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

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The Saltening said:
There is enough evidence to say it isn't a theory. Clip after clip after clip of weird shit keeps popping up. There clips where someone gets killed in 2 melee hits after getting 4+ melee hits on the other guy. Or people mag dumping someone only to get 2 shot. There was also talk about aim assist just turning off randomly mid match if you were doing too good. People have reported weird issues with latency where they will do really good and then suddenly they get massive packet loss until they die a few times or someone even better than them joins the match and then the packet loss vanishes. How many coincidences do we need before it stops being a coincidence? There is a reason MWII went from 500k players to 100k within a few weeks on steam. Games in general just feel more and more like shit as time passes.

Not to mention all the other stuff not related to SBMM. The UI sucks, cut scenes you can't skip when you open the game, garbage battle pass, missing game modes, shit maps like border crossing, the slow phasing out of K/D and such, the shitty bundles.
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That has less to do with SBMM and more to do with Ricochet anti cheat. The game soft "bans" suspected players by negating a percentage of shots. Hilarious when working as intended, but since Activision refuses to playtest COD I'm sure it's misfiring on innocent people.
 
Dumpster dived waifu said:
That has less to do with SBMM and more to do with Ricochet anti cheat. The game soft "bans" suspected players by negating a percentage of shots. Hilarious when working as intended, but since Activision refuses to playtest COD I'm sure it's misfiring on innocent people.
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You know Activision has a patent on real time player balancing right? But also yes the anti cheat is bugged as fuck with a massive wave of recent false bans for stuff like RGB keyboard software
 
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The Saltening said:
There is enough evidence to say it isn't a theory. Clip after clip after clip of weird shit keeps popping up. There clips where someone gets killed in 2 melee hits after getting 4+ melee hits on the other guy. Or people mag dumping someone only to get 2 shot. There was also talk about aim assist just turning off randomly mid match if you were doing too good. People have reported weird issues with latency where they will do really good and then suddenly they get massive packet loss until they die a few times or someone even better than them joins the match and then the packet loss vanishes. How many coincidences do we need before it stops being a coincidence? There is a reason MWII went from 500k players to 100k within a few weeks on steam. Games in general just feel more and more like shit as time passes.

Not to mention all the other stuff not related to SBMM. The UI sucks, cut scenes you can't skip when you open the game, garbage battle pass, missing game modes, shit maps like border crossing, the slow phasing out of K/D and such, the shitty bundles.
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I’m just saying don’t complain the game caters to shitters then complain over sweats. Seen this to much everywhere it’s an ass mentality. In theory like I said if you are truly a shitter you SHOULD get those lobbies. The idea and mechanics behind SBMM *are* evil BUT

The key complainers behind SBMM are typically wannabe tryhards and youtubers who purely want to get into shit lobbies to kill kids and disabled.
 
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iceteayo said:
I’m just saying don’t complain the game caters to shitters then complain over sweats. Seen this to much everywhere it’s an ass mentality. In theory like I said if you are truly a shitter you SHOULD get those lobbies. The idea and mechanics behind SBMM *are* evil BUT

The key complainers behind SBMM are typically wannabe tryhards and youtubers who purely want to get into shit lobbies to kill kids and disabled.
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I am not opposed to SBMM entirely. But there comes a point when it has gone too far. Matchmaking people of similar level is generally fine. The problem is when they start tweaking other things aside from that like actively manipulating your aim, damage, hit detection, packet loss, etc. Or even like in OW2 where the matchmaking is so horrendously broken and unbalanced that it ruins the game entirely. OW2 matchmaking is probably the worst I have ever seen from any game. That game also lost 80% of the players already lol.

I am a shitter. I suck at fps games for the most part. You would think SBMM would cater to me and yet it actually pisses me off even more because it never seems to drop down for me. It just keeps pushing me further up even though I am consistently losing. Despite being terrible I still preferred the old CoD lobbies because I knew for a fact it was my own fault and not some higher power fucking me in the ass repeatedly.

Perhaps I am just nostalgic for older times. I am the same way with the zelda franchise. Fuck botw. I'm done now.
 
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The Saltening said:
I am a shitter. I suck at fps games for the most part. You would think SBMM would cater to me and yet it actually pisses me off even more because it never seems to drop down for me. It just keeps pushing me further up even though I am consistently losing. Despite being terrible I still preferred the old CoD lobbies because I knew for a fact it was my own fault and not some higher power fucking me in the ass repeatedly.
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I never understood CoD's execution on SBMM. If you're dominating, then the people against you are affected by SBMM. If YOU'RE getting dominated, then the system works. There's something underlying in the code that MAKES you horrible.
 
The Saltening said:
I am not opposed to SBMM entirely. But there comes a point when it has gone too far. Matchmaking people of similar level is generally fine. The problem is when they start tweaking other things aside from that like actively manipulating your aim, damage, hit detection, packet loss, etc. Or even like in OW2 where the matchmaking is so horrendously broken and unbalanced that it ruins the game entirely. OW2 matchmaking is probably the worst I have ever seen from any game. That game also lost 80% of the players already lol.

I am a shitter. I suck at fps games for the most part. You would think SBMM would cater to me and yet it actually pisses me off even more because it never seems to drop down for me. It just keeps pushing me further up even though I am consistently losing. Despite being terrible I still preferred the old CoD lobbies because I knew for a fact it was my own fault and not some higher power fucking me in the ass repeatedly.

Perhaps I am just nostalgic for older times. I am the same way with the zelda franchise. Fuck botw. I'm done now.
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You aren’t a shitter as much as it looks like I’m attacking you. I just don’t like the complaining over SBMM.

SBMM only truly hurts average players. I’ll say that who arent mouth breathers So like you float around this limbo of doing good then getting your butt raped.
 
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iceteayo said:
SBMM only truly hurts average players.
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I just want to play a couple of rounds sometimes, not fucking ping pong between sweats and potatoes. Sweat lobbies aren't fun because I'm being curb stomped and potato lobbies aren't fun because it's boring gunning down blind mole rats that are bumbling around.

Hell, I'd be fine if the lobby had just one or two of either side, just give me some median somewhere.
 
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What the fuck is up with DMZ mode?

All this weekend, I'm playing solo just grinding out this stupid mission where I have to kill 10 guys and blow up 3 helicopters with a certain MG at the terminal. Get the 10 guys no problem, I find it funny that the 3rd tier armor guys are suddenly not one shotting me and just seem like normal difficulty.
The worst part was that helicopters were just not spawning reinforcements. Of course when I want them to show up they never do?

I have one helicopter left to kill, I get on today and suddenly...a million 3rd tier armor guys everywhere one shotting me again.

This fucking inconsistency in the AI is infuriating. Is there some sort of SBMM in place or what? I don't fucking get it. Some days barely any AI enemies spawn, other days they're spawning in horders all over the roads. Some days they can't hit shit, other days they're shooting through walls. WTF?
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
What the fuck is up with DMZ mode?
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The terminal mission is a bit of a pain with a squad, so can imagine it's rough solo. The reinforcement helicopters are a bit hit and miss, particularly if an operator is controlling a nearby SAM site.

With the weird spawns I think sometimes it bugs out and constantly reinforces enemies in some areas whether the original AI are dead or not.

There's absolutely balance issues with the AI and it feels magnified when solo. I tend to spawn with spotter scope and throwing knife and muni box so it doesn't really matter if I get rekt.
 
JustWant2PlayVidya said:
There's absolutely balance issues with the AI and it feels magnified when solo. I tend to spawn with spotter scope and throwing knife and muni box so it doesn't really matter if I get rekt.
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If it was always difficult, I'd understand

But it bounces between pathetically easy solo to damn near impossible with no actual tell at WTF causes it.
 
Miller said:
They aren't officially part of Microsoft but they have already adopted the 343i workflow wow
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Haven't they been like this for a while?

I remember Season 2 getting delayed with Cold War, and my friend who played Vanguard bitched and moaned that Season 2 got delayed as well.
 
JustWant2PlayVidya said:
Does this mean I've been wasting my dub xps for levelcap for no reason. Oh dear.

Still enjoying dmz and not having a terrible time in WZ, can't really be fucked with MP and my crew haven't fancied trying a raid yet.
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Sadly, it seems like it.

My friends thought I was crazy for not using my double XP this season, but I learned my lesson during Cold War you use that shit the last week if you're *actually* behind. And half the time they have double XP events near the end anyways.

So either way, you end up wasting it by using it or not using it lol
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Sadly, it seems like it.

My friends thought I was crazy for not using my double XP this season, but I learned my lesson during Cold War you use that shit the last week if you're *actually* behind. And half the time they have double XP events near the end anyways.

So either way, you end up wasting it by using it or not using it lol
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I liked that in Cold War you could spend an entire Double EXP week-end in Outbreak to rank up and level up your weapons.
 
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