DMZ DMZ mission rant

[mannrb]

Okay, I really enjoy DMZ. It's fun having a game mode with so many options: Kill AI, Kill operators, complete contracts, complete missions, etc. I've been working through the missions, and I'm doing most of it solo. When using auto-fill and playing with a team, 90% of the time I get people without mics or people who just have no interest in helping me complete my missions. So it's just easier to do it solo.

Some missions are fine solo, but others are really really difficult to do alone. It took me forever to complete Bombing Run, where you have to exfil with 6 killstreaks. But I finally did it. Coming up, I have no idea how I'm going to activate 5 UAVs at once or 3 SAM sites at once. That doesn't seem possible solo. And of course I can't kill enemies while on the roof of a moving vehicle while solo. So I'm gonna have to either start teaming up or just quit.

Some other missions are difficult whether solo or in a group. I've probably played about 30 games since I took on the Mechanic mission, where I need to take 26 blowtorches to a specific dead drop. In 30 games, I've seen a grand total of TWO blowtorches. I've read that they're supposed to be in gas stations or garages most often, but I hardly ever see them. Luckily I've managed to deliver both the ones I've found. But holy cow... at this rate, I won't even find 26 blowtorches until 2027. Another seemingly impossible mission is Mall Rat. One of the two steps is to kill 20 enemies in a row. I've gotten to 16 twice before dying, so I assume I can get to 20 eventually. But the other part is to kill 3 operators. In the half dozen or so attempts I've made at this mission, I have yet to see another operator at the mall. I myself had never been to the mall before I took on this mission. Does anyone ever go there? How can I kill operators and pass this mission if nobody ever goes there??

So while I enjoy playing, I'm also getting awfully frustrated. Does anyone else feel the same way? *rant over*

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

Let me put it this way..

The slogan for the run-up to MW II was this:

Team Is The Ultimate Weapon

Or something like that.

That says to me that the developers of the game totally ignored the solo player...

And it shows by the way they created MW II DMZ....

 

[freakdaddy64]

just think of it as practice because when season 2 starts everybody is starting from scratch from what i hear

 

[freakdaddy64]

supposedly feb 15th

 

[Jodale]

Wish they would just create a solo mode for DMZ and Building 21 and any new area that comes along. Can't imagine it would be that hard to use the same missions as normal 3 player mode, but just tone them back a bit. Instead of 26 blowtorches, maybe only require 13. Instead of killing 3 operators, require only 1.

My main frustration comes from other players simply out to hunt other players and don't give 2 craps about the missions at all. Then after they kill you, they run their mouths.

"Back to the lobby loser"
"Get good pu**y"
"F**k you bit*h"

The list goes on and on. The sad part, is most of these people sound like they are at least 20+ and should know better.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

My main frustration comes from other players simply out to hunt other players and don't give 2 craps about the missions at all. Then after they kill you, they run their mouths.

"Back to the lobby loser"
"Get good pu**y"
"F**k you bit*h"

Yea, that's pretty bad...

The only thing worse than a sore luser is a mouthy douche-bag winner..

 

[Proven-silver]

I'm a solo player and I'm sick of players camping on extracts. Gonna delete the game soon.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

As a solo player myself, I sympathize...

However give it til S02.. Word is PLUNDER (TEAMS and SOLOS) will be part of S02...

For me, it's a dream come true..

 

[freakdaddy64]

oh please. cry me a river. first off when you kill other operators you get dog tags,access cards maybe building 21 card, second off if you check out the exfil for operators or ai,s you may have to fight your way out to exfil. they didnt make the game to be easy it is supposed to be a challenge so get over it. use strategy, be smart, its a war game and not donkey kong.

 

[AntiCheatAgent94]

oh please. cry me a river. first off when you kill other operators you get dog tags,access cards maybe building 21 card

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
-King James, Mark 8 Verse 36

its a war game and not donkey kong.

Troo... But...

"There are rules!!! Even in WAR!! You don't keep hacking on a man while he is down!!"
-Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy, STAR TREK, Day Of The Dove

 

[TurboPumpin]

the game sucks. most of the missions are stupid. they have you running around collecting 100 of a item. dumb. i'm not doing that. the glitches, the crashing, the overpowered bots, the dumb missions. i'm about to give up on this game. i'm going to give them a chance to fix all this with the new update. but if they don't i'm done.

 

[Jodale]

oh please. cry me a river. first off when you kill other operators you get dog tags,access cards maybe building 21 card, second off if you check out the exfil for operators or ai,s you may have to fight your way out to exfil. they didnt make the game to be easy it is supposed to be a challenge so get over it. use strategy, be smart, its a war game and not donkey kong.

Exactly the mindset of the people I mentioned earlier.

Here is a suggestion to make this mode better for everyone. Create a Bounty system and give these try-hards what they want. When they kill another player, without an active mission to do so, put a Bounty on their head. Make them highlighted/visible on the map to all players in the lobby and have the narrator state there is an active Bounty to target. Make the reward like $25k or an access card or whatever. When you complete say 25 Bounties, you get an operator skin or blueprint or something of value.

 

[freakdaddy64]

i like that

 

[ApacheDom]

Wish they would just create a solo mode for DMZ and Building 21 and any new area that comes along. Can't imagine it would be that hard to use the same missions as normal 3 player mode, but just tone them back a bit. Instead of 26 blowtorches, maybe only require 13. Instead of killing 3 operators, require only 1.

My main frustration comes from other players simply out to hunt other players and don't give 2 craps about the missions at all. Then after they kill you, they run their mouths.

"Back to the lobby loser"
"Get good pu**y"
"F**k you bit*h"

The list goes on and on. The sad part, is most of these people sound like they are at least 20+ and should know better.

I feel you. I've been weeks on end trying to open up my third secured weapons slot. Lately squad hunters just wipe me, and lately don't even loot my stuff. Killing just to kill and talk trash. There has to be a way to slow this squad hunter crap. I think it'd be easy for the developers to just continuously increase the bots attack difficulty and difficulty to kill as well as the number of bots spawning for anyone one/team who kills other players. 1 kill, 10percent increase in difficulty and spawn numbers, 2 then 20%, 3 then 30%, kill enough and there's no way to survive the bots. Now, the squad hunt mission I have no issue with. It's just the random kill squads to kill sqauds and no other reason that I have problems with. Why not just play in ranked games if all players wanna do is kill other players and have bragging rights.