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

Vanguard on paper should have been fine but Sledgehammer are just lazy. They were given a great engine but compared to Infinity Ward didnt care enough about

>Weapons

>Sound

>Animation

>Aesthetic feeling

I think what sold a lot of people on MW19 was just the *feel* I know that is a shitty explanation but everything from spawning in, to how guns sounded and felt had at least a miniscule of effort pumped into them unlike Vanguard. I know people say the butchering of WW2 aesthetics is what made people drop Vanguard but even if this shit was realistic people still wouldnt nudge. I have no idea what sledgehammers deal is but they either butcher the sound on purpose or are just that bad. Everything sounds muddled in Vanguard its insane.

Anyway I wanna have hope for MW22 but hope is a road to disappointment.
 
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MW 2019 felt like a true and honest next-gen successor to the 360/PS3 MW trilogy, which we somehow managed to not have for the entire generation.

Every COD from SHG has had terrible sound. The guns in AW sounded like typewriters. I heard a rumor that SHG didn't hire a gun expert to consult for Vanguard because they didn't want the kind of person who likes guns anywhere near the studio. Not sure if there's any truth to that, but it at least checks out with what a known shitlib the studio head is and the result they shat out.
 
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Miller said:
First teaser for CoD: Modern Warfare II

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They basically reused the same aesthetic from Modern Warfare 3. Look at the M and W.
 
The Ugly One said:
MW 2019 felt like a true and honest next-gen successor to the 360/PS3 MW trilogy, which we somehow managed to not have for the entire generation.

Every COD from SHG has had terrible sound. The guns in AW sounded like typewriters. I heard a rumor that SHG didn't hire a gun expert to consult for Vanguard because they didn't want the kind of person who likes guns anywhere near the studio. Not sure if there's any truth to that, but it at least checks out with what a known shitlib the studio head is and the result they shat out.
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Bro how do these guys get work on the literal American military propaganda game
 
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Bro how do these guys get work on the literal American military propaganda game
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I have no idea. Then again, the founders of SHG did leave the studio either before or after COD WWII was released, so there's that.

As for MW2 2022, I'm trying to keep my expectations in check. But man, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit excited for it. Not only will it have a 2 year life cycle, but it has been worked on for much longer than the previous two games (helped by it not having a troubled production like Cold War and Vanguard), and despite its flaws, I enjoyed MW 2019, so I look forward to seeing how this new game will turn out, for better or worse.

After two mediocre titles that I passed on, it's nice to have a least a little bit of hype for a new COD title, if only a smidge.
 
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The Ugly One said:
I heard a rumor that SHG didn't hire a gun expert to consult for Vanguard because they didn't want the kind of person who likes guns anywhere near the studio.
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If this is true then forget what I said about turning SH into a support studio. They need to be completely dismantled and have all their devs launched directly into the sun.
 
LightDragonman1 said:
As for MW2 2022, I'm trying to keep my expectations in check. But man, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit excited for it. Not only will it have a 2 year life cycle, but it has been worked on for much longer than the previous two games (helped by it not having a troubled production like Cold War and Vanguard), and despite its flaws, I enjoyed MW 2019, so I look forward to seeing how this new game will turn out, for better or worse.
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I hope the drug trade rumor is true. That would be an interesting spin from the whole "save the world" trope from previous MWs.

How do you know this has a longer dev cycle?
 
The Last Stand said:
I hope the drug trade rumor is true. That would be an interesting spin from the whole "save the world" trope from previous MWs.

How do you know this has a longer dev cycle?
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Given that the series is taking 2023 off, that means one extra year for them to continue supporting MW2 2022. That, and while some staff left, the situation in terms of development at IW has been nowhere near as troubled in recent years as Treyarch and SHG was with Cold War and Vanguard (seriously, them having to swap their titles in terms of release dates took away an entire year of development for them).

So yeah, I'm still cautious, but I have a much better feeling regarding this game. IW, despite not being perfect, still seems to have a much better grasp on things than the other two. Then again, having several Respawn developers return probably helps.
 
There will be a Warzone 2 with MWII, and the developers are unsure about cosmetic transfers from Warzone 1.0.

I'm still at a loss with how Warzone content is handled. The file size in that one battle royale is unnecessarily massive, especially if you just want the base title.
 
I hope it doesn't transfer over

Retards actually expect their digital purchase to last forever?
 
The Last Stand said:
There will be a Warzone 2 with MWII, and the developers are unsure about cosmetic transfers from Warzone 1.0.

I'm still at a loss with how Warzone content is handled. The file size in that one battle royale is unnecessarily massive, especially if you just want the base title.
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Primary reason I haven't touched Warzone despite my interest in it. Sure, I wouldn't mind giving the game a whirl, but I also don't want 70% of my HDD to be taken up by one game.

Also, we're getting into Fast and Furious territory with these naming conventions.
"MWII which is a sequel to CODMW, but not COD4MW, just CODMW. It is also not to be confused with MW2 which had a remaster recently called MW2 Remastered which was a sequel to COD4MW Remastered which was based on the original COD4MW.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Every COD from SHG has had terrible sound. The guns in AW sounded like typewriters. I heard a rumor that SHG didn't hire a gun expert to consult for Vanguard because they didn't want the kind of person who likes guns anywhere near the studio. Not sure if there's any truth to that, but it at least checks out with what a known shitlib the studio head is and the result they shat out.
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I wouldn't be surprised, I'm sure any gun expert worth their salt would've torn them a new asshole over the attachments. Having a bunch of reflex sights was weird enough in COD WWII (to give them credit, none of the guns in the campaign had any of that), Vanguard outright mutilates weapons into unrecognizable abominations that make as much of a mockery of the setting as the anime character skins do.

If trying to ape Fortnite is so damn important, they should just stick with modern & future settings to give past wars some dignity.
 
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Vault Boy said:
I'm sure any gun expert worth their salt would've torn them a new asshole over the attachments. Having a bunch of reflex sights was weird enough in COD WWII (to give them credit
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Strangely enough, those RDS in WW2 multiplayer I dismissed for balance reasons. Same with the Black female Nazi joke. Yet, they made it worse with Vanguard.
 
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The Last Stand said:
There will be a Warzone 2 with MWII, and the developers are unsure about cosmetic transfers from Warzone 1.0.

I'm still at a loss with how Warzone content is handled. The file size in that one battle royale is unnecessarily massive, especially if you just want the base title.
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The more guns and shitty cosmetics, the bigger the file size of Warzone. Can the consoles even handle all that data?
 
I'm excited for Modern Warfare 22, Infinity Ward seems to be the only studio to learn from their mistakes. From making probably the most hated CoD game ever, Infinite Warfare, to probably the best CoD game in fucking years with MW19, they know how to handle their shit. From what I know after the "failure" that was Infinite Warfare, they hired back a lot of the old blood from Respawn and it's actually paying off.

As long as MW22 has the gunplay, animation (god bless hyper), and sound design of MW19, I'll eat that shit up for years to come... Y'know, if Activision lets Inf. Ward actually support their game instead of cucking them out of another year of content because the newest Treyarch game is absolute dog ass.
 
Can we call the new Modern Warfare MWII? Roman numerals so it doesn't look like installment #22..
 
I'm just glad that the game is just titled Modern Warfare 2 (Modern Warfare II if you want to be gay) and not some shit like CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE OPERATION PENDEJO like how BOCW was titled fucking Black Ops Cold War.
 
The Last Stand said:
There will be a Warzone 2 with MWII, and the developers are unsure about cosmetic transfers from Warzone 1.0.

I'm still at a loss with how Warzone content is handled. The file size in that one battle royale is unnecessarily massive, especially if you just want the base title.
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It's also not an optional install. You have to install Warzone, whether or not you want to play it.
 
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