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Call of Duty Thread - Potential return to form? Or nothing but cope on the horizon? You decide!
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Just finished the campaign. I liked it a lot even though they clearly left it unfinished for the multiplayer seasons.
I hear MP is a cluster fuck. Will probably check it out tomorrow.
I hear MP is a cluster fuck. Will probably check it out tomorrow.
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Nope, at least not that I noticed. I also didn't notice any of the supposed Menendez Cartel references either though so I could have just missed it but if he does show up I think it's just going to be a mention or easter egg at best. Mason is there but he has a much more subdued presence in the campaign. There is only really one or two references to the numbers during some briefing cutscenes.
Edit: Now that I play multiplayer I see the Menendez Cartel references are there.
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I'm enjoying the campaign so far, but I find it odd that a game that takes place in the 80s gives you a choice to be "non binary" and has a joke about fat shaming, which admittedly I laughed at. I don't think those terms even existed back then, let alone used by the military.
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Excuse me but at this point it´s most likely just there to keep those speds off their back.
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I'm finding that this is in fact the case with many of these things.
Like you know how animals disguise themselves to resemble other animals so predators will avoid them and pass them by, it's a similar form of logic. Nobody wants to be willingly dragged into the retard bucket of crabs known as twitter.
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So how extensive is the branching story in this game. Black Ops 2 was no New Vegas or even a David Cage game but the amount of narrative branches in that game was above and beyond what most people would expect from a COD game (it was even better than a good chunk of games that have :your choices matter" as a tagline).
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The only time the story branches at all is during the second to last mission where your choice results in getting the good ending mission or the bad ending mission.
All other choices end up just being mentioned during a final debrief after the ending. (possibly changing dialogue in some missions too but I can't remember for sure)
There are a lot of dialogue prompts, but outside of one mission I don't think they really effect anything. (and those effects are only in the mission itself and no matter what I think it plays out the same way you just get different options for getting to the end of the mission)
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So, now that I've had a bit of time with the MP, I have some thoughts. I'll be linking some Xclusive Ace videos, since he goes into more detail on a lot of the problems.
The biggest one is that this game is blatantly unfinished, likely due to the dev dustup and Treyarch getting saddled with the project. There's only 8 6v6 maps, four of which (Cartel, Moscow, Miami and Satellite) were in the beta, and two of which are simply cut-down versions of combined arms maps. This is unacceptable for a $70 game and Combined Arms/Fireteam Dirty Bomb do not make up for it. I can't see myself still playing in a month if they don't add more maps fast.
Contrast this to every other game in this franchise since CoD4, it's the second lowest map count, beat out only by MW2019 (which had only SIX 6v6 maps at launch.).
As for the (6v6) maps we do have:
-Cartel still needs a lawnmower, the map would flow much better if the bushes in the center were reduced to waist high.
-Miami, Moscow and Satellite are fine, if a bit overly large. I've enjoy playing them.
-Crossroads is actually one of the best maps in the set. It's small with a lot of close quarters combat, one of the only maps where shotguns are viable in any real capacity.
-I haven't played Armada yet, despite playing all day. Is it not in the rotation?
-Checkmate is pretty good, lots of power positions for sniping if you wish. I do think it would benefit from some more cover around the plane though.
-Garrison is mediocre but fine, a basic three lane structure map that's completely serviceable.
The Dirty Bomb map is pretty good, I've enjoyed the couple matches I had in that mode. (I even won a round!)
Lobbies are disbanding after every game like with Modern Warfare. This is likely to help with SBMM, and to allow the Quickplay system to work properly. Personally, I wish they would remove Quickplay, I liked the feel of playing multiple games with the same group of people.
(Timestamped embed, 25:05 if it doesn't work. It's in his MW video, but the concept is exactly the same in CW.)
SBMM has either been toned down a lot, or I simply haven't had enough time to really notice the effects yet. I've consistently gone 1.5-double positive today, and the lobbies have still had a good mix of a couple sweats and some less good players.
Aim assist is totally borked in a way that's never been seen in this series. Seriously, it's crazy how screwy it is, and I've noticed it significantly affecting my aim. Very annoying, hopefully quickly fixed.
Basically, the game has the potential to be extremely good, but is being held back by a rushed dev cycle and Activi$ion's greed. Hopefully something is done fast, because right now, I honestly can't recommend buying if you only play MP. Maybe the Campaign/Zombies is great though, I'm planning on giving those a shot tomorrow.
Completely unrelated, but Optic Gaming is officially back under Hecz, and that made me happy. King Scump's Greenwall is back, boys.
The biggest one is that this game is blatantly unfinished, likely due to the dev dustup and Treyarch getting saddled with the project. There's only 8 6v6 maps, four of which (Cartel, Moscow, Miami and Satellite) were in the beta, and two of which are simply cut-down versions of combined arms maps. This is unacceptable for a $70 game and Combined Arms/Fireteam Dirty Bomb do not make up for it. I can't see myself still playing in a month if they don't add more maps fast.
Contrast this to every other game in this franchise since CoD4, it's the second lowest map count, beat out only by MW2019 (which had only SIX 6v6 maps at launch.).
As for the (6v6) maps we do have:
-Cartel still needs a lawnmower, the map would flow much better if the bushes in the center were reduced to waist high.
-Miami, Moscow and Satellite are fine, if a bit overly large. I've enjoy playing them.
-Crossroads is actually one of the best maps in the set. It's small with a lot of close quarters combat, one of the only maps where shotguns are viable in any real capacity.
-I haven't played Armada yet, despite playing all day. Is it not in the rotation?
-Checkmate is pretty good, lots of power positions for sniping if you wish. I do think it would benefit from some more cover around the plane though.
-Garrison is mediocre but fine, a basic three lane structure map that's completely serviceable.
The Dirty Bomb map is pretty good, I've enjoyed the couple matches I had in that mode. (I even won a round!)
Lobbies are disbanding after every game like with Modern Warfare. This is likely to help with SBMM, and to allow the Quickplay system to work properly. Personally, I wish they would remove Quickplay, I liked the feel of playing multiple games with the same group of people.
(Timestamped embed, 25:05 if it doesn't work. It's in his MW video, but the concept is exactly the same in CW.)
SBMM has either been toned down a lot, or I simply haven't had enough time to really notice the effects yet. I've consistently gone 1.5-double positive today, and the lobbies have still had a good mix of a couple sweats and some less good players.
Aim assist is totally borked in a way that's never been seen in this series. Seriously, it's crazy how screwy it is, and I've noticed it significantly affecting my aim. Very annoying, hopefully quickly fixed.
Basically, the game has the potential to be extremely good, but is being held back by a rushed dev cycle and Activi$ion's greed. Hopefully something is done fast, because right now, I honestly can't recommend buying if you only play MP. Maybe the Campaign/Zombies is great though, I'm planning on giving those a shot tomorrow.
Completely unrelated, but Optic Gaming is officially back under Hecz, and that made me happy. King Scump's Greenwall is back, boys.
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Double post, but on the topic of CoD youtubers, has anyone heard of Nixaru?
He covered Zombies lore, and made some thorough breakdowns of the story. Anyway, at some point a year or two ago the guy trooned out, changing his channel name to Vixarya. At that point, he went off the deep end, releasing videos about how the lesbian kiss in BO4 was offensive or some shit and a whole host of other SJW topics. I had given up on his channel as soon as he trooned out (before this video), and completely forgot he existed not long after.
With CW's release, I intended to go back and rewatch some of those lore videos, to try to catch up on the story again. Well, apparently in November of last year (if SocialBlade is to be believed) he DFE'd his whole channel, disappearing off the face of the Internet. I haven't found any archives of his stuff, save for a reaction video of one of the last videos he made.
You can hear his voice if you can suffer through this faggot's shitty reactions.
(I hadn't seen this before, holy shit, it's even cringier than I thought. He actually says "She should be protected from the male gaze" at one point.)
The only clue I have to the whole situation is a Reddit thread (A) discussing it, although (Redditors being Redditors) they make sure you understand they are NOT transphobic. Apparently, he got called out hard on the political agenda shit, and couldn't handle getting laughed at. When even Reddit can't stand you despite being a tranny, you've got a problem.
A shame really, I enjoyed his brand of autism. (I'm fairly certain he had actual autism, the link between the auts and troonery keeps growing.)
Quick edit - This is strange, apparently he may have been an ageplay fetishist? Maybe there's some other explanation, but I don't know what "weird ass baby video" could refer to otherwise. I don't think the video itself exists any more, so this is all speculation.
He covered Zombies lore, and made some thorough breakdowns of the story. Anyway, at some point a year or two ago the guy trooned out, changing his channel name to Vixarya. At that point, he went off the deep end, releasing videos about how the lesbian kiss in BO4 was offensive or some shit and a whole host of other SJW topics. I had given up on his channel as soon as he trooned out (before this video), and completely forgot he existed not long after.
With CW's release, I intended to go back and rewatch some of those lore videos, to try to catch up on the story again. Well, apparently in November of last year (if SocialBlade is to be believed) he DFE'd his whole channel, disappearing off the face of the Internet. I haven't found any archives of his stuff, save for a reaction video of one of the last videos he made.
You can hear his voice if you can suffer through this faggot's shitty reactions.
The only clue I have to the whole situation is a Reddit thread (A) discussing it, although (Redditors being Redditors) they make sure you understand they are NOT transphobic. Apparently, he got called out hard on the political agenda shit, and couldn't handle getting laughed at. When even Reddit can't stand you despite being a tranny, you've got a problem.
A shame really, I enjoyed his brand of autism. (I'm fairly certain he had actual autism, the link between the auts and troonery keeps growing.)
Quick edit - This is strange, apparently he may have been an ageplay fetishist? Maybe there's some other explanation, but I don't know what "weird ass baby video" could refer to otherwise. I don't think the video itself exists any more, so this is all speculation.
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Seems that, like Infinite Warfare, Cold War's Campaign and Zombies modes are solid, but the MP is very underwhelming.
Except that even Infinite Warfare had much more content than this game does.
Except that even Infinite Warfare had much more content than this game does.
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I remember that guy, his channel was pretty good too. All I remember was that I watched all of his AW lore videos right before he trooned out, so I was very confused when he deleted all of his CoD videos and announced he is trans & said his audience was basically problematic. Makes me happy that the community called him out on it and Tim Hansen is a better Zombies YouTuber than he is.
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Guy on Reddit figuring it out.
So apparently the PS4 version will automatically download instead of the PS5 version. And some people didn't notice for until last night. Guess that 500 dollar upgrade was really noticeable after all...
So apparently the PS4 version will automatically download instead of the PS5 version. And some people didn't notice for until last night. Guess that 500 dollar upgrade was really noticeable after all...
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I had 3 full crashes on the Series X this weekend in the first 5 1/2 hours of game time - two in multiplayer and one in solo zombies. The console completely powered down and I had to power on through the console power button rather than the linked controller. Since then it’s been running smoothly, I shut the game down just under 12 hours.
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BOCWs MP is so shit, every gunfight is a dice roll, the higher TTK to leads to many “shoot first, die first” as the gun with the higher DPS will always win (fuck the MP5), Satellite. We only got 2 new 6v6 maps since the beta, feels like an extended beta at this point. I’m sure this game will be really fun after they work out the kinks. I’m loving zombies, it has enough for the die hard fans (besides the lackluster Easter egg) but yet it’s easy enough that the Warzone babies can figure out what to do
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