Black Ops 2 - Prestige 12 ? #blackops2

Hi there people!

At last i have managed to get Prestige Master on Black Ops 2! It's only taken me a rediculous amount of time and has angered me no end. (Thankyou Elle for putting up with my frequent outbursts and i am very sorry for that)

Anyway i thought i'd take a look at my shiny new emblem and have a gander at my stats on the call of duty elite website http://www.callofduty.com/elite only to find that it says "You're ready for Prestige 12 / Level 1"
WHAT THE F*** I really hope they aren't planning on adding more prestige levels, it's taken me long enough to get to the maximum level as it is, i'd rather not spend more time getting to the top again!

The proof is above. There's even an emblem for it, which i hear is from Black Ops I.

I did a little bit of research and found that people have managed to hack further than Prestige Master and have found there to be up to Prestige 15. So I'm guessing that means they've left room for expansion at some point.

That begs the question... what possible incentive could they give us to make us want to actually spend many many more hours of our lives to get to Prestige 15? 

I really hope they don't bother adding more Prestige levels, but I'm sure they've allowed more levels for a reason and I'm fairly sure they've allowed us to see that there's possibly more prestiges for a reason. 

If they are going to add more, they'd better make it worthit.

As for the time being, I'm going to find something better to play. AT LAST!

Black Ops II - League Play thoughts and observations

After joining the Team Deathmatch series league half way through and doing league play for the very first time this month, i thought i'd share some of my observations and thoughts on it. 

After my first five placement matches (of which i won all of them) i was placed in the platinum division. Which to my knowledge is the top 20% of active players. I was quite proud of this alone, especially considering there's only 1 division above that and that's the master devision (top 2%). I'm not entirely sure how they work it out but i guess i was there for a reason. 

Anyway, the league finished on Monday and after struggling the past couple of weeks to get in the top 10 and stay there, i failed to do so *sad face*, but i then realised that i had joined the league games half way through season 4. If i had joined from the beginning i think i could have managed the top 10. I managed to reach 7th place but that was very short lived after a few matches with idiots on my team, then managed to claw back from 19th to 8th and again more idiots took me back to around 15th. 

So after a lot of back and forth in the rankings, i finally finished the season at rank 18 *yay*

So at least out of the 250 people in my sub-division i managed to get in the top 20.
Im currently waiting on my league best emblem to appear on my playercard.

So a few of my observations about the league play. It could be a lot better but i guess it could also be a lot worse. I think one of the worst problems with league play is the matchmaking system, to be quite honest i would have expected to be matched with people in the same division/league as me, instead of that i found that i kept getting people who were a lot worse on my team and people that were a lot better on the other team. For example quite a few matches i would end up with people in lower divisions and the other team would have more than one master on it. 
That makes for an unfair advantage for the other team. I also found that sometimes, regardless of whether or not you have people that look like they could be good on your team, they turn out to be utter rubbish.
More often than not i found myself to be on the losing team, even if my own personal score was good there would be 2 or more people with scores like 5-15 or something like that, that meant that because of other people's failings i more often than not, lost a large amount of points. 

I personally went into the league games expecting a challenge and a higher class of player, only to find that there were still plenty of idiots who would continually run into someone camping in the same spot over and over and die, more often than not, those idiots were on MY team.

I didn't really enjoy the league play as much as i thought i would, mainly because of the idiots i kept getting teamed up with. I'm all for a challenge but when i have utter morons on my team, a challenge becomes "the impossible". 

So my advice is this. If you want to play league play on Black Ops 2, RUN IT IN A TEAM. I unfortunately don't have a group of people to play Black Ops 2 with regularly (although i am hoping to stumble across some) but if i did have one, i'm fairly sure i could have done a lot better. Being paired with bad teams not only takes it's toll on your sanity but your score in the leaderboards too. 

In fact i'd suggest trying to find a team for any Black Ops 2 game modes, because of the popularity of the game and the lack of needing to actually have a brain to play it, it means that you will more often than not, come across total morons on your own team. 

If it wasn't for the fact i want to finally achieve the top prestige in one of these games, i would NOT bother playing it as much. It makes me despair at how dumb half the population is. 

I did like the XP that league play gave me and the ability to choose any weapon i wanted (pretty much), i did like the games when i didn't have idiots on my team, but unfortunately that was not often enough. If i were to do it again, i'd definately find myself a team to do it with.

Good luck with the game people!

Feel free to leave any thoughts in the comments below :)

Black Ops II League Play Season 4 End Time (ENDED)

Hi there,

For anyone who plays league play on Black Ops II i have added a coundown timer to when the latest season of league play ends, this can be found at the side of the page (scroll down a little) - ENDED NOW

As some of you will have noticed I've done a lot of ranting about Black Ops II, i thought the league play would stop some of it because i assumed that there would be a lot more experienced players in those lobbies. That's where i was wrong.

It seems that recently all i keep getting on my team are fools that get scores like 5-19 and more to that effect. That's just utterly rediculous, scores like that seem to me as though someone on the other team is camping and that person on my team just keeps going back for more. It seems like some people cannot think of other tactics than running head first into a hail of bullets, even in league play.

I went all the way to rank 7 in the platinum league and ended up back down to 21 because of many many games being lost due to having people like the ones i've already mentioned on my teams. I must have spent 2-3 hours doing league games earlier and only won about three of those games. Luckily i have managed to claw my way back up to 8th but I have now run out of bonus points. There's no way i'm risking losing 150 points by probably losing a game just to get 10 points if i do win. I'd have to win 15 or more games in a row just to move up 1 place.

Anyway, i'll try and keep my place and if possible, move a little higher but i can't see either happening.

Not long left people!

Thanks for reading.

Spawn Trappers are scum. Black Ops 2 #blackops2

As you may have guessed. This post is about spawn trapping or whatever you personally call it. I think this has to be the lowest, most annoying thing that can happen to you in Black Ops 2. I've had plenty to moan about with this game and the people that play it but of all the things that have annoyed me this is the worst!

I have the unfortunate tendancy of being thrown into games that are already in progress and on the team that are getting absolutely fucked up. Not only that but now i've noticed, more often than not, getting messed up like that involves getting spawn killed. I joined a game earlier and was repeatedly spawn killed straight away, i literally couldn't move as the opposing team had every exit covered. It threw me into a rage. 

1. Why the hell should i have to put up with getting put into teams that are losing all the time?
2. As if it's not bad enough that i'm put into a badly losing team, why should i then have to deal with getting spawn killed.

If i get a good team i am more often than not, in the top 3 on my team. But all i keep getting is teams of fools that get me killed either directly or indirectly (the scorestreaks that kill me because they keep dying) I'm getting totally sick of it now and it's ten times worse at the weekends.

Anyway onto my main point.

When i started playing this just after Christmas i never encountered this problem, i mean it did happen but it was a really rare occurance. But lately i've noticed it happening more and more. Every time i end up on a team bad enough, we end up getting spawn trapped/killed. I can usually get out of it but the rest of my team are usually too dumb to escape.

The thing is, i can understand that spawn killing people is easy kills for the other team but seriously, how do they feel good about doing it? I think i've done it once and i felt disgusting for it, it's seriously such a low thing to do, it's like shooting fish in a barrel you're almost guaranteed to be able to keep killing people as they spawn. I mean if they flipped that situation and the people doing it were the ones being slaughtered they'd be raging and probably leave.

Why do people feel its ok to do it when they know they'd hate it done to them?

I don't understand what people get from it, there's no skill involved, there's no challenge, it doesn't make you any good at the game. It's mindless, pointless and very low. The whole point in the game is to test your skills against the other team and try to win. Not to just trap the other team and get easy kills. There's no skill or challenge in that is there?

I can safely say it's something i'd never do again and i would hope that the people doing it feel like scumbags and stop doing it.. but i know that nothing will change. 

It's just stupid that the people doing it, would hate it done to them... I hope they feel the rage when it is done to them and realise how low and disgusting it is.

So if you're one of those people, SHAME ON YOU SCUMBAG.
If not, i feel your pain because it has to be the single most annoying, angering thing that can happen to you on Black Ops 2.
Good luck people.

Thanks for reading!
 

Black Ops II - Lucky Me

I'd been trying to get the "Hail Mary" challenge on Black Ops II (Get a long range kill with a combat axe) as part of the humiliation set of challenges for a few games and in the game i was just in i hadn't managed it at all the whole game. I heard the timer ticking down to the final killcam and thought sod it i'll just lob these two axes before the game ends, so i launched them over the rooftops and this is what happened:

Been playing Black Ops II

Hi people,

So.. I know that it's one of the most annoying series' of games but no matter how much it's just the same stuff over and over again every time they release it, most of us still get the latest CoD. Personally i just like to shoot stuff every now and again, i would say it's stress relief and fun but if you got teamed up with some of the fools i've encountered, you'd know its quite the opposite of stress relief.

I'd like to say i was amazing at the game but i'm probably about average or a little better. Depending on the team i get dealt i can come in the top three nearly every time or i can end up with an absolute shitter of a game and come near the bottom. I've said loads of times that if i can play as good as i can but if my team are getting slaughtered i'm going to feel the wrath of the enemies killstreaks too. I've also noticed my teams have an awful tendancy of rushing to the enemy spawn when im trying to play conservatively, meaning by the time i've carefully made my way across the map, im getting the enemy spawning behind me i their masses!

Either way i've played far too much of it lately, unlocking camo's challenges etc and have worked my way to almost prestige 6. For once, i am determined to get the max prestige on one of these games!

Feel free to comment on here or get in touch with me on twitter @MarcusPeachey and let me know you're experiences on Black Ops 2. If you're any good and would like to team up, my psn is at the side of the page (the same as the blog title)

On a good note, i made a very short video clip of something i did last night on Yemen, Kill Confirmed. Check it out below :)

More Final Fantasy I Gameplay

Hi there people, thought it's about time i update you with some more of my Final Fantasy gameplay. It's been fun but more challenging than i thought it would be. Once I've completed it i'll give yous all my opinion of the game. But for now here's the latest set of screenshots.

Found myself a new town to check out.

Circle of old sages, just what you expect to see in a new town.

Riiight... do continue...

Oh, alright then, no pressure.

Just what every world-saving hero needs...

This.Woman.Annoyed.Me.A.LOT!!! She wouldn't move out the way...

Testing out the new hardware

There's a not so friendly familiar face.

I have arrived at my destination. Some evil Volcano Lair, i wonder if Blofeld is waiting on me...

Nope. Not Blofeld.

Big words, you better hope you can back them up...

Well here goes...

She couldn't back them up.

Showing the crystal the crystal

I had already noticed this...

Another one lit up

Time to get outta here...

More Final Fantasy I Gameplay

Between black Ops II Sessions I've been playing more of Final Fantasy I. So here is the next installment of my Final Fantasy I game. I will be posting pictures of my new addition to my figure collection soon, so check back regularly for more updates etc...

Well i guess I'll have to go somewhere else then, for now...

Oh here's that vampire some folks were talking about...

I guess he wants a fight...

So this is what he was guarding... I'm sure someone told me a particular giant likes gemstones...

I guess they were right! Handy...

I'm sure many women will disagree with that statement!

Clever man, i'm glad someone knows what to do next!

I don't like the idea of probing a vampire's chamber...

Right! Probing it is then...

Guess I'll probe here then...

Thanks for clearing that one up for me...

Rude...

Time to teach him some manners!

That's him taught, Vivi fell asleep...

Cool, a talking crystal.

About bloody time i lit one of these up!

Woohoo! We win, let's go through that portal behind the crystal...

What I've Been Playing - Final Fantasy I

As you may or may not have noticed i haven't done as much on the blog as i probably should have by now, but i've been trying to get a better knowledge of the Final Fantasy Series, however many i've played there are just as many if not more that i have not.
So I've been playing Final Fantasy I lately and I'll share with you a short series of screenshots to show you the journey i've made today...

Chillin' Out in some forest bustin' up some monsters.

On the way to see the prince

Gave Him the Potion

No, you're quite right it's the LEGENDARY warriors.

Hand it over then... Not before time!

Cheers pal, I'm off to go unlock some doors i missed!

In one of the chests i found this... what's it for i wonder?

Ohhhh, obviously to build a Canal, silly me!

BOOM!!!!! I guess i'll just head back to my ship now and see where this takes me....