COD AW - RIP My Friend...

So Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is now officially dead, well in my opinion anyway. It was really hard trying to find an online match when the game was actually a little busier, but now it's like pulling teeth! I spent around 2 hours just trying to search for a Team Deathmatch game in the Core playlist, sadly no one joined, and I was there alone :( Shame after all the time, they still haven't fixed the matchmaking.

I know that a lot of people thought that AW was a waste of time, and was a terrible game, but personally, It was one of my favourites, and still will be... I can only hope that they make a reboot but keep the core gameplay the same because it was awesome! It was actually a COD game I was pretty decent at!

All in all, we completed everything there was to complete in our Clan and got to Max Level, and now have the funky red clan tag, which to be honest did look awesome as opposed to the golden coloured one. I am sitting pretty comfortably at Prestige 9 or 10. There's no way I can get any higher with the way the game is...

So today is a sad day, and we put COD AW to rest! Sleep well, my friend...

Black Ops 3 was a mediocre reboot of the Black Ops Series, and lets not even talk about Infinite Warfare or the remaster of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare! I have no words, just disgust... sorry devs but the games are awful, the reviews speak for themselves, please do something to stop the franchise dying a horrible death!

Apologies for the whiney post today! ;)

Call of Duty Black Ops 3 - Officially Announced...

Hellllllooooooooooo!! Today has been a very very interesting day for the Call of Duty series, Activision have officially announced that the next COD game to be released will be Call of Duty: Black Ops III!

It all came about a short while ago, when a random update was rolled out to Black Ops 2 games! Why would they update a game that's more than 2 years old? In doing this, they actually updated the game to reveal little teaser pictures, containing snap chat QR codes, these several snap chats, have revealed mysterious little details about the upcoming release, but nothing has really been given away, until now!

I can't tell you how excited I am for the launch of this game, Black Ops and Black Ops 2 were my favourite ever Call of Duty games, for both Zombies and Multiplayer, there have been lots of hints dropped all over the place today, here's the main points I've found out!

1. Element 115 reference in the teaser trailer (Zoooooombies)
2. Co-Ordinates to the location of a bridge in Egypt???
3. Co-Ordinates of a school???
4. Co-Ordinates of an old holding prison in Switzerland???
5. Futuristic feel and look of the game, is there an Exo suit in there???
6. Will this be available cross-platform or next-gen (I hope not, let us have one last COD on the old Xbox 360 LOL)
7. Lots of hieroglyphics and symbols, factions or prestige emblems maybe??? 

The official world reveal is set to 26/04/2014 only 16 days away, It's so sad but I'm actually excited to see what comes of it!! 

Here is the official teaser trailer, released by Activision only a few hours ago! 

On a little bit of a final note, Clan Wars starts again tomorrow in approximately 19 hours, this time we're visiting L,A, not sure about the rest of my clan, but I'm looking forward to finally completing the centurion loadout, and I really want to get to Clan level 25, so we can have the infamous red tag! wooo...

Nighty night :)

COD AW - Clan War Prizes...

Good evening all, well it's 2am here, so less of the evening and more of the morning I rekon!

Just a quick post as always, to share with you the prizes we reaped for winning the clan recent clan war...

We won:

1. Centurion Loadout
2. 400 Clan Points
3. New Clan Background
4. Level 23 

Here's a quick video I've thrown together to show what this looks like on my character!

If you have any questions about anything Clan War related, let me know :)

I'm off to sleep!

Night folks :)

COD AW - New Prestige Level/Recent Clan War...

Good afternoon all, I have entered into the next Prestige mode, Prestige 7.

Nothing great that unlocked, apart from an Advanced Supply Drop, you now get one at levels 20, 30, 40 and when you enter your next prestige mode!!! Bring on the Advanced supply drops!

Prestige Level 7 Emblem

I'm very very close to Prestige level 8, and I'm in need of a good week long double XP, so I can get to my goal of becoming a Prestige Grand Master (Which will probably never happen)...

Oh well here's to hoping.

Keep an eye out for a post going up in the next hour or so, it's a good one! :-)
The emblem pictured somewhere over there >>> is very cool looking, it has a picture of a fist with an Exo glove on there, and there's some sort of medieval/sword/angel theme going on there, definitely one of my favourite emblems so far! :-)

And moving onto the recent clan war that we particpated in over the weekend, we won (Again) making this our third win in a row, I'm very frustrated about two things.

1. The fact that Search and Destroy was one of the territories that needed to be captured, I cannot and will not play Search and Destroy ever again, because it took me a full day to get the 6 wins needed!!! Grrrrrrr just WHHHHHHY!!!
2. And again right at the very last minute, after dominating most territories for the majority of the clan war, someone swings by in the last few minutes and captures our location, this time it was Domination!!! Oooooh It's on!!!! 

So those are my frustrations for the game over the weekend, I'm still quite annoyed even though we won, a lot of hard work went into Dominating this Clan War, whoever messed it up I will find you... and I will kill you! hahaha...

COD AW - Clan Raids/Companion App Update...

Good morning everyone, this is just a quick one as well to show you the recent updates made to the Call of Duty Advanced Warfare companion app.

It shows that the Clan Raids are definitely coming soon to a clan near you, and you have the chance to participate.

Take a look at the screenshots below, before I go into more detail about the clan Raids, and what they have to offer...

As discussed in a previous blog post, there was a preview of Clan Raids for Diamond Division clans to take an exclusive sneak peak, before it's released to all clan leaders worldwide.

Releasing a preview to a certain 'Elite' squad of players is a bit of a mixed bag of reactions for me, I think it's slightly unfair that these clans get to see this in action, and earn rewards before the rest of us do, I feel like we have put the same amount of effort if not more effort into getting our clan where it is today than they have.

On the other hand however, they have worked hard and deserve rewards for that, so I can see it from both sides if i'm honest.

Anyway... the results are in from the preview, and the reviews were mixed, A commander or Lt. Commander can start a clan raid at any time, and you either have to follow a set of objectives in a set amount of time in the correct order, or you can compete in objectives that can be done in any order.

These are fairly similar to clan wars, being that you have to win certain matches, the only difference is you have to win a certain amount of matches within a restricted time limit...

There were comments that a clan of 3 people had to win 75+ matches in 3 hours, is this even possible? I think Sledgehammer have set the bar a little bit too high here, because if the average Domination match takes 10 minutes to complete, then that's 18 matches you could win in an hour, and if you times 18 by the number of clan members (18x3) this equates to 54 and that's assuming that all 18 matches were won in a row... so what are they thinking?

An important note to add is that even if you have a clan of 10 people, the leaders get to choose who competes in the Clan Raids, and get added to a 'Firing Squad' team, the firing squad can then earn the following rewards:

• Exclusive in-game items
• Clan XP
• Clan Tokens
• Enlistment to other Clan Raids 

All in all I think the reviews are fairly positive, albeit the challenges are a little bit difficult, but this opens up a new dimension to Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, and brings clans closer together, Sledgehammer have really focused on bringing the community together here, and they have done a great job in terms of increasing the social aspect of the game! so credit where credit is due.

Again if you are interested in joining our clan (RHN) not to be the best, but just to socialise and win some goodies perhaps, then leave a comment below, or shoot me a message (I'm all ears)

Thanks guys :)

COD AW - Clan Wars & Clan Raids...

So I've talked about our clan RHN being level 22 now and I was searching and searching to find out how many levels our clan could go up to, and what rewards we can reep.

Something I haven't quite found out yet, is how much clan xp you earn and when... so I'm going to keep looking :)

So here is a list of the rewards you can earn from clan level progression:

Clan Level	Rewards
1	Clan Background
2	2XP
3	Clan Background
4	Clan Background
5	Calling Card
6	Clan Background/2XP
7	Clan Background
8	Calling Card
9	Clan Background
10	Gold Tag/2XP
11	Clan Background
12	Calling Card
13	Clan Background
14	Clan Background
15	Calling Card
16	Clan Background/2XP
17	Clan Background
18	Calling Card
19	Clan Background
20	Clan Background
21	Clan Background/2XP
22	Clan Background
23	Calling Card
24	Clan Background
25	Clan Background
Max	Red Tag/2XP

I'm sure you probably already knew this, but I didn't :P

So if you're not already in a clan, get in one now to earn some awesome rewards because a little bit of double XP goes a long way, and the red/golden clan tags look cool too :-)

Clan Raids

Something else coming soon are Clan Raids, this gives you the opportunity to spend your clan tokens (We have 900 in the bank) to participate in time sensitive challenges to get some great rewards, from what I can gather you participate with other clans and can earn some exclusive loadout items, which looks like the below:

The Equilibrium Set 

What's even better is, there will be a Clan Raid preview for Clans in the Diamond Division starting on 09/03/2015... Just two days away!!

If you are in a clan and competing in a clan raid, please let me know how it goes :)

COD AW - Update/Clan Wars & The Prizes...

So as promised, this is what I won from finishing first in the Clan Wars, I'm also going to share my thoughts on the two new weapons I have received from being a season pass holder, and my thoughts on the new game patch that went live not so long ago...

So first things first can I get a drum roll please...

And the Winner is?! Dweelan!! Woohooo #Obviously

Again I'm really sorry about the picture quality here, I promise that when I get the capture card it will be much better (In my opinion). So yes we won the Centurion Pants and our clan has reached the dizzy heights of level 22, this is to go with the previous prizes won The Centurion Exo, The Centurion Knee Guards (Shin pads) and the Centurion gloves, below is a picture of what they look like again poor quality (So shoot me)...

So that's that, I'm not too sure what other prizes can be won, I know there's a centurion Helmet, maybe a top and boots I'm guessing, well i'll let you know how our clan progresses and what prizes we can reap :D

The second subject is with regards to the recent call of duty patch that was sent out to everyone not so long ago, as soon I logged in I had received two very smart looking weapons, the Ohm - Werewolf and the Ohm, in my humble opinion the Ohm is the better designed because the colour orange is #Awesome and it looks like it has teeth around the front of the gun, and scary teeth are just what you need as a COD player regardless of skill level :P

Now I've used these two weapons and I'm quite impressed with the short range shotgun option, but the long range just doesn't do it for me, I struggle with the long range kills on this gun, it might just take some getting used to though, as I like to use the hybrid sight on my AK12 R.I.P for long range gun fights, I'd probably say that my long range skills are much much better than my short range ones, which is slightly weird considering I prefer the short range on this gun.

But to sum up, two very good guns with great damage stats, the let down for me is that they are classified as 'Heavy Weapons' so it's slow and sluggish to move around with them.

Moving onto my final point of being able to buy supply drops which are known as Advanced supply drops, this is only currently available on the Xbox One (these are going to be released on other platforms later on), and can be bought in multiples of 1, 3, 5 or 10, if you buy the 5 pack you receive an extra one or if you buy the 10 pack you receive an extra 3, each supply drop guarantees you 3 items, and at least 1 gun above professional level, they also come with there own armory slot, so if you're full that's fine :P but the word on the street is that the drop rate for the really great items is still pretty low, and its still pretty similar to opening a standard supply drop, and would I want to pay for the privilege of having some more clothing for my character? erm... nope.

Having said that though, you can get some exclusive items out of these drops, so it all depends on whether you're the gambling sort. I would probably buy a couple to see what I get, but just for the excitement of opening one, there's always a moment of awe when you hear that noise and then your heart beat raises slightly when you hear 'Elite' you're like woooohoooo!!! Or is that just me?

COD AW - Clan Wars...

Hello, I just wanted to say that another thing I like about Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is the Clan Wars option, I'm in a clan called RHN which is short for Rhino and is the name of a cute little guinea pig :)

There's 3 active players in our clan, so if you are looking to join a clan not to be the best, but just so your'e in one with decent people who like to play and win then let me know :)

We recently competed in the last clan war in the platinum division and came 1st, we've won two in a row now, so we are eligible for the Diamond Division, but we haven't collectively decided whether or not to go for this yet, as there's a sense of fear that were not good enough to win :P

#Awesome

This is a screen shot from the Call of Duty companion app, that we use it's not as good as the old Black Ops 2 Elite app, or the competitions in there, but it's still great, intense fun...

We dominated this one, but lost Team Deathmatch right at the end grrrrr... 

And might I just add, that I find Search and Rescue/Destroy to be the most difficult game mode I've ever played, it must have taken me 5 or 6 hours at least to get the 6 wins needed to take control of the hospital.

When our rewards come through, I'll let you know what they are :-) 

See you again later on :)