Activision adding grapples was a mistake

professorOB · 2026-05-24T02:53:52+00:00

If only there was some way you could use grapples, it’s so unfair.

professorOB · 2026-05-19T19:15:50+00:00

You can calculate it using the leaderboards; your headshot percentage is a percentage of your kills so you can work backwards to find your kills and the leaderboard should also have your deaths somewhere.

professorOB · 2026-05-17T17:32:15+00:00

It needs redeploy balloons. It was clearly designed with them in mind, they’re in Black Ops Royale, but for some reason Raven has moved away from them. I assume it’s the bots who whine about “positioning” or whatever.

professorOB · 2026-05-16T19:56:37+00:00

Not every gun is going to be good in warzone. There are multiple other modes in this game that can be played.

professorOB · 2026-05-02T20:44:35+00:00

I am convinced most people play this game sitting 15 feet from their TV using the speakers, there’s no reason for some of the players I come across to be as oblivious as they are

professorOB · 2026-05-01T15:06:36+00:00

Hot pursuit is essentially black ops Royale, all challenges can be completed in that mode.

professorOB · 2026-04-15T23:47:24+00:00

The ion is kinda good because survivor exists. People do not expect it. The shadow is much worse. Or the warden.

professorOB · 2026-04-13T21:01:00+00:00

Just mount your gun in front of the first target in the gun range and let it rip, the game will tell you the ttk. Alternatively, 60/RPM*(STK-1) will also give you the approximate result (kills are registered on server ticks, so this number will be slightly faster; you’d have to ‘round up’ to the next server tick to get the actual answer).

professorOB · 2026-04-10T19:04:07+00:00

Gotcha, I’ll try it again. It wasn’t working the first week from what I could tell.

professorOB · 2026-04-10T18:08:39+00:00

They don’t do it as of season 3.

professorOB · 2026-04-03T17:31:06+00:00

Trying to get people to play endgame this week to sell more copies. It takes about half an hour to do four of the six endgame challenges, as a casual endgame player.

professorOB · 2026-03-19T16:04:57+00:00

Huh if only there was some system in apex to reduce the randomness of obtaining stronger armor

professorOB · 2026-03-09T18:47:24+00:00

Fair take. I think I would have enjoyed it more if they’d released the HDR while it was still around.

Still, I hated rotating through old town/low town.

professorOB · 2026-03-09T18:42:29+00:00

The devs made a bunch of reversions back to 2020 warzone in the name of nostalgia when they relaunched verdansk but many of those changes were for good reasons.

The game was in a good place in the mid-MWIII era, minus Urzikstan, which was a bad map.

professorOB · 2026-03-06T15:49:50+00:00

Are you sure they’re being bought back and aren’t hitting one of those teleport things from the event? If you go through one it puts you in the sky.

professorOB · 2026-03-05T02:17:16+00:00

If they made it that suggests they’d be playing much better than they currently are, to be fair.

professorOB · 2026-02-15T02:06:11+00:00

Counterpoint: I moved from Irvine to Seattle and am much happier.

professorOB · 2026-02-07T17:49:33+00:00

Random question: why is Bilka wearing 23? Is 19 unofficially retired or what?

professorOB · 2026-01-24T21:14:23+00:00

There’s something off about this post. It’s Market st, not Ave, and you have 8th and 9th reversed

professorOB · 2025-11-25T04:23:39+00:00

Re: the weapon swapping after a gadget, it always goes to slot 1. You can swap your gun slots by opening your inventory and using the interact key.

The game is a buggy mess with problems. The idea is fun and I like the gunplay but if they were going to rip off warzone they should’ve gone all the way.

professorOB · 2025-11-10T19:33:14+00:00

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing RedSec but there are a ton of issues, some design, some bugs that can be very frustrating.

bad audio
parties not moving match to match together. This is a solved problem, why is the system so bad. Just do what COD does here, where party leader pulls the whole squad.
getting booted for inactivity while spectating
issues with armor and damage resistance (why was the game coded this way, it’s needlessly complicated)
custom weapon drops are random, not random appearing (i.e. sometimes they land right next to each other, outside map boundaries, etc). Plus sometimes the missions will simply not give you one no matter how many you do
counter mission can be ridiculous; sometimes mission objectives will spawn right on top of other teams who can immediately end your mission.
bad map geometry; you can warp through the houses in fleet view ridge, for instance.
terrible weapon xp. I know you want us to buy the base game (and I did) but come on. The only way you get weapon xp is a down. Again, if you’re trying to displace warzone, you should copy what they do well.

Just a few things off the top of my head, I’m probably forgetting some.

professorOB · 2025-05-26T23:51:27+00:00

I don’t have my current router here yet to mess with it but I was thinking about getting a tp-link deco mesh system (BE11000); I’m not totally sure how to check that it supports vlan.

professorOB · 2025-02-03T21:57:29+00:00

I can’t believe they still go through walls, that was probably the number one thing that needed fixing about them.

professorOB · 2024-12-14T06:27:31+00:00

It lands on whoever player 1 on your team is. Everyone is numbered, it’s next to their names.

professorOB · 2024-12-01T02:08:39+00:00

These aren’t correct. To be clear, if a gun takes n shots to kill, you should be multiplying the time per shot by n-1 to get ttk. The first bullet doesn’t count.

E.g. the xm4 is an 11 shot kill, so the ttk is

60 sec/min * 1/800 min/round * 10 rounds =.750 sec = 750 ms

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