance to play with some PA 360 folk who want to actually capture objectives instead of l337 sniping from wookie hill.... GT = Doctor Pinchey
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jefe414"My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter"Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
The only times I won't join a party invite:
1- already in a full squad of buds blowing people away
2- The invite comes about 17 seconds before I'm logging off
3- I'm not playing the game in question at the time
We were rocking a 7 person party (two in-game squads) on the same team. Wow talk about organized strikes. On defense, the attackers never got past the first set of MCOMs.
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jefe414"My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter"Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered Userregular
Quick question that's been causing some frustration:
I recently received the rank of Specialist and ended up playing a few more maps before quitting. On the last map I didn't play great but I was still in the top five. When I came back the next day and started up the game on the 360, a menu appeared and told me that because of my previous form it was deducting points. What the hell does this mean?
Last night I tried this again, dominated two maps, and then quit when the games were over. When I came back on to check my status it gave me the same message. Anybody got any insight on this?
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jefe414"My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter"Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered Userregular
Quick question that's been causing some frustration:
I recently received the rank of Specialist and ended up playing a few more maps before quitting. On the last map I didn't play great but I was still in the top five. When I came back the next day and started up the game on the 360, a menu appeared and told me that because of my previous form it was deducting points. What the hell does this mean?
Last night I tried this again, dominated two maps, and then quit when the games were over. When I came back on to check my status it gave me the same message. Anybody got any insight on this?
It is messed up. It would say "Due to your recent sucking it up your skill level has decreased" then my skill number would go UP from 158 to 179 (for example).
It is not connected to your rank, more a "true skill" number.
Just my experience of things. I've also had it say "you suck", have my skill number go from 150 UP to 180, then have another message pop up and say "you rule" and have the number go from 150 UP to 180.
Edit: good news there Ganluan. Dump that red beret for a blue one.
jefe414"My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter"Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
I was incorrect. The newer pics of the Russian medic still has the red beret. Also, glad to see them updating the stats on their site. Too bad it doesn't register the correct stars for weapons and my garand is still unavailable.
So, I very nearly quit this game earlier this weekend. I won't go into the long list of frustrations, but I was getting really tired of feeling like cannon fodder. I decided to do 2 things before giving up. First I turned down all my video settings to Low. The increase in frame rate made the game much easier to play, especially to aim. The reduced visual clutter made it easier to spot enemies, especially recons. Before I would always lose a quick draw situation, and now I feel like it's a fair fight. I had thought that the extra visual detail would make the game better, but beyond the single player experience, increased visuals is actually a handicap.
I also tried joining a random pub. I fucking dominated every round both in points and K/D. It made me realize that playing on the dome is playing in the big leagues and most pubs are community softball. It made me feel less like a total loser when playing with you guys. You all are just that good.
With my new found confidence I started playing recon and surprised myself with how well I could do in that role. I think I pissed off Cognisseur at one point because he shamed me by typing a message before knifing me in the back as revenge for killing him "so many times". I think I was 2/3 at that point in the round so I guess killing him twice is enough for shaming. haha
Also, the M60 is overrated. As much as people complain, the XM8 and MG36 are basically assault rifles with 100 round clips. As powerful as the M60 is, the recoil forces you to use at least one accuracy mod which means less effective medic stuff. I get more points by being able to mod my med kit rather than my weapon.
So, I very nearly quit this game earlier this weekend. I won't go into the long list of frustrations, but I was getting really tired of feeling like cannon fodder. I decided to do 2 things before giving up. First I turned down all my video settings to Low. The increase in frame rate made the game much easier to play, especially to aim. The reduced visual clutter made it easier to spot enemies, especially recons. Before I would always lose a quick draw situation, and now I feel like it's a fair fight. I had thought that the extra visual detail would make the game better, but beyond the single player experience, increased visuals is actually a handicap.
I also tried joining a random pub. I fucking dominated every round both in points and K/D. It made me realize that playing on the dome is playing in the big leagues and most pubs are community softball. It made me feel less like a total loser when playing with you guys. You all are just that good.
With my new found confidence I started playing recon and surprised myself with how well I could do in that role. I think I pissed off Cognisseur at one point because he shamed me by typing a message before knifing me in the back as revenge for killing him "so many times". I think I was 2/3 at that point in the round so I guess killing him twice is enough for shaming. haha
Also, the M60 is overrated. As much as people complain, the XM8 and MG36 are basically assault rifles with 100 round clips. As powerful as the M60 is, the recoil forces you to use at least one accuracy mod which means less effective medic stuff. I get more points by being able to mod my med kit rather than my weapon.
I got pissed at you because you killed me at the most inconvenient times ever. I forget the name of the map, but it's the first stage where all the nuboffense has to take slow and deliciously weak boats to our beach and I get a chance to pewpew them with rockets for lots of points.
So I'm standing around for like 45 seconds, no boats coming. Finally, I see one! I take aim, figure out how much I should lead by, and -- CRACK! Headshotted.
So I go back, stand around aimlessly forever again waiting for boats or nearby enemies, and I spot another boat finally. Aim, lead... CRACK! Headshotted.
So at this point, I figured I had to go and handle the situation personally since you kept sniping from the same spot (I'm a nub and do that too, Nuka was raping me last night because of it).
Does anyone know how realistic the recon scopes are relative to determining round drop when sniping at a distance?
If so, can someone give a quick refresher for estimating distance using the ticks via size of person in the scope?
I've tried using the in-game ticks and it just doesn't work for me, and not really sure why...it just never seemed to be quite right or consistent, so I gave up.
My best advice is to pick your favorite 2-3 rifles and just practice. Jump on an empty server and start land-marking ranges to objectives, and start testing where your bullets hit according to where you're aiming.
Example: Arica Harbor, defending - sniping from my favorite rock perch.
I know that given the distance from a particular spot, I have to aim two "notches" (my own unit of eyeball measurement in the game) above my target to hit the UAV pilot at the Attackers' base.
It's a very, very long shot but it's one you can easily practice, since the UAV terminal is easy enough to land-mark and find quickly once you know what to look for.
Edit: once you figure out bullet-drop and your range, the varsity practice is leading moving targets at distance. When you can hit a moving jetski driver from across the bay on Phase 2 of Isla, you're doing well.
The Dome must be powered by an improbability generator, it's the only server where I have:
- Fired randomly up, unscoped, with a sniper rifle, being rewarded with a kill and a blackhawk falling out of the sky
- Ran out of the point into a pile of medics and gotten 5 consecutive knife kills as they all franticly run around ressing each other before getting gunned down
- Popped up and fired a smoke grenade into the bushes getting a kill on some recon
- Getting into the UAV and backing up to get a kill on someone who was running up to knife me, someone i had no idea existed
- Firing a rocket at the rear of a tank from a distance and having someone dive in front of the rocket, saving the tank
- Kamikaze crashing a helicopter (or attemping to) into a boat in the water, bouncing off of the boat and landing on a point nowhere near where I was somehow upside down, crushing someone who was arming the mcom
Does anyone know how realistic the recon scopes are relative to determining round drop when sniping at a distance?
If so, can someone give a quick refresher for estimating distance using the ticks via size of person in the scope?
I've tried using the in-game ticks and it just doesn't work for me, and not really sure why...it just never seemed to be quite right or consistent, so I gave up.
My best advice is to pick your favorite 2-3 rifles and just practice. Jump on an empty server and start land-marking ranges to objectives, and start testing where your bullets hit according to where you're aiming.
Example: Arica Harbor, defending - sniping from my favorite rock perch.
I know that given the distance from a particular spot, I have to aim two "notches" (my own unit of eyeball measurement in the game) above my target to hit the UAV pilot at the Attackers' base.
It's a very, very long shot but it's one you can easily practice, since the UAV terminal is easy enough to land-mark and find quickly once you know what to look for.
Edit: once you figure out bullet-drop and your range, the varsity practice is leading moving targets at distance. When you can hit a moving jetski driver from across the bay on Phase 2 of Isla, you're doing well.
Unfortunately the console version prevents things like practicing.
Maybe I'll just grab a Steam copy and play with you guys on Dome.
Does anyone know how realistic the recon scopes are relative to determining round drop when sniping at a distance?
If so, can someone give a quick refresher for estimating distance using the ticks via size of person in the scope?
I've tried using the in-game ticks and it just doesn't work for me, and not really sure why...it just never seemed to be quite right or consistent, so I gave up.
My best advice is to pick your favorite 2-3 rifles and just practice. Jump on an empty server and start land-marking ranges to objectives, and start testing where your bullets hit according to where you're aiming.
Example: Arica Harbor, defending - sniping from my favorite rock perch.
I know that given the distance from a particular spot, I have to aim two "notches" (my own unit of eyeball measurement in the game) above my target to hit the UAV pilot at the Attackers' base.
It's a very, very long shot but it's one you can easily practice, since the UAV terminal is easy enough to land-mark and find quickly once you know what to look for.
Edit: once you figure out bullet-drop and your range, the varsity practice is leading moving targets at distance. When you can hit a moving jetski driver from across the bay on Phase 2 of Isla, you're doing well.
Unfortunately the console version prevents things like practicing.
Maybe I'll just grab a Steam copy and play with you guys on Dome.
Oh. My bad assumption - sorry.
I dunno how it works\feels on consoles, but my 'notch' measurement is essentially half a player's head. For every X meters (Goomba could probably tell you the true distances..), I go up half a head, or a notch.
Now that I've gotten some stuff unlocked, this game has gotten pretty damn fun online (360.)
I think my stats are getting decent:
It bugs the hell out of me that I still suck donkey balls at BC2. I'm good at First Person Shooters! Regardless of the style of the game, be it Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, TFC, or BF2, I've been used to staying in ~top 5 spots most maps.
And yet here I am, rank 21, and still sucking badly. I don't get it.
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It bugs the hell out of me that I still suck donkey balls at BC2. I'm good at First Person Shooters! Regardless of the style of the game, be it Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, TFC, or BF2, I've been used to staying in ~top 5 spots most maps.
And yet here I am, rank 21, and still sucking badly. I don't get it.
Hand grenades dude, they make a big difference 8-)
Now that I've gotten some stuff unlocked, this game has gotten pretty damn fun online (360.)
I think my stats are getting decent:
It bugs the hell out of me that I still suck donkey balls at BC2. I'm good at First Person Shooters! Regardless of the style of the game, be it Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, TFC, or BF2, I've been used to staying in ~top 5 spots most maps.
And yet here I am, rank 21, and still sucking badly. I don't get it.
Are you only playing on PA servers? As I posted earlier today, the PA group is rickdickulously good and not a fair measure of your general playing ability.
Yea it's fun going 3:1 KD and going on PA and struggling to get 1:1
edit: It might have something to do with not using the CG or M60 on the Angry Dome when i have no problem anywhere else since everyone does
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jefe414"My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter"Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered Userregular
edited April 2010
I was recently informed by my roommate that during his last bout on the 360 (yesterday around noon) the servers were filled with all new perkless silly geese. Must be a big influx of Modern Warfare 2 kiddies on spring break. I declare hunting season open.
I DO need to get my insignia for 500 shotgun kills...
I was recently informed by my roommate that during his last bout on the 360 (yesterday around noon) the servers were filled with all new perkless silly geese. Must be a big influx of Modern Warfare 2 kiddies on spring break. I declare hunting season open.
I DO need to get my insignia for 500 shotgun kills...
BTW - I sent you a friend request in case you want to play later.
I was recently informed by my roommate that during his last bout on the 360 (yesterday around noon) the servers were filled with all new perkless silly geese. Must be a big influx of Modern Warfare 2 kiddies on spring break. I declare hunting season open.
I DO need to get my insignia for 500 shotgun kills...
BTW - I sent you a friend request in case you want to play later.
I will accept that request and plan on getting a couple of solid hours in before the announcement of the 2010 NFL schedule at 9pm.
Yea it's fun going 3:1 KD and going on PA and struggling to get 1:1
edit: It might have something to do with not using the CG or M60 on the Angry Dome when i have no problem anywhere else since everyone does
I would be fine with those if I could force the silly geese who use them to use the Q key before firing them. I don't understand the reluctance of people to move their finger a tiny bit to let their team know where the enemy is at. I got at least half my points for my recon upgrades via spotting for others. Last night I was driving a tank and someone was going crazy with the spotting and I was able to wreak havoc on enemies defending an mcom. I know we harp on this topic a lot, but seriously, it works. Just do it.
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WarcryI'm getting my shit pushed in here!AustraliaRegistered Userregular
Now that I've gotten some stuff unlocked, this game has gotten pretty damn fun online (360.)
I think my stats are getting decent:
It bugs the hell out of me that I still suck donkey balls at BC2. I'm good at First Person Shooters! Regardless of the style of the game, be it Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, TFC, or BF2, I've been used to staying in ~top 5 spots most maps.
And yet here I am, rank 21, and still sucking badly. I don't get it.
I'm the exact opposite. I've played FPS games from Halo to Quake to UT2K4 and I've always sucked horribly. This is the first FPS I've been good at.
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Has a mic and uses it.
I usually (as in, 95% of the time) use LIVE party chat instead of the ingame chat. Other PA'ers or my RL friends will hop into the chat and we can coordinate games then tactics.
1- already in a full squad of buds blowing people away
2- The invite comes about 17 seconds before I'm logging off
3- I'm not playing the game in question at the time
We were rocking a 7 person party (two in-game squads) on the same team. Wow talk about organized strikes. On defense, the attackers never got past the first set of MCOMs.
I recently received the rank of Specialist and ended up playing a few more maps before quitting. On the last map I didn't play great but I was still in the top five. When I came back the next day and started up the game on the 360, a menu appeared and told me that because of my previous form it was deducting points. What the hell does this mean?
Last night I tried this again, dominated two maps, and then quit when the games were over. When I came back on to check my status it gave me the same message. Anybody got any insight on this?
It is messed up. It would say "Due to your recent sucking it up your skill level has decreased" then my skill number would go UP from 158 to 179 (for example).
It is not connected to your rank, more a "true skill" number.
Just my experience of things. I've also had it say "you suck", have my skill number go from 150 UP to 180, then have another message pop up and say "you rule" and have the number go from 150 UP to 180.
Edit: good news there Ganluan. Dump that red beret for a blue one.
I also tried joining a random pub. I fucking dominated every round both in points and K/D. It made me realize that playing on the dome is playing in the big leagues and most pubs are community softball. It made me feel less like a total loser when playing with you guys. You all are just that good.
With my new found confidence I started playing recon and surprised myself with how well I could do in that role. I think I pissed off Cognisseur at one point because he shamed me by typing a message before knifing me in the back as revenge for killing him "so many times". I think I was 2/3 at that point in the round so I guess killing him twice is enough for shaming. haha
Also, the M60 is overrated. As much as people complain, the XM8 and MG36 are basically assault rifles with 100 round clips. As powerful as the M60 is, the recoil forces you to use at least one accuracy mod which means less effective medic stuff. I get more points by being able to mod my med kit rather than my weapon.
I got pissed at you because you killed me at the most inconvenient times ever. I forget the name of the map, but it's the first stage where all the nuboffense has to take slow and deliciously weak boats to our beach and I get a chance to pewpew them with rockets for lots of points.
So I'm standing around for like 45 seconds, no boats coming. Finally, I see one! I take aim, figure out how much I should lead by, and -- CRACK! Headshotted.
So I go back, stand around aimlessly forever again waiting for boats or nearby enemies, and I spot another boat finally. Aim, lead... CRACK! Headshotted.
So at this point, I figured I had to go and handle the situation personally since you kept sniping from the same spot (I'm a nub and do that too, Nuka was raping me last night because of it).
My GOL and I thank you.
If so, can someone give a quick refresher for estimating distance using the ticks via size of person in the scope?
I've tried using the in-game ticks and it just doesn't work for me, and not really sure why...it just never seemed to be quite right or consistent, so I gave up.
My best advice is to pick your favorite 2-3 rifles and just practice. Jump on an empty server and start land-marking ranges to objectives, and start testing where your bullets hit according to where you're aiming.
Example: Arica Harbor, defending - sniping from my favorite rock perch.
I know that given the distance from a particular spot, I have to aim two "notches" (my own unit of eyeball measurement in the game) above my target to hit the UAV pilot at the Attackers' base.
It's a very, very long shot but it's one you can easily practice, since the UAV terminal is easy enough to land-mark and find quickly once you know what to look for.
Edit: once you figure out bullet-drop and your range, the varsity practice is leading moving targets at distance. When you can hit a moving jetski driver from across the bay on Phase 2 of Isla, you're doing well.
- Fired randomly up, unscoped, with a sniper rifle, being rewarded with a kill and a blackhawk falling out of the sky
- Ran out of the point into a pile of medics and gotten 5 consecutive knife kills as they all franticly run around ressing each other before getting gunned down
- Popped up and fired a smoke grenade into the bushes getting a kill on some recon
- Getting into the UAV and backing up to get a kill on someone who was running up to knife me, someone i had no idea existed
- Firing a rocket at the rear of a tank from a distance and having someone dive in front of the rocket, saving the tank
- Kamikaze crashing a helicopter (or attemping to) into a boat in the water, bouncing off of the boat and landing on a point nowhere near where I was somehow upside down, crushing someone who was arming the mcom
Unfortunately the console version prevents things like practicing.
Maybe I'll just grab a Steam copy and play with you guys on Dome.
Oh. My bad assumption - sorry.
I dunno how it works\feels on consoles, but my 'notch' measurement is essentially half a player's head. For every X meters (Goomba could probably tell you the true distances..), I go up half a head, or a notch.
I think my stats are getting decent:
Thank you kindly, sir.
It bugs the hell out of me that I still suck donkey balls at BC2. I'm good at First Person Shooters! Regardless of the style of the game, be it Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, TFC, or BF2, I've been used to staying in ~top 5 spots most maps.
And yet here I am, rank 21, and still sucking badly. I don't get it.
For reals. Only tried it for a minute, but the one kill I got finally garnered my bronze star for watercraft kills
Doing boring things, it's 10AM on a Tuesday after all.
Get a job, hippie.
Hand grenades dude, they make a big difference 8-)
Are you only playing on PA servers? As I posted earlier today, the PA group is rickdickulously good and not a fair measure of your general playing ability.
edit: It might have something to do with not using the CG or M60 on the Angry Dome when i have no problem anywhere else since everyone does
I DO need to get my insignia for 500 shotgun kills...
Well, I know I am.
You people need to stop moving so much so I can stab you.
Or better yet. "Repair" the back of your head.
BTW - I sent you a friend request in case you want to play later.
My favorite bit last night was the dude asking if we were some kind of family clan
I will accept that request and plan on getting a couple of solid hours in before the announcement of the 2010 NFL schedule at 9pm.
I would be fine with those if I could force the silly geese who use them to use the Q key before firing them. I don't understand the reluctance of people to move their finger a tiny bit to let their team know where the enemy is at. I got at least half my points for my recon upgrades via spotting for others. Last night I was driving a tank and someone was going crazy with the spotting and I was able to wreak havoc on enemies defending an mcom. I know we harp on this topic a lot, but seriously, it works. Just do it.
I'm the exact opposite. I've played FPS games from Halo to Quake to UT2K4 and I've always sucked horribly. This is the first FPS I've been good at.