Be Excellent To Each Other

I quite enjoyed gunslinger, sharpshooter less so. Seemed to spend all my time reloading the rifle.

yeah, don't really like sharpshooter. gunslinger is fun, especially once you have the magnums and unload in a skrake's face!

Yeah, I like the Deagles too. When you get enough cash so that the Deagles are your 'regular' weapons with the magnums as your 'fuck you Skrake' weapons, it's time to fuck shit up.

What an emotional rollercoaster of an evening.

Confusion! Noob menu bafflement

Excitement! I can weld a door!

Jealousy! (From Doc Sorry for stealing your patients. It took a while to suss out the Field Medic... quite good in the end but it went against all my gaming impulses.

Sadness! £2 to unlock cupboards?!

Extasy! Being given money for big shotguns.

Mohh, I thought you got the hang of it quite quickly. It is indeed a very different experience to playing a combat perk, although you can still get some killing done in between healing. There's a fair bit of strategy in when/where to use BOOOOOST (healing grenades). Also, I think the medic is best placed to be the shot caller: keeping an eye out for the squad getting fragmented or some people drifting too far away, as they're already watching everyone anyway.

Read up on Commando some more. Seems the LMG isn't very well-liked as it burns ammo a bit fast and doesn't do as much DPS as I thought (the other tier 5 weapon, the SCAR, is about the same.) I also didn't realise how the anti-invisibility thing works -- not only do I have to be within a certain range of you, but I also need to be looking at the cloaked enemy for it to get the highlight.

It seems like the zedtime extension is a key part of playing the role well and I intend to concentrate on that next time.

That would explain why a lot of invisibles weren't highlighting when I would have expected them too.

I'll play a bit different now I know this. It's tricky though, because as a medium-range trash-killer specialist, my natural place in the barn is overlooking the entrance killing them as they swam in, so I'm not naturally looking at the ramp.

It's all ramp.

I don't see much point focussing on the doors. Let everything come to the ramp, with a couple of people up top keeping the drop ins from getting in amongst the defenders.

Just reminded me of a section last night where I repaired a door in the wooden house, took a step back and saw the walls either side were completely destroyed.

Someone said "hard on".

I think the idea of welding doors is to create funnels, not block all entrances. I think if you only weld one door, and then move away from it a bit, less enemies pile up behind it, and it therefore lasts longer.

That was fucking ace!

That's perfectly fine, but I mean on the farmhouse map, the shooters should be aiming at the ramp or keeping the drop-ins occupied, not aiming at the doors.

Also door welds should always be done by demo

Can all classes weld doors?

Yes, but support gets XP, demolitions can boobytrap doors with explosives. Also only support can repair broken doors.

What was the forest map last night that we hated? The one with the suspended bumpy spanning flat ramp.

Mental note: stay away from healing grenades when the Patriarch is about.

Yeah, that was sneaky!

Hmm, also be used as a lure though.

Shout "LURE BOOOOST".

Black Forest. Lets keep that shit off rotation in future.

Not sure how accurate this is - or rather the order of things. I leveled up in support last night due to welding a door closed, so I think you get XP in support class, rather than XP because you are support (although there may be multipliers in effect).

Should be a piece of cake

I think it was a coincidence, but fuck me, it hurt.

Yes.

Eaux man.

The Patriarch's mortars track 3 random people when fired. If you stand still and you are targeted, you are pretty much dead. Standing in a healing grenade is a bad idea in that situation. Especially if there's multiple people there.

He also killed me with a single punch when I was at almost full health. He's really not nice at all.

Apologies to Wookie for welding him out of the main room we were all in

Prohint - you can unweld doors by selecting the welder and using L2.

Shhhhh!!!

Should be about later tonight I think.

Really need to sort out the earpiece on my er earpiece. The sound is fine from the bog standard thing thats bundled but the shape is shit for saying in my lug hole.

There's a cabled one on Amazon for about seven quid that's a lot like the old 360 one. It's made by Orb, that's what I have.

Linky: ORB Wired Chat Headset (PS4) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GH7U79Y/ ... szbH7ZKVX0

that was fun! I didn't know about the unwelder obviously. I'll try to be a bit more supportive in my support role next time (tonight probably) but it's very difficult to do if there's blundering going on. If people can hold a ramp; flat, double ended or otherwise then it's far easier to pump them full of bum syringes while they hold back the horde and I'm sure it's easier for people to keep an eye on ammo and concentrate on pressing the re ammo button when the blunder factor is reduced.

Duct tape and no. 2 fence wire.

I was just going to suggest superglue.

It is though, isn't it? I welded myself in a room on purpose to protest that we were playing on too easy a difficulty. It gets properly exciting.

Arseholes!

There's no blundering going on, that's alternative strategy.

Cheers, Doc. Ordered.

Fake strategy

I'm watching Life - message me when there's a spot. I totally have dibs and shitgun

Shitgun indeed.

Ended up playing a game with ransoms, wasn't too bad really, reached the boss and we all died. Still, more exp and shizz.

I R level 20!

Fire levels went off the chart.

We wuz robbed by that disconnect.

We literally were. You'd just killed the Skrake and everything!

Gunslinger starts getting really fun when you get 'Rack 'em up'

#DemoIsEasyMode

Demo keeps your arse from drowning in zeds, pal

Also demo is a glass cannon. Can dish out an insane amount of damage, especially in a prepared location like the ramps, but holy crap if anything gets close they're terrible, because none of the weapons arm under eight feet. Also without a Wookie there's never enough ammo.