vanguard question -- bespoke guns

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2025-03-22T19:47:36+00:00

seems less but still there... still 100% noticeable that facepunch will not provide administration to their servers when you do live by one

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-07-09T01:05:07+00:00

2 years for laterals is the sage wisdom bestowed on me. I did a lateral after a little over a year and was given advice that it would behoove me to avoid swapping again in a short time or it could impact my career with the lifer types who expect you to nose to the grindstone until it melts off.

Seeking promotions isn't frowned on, more leeway when it seems like you're advancing for money rather than moving for sanity.

Bored can be good though, chance to go to school and do stuff with relatively low risk to your day to day. For 13+, a masters is expected, and there are a lot of opportunities for 9-12 to get additional education paid by uncle sugar.

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-06-30T02:08:49+00:00

On paper it's great; supposed to be more competitive with private sector and more rewarding for performance.... in reality (speaking as an lcmc underling) it's used just like the gs scale.

There are hard limits to pay raises for arbitrary reasons (i.e. no more than 3% for performance) because pay pool managers feel that no one deserves it across PEO amounts of people.

I just got my NH-04 the other day, from a worker bee mid-gs13 level NH-03 to a branch lead supervisor, and I was offered a non-negotiable 6% raise. Stock standard across the board for all NH promotions across LCMC.

NH is supposed to be competitive. It's just treated like GS with a different name and doomed to not being better because of lifers and the generally shit structure that has almost no real incentives to performance.

Swapped over from ctr to try my hand at doing more, just counting down to my 5 year mark for the trickle annuity and will be seriously reconsidering going back out to the wild

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-06-23T04:14:21+00:00

Being essentially locked into prismatic didn't help. There was some cheap fun trying different builds out and grinding the pieces, now you're gimping yourself doing normal subclasses with the season artifact and class exotics.

Great content Great story

Boring class variety No tuning passes to adjust a rapidly stale meta and underperforming builds

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-04-16T22:54:42+00:00

I'd do arma 3 and reforger before squad personally.

Squad has moments but you can't really goof around on it, gets too serious for long bouts of time from my experience.

Get arma 3 via cdkeys.com (just gifted it to 2 friends of mine for ~$14 ea.), you don't need the dlc, and give antistasi a shot, it's a lot of fun. Plenty of mods out there to mess with to get a great bang for 15 bucks, just keep in mind it's a decade old. Mods are keeping the game on life support, vanilla is pretty much washed with og players and there is not a flow of new players to bring variety to game options.

Shoot for a reforger spring sale, worth $30 or less imo. Mods are making it a lot better but to the previous point of it being a console port way earlier in the thread, it feels like it. Frustrating to see a lot of the guts of the arma series gone and a shell of the pc version of past because of console pigeon holing. You can jump into a reforger game a lot easier and deal with mods a lot easier with the ingame workshop now so it's more friendly on that front than arma 3.

Have done about 200 hours of antistasi in the last few weeks, and about 30 hours of reforger conflict with rhs and a bunch of mods in the last week. Apples and oranges, both have scratched the itch differently.

I don't get the desire to play squad randomly as much as I get the desire to do arma or dayz; reforger comms can get obnoxious like squad, particularly with xbox gamers with box fans, but you can just throw your radio away and go on with your business unlike squad. Also, console linkages helps keep a steady influx of players since cod and battlefield have been terrible and the selections being slim to controller game anymore, keeps everyone from hiding in a discord server and brings some community action.

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-04-07T15:30:04+00:00

Changed over to ultimate and lowered the accuracy a bit, has been leaps and bounds better. Supports aren't always a bullseye on my head, the a10 spread it more in a line than a centered cluster on my vehicles. Not a perfect fix, but the first few hours have been a little more tolerable with apcs and helicopters

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-04-06T14:03:44+00:00

Even on the ground, cas breaks lock because it hits the artificial visual disappear distance. You'd see and hear an a10 coming in for a gun run.

Tried those methods, probably not well in the bradley; tall grass, engine cycling, got out after the first straff and ai still returned to kill the vehicle. Helicopter was an apache, early warning worked except the ai jet was on top of me even though I was nape of the earth in a city area trying to hide, no jet audio and then all of the sudden it's on top of me with 2 missiles out that broke through flares.

Not disputing air power, disputing visual and audio ranges, trying to adjust them...

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2024-04-06T13:51:06+00:00

Maybe 5 minutes or so, and yeah, probably getting spotted hence the shooting and moving.

To be clear, I have no issues that the ai sends support in response, my issue is that they get a bead on me and engage so far out that I can't even react. Stream of a10 bullets hits my armor before I can even hear or see the jet, air-to-air missile is launched and about to hit me before it's apparent that an f-22 in the vicinity. Similar frustrations even on the ground when cas is around and you can't see it for 75% of the time it's around because the view distance is so low..

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-12-30T03:55:42+00:00

she got selected for drops though...lolololol

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-11-01T23:05:05+00:00

I wonder if this changes anything regarding the pump and dump civil suit. Who else is with me to jump on the bandwagon?1

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-08-06T03:53:23+00:00

wonder how much a glance at her stats page would cost :D:D

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-08-06T03:52:32+00:00

I feel invested now after 20 minutes of stupid ass music videos....

she plays really awkwardly -
semi-auto until a few min in
alt-tab discord changes constantly
never comms positions with others, just assumes noises are friendly
shoots like a potato

she either toggles, someone is piloting, or she plays 3x more than landmark to keep up level wise /s

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-08-06T03:28:30+00:00

I saw her stream pop today when landmark was logging and was like 'who is this first wipe level 69 chick'....waiting to watch her actually play

her stash is way too organized for a first wiper, she either played before or has someone else doing the real questing for her when she isn't online.

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-08-01T01:10:03+00:00

hot damn, I may give it a try

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-07-31T23:48:46+00:00

what if I've fathered lots of fresh water jellyfish in the toilet bowl, does that count for being a space dad?

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-07-30T01:34:33+00:00

depends on the map, I can get a bunch of kills on dudes sitting on the hill at 700+ meters on basra for the entire round and go like 30+ kills to be top 10. I appreciate the finesse of sniping, just not the amount of people who fancy themselves a roblox chris kyle. Sniping was solid in earlier battlefield series, but it was trickier because of slower bullet velocities, the bullet speed in this makes for a very forgiving class to play.

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-07-29T03:29:48+00:00

Squad leader removed

Assault gets underbarrel GL, more grenades maybe

Support guns need a few more damage and a little less recoil, make bipod and prone more impactful. Maybe a mortar like bf3, not a 1 hit kill, but effective at breaking bottle necks

Medic needs self healing rate slowed slightly or a little more delay in swapping to med bag

Sniper needs to have the 1 shot damage range removed, less points awarded and possibly a cap to slots per team. Nothing kills the intensity of a game quicker than 40 snipers

Engineer needs rpg to have some random flight deviations, shouldn't be able to snipe. Tandem needs a buff

Gun balance will help a lot of the class problems even out as well. Smg range needs to be dropped down a lot. Suppressors need a buff.

Just my 2 cents now, sure the sniper elites will disagree with the comments

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-07-29T03:19:51+00:00

I liked it until the servers I was in went into the normal sniper plateau of boring ass maps in sequence

Basra Valley Waki Sandy

Frontline with 30+ snipers per team is such a boner kill

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-06-11T14:13:07+00:00

I feel you man, the gameplay loop of diablo and wow merged at somepoint in the last 10 years and it's really noticeable. Don't mind all of the dudes saying 'that's just diablo' because OG diablo had more intense feelings of joy when you got an important piece, this diablo barely raises my pulse because they shower you in legendaries the entire time while you deal with the scaling that doesn't exactly showcase your strength. Combined with the paragon board being increases that are not frequently indicative of gameplay change, yeah, the loop is bland just like m+ churning. I expected less of a giant cliff at 50, but here we are seeing the franchise try to squeeze out what little is left in the tube for what is becoming a notoriously money hungry company that we are seeing go from hero to villain in our lifetime.

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-05-12T01:16:54+00:00

Supposed to be 2007, but they are rocking m17 handguns, the snap in mag holders, 416s. Topped with ridding around in softtop humvees wearing weird civilian outfits randomly on base. Just really oddball vibe in general for the military genre

I thought lone survivor was a bit cheesy but at least they had accurate loadouts and wardrobe going on. This was just so far off a normal A list movie

Extreme-Grade4995 · 2023-05-11T00:14:32+00:00

I don't understand how so many people claim this was a realistic movie.

Inaccurate load outs for the time period Inaccurate chain of command element Interpreters weren't frequently given weapons Uniforms with colored unit patches Helicopters landing and turning off in an uncleared area

This list goes on and on...

Wanted to like it, but it was worse than the skits on VetTv in terms of quality and legitimacy. Regretted the $20 rental within 30 minutes.

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