Chopper

I managed it too, but have good internet

I'm pretty certain I've done it before mate. It's something I try on most maps on about round 20 at some point. I'll try tonight and post a video.

I wish I could play today but got a busy day at work and it's my brothers birthday so going out early this evening. Friday for sure Jay.

IMO this actually encourages activity which could lead to less of the issues that some people have been finding with UOTM. At the end of every month I promise that I would take a look at the 4 or 5 threads which won that month and I'm sure it will give me a better feel for who to vote for that month. If one guy in particular has been on most of those threads responding and being active, they are probably going to get my vote even if I hadn't personally seen what they were saying at the time. I understand all the arguments around UOTM atm, and we may have been somewhat hasty to just remove it. What's done is done, and there are some good threads now with what we can do with it. I sometimes feel that the staff are expected to be perfect in all we do, and everything we plan will logically fit together and always make sense. We are all going to make mistakes, the only thing we can do is try not to repeat them. This to me is a good idea. That is to me. I have floated it with users who have mostly been positive. UOTM is the most prestigious award on the site, which is clear from the arguments around the change of it. Unfortunately you can only ever have 12 per year. This award to me is a slight step down from that, but would still be the 2nd most prestigious medal on the site....and there are 52 chances per year to win one. I have in the past seen particular months when you can tell someone has UOTM in mind. They just hit the site with a whirl of new posts, all throughout the month even if they had been quiet the prior couple of month. TOTW would give users who aren't going to ever win UOTM a chance to win something by posting one particularly good thread, as opposed to a month of sustained greatness. I honestly do not see what the problem is with that. If the issue is that it happens to have come after the UOTM thing, it's nothing more than coincidence.

Thanks for the detailed responses guys. I like weekly, with Rissoles time suggestions and Eternals requirements. I'll speak to Craig about what possible widgets are available and how we can implement this. I think it's most important that even old threads can win this, when they have sufficient activity in the voting week. Coupled with random thread generator some real gems might be dug up and brought to life!

Hi Guys, It seems that the idea for a Topic of the Week has been received in a mostly positive fashion, so I would like to get into the nitty gritty of it. Should it be weekly or monthly? What are the minimum requirements for being eligible - Created in the last week or sufficient activity in the last week? What is classed as sufficient activity? Should it have a medal attached to it? Should we bother to do it at all? Thanks guys, Chopper.

There aren't many players who can get shotguns without boosting in some way or another. Relaxing did it twice, and livestreamed all of it in his road to shotgun series. Playing with both randoms and friends, he played every game straight up and got there. Most people are not going to be able to do it like this though. They will take too many early downs, or have too many games that end at round 10 for various reasons. The above hits on what Dahniska said - consistency. Rightly or wrongly, well implemented or not, the system is designed to treat consistency as the thing that overall decides your rank. Now it's easy to boost a system like that in many ways. Town starting on round 20, pistols, Jugg, 200 kills and end. Buried as explained above. The ranking system in BO2 just isn't a true representation of how good people actually are. Not when it's too easy to boost the rank. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, frankly I have never cared about the ranks. Maybe it's because I never play random games, or hardly ever, and so don't face the problem of people leaving before we start due to whatever crappy icon I have. Or maybe it's because I'm confident in my own abilities, and don't need to wear an icon like a prosthetic cock replacement. I've always thought that about anyone who goes on about their shotguns, they are trying to make up for something lacking. Any system that allows me to do multiple 80+ on Die Rise solo culminating in 100, multiple 80+ on Origins with 97 as eventual highest, plus 80+ coop on Buried and Die Rise but doesn't give me the highest rank just isn't a true representation of what really counts. Any future ranking system needs to be able to take into account that many people play lots of funky games, be that challenges or messing around and it shouldn't count against your ranking. It should differentiate between my 20 downs before round 30 when I haven't left the spawn, against what I described above.

The tank station is definitely the best overall spot. Hoarding especially gets you up to 36 zombies with one shot. With planning you can get to at least 96/7 with no real ammo issues using a combination of knights and the ammo drop every other round when you don't move the box. Here is my video of what I think is the best way to run it, including how to best use insta kills and to deal with the panzer. And the same thing just a few rounds higher.

My rule - your kids are fine sleeping at night when you partner is in. The second she goes out so that you can play in peace, your kids will both decide to cause chaos. Generally as round 25 starts.

This is very good Nai. I can completely see how that would be a great system....however (you sensed that right?)..... IMO anything like this needs to be tied to a particular mode. I have stressed this on many seperate occasions but there needs to be a mode, probably survival where you don't get anything extra. It's extremely important to me that there is always a standard mode which keeps everyone on the same footing, regardless of it's it their first time playing, or 1,000. These ideas would be great for a mode outside that however.

Thanks for the response mate. I'll speak to Lenny a bit later about this, because I'm sure I remember him saying in a party not that long ago that overall he didn't like the tank thing. It amazes me that more people don't do this, as you said, I don't know anyone else who has ever even suggested it. I like the idea of using the 3 robots from Jugg, which should be 1 in 4 waves taken out which is a great ammo saving.

Nice guide, pretty similar to the one I did when Origins came out. I have to ask - where did you first see or think about leaving the 3 robots doing the '3 step'? I only found it out by a chance conversation in a party where my friend was testing the theory of it, and I wrote it in my guide. It's just I've never seen anyone mention or do it anywhere else since!

There are a lot of really good kino guides on this site. I suggest finding a few of them, having a read and then coming back with particular questions or things to discuss. I think you'll get better responses that way.

Mega and myself are at an impasse. Strangely enough, I actually believe that both of us have only actually strengthened our respective opinions of each other in a roundabout way. There is clearly more going on behind this than what is on the thread, but neither of us are going to go into it. We both believe we are in the right, but I don't believe anyone else can judge this without knowing the ins and outs which aren't going to be explained. I am removing the comment which started all this. I will not moderate anything else and leave it up to whoever has posted. As a staff member I feel it is my job to listen and assess what is best. Clearly, my personal opinion is not reflected by the majority, hence my saying I do not want to debate this. I wasn't referring to the actual topic as a whole, but just my opinion on it. I will always put my opinion out there, and argue for it. I've already put all my salient points out there on this, have heard some in return but have not changed my opinion. On this I feel it should only be a zombie site and always have done, but have never done anything to make that so. The only thing being discussed is post content and formatting I suppose, and on this I will listen and decide what the majority want, and then more than likely argue for that during the staff meeting. I would always go with what the majority of USERS want, unless there are really extenuating circumstances around it.

Thinking about it some more in light of recent posts, PM is better than a post back to them. Not sure it's a bad thing having the post there, but most people seem to think it is so we should probably look at talking about changing that.

The defense of my opinion is simply that I think the forum is full of absolute shit now but I didn't really want to say that. Everyone else is free to post their opinions in here, I just do not want to talk about mine anymore. Unless someone wants to debate back to me why I shouldn't think or feel the way I do. Best of luck with that one.

It seems that I am one of the few people who actively tries to lower my post count periodically. I'd rather have few posts of quality, than a load of posts of blah. I don't go for the blah onsite, it's just not my cup of tea. I don't say blah to be disrespectful, it's just how I would describe it. I mean from my point of view, a post titled your banned with just completely random stuff, is something I'm never ever going to read. Just don't see the point in it. Clearly a lot of people do however. My final point will be that I would love to reduce it, and put restrictions in place but I fancy the other staff are going to be a bit different. The quality of posts is just massively down compared to when I joined, but it's off season. It worries me that the site is becoming more and more like a youth club. That's all from me, I don't want to debate this anymore until the staff meeting.

I'd like to clear up some of the misconceptions I am seeing here. All of the zombie CODs (I only care about zombies so everything I write is related to that) were designed on the XBOX, and ported to the PS3. The XBOX has 2 processors, and the PS3 has 8. A game designed to run on a dual core system, is never going to port to an octa core system. It is never going to be able to utilise the system the way it was designed. What I have written may not be 'technically' 100% correct, but it's close enough for the point to be valid. I moved to XBOX partly for this reason, but mainly to play with some other people. I still have both systems, but would never bother with PS3 anymore purely down to the lack of parties. Regarding YouTube - Ali-A and Syndicate are zombie jokes, really and truly. Syndicate isn't a bad player at all, but he's nowhere near as good as his subs think he is, and Ali-A is just really bad at the game. Both guys are brilliant commentators and would have both systems because it is their livelihood. The largest zombie youtuber is probably Relaxing, although I am excluding NGT. NGT are good, but they are never going to break any records or anything....they will tell you how to do EEs, and stuff, but if we are talking just about zombies and a skill level, then Relaxing is by far the biggest. And he has both systems as I have played with him multiple times on both. If BO3 was developed for the PS4 exclusively to be ported the other way, a load of people would change consoles. The serious zombie players for sure would. We would still possibly use XBOX for parties, but we would be playing on PS4. I will get either a PS4 or XBOX one close to the release of BO3, and my decision will be determined by the port. Logic regarding PS4 sales over XBOX one is completely trumped by the exclusivity deal which either Sony or Microsoft will sign with Treyarch. It's completely and utterly irrelevant to them who has the most users, as they appear on both consoles and therefore sales aren't affected. However if one of the companies is giving you a cheque in the hundreds of millions of dollars range to be exclusive, that's the game changer.

On the flip side we are not a customer service based site. The only thing we provide is a platform for people to discuss zombies, and other random things. It's up to the members to welcome people for sure, but this is a supplementary thing which I believe adds to their experience. If people are really turned off because a site sends them an automated message with a lot of helpful information then that is just the world gone crazy. Seriously, how prima donna can people be if they really are offended in some way, enough that they wouldn't post on the site? I'm genuinely confused as to why people would think it's lazy.

A 3 hour sleep isn't a nap mate, its an actual sleep! My issue is whenever I try and get a 4p random match going especially on BO it just takes too long to get a full lobby and then once that happens over half the games that start only have 2 or 3 players by round 10.

I believe that Slade, Boom and Clay are all correct in their points, even if they are somewhat contradictory. Clay's point about people being scared to post is what concerns me, but I agree wholeheartedly with Boom about not running a creche. The jist of it as I believe is ultimately it's more important to actually pick what we are going to enforce, have it written down and make sure we do.

Sallies rules: 2 shots at your feet puts you a single hit away from a red screen. 2 shots followed by an immediate 3rd will put you on a red screen. Only shoot sallies when you have a full hoard under control. The loose zombies are the ones that down you.