Does this game have the most complaining, negative player base or what?
Because at its current state, it's dogshit? Maps are bad, spawns are bad, weapon balance are bad, perks are bad, need I go on? It's like what others have said: Infinity Ward has devolutionized years of FPS gameplay mechanics learning.
I just now realised that launchers only level with kills, and not by, y'know, doing what some of them are more-or-less designed gameplay-wise to do and take out killstreaks. Shit's so backwards.
Yep. Sigh. Just insane.
Okay I want one of the people who claim tanks are "no big deal" in Ground War and just "javelin them in 2 shots" to directly fucking explain themselves. I just spent an ENTIRE GAME of Ground War trying to take one out with the javelin, the guy never died and wound up with 101 kills. The javelin can lock onto things, but it comes down right where the thing was when you locked on right? Me and this other dude were javelining this thing nonstop and even with a lockon I was getting like one hitmarker every 5-8 shots. Dude just sat up on the edge of the quarry the entire game and totally fucking shit on us, I went like 4-30 or something. I'm seeing nothing but the same complaints online and from streamers, but every once in a while I see some dude who is just like "javelin them in two shots easy lul" and I want a direct explanation and fucking video evidence of this shit. I'm only even in this complete dogshit mode because I am total fucking trash at sniping but need 30 sniper kills for this mission so I thought it'd be easier here, and I've gotten like 4 sniper kills in 5 games because I've gotten quarry 5 times in a row and we're just getting shit on by tanks on the edge of the map non fucking stop.
It is literally beyond me how anyone enjoys this mode. I fucking LOVE big team bullshit chaos but the ttk of CoD just does NOT lend itself to this whatsoever. I usually can at least break even in regular modes, in this I'm lucky to pull off .5 k/d most games, and I do NOT have this problem in BF or other large scale multiplayer games. It's you running for 20 seconds because you can never spawn on your squad or any capture point anywhere near any action because it's being contested, then being oneshot by someone from one of the five thousand angles 200 yards away you couldn't have possible anticipated. It's actual trash and IW should feel bad. If I could reasonably get sniper kills on any map but the bridge in regular multiplayer (again I am NOT good at sniping, it's the only thing I've never been great at in 20+ years of playing MP games) I'd just do it there.
I don't want to play GW since it just devolves into snipe-fests, but what can I do? I don't enjoy the traditional 6v6 mode too. I just played a match where the entire team was screaming at the spawns and how bad it is. I felt bad for them to be honest.
The thing that gets me with this game is that does almost nothing new. There has been some logic to this generation of Call of Duty not doing as well as the last - they have made notable changes to the formula, from movement to special abilities, even COD WWII with its Divisions.
This game uses the name and concepts for a game from over a decade ago and struggles with it. I find it hard to imagine, following on from the Modern Warfare series, what design problems they've actually solved in 2+ years of development to leave the ones present in the game.
Exactly! It's like someone at IW thought "Gee, I wonder what would happen if we make everything slower, take out whatever it is we learned from past games and just implement new gameplay ideas without checking to see why they're like that in the first place." And we have this Frankenstein-like game that NO ONE asked for.
Did you like it in the multiplayer tests?
I did but it wasn't this bad. If I knew then that it was like this, I'd have voiced out a long time ago.
There is no way the spawn system is working properly sometimes in this game. I just played a match of TDM on Aniyah Palace and we spawn locked the enemy team in this tiny little one building area of the map for the last 85% of the match. The game never stopped spawning them there despite us pushing in more and more. It was absolutely crazy dumb. I am just glad I was on the good side of that.
Whenever that happens, I feel bad. I know we're doing this because the game is broken and I feel for the enemy team. It's like, it's not their fault that the game is terrible in the most basic ways. There are bad spawns, and there are Modern Warfare 2019-level bad spawns. I check the COD YTers and literally almost 90 percent of them are shitting on this game. I doubt Infinity Ward will listen. It's when the pros whine though, that's when they do since they can't cost Activision that MLG money.
Pros complaining about footsteps? Yep, insta-"we're taking a look at that." Dead Silence? Same thing. Yeesh. It's as if regular gamers didn't have a hand in making the game sell well.
I'm telling you, if this doesn't get fixed soon, this game will die before January 2020. I have friends (anecdotal but still) who play COD all the damn time whenever it comes out, but not MW. They stopped at level 30+ and were complaining about the same shit (spawns, map design, etc.).