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

[Madre Muerte]

As long as you can play as a Nazi I'm happy.

 

[The Last Stand]

As long as you can play as a Nazi I'm happy.

Remind me to create a Black female Nazi Axis for WW2.

 

[Vault Boy]

A few other details about the game from the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit:

-Will run on a more advanced version of the MW engine.
-Swastikas are in due to Germany repealing the ban on depicting them a couple of years back.
-Will feature a 4 player co-op campaign.
-Will launch with over 20 maps (personally think some will be "launch window" maps).
-Will feature content beyond the Pacific (a leaked screenshot hints at Netherlands due to Dutch windmills).

Overall, I'm feeling a bit mixed here. A lot of this sounds appealing, but the main characters (?) are sort of giving me Battlefield V vibes in terms of uniform design (at least it looks like they won't be as "wacky" as the robot arm Tracer knockoff from the BFV teaser).

I'm willing to wait for the reveal before judging the game completely, so finger's crossed that they deliver.

 

[Miller]

-Will feature a 4 player co-op campaign.

They better have dedicated servers and a drop-in/drop-out system or it will be a nightmare like the Zombies modes.

-Will feature content beyond the Pacific (a leaked screenshot hints at Netherlands due to Dutch windmills).

This reminds me of BFV and how DICE subverted people's expectations by refusing to make maps based on iconic WW2 moments.

-Swastikas are in due to Germany repealing the ban on depicting them a couple of years back.

I'm gonna press X on that because it will put the game journos in foetal position.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

A lot of this sounds appealing, but the main characters (?) are sort of giving me Battlefield V vibes in terms of uniform design (at least it looks like they won't be as "wacky" as the robot arm Tracer knockoff from the BFV teaser).

This is to be expected at this point. I mean, they pretty much turned Black Ops into GI Joe so I'm expecting a similar treatment for Vanguard so they can sell goofy skins for the inevitable BR/Warzone integration.

(that being said, I actually like Black Ops turning into GI Joe but I think it works better due to the 80's time frame. I don't think it works with something as serious as WWII)

 

[ZMOT]

-Swastikas are in due to Germany repealing the ban on depicting them a couple of years back.

just for clarification, the ban in still intact, what changed is that video games now fall under art (not in the journo sense, but expression) where depiction was always allowed. it was retarded from the start, just took a while for someone do to something about it.

here's some history and more information if anyone's curious:
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=dd44ce45-d5cf-4189-a1b6-7bcc7e31605f

 

[Vault Boy]

This is to be expected at this point. I mean, they pretty much turned Black Ops into GI Joe so I'm expecting a similar treatment for Vanguard so they can sell goofy skins for the inevitable BR/Warzone integration.

(that being said, I actually like Black Ops turning into GI Joe but I think it works better due to the 80's time frame. I don't think it works with something as serious as WWII)

Yeah, the time of authentic looking WWII games has passed thanks to microtransactions being easy money.

I can hope that the campaign will look the part like WWII did, but who knows what they have planned for that.

just for clarification, the ban in still intact, what changed is that video games now fall under art (not in the journo sense, but expression) where depiction was always allowed. it was retarded from the start, just took a while for someone do to something about it.

here's some history and more information if anyone's curious:
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=dd44ce45-d5cf-4189-a1b6-7bcc7e31605f

Regardless, I'm glad that they can stop pussyfooting around and depict the Germans as they were in that war.

Really, was the Iron Cross fooling anyone? Just come out and say what they really are and be done with it.

 

[The Last Stand]

This is to be expected at this point. I mean, they pretty much turned Black Ops into GI Joe so I'm expecting a similar treatment for Vanguard so they can sell goofy skins for the inevitable BR/Warzone integration.

(that being said, I actually like Black Ops turning into GI Joe but I think it works better due to the 80's time frame. I don't think it works with something as serious as WWII)

Since they added Gi Joe in Cold War, could they at least do Hollywood actresses from that era? I would gladly pay money for a Hedi Lamarr skin.

 

[LTO Data Cartridge]

The zombies subreddit is currently going schizo mode trying to find evidence that there'll be more maps after the next. I am now a believer because unfounded hype is fucking based.

 

[Miller]

I just saw this, apparently they will soon stop supporting Windows 7.

 

[X Pac Heat]

lol wut?

So like...they just won't release content if you use Windows 7 after September? Which means you just don't get Season 6?

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Getting BFV vibes from Vanguard so far which is not a good sign.

I'm just tired of WW2 shit. If it was going to be a grittier, darker take like WAW, then maybe I'd be interested. But you just know it's going to be sanitized, hollywoodified trash like WWII was.

Frankly I think I'd be more interested in an Advanced Warfare 2 than yet another WW2 game, but I guess I'm in the minority that actually kind of liked that game.

 

[LTO Data Cartridge]

Getting BFV vibes from Vanguard so far which is not a good sign.

I'm just tired of WW2 shit. If it was going to be a grittier, darker take like WAW, then maybe I'd be interested. But you just know it's going to be sanitized, hollywoodified trash like WWII was.

Frankly I think I'd be more interested in an Advanced Warfare 2 than yet another WW2 game, but I guess I'm in the minority that actually kind of liked that game.

Advanced movement was cool as fuck but was sacrificed on the altar of the retard horde that doesn't know what it wants

lol wut?

So like...they just won't release content if you use Windows 7 after September? Which means you just don't get Season 6?

No, it just means they won't try to make the content with windows 7 in mind, so any windows 7 specific issues won't be fixed.

 

[The Last Stand]

Advanced movement was cool as fuck but was sacrificed on the altar of the retard horde that doesn't know what it wants

Advanced movement doesn't work well with CoD. It feels like a gimmick when it only works at very specific moments. The maps are very rigged as well. You can't wall run everything in Black Ops III/Infinite Warfare. There are invisible walls in Advanced Warfare and death barriers. You can't boost jump that high.

 

[Miller]

Frankly I think I'd be more interested in an Advanced Warfare 2 than yet another WW2 game, but I guess I'm in the minority that actually kind of liked that game.

I want an Infinite Warfare 2, tbh. Since we're in the "next gen", they could finally add vehicles, big maps, space fights, etc. I would have loved to see ship to ship battles in various places in the Sol system.

 

[ZMOT]

Frankly I think I'd be more interested in an Advanced Warfare 2 than yet another WW2 game, but I guess I'm in the minority that actually kind of liked that game.

tell me about it, I want more infinite warfare, anything, and that's even more unlikely...

I want an Infinite Warfare 2, tbh. Since we're in the "next gen", they could finally add vehicles, big maps, space fights, etc. I would have loved to see ship to ship battles in various places in the Sol system.

seamingless taking off and space flight alone blew my mind considering it's still the same corridor-shooter engine.
not to mention the universe itself has immense potential to be milked, even more now after expanse has replaced GoT as the new "must see". the way the campaign ended you wouldn't even need to reference cod that much.

Advanced movement doesn't work well with CoD. It feels like a gimmick when it only works at very specific moments. The maps are very rigged as well. You can't wall run everything in Black Ops III/Infinite Warfare. There are invisible walls in Advanced Warfare and death barriers. You can't boost jump that high.

wasn't really an issue in IW imo, and I came from titanfall.

 

[X Pac Heat]

I wish people would stop calling all this Vanguard shit leaks at this point.

It's obvious as fuck that Activision/Sledgehammer are releasing this shit. I'm kind of sick of the whole "leaking" marketing. I think Ubisoft started it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Will Vanguard be a direct sequel to WWII? Could that work with a World War II game?

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Apparently the first Vanguard teaser is in the Warzone outro.



Reddit fags already crying about the timeline.

Edit: Apparently this character was in Concept Art for Sledgehammers version of Cold War, leading people to believe they're just adapting the material that wasn't used in the final game into a WWII setting.

 

[Vault Boy]

Will Vanguard be a direct sequel to WWII? Could that work with a World War II game?

It'll be one in the sense of it being another game set in WWII. As for being a continuation of the story, very doubtful since that game's squad fought to the end of the war. Unless they have some North Africa missions featuring Pierson (an insight into what happened at Kassarine Pass), this will probably be its own beast.

Now if the game featured the Eastern Front with Reznov and Petrenko as squad mates, that would be the shit.