I got COD: Ghosts for Xmas on the 360 and, though COD has largely been unappealing to me since COD2, I have been enjoying it a lot. Not the competitive multiplayer mind you- I have little doubt that that mode is as unfun as ever. No, I play campaign.. and Extinction.
Extinction, the 'kill aliens' gamemode, features 4 player co-op where you need to destroy these alien hives to get through the map. Once you reach the end, you need to run back to the helicopter to be extracted. I've never even made it to the Cabin, which I think is the halfway point.
Yet this is through little real fault of my own. I am level 14, with probably around almost a dozen games under my belt (keep in mind, these games last much longer than a typical game of competitive multiplayer), and from my first game to the one I just finished, I have never not had the most points, kills, revives, and drill repairs on my team. And it's really frustrating. See, I'm not the type to get mad at teammates just because they don't do as well as me, though. It's a game, and we're having fun. No, what irritates me is their method for being so bad.
Every round you get an objective such as 'only use melee,' 'have 75% accuracy,' 'kill 25 enemies while prone,' and many more. I have NEVER been in a game where any more than me and one other person has even made a half-hearted attempt to meet the objectives. Meeting these objectives is important because they provide substantial benefits to you and your team both, and by ignoring them you make it nigh impossible to win because your character is too weak when you are trying to finish the City part. So when you need to use only melee? Randoms always use the pistol. I think I've had it happen six times now where due to me shooting with my magnum we have had 100% shot accuracy, then the randoms see people and start shooting their assault rifles and we're immediately down to 20-25%. Kill while prone; try kill with electric fence while they run in circles. Ugh.
The second issue is that people leave. Out of my games, I have played with the full four people once. And then two of them left once the first round ended. So I have never played a full game with four people. Randoms in Ghosts either completely ignore the objectives, they run off doing who knows what on the map, or quit. And it is very frustrating.
Despite all of this, I do enjoy the mode. It's really fun, it's a really cool twist on game modes we have seen before, and I encourage people to play Ghosts just for this one mode, hah.
So yeah. I suppose... discuss lame meetings with randoms, and if anybody wants to play Extinction it'd rock to get a team together that will actually give it a shot, hah.
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campaign was good extinction is boring - (especially the fact that you cant do shit after the first wall one with the chopper that takes lol 10 minutes for it to kill it with 4 people) multiplayer is BS
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Edited by Azraels Sorrow: 1/7/2014 12:21:09 AMHit me up Azraels Sorrow. Me and a friend of mine rock extinction and have escaped over 12 times) would be more but clan wars.
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Edited by Hawke: 1/6/2014 10:05:27 PMI'm not trying to be mean or bash on COD, but the majority of the fanbase is <12. Therefore, you will always have this problem.
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Weird. I quit playing the multiplayer after just one game. It is just that bad for me.
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Did you expect more from the game targeted towards kids without hands?
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Cod ghosts has the worst everything.
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Try playing any Halo map with a Wraith and a Warthog. The Random thought process: Wait, what's that big shiny thing throwing plasma at us? OOH, let's drive straight in front of it real slowly instead of running away. Everyone else: NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO Result: *Boom*
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Edited by EL: 1/6/2014 7:08:06 PM[quote]I have little doubt that that mode is as unfun as ever.[/quote] You would be correct. I've played a little of campaign(will finish it when I have time) and it's been great. And I've played a round or two of aliens. But that multi is terrible. I play on 360 and wii u and both have awful players. It's trench warfare with all the campers. Two things that make it worse are the Support kill streaks and lack of the baby monitor. I should be playing extinction.
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Well I would gladly join you for Ghost's burrito but I have it on Xbox one. As for a story with bad randoms... Really any match in BF4 where an entire squad sits on a high point and snipes. Really doesn't help and none of them can hit a target for -blam!-.
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[quote]I got COD: Ghosts for Xmas[/quote] I think I found the problem here.
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I feel like I'm playing goldeye from 1997 every time I see the movement animation, and the every game mode is team death match, and the sponging, and the fetching online profile, and the way to complicate arena maps that are just not that well designed, and the quick scoping, and the lag. All resins to not like the multiplayer.
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Try getting some friends, even if you're not that good of friends with the people. I'm sure they're having similar issues with randoms and would love to play with someone who wants to win as much as you do.
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You clearly haven't played BF4 then... Well, you might have done... but still. Mouthbreathers. Mouthbreathers everywhere.
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Edited by ScarletSolitaire: 1/6/2014 9:04:31 AMDude, if you wanna know about CoD ask me, I've been there since the start lol. As for Extinction its just IW's cheap twist on Zombies from BlOps, even though it could well be fun. Competitive is horrible on Ghosts, BlOps 2 league play was the way to go but oh well, thats a missed opportunity. Good to see you switching it up though Burrito and playing different shooters ;) EDIT: To your thread title, yes 99% of kids on CoD are awful.
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GHOSTS: Garbled Ho's Omnipotently Sucking Toasted Slush (that acronym makes about as much sense as the game)
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It took me until level 20, but I finally found two dudes that played in a good way. We started with 4 and the fourth quit like always, but we met almost all the objectives, beat Extinction, AND beat it with the 1:30 time limit left for double the achievement. It was a glorious game- our first victories. So we played like four more games together before I lagged out (alas). Still, just goes to show you only have to... you know... rank up to half the maximum rank and you can find a decent match. :P
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lolGoats.
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Edited by KilljoyDetective: 1/6/2014 7:16:30 AMAfter playing Final Fantasy XIV like clockwork for the past month, I'm at the point where I have a very firm grasp on what needs to be done in the game, and know my way around giving orders and objectives to people who haven't done as much as me yet. Despite this, when I do Duty missions, which is basically you get assigned a role, either Tank, Healer, or Damage Dealer depending on your class, then go through a dungeon with the team while getting loot and substantially increased EXP amounts, I run into people worse than me when I was at their level, and they ignore orders and objectives, and make the runs harder. I had a Black Mage earlier that thought it cute to continue attacking the enemies first himself, immediately gaining aggro and making the Tank's job harder, against enemies that can easily kill one player. So then the healer needs to focus on keeping him alive, which makes more aggro for them, then I need to somehow do more damage to the enemies, as everyone runs around without any coordination making it harder. Usually, the tank strikes first, designates which targets to take out first, draws the ire of all enemies and takes the hits for everyone, one Damage dealer attacks his target, while the other one since there's 2 usually, debuffs the other enemies then works on the main with the other two, while the healer will then focus on healing the tank, and not having to worry about healing the other two DDs. That of course goes out the window when people don't follow those guidelines, which makes runs suck. Ranting about this for me is hard enough since I'm not playing on the PC, so I don't have the time to use the PS3's message system, even though it's easier to type things out on that compared to the 360, so I can't go on long rants and informative explanations on things without taking a few minutes to do it.
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They are called Christmas noobs.
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In my shooter life, I was raised on Goldeneye and Halo. I was also tamed to hate CoD. I've learned through playing the last few CoD games that CoD is only hated, because it's #1. That's it. Ghosts is the best CoD to date in my opinion. Gaming is like music. Player haters are always going to hate the best, plain and simple. OT: Every game has the worst randoms in my experience.
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well to be honest, you [i]are[/i] playing Call of Duty [spoiler]not bashing the game, bashing the community[/spoiler]
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The one time I almost made it to the end, a random electrocuted me and another random when we were trying to revive a third random. He was then overrun in about 10 seconds. But yeah, Extinction was the one thing they got right in that game.
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Same in Bulletstorm Co-Op
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I just don't play ghosts anymore. If I do it's only when I have nothing at all left to do or play. It is just bad in my opinion and after a decent game like BO2 it was a real disappointment
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I played with this guy.
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Had exactly the same experience on Xbox One. Fortunately I have friends with the game and we've escaped with all challenges completed.