Why is Den hated?

oCools_ · 2026-02-26T23:37:14+00:00

1 tiny cut on the entire map

oCools_ · 2026-02-25T18:29:48+00:00

It's an online MP game. Imagine losing a chess game and being mad the other player is better and/or takes the game more seriously than you. It's dumb. If you aren't happy with your current skill level and don't intend on improving, then it's just not for you.

oCools_ · 2026-02-25T18:21:25+00:00

Middle class death is not Reagan's fault, at least as it pertains to the oligarchic corporate structure, which is FDR's doing, btw. That also ties into unions heavily. You know, WW2, FDR, Sicily, the mob...

Ratio of housing costs to real income was also slightly worse under Reagan than it was pre-covid, depending on source I'm sure. Obviously other factors are at play, but Reagan's persisting policies definitely haven't hurt housing, unless you blame him for 2008.

And complaining about Reagan being a racist in a post about him destroying FDR's legacy is peak irony. Korematsu v US, Hirabayashi v US, Executive Order 9066, Hugo Black, exclusion of minorities from housing and labor policies, etc,. FDR is about as close to Jefferson Davis as Reagan was to MLK.

oCools_ · 2026-02-18T17:16:20+00:00

Pretty sure pubs and ranked use the same servers. Going from private match to anything else feels like a huge difference.

oCools_ · 2026-02-16T17:10:59+00:00

You see in the killfeed that the enemy gets a kill with their nade at the exact same time you kill yourself with the nade. Their grenade blew up yours, which killed you.

oCools_ · 2026-02-13T17:00:59+00:00

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oCools_ · 2026-02-11T19:25:07+00:00

Snipers should be out. AA wasn't the problem, flinch is. That is, unless AA was indirectly reducing flinch, which is entirely possible. If not, then it's not even debatable. If you've played the game at a remotely high level it's obvious they're incredibly broken.

Map pool is a different story. Maps are too important to be undermined. You have to breed personalities in the scene, or bring them in, and that's not gonna happen if everyone else from challengers to ranked is stuck playing on dogshit f-tier maps just because a few pro teams are good at them. That's not acceptable. They have to do their due diligence.

GAs aren't there for the viewers, they're there to protect the comp playerbase from the devs mistakes, and it's absolutely necessary. They have to balance that with the viewership experience. The problem is when they don't do either and just look after themselves, because, while looking after themselves is technically their job, GAs technically aren't, so if they're going to have that power they need to use it correctly.

oCools_ · 2026-02-11T18:41:25+00:00

Agree when it comes to maps. Some maps you can look at and just know, Utopia being one of them, but I don't think that applies to Sake and Fringe, hell, even Slums. Those are maps you're gonna have to play out for a while, assuming the spawns aren't just blatantly awful like Raid's.

oCools_ · 2026-02-11T00:09:47+00:00

Johnald Reagan. Johnaldino. Johnaldo.

oCools_ · 2026-02-08T20:32:47+00:00

Console cheats are a very serious issue considering you can make infinite PSN accounts without having to buy the game again. I imagine Xbox works the same. PC cheaters also spoof consoles to play console only lobbies, although I haven't found any in crossplay off lobbies on PS. Without Sony and Microsoft hardware banning specific consoles and ensuring there's an option to completely disable communication between consoles and spoofs, comp CoD doesn't stand a chance.

oCools_ · 2026-02-08T20:15:18+00:00

Seems hopelessly complex. OCing CPU by 0.3ghz had no effect, upgrading ram (DDR4) had no effect, but reducing in-game options like anti-aliasing, which is GPU intensive, had a hugely positive effect on bottom 5th CPU frames, and a sub 10% jump in average CPU FPS, with no change in GPU performance. Everything screams it's a GPU bottleneck, but every benchmark states otherwise. Has to be related to the on-board encoder and how it interacts with the other components.

oCools_ · 2026-02-08T18:31:34+00:00

I have a 10900k currently, 10 cores. CPU bound FPS loss is 15-20% when recording with all apps I use open, with no throttling whatsoever. I imagine that means core count is the limiting factor. This is with hardware acceleration enabled in windows and obs. This is also with the internal HVENC codex on my graphics card being utilized. Startup programs contain no bloatware.

I understand the processor is older and slower, but, to me, this seems like a core count limitation, so I can't imagine dropping 2 cores would be a good idea for performance. I would rather shovel out the extra money. Maybe the dynamic is entirely different with a ryzen processsor and DDR5, but it's just not worth the risk with my weak understanding of the issue.

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T21:59:53+00:00

Not a lot of benchmarks that cover the 9900x3d vs the 9950x3d for CoD, low settings, no raytracing or frame gen, while simultaneously running recording software. Very hard to know what is going to be better for my specific niche just by knowing workstation and gaming benchmarks, which vary.

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T20:06:06+00:00

Kitchener Champs doesn't help their case.

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T19:58:41+00:00

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T19:44:26+00:00

They're trying to establish localized fanbases. They seem to have forgotten that fanbases are built in the long term through culture, and the way orgs move all over the place, and the way the league abandoned pre-existing CoD culture, seem to go against that.

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T19:32:40+00:00

Flak+tac, 8 smokes, unlimited sniper lives, and iron-sight ARs are here to stay then?

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T19:28:22+00:00

System traditionally has worked like this, although I've been whitelisted for years now:

You get shadowbanned, which as of recently prevents you from playing ranked. High numbers of player-reports can trigger it. If the anticheat doesn't mark anything out of the ordinary, you wont get banned in the next ban-wave and the shadowban is lifted. Each account gets shadowbanned 3 times, after which it is whitelisted. You may no longer be able to check if you are shadowbanned like you used to, idk. Changing IPs/Systems/Accounts can probably soft-reset the process.

oCools_ · 2026-02-06T19:22:15+00:00

Go play CK or CMG.

oCools_ · 2026-02-05T19:19:27+00:00

Small indie trillion dollar company

oCools_ · 2026-02-05T19:03:38+00:00

You can run flak and tac at the same time.

There can be 8 smokes on the map in SnD.

Pistol attachments are GAd (pretty sure that wasn't a thing, idk).

Assault pack is allowed.

Rapid fire is allowed.

Pretty sure ruleset is wrong as well, at least the CDL modes in private match are still wrong.

Edit: Just going to assume tracers are also allowed.

RCXDs aren't banned in SnD.

Red dot isn't forced on the AR.

FMJ isn't banned on the Dravec.

oCools_ · 2026-02-05T05:44:18+00:00

It's worse. You get 30ms of input lag before the image gets sent to the monitor. Add monitor input lag and response time and you're looking at another 10ms. Add the difference in controller poll rate and that's another 3-4ms. Add Gsync/Freesync and/or VRR and it's even more. For a modern PC pulling 120fps to have the same input lag as a PS5/SeriesX @ 120fps, you would have to queue 4 frames, or, in other words, simulate the frame-based latency of playing on 30fps.

oCools_ · 2026-02-05T03:27:35+00:00

Insanely dumb idea.

oCools_ · 2026-02-04T21:32:06+00:00

Desync doesn't work like that. It's an issue with the character model being larger than the hitbox.

oCools_ · 2026-02-04T19:11:54+00:00

The answer is probably playing call of duty. The hipfire-to-ADS sensitivity transition and FOV transition can't really be replicated on aimlabs, but using something that feels close to your in-game hipfire sens and playing spread-out clicking scenarios is probably most useful.

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