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Good idea, I'm fairly certain if I did one of these last year I'd be serving 10-20 in a very cold and scary Wiscy prison! Not sure if I'm going to make it this year or not yet. Maybe I'll record the moment when the wife puts my balls in a jar after she rejects my tecmo trip plans? #RealityTV

Missed Connections: I was the 44/44 QB and you were the 56/75 WR streaking down the field wide open. I didn't time it right and threw it out of the back of the endzone. I think we should try and hook up again. Whaddya say? Just email [email protected] if interested.

Awesome read dude!

The sheet still says"@Luckies" FYI. Also, will it ever display the contestants or will you have to do that manually or am I blind?

I thought it was awesome, but then again I've seen Blood Sport 58 times. "you are nex!" I'd love to come out to this one, but I can't swing it this year. Have fun guys! Gonna be hard to pass up scenic Detroit in February though.

#JANUS The good news is that maybe they learned "Tubbthumping" by Chumbawamba since they couldn't play it last year when Knobbe asked. The band this year cannot be as bad or as loud as Janus...I hope.

On PS3, the person who is speaking shows up in white on the top left hand part of the screen. Is Stonehaven the worst map they've ever put out? I think so.

I can't make that promise...

You can supposedly make the attack dog actually attack people, but I haven't tried it yet. Otherwise it just barks when enemies get close and avenge your death. No, I haven't tried the shield yet. I'm glad they brought it back, it's always fun to mess with people. The MW2 one was beast, but the MW3 one sucked. Hopefully this one is usable at least.

I did get an update (PS3), the only obvious thing was some more "mute" options. I haven't played much either, hopefully tonight. S&D was still not in the public match playlist yet...but I keep hearing it's coming as well.

I can't believe I didn't play Luke or Jeremy. At least I got knocked out by the champ! You guys should make the trip to Lincoln in January, Knobbe's planning some cool stuff.

Congrats man!

Yeah, I like to play S&D when I'm by myself sometimes for fun, hopefully they'll add it in a patch and all that stuff you mentioned really. Good calls!

Steve do you have enough systems/TVs/etc? Are you gonna get them all from Ben? Can you post a list of entrants/pools please?

I heard the dedicated servers will be a go for the old gen stuff too, but not sure when. Hopefully it's just a launch problem. Agree with 100% of your post!

After playing some more last night, it seems they need to work on the lag compensation/network stuff some more. Seemed like I died in 1-2 bullets, but it took me 5-6 to kill anyone. And the killcams, showed something different than what my screen did. I had a hard time doing much at all, this needs some major attention fast. It's something they can usually tweak though.

Sorry, I should have mentioned my thoughts above are only for the online multi-player. I doubt I will even try the campaign or "extinction" mode stuff. If anyone has reviews of those, please post them also.

I sent this in an email to some of my other gamer co-workers and I thought maybe someone around here would get some use out of it too. I'm not a writer or reviewer by any means, just a guy who likes to play CoD. Please ask questions if you want and I'll try to get back to you. I'll be on tonight if anyone else plays, my PSN gamertag is Karl_Hungus_33 I've only played for about 4 hours total so far, 2 of that with some guys on my friends list. We mostly played TDM, but we tried some Search and Rescue (think S&D mixed with kill confirmed, I think it’ll be a fun game mode). The other 2 hours I played domination solo. Here’s my review so far which is subject to change: Good: Graphics are really good, maps look great. The hit detection is great, just like MW2 & 3, infinity ward always delivers here. Guns seem cool and balanced so far, but it’s really hard to unlock stuff, gonna take forever, I’m only level 8. You can buy weapons/perks in any order you want though with squad points, but they are hard to earn also. Lots of perk combos and some cool new perks. (reload while sprinting, enemies you kill don’t show a “skull”, wiretap, health regen faster) You slide now instead of dolphin dive and it’s fun, you can even shoot/reload while you do it. There are no “lock on” launchers, so your stuff shouldn’t get shot down as fast. It takes 2 Satcoms (UAVS) called in at the same time to make your radar work, so it takes some teamwork. They are placed on the ground now and are easy to destroy. So the UAV spam is over with I think, which is good. You shouldn’t be forced to run the ghost perk now unless you want too. Some of the guns have a silencer built into them, so you don’t have to use points when you build your class. The pistols are very usable, I haven’t really tried the marksman rifles much but they are popular too. I don’t think SMGs or shottys will be that good. The guns sound cool, not like a cartoon from BO2. No lag…none. This shocked me since it was day 1 and my party was 2 guys from NY and another from TX. Hopefully it stays like that. Bad: Maps are way too big, you run around trying to find people way too much. I mean really big like 3-4 times too big in some cases. Easily the worst thing about the game hands down. No groundwar, the maps are built for it and it’s just not there. Very disappointing, easily 2nd worst thing. The scoreboard isn't as good as the Treyarch one, no defends, assists, etc. Just K/D/C. Not sure why IW doesn't do this right. Only the 1st guy who jumps on a domination flag gets a notch towards his pointstreak, everyone else just gets points...dumb. (another really horrible decision, do they let anyone who actually plays these games test em?) The killstreaks don’t seem that cool, they kind of neutered them all. Specialist isn’t as good either, support seems like the best to be honest so far. The ghost perk is unlocked for everyone at the beginning, not sure why they did this. Satcoms are default when you start but are useless since everyone has the ghost perk for free already. There are some horrible spawns, which I don’t get because the maps are so big. They usually fix these after the first few weeks normally though. It takes a really long time to load each match, but not long to find a game (good thing). There’s a maniac juggernaut that runs fast and just has a knife, it’s just dumb. You’ll have to see it for yourself, hard to explain. Might be forced to use marathon perk with these big maps. Not sure yet: There’s a MOAB type thing that you earn by 25 gun kills or completing “field orders”, I’m not sure if this is good or bad. Chris got one by completing 3 or 4 things in a row. It kills the whole enemy team and actually changes the map layout, which is different. To get one, it’s just random stuff like, kill 2 guys while you crouch, use your 2ndary weapon, get a kill from behind, etc. So not impossible, you get the orders by picking up a blue suitcase thingy. Footsteps are super loud with a headset, it’s almost annoyingly loud. Maybe dead silence is worth using now. The bullets kill faster than any CoD maybe ever, it’s insane. I’m not sure if this is good or bad yet either. You can lean around walls and shoot now, I’m not sure if I like it or not yet though. I haven’t messed with it much, seems campy maybe. No one was really using it yet, guessing that will change. Quickscoping is possible, but it’s not super easy. I got 2, one was luck but the other was legit. Nobody has killed me doing it yet, but are there a lot of snipers so far...due to the huge maps I'm thinking. The female character’s voice/moans, kind of funny now but it’s gonna get annoying I’d wager. Should you buy it? I think so & if you were going to wait and to get it for PS4, there’s a code inside the game that will let you upgrade for only $10 when the PS4 is out, which is really cool. I’m cautiously optimistic about it, there’s a lot of stuff to try so it’ll take a few months to get the hang of it but I’ve had fun so far with it. Let's hope they can tweak some of the "fixable" stuff, it's got potential.

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I've got a work outing Thursday night, but I might be on later. I'll try & play a little during the week, I haven't played console since the last tourney so I need to kick some KOs/FGs for practice. I'm not sure I want to show you guys all my "tricks" yet. I just beat Art in HSTL thanks to a couple of fumbles so I think I just "poked the bear"...uh oh.

Heard anything from the Harlan gang (nichols/dotz) or Tony (dotdon)? Those guys can play too. I'll bug them about it and Craig/Tick too, they need to be there. Yeah, I've played Art twice in tourney play losing both. He plays you close, but you are never really in the game with him if that makes sense. Somehow I missed Hawkeye in both the last 2 tourneys even though we both made the final 4s. Got a feeling that is about to change next week. This should be fun, might have to TPC (gasp) to get ready.

Art has been the man for awhile now, but Hawkeye is very solid as well. Craig is good too, but I'm not sure if we can get him to come out for this one. You coming up?

No, I mean ArtVandelay. I'm not familiar with Mr Pookums...unless he goes by that too.

Yeah, that's me. No, I'm more of a drinker to be honest. I like playing, but I'm not elite like some of these guys. I'll hold my own here though hopefully. Luke is the NE champ until someone beats him. Hopefully we have a good turnout.