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Black Ops 3 (BO3) Tips and Comments

Postby UK_Wildcats » Tue Aug 25, 2015 7:17 pm

For all the Xbox and PC gamers, here are my comments and tips for BO3.

Weapons:
ARK-7: This ended up being a good gun for me once I ranked it up. I typically ran this with extended mag, rapid fire and suppressor. It will do well in medium distances. You may have to feather the trigger for longer distances.
SMGs: Most people like the Razorback. In close quarters I found that I was often being killed by the Kuda with suppressor. Vesper is very fast firing but has LOTS of recoil.
MSA7: I really liked this weapon for medium to long ranges. It is almost a laser. For some reason (coding?), I struggled to get kills at short distances with this. I liked running reflex, rapid fire and extended mags with it. I tried it with a suppressor with mixed results.
Shevia: Great gun if you have great aim. I recommend high caliber for one shot kills to the head. It is great with rapid fire.
LMGs: Most of my friends preferred the BMR, but the dingo was also good.
Pistols: The pistols are very good in close.

Attachments: The stock is not as great as other games and only provides slight mobility improvements. You can finally stack ANY attachments such as high caliper, FMJ, long barrel and suppressor. There are no restrictions on what can be put together. The thermal has a better field of view compared to other games.

Lethals & Tacticals - All thrown items do NOT travel very far. You have to really aim up high to get it go a short distance.

Lethals - The frag is pretty good because of the short distance thrown and it can role. The damage and damage radius is very good. The thermite grenade seems like a great item, but did not work as well in game.

Tacticals: The concussion grenades will make you come to an almost complete stop. It is like VERY SLOW motion if you get hit by one. It also seems to last a very long time.

A big controversy will be the Blackhat. There are various youtube videos on how to use it. Blackhat is a tactical item (like concussion, flash, etc.). You can have up to two blackhats per class. It only takes one blackhat to hack a UAV, Counter UAV and turn it into your UAV or Counter UAV. For higher score streaks, it takes two (or more?) to hack them. Therefore, you can turn a Wraith or Mothership into your own. This personally happened multiple times to my party. For this reason, I started caring the Blackcell launcher. If it gets hacked, I just shoot them down. The controversy is that any player can easily hack a scorestreak that took a skilled player to achieve. I like the concept of blackhats to counter getting massacred by streaks, but it should be harder to do. In example, two blackhats for UAV/Counter UAVs and 3 or more black hats for higher streaks.

Funny Blackhat Parody Commercial


Perks: Ghost once you can unlock it. If you get care packages, you will need Engineer to roll the care package to something else. Sixth Sense is good, but it will only alert you when an enemy is VERY CLOSE.

Mini Map: The enemies are actually closer than they seem on the mini map.

Specialties: Because Ghost will not be unlocked until later in the beta time frame (i.e. 2nd or 3rd day), I highly recommend the Blackcell launcher to shoot down the UAVs, Counter UAVs, etc. You get points for them too. I always do this for my time. Playing Domination, I once shot down over 50 UAVs, counters, etc. in one game (over 3500 points).

Scorestreaks: RASPs are awesome. Mothership is good but there are other streaks at lower levels more worthy. HATR is awesome. Talon is very fun when manually controlled (unlimited amo and continuous fire). Hellstorm once you learn to use it effectively is really good too. War Machine (aka MDL) is great for clearing out areas (dom flag or hardpoint). Unlike AW, the Active Camo (aka invisibility) is actually very good. The ripper has limited applications. Tempest is great when players are clustered together or protecting a tight pathway. Rolling Thunder is only useful for a very small space on the map. It is not like the old bombing runs.

Specialists: Find the one that you like. Mini Gun is very fun. I liked Vision Pulse for capping flags and knowing where they are. Psychosis is a lot of fun to distract. We had our entire time run it for one game. On the 2nd round, we all launched it on the B flag and there were 24 players and bots showing on the map. It was too funny. If you snipe or play from a distance, rejack is good. Watch for the green cloud when you kill someone. War Machine (aka MDL) is great for clearing out areas (dom flag or hardpoint). Unlike AW, the Active Camo (aka invisibility) is actually very good. The ripper has limited applications. Tempest is great when players are clustered together or protecting a tight pathway.

Game Settings: There was sensitivity for X & Y individually. There are various button layouts and separate option for flipped (i.e. switch R1/R2 and L1/L2). After doing horribly for two days, I noticed that the Target Assist somehow got disabled. I don't know if the settings changed by accident from the various people (son, nephew, friends) playing on my PS4 and account or whether is got changed during one of the many crashes. I recommend that you periodically check (especially after crash) that Target Assist is enabled.

Game Performance: There was several games with very considerable lag, more with parties. You can see who is partied together (awesome). It takes longer for parties to find games. The game often crashes. If you crash or have problems with parties, we found it best to close BO3 beta and restart it. If you don't people will have problems joining into the game. Game invites do not seem to work well (or at all); however, you can join people. The friends list always seems to be wrong. At one point the Beta showed 10 friends playing BO3. If you actually checked the friends, only 2 per playing. I did not really notice too much difference playing with or without geo filter and ping assist. I typically have to turn it off when in a party. It seems that only players with great/fast internet connections are able to host large parties. If you have problems with a party, change party leader to a player with better connection.

Wall Running: It will take you time getting used to this. I fell of several maps. There are tons of places that you would not think that you can wall run. Drift0r has several youtube videos for each map on wall running. Almost every time that I got into a gun battle (both on wall), we both died.

Thrust Jumping: I found it better to rapidly tap the jump button. Don't hold it.

Here is how the beta ran for PS4. The levels take forever to level up. This is on purpose for the beta, so people aren't max level within an hour. On the first day, the max level was 28. Ghost is level 38? The max level increased each day; therefore, you were able to unlock more items each day. Ghost works while moving or using scorestreak. It does not work if you are standing still. I grinded through the levels for the entire beta period and barely reached level 49 before they shut it down.
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Re: Black Ops 3 (BO3) Tips and Comments

Postby J2Kbr » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:43 pm

nice work and tips ... :joia: :joia: I haven't checked all the other forums yet, so apologize if I'm refering to something you already discussed in other thread ... I know you were working in a script for BO3 ... I wonder how that goes and if you would allow convert it into a gamepack ... :innocent_smile_1:
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Re: Black Ops 3 (BO3) Tips and Comments

Postby bonefisher » Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:36 am

I see that you took quick reload out of your script for BO3 which the sprint reload is done but the YY method is back. Hopefully J2Kbr releases new firmware to support the elite controller soon. He says we should be able to add things on the paddles without any button remapped to it and I like to see if you can add a few things to your pack like a G-slide, a quick reload YY method that also use for reload cancel to the paddles for xbox one? Appreciate if you could, many Thanks!
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Re: Black Ops 3 (BO3) Tips and Comments

Postby J2Kbr » Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:42 am

Yes, the pads can be accessed as individual buttons with the next Gtuner/Firmware update. The potential of this new feature is huge! :joia: :joia: here is the Device Monitor updated:
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Re: Black Ops 3 (BO3) Tips and Comments

Postby bonefisher » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:18 pm

:smile0203: This is what I wanted to here! :smile0202:
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