FREE GP for Kongregate Players.

Someone pointed out on the Kong Forums that Kongregate users are able to earn 30Kredz via a promotion from the game "Global Assault" These 30 kredz will buy you 200+100 GP on your Kong Account. If you haven't bought any GP before : then the 200gp will be doubled so in effect you could get up to 500gp + the glock17 for free. Yes princess, this, plus the generous 10gp daily bonus could allow you to purchase those 10 extra skillpoints or even a high end premium gun!!

The post has been locked and the content was deleted (Probably because the players over at Facebook are missing out on this offer since it is not a CW promotion) but as far as i can see this is a totally legit offer and is not limited to use in the Global Assault game. In fact the page itself says : "The free Kreds can be utilized in any game on Kongregate.com that supports Kreds purchases."

For this offer you need to be in the possession of a Mobile device (phone or tablet) that runs on Either IOS or Android!

You can read all about : HERE

Be Warned, this offer expires on December 4 at 11:59pm PST.

Project "o0Ze" aka project SP whore. (part 1)

One way of getting SP is by farming, the other way is to exploit bugs when they arise. Either way, you get a months vacation at best when caught.

Soo, there are a lot of people who have more Sp then they should and the devs don't really seem to care. Perhaps you were lucky and had the skill mastery buff or was able to do easy contracts when there were 0-70 servers but if you didn't and you are level 60 already, well you are royally fucked, contract-wise

In the past, the developers allowed a major gap to be opened between the old generation of players and the new generations.

1st generation is supposed to have access to 1 extra Sp, which is no longer available.
1st generation was "allowed" to farm.. yes, rules about that did not exist for a while. Not everybody did..but many got their contracts completed this way.
1st generation had access to the "skill mastery" skill which would allow many people to have a realistic advantage of 12-13 Sp more then you.
1st/second generation was able to easily do contracts on 1-70 maps. (I'm lucky enough to do many contracts this way)
A short while ago, when contracts were made somewhat more easy, contracts did not refresh, instead once completed you got the Sp, and the next day for some days you got the same contract again. Needless to say, several people payed 50gp over and over again to issue new contracts and managed to get sick amounts of SP this way and not a single thing was done to correct this bug.

Some of the above issues had to be fixed, and some were fixed because of the well being of the game. Anyone with a few braincells would understand. But what is impossible to understand is that there was never a correction in Sp. Never have the developers thought;  "hey but taking all this away is not fair to the newer players, lets find a way to correct this. Sure, at one time it was mentioned that the skill trees would be overhauled and the SP issue would be corrected by giving this to other players, but that was a long time ago and nothing has been heard of it ever since.

Okay, so far my rant, now for some more constructive text.

Like i said, after level 60, your contract progress will most likely stall because of all pro players and stacks preventing you as average player to make pro kills and such. So, the solution, easy enough is to stay <60 for as long as possible. Forget about boosters, forget about levelling fast...drop 75% into a clan and keep your level low.

I would advise anyone to do this when they did not reach level 60 yet. No exceptions.

Now out of this advice i came to think:  How would the itself game react to using this method from the very start of your career so i present to you :

Project oOZe. 

Meet o0Ze, o0Ze is my alt. o0Ze is in clan 6six6, you may have heard of this clan, as this is my failed attempt to start a clan. 6six6 however was never disbanded but stored on an alt. You are free to join me (with your alt's) in 6six6 (rank 3600ish) to dump your Sp, but don't expect 6six6 to be one social extravaganza...it's just a tag and a way to dump SP. My heart and loyalty lie only with OhMy

The purpose of o0Ze is to get as much SP as possible before dinging 60. and i will keep you informed on the progress he makes and the obstacles he encounters while playing for SP.

First : in order to maximise all effort in collecting SP, it is almost mandatory to BUY GP. if you want the most, you will need to maximise your input. This is all about noobstomping and investing in even more edges on everyone else. Also, on an alt, you will have to play for contracts, play for progress, not for lulz.

So, i created o0Ze, bought 2000gp, which became 4000gp and immediately bought me 10 skillpoints. I also joined 6six6 immediately.

From 1-10 you are not able to donate to your clan so as of level 10 i donated 75% to the clan. (this is not about the clan, this is about dumping as much XP as possible)

My first obstacle occurred at level 13, where i had to do gold contract #6 : Kill 50 players of l20+ with pistols. There are no maps of that level range so i had to either pay GP in order to skip that contract or buy hardcore early access (30gp). I chose to do the latter. (funny thing is that i managed to win several matches as a l13 player among better equipped high level players.)

The second obstacle was level 16 itself. at 16 you will be able to join 16-40 servers only and at this moment you will encounter more grenades and even armor. Things get somewhat tricky now for a number of levels.

The third obstacle occurred at level 16, where i had to do silver contract #9, 5 headshots on l40+ players..also well out of my level range. So hardcore early access, used my roulette-won KSG and again i won that match..you can ignore me bragging as i did not take screenshots to back this up.

Now my current stats :

Level 17
K/D 3.8
Accuracy 26.6%
Prokills: 10 (the hardest part of prokills at lower levels is not the killing but ammo management.)
Stormkills: 79
Weapons in my posession (had some incredible luck with discounts) : akms, glock, de, mk14 ebr cqb and TKPD (sniper box).
My skilltree : HERE

but now the most important stat : # of SP : 41
My 41 sp mean that eventho i am level 17, i should perform just as well as any average level 25-30ish player.


To be continued,

Finally an update regarding CW's Recode

Hey contractor,

Finally an update regarding CW's Recode...bloody lazy devs..oh wait, this is finally a onemanorgy update as well *ashamed*

ME first, MEMEMEEEE.

I have been suffering from a shoulder injury which prevented me from playing or even sitting at my pc, so yes, i have been away. but i'm back(-ish.)  This blog is not dead, yet. I say "yet" because i am currently planning on evolving this blog. Frankly the whole idea of "onemanorgy's" blog has left me with a feeling that i am constantly trying to suck my own wiener and then telling myself how nicely i suck. That's called "autofellatio" gentlemen and i'm not into that stuff.

 My future plans are to move to a facebook community page (not group) and collect more people (veterans) who like to share their experiences and opinions regularly. So instead of one person writing his 5cents every blue moon, you will find a page much like the contract wars facebook page that will (if i can find the right people) function as a CW magazine and I'll be just one editor.

The page is far from done, and i cannot give you an estimate on when or even IF it goes live, but when it does, https://www.facebook.com/cwstacksblog will be the place to be but for the next while you will have to deal with me and my lazy ass, right here.

Enough about me...the Recode!

Our Community Manager (Nqss) has posted a bloody good post on Kongregate in which he responds to yet another "this needs to be fixed" post.

Once again, bugs are not simple to fix with current version.Try to imagine ball of differently colored yarn. You want to pick one color and you pull it and pretty much you pull whole ball.This is how game was programmed from start and i already explained, it was made originally by 5 studs (4 years ago). Right now, because we realise that this code is a complete waste of time and nerves, we are remaking it. So we would fix bugs and implement new features fasters, majority of our programmers are on it, because THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. There is no simple way of fixing this stuff, because it WILL provide bunch of new bugs or even make game completly unplayable.Here is some facts, sights / scopes were fixed couple times, but game still screwing them up again.There is nothing in code that could provide some bugs (it shouldn’t), but they appear.
So yeah, we are hoping for it alot.The new code defenetly would allow us to implement:Advanced weapon costumisation, with ability to use different handles and different animations with one weapon (and not creating new animation for each weapon/handle), with ability to move scopes back and forward on railAdvanced animation system overallAdvanced net code, with increased possabilities of what one server/room can handleNew gameplay features / gameplay changes are more easy and wont screw up the whole gameFaster way to implement and compile new contentEtc etc
We strive for that RECODE because even tasks that looks simple are a nightmare to fix with what we have. And it is not a branding, i just have to explain it again and again, as usually.
YES, scopes need fixes, YES, spawn system need improvements, YES, there must be a balance, YES, contract system needs to be reworked,YES, new maps needed (and those are in development), YES, new modes needed (and one is will be), YES, weapon costumisation and other cool stuff also developing.
What is my point? We are aware of all this, making another thread will just waste some time and nerves

Also regarding the time frame or estimate for the Recode to arrive :

We dont do promises because there might be some delays and what will happen, if there is appeared a problem or error, which provide couple more weeks or even month to do it.You would call us a liers thenHow long for the recode to be ended? Maybe 2 months + time to put the features CW have now to the new platform 

Alright, this is valuable information, and it gives you a dead accurate description of the games current state. It also explains why many bugs are left unaddressed and not much more content is added. If you read between the lines, then i can only imagine that the "League" feature will be postponed until after the recode is done as well (i may be wrong but the text is leading me to believe that such a undertaking would too be a waste of time on the current code)

I'm so ultimately glad we had an update on the recode status i could shit rainbows but i hope we get more glimpses into the future without people going mad.

One thing to think about tho, the recode was announced to take 4-6 months, this was quite a while ago leaving me to believe that the 2+ months Nqss is talking about is wishful thinking... it will probably take (much) longer but he is totally right because the majority of the CW community cannot handle estimates. If he says 2 months, there are legions of people yelling "today, 2 minutes ago exactly the update should have been released..wheres the update"

A lot of young kids play cw, and young kids these days are damn vocal but do know how to mark their calenders so don't blame the devs for not mentioning  things in more detail. 

Patience, folks... things can only get better!

UMP45 cool but..

When the UMP was announced, i figured it would be a low level credit gun but i was wrong. When the concept art was shown, showing an UMP45 with just a silencer, i figured this would be a GP weapon.

When the first screen shots appeared, i thought, cool, finally a new type of sight but why the hell does this thing come with an Osprey pistol silencer? Some googling then showed me that this is no pistol silencer and it is in fact available to the UMP45. Another oddity is that the Ump45 in the game has a 30 round magazine which is possible, yet very uncommon. All this makes me want to give the developers a lot of credit for not just copy pasting cooky cutter versions of guns but actually taking the time to come up with less common variations. Well played devs..well played! Restecp!

Okay, So, the UMP looks cool as fuck, but then screen shots appeared showing the collimator's true beauty and i got to admit, i got a funny feeling in my weenie. I'm usually a big eotech fan for my guns but damn...this collimator rocks, not only does it show well when using thermal vision, it also does not obstruct your view.

Soon after the screen shots, the first in game video's appeared and this got me even more curious, people were hip firing this thing and dropping people with ease. Furthermore, the videos showed that the UMP had a very easy wtask of only 10 triples. So, to make a long story short, i bought this gun the second it was available. And i tasked it... twice! (damn progress saving bug reset my wtask..thxdevs :p ).

So, the gun is pretty and has an awesome collimator, but is it any good?

To answer this, i have to give you my opinion about the game's current condition. I (mostly an evac player) am convinced that after the new level brackets Contract wars has become a battle of the dps. The higher dps a weapon has, the higher your KD Unless you are a pro shot (which I'm not). And i have been experimenting with the highest ranking dps guns.

The UMP's stats.

Accuracy can be pumped to 98% when tasked, this is enough (SR3M has worse accuracy but still rocks) The UMP45 is accurate enough to hip fire up to medium ranges.

Recoil, pretty high, but when firing in bursts, very manageable and when using firestab; very sweet! Since i decided to unlock firestab, a little recoil is something i actually like in my rifles.

Mobility and reload speed are very decent, but one should expect this from a SMG

DPS (damage and fire rate combined) is fairly low. I have tasked the gun and did some comparing on both evac and interchange, where i would get 2.5-3 K/D with the UMP, i would under the same conditions get a 4-7 K/D with my p90 Devgru or X95.

The range of the UMP45 is also very low. This being said however is that it's minimum damage is higher then the As VAL mod 3, Noveske and P90 Devgru and only 1 point less then the Sr3m, meaning that even at large range, this gun is still deadly, especially with damage buffs!

Penetration, is fairly high but this is needed to compensate for it's lack of dps. (yeah i know, i had el buffo del penetracìon.... rented it to speed up the wtask process. Penetration and even boosters dont appeal to me no longer since i'm extremely busy with other duties i perform for the CW community..these duties cause my buffs to expire without the chance of actively using them)

Wtask : 10 tripplekills, which mean 5 tripplekills with wtask mastery and this in return translates into 2 Banana's so this wtask is easy as hell! (unless you do them on TUR servers and find yourself stripped of all progress)

Conclusion : In the hands of a pro, this gun is extremely deadly, in the hands of a big old noob like me, this weapon is not the most ideal gun.
As i said before i am a firm believer that DPS is what you want and when it comes to dps: Sr3M > x95 > AsVal mod3 > P9devgru >= Acr-C >Noveske>mp7>9a-91>>>Ump45 (skipped a few weapons that had no silencer or are less popular or will litter your facebook account with false friends)

What does surprise me is the fact that this gun has a slightly better dps then the Vityaz. Sure the Vityaz mobility and reload speed are superior to the UMP's but compare the damage drop vs range of the Vityaz. No mobility or reload speed can make up for this huge loss of damage!
Also, the Vityaz has 1 recoil, making it a good weapon for people without firestab, but to those who know how to burst or have firestab, the UMP is superior. In fact, stats alone make me feel the UMP has made the Vityaz an obsolete weapon.

To me, the UMP will probably end up in my "toys" section and will not be the viable multipurpose weapon i hoped for. Mind you that the UMP in the hands of someone with better aiming qualities then me will most likely find this one powerful gun.

Call to arms : Exploiters, you will find them and you will kill them!

What i wanted to write to you about today, is the fact that recently there has been a increase of people exploiting bugs in CW. Numerous people have been found in places which are not meant to be accessed.

For example;

-Players camping inside rocks (Osm / Lighthouse)
-Players camping inside containers (several maps)
-Playing camping inside buildings that are merely decorative. (Classified)
-Outside Map area's (Classified)

These locations are not meant to be accessed, however, by using a glitch you are able to enter them. Most of these places have 1 thing in common. You can shoot people, but people cannot shoot you.

Exploiting means finding a glitch in the game and using it to gain an unfair advantage over other players. I hope you see that this is Cheating and the Contract Wars rules clearly say :

Bug use : 
Players forbidden to use any software, program flaws, bugs to gain unfair advantage or/and self purposes.

This means that if you witness one of these adventurers, you can report them and they will be banned. If you see someone exploiting a bug, do not hesitate and take a few screenshots that undoubtedly show this person is exploiting a glitch. Also open your console by pressing ~ or F8 during a round and then type "list" This will show the UserID numbers of everyone on the same map.

Send your screenshots and the violators UserID to one of the testers, or send them in a private message to the moderators of the CW facebook group and the exploiters will receive a nice ban.

Oh and here's one of many screenshots that were posted, so hey Biohazard, smile, your on candid camera.

edit 29:7 , another fine upstanding rockdweller, Smile IMKURDSH you too will have some sparetime soon.

edit 30-7, IMKURDSH has gotten a small token of appreciation from the testers : 

Summerbonus, the best bang for your buck!

HAI THAER CONTRACTOR, I IZ NOT DAED!

So you got your summer bonus and you are hellbent on buying a GP weapon with it. You decided that a GP weapon is more important to you then +15 accuracy or damage upgrades? then well read on, in this topic i will tell you which weapons will give you the best bang for your buck.

A few words of advice :

1: The top of the line guns will need more then a summer bonus. If you want the P90 Devgru, Noveske, Sks, Orsis or Ak12, you will have to save a little more because even with a discount, your summer bonus is most likely not sufficient to buy any of these.

2: Never, NEVER EVER EVER EVER fall for a discount. Plan on buying a gun, and wait for the appropriate discount. Do NOT take other guns into consideration when they come cheap. When you buy a pmm12 for a huge discount, you will regret this decision intensely when you notice the gun you really wanted is on discount but you can no longer buy it. It never hurts to sit patiently on your precious GP

3: Before dumping all your GP into a weapon, do NOT neglect the fact that there's still gold contracts to be done, take a good look at the upcoming contracts and see if there is a need to put away a little GP for progressing the gold contracts. IMO SP>>>>GP weapons so don't cut yourself off from the gold contracts tree.

4: Cheap pistols...cooooool, but you do 90% of your killing with a main hand weapon, so only buy a pistol if you are extremely confident you need it.


Well now, lets take a look at some guns you should really consider.


Shotguns. 

Are you a shotgunnoob.. ehh shotgun player. Well. Go to hell.. eh my bad, sorry, i mean there's only the Keltec KSG. my advice : stay far away from it, it's useless compared to the Spas. It's cheap alright but it's not worth the GP IMHO. Instead use your GP on buying a "real" gun =)

Snipers. 

The Orsis or SKS (sniper) would be the top for you but with it's 1100gp, a discount would still mean over 500gp, so keep saving if you truly want the Orsis.
There are however 4 alternatives :

1: DT SRS Sniper A very good gun, has decent mobility, and overall okay stats. But.. it has a w-task that requires you to play a lot with it.

2: EBR marksman rifle. This is not a sniper, and will not count towards sniper achievements but it acts as a sniper and a fine one as well. If you cant be bothered by wtasks, get this weapon. Also it has a crosshair so you can noscope as well.

3: TKPD sniper. If your the campy type, this is most likely your pick. Your mobility will take a hit, so a fast pistol is needed for moving across the map but once your there, you have amazing damage, a fire rate that's schweet as fuck for such a rifle and pretty decent range at your disposal.

Personally i have all snipers and i prefer any of these 3 over the orsis. (I'm the most shitty sniper so i hate bolt action)

Assault rifles and smg's

There's a lot of SMG's and AR's to choose from, and none of them are bad, However, only a handful are viable endgame options, those who i think are viable i will list.

1: ACR-C. With enough luck you just might be able to get this with a good discount. You can't go wrong with this baby but you have to understand this is a tweaked M4A1. If the M4A1 game play isn't your thing, this will also never become your favourite. Downside of this rifle, the silencer sounds like a series of really loose farts. Upside, with the right talents, you can shoot the dick of a fly straight off at large distances. However, one of the talents needed to achieve this is +15 acc which cost 95 GP...dilemma, dilemma.

2: AK74. This baby will benefit greatly from +15 acc as well, but it is so cheap that with the right discount you may be able to buy both. Confession : Since the new levelrestrictions i havent had time to play too much, so i haven't done a lot of pro kills as well. This gun allowed me one of the pro kills i did after the levelrestrictions (on evac) so... in my book, it's more then okay!

3: SR3M. Tier 2 but pro as hell..as in; got 99 problems but a VIP ain't one. Upsides, this gun spews death, it's a beast but when it's tasked it becomes death itself, even tho it's not 100 acc, you will find it much more accurate then stats suggest. And to me a major bonus is that the SR3M's sight actually enhance thermal vision a little instead of making it harder to see someone. Downsides: reloading takes a while, mobility isn't amazing, limited ammo + high fire rate means that if you want to do pro kills with it, you will have to become a pro as well. And another biggie, Pro guns need pro treatment, for maximising the SR3M you will have to tap into the gunsmith skills as well to enhance it. Also it's w-task of 70 tripplekills isnt too hard but it will take time. So yeah, this is one of the best guns in game but it needs the right mindset and talent build to maximise it's use.

4: These 2 are not my favourite, and i wouldn't recommend both of them but others are in love with one of the following guns : AKMS / G36C, if you prefer iron sights but still have a powerful rifle with an easy w-task, then the AKMS could be a good choice. IF you got the time and skill to poop out  100 tripplekils, and prefer a scope then you have to consider the G36C, it's pretty unique.


Well, these guns are all good and have a good value, especially since they can be free but to conclude things i would like you to consider one last option. Have you considered unbreaking one of your current weapons? I mean, both the X95 and Scar-H are extremely good guns of premium quality, making them unbreakable could be a really good option.

Orgy out.

Ps, i would like to thank my clanmates in OhMy and ofcourse you for motivating me back into writing.  Love you guys.. in a perfectly sane, no (overly) sexual kinda way :)

How to properly report a cheater / farmer or potty mouth.

Sorry for not writing much lately. Let me assure you that this isn't because i lost interest but because real life was owning me for the past weeks!

I recently tried to report someone for the use of extremely violent threats towards another player and my request got denied. Needless to say, i was a little upset and angry because i had a screenshot and all that showed the person did say it. The facebook moderator who helped me told me what he needed to report and after i gave it some thought it made sense to me... one line of vulgar language doesn't give any context. I know this wasn't the case but the player who used the vulgar language could have been provoked, so the evidence wasn't sufficient.

So, you seen a hacker/potty mouth and now your seeking to get his ass banned. Well good for you but before you make a fool out of yourself, there is some things you need to know.

rules for reporting: 

1: You need the cheaters nickname AND UserID. (Only a UserID will show ones true identity)
2: You need some evidence or material that shows illegal actions or reasonable doubt.
3: Never publicly report players. (contact the CW staff on Kong or Facebook in a PRIVATE!! message!!)

If the above rules are not met, no action is taken. (and point 3 could even get you in big trouble, especially on kongregate!)

common misconceptions about banning / cheating / etc.

- Very high score. This is not a hack but it's boosters, possibly the 500gp boosterpackage.
- Very high K/D. This is not a hack but a skilled player who has a tailor fit set of talents that make him even more deadly
- Very high kill count. This is not a hack but a skilled player.
- Tier 5/6 Premium gun on low levels. This is a person who either spend a whole lot of gp or more likely : someone who won it in roulette.
- Player doesn't die from head shots. This is lag (high pinger), shotguns, sniperrifles and other low firerate weapons are the first to suffer from this.
- Player knows where the enemy team is where it just spawned somewhere else. This is not a hack per se, many players know how to predict spawns.
- Player moves a number of meters. It looks like he rapidly moves from point to point. This is packet loss.

The above "could" be the result of hacking, but in 99.9% of all cases this is not the fact, thats why asking for a ban with one of the above reasons will result in nothing. Evidence or reasonable doubt is needed for any investigation.

Types of hacks and the chance of you encountering them: 

Wallhack. very low probability, several wallhacks have been banned allready. ( http://vk.com/wall-21974398_5391 )
Radarhack. very low probability however these have been created and stopped so chances are that a new one could surface.
Aimbot. ZERO probability. I'm not saying that its not possible to create an aimbot, I'm just telling that it takes a whole lot more then some cheatengine tampering to create a working aimbot and so far not a single aimbot has surfaced.
Godmode. ZERO probability. The server determines whether you live or die, no client side hack can save you from the server's wrath!

So, you read and understand the above, now it's time to go out and be the games residential vigilante.

Console.

The console is accessed by pressing ~ or F8 while in the game. when you press it, a screen will drop down. The console has an event log, who says what and who kills who. There is 2 things you can use the console for.
1: Determine the UserID of a suspicious player. This can be done by entering the command; "list"
2: Catching someone who's using obscene language. the console shows the chatlog, screenshots of this log are needed for a report.

Screenshots. 

The default key to make screenshots is f5. Many people have disabled CW from posting things on their facebook so in some cases we need other ways to make screenshots. The easy way is to press PrtScr on your keyboard while the game is NOT in fullscreen mode. Then a screenshot is added to your clipboard. You can open MSPaint and paste the clipboard-screenshot and save it. applications like lightshot, fraps and bandicam also allow you to make screenshots.

Movies - The best evidence is shown on video, 

Well for starters screenshots will often do, but when you accuse someone of radar/wallhacking, movies will make much more sense. Screenshot's can not capture people having prior knowledge to the position of other players. Only a video of someone looking though walls, or other suspicious behaviour can expose someone.

Fraps and bandicam are widely used, and bandicam allows you to make video's without having to pay, but there are even more alternatives; http://www.frapsalternative.com/

#1 tip : Have your fraps/bandicam loaded at all times so when you see someone you dont have to switch back to windows and load it. (and possibly miss out on great evidence)

conclusion; 

I admit, reporting someone does take the need for you to become Sherlock Holmes, but you can imagine that if someone is to be punished it calls for some discretion. CW staff wouldn't go out risk loosing a customer over a ban that's not backed by solid evidence.