Call of Duty Thread - Potential return to form? Or nothing but cope on the horizon? You decide!

I'm far more willing to accept a female soldier in bright blue yoga pants with cat ears running around than I am every single Ultra level blueprint. Every single one (but most especially the motorcycle LMG) looked outright awful.
Why not have a big tiddy female soilder with a small light-blue crop top and undercut brunette hair?
 
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I bit the bullet on impulse and purchased CoD: WW2. I anticipate two playthroughs with the campaign thanks to a Veteran glitch. I hope the Nazi Black female trope is reality.
Campaign was somewhat historically accurate, at least everything looked right and you didn't have any female uniformed soldiers, Multiplayer had female soldiers but that was because of the character customization, at least it still had Allies VS Axis.
 
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Season 3 Roadmap, if anyone gives a shit at this point.
 
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What do any of those dmz additions mean?
The new missions are for a new faction. 3 tiers at start with 2 more as the season progresses.

Workbench lets you edit contraband weapons in exchange for in game money.

Active Duty Slots are basically just loadouts for DMZ. So now if you get a bunch of good shit you can throw it on one loadout so you don't lose everything while scavenging on another loadoutt, or you can build specific characters that work best for Al Mazra, Ashika Island and Building21. That's how I understand it anyways.

Barter system is supposed to be a system at buy stations that let you trade certain items for other certain items. I think this is supposed to be a way to make collecting things like gold skulls/bars, GPU's, and other mission specific items easier.

New backpacks I'm guessing just allow you to hold even more shit.

As for BlackCell, it just seems to be the new name for buying the 30 dollar tier of the battle pass.
 
I've recently been going back to Ghosts as of late and holy shit, Extinction fucking sucks. Typically when people complain about Ghosts, they talk about the lackluster, plot-hole filled story or how the multiplayer is terrible because of the gigantic maps, but Extinction typically gets glossed over. Well, fuck this game mode. Everything about it is just bargain bin Zombies. Name a gameplay mechanic Zombies does and Extinction does it poorly in some way.

Ignoring how stupidly repetitive it is to go from the same hives over and over and waiting around for the drill to finish drilling, about 25% of the way through the map, you'll get hit with this really stupid difficulty spike where the game just throws assloads of Cryptids at you with extremely little breathing room. It's like if you played Zombies but by round five all the zombies were as durable and numerous as round 15 zombies. Half the Cryptids are just damage sponges that deal stupid amounts of damage, including one that teleports around rapidly that has as about 75% of the health as the Rhino, the resident L4D-Tank of the mode.

They clearly never balanced this shit for solo play because I can make it around 70% of the map before I get overwhelmed by the sheer fuckton of enemies they throw at you. You can upgrade your gear mid game, but even when I max out everything, I still get swarmed and die over and over again. I know I'm not the best player in the world, but holy shit this mode is fucked when it comes to balancing, at least when you aren't with other players.

The game has upgrades you can buy from the menu, but they're all worthless. Shit like "do 5% more damage" or "put an ACOG sight on a revolver". The only good shit you can buy requires hundreds of of the mode's premium currency, "Teeth", to acquire as if this was some P2W shit, except without the ability to actually buy Teeth with real money. The only ways to get Teeth is to complete a map, kill 300 Cryptids or complete a map with a Relic.

What is a relic? Debuffs. That's all they do. They make you take more damage, they give you less money you can spend, etc. They provide no advantages or Buffs to balance anything out. The only thing they do is give you more Teeth when you finish a map, but the difficulty on normal is so stupidly ridiculous that good luck completing the fucking map at all, never mind with this shit on. And Relics are the "only" things you get for leveling up. See, Extinction allows you to level up like in multiplayer, but the "only" things you get for reaching max rank is a Relic.

The story of Extinction also sucks hard. It tries so hard to be serious and grounded with this overcomplicated narrative of "this girl might be valuable, oh now we have to kill her, actually keep her safe, actually she's bad" and it's so trash. The "main villain" of the first half of the maps is some British SAS guy who smokes, so coooool... It ends with all of humanity being wiped out by the Cryptids and the girl escaping with the last of humanity on a space shuttle, but surprise, the girl is actually evil and is totally going to either kill or enslave everyone left on the shuttle.

Seriously, Extinction fucking sucks. All those people who say Extinction was the only good part of Ghosts can smash their head into a doorframe.
 
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They clearly never balanced this shit for solo play
Well, good news. It feels just as imbalanced when playing with a full squad of friends. It's been a long ass fucking time, but I recall the swarming was worse with 4 players. We never finished a single map, we'd always get to the last step but fail to extract because we'd just get overrun.
 
According to a Discord, Fireteam in Cold War usually gets activity around 3-4PM EST.
 
Well, good news. It feels just as imbalanced when playing with a full squad of friends. It's been a long ass fucking time, but I recall the swarming was worse with 4 players. We never finished a single map, we'd always get to the last step but fail to extract because we'd just get overrun.
I heard that the Breeder in the Nightfall map is even harder to beat with several people, which is shocking since the Breeder is already stupidly hard to kill with anything besides a maxed out Weapon Specialist with the LSAT. It completely torpedoes the point of adding points into anything else if the game is just going to give you a massive damage-sponge boss whose only weakness is a very specific loadout.
 
A paid upgrade for a pass which you already pay for, which already has buyable tokens, in a game that already costs 70 dollars.
They can't keep getting away with this.
The fact they have to give it a new name and apparently add a bunch more extra shit makes me think that they've not been getting away with it for the past few months.

IIRC, the old premium pass just gave you an extra couple skins and let you skip like 20-25 levels, usually to unlock the guns right away.

Now they're having to push like 12 gaudy gold skins and an extra operator? It sounds desperate tbh

Sadly I'm sure it will work. Retards love their gold skins for some reason. I'm not sure how much the old premium pass cost since I never bought them cause they sounded retarded (hell, I haven't even bought regular Battle Pass since the first one and just constantly re-use my rebate points to get the next one) but I can't believe it wasn't at least 20 dollars before.
 
Sadly I'm sure it will work. Retards love their gold skins for some reason. I'm not sure how much the old premium pass cost since I never bought them cause they sounded retarded (hell, I haven't even bought regular Battle Pass since the first one and just constantly re-use my rebate points to get the next one) but I can't believe it wasn't at least 20 dollars before.
I remember when gold camouflage was obtainable through natural progression. I think Black Ops 2 started the camo grind progression.
 
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The presentation certainly took a step up for this season, but that doesn't mean much when I'm still dealing with so many aimbots. Also apparently some snipers just don't have glints now?

Shits just frustrating to play no matter how many TF141 skins they throw in a battlepass.
 
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DMZ update is good eve with the weird dmz perk bundles. Frankly, the amount of glue sniffers and dad gamers you see on dmz I can see why they added easy bundle items now.
 
DMZ update is good eve with the weird dmz perk bundles. Frankly, the amount of glue sniffers and dad gamers you see on dmz I can see why they added easy bundle items now.
I haven't tried DMZ yet but I've seen the bitching and moaning. I mean, you've literally been able to buy Ghillie Suits that make you blend into the environments ridiculously well since like season 1 launch, is a UAV, self revive or medium backpack going to influence a match more than Ghillies? Especially on skins that make you stand out? In a DMZ that now lets you use different loadouts and all of these items aren't that difficult to find/buy?
 
I haven't tried DMZ yet but I've seen the bitching and moaning. I mean, you've literally been able to buy Ghillie Suits that make you blend into the environments ridiculously well since like season 1 launch, is a UAV, self revive or medium backpack going to influence a match more than Ghillies? Especially on skins that make you stand out? In a DMZ that now lets you use different loadouts and all of these items aren't that difficult to find/buy?
UAV at the start maaaaybe as you can maybe be hyper aggressive in hunting early game
 
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