Be Excellent To Each Other

Well, the B-team was playing...

Fun times. I think I've sorted the mike issue, as I'd got a setting on mad I probably shouldn't

Yeah, it's weird - we could hear you pretty well, but there was regular mad bouts of popping

I'm not wholly sure it wasn't simply you lot being broken in the heads.

It sounded like a bad connection, where it disconnects, reconnects, and makes a loud pop as it does so. Is the wire broken somewhere? It might be popping as you move about.

I did the voice test thing - I think it may have been as I had the "gain" equivalent set to max. I've turned it down so hopefully that should solve the issue. I'm sure you lot will let me know.

Last night's lowlight: being shouted at for not engaging a large zed with 40 health and empty deagles by an annoying Welsh hobbit.

Never step up to the plate with empty deagles.

To my mind if we're in a scenario like we were yesterday where we can't comfortably take out the big zeds because of numbers, everyone should be engaging them once they're raged. You ideally want their attention to be focussed away from the person that's actually going to kill them

I regret nothing. Pundy should regret having empty deagles.

Maybe there's a comms issue? If someone has capacity to take a big zed out, they should call it. If no-one calls it, the whole team needs to focus fire on it, and in particular try and peel it off anyone that it corners. The top floor of the barn isn't ideal for this sort of thing, though, because there's not much room; if a mostly-full-health big zed gets up with us it's going to hurt every time. We sorely missed our 'zerkwall last night I think.

Nobody did though, is sort of my point. I was on M79, which means I'm gonna kill the dude, but it's going to require a dynamite then 6+ on-target shots to take him down. Which is viable, but he needs ideally to be distracted at the time.

Oh, which I guess is what you were saying.

Also, less relevant against Scrakes but very relevant against FPs is that once he's under the demo's minimum arming distance, the demo's doing comparatively fuck all damage.

Yeah, if APoD was around he could have held the big zed at your arming range for long enough for you to bring the hurt.

Precisely

Beserker? More like deserter.

I don't think that the barn works as a holdout spot unless you've got a Berserker and Medic. I think it's generally better to mill about outside if you don't.

Gunslinger truth bombs: Gunslingers need space to operate, a clean solo scrake decap takedown is possible if the GS has a nice straight shot and enough room to back up to keep piling in those headshots. If the scrake gets in the GS face he's just as knackered as any other class. Note the "nice straight shot". Reasonably flat ground helps loads.And they pretty much have to be facing you to have any chance.

Fleshpounds are harder, they're resistant to bullets, and you've got to get them before they charge.

You spend half the round reloading. Every time Gaywood stunned a big zed last night I had to reload before I could shoot the bad guy.

Oh yeah, for such a headshot class, aiming is a bit of a nightmare.

Outside, srsly? We didn't do *that* badly in the barn. Outside is a nightmare, they come from everywhere.

I wonder if the bottom floor of the barn is any good. At least you can kite big 'uns around the truck.

Hmm, good to know, thanks. I guess the upper floor doesn't really have room to backpedal? Re: facing you, this is one example (amongst many) where other people damaging the big zed is actively getting in the way because they can pull the big zed off you and make it move away. It's easier to hit them if they are bearing down on you, as long as you can keep your cool. I've noticed this with Support, too.

FPs should be for demos, ideally, because of their vulns. That's on me, I was the demo and I'm not good enough at it.


Maybe much closer co-operation is needed. "I'm going to stun now" "no, wait, I'm reloading... ok go" *boom*

Yes, outside. Every time I've played with Randos on Farmhouse we end up taking them on outside. It works pretty well.

Me and Zardoz had our own game! With blackjacks and a hooker. Don't ask me about the rugby player, Z brought him.

Highlight was me going through half a wave of Zeds as a last man standing, almost out of ammo, one left. I joked to Z that it was probably a scrake... Seconds later I heard the monkey sounds... I died.

Cheers again for the tips, Pundy. Good game last night.

Really enjoyed playing Beserker in the last match, he's nails once you get your hands on the Bone Crusher

Yeah, you were robbed when we played the Outpost map.

Pundy you were showing as offline again when I looked

When I came on I thought it was a little odd why Pundy was playing with randoms but Nase's's's Party had 8 in it playing KF2.


I still love you, Pundy x

I invited Pundy at least twice, but I think PSN was all janked up last night. Sorry Pundy!

Funny how it worked for us in the North though, eh, Pundy?

We played longer and harder.

After some fancy book* learning I just did about the Beserker, it seems I missed a big trick by not shield bashing. I'll be doing that next time rather than just legging in towards nearest Zed (any) then L2 R2 mashing.

*information super highway

I recall excited yelping from APoD when he first started doing this in earnest.

Trying to find the PS4 controls for doing such a thing... HLP PLZ

We never had 8, to my knowledge. 7 for a bit, but then down to five fairly soon.

Click left or right stick, one of them

Yeah could have been 7/8 that I saw. Then I ran to Pundys open arms.

Stick clicks! Ta Nick x

While we're at it, how do you use knives? I always rely on the right stick shrug off

Hold triangle, then down, then let go of triangle.

Then die.

Really? That's shit!

I just spam right stick

Really need to get some other perks levelled up. Think I reached level 14 with the Support last night so I'll get it to 15 then hammer something else. Anything in particular that we're short of?

Medic is always useful. As is Berserker.

Commando is fun (it's for clearing out trash zeds, and you can see Stalkers, and can see zeds' health bars). Gunslinger is too.(Hole plugging headshot machine, pretty good against anything).

I don't get on with Sharpshooter, but you might.

SWAT is fun, but less necessary (Even better at clearing trash than Commando, but eats ammo. Useful stun grenades. Can be pretty tanky).

Firebug is crowd control, and is very annoying to everyone else.

Survivalist isn't very good.

/bows

I've got up to level 7 with Berserker, so it'd be a good idea to bump that up some more.

Think I'll go for Commando after that as I had a little do last night in the solo game.

I'm not one for accuracy, half the time I can't see what the fuck is going on so SS and GS don't really appeal to me.

Last night I almost learned how to drop accidentally picked up weapons!

Whoo-hoo!

Headshots are good for most classes. The mechanics are slightly weird, though. Usually, headshots apply a damage multiplier. In this game all the zeds (apart from bosses) have a separate, far smaller, health pool for the head. It's why you can decapitate a bloat and its body has tonnes of health left (why you shouldn't pump rounds into a decapitated bloat, it's a waste of ammo).

More people should have demo as a second class, for the boss wave.

Good point.

Wait. You can change Perk within the game?

Yup. Takes effect at the end of the round. You don't get new perk starting weapon though, so make sure you've got cash first

Yes. It only works inbetween waves, and your 'nades automatically change over, but you have the same weapons as before.

This is so irritatingly awkward on PS4. For the record: hold Triangle to pull up the inventory. Tap the d-pad to select the weapon you want to drop, but keep holding Triangle so you don't leave the inventory. Tap R1. It's very hard to do under time pressure. I'd suggest not even trying to toss the gun to a specific person, because that just makes it harder when everyone is milling around between waves; instead, throw it out of the way near the pod and let them grab it from the floor.


One bit of extra info that makes this make sense: once a zed has been decapitated, it starts bleeding out, and the "body" health pool declines. That's why they keep going with no heads for a bit, but if you ignore them they'll drop in a few seconds. In general it's a waste of ammo to shoot them in this state.





Which might mean (unless we're doing very well for cash) that we can't support everyone switching class at the boss wave and immediately dropping 2k+ on new Tier 4 weapons plus ammo etc. But I wonder if we'd have a better success rate at boss waves with something along the lines of:-

1x medic
1x support concentrating on trash & giving ammo
1x 'zerker pinning the boss down
and multiples of RPG/C4 demo or railgun sharpshooters to bring the hurt