Saturday, December 30, 2017

December 29, 2017

 Today was a nice relaxing day. I got seven and a half hours of sleep and I spent my morning looking at funny pictures on the internet and listening to the audiobook of A Study In Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro. I also sent a couple emails and did some research on a small piano keyboard for my friend who's currently deployed. He just got back to the boat after having a nice break in Dubai. I think he's been there twice now, and I will probably never get anywhere close. Other than getting paid to fly around in jets, the next best thing about the NAVY has to be the opportunities to see the world.

During and after lunch I continued to listen to the audiobook and then watched some YouTube videos. Later in the afternoon I played CoD: WW2 and pulled the trigger on prestiging for the third time. The best part about prestiging is that for the first little while, before you're able to unlock and setup up your usual loadouts, you can blame your poor performance on the lack of loadouts. I kind of like it, though, because it gives me a chance to try out some of the guns that I quickly ignore when I unlock the guns I actually like to use.

After dinner, I went back to playing CoD: WW2. I decided to try working on unlocking camos for the final sniper rifle (which is actually the default unlocked sniper rifle). It's more like a semi-auto assault rifle than a sniper rifle because it's at least a two-shot kill to the torso, and I think maybe three or more shots if you're below that. It really forces you to go for headshots, or spam the trigger and hope for the best (which is usually my technique). And I put the 4x scope on it instead of the sniper scope, which makes it even more like an assault rifle. It is going to take forever to unlock the camos because I have to get at least 100 one-shot kills in order to unlock the first set and then it will get more challenging after that, which is why I have been putting it off. I played several games exclusively with the gun and my score, regardless of the gamemode, was awful. It's just not made for a run-and-gun style of play, which is kind of what I have adopted by almost exclusively using SMGs.

I was playing 24/7 Carentan because for the next few days they're doing that map with double XP for the soldier, weapon, and division, which obviously helps you level up faster. I eventually wanted to actually make progress toward some of the daily/weekly orders and contracts I had, so I created a class that included an SMG with the sniper rifle, which tends to be my go-to loadout. That way I could play mostly with the SMG but take shots with the sniper when necessary. For the last three or four games that I played I got into the perfect lobby. I was at the top of the scoreboard each time and I felt like I was actually good at the game. That's a much better feeling than getting steamrolled.


Now I need to get to bed because it is late and I have been distracted by a livestream for far too long.

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