Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – CODM, Diablo Immortal, PUBG, Apex Legends

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Apex Legends, CODM, CODM World Championship, Diablo Immortal, Dr Disrespect, NICKMERCS, PUBG, Stonemountain64

Happy Saturday, folks! Tonight is the night I usually pull an all-nighter gaming and knocking out my daily tasks. I’ll probably hit the sack around 3 or 4 am. Anyway, this week’s games are CODM, Diablo Immortal, PUBG, and Apex Legends.

My ranking so far. I’m Legendary in both Multiplayer and Battle Royale on CODM. I’m Gold ranked on PUBG and Apex Legends, and I’m approaching level 200 on Diablo. I really enjoy playing ranked, because it adds more intensity to the game. If you play ranked, you gain points if you do well, and you lose them if you don’t do so well. It gets harder as you progress, because the level of play gets very “sweaty” the higher you go. Diablo is the only game where there isn’t ranked play, but I’ve always been a huge D&D fan and it has a flavor of playing D&D, with wizards, knights, and all the rest.

So this week, I’d like to cover the folks I follow, who stream their games.

CODM – StoneMountain64. He is on Facebook. If you hit the gaming tab on Facebook, look for his name. He’s pretty easy to find. He has millions of followers.

Apex Legends – Nickmercs. You can follow his streams on Twitch.

Gaming in General – Dr Disrespect. You can find him on YouTube.

I haven’t really watched any PUBG or Diablo streamers, but I know they are out there.

Also, if you are watching it, the final stage for the CODM world championship has been slated for December 2022. It will be in North Carolina where all the gamers meet and compete. It’ll be a great watch. I know they will be streaming live on YouTube.

Well, that’s it for this week. If there’s anything you’d like to discuss or have any questions about getting started with any of these games, hit me up in the comments. I’ll be happy to help you out and give you some pointers.

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – CODM, Apex Legends, and PUBG

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Aiming, Apex Legends, Battle Royal, Challenges, CODM, PUBG, TTK, Zombies

CODM came out with a few challenges this week and brought back Zombies for a bit. These challenges drop the new melee weapon the Butterfly Knife. There’s another challenge also that will last for some time. It’s the seasonal challenge and you have to grind a lot to get the points to move through various clues, collecting them on the way.

I tried out Apex Legends and PUBG this week. My initial thoughts. Apex is fun. It has some great graphics, the legendary characters are a blast (my favorite is Loba). They have both Battle Royal ranked and unranked and they have team deathmatch. I am playing ranked because I enjoy the competition and the ability to increase my rank, which is ordered by color. You start at Iron and work your way up.

PUBG is a little clunky and I still have a lot to learn, but it’s fun. Between the three the time-to-kill (TTK) is high in PUBG, Medium level in CODM, and low in Apex Legends. Your aiming has to improve the slower the TTK. I started out unranked in both APEX and PUBG, but moved to ranked once I got the swing of things.

If you’re looking to mix it up a bit, but still enjoy Battle Royal, try these out. You may like them or not. For me, I’ll always be a CODM fan, but APEX and PUBG are also really fun to play and will improve your game play in CODM, just because you have to learn different skills in both of these games that will contribute to your BR and Multiplayer play in CODM.

Try them out. They’re both free and they’re both mobile.

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – CODM and Diablo Immortal

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Adler, Butterfly knife, CODM, Data Cache, Diablo Immortal, Express, Mobile gaming, Park, ZRG Sniper

This last week, both CODM and Diablo Immortal are offering new battle passes. I love it when the new battle passes come out. I love the new challenges, the new weapons, and the new character skins. We also got a new map – Express!

There are a slew of new challenges that dropped in the first few days. Two are battle royale oriented, and one was set for the new Express map. The new weapon is the ZRG 20mm sniper rifle. Later in the season (season 8), we’ll be getting a new melee weapon –the butterfly knife. Lots of new characters too. Adler is back and he has a new skin that you’ll earn when you complete level 50 of the battle pass.

If you haven’t already, I’d highly recommend following CODM on both YouTube and Discord. While I’m at it, you may want to do that for Diablo Immortal too, if you play that one. I haven’t done this yet, but thinking about playing Apex Legends. Nic Mercs, one of the PC streamers I follow has been playing Apex Legends forever.

Anyway, there are a lot of things to do in this battle pass. It’s a lot of fun. Oh! You have to play the Battle Royale challenges. This one has a data cache which appears on the map randomly. You get it, and every player on the map knows where you are. Win the game with the data cache and you get all kinds of good loot. I finished that one on my third or fourth try.

Well, I’m still working on completing the Assault Rifle class. It’ll be awhile. I’ve got a lot of them left. I also have to work on the ZRG sniper rifle and the new melee weapon when it drops. Oh! They’ve also introduced another perk. It’s called Spycraft. This will allow you to hack opponent items like trophy systems, trip mines, sentry guns, etc. That will be an interesting addition!

This short YouTube video will give you an idea of what to expect if you purchase the Season 8 Battle pass.

Well, that’s it for now. Have a great weekend folks!

Happy Gaming,

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – CODM: Weapon Camouflages – Gold, Platinum, Damascus, Diamond, and Master levels

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Call of Duty Mobile, CODM, Damascus, Diamond, Gold, Master level weapons, Platinum, Renaming weapons, Weapon Camouflage

Well, the Stage 4 regional championships are over and now we wait until Stage 5. Boy is that going to be a show.

Today, I’d like to talk about weapon camouflage. I don’t know if you’re like me, but I love getting weapons to diamond. Are you done there? No. You can still Master your weapon and then get ranked worldwide.

So, how do you get camouflage on your weapons? It’s quite simple. You have categories of camouflage that pertain to different types of kills. You can find out what that weapon camouflage requires by clicking on the camouflage you are working on. The initial camouflage is earned by number of kills. You’ll also have categories like hip shooting, shooting while kneeling, double kills, triple kills, and getting kills without any attachments. You have to get Gold, before you can work on Diamond. To get Gold, you have to complete all the basic camouflages described above.

Getting diamond camouflage requires getting through so many games with 10 kills each game. Look at your weapon’s diamond camouflage to find specifics, but the numbers depend on the type of weapon. Shotguns and submachine guns require 120 games x 10 kills per game. Snipers are the same. Your launchers each have a unique one, so be sure to check out the diamond camouflage before working on it. Assault rifles require the most–150 games x 10 kills.

The best way to work toward diamond is securing yourself a character that has a weapon counter on their wrist. I run with Mace, but there are a few legendary characters you can purchase. To my knowledge, you can only secure a legendary character by paying for it. If you can’t afford that, you’ll have to keep a running count in your head.

What game type should you play? If you’re really good, you could work on diamond camouflage playing any of the game types (team deathmatch, frontline, control, or hardpoint). There are many others, but I’d stick with the core games when your grinding camo. For me, my go to is hardpoint. It is the longest of all the games and makes it easier to get your 10 kills. This is critical, particularly when you are grinding camo for your launchers. They are tough to get 10 kills in any other mode.

Mastering your weapon will allow you to give your weapon a name. You can only Master a weapon when you have achieved Diamond and you can only go above diamond rating when you play ranked multiplayer or battle royale. I stick with multiplayer, because you control which weapon you play with. In Battle Royale, you are rolling the dice because you have to gather your weapons on the battlefield.

There are other camouflages that you can earn in tournaments, which started two or three seasons ago. There are also camouflages that you get when you gold out every weapon in a series. Platinum I believe is when you get 5 weapons in a class completed. Damascus camouflage comes when you’ve hit gold on every weapon in a class. I’ve hit diamond on every weapon in every class, other than assault rifles. That one I’m still working on.

Well, I hope this has been helpful. Have a great weekend, folks!

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – CODM World Championships Stage 4

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Call of Duty Mobile, CODM, Hardpoint, North America, Search and Destroy, Stage 4, Tribe, World Championships

Today, folks, I’m watching the CODM World Championships. We’re in Stage 4 and North America is the region. Tribe is expected to be one of the top teams and they are playing really well. I don’t have a lot else to say today, because I’m really enjoying these championships. If you’d like to check them out, here’s the link on YouTube for live streaming. You can also watch it later if your schedule doesn’t work for this.

If you are a CODM fan like me, watching these top players gives me a lot of great ideas and insights, particularly how to play different maps and games. The key games they are using are: Search and Destroy, Hardpoint, and Control. I was surprised they did not have Team Deathmatch in them.

Link to CODM Stage 4 World Championships North America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpQ0h02ECY

Have a great weekend, folks!

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – CODM World Championships

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CODM, FPS, Fun, Gaming, Mobile gaming, Stage 4, World Championships, YouTube

Boy, what a weekend. I’ve been watching Stage 4 of the CODM World Championships and really enjoying them. This weekend is Japan and Europe. Japan’s teams are competing for their one and only slot to go to Stage 5, where they will compete with top teams from other countries. Europe’s teams are competing one of three slots given to them for the final stage.

If you’ve never seen these before, you’ll learn quite a bit watching them. You’ll see some great spots to get to in each map. You’ll also learn how to play Search and Destroy, Hardpoint, and Control. I am pretty decent at Hardpoint, but not that great with Search and Destroy or Control. Watching these gives me a better idea of how to tackle each of these game modes when I play.

Here’s the YouTube link for all things CODM: https://www.youtube.com/c/CODMEsports.

I achieved Legendary in Multiplayer and Battle Royal this last week. Man, I’m so happy. This is something I added to my task list for playing the game and so glad I did. Next Saturday, I’ll give you some tips and tricks for achieving Legendary status in both sides of the game.

Well, that’s it for now.

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – Diablo Immortal

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Assembly, Clans, Contracts, Diablo Immortal, Gaming, iPad, Lottery, Path of Blood, Shadow War, Shadows, Vault

This weekend, I’m going to talk about becoming a Shadow and the things I wish I’d known prior to going through this process. There are two groups in the Diablo Immortal landscape. The Immortals and the Shadows. To become Immortals, the Shadows have to overthrow them. To remain Immortals, they have to fend off the Shadows.

The Shadows are composed of clans. You join the Shadows by doing what is called the Shadow Lottery. If you want to become a Shadow, keep doing this until you are picked up. Once you are picked up, you’ll start out at the Apprentice rank. Then you begin progressing your character through the Shadow ranks by doing Shadow-specific tasks. These are listed out, but the most important actions are: Contracts, Assembly, Vault, Path of Blood, Battleground and Shadow War.

To participate in the Shadow war, you have to join a clan. Getting into a clan is not hard, but you want to contribute when you become part of one. That means doing your contracts, showing up for Shadow wars, and all the other things listed above. If members of your clan each do what they have to do each day to knock out their daily tasks, your clan will gain rank, and get some special bonuses which will really help you in the Shadow War competition that happens on Thursday nights and Saturday nights. There are some other things, but these are the key activities that will get you the rank you need. Each rank you progress, your skills increase. The same goes for Assembly, which gives you character bumps, experience, and Aspirant Keys, which are also really terrific. We’ll talk about those later.

The interface for the Shadows is easy to interact with. It has its own section in the user interface. One other thing. If you can afford it, get yourself an iPad. For me it is critical. Now that I am almost 60, my eyes aren’t what they used to be, and playing on a phone is impossible. I have to use an iPad because it is big enough for me to see. If a phone is all you have, no worries. Diablo Immortal is also available on PC. I’m assuming it will also move to console (PS, Xbox) at some point, to capture those players. We’ll see.

Well, that’s it for this week, folks! Have a great Saturday!

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – YouTube

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CODM, Console Gaming, Diablo Immortal, Enjoyment, Fun, Improving, Mobile gaming, video gaming

If you are serious about gaming, this suggestion is a no-brainer. Watch YouTube. Regardless of the gaming genre or the game you like to play, there is always someone who is producing content for that game. So today, I’ll give you highlight some streamers I watch to improve my game play.

The two mobile games I’m playing are Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) and Diablo Immortal. I haven’t found a favorite streamer yet, but these are a few that passed on some great tips. One huge tip I learned yesterday watching some streams was the importance of focus and patience. Focus means you are building one aspect of your Diablo character, particularly the gems. When you are all over the place you won’t have the strongest character you need, when you begin progressing to higher levels of game play.

In Diablo, for example, there are different levels of game play that allow you to fight higher-level enemies and get better loot. These levels are normal, Hell I, Hell II, and so on. If you get to Hell III, like I am currently, but do not have gems and other gear built up, you’ll get crushed when it comes to running around the world. The creatures are going to be too tough and it’ll be frustrating.

On to the videos. This first one will be a streamer for CODM. He passes along strategies that will preserve your ammo, keep you alive longer, and hopefully become a better player.

YouTube Streamer Kith

Here’s one for Diablo Immortal. It’s a great video to watch if you’re just starting out.

Provided by YouTube streamer Ryhkker

So that’s it for today. YouTube is a great resource for gamers and you’ll always find one or more streamers who you’ll enjoy watching. Once you’ve learned something, apply it. Get into your game, try out the strategy that is suggested and see if it works for you.

Happy Gaming!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Gaming Saturday – Call of Duty Mobile (CODM)

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CODM, Diablo Immortal, Legendary status, Mobile gaming, Tricks, video gaming, Weapon Camouflage, YouTube

Howdy, folks! I decided to break away my gaming from my Thursday posts and create an entirely different posting since it could easily take over an entire posting by itself. My hope for this weekly blog posting is to provide tips and tricks, introduce you to some live streamers I follow, and give you some inside strategies that have worked for me to attain legendary status in both Battle Royal (Ranked) and Multiplayer (Ranked). I’m also passionate about weapon camouflages and leveling them up.

I just finished getting diamond camouflage for all of the SMGs. Now I have three Shotguns left, two Sniper Rifles, the new L-CAR pistol, and a whole truckload of Assault Rifles. In future issues, I’ll walk you through the camouflage process to Gold, how to get Damascus, Dark Aether, Platinum, and how to get some seasonal camouflages only available in tournaments.

I’ll also be offering some advice on Diablo Immortal, along the same lines as CODM. I’m not a veteran of Diablo, but I do love well-written role-playing games (RPG) and will share what I’ve learned so far.

Well, that’s it for today, folks. If you are excited about my content offering, please tell your gamer friends. I’m retired so I have a lot of time to dedicate to this hobby. I am learning new things each day and will encapsulate these findings each week, right here. See you again, next week.

Until next time…

Dave