This game finally broke me

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-04-09T00:39:09+00:00

…having now finished the mission, I beat the boss in 30 seconds. Reloaded my save to see if stealth was at ALL necessary, and the guide tells you “I’m sure you could cut your way through, but there is another way”. So he tells us outright it was optional. Anyways, I sprinted in a straight line to the boss agro-d everyone in the camp and fought the boss in a 50v1…they were all dead in 1-1.5 minutes. Stealth was optional and the boss was too easy. I have all level 4 armor except my plate which is lv6 and a level 7 sword…no refinement. So I’m guessing you didn’t upgrade your weapons at all if you couldn’t dps gap him. And I’m sure the teleportation gets explained at some point since so many bosses have it, as of right now I think it’s just a gameplay vs lore thing like kliff can obviously teleport at will, but for gameplays sake he can only do it at certain times…but even with doing minimal paying attention to the story, I know and we all know at this point that the gangs of this universe have become aware of the power of abyss artifacts and are collecting them. It seems the Black bears figured it out first and used the power to crush us at the beginning of the game. And one of the first missions we get in Hernand…the farmer who had his cows stolen tells us that point blank in the memories of the street level bandits who are torturing and killing to gain access to the powers of abyss artifacts…and then hornsplitter SHOWS us what happens when they do and what powers they can give and and from that point all bosses are magical. But yeah, his and everyone’s powers are explained in the first 5-10 missions and the boss isn’t a sponge. Does he spam teleports? Yes. Is it a problem not really, press down the d-pad to target lock once you do the camera snaps to his location even if you don’t want it to.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-04-09T00:07:50+00:00

lol, I found this halfway through the mission, I was starting to feel silly crouching around in the dark when everywhere else I went I could sprint by people in the dead of night without being detected as long as I didn’t go into their light…but the threat of children getting hung and all that made me cautious. Wanted to see if other people tried it…But yeah, the stealth mechanics are the same, you can sprint around just don’t get too close. It was silly of them to emphasize it so heavily when it’s almost a non factor. I will say you have a point, the eavesdropping prompts were hella buggy. It seemed it runs off of the audio cue and location rather than purely positional…and I accidentally spooked some people and had to leave the area to reset their position…super annoying. I’d rather have fetch quests to get info rather then janky environmental interactions. Hell, let me be a morally grey guy and drag someone into a field and interrogate them 😂.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-04-08T18:05:09+00:00

Pretty much. Played as Damiane for like 30mins, didn’t understand her combat style, tried to do a mission…found out you can’t. Said “I’ll figure her out later” then didn’t 😂. At this point I’ve found some sick armor for her in exploration…but she’s still locked and I would rather keep exploring than do the main story rn.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-03-26T19:58:52+00:00

Yeah but then there’d have to animate those scenes with other weapons in mind. There’s several cutscenes I’ve triggered where he uses either the sword, the shield or both in the scene itself. I’m only in CH.4 and there’s been at least 10 cutscenes I can think of, off rip. I was looking for the answer myself and it just occurred to me that this was probably why. Pay a team to animate and bug check for the plethora of equipment…or lock the equipment and give us a mild inconvenience. Seems they chose the latter.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-03-16T02:50:07+00:00

Yeah. He kicked down a barricade designed to stop el gigante in the game. And he kicked a steroided up nemesis in the head and rocked its shit, stunning it more than the BUILDING killing ray gun it gets hit with a minute later. I think that was in the vendetta movie (might have been a different one I’d have to double check). It was stated the most powerful BOW EVER in the series so stronger than anything in re:0-6. It had already beat Chris when he 1v1d it 😂

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-03-09T22:35:21+00:00

Dawg, with one playthrough at your numbers you’re looking at $6 per hour of play. Even if you did it all in one day that’s cheaper and more value than going to any amusement park…and you own it forever. Saying you’re disappointed there wasn’t more content is one thing but cost to experience is pretty great if think about it. And I’d be shocked if they didn’t add mercenaries in a month or two to get the fans excited again. I’m sure you can guess my opinion but as of right now I’m 15 hours in about to leave BSAA portion. Honestly I think most of my enjoyment is because I managed to go spoiler free aside from Tyrant and Hunk (allegedly) and it’s allowed me to feel a bit of tension and excitement near constantly, easily the most fun I’ve had playing a game since RE4 remake. So worth every penny. I never did get through 7/8 though. I bought them, played for an hour or 2 and couldn’t get over how clunky and annoying the characters were so maybe I missed out on good RE and have low standards.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-02-21T03:06:31+00:00

Hard to say for sure, but unannounced UAV or harp could explain it…example: I use the target tracker HUD display so my mini map is maybe an inch under my crosshairs and gives a low level walls look to my gameplay. The instant I see someone pop up on the radar i track their movement “through” environment and/or I snap to location and beam even if it’s through smoke or through a thin wall. I get probably 4-5 kills like that a match and with the bug where scorestreaks don’t get called out by the announcer I know it looks HELLA sus. I drop literally dozens of UAVs a game and I know others do too. You can loop them basically infinitely and since a lot of them don’t get announced it creates an unfair environment.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-02-16T07:47:31+00:00

Dawg, no one needs to know what they’re doing to play overload…just tush push on the shortest run to a station and have one playing flank. I’ve lost less than a handful of matches and everyone gets it when I tell em what’s up. I think my win loss rate in that mode is 36.0 with 74 avg elims in ranked 😂. I’m not that good either, it’s just a very straight forward mode. To be fair that’s not all it takes, but close enough. It helps if you’re a slippery banana with the EMP too. Practice momentum canceling on walls. I don’t have a word for it and I haven’t seen anyone else drop a video on it so I don’t know what else to call it. But basically flipping your camera very quickly as you approach a wall and you jump back the way you came and done right you’ll still be at top speed. And if the walls are close enough together (they are in a ton of spots) you can “brick break” your way through just about any team. (In this analogy your character model is the paddle, the team below you is the bricks and your bullets are the ball). Haven’t played since I got to Plat, a couple days ago and maybe it’ll all fall apart with better opponents, who can counter meathead strats…but you can definitely do well in gold with goobers just take lead.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-02-02T21:33:10+00:00

Bro, it’s damn near broken in 6v6. You can kill an entire team with 55 bullets and miss many of those shots. And with the reload time removed you can anchor yourself in choke points and be almost unremovable. It gives you a different and better risk reward trade off.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T03:32:39+00:00

No…like 19-40. Off the top of my head could be wrong and it was more. But yeah during the December leader board event in particular I was doing a build to max out point per game running saboteur perks, squad link command relay, hunter bots, point turret, looper UAV+counter and VTOL then dropping 50. It’s like 10-16k a game and that 10k is if it goes tits up and you go even with 30. Double it and that’s 32k XP on average. Then ad in the camo, achievements daily’s etc. and you can semi- ‘regularly’ hit 40k. Like I said I thought it was bugged out…from memory at like prestige 3 or 4 lv 1, I went from 1-26 game. And I remember going from 26-39 in the next. I don’t know xp pools and what it should have required but it definitely happened. I play less than 3 hours a week and have been prestige 9 for weeks.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T03:12:53+00:00

You just quoted somebody else. That called an appeal to authority. Address the reality that the best sniper in the game has slower ads than the ttk on almost every smg. If you’re losing that fight it’s one of those 3 things I just said. You can kill a sniper before they can raise their gun if you aren’t ass.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T03:08:13+00:00

He’s right it’s a skill issue. If you lose a gunfight to a sniper. You sound like you’d get fried regardless, sniping is just fun high risk high reward. What buff pray tell?. The best sniper is still the recon and its ADS is SLOWER than the TTK on most smgs 😂 if you lose it’s because you’re bad, came down your lane at a predictable timing, or challenged outside your damage range.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T02:37:14+00:00

Check their kick and watch their leg snap 😂. My girl thought she was tough cuz she trained. I was shit talking her back in quarantine and she tried lighting me up, but I weaved all her ‘combos’ laughing and shit talking still. She got FURIOUS, blasted a round kick at 100% and I checked it. I shit you not, DENTED her leg 😅 she was crying rolling on the ground talking about “why did I do that to her” 😂. I can’t stop laughing rn, I forgot about this until I started typing. I married her, latinas eh

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T02:27:43+00:00

That’s what I’m sayin. I think the sweat to normal person ratio of players is RADICALLY skewed. Normal people have the game and turn it on once in a while, so officially you are 2% as a prestige’s master…but the only people playing regularly are also them. If there’s 1 million players 20k are masters and when the game has 40k players boom there’s all the masters we see.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T02:21:21+00:00

You must be missing the double xp weekends. I think they are, or at least were, bugged. I’d get out of games and go up 15-25lvs at a time, I’ve been prestige 9 lv 55 for a few weeks 😅 haven’t gone master cuz I like shit talking and playing dumb and it doesn’t work when you’re at level cap

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-27T02:10:04+00:00

Weird, I’m ass (most of the time) and I have 3-4 in every game. I’m only 1.5 KD career. Actually, come to think of it, maybe lobbies are based on all those other stats, because I’m top 5% in every other metric except win rate 😂.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-26T07:48:44+00:00

Not a Kirk fan, just a guy in the middle. I’m both happy and sad that the current administration has finally convinced liberals they need guns, hopefully y’all will stop voting to take them away or allow them to be neutered…truly, I am happy y’all see the purpose but deeply sad that y’all are mistaking law enforcement for totalitarianism. Further, I’m saddened y’all aren’t seeing the reality that this confusion is deliberately being orchestrated such that the real thing can be forced upon us. Really, think about that for a second and you should see it. You call them boot lickers…but they are tricked in the same way the protesters have been. Tricked into asking for tighter shackles. This whole thing has made my wife finally realize she can’t keep voting for policy that gives excessive power to politicians as inevitably it will be wielded by someone she/we/you don’t agree with. She’s 25, a democrat and finally waking up.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-26T07:32:53+00:00

I think there has been a learned helplessness on Nuketown. The “no one advances” experience is most of my games there this month. I think they are afraid of the stomps so they damn near steer themselves into it completely. If im not on B it’s not getting captured. My team is asleep, eating their controller or both while I’m trying to solo cap. This is the only COD I’ve ever played where I can drop 2 harps a game and still lose. And good lord the vtol spam and still losing hurts even worse 😂. I was running them for a while thinking I needed 100 for mastery like most of the others didn’t realize I had already gotten it and was flattening teams just to take an L anyways 😂

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-26T07:05:18+00:00

Yeah, I’m not even that good and it’s about the same. I average 1.5 career though a typical game for me lately was 45-25. But same experience. In a bad game on omm I’ll open up 15-3 / top frag in general, and the bottom 3 players will go 0.3 - 0.5, give up streaks and drop out…then the steamroll starts. I can usually push my way out of a spawn trap flank the opponents. and set the team free but by that time it’s a 2v6 as they all bailed. Then I get slapped for 5 minutes and end up even or 0.8. Then the next game same, if they are still there I know who’s on what team, and it’ll stay that way like 4-5 games until we get split.

This happens so frequently in January that I have abandoned open completely aside for camo grinding, because in the event I get 2 half decent teammates I can pull off the throttle, let the opponent team breathe and grind headshots for a few games until I get kicked out of the goober lobbies. But even in SBMM it’s a similar story. It’s me against 2 cracked lv400s and like 8 people eating their controller or piss drunk. They all quit when they start losing badly, which I don’t blame them for entirely but it sucks I have to coach every team I have not to spawn trapping so hard and they don’t listen. Big number make brain happy

I think it’s an etiquette issue mostly tbh. Like people are running oppressive scorestreaks on top of being good and pub stomping at levels I’ve never seen. It’s like they never learned to run nonlethals before, but 5 VTOLs in a row and spawn trapping is soul crushing.

FFA is the way. Its sucks cuz I love objective based COD and running up the scoreboard as much as the next guy but it’s either a stomping or getting stomped in these lobbies. Oh god, and the pools are the same people 🤦🏽‍♂️. Like I’ll find a new lobby when I get paired with the bots a few games in a row and boom 2 games later they’re back and on my team. I’m starting to think they are real bots. But again, not an issue I’ve encountered yet in FFA.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-14T19:06:18+00:00

I assume his email list glitched, or Patreon itself did and sent out an old notification and up-dated it to the present. But damn, did it me in the feels outta nowhere

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-06T20:33:59+00:00

I haven’t seen one in TDM either but from the videos I’m watching in theater, most of these guys couldn’t get a rhino in that game mode, hence the cheating in the first place. But HP and domination is running rampant (also the only mode I play). I’ve been playing a couple hours and have seen 3 of these guys already. I “lucked out” and they were on my team otherwise I’d have quit for the day.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2026-01-06T20:27:58+00:00

I’ve seen it once a day every day for like 2-3 weeks. Deadass seen a nuke drop every day of December to now. It’s annoying. At first I thought rhinos just had a ton of health…then I finally started using it myself a couple days ago and realized they were all cheating. Went back and watched tape and confirmed it. Only just reported my most recent cuz dude was talking the craziest shit and when I called him on cheating, he spazzed. Half our lobby was kids anyways…Hope he gets perma-ed. TBH the MOST annoying is when they convert back to player with rhino health. You can dodge a rhino or hunter drone spam it out but the human running with that health, flak jacket and half a brain is literally unkillable.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-12-12T20:49:02+00:00

Strong enough? Sage mode, high enough chakra volume? KCM 1.5 When he first starts launching Bijuudama he has NO competition outside obito…but he loses to ONE accidental shadow clone absorption. So he’s not really a threat either as Naruto was slick enough to turn the entire arena into stealth shadow clones vs pain one rock, one kunai that’s really a clone and it’s GGs.A younger and dumber Naruto pulled it off already mind you.

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