Domination on Piccadilly and Hardpoint on Azhir Cave were extremely fun if your team was not entirely fucking stupid...which they often were, but still, sometimes you got 1-2 other good players on your team. People just wanted to play Shoot House and Shipment over and over, though. Any map where getting killed sets you back more than 3.5 seconds is decried by the rushers as "bad."
I regret not appreciating Ghosts' MP in retrospective. Single player was fine enough, but the multiplayer is where CoD has its longevity.
I'm not sure what is expected nowadays - Activision just applies the annual rope-a-dope strategy they've been using on CoD players for over a decade and the usuals who buy it cover the expenses. I kinda get it since I've bought games like BF2042 and Halo 5 for franchises I liked and ended up being disappointed, but I also haven't been sinking money into the same failures every year.
Don't forget using the small maps to grind for weapons/killstreaks. Shoot House as a small map was okay. Having verticality with the huts and middle platform was unique. I know Nuketown had either house, but the houses were cramped.
I dunno. Black Ops 2 was the peak of CoD for me. After that i couldn’t get into the series until Cold War was released. And i bought that game on sale a few years after release.
Precisely, any time the studios try to innovate even a little bit, the fanbase shits itself and the game gets declared "bad". In a way, the current state of COD is exactly what the people still playing it deserve, but it's a shame we went in this direction instead of innovating every year, like we had with Ghosts(tac movement, weening off killstreaks, more squad based tactical gameplay as opposed to fast-paced arcade one-man-army meta, map exclusive care package streaks you have to earn via field orders) or Advanced Warfare(exo suits and exo abilities changed completely everything by adding a new dimension to the gameplay, Pick 13 lets you take 4 killstreaks, less than three or even none for more perks or attachments, brand new types of guns with Direct Energy Weapons, killstreak modules you can edit to your liking, for example turning a UAV into an Advanced UAV by giving it higher point requirement or turning it into a Support streak by not resetting progress towards it on death, or combining both). No, they want to play the exact same game, over and over, with the same exact maps, over and over, and if they won't get their way they will cry like little children. BO6 is exactly what a perfect COD game is in their eyes, and yet the userbase is bleeding more than ever before, funny how that works.
I REALLY hope they just straight up just buff the MW22/3 guns now becasue most of the 2019 classics are already in the game, I am also pissed the AMAX/kilo have to use shitty bo6 attachments too. The update kinda shocked me and honestly I defended warzone 2.0 but there should be a good mix of the game being slow/fast and Verdansk has the perfect vibe.
Agreed, funny enough the Basilisks with snakeshot were apparently super broken strong for about an hour or two when Verdansk launched again, but they reeled those in almost instantly when word started to spread.
Before the update a lot of old guns were secretly buffed or had their attachments not negatives anymore however the Verdansk update increased the TTK of all bo6 weapon so we went back to square 1 with the mw weapons
Speaking of Ghost redesign got recommended this video
The new designs would be completely fine IF his mask had that lower jaw, without it he just looks like a really shitty airsofter. It doesn't help that the artists just kind of pull from "generic" tactical gear and give him literal airsoft quality stuff or Russian/Eastern equipment over slightly modified Western manufactured gear. It's kind of what pisses me off about his "Nightwar" skin. It irks my gear 'tism.
They also changed Maces designed in 22 too, like they were basically teasing the "Ghost" faction existed in the reboot and then dropped it entirely. Even without the skull mask the MW2 mace operator looks better than the BO6 battlepass one they made
I feel the Ghost redesign from MW2 to MWII/MWIII was poorly done. Ghost's design looks "tryhard," trying TOO hard to be menacing when it just looks uncanny.
There's also the complete shift in personality, because I highly doubt if Leach was still voicing Ghost, he'd sound so soy 24/7.
