Death Streaks

Dead_Eric wrote:

CanisMajor60 wrote:

Is there anything worse than waiting out Final Stand just to be killed as you are standing up?

Stabbing the guy you thought was in final stand only find out he was running dead man's hand and taking 2 teammates with you?

You got me on that one.

I ended up switching to final stand, but since I've been running with some Roster 2 guys the last couple of days, i haven't hit it yet. Good times


on the rage mic topic: my favorite rage mics BY FAR have come from just the type 95, and usually from the once or twice per map that I run across someone by surprise and hipfire kill them because I'm used to playing with a p90.

sgt tube socks wrote:

I guess I am the only one who finds kill streaks cheap?

Nope. I agree. I'd prefer there were none and they were done away with. But....if you have to equip one, you might as well pick the most beneficial to your play style. I hate seeing people rewarded for doing poorly. As if support streaks are not enough of a competitive balance.

I us Martydom on most but I used it on hardcore it killed me like 3 times in 30 seconds because of ricochet !!!! so not on hardcore no more. no more. no more.

^^^^^^^ this^^^. juiced is the way to go on hardcore.

I've only survived one Last Stand...and only b/c I was hiding behind a care package crate on Drop Zone and the zone changed. As soon as I stood up, I was killed. I do like the idea of a unicorn emblem.

I mostly use Martyrdom so that when I die near a flag it hopefully nails my killer. I do like Juiced when I have an LMG equipped. I do think I want to work on the challenges for DMH. Does the other team see you pulling out the C4 or do you appear dead already?

Death streaks and support streaks help balance the game

lumm0x wrote:

sgt tube socks wrote:

I guess I am the only one who finds kill streaks cheap?

Nope. I agree. I'd prefer there were none and they were done away with. But....if you have to equip one, you might as well pick the most beneficial to your play style. I hate seeing people rewarded for doing poorly. As if support streaks are not enough of a competitive balance.

I will respectfully take issue with death streaks meaning you are doing poorly. My style is to run around and cap flags. That puts me in mortal danger more often than those hiding behind crates, walls, etc. So yeah, sometimes I will start out 0-6 because I die three times in a row trying to get B right off the bat, then twice as a guys shoots me in the back as I try to head for the other flag and then one more time as I spawn right in front of someone. Does that mean I actually did poorly? Maybe in your eyes, but I'm trying to play my game. The death streak at least gives me an incentive to stay in the game as opposed to just dropping out right off the bat.

We played a match tonight where the entire other team was low level / split screeners. Before long they were exploding everywhere. It was hard to be upset at them since we were winning the match and had a line-up of killstreaks to go through. They ended up going 4-25 on average and I'm pretty sure they got their kills from the death streaks they were using. Honestly I felt bad for them, not us. I know it's an extreme example... I like the deathstreak because it reminds me that I'm not playing carefully enough and need to get my head right.
For every death streak, somewhere, someone has a killstreak!

last stand. Dead man's hand is great but I only get enough death streaks to make it useful with the riot shield.