COD etc, am I going to struggle as a casual gamer?
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I've got a One S, about 5 hours a week free time to play Xbox excluding weekends. Used to play them back in the PS3 days many years ago, but I'm not as quick any more. Is there any point or am I better off sticking to single player? Which leads me to another question, do any of them have decent single player?
Lemming Train said:
Depends how old you are for your reaction time. Unless you're 14 years old, get used to getting 1-shotted by 14 year olds doing 720 no-scopes from the other end of the map before you've even seen them 
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If you're over 40, just admit defeat already and load Minecraft.
33 going on 50 .If you're over 40, just admit defeat already and load Minecraft.
It's taken me 3 weeks to place in the points in F1 2020!!
Its not a reaction time thing, not entirely, you are competing with people who dont do much else, some of whom may be older but have been playing for years.
I used to play Unreal Tournament until all hours and did ok, but some people were just machines, or cheating.
I cant be arsed with a lot of online racing and stuff as got annoyed with Teenagers in Hypercars playing bumper cars, it was all about placing first, nothing else seemed to matter, no realism or sportsmanship.
I used to play Unreal Tournament until all hours and did ok, but some people were just machines, or cheating.
I cant be arsed with a lot of online racing and stuff as got annoyed with Teenagers in Hypercars playing bumper cars, it was all about placing first, nothing else seemed to matter, no realism or sportsmanship.
Dunno about COD but for BF4, I started getting good by putting in more hours. However, if you don't mind getting killed more times than you kill, you can have a lot of fun being more strategic about things. Most people will rush in and get killed but you can still rack up the kills by using your head and not just rushing in (unless it makes sense to do so - eg you chuck a grenade through a door and get 5 kills, you could then rush in and kill anyone still standing who won't be on full health). Also try strafing rather than rotating.
At the start of lockdown, I was doing 2-3 hours a day and went from a KDR of 0.5 to around 2.0.
Oh, I'm 48 going on 15.
At the start of lockdown, I was doing 2-3 hours a day and went from a KDR of 0.5 to around 2.0.
Oh, I'm 48 going on 15.
With any new game which were fps on PlayStation, my approach is usually create another account to use as practice never use your main as starting out as you'll have a poor kdr when starting off and it takes ages of being good to bring it back up.
If you don't care for that stuff and just want to play casual continue on your main.
Learning the maps is the most important one as a new player, study the in game map or online and once you know them you'll know all the different routes around them and hiding spots etc, then if you get shot at one spot go round another way and keep changing it up and try to be as unpredictable as you can be.
I can't believe the amount of newbs that you kill and once respawned will come the exact same way to get revenge only to get killed again.
Learn the weapons and their range, if you're a gung ho type player you want something that has a good close to medium range, if you like to hide and shoot then something more long range, try and stick to a couple of guns only and once your good with them move to something else if you want.
Your aim should have improved automatically to allow you to be good enough to use anything after.
Start off cautiously, it's always a draw to run and get right into the thick of it when you have a new game and think your Rambo but the reality is your going to get killed over and over and over so much you may just give up on it.
Take your time, move slowly and use cover as much as you can and try and aim for the head.
Try and flank as much as you can, you'd be surprised the amount of people just waiting in one spot trying to get the first shot off looking straight ahead.
Just because you play casually doesn't mean you can't be a good player, if your aim and approach is good you'll be pretty decent in any fps.
If you don't care for that stuff and just want to play casual continue on your main.
Learning the maps is the most important one as a new player, study the in game map or online and once you know them you'll know all the different routes around them and hiding spots etc, then if you get shot at one spot go round another way and keep changing it up and try to be as unpredictable as you can be.
I can't believe the amount of newbs that you kill and once respawned will come the exact same way to get revenge only to get killed again.
Learn the weapons and their range, if you're a gung ho type player you want something that has a good close to medium range, if you like to hide and shoot then something more long range, try and stick to a couple of guns only and once your good with them move to something else if you want.
Your aim should have improved automatically to allow you to be good enough to use anything after.
Start off cautiously, it's always a draw to run and get right into the thick of it when you have a new game and think your Rambo but the reality is your going to get killed over and over and over so much you may just give up on it.
Take your time, move slowly and use cover as much as you can and try and aim for the head.
Try and flank as much as you can, you'd be surprised the amount of people just waiting in one spot trying to get the first shot off looking straight ahead.
Just because you play casually doesn't mean you can't be a good player, if your aim and approach is good you'll be pretty decent in any fps.
I'm in my 40s, and I've got a little group of mates who I play COD with.
We've won a few, and lost MANY.
I go on with the attitude that I'm not 14 anymore and it's a release from the trials of the workday. We have a good chat, bit of a laugh, and a few beers each night.
It's great fun.
IE I don't give a t055 what the kiddies think - I don't engage with other teams or co-ops. At the "worst", I'll play solo - best I've got so far is a 2nd.
It's fun, and as long as YOU enjoy it, who cares what anybody else thinks?
Dan
We've won a few, and lost MANY.
I go on with the attitude that I'm not 14 anymore and it's a release from the trials of the workday. We have a good chat, bit of a laugh, and a few beers each night.
It's great fun.
IE I don't give a t055 what the kiddies think - I don't engage with other teams or co-ops. At the "worst", I'll play solo - best I've got so far is a 2nd.
It's fun, and as long as YOU enjoy it, who cares what anybody else thinks?
Dan
I'm 35 and tbh it's all about positioning and then time with the game to get movement of character and gun control.
Yes reaction times come into it but I'm never going to be as reactive as a 10 - 21 year old so you have to be calm and out play them.
Id suggest the battlefield games are more rewarding unless you like chaos or have mates who you can chat with whilst being out played in Warzone.
BF4 and BF1 are my fav games from that franchise.
The game I stay away from is Fortnite. That just gets embarrassing cause that brings game control, positioning and reaction speed into sharp focus and I feel more like my dad working out the new Sky TV interface.....
Yes reaction times come into it but I'm never going to be as reactive as a 10 - 21 year old so you have to be calm and out play them.
Id suggest the battlefield games are more rewarding unless you like chaos or have mates who you can chat with whilst being out played in Warzone.
BF4 and BF1 are my fav games from that franchise.
The game I stay away from is Fortnite. That just gets embarrassing cause that brings game control, positioning and reaction speed into sharp focus and I feel more like my dad working out the new Sky TV interface.....
Download Modern Warfare warzone. It's free to play online. You can play cross play, eg with PC, PS4 and XBOX.
It's better playing with others on your team. Solo involves alot of people camping in the corner of a room then taking you out when you've run past. So I often play duo's or trios on my own if no one else is on, usually they are on sometime after 7pm, till 1 or 2 am.
I've only been playing it for a few months. It takes a while to get used to how things work and where you can go, where is busy etc etc... however it can be good fun.
Some of the extra modes are pretty good, Jugganaughts quads at the moment are a nice change to standard play. The new season (5) starts Wednesday.
It's better playing with others on your team. Solo involves alot of people camping in the corner of a room then taking you out when you've run past. So I often play duo's or trios on my own if no one else is on, usually they are on sometime after 7pm, till 1 or 2 am.
I've only been playing it for a few months. It takes a while to get used to how things work and where you can go, where is busy etc etc... however it can be good fun.
Some of the extra modes are pretty good, Jugganaughts quads at the moment are a nice change to standard play. The new season (5) starts Wednesday.
I have been playing FPS shooters since the days of Doom and played all of the Call of Duty games from the first game until Modern Warfare 3. I also used to play Medal of Honor multiplayer back in the day and used to consider myself pretty good, at my absolute worst I would have an equal number of deaths to kills.
I recently replayed the three Modern Warfare games and thought I would have a go at playing Modern Warfare 3 online.
At the age of 46 I got killed a lot to the point where it was so frustrating I couldn't play anymore. In the team games I would often go the whole game without a single kill and my absolute best performance was 2 kills to being killed 22 times. Even those two kills I got by hiding on a rooftop and shooting people who happened to run into view.
Everybody else seemed to be on a similar level and I was always the worst player by a country mile.
I recently replayed the three Modern Warfare games and thought I would have a go at playing Modern Warfare 3 online.
At the age of 46 I got killed a lot to the point where it was so frustrating I couldn't play anymore. In the team games I would often go the whole game without a single kill and my absolute best performance was 2 kills to being killed 22 times. Even those two kills I got by hiding on a rooftop and shooting people who happened to run into view.
Everybody else seemed to be on a similar level and I was always the worst player by a country mile.
A huge amount of any FPS is knowing your map, knowing how the game type relates to that map and then knowing the best place to put yourself to minimise dying, getting kills and PTFO = points.
COD has good PTFO game types, but aside from Grind (which I do very well on and no one seems to realise they have to Bank tags but I regularly get 10k points on) PTFO just isn't rewarded enough over kills like BF does.
Learning mapos takes time and it can be very frustrating, just like any game is if you get in late in the game (unless you play Shipment, in which case it's not rocket science). The best thing is to wait for the next iteration where everyone is new and then play it till it's rinsed.
COD has good PTFO game types, but aside from Grind (which I do very well on and no one seems to realise they have to Bank tags but I regularly get 10k points on) PTFO just isn't rewarded enough over kills like BF does.
Learning mapos takes time and it can be very frustrating, just like any game is if you get in late in the game (unless you play Shipment, in which case it's not rocket science). The best thing is to wait for the next iteration where everyone is new and then play it till it's rinsed.
I used to play a bit with my mates and as I got busier with other things I started to get killed all the time. The problem is that people with more time to practise and learn the maps will dominate you. This is why kids who finish school mid afternoon every day are so good.
It got to the point where my mates would know I had been killed and was likely to spawn in place X, and they knew that if they threw a grenade in through a certain window it would likely get me, for example.
It got to the point where my mates would know I had been killed and was likely to spawn in place X, and they knew that if they threw a grenade in through a certain window it would likely get me, for example.
Sometimes there are games where I just leave and its the scenario where you're 1 on 1 with someone, you fly round a corner and on my screen I'll have put at least 3 or 4 rounds into my opponent and somehow they kill me with one round.
On the opponents killcam I see me come round the corner, not loose off a single round before my opponent seems to get several into me before I appear to start firing.
I don't know much about netcode but I do know my ping is low, like 19ms low. I have hardwired FTTP. I think the issue is when I play games with high or inconsistent pings and I just can't down people, and there are others where I just get 30/40 kills easy. The former I just leave if I start to see that crap.
On the opponents killcam I see me come round the corner, not loose off a single round before my opponent seems to get several into me before I appear to start firing.
I don't know much about netcode but I do know my ping is low, like 19ms low. I have hardwired FTTP. I think the issue is when I play games with high or inconsistent pings and I just can't down people, and there are others where I just get 30/40 kills easy. The former I just leave if I start to see that crap.
TimmyMallett said:
Sometimes there are games where I just leave and its the scenario where you're 1 on 1 with someone, you fly round a corner and on my screen I'll have put at least 3 or 4 rounds into my opponent and somehow they kill me with one round.
On the opponents killcam I see me come round the corner, not loose off a single round before my opponent seems to get several into me before I appear to start firing.
I don't know much about netcode but I do know my ping is low, like 19ms low. I have hardwired FTTP. I think the issue is when I play games with high or inconsistent pings and I just can't down people, and there are others where I just get 30/40 kills easy. The former I just leave if I start to see that crap.
Your hardwired FTTP won't do sOn the opponents killcam I see me come round the corner, not loose off a single round before my opponent seems to get several into me before I appear to start firing.
I don't know much about netcode but I do know my ping is low, like 19ms low. I have hardwired FTTP. I think the issue is when I play games with high or inconsistent pings and I just can't down people, and there are others where I just get 30/40 kills easy. The former I just leave if I start to see that crap.
t for you if the server is in Asia, Australia or the west coast of the USA. If you're playing in the morning or early hours then the likelihood of that is high.Lemming Train said:
Your hardwired FTTP won't do st for you if the server is in Asia, Australia or the west coast of the USA. If you're playing in the morning or early hours then the likelihood of that is high.
My matchmaking is set to as local as possible. COD MW will search for lowest latency server games first. It's always UK based or at the worst West Europe players.t for you if the server is in Asia, Australia or the west coast of the USA. If you're playing in the morning or early hours then the likelihood of that is high.Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff