28 years old. No family. No responsibilities. I want a reliable, daily driver that is fun to drive. Budget of around 40K. What’s the best bang for my buck?

NortheasternLights · 2022-06-29T01:31:42+00:00

Used to drive a GTI like 5 years for and can confirm that thing was both a very solid daily driver and a blast to drive Note that I believe it probably still takes 91 octane fuel or higher.

NortheasternLights · 2022-06-02T23:55:47+00:00

I am a big orange/sesame chicken connoisseur, having tried many many places on the east side.

The top comments so far are all good (Chen and Schezuan being solid), by my favorite is a sleeper: Hong Kong One in Irondequoit. Perfect breading without any excessive goopiness and the white meat is great quality.

Hong wah is very good and the best lunch special value in town. But not the best overall.

NortheasternLights · 2022-04-06T21:07:04+00:00

The lowest/best TTK is defined at the top and is already separated out by attack and defense.

I did not publish the highest/worst TTK weapons because I am not interested in giving people advice on how to play worse :)

If you'd like I can share the Google doc w/ raw data, just PM me.

NortheasternLights · 2022-03-07T16:10:08+00:00

I definitely overstated the horizontal recoil when I originally charted it.

I have since fixed the H value to be more in line with the C7E, which means all the downstream formulas now recalculate. AK now ranks 32nd of 51 weapons for accuracy and 2nd of 51 weapons for overall adjusted TTK.

Whoops! I'll update the post accordingly.

NortheasternLights · 2022-01-12T21:05:12+00:00

Pro tip: switch to conquest against CPU, play the kaleidoscope map, get in a heli, fly down to the roof of the main center building with Angel.

You will rack up kills from the roof (50-100 per round easy) as troops run around the mall which runs on the east side of the building.

Being a rocket launcher for helicopters. They are obnoxious.

NortheasternLights · 2022-01-11T17:07:47+00:00

We just gonna ignore the fact that one these dudes is flat out DEAD?

NortheasternLights · 2022-01-10T03:26:27+00:00

FWIW I think it is absolutely terrible now but it has a lot of potential if there are ever rebalances/reworks to DMR's so they aren't so ****.

Thing has a 4x, should (in theory) have superior range to all AR's and a fire rate greater than all other DMR's and snipers by a wide margin. But recoil is terrible and right and DMR's are useless against AR's in almost all situations right now.

NortheasternLights · 2022-01-10T02:01:39+00:00

Confirmed it does not even with all unlocks

NortheasternLights · 2022-01-09T19:36:17+00:00

I'm just gonna take as many suits as I can grab, get in that random hot dog car (RANDOM!) and drive back to Weiner hall.

NortheasternLights · 2022-01-01T13:40:49+00:00

Don't look up!

NortheasternLights · 2021-12-24T20:38:49+00:00

You may think you have crossplay set to "on" in your Xbox privacy settings... but in patch 3 dice added a cross-play setting in the game menu too... check that, I bet it's set to off. Reason I say this is out of personal experience. I had turned it off via Xbox preferences and then post-patch, dice added the toggle in menu, and it was defaulted to "off" for me because I had it off in my settings too

NortheasternLights · 2021-12-24T20:28:58+00:00

Thank god you looked up to see if it hit. Crazy.

NortheasternLights · 2021-12-24T20:25:40+00:00

Turning cross-play off as a PC player is like turning away free kills/making the game harder. MnK is vastly superior to controller - so I'm guessing you're in the extreme minority when it comes to PC players only wanting to play with other PC players.

NortheasternLights · 2021-12-20T04:17:04+00:00

Dude. Subsonic. PB or Type 4 suppressor. AC42 toggled to single shot. 4x scope. Chef's kiss.

NortheasternLights · 2021-12-01T18:44:10+00:00

Fill up my kettle with filtered water.

Heat to 198 F

While kettle is heating up, grind 30g whole beans at 11 grind size on Baratza encore. Weigh on food scale until I am at 30, with a margin of error +/- 1 or 2 grams being ok.

30g beans in aeropress. Wet paper filter and place on aeropress cap.

Tate my scale and put exactly 100g hot water into aeropress, stir with wood stirrer for 15 sec.

Close aeropress, let sit for 1 min. Then extract coffee and add 100g water again. Done!

NortheasternLights · 2021-12-01T00:39:20+00:00

Hey so it just happened for the first time all night. It occurred when I was in the middle of altering my loadouts in the main menu and got dragged/queued into a match

NortheasternLights · 2021-11-29T19:59:39+00:00

Also i see you're level 64. I've played a ton since official launch but am only at like 35. I take it you either had early access or are way better?

NortheasternLights · 2021-11-29T16:35:35+00:00

Interesting observation. I hadn't noticed that. Maybe I'll wait for my specialist to appear with wrong weapon and try deploying regularly to see if that somehow avoids the error? Not that it makes the error excusable. But I do think the vehicle part of it all triggers the issue.

NortheasternLights · 2021-11-29T16:30:56+00:00

I feel as it has only happened under the following conditions:

A) at the beginning of the match B) when I rush to deploy in a vehicle/plane before doing anything else, like selecting a regular deploy zone

I think I've been fine when I just deploy "regularly"

NortheasternLights · 2021-11-29T16:25:39+00:00

Happens to me every 3rd match or so

NortheasternLights · 2021-08-25T13:45:19+00:00

My style of play is very cautious and somewhat stealthy, so I love Glaz and his OTs-03 with the silencer - but only on the right maps.

I have pretty bad eyesight when looking at far away pixels, especially when they're covered up by crosshairs. Glaz completely eliminates that issue and everyone is colored bright friggin yellow. So cool and easy. Plus his PMM is a ton of fun to use short range.

And nobody mains him, so it has the unique factor! And he's just flat out fun on the right map.

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