u/geraveaofmean

Using this loadout

Revolver, Double Barrel

JOAT2, Awareness 1, and Fortitude 1

Played a couple matches and realized that honestly it helps a lot if you do a bunch of stuff instead of trying to do one thing, I can survive easier (especially crossbows with second chance), reduce time spent doing tasks (reviving and crafting), know where enemies might be and if they see me and keeping my ammo count up. It just works and it's so wonderous, takes getting used to though

in a random match a teammate got shivved close by and I wouldn't have realized it at all since I wasn't paying attention to my radar or team lives mid fight, except I heard three distinct sounds and I killed the guy. I realized after that the dlc shiv is alot more "loud" or "noticable" than the base animation due to it having multiple stabbing sounds from behind instead of one stab. It's a lot harder for me to hear the base variant due to this. Has anyone else noticed it?

I decided to finally try a rifle in the games and decided to pick full auto since I thought it would be like the assault rifle and I like the assault rifle.

Revolver, Full-Auto Rifle

Collector 2, Scavenger, and FAT1 is my loadout.

I know this loadout seems kinda dumb but I can aim well enough and as long as I can get kills I just, have ammo and parts and can get it to lvl 2 and it's so.. powerful. If you have the ammo, you can just pre fire around corners, I won against a burst with 20 up like that. Why don't more people use it, I rarely see it even though it can be so damn powerful if used (I know I have perks to give me ammo) but damn.

I've been using this load out

Revolver

Grenade Launcher

EE2, BE2, & Reviver3 (edited bc new loadout)

I got the hang of the arc after a little while and I will say, it's not the best weapon and I decided to use it for support but it does feed the need of me wanting to do a "explosives loadout". I do understand how it can be annoying if spammed but spamming it is kinda pointless if you don't have 2000k scrap shoved up your bum in reserve for ammo. Its definitely a support tool and good for when people are in cover, fun to act like an artillery cannon. Overall, meh weapon when trying to actually put it in a loadout, gonna give a couple more tries though. lmk what y'all think of it

I was wondering what the community dislikes the most about factions mp and why?

I hate

CT3 & Silenced Tac (they just sit there and hide till someone comes, idk how that's fun)

specific BE3 users (the ones that use it to spam a smoke bomb down and shiv. I just personally think they can't handle close up encounters and use it as a crutch)

"meta weapons or loadouts" (if your team doesn't know how to fight well they can just stomp the lobby, also even if you team doesn't know how to play it just feels meh to play against them)

I've been wanting to make melee work for a good while and sometimes it goes really bad, good or I get opportunities to use melee on builds that don't use it at all. I was wondering if y'all had any tips on melee, like avoiding getting hit mid-fight, how to play aggressively, passively, and stealthily (no CT3) and possible load out ideas.

When y'all play tlou late at night, do you guys get paired with people that truly CANNOT PLAY, every time I've played this guy late at night I also get a team that's playing like a chicken running with its head cut off. Do y'all have this problem?

Small Firearm: Shorty

Purchasable Long Firearm: Double Barrel

Skills: EE2, HE3, DM1, and Crafter 1

I call this one "marker". Is it good? Sometimes if you use your explosives and play it safe and not go into combat wildly. attempt at ur own risk

I just played a match a while ago and almost all of the enemy team had covert training 3, even though they had it, they kept getting spotted and killed even though they had the stealth advantage. in my opinion you shouldn't need ct3 because you shouldn't even be getting spotted/marked in the first place. edit: btw they still lost even while hiding still and trying to backstab people with the element of surprise

When playing factions MP, who are yalls favorite or liked players to see in game whether on your team or not and your least favorite or disliked players from memory?

I've encountered a couple players online who are lvl 999 but play like complete clicker ass. They run out into the open wildly, get shot down and it's so confusing, also usually when this happens the entire enemy team is usually high level and plays like it. Does this happen to yall

Who does the kicking, are one of the players the host, and how do you identify who's the host?

earlier today, did a round of water tower supply raid and the entire time our entire team got squashed by a guy with a grenade launcher and hunting rifle. he had 17 downs and 13 executions. genuine hell

just played a match of supply raid on financial plaza and my entire team just.. snuck around and played like it was metal gear solid, they kept getting killed because no one would want to engage and I kept getting killed because there was always this flanker who had covert 2 when I would cover the flanm. We lost because all three of them left and I tried to win but the timer went off for the match, I managed to get a couple melee kills on them though with machete in quick succession. Has anyone else encountered people playing like this?

I HATE lakeside with a passion because for me it is just a sniper city, take 6 steps out of spawn, down and killed.

Recently I've been using the shotgun for a different purpose than attacking or flanking, I've been using it as a medic (FAT3 & Reviver 2). Yes I know it can be described as a scrub weapon but honestly using it to defend while trying to heal/revive someone is the way I see it be fit for usage without it seeming overpowered. You're not rushing in and stomping one or two people in a matter of seconds, you help your team and then get rewarded with parts to buy more ammo which lets you defend your team more. What are yalls situations where the shotgun is deemed "okay" to use?

honestly this might be my new favorite way to play this game, 2x4 and my fists. Machete kinda bleh though

I have found another weird loadout that was surprisingly good when I used it

Silenced 9mm

Covert Training 3

Pistol Auto-Zoom 2 (I might use gunslinger if I had it)

Hawk-Eye 2

Sharp-Ears 2

Without the pistol upgraded it's okay but when it does and you have ammo it can put people down pretty fast when you flank, or if someone tries to rush you, sometimes the fast fire rate can disrupt their fire and give you the win. try it if you want, feels weird at first.

I just recently got to play tlou(1) factions for like a week and I think the flamethrower is really nice, what do y'all think (accidentally put tlou2 )