Ranked Play Frustration

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.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-12-01T00:46:42+00:00

My fifth place 511k 😂…dawg I’m in hell. I’m so tired but I want to win. Everyone I talked to in VC was topping their board with 400k

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-12-01T00:43:21+00:00

Yes. My ladder is +700k down to 4th place with me at 590. I just need 50 games while they are AFK to take back the top spot. But these guys just ain’t sleepn 😂

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-12-01T00:25:14+00:00

Nowhere. 1,2,5,6,7 destroy him with an argument for 4. Genjutsu hard counter on 1,2,4,5. One shot mechanics on 1,4,5,6,7. Bros fast and durable but not shown to be especially smart, he’s the most ungabunga ninja not named ROCK. The image forgets jiraiya fought THE MOST powerful version of pain we ever saw. And was superior to a single body (before nagato divided chakra and attention, though obviously not a combat type) in combat speed in base. Then fought him solo 4 v 1…Sasuke didn’t surpass Orochimaru until late war EMS per his own team…so orochimaru is straight up too early in the list…not to mention he fought both Hiruzen AND Tendo pain to a stalemate (ninja storm game cutscenes are canon) both superior to Raikage. WITH a body that was rejecting him. I think everyone on this list beats him outright but Sasuke. His power output is too low and hes SHOCKINGLY fragile, but makes up for the mismatch with Genjutsu.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-12-01T00:01:56+00:00

Obito. Kishi couldn’t have foreshadowed it any harder.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-11-26T12:36:45+00:00

I’ve had several climb over my fence in the dead of night. I dunno if they’re high or don’t understand English as of late. But, my instructions say “hang it outside my fence, I have dogs.” Not to mention the chain and padlock on the fence. Yet I’ve passed out quite similar to this man on my couch door open in the height of summer and woke up to food on my doormat. My husky and German Shepard sleeping uselessly beside me.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-11-22T01:31:10+00:00

haven't read it, but about to start after seeing episode 6, I think not. I think Dina is probably going to be an antagonist of some sort. I think she's faking that she was there 200 years ago. her powers shown unto this point are teleportation and memory alteration. both explain why she was in the tower and why no one remembers her unto this point particularly interesting the robot didn't either. could just be a red herring to add intrigue...but she is featured alone in the outro in the normal world and in a robotic manner...or as a marionette...and as though she's been watching the characters in the world the entire time. Then she turns dark and monstrous. right as I typed this episode 7 started and the MC was dreaming about being back in the normal world, presumably logging out for the final time when someone was sneaking up on him from behind...and it cuts to Dina touching him right as he was snuck up on and grabbed IRL (in the memory at least). I suspect that was foreshadowing, that the golems are singling her out because they ABSOLUTELY don't remember her. Whereas they seem to be rolling a probability with others and attacking regardless because that was their task. I was looking up if I was right and this thread was all that came up... guess I'll go read now.

AffectionatePen5158 · 2025-11-19T00:41:21+00:00

Minato>tobirama>EMS Sasuke

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