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

[30+GameOvers]

for what i remember ww2 had ghey flags, and you could do silly things like play black women in german uniforms online, that was pretty much it for the woke shit. other than that it had mtx and the usually fuck ups with the guns balancing and laggy online(the usually shit). you got the boots on ground after all the sci-fi stuff, so shg delivered on that. ww2 was ok but not the end in my opinion. the worst i would say, was in fact that ww2 are the first cod game that you couldnt play at all since they locked the content on disc with a fucking online patch. what ended shg cod was vanguard.

You clearly didn't play the story, then
Also, there wasn't just "ghey flags", it was just as bad as MW22 would get a few years later

COD gone woke in 2017 and Sledgehammer died that year as well. Hell, even back in 2014 they shit themselves over people with Confederate flag emblems, so it's not like the signs weren't there.
Oh, and this game also didn't have any swastikas. It might have become standardized by this point, but that doesn't change anything, if you release a WW2 game with no Swastikas you're a spineless retard. WaW had them, all the other games had them and they only censored them for the German market, there is no excuse.

MW 2019 was so good, too. It made me so hopeful

Now that I look back, it wasn't that amazing. MW2019 is basically more polished Ghosts, and that game was more fast paced with a more fun meta. Hell, one of the maps the game shipped with was even build straight off "Freight" map, with like half the map directly copied over. People will shit all over Ghosts but gleefully praise nu-MW games, that's how you can tell they're bloody tourists who only listen to influencers and have no opinions of their own.

 

[The Ugly One]

Oh, and this game also didn't have any swastikas. It might have become standardized by this point, but that doesn't change anything, if you release a WW2 game with no Swastikas you're a spineless retard.

libtards: "We can't have swastikas in WW2 games!"
normies: "Why?"
libtards: "We don't want to normalize Nazism."
normies: "This game literally has Nazis driving Panzers in it. You cannot go sixty seconds without seeing Nazis in this game."
libtards: "But that isn't Hitler."
normies: "There are posters of Hitler on the streets in the Battle of Berlin level."
libtards: "Yeah but images of Nazism might trigger people."
normies: "There is a scene where the SS captures some Soviet prisoners, identifies the Jews, and shoots them."
libtards: "Why are swastikas so important to you, are you a Nazi?"
normies: "No, but, uh...it's a WW2 game...in Europe...so there are Nazis."
libtards: "God, why are you so obsessed with having swastikas in your game? I bet you're a secret Nazi."
normies: "No, what? I'm not obsessed! You're obsessed!"
libtards: "Take them out, or I'll tell everyone you're a Nazi and have investors pull out of your company. Anyone who fights to keep them in will be blacklisted from the industry."

Now that I look back, it wasn't that amazing. MW2019 is basically more polished Ghosts, and that game was more fast paced with a more fun meta.

Ghosts needed a better map mix, and the perk system was a mess. I don't remember liking the streaks, but I have sucked at getting high streaks since I realized I just like being retarded and getting killed.

 

[iceteayo]

You clearly didn't play the story, then
Also, there wasn't just "ghey flags", it was just as bad as MW22 would get a few years later
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COD gone woke in 2017 and Sledgehammer died that year as well. Hell, even back in 2014 they shit themselves over people with Confederate flag emblems, so it's not like the signs weren't there.
Oh, and this game also didn't have any swastikas. It might have become standardized by this point, but that doesn't change anything, if you release a WW2 game with no Swastikas you're a spineless retard. WaW had them, all the other games had them and they only censored them for the German market, there is no excuse.


Now that I look back, it wasn't that amazing. MW2019 is basically more polished Ghosts, and that game was more fast paced with a more fun meta. Hell, one of the maps the game shipped with was even build straight off "Freight" map, with like half the map directly copied over. People will shit all over Ghosts but gleefully praise nu-MW games, that's how you can tell they're bloody tourists who only listen to influencers and have no opinions of their own.

Nu-MW lmao if anything MW2019 had more soul than any COD after Black Ops 2. Its that good and I hope Infinity Ward continues to not listen to anyone and kicks out all devs that are not theirs on developing

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Call of Duty adds they/them to Black Ops 6

 

[Tepes Thot]

So Activisions CoD BO-6 injects "meaningful DEI" into their game. Last week, this was emailed out to all Activision employees, one of MULTIPLE DEI emails sent out weekly in a deluge of propaganda.

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And all the
“Who cares?!”
“Of course they did this, it’s modern times!”
“How does this effect you?!”
“I’m still gonna buy it, it’s just one thing!”
crowd will see no issue in how they got us here.

 

[Jack Hoffman]

Are any of you playing multiplayer?
Is it any fun?
I kinda want to check the game out but it’s a lot of money, I’ll probably play for a few nights then never touch the game again.

 

[The Ugly One]

"It's set in the 1990s, so of course there's a person with a pretend identity that didn't exist until teen girls on Tumblr in the 2000s made it up."

 

[The Last Stand]

time to pretend to be from New Zealand for a day, gonna try to play early since i have nothing else to do

That explains the uptick of Black Ops 6 videos. There should just be an universal release date regardless of time zone.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

Are any of you playing multiplayer?
Is it any fun?
I kinda want to check the game out but it’s a lot of money, I’ll probably play for a few nights then never touch the game again.

cant speak for other people Im enjoying the Multiplayer at least, some of my games have annoying Tryhards on the other team but I assume thats because the games not offically out yet in North America so most of the people who switch their timezone to New Zealand are frequently Insufferable Sweats (it was unbearable this morning, but got better when I went back on this afternoon)

 

[Soycast Guy]

and even then there were signs as far back as with their first game

I really liked advanced warfare. The rest of their games fucking suck, and I will stand by that.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm going through Cold War's campaign before starting BO6's campaign. I love how open-ended Cold War's missions are through its dialogue choices and scattered collectibles. Intel actually has a purpose beyond just mere collecting. It encourages replayability to tackle missions a different way.

 

[Jack Hoffman]

I got the game. I don’t hate or love it.
Shoot, kill, die, respawn x9999

I miss the slower CoDs, you could be more methodical and outplay people. Gunskill was just as important as movement, and the movement back in the glory days were fine adjustments in a gunfight, not crackheaded sprints and slides.
Now it seems like gunskill is heavily outweighed by playing aggressive and fast.

Guess I’m just older, I don’t have unlimited time to sweat over a game or the desire.
I’ll chuck it on every so often, in memory to 3.5k/d’s of the past.

 

[marvlouslie]

Call of Duty hasn't been fun since the original Modern Warfare trilogy.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

The campaign is already so fucking bad compared to even Cold War. They are basically doing the Vanguard thing again of interrogating all the characters and playing flashbacks (even starting as an out of place nigger like you do in Vanguard). I hate this trend of CoD with giant fucking cutscenes and retconning manjaw women and niggers into historical events. New CoD make ANY cod from before Vanguard seem like a fucking masterpiece. Cutscenes should be full FMV of actual stock footage like WaW or some important story shit like BO1, not just ugly high detailed characters talking to each other. They could just do that in engine and take a lot less disc space.
Big shame since I actually really liked the BO6 multiplayer demo and omni directional sprint.

EDIT: Ok, the interrogation was just the first mission, now I'm decking out a safehouse with money and Woods is telling me to be a "Robin Hood" and "steal from the rich and give to the poor" during missions to make this hubworld dollhouse better. Feels like what they tried to do in Wolfenstein 2 with the ship you go to between missions but worse and more out of place.

Another thing I've noticed, the textures take so fucking long to load in, who thought this texture streaming thing from the internet was a good idea? Reminds me of of Unreal Engine 3 games on PS3 generation.

 

[The Ugly One]

I miss the slower CoDs, you could be more methodical and outplay people. Gunskill was just as important as movement, and the movement back in the glory days were fine adjustments in a gunfight, not crackheaded sprints and slides.

NOOOOOOOOOO COD WAS ALWAYS ABOUT RUNNING AS FAST AS YOU CAN AND VAULTING OFF WALLS

This is precisely what I hate about nu-COD. I heard that over and over during the BO4 year, as though I had just hallucinated sneaking around COD4 maps with a silenced Mini-Uzi and wasting snipers. It's like somebody decided that the only real COD players in the PS3/360 era were the ones who dual-wielded 1887s with Lightweight, and the only real COD maps were Nuketown and Shipment.

Except what attracted me to COD was that unlike Quake III, unlike Unreal Tournament, unlike RTCW, and every other online shooter I'd ever played, the game facilitated a surprising range of play styles with a wide variety of maps. There wasn't just one way to play it. You also didn't run at 35 mph or jump 20 feet while laden with weapons and gear.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Anyone know if there's a setting to fix this awful black shimmering effect on shadows? It persists even if the game is paused.

(Ingame, the shadows under the red string constantly flicker and shimmer. Happens on almost all shadows in the game at the moment. I hope I just got a setting wrong)

Except what attracted me to COD was that unlike Quake III, unlike Unreal Tournament, unlike RTCW, and every other online shooter I'd ever played, the game facilitated a surprising range of play styles with a wide variety of maps. There wasn't just one way to play it.

I remember CoD4 having map descriptions like "big map, perfect for large games" or "close quarters action". They probably couldn't do these descriptions any more because all the maps feel the fucking same

 

[The Ugly One]

Anyone know if there's a setting to fix this awful black shimmering effect on shadows? It persists even if the game is paused.
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(Ingame, the shadows under the red string constantly flicker and shimmer. Happens on almost all shadows in the game at the moment. I hope I just got a setting wrong)

I think it is related to one of those "filmic" effects and goes away if you turn it off. Are you using FSR? I remember that being pretty bad if FSR was on.

I remember CoD4 having map descriptions like "big map, perfect for large games" or "close quarters action". They probably couldn't do these descriptions any more because all the maps feel the fucking same

COD got Flanderized. The series has focused more and more on unlocking things and crazy chaos maps. The unlock grind is particularly an issue, because you don't get as many XP per minute on large, slow maps. Nuketown 24/7 and Shipment 24/7 playlists proved to be very popular for that reason. Treyarch's gone full retard with 3-lane maps. Every map is just the same design with slightly different lane placement.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

I think it is related to one of those "filmic" effects and goes away if you turn it off. Are you using FSR? I remember that being pretty bad if FSR was on.

It was the upscaling that was "NVIDIA Image Scaling", I changed it to NVIDIA DLAA and it got less bad but it's still shimmering even while the game's paused and after messing with sharpness settings, that's just so weird to me. There's some Z-fighting in some of the object models as well but it might just be bad model work.
There's actually no way to select "None" for the "Upscaling/Sharpening" option at all, just 8 different upscaling techniques. What if we don't want it? That seems like it should be an option. Fuck the CoD launcher why do I need to wait 5+ minutes every campaign launch.

There were actually swastikas in WW2 and Vanguard afaik, but only in Campaign.

 

[Battlefield42]

Anyone know if there's a setting to fix this awful black shimmering effect on shadows? It persists even if the game is paused.
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(Ingame, the shadows under the red string constantly flicker and shimmer. Happens on almost all shadows in the game at the moment. I hope I just got a setting wrong)



I remember CoD4 having map descriptions like "big map, perfect for large games" or "close quarters action". They probably couldn't do these descriptions any more because all the maps feel the fucking same

You have to max out anti aliasing. Been a problem for years now.

 

[The Last Stand]

I got the game. I don’t hate or love it.
Shoot, kill, die, respawn x9999

Smaller maps like Babylon have horrible spawns. Of the four matches on that map, it's not uncommon to run into somebody after you die, even BEHIND you every which way. I think SMGs will be the meta with their high DMG and rate of fire to supplement the omnimovement.

Now it seems like gunskill is heavily outweighed by playing aggressive and fast.

In MW2019, it was to camp. In BO6, it's to run fast.