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

Speaking of the "current game"; how's MWIII really playing these days? I haven't touched the game in over a month at this point, so I'm a bit behind on how it's going. Is it still a buggy mess?
 
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Same old shit we've seen year after year. Oh, it's set in the 90s now, how original. Oh, you can now shootdodge like in Max Payne(2001), how original. I bet no other FPS ever did this.
It's gonna be the same game as MWIII and MWII and Vanguard and Cold War before it, with the same issues at launch, with the same cancerous Activision practices, and it will only get good towards the end of the life cycle right before the next game(like Cold War was). 300 GB and always online(not to mention having to dox myself to activision with my phone number if I play PC), AI always monitorning you, cheaters and hackers everywhere since there is no way they're updating their engine, all the bullshit microtransactions we've seen over the last year with MWIII, shadowban system still banning you for no reason with no recourse if you as much as dare to be good enough to trigger some sperg who can simply massreport you, and more are still going to be in the game. Oh, and XDefiant is now out and free, with no SBMM. Did I mention this game will still have SBMM, and it will likely be stronger than ever? Why would you play an online casino that rigs your game before you even start?
Not even Zombies with two maps will save this game. At this point, I am strongly starting to doubt I will even download it if it has Tranzit in it, 300GB + biweekly 90GB updates simply aren't fucking worth it. How big was BO2 again? Hell, I bet they will add SBMM to Zombies now to reach that holy grail of monetizing the fanbase at long last. Did you know that COD Mobile had zombies mode once upon a time? That includes a remake of Tranzit that was never released, as well as Nacht Der Untonten. You know why these never saw the light of day, and the one map that released(Shi No Numa) got axed? Because they couldn't find a way to monetize the mode, so they just removed it as it ate up too much bandwith. This is the future of this franchise.
Long story short, don't get too excited. This game will be Cold War 2.0, but even worse since Activision practices have gotten much worse since then. Remember, this is also NOT the same Treyarch that made BO2, this is nu-Treyarch with little talent from the old days, just another hollow shell of a company.

Scream Aim Fire said:
Speaking of the "current game"; how's MWIII really playing these days? I haven't touched the game in over a month at this point, so I'm a bit behind on how it's going. Is it still a buggy mess?
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It's the same garbage as before, but the servers are shitting themselves so bad that it's hard to find a match(that and because the game has been dead for months population wise). There is nothing new under the sun, other than new crossovers and new paypiggy bundles. COD is now Fortnite for adults/manchildren, so this is expected in it's future. Don't worry, even if BO6 will look grounded at launch, give it a few months and the deluge of cringy 90s action movie heroes and edgy skins will be back to ruin the visual style of the game(not to mention the inevitable crossovers with the relevant/popular thing and anime).
 
any recommendations on COD content creators to watch on Youtube that aren't cringe?
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While it is true Ubisoft will eventually ruin it, XDefiant is not just a competitor but a successor to COD multiplayer. Every new entry sees less and less players, more hackers, more sweats, and more ridiculous ways to bleed your cash while content gets worse every year. XDefiant plays like an oldschool COD game, and that's what's going to bring over all the people who have left the franchise. This alone will keep it relevant for a few years, especially if BO6 bombs.
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I don't want to go to bat for Activision or really any corporation, but with Xdefiant I'm just ughhhhh. I refuse to engage with Ubisoft at all due to their "players should get comfortable with not owning games" bullshit they pulled recently, no matter how good (or free-to-play) Xdefiant might be.
 
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Ash97 said:
any recommendations on COD content creators to watch on Youtube that aren't cringe?

I don't want to go to bat for Activision or really any corporation, but with Xdefiant I'm just ughhhhh. I refuse to engage with Ubisoft at all due to their "players should get comfortable with not owning games" bullshit they pulled recently, no matter how good (or free-to-play) Xdefiant might be.
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Depends on what you're looking for.
If it's Zombies?
I usually go with IISteveII or Scottiei3 because the rest of the popular zombies YTbers make me wanna kill myself.
If it's MP, you got Prey, Futives or Hummus Thunder.
But you're only really watching them for the class set ups.
 
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I don't want to go to bat for Activision or really any corporation, but with Xdefiant I'm just ughhhhh. I refuse to engage with Ubisoft at all due to their "players should get comfortable with not owning games" bullshit they pulled recently, no matter how good (or free-to-play) Xdefiant might be.
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Oh, Ubisoft will absolutely ruin the game. This is why I am telling people to play it now, while the honeymoon is still in full effect. XDefiant is a temporary boon, sooner or later it will be fucked over just like Siege and other Ubisoft properties, so you might as well try it out now and then drop it when that happens. It helps that the game is free and relatively small by today's bloated standards. COD, on the other hand, is guaranteed to be garbage, it will be 80$ on launch(HAHAHAHA) and is 10 times larger than XDefiant, not to mention the server quality and population aren't what they used to be. As of right now, it's a no-brainer which game to play, but that might change over time.

As for content creators, the only ones I can stomach these days is Blame Truth, JBowenDaMan and Nero's Cinema. Zombie side of community is dead and Vanguard killed it, I doubt even the new game will revive it. If you're into video essays, however, Jrizzo has a few on the Zombies mode(and one on Persona, for some reason)
 
30+GameOvers said:
At this point, I am strongly starting to doubt I will even download it if it has Tranzit in it, 300GB + biweekly 90GB updates simply aren't fucking worth it.
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The 300+ GB likely relates to the entirety of COD HQ, including MWII and MWIII. If you already have CoD HQ installed (which is pretty big to be fair), MWII itself is 75 GBs, while MWIII is roughly 68 GBs. While excessive hype's definitely not good, falling for ragebait isn't really the best either.
 
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The 300+ GB likely relates to the entirety of COD HQ, including MWII and MWIII. If you already have CoD HQ installed (which is pretty big to be fair), MWII itself is 75 GBs, while MWIII is roughly 68 GBs.
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Let's not forget the constant updates the game will have. XDefiant right now is about 40GBs, and while it will no doubt get bigger with time, it's more what I would expect from this kind of game. COD has been doing this for years, trying to monopolize your hard drive space so you don't play other games, since in their eyes every moment you play another game is a moment where you're not engaging with their services or content, and that's a moment where you're not giving them money. This is intentional.
I don't know if Zombies is a module you can uninstall, I have not played these games in forever, but if it isn't then the size will balloon up even more with every new map they release. Then again, that might also be the only worthwhile part of the game, it wouldn't be the first time.
 
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Let's not forget the constant updates the game will have. XDefiant right now is about 40GBs, and while it will no doubt get bigger with time, it's more what I would expect from this kind of game. COD has been doing this for years, trying to monopolize your hard drive space so you don't play other games, since in their eyes every moment you play another game is a moment where you're not engaging with their services or content, and that's a moment where you're not giving them money. This is intentional.
I don't know if Zombies is a module you can uninstall, I have not played these games in forever, but if it isn't then the size will balloon up even more with every new map they release. Then again, that might also be the only worthwhile part of the game, it wouldn't be the first time.
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Modern Warfare II is already in a post-support state past all of its regular updates, 75 GBs is what it is after all of those updates. Zombies being an optional module tends to be spotty overall, but fairly consistent for Treyarch titles. It's not optional for Vanguard or MWIII, but it is for ex. Cold War.
 
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Modern Warfare II is already in a post-support state past all of its regular updates, 75 GBs is what it is after all of those updates. Zombies being an optional module tends to be spotty overall, but fairly consistent for Treyarch titles. It's not optional for Vanguard or MWIII, but it is for ex. Cold War.
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MWII/III are something of an anomaly since this is a game split in half, with it's mid season DLC sold for 70$ as a separate game. This is the only reason they had carry forward for their skins. Zombies in Vanguard was barely an afterthought and Activision knew it was going to bomb, so they didn't want to give people an option to disable it. That would make the game look even worse than it did. Hard to tell what they're gonna do with BO6, this franchise has always been schizophrenic and bipolar in it's every aspect, thanks to Activision milking it as much as they can.
It doesn't really matter, when you take COD HQ and paypig skins together, the size will be too big regardless. I still remember the memes with MW2019/Cold War and their sizes, this is only going to be worse.
 
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not to mention the server quality and population aren't what they used to be. As of right now, it's a no-brainer which game to play, but that might change over time.
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Idk, I haven't played any multiplayer COD since OG MW3 and I recently bought Cold War on sale for 20 bux and I've been having quite a lot of fun with it (altho the SMG meta is absolute cancer and recently I've been put into more and more sweaty matches with my average kd steadily declining)
 
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