Not surprising considering that Ghosts also filtered out a lot of shitty/talentless players beforehand, and MW2019 is spiritually a Ghosts sequel. Oh, I know it says Modern Warfare, but pay attention to how they both play. Hell, one of the maps at launch was even a blatant Ghosts map ripoff, it's clear they used it as a base and pretty much made a next gen sequel with a more profitable name.
Ghosts could've been a Battlefield contender with the big maps if they established MW2019's gameplay loops back then.
I could see it, they added the dog Riley as an execution and the head art director alluded to Ghost/Mace being connected by the skull mask ala The Ghost faction existing again perhaps. I consider MW2019 the great buck breaking for regular CODfaggots, if you ever look on reddit /r/callofduty for example utterly screeches at its existence. The fact the game is still argued about till this day is insane to me. That sub reddit is nostalgia fag central and here comes a COD that basically appeals to old styled cod and its suddenly bad? I fucking hate cod players who talk about this shit online (its okay with you guys). The same guys who nostalgia circle jerk over fucking MW2 2009 would be crying bloody mary at how fucking slow it was. MW2019 wasnt even that slow its quite fast outside of ADS times.
The funniest part to me was that the doors and the return of asymmetrical maps(ie no three lanes, think Azir Cave, Grazna Raid and Piccadilly) buck broke so many cod casuals. Some, like Blame Truth, still cry about it to this day.
I remember everybody complaining about Piccadilly being the worst designed map in CoD yet. Presumably, because of the buses in the middle of the map, buildings you can camp in and sightlines off one edge that you could snipe from. I never cared for the possible ambushes in the middle from the buses, especially in objective modes.
Piccadilly is a brilliant map in Domination. You can cause a lot of mayhem by hanging out in the buildings near the enemy spawn, as long only one guy is doing it, the spawns won't flip. Some of the MW2019 maps really were pretty bad, but it was because they were actually experimenting with map design and trying to make things that played differently. You're bound to have a few stinkers when you're not using a cookie cutter layout.
Most, if not, all customization now is tied to battle passes and LTEs. I try to customize my playercard or play as another operator, I'm greeted with "obtainable via battle pass or purchase." The only way I'm able to obtain playercards from MWIII was through the prestige challenges. Still, I'm locked out of the majority of the content for a game I paid for.
MW2019 had tons of blueprints you could unlock via challenges. MWII just had stickers, keychains and other gay shit I didn't care about.
If you laid out any maps from MW2019, it'd be difficult for me to place them. To me, they all blur together as industrial. You know, factories, oil rigs, run down towns. The remade maps from prior MWs are nicely done, but they're just that: remade maps from games I've played before. It does feel like the maps are the same, but the players are smaller. An illusion that the maps are bigger but conceptually, they're the same.
Compared to later entries, movement feel lighter than expected. You can't move while prone, oddly enough. Sliding don't always work. It's heavier than older CoDs.
Oh, I remember those.
Ah the good old skill based match making.
When its on easy mode have you noticed that people dont see you for the few first seconds when you meet them, and you always get the first shot easy.
I was just complaining about that. It's a way to ease you into it. Then, I start thinking, are the other players enjoying themselves because I'm performing well to however the game allows me to?
There's a section in MWII after the match that would ask you to play again with the team. You click on play again with team, another prompt asks you to confirm yes or no. If you don't, it doesn't even boot you to the pre-game lobby, it boots you out to the multiplayer selection screen. It's complicated for no reason.
It doesn't even make sense in practice. If you're doing well, the game shouldn't put you in lobbies with people that infinitely better than you for five games straight. That's why these streamers "reverse boost" by intentionally killing themselves so that they could get into bot lobbies. You'd think the system would recognize the sudden increase/decrease of skill and handle it.
There isn't a lot that's 1:1 CoD. Best I can recommend you is playing OG cods with 3rd party launchers like plutonium that let you self host, have bots, and mod the game.
