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 BrookM wrote:
I am aware of who the MDP are, I am not sure whether or not they are the featured unit, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's them.

Gotcha. Yeah, I figure the idea is that they want to highlight two very different "methods" like they're doing with the Americans. Remember that outside of the SEALs, we've got the FBI as our Yankee operators.

I'm guessing that it's a Delta and MDP Operator since both do engage in HVT protection operations.

Play Terrorist Hunts with someone in coop, my renown gains went from 38 to 150 or the likes just because of that.

See, I do that on occasion but when we're talking Operators locked at 25k Renown...it doesn't really cut it

I've tried playing online, but this game is so unfriendly towards new players, during my only match they tried to kick me twice via vote. It didn't help that they were all mute (as in, not communicating) and the map we played on was plane. FML.

Oh yeah. They'll try to vote-kick, you'll get teamkilled...it's great when playing with the eSports scrubs.
Wish they'd lock anyone with a Ranked rating out of Casual play.

Sadly ranked is being overhauled again I think, or they've not touched it since Operation Health and we're still stuck in the last dash before it's all reset again, so they're either working hard towards becoming plats again or hop onto casual and be edgelords there.

I bought all season passes, at discounts mind, as I couldn't see myself grinding for any of those. Which in hindsight is hilarious, as while I like some of the extra operators, I do find myself falling back onto IQ the most when playing as attacker and Bandit when defending.

I've found that most DLC operators (for the lack of a better term) are okay, but not massively so or worth it, not unless it really suits your playstyle or you must have that one. Some are even nerfed into oblivion by Ubisoft, like poor old Nerfbeard and his saran wrap shields.

If you want to play broken, take Ash (still no head hitbox) or Ela, who has been nerfed a few times now, but is still considered a hot button issue.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Total Warhammer as Empire.
First time playing it.

Some things I noticed
- the load times are really long

They're the only games I've bothered setting up a secondary Steam library up on my SSD for. I was at 4-5 minutes to load into a campaign and over a minute to load into a battle. I'm fairly patient but that was absurd. Now it's about 20 seconds to load into a campaign and about 5 to load into a battle.

Well that's just horrible programming then. If they are going to design the game in such a way that it takes ages to load on a type of disk most people have, they should have the decency to put SSD under recommended requirements.

Yeah. My PC specs are enough to run it at Ultra, but load times are just horrendous. I looked around and the basic recommendation was they should be on an SSD to reduce the load times. If anything, they should be putting SSD in the recommended specs, but that will probably still scare enough people off that they don't want to do it.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I've tried playing online, but this game is so unfriendly towards new players, during my only match they tried to kick me twice via vote. It didn't help that they were all mute (as in, not communicating) and the map we played on was plane. FML.

Oh yeah. They'll try to vote-kick, you'll get teamkilled...it's great when playing with the eSports scrubs.
Wish they'd lock anyone with a Ranked rating out of Casual play.

Assload of hours in siege. The most likely reason you're being kicked/TK'd (assuming you're not playing free weekend with rando lvl 10s who do that for lulz) is you did something "stupid" or noobie. Common mistakes like putting up barricades in every door. Holding terrible angles in rooms. Reinforcing the wrong walls (like between bomb sites). Wandering far away from the obj/not playing the mission.

Yeah it's casual but banning ranked players is not the answer to butt hurt tryhards.

Continuing to play THunts as your primary experience with the game just reinforces bad habits while not teaching you how to play maps or how to contend with thinking breathing players. If you want to get better at the game, the simplest way is using your drone/cameras/sound to gather map knowledge. If you know where someone is, you can control how you engage and you heavily weigh that 1-2 sec engagement in your favor.

 BrookM wrote:

I've found that most DLC operators (for the lack of a better term) are okay, but not massively so or worth it, not unless it really suits your playstyle or you must have that one. Some are even nerfed into oblivion by Ubisoft, like poor old Nerfbeard and his saran wrap shields.

If you want to play broken, take Ash (still no head hitbox) or Ela, who has been nerfed a few times now, but is still considered a hot button issue.

Hibana is superior to Thermite depending on the map she's more efficient at opening hatches, she doesn't have to expose herself and her 3 speed. Not to say Thermite is obsolete, he's better if you need to fully open a reinforced wall. Ying is also insane right now with Glaz when trying to control a room. But you need the rest of the team to breach for them so they can pull off their combo. Mira can fundamentally alter how your defense is setup and is the queen of the wall bang.

Blackbeard is still very good, they nerfed the shield health because that extra 1-2 hits is critical in higher level play while at lower skill levels it's less powerful since people are less accurate. He's also less reliable in casual since you can't predict obj placement. Defenders spawn in basement of Oregon, RIP BB. They spawn in dorms or meeting room? RIP defenders.

Ash suffers from the heavy trap meta they introduced. She can't just run and gun now with Kapkan rework, Lesion and Ela. Plus they nerfed her rifle a few patches back. They nerfing Ela's Scorpion to from 28->23 dmg and increasing recoil. Lion is also gonna hard counter the roaming meta when the new season drops.

 avantgarde wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
I've tried playing online, but this game is so unfriendly towards new players, during my only match they tried to kick me twice via vote. It didn't help that they were all mute (as in, not communicating) and the map we played on was plane. FML.

Oh yeah. They'll try to vote-kick, you'll get teamkilled...it's great when playing with the eSports scrubs.
Wish they'd lock anyone with a Ranked rating out of Casual play.

Assload of hours in siege. The most likely reason you're being kicked/TK'd (assuming you're not playing free weekend with rando lvl 10s who do that for lulz) is you did something "stupid" or noobie. Common mistakes like putting up barricades in every door. Holding terrible angles in rooms. Reinforcing the wrong walls (like between bomb sites). Wandering far away from the obj/not playing the mission.

20+hrs in MP on multiple characters(Mute and Thatcher being the two I gravitate towards, with Rook and Thermite being follow-up picks). I'm aware of how to play. Thanks.

And all you're really doing is reinforcing my point. You have the ability to use voice communication, so rather than saying "Hey don't do that!"...you're going to shoot someone? You're going to vote kick them?

Yeah it's casual but banning ranked players is not the answer to butt hurt tryhards.

It literally is...? Read the comments on Reddit and the like whenever a free weekend comes up. The tryhards talk about going "pubstomping" and other garbage.

Continuing to play THunts as your primary experience with the game just reinforces bad habits while not teaching you how to play maps or how to contend with thinking breathing players. If you want to get better at the game, the simplest way is using your drone/cameras/sound to gather map knowledge. If you know where someone is, you can control how you engage and you heavily weigh that 1-2 sec engagement in your favor.

I don't need to "get better" at the game, thanks. I've been playing it since launch.

I can say, without being hyperbolic, that the Rainbow Six community is one of the most toxic communities I've ever played with. And that includes Call of Duty's community.
I played maybe two Ranked matches early on, swore it off and stick strictly with Casual for when I need to get Renown up. I get the occasional kick/TK but if that happens--screw them, I have no issue with doing the same thing to them the next round.

Sorry, for me personally the most toxic community will always be the player base of the original Gears of War, which made me give up on multiplayer ever since. Racial slurs, salty personal messages, reports flung at you.. Oh lordy, I do not miss that at all and I've sat through several long years of playing Half-life mods before that.

But I'm happy with the game as is, it is obvious that the multiplayer component of R6 Siege is not for me. Siege in particular has unspoken rules and tricks for every map that people expect you know about, but don't tell you, other than the GIT GUD reply, which is super helpful.

I am quite content to be a useless goober who enjoys playing terrorist hunt and soon, operation Chimera.

Sounds like every multiplayer mode in any online game ever.
Its why I don't bother with multi. In real life you won't find many who will treat you like gak personally, but on the internet its like every single game will have at least 1 donkey-cave. And that's if you're lucky.

Currently bit by the Stellaris bug, having a blast with my Skynet machine race. I am really excited for the new expansion coming out Thursday.

I also downloaded the new World of Tanks benchmark tool for their 1.0 HD update. The teams are still going to be trash but at least i will have something nice to look at while i die.

Still playing Eve because Eve. The 7 month war is winding down and things will go back to normal for the short term.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I can say, without being hyperbolic, that the Rainbow Six community is one of the most toxic communities I've ever played with. And that includes Call of Duty's community.
I played maybe two Ranked matches early on, swore it off and stick strictly with Casual for when I need to get Renown up. I get the occasional kick/TK but if that happens--screw them, I have no issue with doing the same thing to them the next round.

That's a shame. I have 170 hours on PC and enjoy the game immensely. Oh well to each their own.

 BrookM wrote:
But I'm happy with the game as is, it is obvious that the multiplayer component of R6 Siege is not for me. Siege in particular has unspoken rules and tricks for every map that people expect you know about, but don't tell you, other than the GIT GUD reply, which is super helpful.

I am quite content to be a useless goober who enjoys playing terrorist hunt and soon, operation Chimera.

Yeah, I get why people TK/kick and I get why it sucks for newbies. To take one of those unspoken rules. When somebody reinforces a notorious wall like Kid's Room in House it's basically akin to trying to throw the round. An experienced player knows what the likely outcome to that is, a new player won't learn until they're forced to retake Kid's through the chokepoint they created by reinforcing and get mowed down. But that experienced players don't like to sit through a round playing with a severe disadvantage just so somebody can learn or spend time explaining why it's bad with no guarantee the new player will stop. Thus TK/Kick becomes the most direct way of resolving the issue for certain players.

Siege is thoughtful and rewarding once you know what you're doing but that's what makes the learning curve so punishing. The real issue is matchmaking, but I'm not going to pretend to know how to fix that. At a minimum I always duo queue, that cuts down on any toxicity quite a bit.

 Deathklaat wrote:
Currently bit by the Stellaris bug, having a blast with my Skynet machine race. I am really excited for the new expansion coming out Thursday.

Ugh every time I try to play Driven Assimilators (dat Cyborg bonus) I almost always end up in a war with a Spiritualist Fallen Empire before I'm ready. Not a fan of the FTL changes I heard coming down with 2.0 to default to Hyperlane starts, guess we'll see though.

I've actually been having the opposite problem on R6 it's the casual games that i seem to be team killed in, I got killed yesterday and called an 'adopted cow' for using someones character . They really need to do something to try and counter these sort of guys because they're really destroying the game.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I got killed yesterday and called an 'adopted cow' for using someones character .

ROOK MINE.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I've actually been having the opposite problem on R6 it's the casual games that i seem to be team killed in, I got killed yesterday and called an 'adopted cow' for using someones character . They really need to do something to try and counter these sort of guys because they're really destroying the game.

Reporting them for "Toxic Behavior" doesn't seem to do anything sadly. At least I've gotten a few banned off Xbox for their crappy behavior.

Had a chance to try Outbreak on TTS, pretty fun so far.

They've also spoiled the elite skin for IQ. It's disappointing to say the least.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I've actually been having the opposite problem on R6 it's the casual games that i seem to be team killed in, I got killed yesterday and called an 'adopted cow' for using someones character . They really need to do something to try and counter these sort of guys because they're really destroying the game.

Reporting them for "Toxic Behavior" doesn't seem to do anything sadly. At least I've gotten a few banned off Xbox for their crappy behavior.

I suspect this is the difference between mine and y'all's game experience. I play on PC and never during 3-7pm which is peak children and I always roll with a premade party. Last time I was TK'd was over a month ago by an irate Mira because someone put up a reinforcement in the wrong direction when he asked them not to.

 BrookM wrote:
They've also spoiled the elite skin for IQ. It's disappointing to say the least.

I saw that, the cold shouldered workout outfit. Sooo stupid. C'mon Ubi, Dokkaebi's yoga pants were annoying enough.

It feels so out of place with the rest of the skins, which have a nice vintage look and feel to them. Okay, this one screams 80's vintage, but still.. out of place.

Well, not that Ash's elite skin is fitting in either, which is so far IIRC the only modern elite skin.

Valkyrie is also getting a Nam themed elite skin, War Photographer, probably based on Dennis Hopper's character.

 avantgarde wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I've actually been having the opposite problem on R6 it's the casual games that i seem to be team killed in, I got killed yesterday and called an 'adopted cow' for using someones character . They really need to do something to try and counter these sort of guys because they're really destroying the game.

Reporting them for "Toxic Behavior" doesn't seem to do anything sadly. At least I've gotten a few banned off Xbox for their crappy behavior.

I suspect this is the difference between mine and y'all's game experience. I play on PC and never during 3-7pm which is peak children and I always roll with a premade party. Last time I was TK'd was over a month ago by an irate Mira because someone put up a reinforcement in the wrong direction when he asked them not to.

It's not the platform that makes the difference, as I've watched streamers for all 3 platforms and seen all of them have issues with this kind of garbage.
I generally play from 9am to 2pm EST; y'know...when the kids are at school here in the US...so it's not the times.
I do run solo, but that's because nobody I know and play R6 Terrorist Hunt with wants to deal with the dumpsterfire that is the community in MP.

The common thread in all cases is that it ebbs and flows based on when there are free weekends or banwaves from Ranked.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The common thread in all cases is that it ebbs and flows based on when there are free weekends or banwaves from Ranked.

Also when seasons are about to end and ranks reset so people dgaf.

 avantgarde wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The common thread in all cases is that it ebbs and flows based on when there are free weekends or banwaves from Ranked.

Also when seasons are about to end and ranks reset so people dgaf.

Which goes back to it being an issue with the community and ranked players.

I'm currently playing the gak out of World of Warships. Really fun game. I like it almost as much as Tanks. It's been a refreshing change, at the very least.

I'm currently play Doom VFR. Pretty great game, but it's taken me awhile to get used to the controls in VR. I played my first session for about an hour before getting sick. I'm going to have to make sure I take breaks every 30 or so minutes with this game, but otherwise, it's been pretty fun.

Played more Outbreak on TTS, quite fun. I've only been playing Ash so far, about the only operator I'm confident with, letting others pick the newer operators, who mesh together quite well, if people remember to use their gadgets. Not that Ash's gadget is super useful in this setting, Zofia would've been a better match for this, what with her being one of the operators who also gets hazmat gear, along with Hibana.

Best game though was with Kapkan and the Lord himself as my buddies, making the defense scenarios that pop up at certain point all the more fun, especially because these two knew how to dig in and rock.

Bonus point to them for also bringing a silenced sidearm (silenced SASG for Kapkan) for the early parts of the map, where stealth kills are preferably if you want to keep the hordes away for a while longer.

Finally! All my silencers will come in handy!

I'm anxious to try out Lion. Everything about his kit appeals to me.

The new Stellaris update... I like it. I like it a lot. Even without the DLC, the 2.0 changes at first glance bring some massive improvements; the pacing is better, the warfare is far more dynamic rather than just being a slugging match with some borders changing round at the end, having access to all the basic tier weapons, shields and armour at the start is very nice and the starbase system adds a whole other layer to proceedings. So far, so good!

Just bought the kids a Switch and I am pretty impressed. they like Super Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart - I am looking forward to spending some time with Zelda.

 Paradigm wrote:
The new Stellaris update... I like it. I like it a lot. Even without the DLC, the 2.0 changes at first glance bring some massive improvements; the pacing is better, the warfare is far more dynamic rather than just being a slugging match with some borders changing round at the end, having access to all the basic tier weapons, shields and armour at the start is very nice and the starbase system adds a whole other layer to proceedings. So far, so good!

That is good to hear! i'm just trying it out right this moment, lots more choices at the start of the game it seems. It's a minor thing, but i like that they added an option to start out on a tomb world.

Did another playthrough of Domina and despite getting a lot of bad gak thrown at me, including the fething Gauls, I managed to make it to the end and this time around, prepare for the ending, which resulted in the good ending, I think?

Playing Kingdom Come Deliverance, early game is rough, but it gets better.

 -Loki- wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Total Warhammer as Empire.
First time playing it.

Some things I noticed
- the load times are really long

They're the only games I've bothered setting up a secondary Steam library up on my SSD for. I was at 4-5 minutes to load into a campaign and over a minute to load into a battle. I'm fairly patient but that was absurd. Now it's about 20 seconds to load into a campaign and about 5 to load into a battle.

Well that's just horrible programming then. If they are going to design the game in such a way that it takes ages to load on a type of disk most people have, they should have the decency to put SSD under recommended requirements.

Yeah. My PC specs are enough to run it at Ultra, but load times are just horrendous. I looked around and the basic recommendation was they should be on an SSD to reduce the load times. If anything, they should be putting SSD in the recommended specs, but that will probably still scare enough people off that they don't want to do it.

SSDs aren't that expensive anymore. They're at a price point that anyone who uses his PC for more than just Office and checking their Facebook (so everyone who still uses desktops for the extra power they offer over laptops really) would be crazy not to get one. It just makes the computer so much snappier. No more minutes of waiting before you can actually use windows after booting, shorter loading times in games, etc.


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Anvildude wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly. I got into WHFB because of Tomb Kings. The sheer pathos of an entire empire, reduced to a mockery of the riches and life they knew before, fighting not for success, but out of rage at the fates that dealt them such a hand...

But you know how that ended up.

Nehekhara is coming to Total War:Warhammer, right? I think? Might have to get it to be able to witness the March of the Living Statuary again.

It actually released a couple of weeks ago already.

Anywho, currently playing League of Legends (I sometimes wonder how I retain my mental sanity in that game but that's another story), Total War: Warhammer II and Monster Hunter World.

 Bobthehero wrote:
Playing Kingdom Come Deliverance, early game is rough, but it gets better.

Getting any glitches? Watched Skallagrim's video on it and that game seems like a fountain of bugs.

Playing Tales of Berseria right now on PC. Not too many games actually manage a review category of "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam, so I figured I'd give it a shot after Humble Bundle had it on sale. Enjoying it so far. I mostly just needed something to play after finishing Subnautica and I'm waiting for FFXV.