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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® |OT| No Russian To Buy Lootboxes
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This is the first COD game where I actually shut the console off because I booted into a server, saw the map and thought "Fuck it, I dont care about these maps"
The maps might still be redeemable if they fix spawns and the core gameplay, but as it stands, I have zero interest to play half of them
Wait so is that the reason why all of my matches have been super sweaty because of SBMM? I didn't even realize it was in the game haha. I just kept thinking it was because it was the luck of the draw.
Definitely not luck. It's a based on your previous few (5) matches
I'll take Shipment. Will be a pure carnage but will be fun to see the grenade, ammo box, and proximity mine mess on it.
Don't know why they were messing with perfection. Shipment was pure arcade fun. Same as rust.
My problem is when your in a higher bracket, you're basically forced meta weapons to compete.
I hope this game is a big learning experience for the franchise with map design. More areas and vantage spots do not equal better maps. If I turn a corner and have to account for like six possible locations where I can get shot from then it is seriously messed up I am just going to stay put. Another thing that has only recently hit me is just how many parts of these maps would be totally inaccessible in previous Cod games due the amount of locations that can be mantled/climbed.
My work sells those 15 min Douple XP Moutain Dews for 50 cents. I'm not proud of the amount of those I've bought :-/
The single biggest problem is that there's no feedback for what skill cohort you're placed into, so there's no good barometer for progress.
Digging into my own stats, I see that I have gotten demonstrably better at the game since I started playing (the first guns I leveled had about 10-20% accuracy; the latest guns I've been using have about 20-30% accuracy); my average score per game has also gone up from around 1000 to 2000, and my average kills have also gone up from 15 in the first few days of gameplay to now 30 on average.
Yet my K:D has dropped from 1.10 in the first week to now 1.04, and K:D is the one big stat the game throws in your face. Feels bad.
I can't figure out why guns feel so lethal in this game. I went through some old ttk charts for all of the CoD games, and they basically confirm that Modern Warfare really isn't among the fastest ttk's in the series, but I feel like I don't get melted as fast in CoD4 or MW2, even though those 2 games have way faster ttk's than Modern Warfare. Is this a netcode issue? A weapon handling issue? A time to death issue? Or am I the only one who feels this way?
What's infuriating to me is, Infinity Ward has ALL the stuff to make possibly one of the best COD MPs ever (no hyperbole). No Supply Drops, free maps, crossplay, gunplay is solid, etc. All sunk in by stubborness. Some have suggested that they make a "noob room" if they're scared that newbies will not play after being stomped, and I agree. Crysis did it before, and it kinda worked then.
I think what gets me the most is the enemy visibility issue. I died three times in Hackneye Yard today since I kept going back to the same spot just to see if I can spot that person who killed me. All three times? Nope. He was covered by shadow in one of the awnings or something. Just insane.
I can handle SBMM, i can handle that every match I play is at 50-75ms (I'm in Asia(, but the enemy visibility is what gets me. Add in that there's no red dots, super camping meta, and it's just a recipe for disaster. I usually play COD (outside of work) to have fun, but I find that I don't even have that and just hate myself for playing it.
Yes. COD YouTuber Xclusive Ace proved this. You're basically graded every five matches, and when you do well, you're going to be put in a lobby that will make your balls sweat (not in a good way).
This is honestly baffling to me. I mean, if a car salesman sold a fleet to a company and didn't return calls, we'd get lawsuits. IW just flat out left the subreddit, and only answers tech questions on Twitter. Oh, of course they acknowledge any positive stuff tweeted at them, too.
We just want confirmation or acknowledgement. You know those times when your pay gets delayed and the HR peeps have an update of "no update?" That's way better than being ignored. I don't blame the subreddit for being super negative now.
Gunplay in this is solid. I actually like it a lot. TTK is fine with me too. Euphrates Bridge is my most hated map ever. Even when we win, I feel like a cheater since I camp the enemy's spawn with a sniper. That shit is insane. I have no clue how that got past game testing.
Tavorsk in Ground War is super broken too. There's this building for the A side that if you camp, you can see people literally spawn on the firehouse thing. Me and the squad I was with just picked them off, and I gather, some of them quit. We unleashed streak after streak, and I feel for them since we did it not by skill, but by exploiting the game.
I think many people are holding on some hopes that this game can, and will, become the game they are clamoring for. But I doubt that that will happen. If you don't actively enjoy the game as it's currently is, you might as well quit already. Yes, the game can, and probably will, get better with time and patches. But it isn't fundamentally going to alter. Many of the proposed ideas won't actually achieve the desired effects.
This game is fundamentally a different game than the CoD games from the past. Although the differences are slight, I think there is no way to ignore this difference and push it in a way that it isn't designed for. All you will end up with is a worse game, rather than the game people are hoping for.
This game is fundamentally a different game than the CoD games from the past. Although the differences are slight, I think there is no way to ignore this difference and push it in a way that it isn't designed for. All you will end up with is a worse game, rather than the game people are hoping for.
Yes, it sucks in every way.
Even in a ground war it won't let you aim for shit on Quarry
Dude there has been times when I've ran right past someone in my sight cause they blend in to map too damn much. I've seen others do it as well.
I thought vacant was backlot and was hyped and while vacant is still good it has a few power positions that will be annoying if people camp heavy.
Some really fucking stupid answer here in my opinion. When it comes to the mini-map he's basically saying they're putting their fingers in their ears while screaming "LALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA", I don't even need the precise location of enemy gunfire on my map, just give me the general direction so I don't have to look at 2 separate HUD elements at the same time.
The answer as to why there's no map voting also makes 0 sense, as if people won't leave as well when you force a bad map down their throats.
Also, why close lobbies after a few games "to change it up"? It's fucking public matches, chances are that after 3 or so games so many people will have left to be replaced by another player that I'm playing with completely different people than I was half an hour ago anyway.
Also lol at the fact that he simply can't comment on SBMM, Infinity Ward is fully aware people hate it so they're just avoiding the topic.
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See that what I wanted was some kind of communication from the head guy but should have not taken this long.
They need to replace whoever is in charge like they did with WWII
I agree that this sucks but TBH I'm not sure how it's different from any other big game. They all have hidden skill ratings in their quick play modes they use for matchmaking.
League of Legends / DotA 2 / Overwatch / Siege / etc. All of the unranked game modes have a completely hidden Elo-style value assigned that they use for matchmaking.
Of those games I've really only played the first 3, but you get similar feelings in all of them, where you're technically getting better but it can be really hard to tell due your opponents equally getting better. Hell in stuff like League your stats will naturally trend worse as you go up as the people in the lowest ranks are so derpy at ending the game properly that you can get 100+ total kill games but then as you go up people play smarter & safer and will naturally trend your KDA down.
I guess the only exception those games has is in LoL / DotA you have other metrics that will trend up as you get better (e.g. CS if you're a laner in LoL), whereas CoD doesn't have much.
Get this dude off CoD. Sounds like he's the problem. Bunch of non answers.
Thanks Cock, now I know for sure that I can delete this garbage off my hard drive without feeling any regret, waiting for an overhaul update to come in any time soon.
I'll be on BLOPS4, call me when they get rid of this loser like what they did with WW2. I am gonna guess by January, when Activision sees the lower playerbase and the lack of $ being made from ppl buying their microtransactions.
I'll be on BLOPS4, call me when they get rid of this loser like what they did with WW2. I am gonna guess by January, when Activision sees the lower playerbase and the lack of $ being made from ppl buying their microtransactions.
What about after matches always having to find a new lobby every time.
edit: Saw it
They have to do this if Quick Play is going to work as it does currently.
You can't really let every player pick a bunch of completely different modes and keep the same lobby afterwards, so if they went back to the old system you'd only be able to queue for 1 mode at a time rather than have the option of user variety.
So believe it or not...i don't like playing against console players even though i play on PC because that super aim assist they have pisses me off when i lose a gun fight due to their clearly snap on aiming. So I turned cross play off and I mainly run domination and I just left a lobby because everyone else on my team left and then I got put right back in the same lobby. Looks like the PC player base is already dying eh..?
The key difference is that those are team games in which coordination is a key part of the gameplay, and the game itself is tuned primarily for the competitive scene. Players are incentivized to win, not "do well"--and their Elo is adjusted based on the outcome of the match, not their personal performance. COD is fundamentally a selfish game, as each player goes into a match with their own progression objectives. Your barometer is primarily your K:D, and the game is actively pushing down against you. Stabilizing in COD feels very different than stabilizing in League.
LMAO at most of these answers. I do at least appreciate some kind of answers, although I wish we had gotten some of this info a few weeks ago to save myself the headaches. Uninstalling, and with how fucking big the game (if we could install just MP I'd probably leave it) and my data cap this is pretty permanent uninstall unless there is a SIGNIFICANT turnaround on the game, aka this guy gets the boot like he honestly needs to. Even if you don't agree with a lot of the complaints, this guy seems really tone deaf. Godspeed everyone, I'll see you next year assuming Treyarch is able to slap that project together in 18 months; I mostly trust them, but not the timetable and what they were given.
Activision please "shuffle" this ass like you did with WW2.
Dude doesn't give a single fuck.
Professional player Aches is claiming that Infinity Ward is lying when they say they're working with pros to figure out what to do with Dead Silence
Props if you can reach the 40 hr xp limit. 😂
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Dropped White Phosphorus on a HQ and my team still couldn't capture it. What a game that was.
I may not enjoy the game but I'll certainly enjoy the backlash and possible train wreck if they've gotta change the game after being so damn stubborn. I'd honestly just take the L if they came out and said this is how they want it instead of being silent.
Yes but it's fine as is
The global footsteps was the bigger issue
It was this way in other COD games.
Although to be fair, in other COD games, when you were shot at, you had a chance to return fire.
The difference is that those are team based games. So yeah it makes sense to have a soft SBMM in quick play so teams aren't just thrown together with RNG.
CoD is not team based. CoD has always prioritized casual play over competitive. You can see this clearly with how ranked play has been treated in the past.
Skill-based matchmaking -- using Elo/MMR to determine who you match with.
The problem isn't that MW is using SBMM; it's their particular harsh implementation of it.
My guess is that they're trying to maximize their D30+ retention. They probably fought tooth and nail to convince ATVI HQ to allow them to go DLC-free, so now they have to put their money where their mouth is. COD traditionally has very heavy falloff throughout a product lifecycle and doesn't replenish with new users, so this time around they want to make sure that they capture the noob base as much as possible to ensure there's a population that actually spends. They probably figure the top X% of players are gonna stick with it no matter what.
So, who asked David Vonderhaar to "disconnect" from Call of Duty?
Not gonna happen i guess, after Infinity Wards "Call of Duty Modern Gunfight - 2vs2 or gtfo"
Not gonna happen i guess, after Infinity Wards "Call of Duty Modern Gunfight - 2vs2 or gtfo"
This is what you get with ultra fast TTK. Yet people will still defend it to death. Raise the TTK, watch campers have no idea what to do.