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

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How Syndicate FAKED His Black Ops Zombies World Record
 
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This video showed up in my recommendation list:
How Syndicate FAKED His Black Ops Zombies World Record
Old COD games were incredibly easy to hack, so not surprising. Shame, Syndicate's World Record Run was a big deal back in the day, hell he was a big deal back in the early Zombies history. There is another video on Black Ops 3 cheater made just now, so there is definitely shade being thrown at these supposed legit world records now.
In other news, Xclusive Ace, one of the most trusted Youtubers who keeps up with the news and meta(more importantly, provides actual numbers and statistics to help players out) and one of the last few who give a shit about covering the franchise anymore, made an expose video on BlameTruth, challenging his bot "theory". It should be abundantly clear by now that there is something going on and that bots are 100% real, however Ace is trying to damage control hard about how "these are just reverse boosting scripts!" without any proof these were reverse boosted lobbies, quite the opposite. Ace has been known to be in cahoots with COD devs and Activision, so he has a reason to be a cheerleader for them. I recommend you watch both videos and make up your own mind, but I think Ace is just trying to distract people from the issue, either because he is misguided or because Activision strongly suggested him to, since this doesn't look good for the game at all. His evidence is flimsy(which is off brand for him) and seems desperate, it also implies a lot of things without offering any proof for them or just straight up painting a confusing picture for those who haven't been following the situation. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle, as it often is.
Blame Truth response:
Ace original:
BTW since the media viewer is broken right now, I suggest switching over all youtube links to yewtu.be, since it works for me consistently.
 
Writing is still Marvel-tier bullshit though. Shame.
Pretty much the majority of media these days 2010s onward, especially from existing IPs, try desperately hard to ape the Reddit crowd with slop writing from either Marvel, Star Wars, Game of Thrones or Rick & Morty
 
How Syndicate FAKED His Black Ops Zombies World Record
Speaking of Zombies, I appreciate the quality of life improvements that Black Ops 1 brought to the Zombies metagame. World at War Zombies is hard mode, even IF you know how to train and trap zombies.

Shi No Numa reminds me of a smaller Tranzit on account of the swamp water slowing down your movement. I think the multiplayer map, Knee Deep, was asset flipped into Shi No Numa. I see some similarities between each layout.
 
I'm seeing reports that now even the fog in Warzone might be controlled by the SBMM. Better players get the fog while shittier players don't, and REALLY good players get the Superman 64 fog where you can't see shit(or Tranzit for the zombie players out there). Additionally, I am seeing people talk about how their CONTROLS are being throttled by the SBMM and they confirm that private match vs matchmaking results are different. I want you to imagine this: Your movement is controlled by an algorithm(if this is true), one which decides if you win or lose before the match even starts and goes to such lengths as to mess with your aim, damage, spawns in bots and uses other dirty tricks to even the odds. On top of all that, you can't even crouch or slide or what have you fast enough because the game physically prevents you from doing so(that is not counting the throttled ping which is also controlled by SBMM, independent of how good your actual connection is). We're reaching a point where the only way this will get worse is if one of the devs busts in thru your door mid-match and physically ties one of your hands behind your back and sexually assaults you while you play the game, just to give the other players a more fair chance. This sounds ridiculous, but in all honesty I have never seen anything like it in my life. Casino games have more transparency than COD devs do, and in casinos you can at least hit a jackpot if you're lucky enough, in COD you win jack and shit even if the SBMM gods deem your worthy of a victory. BossmanJack won 60K in an online casino, all I will win is the game punishing me more for continuing to play it and a chance to spend more money in the microtransaction shop.

Oh, and speaking of private matches, the devs made it so that bots use all the expensive "premium" skins and playercards/emblems like the Nicky Minaj or Capeshit ones, two guesses as to why. You literally cannot escape the battle pass and microtransaction store anymore, even if you just want a classic experience with basic tacticool skins in a private lobby, you can't do that anymore. Remember, the AI listens in on everything you say and do even when you play in private matches, so if you happen to say something nasty in a match all by yourself, you can still get banned, or reported and send to the shadowban realm, whatever it is that they do, it is certainly all being recorded and held on an Activision server somewhere(which now belongs to Microsoft).

This is really getting dystopian. I am struggling to see what the devs could put in the next Black Ops title to even get me somewhat interested if Modern Warfare Zombies didn't do the trick. I think COD is spiralling the toilet, just like Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero/Rock Band and all the other franchises Activision milked to death did before they finally petered out. The signs are all there, it might have taken longer to get all the golden eggs they could than with the other franchises but it will end with them killing the golden egg laying goose in a final fit of greed all the same. Microsoft ain't gonna do shit to reverse this trajectory, remember they were the ones who okayed everything 343 was doing to Halo until the studio and the franchise imploded on itself and it was too late to do anything but to save faces.
 
Can anyone confirm that the bots are just a blanket level 55?

Because it seems *really* odd that I've been in lobbie the past two days that are mostly players who are level 55 but seem to have reflexes that would suggest they play a lot more than that a month and a half into release.
 
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Next chance I get, I'm buying the Black Ops II season pass on sale. I'm definitely having a Zombies kick from World at War. Mob of the Dead is the best Zombies map I've played yet with its unique "ghost" ability and Golden Gate bridge easter egg.
 
I blame CoD for turning snipers into run-and-gun cheese guns. You should not be able to run and gun with a precision weapon.
 
I blame CoD for turning snipers into run-and-gun cheese guns. You should not be able to run and gun with a precision weapon.
The key is to have downsides like:
The sniper rifle gives tunnel vision
The sniper rifle MUST be shouldered to fire, and shouldering is slow and clunky

Basically that the sniper rifle must be made slow and awkward to prepare a shot so it is only viable when shooting on your terms from a position where you aren't under immediate threat (ie, sniping).
 
Is it worth getting CoD Ghosts on PC?
I'd say no. It's likely unoptimized for PC and its multiplayer servers are likely dead. If you can find it for dirt cheap, by all means.

Why even release CoD for PC if those ports are just going to be console conversions at best? Since MW2, Activision has always centered CoD around a console experience. I believe Black Ops III is a recent exception thanks to the modding community. That said, I think it's in spite of Activision.
 
Today marks Bobby Kotick's last day as Activision CEO. Goodbye and good riddance. MWIII is still a shit game.
The guy who literally did nothing wrong with Activision. Without him (and his company), most games wouldn't exist.
Shame about the Epstein flight log though.

The fact that all the people coming out to shit on bobby are some variety of trannyniggerfaggot makes me think things are going to get far worse now that he's gone
Oh it's going to get worse, way worse.
We will see if ABK can beat the other Microsoft Studios at "which company can't release a game several years after a promised release date?"
 
The guy who literally did nothing wrong with Activision. Without him (and his company), most games wouldn't exist.
He's the faggot who brought in Proctor & Gamble execs to make developing less fun and also boasted to investors that CoD would exploited on a quote "annual to near annual basis". He's the one you can thank for CoD after CoD after CoD.
 
Once again, I want to appreciate Black Ops: Cold War, specifically whoever made its teaser trailer, for indirectly raising awareness of Yuri Bezmenov's "active measures" theory. Right smack dab during the COVID lockdowns. I also want to thank Activision/Sledgehammer Games for PROVING Bezmenov's theory by A) omitting out Tiananmen Square footage to appease China, B) in spite of the game's motif of "know your history", and C) using Vanguard as practical DEI propaganda to rewrite WWII history.


Seriously, watch this and with the context of the COVID lockdowns and US Floyd riots onward. Tell me that this is not an eyeopener.
 
Pretty hilarious of Activision to get brought up and during the acquisition process only release the shittiest games with the most broken updates. Its like buying a used car in the 1980s and the salesman doesn't tell you the odometer rolled over so you think you're getting some car with only 23k miles when its actually 123k miles.
figured you guys might at least get a chuckle
shotguns were always notoriously broken, from MW2 onwards. I remember MW2019 they had 20 round shotguns that could take down titans or shit like that.
Syndicate's World Record Run was a big deal back in the day,
Does this mean Wings could say Syndicate hacked their 1v1?
 
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