Month: January 2016

Black Ops 3, Call Of Duty, Video Games

Black Ops 3 – Stuff to avoid

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Decided to make a list of items people should be avoiding avoid using because they are not worth spending a point on.

Rapid fire on anything apart from burst weapons.

Rapid fire gives you 6% increase in rate of fire with biggest increases coming from guns with higher rates of fire already.  Vesper gets 100 rpm increase compared to Kuda which gets 43.2.  Same story with every other weapon apart from snipers rapid fire does not increase the rate of fire on sniper rifles which have to re chamber a bullet which means locus, SVG don’t get any benefit.   Burst weapons used to see burst delay reduction however…not sure what Treyarch has done.  According to the weapon stats burst delay has been reduced or removed. Example M8A7 without rapid fire 150ms with 80ms, now something like 130ms.  Not sure what Treyarch has done but don’t believe it impacts like before or may not reduce delay at all.

Sure if you did some mathematics find it helpful for small tiny window on some weapons.

Long barrel on most things apart from two shotguns.

Currently -20% damage plus 13% extra range which means only makes sense on the Haymaker/Brecci.  Given how these weapons can’t one hit kill gain bit extra range for some damage which sort of useful.  Would say Haymaker is better shotgun to use it on however….both are good choices 2m extra rather useful.  Argus and KRM pointless to run it.  Long barrel on SMGs increases your minimum damage range, sort of obvious why pointless on SMGs given recoil/damage they do over distance.  Razerback, pharo could make a case for long barrel but other better options.  Assault rifles get the benefit of 50% extra range on every range.

3 hit kill 25m becomes 50m

4 hit kill 50m becomes 100m

5 hit kill 100m becomes 200m

Yes you get extra range but given how most of the maps are small bit pointless 50% more range across the board is good.  Certain weapons which increasing range profile not bad choice like burst weapons.  Given the damage ranges on most rifles still pointless to use in my eyes.

Suppressor 🙁

Follow weapons are good with suppressor

Snipers, KN44, Vesper and subjective ones HVK, Weevil, VMP.  Given the range values plus recoil makes HVK, Weevil,VMP not bad to use a suppressor with. Haymaker is okay with a suppressor but still suffers hard from it.  Whatever you do don’t put suppressor on an LMG 90% of your range is gone or normally 2 hit kill becomes 3, 3 becomes 4 etc.

Other items

Grip just 7% centre speed buff which not worth using.

Black hat is rubbish don’t use that.

FMJ not enough spots which make use of FMJ 🙁

Thermal without smoke pointless to use due to lacking any sort of aim assist.

Journal

PC gaming

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One my desires for 2016 is get back into PC gaming however does have couple of challenges. Challenge one location of the rig would have build something for the rig to sit on or build tiny machine. Challenge two keyboard and mouse no flat surface.  Challenge three how do I watch TV.

Would seek to play certain single player games which offer better experience and other genres.

Just case of working out how to over come these challenges which some people fail to understand. Have rough idea how to over come these challenges just need to find the right hardware.  Unlikely to be jumping to PC gaming any time soon due to the platform which has it own problems like console.

Another challenge which need to work to overcome

Journal

Just thoughts

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Hello welcome to my daily blog post, after writing this most likely expand on the points made next week in longer posts. However very lazy often get writers block so don’t expect anything.  Decided to create list of items on my mind with short entrance into the subject.

Sleep pattern –  Gotten into very bad sleep pattern, habit which need to break out of and impacting what I can do daily.  Worth saying that always had bad ish sleep pattern at times during my life this one of the worse ones.

Pensions – Reading up on the subject of pensions found that they nothing how I was thinking they work.  Instead pensions are insurance/lottery system.

Politics – Start of new year and new set of CLP meetings should be fun

EU referendum – Why are we having it?

EU reform – No real reform with EURO zone looking more unstable

EU refugee – Why no reform to fix the problem and action?

Death Note, TV

Death note

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Death note

Recently started to watch death note even binge watching and rewatching the series. Yet to finish the whole series but has got me hooked even watching me to rewatch it.  Safe to say that death note is rather good mainly it avoids may flaws other anime series have.  Show covers various topics often avoided and even digs deep into them.  Death note was a manga comic book series which is what the anime is based off, plus avoid standard tropes at times.

Never been big anime watcher but worth watching.   Not sure what else to say about the series….even the female characters are respected in some cases stronger.  Effort taken to bring some serious subject matter to the screen is obvious can see the original writers helping.  Death being the most common theme which series is based on.

Characters are interesting and likeable even start to dislike the main character.  Short breakdown of the plot notebook from demon world gets into the hands of student who starts to kill criminals and hunted down by the police.

Interesting interaction between the characters even get hints of Japanese culture.  Original manga started off 10 years ago with story being that good it holds up until today.  Brings up some questions about human nature society as a whole.

Journal, Politics

Unchristian David Cameron values

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David Cameron used his Christmas speech this year asking people ‘reflect on Christian values’

Two points to made here the message is vague hard to take any real offence and why people like him.  David Cameron avoids conflict anything which can cause offence tries to avoid instead putting out messages which suit the moment.  We don’t know what Cameron stands for because he avoids telling us instead telling us what we want to hear.   Obvious that his speech was talking to people who completely unaware who he is.  Average person in Britain finds it hard to name current government or any names from the front bench.  Therefore Cameron success can be found within the message and his main weakness.  Osborne and Cameron very similar to each other both think ahead try to avoid conflicts which end up hurting them.  Both lack any sort of moral backbone or connection to the real world.

Even the liberal democrats understand moral condemnation is required to some choices.

Cameron words are hollow empty when you look at his actions which very much go against the values he so called protect.   Don’t think he even understands what his message means not only person to be thinking this.  Common theme his speech are often vague giving very little away letting you take away what you want from it.  Over at the independent voices section you can find the following piece.. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/david-camerons-britain-is-profoundly-un-christian-a6785596.html

Now only if you could take his skills add some moral fibre who knows could have a force to beat him.  However…the real threat is ahead comes from next leader who could be Boris or Osborne. Money is on Boris very much like David Cameron but liked more.

Reality is David Cameron makes me ashamed with current direction we’re moving.

 

 

Black Ops 3, Call Of Duty

Black Op 3 – Slow down

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Decided to try earn dark matter camo so far I have shotguns completed, launchers and knife. Assault rifles only the M8A7 remains now moved on to pistols/snipers.  Experience so far highlighted couple gameplay mechanics which add to inconsistency.  Game is fun but movement system adds extra layer of randomness to the game.

Weapon balance couple obvious items which suffer from the movement system semi auto weapons, burst weapons.  Sheiva is slow rate of fire 2 hit kill weapon requires you to know location of your target.  Map design helps the Sheiva but requires you to play very passive.  Obvious locations to hold up are not your friend maps are complex chess boards with hidden lines of sight.

Sheiva – Sub standard?

Obvious that Treyarch wanted semi auto rifle within black ops 3 had learn lessons from black ops 2. Design point of view clear version of what rifle should do and should not do.   Treyarch wanted precise weapon which required high accuracy, high damage with decent range.  Rate of fire as result lower compared to FAL or SMR of black ops 2 but given higher damage and range.  Sheiva suffers from poor handling, slow rate of fire movement system hurts the sheiva every missed shot screws you over.  Throw in flinch get niche weapon with limited use. Not even factoring map design most fights happen at quite small distances.  Would say average around 15m to 30m, something which hurts the Shevia.  Map design however does favour the shevia in less obvious ways.  Getting the feeling I was using the Sheiva wrong should been way more passive.   Concept works on paper but reality not so much.  Worse still has terrible iron sights due to the fore sight blocking your view.

However…..do think the concept could work just I was using it wrong.  Starting to think the ICR-1, XR-2 also gets lumps into groups guns I used wrong in quest to get gold.  Starting to play the game more slowly man of war had better results with likely I be coming back to these weapons at some point.  Shotguns very unlikely unless I just camp inside a building all game.

Looking forward to learning how to play with SMGs/LMGs/Snipers and pistols guessing need to play passive like ARs.

 

Journal

January weekly goals

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Simple idea start with some small weekly goals.

Start learning for my driving theory test

Blog post for every day this week

Fix sleeping pattern

Get into a routine again

Improve a webpage or create one

Very short blog post should have something longer for tomorrow that been on my mind 🙂

Enjoying my weekend just relaxing.

Journal

2016 – New year thoughts

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2016 – New year thoughts

2016 is here time for some thoughts about the year going forward.  Plan for this website create some pages show off my terrible HTML/CSS skills plus more blogs. Have bootstrap page which still not sure what final design going to be like need to finish that off. Decided want to write blog post a day for January just talking about things.  New year resolution have none this year just want to change some bad habits and getting off to good start.

Time to spend hours grinding out my driving theory 🙂

Video game wise enjoying Call of duty Black ops 3 and planetside 2, need to finish god of war 3, last of us download content.

Black ops 3

Decided to grind out dark matter camo for an average player takes some time.  Overall enjoying this game even if my team mates are terrible.  Noticed that game is way way way more inconstancy due to extra movement making it hard for better players to shine.  Given the current design don’t think movement system works with CoD.  Design reason maps/gun damage/accuracy.

Linear attachment system plus flinch two things I dislike.

Politics – Local elections

Going to be taking part in this need to get back in tune with local labour politics.