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

[The Last Stand]

That's true, it was a lot like a discount Battlefield tbh now I think about it.

The biggest gap I noticed between the weapons was the Germans had a bolt-action for their rifleman class that I think always killed in 1 shot to the upper-body, whereas the US got the Garand which took 2 or 3. If you were a decent shot you could just waste people instantly at any range with the German rifle.

The POV and ADS in that game was too close.

The gun would be so close to your face. Especially compared to other shooters. I admire the gun detail, bit the blur can be distracting.

I don't know if it's lag or hit detection but CoD3's time to kill was inconsistent.

Not a bad game, but rushed.

 

[Miller]

I never played Ghosts but Infinite Warfare had a pretty fun campaign but I never got into the MP.

Call of Duty 3 had a surprisingly good multiplayer back in the day, this was before creating your own class was a thing so they actually had faction specific weapons for each class that changed how you played. It was shit for balance though, the Germans had an advantage in weapons & often won if the players on each team were equal in skill.

I liked the United Offensive expansion for the first CoD game on PC. Private servers, big maps, vehicles, class-based loadouts... It's a shame that they had to remove most features as they switched to the console market.

 

[ShortBusDriver]

I enjoyed CoD3 multiplayer.

I liked the preset classes and attention to detail with some of the maps.

If you had a full lobby, otherwise it's a hide and seek game. Maps were so big.

I never noticed a skill gap between Germans and American weaponry. I liked how it tried to incorporate team play with class specific abilities.

It is not Battlefield. But good enough.

Remember though COD3 was on consoles in the PS2 / Xbox age. It never had a PC release.

Battlefield started on the PC, when COD3 came out in 2006 it would have been competing against the superior Battlefield 2 which basically launched the world of open world sandbox style game play.

Or if you were really woke, you could have played a female with a black male side kick back in 2000 in this gem.

 

[MrJokerRager]

They better find a way to optimize their games because nothing can justify a CoD game to reach 250gb.

I am disappointed its not on steam. And Black Ops 1 is still $40.

 

[Vault Boy]

COD developers seriously need to work on getting their game's install sizes under control. I thought it was bad enough when they were 50-90 GB before Modern Warfare, but now Cold War's set to take up roughly a sixth of the new Xbox's SSD when it launches. I'm still looking forward to the game, but it doesn't have to be such a fucking glutton.

 

[Miller]

I wanted to play Cold War but I don't think it's worth wasting an entire week of internet just to download this game or even a part of it.

 

[Vault Boy]

I wanted to play Cold War but I don't think it's worth wasting an entire week of internet just to download this game or even a part of it.

Imagine how much slower it'd be when millions are downloading it all at once when it launches.

 

[Miller]

Imagine how much slower it'd be when millions are downloading it all at once when it launches.

...and then there's the queuing system just to launch BattleNet like during the beta.
It looks like you can pre-download the game now and it's just around 84 GB without the 4K texture pack.

I am disappointed its not on steam. And Black Ops 1 is still $40.

It's crazy that they refuse to put a lower price on the previous games. Even at 40 I bet that the map packs aren't included.

 

[Tramadol]

Some french guy got an early copy of BOCW, got to play zombies and streamed it on Twitch for about 4 hours before it was struck down by Activision. it's definitely different, you no longer get rewarded points per bullet and instead you pick it up after killing a horde, most likely to stop people from just picking weak guns in their loadout to rack up points with. there's a minimap, HUD is blue. Dead Ops Arcade 3 is in the game, there's acidhounds, hellhounds that spurt out acid when they die like a boomer from L4D

 

[Tramadol]

The entire lowdown on the launch map Die Maschine from a DMCA'd reddit thread

 

[ShortBusDriver]

Imagine how much slower it'd be when millions are downloading it all at once when it launches.

That's the problem with Xbox Live, that 40 gig patch takes well over 10 hours to download because everyone is hitting the same file at the same time.

You try and download something else and it's easily 10x faster.

I've got my copy ordered from Amazon and ready to go on Friday but I know it's going to hit me with some download a giant patch bullshit and I won't get to play until Saturday

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Huge campaign spoiler here. Haven't played Cold War yet but stumbled upon something very interesting today.

Spoiler

Imran Zakhaev shows up. Which means Cold War and Modern Warfare (2019) take place in the same timeline, and BO2/3/4 are being retconned out of existence. Or at least I think that's what's happening, it's all a bit confusing.

 

[The Last Stand]

Huge campaign spoiler here. Haven't played Cold War yet but stumbled upon something very interesting today.

Spoiler

Imran Zakhaev shows up. Which means Cold War and Modern Warfare (2019) take place in the same timeline, and BO2/3/4 are being retconned out of existence. Or at least I think that's what's happening, it's all a bit confusing.

Same name different character? Maybe it's connecting the two reboots together.

Treyarch said it was a direct sequel to the first Black Ops.

I wouldn't mind if they retconned out Black Ops 3/4.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

Huge campaign spoiler here. Haven't played Cold War yet but stumbled upon something very interesting today.

Spoiler

Imran Zakhaev shows up. Which means Cold War and Modern Warfare (2019) take place in the same timeline, and BO2/3/4 are being retconned out of existence. Or at least I think that's what's happening, it's all a bit confusing.

Didnt black ops 1 hint that it and the modern warfare trilogy took place in the same universe. Anyways my theory is that its a split timeline. Cod 1-3, united offensive, finest hour, Big red one, World at War, WW2, Black Ops 1, Cold War, the flashback missions of black ops 2, and the 2 flashback missions in the first modern warfare take place in all continuities. Things split when we get to the 21st century with one timeline housing the modernwarfare trilogy, the rest of black ops 2, black ops 3, and infinite warfare and the other being modern warfare 2019. Ghosts and advanced warfare occur in their own timelines and Zombies is a whole other can of worms

 

[ShortBusDriver]

Same name different character? Maybe it's connecting the two reboots together.

Treyarch said it was a direct sequel to the first Black Ops.

I wouldn't mind if they retconned out Black Ops 3/4.

I know people love / hate the operators but I liked Torque, that was my dude.

Funny enough he was the first one I unlocked in Blackout too.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Same name different character? Maybe it's connecting the two reboots together.

Treyarch said it was a direct sequel to the first Black Ops.

I wouldn't mind if they retconned out Black Ops 3/4.

Didnt black ops 1 hint that it and the modern warfare trilogy took place in the same universe. Anyways my theory is that its a split timeline. Cod 1-3, united offensive, finest hour, Big red one, World at War, WW2, Black Ops 1, Cold War, the flashback missions of black ops 2, and the 2 flashback missions in the first modern warfare take place in all continuities. Things split when we get to the 21st century with one timeline housing the modernwarfare trilogy, the rest of black ops 2, black ops 3, and infinite warfare and the other being modern warfare 2019. Ghosts and advanced warfare occur in their own timelines and Zombies is a whole other can of worms

Spoiler

It's the same Zakhaev as the one in MW19 apparently, so yeah it looks like they're connecting the universes. And it's structured in such a way that BO2-4 pretty much can't happen anymore. Kind of a clusterfuck, but the only one I'd really mourn is BO2 because I kinda liked it. BO3/4 were pure shit, from a story standpoint at least, so I have no problem with their erasure.

 

[The Last Stand]

Zombies is a whole other can of worms

Zombies take place in its own continuity with slight nods inside the Treyarch single player. I'm not counting World at War because no story was established between the first map and the story. (I'm referring to the Ray Gun easter egg in one level.)

 

[GreeneCoDeputy]

Minor CoD-related dustup in the YT creator sphere:

TL;DW:

• SidAlpha is reporting that 2M+-sub channel MrDalekJD has been creating videos made entirely of content stolen from CoD forum posts and other YT channels since around 2012.
• MrDalekJD has offered an apology for one of the videos on Twitter and then an apology for that same video today on his YT. Vaguely addressed other instances of plagiarism but didn't specify which videos contained plagiarism or what his sources were.
• Check his stuff if you've been a poster on any of the affected forums or produced any substantial CoD YT content for anything of yours that he's repurposed

Spoiler: SidAlpha videos

Spoiler: MrDalekJD apology video

 

[Foltest]

Remember though COD3 was on consoles in the PS2 / Xbox age. It never had a PC release.

Battlefield started on the PC, when COD3 came out in 2006 it would have been competing against the superior Battlefield 2 which basically launched the world of open world sandbox style game play.

Or if you were really woke, you could have played a female with a black male side kick back in 2000 in this gem.

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Underground was fucking great.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Spoiler

It's the same Zakhaev as the one in MW19 apparently, so yeah it looks like they're connecting the universes. And it's structured in such a way that BO2-4 pretty much can't happen anymore. Kind of a clusterfuck, but the only one I'd really mourn is BO2 because I kinda liked it. BO3/4 were pure shit, from a story standpoint at least, so I have no problem with their erasure.

Spoiler: Well...

Black ops 2 is still canon to a degree, they mention the Menendez cartel several times.