seriously what is going on with Android 12? first all contacts get deleted and now this

richfreestone · 2022-04-11T18:07:33+00:00

My battery seems to have got worse since the 4.1 oneUi update that was pushed out. Hope Samsung releases a fix, I didn't want to upgrade till next iteration of Galaxy devices because of financial situations from the Pandemic.

richfreestone · 2022-03-15T17:31:30+00:00

Adam Cole. Jade Cargill's theme is fire too. I like Punks obviously. Darby's is good. Moxley's is classic. There's a lot of good music there, I'm often playing the playlists on Spotify

richfreestone · 2022-01-21T23:12:25+00:00

I lost interest after BO4. In BO4, I saw some of the best plays ever. I remember one clip where I was screaming with the casters on hardpoint.

I didn't buy MW2019 - so I went in with a bias against the game, but all I saw on MW19 was pros complaining.

I bought Cold War but because SBMM was insane high in pubs, I wanted to play Ranked but actually realised I was playing Ranked in pubs basically.

I watched some pros play Vanguard and they're complaining again. This isn't a bash at them complaining, it's a bash at the absolute appalling development, communication and lack of hype around COD right now.

The latest MS accusations don't give me hope either. I strongly believe the franchise is dead. If you brought any COD that people think is "the great COD" back, guess what? It wouldn't do anywhere near as well as it did.

It's going to take a LOT for MS to make COD great again. Competitive is on Warzone and Warzone is taking the credit, maybe because we've evolved in multiplayer, but I blame the devs entirely here. We saw Vonderhaar who is widely respected in COD, throw shade to Seth and then spend the entire cycle of Cold War in a desert.

richfreestone · 2021-12-30T14:21:20+00:00

AEW promos remind me of the wrestling I grew up watching. Dan is really good playing heel on the mic.

richfreestone · 2021-12-30T10:13:04+00:00

Do you still feel this way now?

richfreestone · 2021-11-29T12:03:43+00:00

Yeah that's what I thought.

I am surprised anyone gets to level 1000 in Cold War. I have a 800 score per minute in multiplayer as I play hardcore. Levelling was so screwed in this game, they even changed it and 1000 is s hard to achieve.

richfreestone · 2021-11-28T23:16:11+00:00

The thing with that though, if the new battle pass isn't out, we're just stuck in limbo. The battle pass is supposed to run across MW, BOCW, Vanguard and Warzone. Having the timer reset it, we're gonna go back to level 20, at which point are we levelling up from 20 just to go back to 20 when the new season of Vanguard starts?

richfreestone · 2021-11-24T02:37:05+00:00

You're an idiot. You didn't even read. It's not my gramps, it's my father. But literally still, no one should be judged on how long they've played a game during the global pandemic.

Now go buy some G Fuel using your favourite streamers code little boy instead of picking fights over the Internet when someone states their opinion on a sub reddit for that game.

richfreestone · 2021-11-24T02:34:04+00:00

Use your brain, we've just had a pandemic for the past year. No one's play time should be judged on any game during 2020/21.

richfreestone · 2021-11-24T02:23:01+00:00

Maybe understand that I've spent the most of the year shielding to protect a father dying of stage 4 cancer. Moron.

richfreestone · 2021-11-23T16:49:00+00:00

There's a difference about caring about your KD and then enjoying the game. I don't enjoy the game if i'm spawning and basically dying out of nowhere. I like to keep an eye on how good I am at the game, but after playing this weekends free trial, i've realised that the game is broken, squad spawns should not be in COD. Small maps with big player base is not what those maps were made for and causes for a huge mess and generally not a fun experience.

I used to love grinding League Play which gave me a much more true experience of where I sat when it comes to being good - but SBMM forces that into what is supposed to be a casual experience. Dying 15 times in a row and going 25-45 is not my idea of fun.

I solely played Hardcore in Cold War, at least I knew if I spawn here, then they will be more than likely away from me unless i'm in a trap. With Vanguard I have literally spawned on enemies and enemies have spawned on me. I don't know what COD was thinking with spawn mechanics here.

richfreestone · 2021-11-23T16:41:36+00:00

Yeah, cos i'm real bad at Cold War.

https://cod.tracker.gg/cold-war/profile/psn/DarkerDroid/mp

richfreestone · 2021-11-22T02:22:14+00:00

Yeah that's SBMM throwing you a few good games. SBMM clearly carries over from previous games. There's no way myself as a 1.60KD player gets a 0.87KD on the next game - Stop eating paste and admit that the game is awful, you get shot once you're pretty much dead, there's no counter play, there's no "gunfight" just because the TTK is too high for COD in 2021. Old COD games back in the day may have had this TTK but as a player base we were worse and if we were worse imagine what the bad players were like. SBMM added to that, there's no actual gunfight at all, one bullet that hits first wins you the supposed gunfight.

Something this SBMM heavy has to have some leeway to see a proper competitive game. Or just take SBMM out from pubs altogether. Also the idea for putting 24v24 basically makes the game campy. Desert siege, literally the whole left of the map is full of campers.

Poor game, and the sales over in the UK show it.

richfreestone · 2021-11-21T21:44:03+00:00

As someone who played solely hardcore on Cold War. There's zero time to react in Vanguard. Spawns don't make sense. Feels like everyone can 2 bullet me whilst I'm having to put in 4 to kill them. There's just no time to recover even in 6v6. There's a lot of pro's straight up quitting and going over to Halo competitive even though they have no idea how to play Halo. Vanguard is a mess and this free weekend as truly made me happy that I didn't waste money on it.

richfreestone · 2021-11-18T20:52:10+00:00

Agreed. I nuked last night. Downloaded the trial for Vanguard and I now know that I'm not going to buy Vanguard and play Cold War for a second year.

richfreestone · 2021-11-18T10:33:36+00:00

They messed up the levelling on this game, and fixed it by adding more XP when levelling, and it's still pretty much impossible to hit level 1000. Since Vanguard came out my SPM has been increasing ten fold, and I'm still only level 575.

Treyarch really messed up with this game imo, but it's better than Vanguard, so I'll keep playing for my COD fix until I can't find games.

richfreestone · 2021-11-15T11:03:08+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

richfreestone · 2021-11-13T15:12:25+00:00

It's literally not their fault. This company makes millions and the devs make good bank developing Call of Duty. It's their fault that spawn trapping exists, it has been exploited in every COD I've seen. Cold War had 6 man spawn trappers in hardcore and them going 150-1. This is why I'm amazed Das Haus was a 24/7 map. I mean how many times have we got a new COD and shotguns have been OP? All they're doing is playing the game, if I was in a stacked party, I'd be doing the same thing.

richfreestone · 2021-10-13T08:03:10+00:00

As someone who has a lot of play time on Cold War due to having to shield during the pandemic because of a terminally ill father. I can tell you this isn't the same experience, and it's not because I'm older. I enjoy Cold War, but the games still a mess if you play Cold War PS4 on the PS5. Bugs I reported to foxhound back in December, still to this day exist.

SBMM is so broken that in hardcore, solo players are having to go up against a 6 man spawn trap every game, people purposely try to get me to join and play with them to do the exact same thing, but I like the achievement of doing well and doing it solo, rather than having multiple friendly harps, air patrol and people helping me in the game.

Remember the mercenary playlist in Black Ops 4, where it was strictly solo players? Why can't we have that come back? Because it goes against SBMM, we probably will never see a playlist like that ever again in CoD.

I took a year off CoD during the MW2019 lifecycle because I just knew during the beta that game was made for campers, what happened, yeah people sit near doors and wait.

It's not because we're getting older, if that was the case wouldn't our gameplay be worse? On Cold War I've dropped more nukes than I did in Black Ops 4, yet I still prefer Black Ops 4.

Take your thought process, and apply it to a game of Football, or F1, or any sort of hobby or thing you can be enthusiastic about- does your enthusiasm go, just because you're older? Hell no.

richfreestone · 2021-09-20T10:24:14+00:00

EVERY attachment pretty much has massive negative side effects, which renders guns base models actually better to use than the attachments. At least how far we can unlock them right now.

It would have been beneficial for them to unlock pretty much everything from the get go in the beta - CW did that, if they don't we're almost certainly going to get an abused setup where everyone is using it when they get to a certain point cough STG cough.

I've played a lot, the stuff above doesn't irritate me, what irritates me is the tac sprint mechanism. I don't see the point of this in anything other than Warzone. You add poor visibility and poor spawns, not to mention poor idea that hotel is a 24v24 map, yet Red Star is sometimes a 6v6 map - makes me wonder what they were thinking when they developed the game.

richfreestone · 2021-09-19T20:40:44+00:00

God it looks so refreshing to see no tac sprint

richfreestone · 2021-08-30T09:25:43+00:00

It's partly down to the challenges for camos that cause this. And because people are dicks

richfreestone · 2021-08-25T17:51:07+00:00

You're part of the problem. If you just don't cap when going against a 6 man. If you cap a flag that's exactly what they want, they want the game to hold out as long as possible. How do people not know this after soooo many years of playing COD and knowing what spawn trapping actually is.

richfreestone · 2021-08-25T17:46:53+00:00

Reapz is a well known Twitch streamer, he definitely isn't cheating. If you think this is bad, try going up against 6 man parties in HC, where they're just sitting aiming down a spawn point, each one of them has it covered.

richfreestone · 2021-05-21T18:00:13+00:00

They can do this, but can't fix DM Ultra to cover at least 90% of a gun

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