CoD Multiplayer is in Serious Trouble...
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- The popularity and relevancy of Call of Duty's multiplayer is in possibly the worst state I've ever seen and I feel corrective action must be taken in order to get it back on the right track. In today's video, I share what I feel are some of the biggest factors contributing to the rapid decline of multiplayer and how I'd like to see them corrected. What do you think of the current trajectory of CoD's multiplayer?
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I hate the disbanding of lobbies, I used to love joining into a lobbies vsing a few sweats and trying to take the lobby over. Or just play a competitive match
Sbmm needs to go into effect lol
Bo4 still lit lol
Completely agree with you, never mind the fact that it takes almost as long in between rounds to load into a new lobby as it does to play a round
Agreed, the wee mini competitions you'd have against the other top fragger for a few games in a row to then finally get put into a team together and run through the other team was genuinely some of the most fun I ever had
It's really annoying, who thought disbanding lobbies was a good idea? Also wish map voting would return, or at least you could choose maps like you choose modes so you don't have to play on maps you don't enjoy
Breaking down CODs decline while his operator is experiencing a fire glitch is epic.
I thought his character was literally on fire because HE was figuratively on fire. That kill streak was epic.
Getting a V2 with that was nuts. As soon as I get the glitch I'm expected myself to die in the next few seconds or so.
@@iLL_WiLL_ I actually always kill myself instantly when I get that bug. I just can't play without getting distracted by the flames.
That’s the new fire skin!
I HATE THE FIRE GLITCH SO MUCH
Can we talk about how attrocious the menu system is. They've been lazy and keep using it for the past 3 years. Currently, there are 8 menu tabs, each with there own cluttered submenus. I actually had to look up a guide to find how to join a clan because i didn't see the "social" button in the top right. It's not user friendly and i miss the days of one menu with "Find a Match", "Loadouts", "Barracks", etc. It's terrible UX design and needs to be looked at.
Agreed.
And theyre lazy as hell. They kept the same main menu with CW, Vanguard, MW & warzone all together
Good ol "Find a Match"🙏🥺
Activision: “you know what would be the most fun for everyone?”
No one:
Activision: “if everyone has as close to a 1:1 kd as possible”
the new BR Super People is so fun with no SBMM.. like as a 1kda player which is borderline bad sometimes i go below it, having a good time in such a non sweaty lobby. If i lose to super good players yeah sure. But its not sweaty and have been playing it alot.
Warzone though? SBMM makes it so sweaty it is more stressful than enjoyable.. with a bad kda + bad players who likes to cheats it makes it worst...
@@countpuchi This video and comment were made regarding call of duty’s Multiplayer. I don’t know about you, but I and many others are sick of br’s and just want a fun, enjoyable multiplayer experience
@@alphaomega8774 exactly. I don’t like BR. I just wanna play fast paced multiplayer games in small maps
@@alphaomega8774 Not everyone is the same as you. BRs are much more fun for a lot of people and others love Plunder over BR and MP. The issue is that any BR or Plunder you drop into since season 1 is sweaty AF unless you're a new player.
"remove the scoreboard people are to sad at the end of the game and gonna get off"
They need to:
1. Tone down SBMM
2. Bring back map voting
3. Get rid of disbanding lobbies
4. Bring back classic prestige system with improvements
5. Seperate Warzone from regular annual COD games
6. Add more meaningful and rewarding things to grind for
7. Implement a good ranked system
Yep. Also whatever they did that cause MW19 to constantly remove all of your data packages after every other update should never happen again. Really add unneeded frustration to an already disappointing game.
SSBM isn't that bad in this game, I can tell because my friends have bad KD but mine is decent and we dont have problems finding games like in MW or Cold war. and its actually 50/50 whether the lobby disbands, sometimes it just queues up the same people. I swear everyone who is critical of Vanguard has never played it
@@choppaa4204 I agree it definitely feels looser in Vanguard which is nice, but I have a feeling it's only because of the fact that the game is not as popular as CW and MW. Lobbies for me seem to disband every game, it's very rare for me to see a lobby that continues past 1 game.
They could absolutely have events in warzone that feature stuff from the current games instead of completely overhauling the entire weapons system every year.
Warzone ruined call of duty. Most of the retarded changes to game play that MW2019 were 100% only because of warzone in mind.
Black Ops 4 was the last call of duty title.
@@SirJimiee I think it’s like what Ace said. The long time diehards have started to disappeared from this game at a much higher rate than in years past. I’m in that boat too. Some I think is due to us getting older and no longer being their primary audience, but alot of it has to do with the Devs never listening to feedback and changing things that we never wanted changed and the taking 2-3 games before any change is reverted.
this is so true, and it's only the tip of the iceberg! you didn't talk about the 70 attachments to unlock per guns, (65 of them useless), 30 differents guns but everyone using the same 2 or 3 guns... and so on... they need to do a good base game and develop it over the years and not sell a half-developed game every year...
This. No one ever talks about the ridiculous amount of attachments the guns have now. I miss the pick 10 when unlocking attachments wasn’t so grind-y
I like the 10 attachments, but what I can’t stand is…if you want to nickel and dime us for blueprints, allows all of the attachments for that gun to fit that theme. Why do they charge us for a blueprint with subpar attachments and expect us to use that setup especially when it can’t compete with the meta weapons? It absolutely makes no sense to me. The only thing I can think of, in the defense of the devs, could it be that it’ll require more memory and take up more space?
Going to say the exact same thing. 70 levels per gun is effing ludicrous. I don't want to use the same gun for 10s of hours. It gets stale. And most of the ridiculous amounts of attachments are stupid. Like why have 20+ sights on each gun.
Has always been 2-3 guns.
BO1: Ak74u, Famas, Aug
MW3: ACR, Mp7
BO2: An94, Scar, MSMC
Ghosts: Ak12
AW: ASM-1, Bal-27
…
I don’t mind all the attachments but the fact that most of them are useless and the good ones are near the end of the unlock progression is so stupid. MW2019 did it much better.
Breaking up the lobbies honestly killed the franchise for me. A HUGE part of the fun of COD was the competitive trash talking and making rivals and friends. Now with SBMM it's just exhausting.
LMAO 🤣
The disbanding lobby thing really hits home, I took a few years off gaming and then got into MW 2019 and not being able to stick in lobbies and make gaming friends or troll the shit out of a rager sorta killed then fun for me
LMAO 🤣
I will agree that lobbies sticking together after games was like a trademark that only call of duty had for a long time and when they removed that it really felt like the game just became stale because if you lost to a good player 1 game and you wanted to stick in the lobby and try and get revenge the next game. Now you can’t or you found a cool bunch of guys with mic’s and everyone just stayed in the lobby and all played with and against each other for hours that was really what the good old days of cod were about not the maps or the genre or the setting of the game. Disbanding lobbies is truly what made cod lose its soul. Disbanding lobby’s is the worst change cod has ever made
AGREE 10000%
True
Remember joining a match with group of players with mics and then playing together for hours vibing, adding each other when you log off, and do it again another time. Good times…
I couldn’t agree more. I made so many friends back in the MW3/ BO2 days (that I’m still friends with) through search and destroy public matches and it was because we were able to play multiple games together without those lobbies disbanding. We also would compete to see who could get to master prestige first and it was honestly the best time I’ve ever had playing COD.
Everyone agrees that lobbies disband and it sucks,but no one asks why. No it isn't SBMM as the older CoDs had it and the lobbies didn't disband(and btw the reason that made it feel that wasn't no SBMM at all was the fact that 1 it was less strict and 2 the SBMM would only kick in if you quit the lobby after the matches and try to find a new one). Disbanding lobbies is a byproduct of Quick Play(because when ppl are searching for multiple different modes at the same time you can't keep them together however the lobbies shouldn't disband if we're talking about 24/7 playlists or moshpits). Fuck it this is why I'm gonna get my hands dirty and become a game developer in the near future
The game is no longer made for player enjoyment. It is made solely to cater to new players to the point that they won’t quit the game, in hopes that they purchase a couple of skins, and by then they already got $40 or so more out of that player than they would’ve had before, so they profit.
Couldn't have said it better myself
"Games-as-chores"... Games today are built saying "better keep playing so that way you unlock everything on time, or else you're going to be worse than everyone else" while hiding the fact that even if you do improve, you're going to be put into a lobby where you can only improve so much, where once a 6KD meant you were a badass, now a 2KD means you're a badass, but you're sweating your ass off. I really hope they start to focus on quality content rather than quantity. Perfect example: Counter-Strike 1.6. nobody played for any sort of gain, except for whenever you joined a server you frequented, you felt like part of a community or that community may know that you were going to stomp them lol. The fact that people used to have "(no mic)" next to their usernames speaks volume to the community of these quality games
As a 36 year old who grew up on quake etc, I don't even understand the modelling of today's FPS. All these skins and blueprints just feel like the games trying to scam you at every chance. It just feels so baited to fish money out of you, it's pathetic. They don't even take the time to explain what these skins etc all do, because the idiots that but them don't even need explanations, it's just stupidity.
Ok, so how exactly do they cater to new players? Are you referring to SBMM? Are you saying that you want bot lobbies so you feel like your a better player??
It's almost like capitalism is BAD at rewarding innovation and good gameplay because everything is focused on making money over everything else, often to the detriment of fun.
...almost
Very well said✊🏾
i remember in black ops 4, the last game without disbanding lobbies, i was in an snd lobby where everyone was using a sniper. we ended up all having mics and no one left the lobby for 12 hours. we all became friends and played together frequently. in fact, for this very reason, black ops 4 is probably my most played cod since mw3
Black Ops 4 is probably my favorite COD multiplayer. The operators made the game feel fresh, but we even had a barebones OG mode without operators. I miss the game, honestly. My best game was on there where I went 67-0 on PC with only a knife and a few streaks.
@@madcyborg1822 by far the best cod multiplayer since the ps3/360 days if you ask me
I really miss the friendships formed with strangers via the lobby chatter between games. The lobbies disbanding is really a big problem. You feel you’re on your own
I've been playing for years on multiplayer and you don't mix and make friends randomly or join clans. They've taken the community from gaming, and made it just a closed club that requires no socialising, often just made up of friends in real life that don't see each other for months
Made some gamer friends that have lasted 10 years when lobbies didn't disband and you could chat with people over multiple games.
100% no chance to build a community.
It’s hard to make friends when Activison rigs the lobbies and forces you to use Crossbows in BO4 or 725s in MW2019
I rarely wear a headset anymore too since I never get to talk to anyone and build a little relationship.
Disbanding Lobbies is what killed what was traditionally a COD, that's why I consider Black Ops 4 to be the last COD to have the basics that were known for years, prestige, map voting, no disbanding lobbies, custom emblems and more.
map voting is a such a big thing to go missing, it made the game so much more enjoyable.
A lot of people hated on BO4, but i personally loved the multiplayer and blackout
The last cod before Warzone as well. Coincidence? Maybe. Fitting? Definitely.
@@cristopher8186 I still play BO4 for the same reason... all the multiplayer maps were good. League/Rank play was good even tho the ranked system isnt perfect, but all the maps, spawns, etc. made sense.
Same, I still play it from time to time as it is the last traditional COD when it comes to matchmaking.
Once Joe Cecot said they wanted to “protect new players, and make it so anybody can get a kill” at the expense of life-long COD fans… this series was essentially over as we knew it 💔
Joe Cecot ruined Call of Duty
That clown is coming back this this year with MWII
I think Jev’s Damascus/Obsidian camo grind is an excellent example of the burnout dedicated players feel now. The challenges aren’t anything really difficult, it’s just that they have to be split among multiple matches so it slowly becomes a chore which, causes the player and in Jev’s case, severe burnout.
I agree Ace, getting better at CoD was much more apparent and rewarding when I saw myself doing better over time without SBMM, doing well against the random teams. Now, since I only get placed with players of my own skill level, I only ever feel sweaty. I don't see any improvement because my opponents always get better with me. Even if I am improving, I feel average.
I think that you're deluding yourself. I went from a .62 kd to a 1.32 and everyday I get about 0.01 kd added. It gets harder because of the amount of kills and sbmm but if you're improving to any significant degree, it will show up in your stats
Edit: improvement time was since vanguard launch till now. Also, I train with bots and have a training schedule etc.
Very true!
@@ilikecommenting6849 they changed how kd tracks i went from a 1.1 to a 1.8 over night without playing the game
@@ilikecommenting6849 he’s not delusional i’ve played cod for 10+ years, sbmm is ruining the fun of playing multiplayer
@@deebo978 this was after the change. When the change happened, I went from 0.4 to 0.6 lol
I think previously it wasnt tracking right and now its tracking as it should be
I also think the XP Tokens are an absolute joke these days, running down in real time instead of in-game playtime, just like you mentioned to keep the player on for as long as possible..
Especially when they have those stupid mvp things at the end that waste 2 more minutes of your token every damn game.
@@headassvegan That's why i leave the game before the end 😂 This shit is sooo long and fucking useless
@@DontGAFkid according to Blame Truth that is something they patched in the latest update and you can no longer exit the game from mvp.
@@tradesmenmusic1637 I mean, before it's over. Like when you have 198/200 in domination
@@tradesmenmusic1637 you still can I do it all the time I did it 5 mins ago stop believing everything blame truth says he spits the same bs everyday 300 bugs but talks about 20 of the same all day
agree, multiplayer changing lobbies every match is frustrating...and the matchmaking experience is pretty brutal i must admit. Like everything they try to make it better every year but they just go too far. Much like any business trying to improve but many times they over do it and man ends up ruining something good.
One thing: Activision's SBMM is like RUclips removing the dislike button. It makes it look like it's easy for good players playing the game, and it makes bad players look good at playing the game. So as far as footage/content creators, it's difficult for good players (like an ideal 'today's FaZe') to be recognised because they could be bad. Same with a video having a lot of likes; it doesn't necessarily mean it was good (it could have 100k likes but 1M dislikes) but you can't see dislikes like you can't compare skill in MP as of 2019-.
And in both cases it should be an option. Want dislikes to be seen then select it. Don't want to get hurt because you create shit content, then disable it.
Want to casually play? Play normal modes. Want to know how good you are? Play ranked.
I agree with all the points. Activision seems more interested in manipulating it’s player base than making a good game worthy of our time.
Totally
Welcome to late stage capitalism
Thank you for bringing all this up Ace
Everything he said is 100% to the T no question.
Time played broke the camel's back for me. 2 hours a day on average used to be enough to make progress in the core game. Heck the battle pass used to take about 70-100 hours, at 2 hours a day that was 1 gun leveled every 1-3 days and the battle pass completed in a month and a half. Now with XP rates capped, it takes ImMarksman 8 hours to level up a gun when he is trying to level it up and I haven't completed the last few battle passes I just don't got the time to even play the game.
Well at least I can play Rebirth with friends WHICH I CANT BECAUSE THE GAME WONT EVEN CONNECT TO THE WARZONE SERVERS. Can play Cold war still lol.
The cod father 🥴
Ayy its BT ,this is all cecots fault we need to suplex him
This is exactly what I miss . I wish lobby's didnt disband and the whole season level reset is just dumb man
No reward or anything incentive to go back and play .
So honestly im about to play old cod games for now on .
It was fun while it last but 2022 is the last time i buy a cod .
I hate to also say this for battlefield as well but truth be told im just burnt out from both games .
The disbanding lobbies is a major factor that hasn't been addressed enough.
I haven't made any CoD friends since BO4. And the ones i made in that game, i made because i was playing AGAINST them.
Another issue with the battlepass (and in general), especially after we moved on from MW19, is the ever increasing emphasis on Warzone. It feels more and more like the entire rest of the game is a paid add-on to Warzone.
Haven’t played call of duty since 2019- really enjoyed MW gameplay wise but the SBMM turned me off the game completely and haven’t looked back! Still follow your videos though, Ace!
You should checkout MW2019 MP again - I've been playing this past 2-weeks and feels like SBMM is really toned down, like the good old days.
Same
@@rockelino yeah because nobody is playing mw so there's a smaller player pool for sbmm to pull from. Every old cod gets like that
@@rockelino Tried it again because i've been watching Ace and i was like "hmm... Maybe it got better there or smthn?" But nope. Still the same for me. I just don't enjoy it. Tried MW3 again and somehow found a lobby with 30 people online and oh god it was so much better.
@@rockelino dude how are you even able to play? i was only able to play shoothouse 24/7, any other playlist just freezes and pretty much everybody has the same problem
As someone who quit playing 1 year ago after putting 30 days into every title for 11 years, it was the strict matchmaking. You had 1 good game which would lead to getting dumpstered on for 3 games. As a solo player, it just wasn’t fun to play anymore. The other thing was when I was grinding for dark matter and some of the challenges were bugged and halted progress. At that point, I had no reason to play. It just wasn’t fun. I moved to a different genre of games and will never look back. I didn’t even purchase Vanguard and likely will never purchase a COD game again. Sad, because I have so many good memories.
What other genre of games did you move to?
What’s crazy is starting in mw19 all the camo challenges promoted ridiculous camping like we’ve never seen before ( just like every other aspect of the game) this matchmaking is absolutely unplayable solo.
@@arturoperez3826 if you’re done with cod I strongly strongly recommend getting into destiny. It’s gonna some of the most fun you’ll have in gaming in a long time
@@AyeZeeMade regarding your previous comment, I don’t think the camo challenges in MW19 encouraged camping. The only ones I can think about are the mounted kills and the longshot kills. I did the camo grind and got Damascus, I think the layout of the maps and them adding doors is what encouraged camping, and all that some of the maps were just way too bug for 6v6.
Regarding Destiny, is it actually that fun? My cousin was telling me about it and I downloaded it and played like the first 30-45 minutes of it and it felt a bit slow paced and the mechanics felt a bit aged since it’s a 4.25 year old game. I’ve recently been plying apex a lot cuz I like grinding so their ranked system for BR and their arenas mode has me hooked but I guess that is still in the same genre of call of duty. I also got Vanguard (unfortunately) because I am a camo grinder at heart and cod’s camo grinds are always pretty good and fair (except doing the launchers) so I’ve been doing those. I’ve been having a decent time with it but I kinda only play it to grind the camos or level up weapons, I don’t really get on to get on (oh and the sniping is a bit too slow in this game which is unfortunate).
Bo4 was the last cod I’ve played. Have no intention to get back into it. Feels like you have to stress yourself and go full tryhard to have a good game rather than getting on and being able to have a fun casual game. Just a cash grab now and I refuse to support that.
Bo4 was the last enjoyable grind, glad I no longer purchase COD 😝
When MW 2019 released, it was my first time playing COD since the end of BO2. My kdr in BO2 was just a bit over 2, but I struggled with MW 2019 so my kdr was around 1.0. SBMM made it so if I had two good games in a row, I got punished for the next 4 or 5 games when I got destroyed. I liked the game so much that I endured this until May 2020, then I quit and have stayed away from COD since then.
I think multiplayer has died not only because of Warzone but because of the progression, prestige is meaningless, I used to grind every year to reach max rank and work on other things such as camos at the same time.
Now if I’m 1xp off of the next prestige when the seasons reset, I lose 49 levels worth of XP for no reason, seasonal progression is the worst thing to happen to CoD
Yup progression in these recent COD games feel boring and unrewarding. Like Ace said in the video, most of these challenges nowadays are time-based which is simply not fun. Most of the rewards as well are hot garbage, like tacky/ugly stickers that barely anyone uses and copy-paste calling cards.
BO3 was one of the last COD games for me where the progression was really good. The game had Hero/Gold specialist skins where the challenges to earn them were mostly fun and quite challenging + classic prestige system and nice Camos to grind for.
Yup. I didn't enjoy a couple of CW seasons, and didn't hit level 200 for that season and missed out on the Master Prestige (or whatever it's called) and now I'm one "ribbon" behind. I lost 180-ish levels in that regard, and have to do 400 (200 new + 200 catch up) in one season to get that back. Oh, and there is no reward or way to display those ribbons so I guess I can look at them in the barracks and feel good inside...
Prestige was always meaningless. You rarely got any worth while rewards.
@@MrKing-he3eo right ppl acting like Prestige wasn’t always meaninglessness.
@@robdodson9952 To me it always was to show how much you play the game which I could care less about.
I don't care about COD until those things are removed:
- sbmm
- disbanding lobbies
- seasonal ranks
if you dont care, why are you commenting on this post lol
@@choppaa4204 why are you even commenting against him when he's listing real problems..?
@@choppaa4204 are you illiterate?
What's the problem with disbanding lobbies?
@@ilikecommenting6849 it removes any and all social aspects of call of duty. Look at how few mics are in pubs now. People don’t bother because there’s no one with whom we can joke, talk shit, and make friends. It’s soulless now. Completely and utterly soulless. It’s like watching a series and the main cast gets recasted after every episode. Activision is fuckin retarded for these unwanted changes. No one EVER said they wanted to disband lobbies or not vote on maps.
I’m gonna be honest I feel exactly as you described Ace, I’ve been playing cod since the original black ops, and I still played a good amount of it in the last few years (got the mastery camos in both mw19 and cw if that means anything to time played). But after two years of what almost feels like nagging the developers for changes that I (and a good portion of the community) deemed necessary for the games to succeed, just to be completely ignored by the devs. This combined with the Activision scandal that occurred a few months back, it gave me the impression that neither employees nor customers are respected by AV. Therefore, I decided that my money is better not being spent on this game. Hopefully I don’t cave and buy the game, but the more time passes the happier I am with my decision.
Don’t cave. I bought it cause my kid wanted to play it. It’s the worst COD I have ever played. And I have been playing since COD3. This franchise is cooked.
Don't cave. I did and have played 2 or 3 matches in the 2 months its been out. Absolute garbage.
Considering you didn’t play MW or MW2 it’s sad that you haven’t yet been able to enjoy a good cod
@@ironicness didn’t play in their prime unfortunately, but it’s been two months since this post and I still haven’t bought vanguard :)
I couldn’t agree more, the disbanding lobbies, the multitude of attachments per weapon, the over complicated structure of the game and camo grinds and all of the things you mentioned just become overwhelming. You’re 100% right, the games aren’t fun anymore, there is no real reward to get good at the game anymore. There are so many reasons as to why I have gone from being a COD fanboy and playing COD every day of my life to once or twice a week
What about releasing a game that's fully finished and not a buggy mess and expecting people to pay full price for it.
Even though I know it will never happen for greed purposes, I think it would help cod alot to come out every 2 or 3 years
At least every 2 years
They could double the amount of seasons and content as well as have more time to adjust the game when it’s out so would defiantly be a win if done correctly .
I disagree
Unless each game was dope
@@xaviertrujillo506 You are a rare example of someone refusing to see the truth.
Think about player retension. People are still playing MW and BOCW. Many of them won't even buy Vanguard because they don't need to. There is too many CoD games out at the same time.
But if they released games every 3 years, everyone would be more than ready to buy the new CoD right at launch.
About the disbanding lobbies; it would make the hidden handicap system really obvious. Imagine if your in the same lobby of 12 people, and the guy you just owned last match is suddenly god like, sponging bullets, seeing you a few hundred milliseconds before you see him. The illusion of multiplayer being skill based, with the player in control of the outcome would just evaporate. It’s a lot easier to manipulate outcomes when the lobbies are random. CoD is essentially a slot machine, everyone gets a chance to be god once every couple rounds.
LMAO 🤣
It doesn't help when damn near every game just freezes with no error message, and the games that do work, you get nothing but packet loss the whole time. But I also agree that I didn't like going back this far in time and using these older weapons. It's better they went this direction though rather than where advanced and infinite warfare was going
I almost always agree with Ace's CoD takes, this time it's no different. The franchise is definitely dying and if we see no effort made from the publisher then why should we waste our efforts.
Activision, Raven, Treyarch and SHG need to stop focusing on Warzone. WZ was great as MW’s BR mode, which it was made to be. Its peak was during S6 of Mw and it was really fun then.
Then, the bs crossover happened. No one asked for that. It ruined everything. It was those turds just shafting Mw, its players and Infinity Ward. IW helped saved the franchise and they got treated like dirt. Don’t know what I mean? Think about it. Vanguard and CW were constantly advertised in MW. MW players did not want to buy them. They changed WZ just to help make those CoDs look relevant. That never should have happened.
If proper thought was put behind CW instead of just copying MW and WZ.they could have made the game properly. As an example, look at Zombies. Having loadouts and spawning in with one weapon (of ur choice - so just choose the best gun) isn’t fun. Zombies is meant to have an element of RNG & u r meant to hit the mystery box. Gunsmith added pretty much nothing valuable to the mode. If they made it more akin to BO3 Zombies, it might have succeeded. Vanguard Zombies has flopped.
They need to stop promoting their CoDs and intertwining their games with WZ. It has led to the downfall of MP, hindered the Experience of WZ and has been really disrespectful to Mw and its players
Why would you say you almost always agree with ace and this time is no different? People only say that when they are about to disagree. For example, I almost always agree with ace's cod takes, but this time he's wrong. Just say you agree instead of writing a fucking book about how you normally agree and this time I agree aswell 🤯
Why would they chnage when you people keep buying the shit? I guarantee half the people complaining here bought cold war and vanguard. This shit doesnt stop until people start voting with their wallets and stop giving in to impulse buying piles of shit.
@@SecretMarsupial I completely agree with you - that’s why I never bought BOCW (Body Odour Cold War) or Vanguard. I realised the voting with wallet tactic and was surprised that others didn’t do that. They sort of have done with Vanguard I guess as that game (which doesn’t look that bad but has some dumb design decisions in relation to its weaponry) is unpopular/wasn’t bought by as many people.
However, ppl should have boycott CW. If I had that game I would be angry with the lack of content that it’s zombies mode has but I didn’t buy it bc that time period sucks, the game was a downgrade graphically, 150 health/slow ttk is horrible (didn’t want that again after BO4), it integrated with WZ (which was awful & ruined the mode), Treyarch couldn’t be trusted after BO4 (they can’t make good games anymore it seems) and they treated MW like slop (whether that was mainly Activision or Treyarch as well).
Totally agree with your points - I would like to just add 2 points: (1) the yearly release cycle needs to change, the games released the last few years either lack enough content at launch (BOCW), or are straight up broken / buggy messes (VG). (2) Dev studios don't share the same views when it comes to the core gameplay fundamentals such as TTK, map design, respawn logic, weapon balance/tuning, etc. which leads to an extremely divided fan base that gets even more divided every year, and a competitive scene that is in complete shambles ... not sure how they can turn this around, feels like we have reached a point of no return, especially now that WZ is clearly their main focus
It’s actually insane how much the they have messed up CoD over the years.
Just absolutely shambolic decision making. And there seems to be zero accountability or acknowledgment by any of the companies involved.
Vanguard was #2 in game sales for the year (COD: Cold War was #1) and it came out in November. With sales like that, why would you think there would be any accountability? As far as they’re concerned, it’s a massive success and they’re doing everything right. As long as we’re buying it in numbers like that, they’re hardly likely to change anything much.
Personally I’ve really enjoyed Vanguard and have put tons of hours into it. I’d consider myself a casual though, so I’m probably part of the majority that enjoy it rather than the minority that don’t...
For some reason the players names on the left bottom side are only showing halfway. Does anyone know how I'm supposed to get a fullscreen view? Thanks
Bingo! The long term affects of the matchmaking is huge. 2 years was enogh for me. After Cold War Ive lost interest and didnt even buy Vangaurd.
Literally same
Well said
same here. first cod I didn't buy and I'm literally done with this franchise
Same
Yup I just keep playing old cods like cod 4 rm and blops 4 no reason to play new cods
I think another very important factor leading to the continual burnout of the franchise among the community is the current development cycle and releasing an installment every year, without giving the current game enough time to breathe and have some form of longevity that make the items you earn or purchase relatively a waste of time, even when a lot of the current life cycle of CoD games are focused on getting rid of the plethora of bugs and glitches that hinder the individual experience.
Especially when a new CoD game comes out and a majority of the player-base shifts to the new game, leaving the previous installment more empty and less supported over the long term. I believe, at the very least, giving every game 2 years of primary focus before releasing another installment would be a good start to alleviating some of the current issues that plague the franchise, which would also have the effect of doubling the development cycle so that more time, effort, and possibly more innovation would be spent on each project.
But unfortunately, I severely doubt that Activision would do anything that would have even a remote possibility of hindering quarterly profits for their shareholders.
True!
Agreed games are released broken and by time they are actually playable its 3/4 of the way through the cycle and then they stop updates because its time for the next game
Current dev cycle has generally been 3 years for the recent CoDs (cycling between Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer, and Treyarch), so 1 year wouldn't double it, but yeah I agree they need to give each game breathing room. But with all the shit Activision Blizzard has done recently and in the past with regards to the workplace abuse scandals/culture, I don't want to give them any money. Seriously, even when caught red handed, they will not give up at all, including the CEO, Bobby Kotick, who needs to be ousted already
I honestly just feel that the companies in charge just don’t care about multiplayer anymore or even listen to our opinions. Sure, maybe some people do but despite their position, the people who actually hear us and want to give us a voice don’t have a chance to voice it or stand up for us since it’s them against a machine really. Really disappointing since I do spend more time in multiplayer than warzone.
Used to buy the game at midnight every year. Stopped cold turkey when they went crazy with the SBMM and "retention based matchmaking". Literally giving you noob lobbies when you get frustrated. It's dumb as hell and leads to a very formulaic repetitive experience. The magic of the old CoDs is that they were entirely random and that gave it a lot of replayability.
There's zero fun in getting better at the game now. I remember getting absolutely ass-blasted in MW2 when I first started and slowly working my way to a nuke. That personal progression was a ton of fun. Now literal pro players aren't breaking a 2 KD due to SBMM.
They've dumbed down the maps and nearly randomized as much as humanly possible to let lesser skilled players win engagements more often. God this series is so tragic because I really liked the gameplay and more casual vibe. I'll play Halo Infinite, Overwatch, and Valorant if I want to play competitively. NOT COD PUBLIC LOBBIES!
Dude, that's the point... they want everyone to be doing the same... everyone needs to be close to 1KD because that way the guys that would be trash at the game feel their good enough to be fooled at thinking they need to play more... they lose 0.1% of the playerbase that are the hardcore CoD-heads but they earn a good 20% of noobies at the bottom...
Or at least they did since Vanguard isn't selling to anybody cause it's trash... it's a clone of CoD MW2019 with guns that become way more OP but take 10 times more to level up, a worse theme, even more cheesy gameplay and zero reasons to buy it if you own MW2019 (like I do)... there's a reason they made the MW2019 multiplayer mode crash and be unplayable with one of their updates for Vanguard... they wanted to force players to buy that shit... and some complete monkey brains did buy it...
I only play Warzone when my friends force me to, I can't play CoD anymore... nowadays I play Rainbow Six Siege and Apex Legends but the whole toxicity of competitive games has turned me to games that are either co-op against the AI (like the Division 2 or Borderlands 3 etc) and this year I bought FIFA again after last playing in 2019 since they finally fixed that shit and it's playable and I'm back on that train (used to be a 0.1% top player world-wide at FIFA back in 2014 and 2015... so I naturally play A LOT of football on PS but nowadays I just beat the ever-living shit out of the AI on the highest difficulty in Career mode)
So for me CoD is fucking dead... they can shove that fucked up game up their asses...
Halo and competitive is something I never thought I hear in a sentence, haven’t played it but is it as competitive as siege,valorant,csgo?
So my K/D is higher than a pro? I don't even main FPS games LMAO
Ace knows his stuff, what he says about short term player retention is spot on. They have been chasing metrics because that’s where the industry is at right now. Not. Just with games, but with all software/apps. Big money to be made with selling user data, understanding user experience etc.
The burnout part is spot on. I grinded my ass off in Cold War to complete all weapons, seasonal challenges, prestiges, etc., but now I have zero interest in doing it all over again in Vanguard.
Same what’s the point if a new cod comes out every year it gets boring and repetitive
Yep, I've always said that CoD needs to go the Rainbow Six Siege route.
One thing that I've been hating recently in Call of Duty is that the yearly games are more similar than ever. I remember back in the day when MW3 was about to launch, some people saying that is the same thing every year etc, but at the very least it had some difference. The menu was different, the guns felt different, even the fucking mute button was different between Treyarch/IW. Now the game is all the same, menus are the same, maps are similar in color and design, guns are all the same, even the create a class is the same.
I get it, maybe this continuity sounds like a good thing, but for a yearly title to be the same every year? No way. If you're lauching yearly, you should 100% change stuff around, even if some changes are bad, at least there's a difference between games. Or else launch one game and stick with it for years, which is obviously the right thing and they will never do it
Facts
Accurate. People used to always say "call of duty is the same shit over and over" BACK THEN.
Little did anyone know: it could get even more similar.
Very well thought out video. Great job! As an older COD player i miss all the challanges for the calling cards and the prestige ranks.
Disbanding of lobbies has been detrimental to the camaraderie and has definitely negatively impacted finding friends to play with. You no longer have a nemesis, who you keep going toe to toe with, then three games later you are on the same team and proceed to rain down fire on your new enemies!
The stats don’t lie, Vanguard is more dead than Cold War was at release. Activision has yet to even make a statement about their opening weekend sales. The subreddit for Vanguard is less active than COLD WAR, it only has around 4k-5k viewers on twitch.
A shame cause its my favorite out of the last 3. It's even Ace's favorite, between MW, CW and VG
Cold war was dogshit but it actually sold as many copies as mw2019. Vanguard on the other hand sold half as much as both games.
It's so bad they broke MW to get players over to Vanguard
What you guys continuously never bring up is that Sledgehammer will always be on the bad end no matter what they do as oppose to Treyarch or Infinity Ward that has trademark titles via Modern Warfare and Black Ops. Sledgehammer doesn't have a trademark game. It's always new IPs.
Numbers would be higher if they never dropped CW
Completely agree with you in this video...spot on. Disbanding lobbies took away the ability to form friendships, obviously adversaries and the enjoyment of talking smack between the matches. And...the ability to try to redeem yourself once you got beat. To me, between game chatter was as important as the match just played.
Disbanding lobbies is what killed COD for me. Used to like having a few beers on the weekend and just joking around with randos while grinding out challenges.
Feels like you can't really do that anymore. Not just because disbanding lobbies cuts every interaction short, but SBMM makes everyone so super serious and sweaty.
I came back to CoD for the first time since Black Ops 1 with MW2019 having played since CoD1 at this point. It felt like a breath of fresh air with the upgraded engine, lovely animations and gun play and grounded campaign and I bought some ingame packs from the store as it felt good to support and play. Then I kept wondering why I kept doing well one game then had some awful games, then Cold War came out and although Zombies was good, MP wasn't, then we get cw, mp feeling marginally better than CW (engine wise), but zombies being crap. Yeah I actuially dislike Vanguard more than CW and would rather play MW19 than either of the two. I'm not even a great player (due to being old and rusty at fps games) and am actually regarded as casual as I work during the week and don't get much time to play, SBMM still punishes me, why do Activision think that is a good gameplay design? Also spawning adds to the random deaths even more, yet it feels intentional, pushing me away.
Originally I lasted from 2003-2010, I am not gonna last 7 years this time around. Also unlike MW2019, I've not been recommending these last 2 CoD games, we'll have to see what CoD 22 brings to the table (I doubt it'll bring much I'm afraid).
For long tyerm retention they should have just supported MW2019 for 3 years, added CW Zombies as paid DLC (£15?), added some of the the CW guns and some maps into MW19, changed MW19's Ghost perk, added Ninja, then scrapped Vanguard enitrely (mayube adding a couple of the guns into MW). Next COD game would've had more hype and I would have tried pushing MW19 at more of my friends due to the value of the package. Let's face it, Activision is run by clueless short-term thinking suits who are actually shit at their job, not by people who really understand the gaming business, pretty much like the UK government when it comes to understanding life.
Completely agree. Long term, Warzone will be burned out..then what? Traditional COD series will be ruined like you said...Lose Lose situation there for Activision in LONG TERM.
There’s a large core of People that will still buy it every single year. Then complain about it.
yes this has been true but in Long term i dont think so. For example, I've been buying every COD good or bad but I stopped buying. It will happen. BlockBuster thought they were invincible and didnt want to change. NetFlick came along and they went bankrupt quickly.
Imo WZ won’t be burned out for quite sometime
@@fifteen8850 said the blockbuster until too late. I give it 3 years max.
Ace has a video like this with every release, yet it’s still alive and well.
The crazy part about this is that mw19 truly could have been the best Cod of all time, but they screwed up with their philosophy and marketing.
they sold 30 million copies. They're marketing isn't flawed at all.
All I want is map voting, no disbanding of lobbies, the ability to play 6 v 6 HCTDM on all the maps and SBMM like it used to be back in BLOPS 1, 2, 3 and 4, that's the perfect formula for a CoD game.
When such a massive % of the cod player community all complains repeatedly and highlights the same problems title after title, it absolutely blows my mind that the developers do not give the people what they want. Do they not care? Are they just incompetent? Clearly people do not want disbanding lobbies, sbmm, killstreaks as opposed to scorestreaks which reward obj play. They want to be able to vote on the map etc. It's not rocket science. It's insulting at this point that they don't listen and or don't care.
They dont care because despite those complaints, ppl are blindly keep buying this bullshit. Ppl dont follow through so no reason for them to listen since they already got their money.
@@americas_soldier1490 I agree. Less and less are buying it overall though. Sales are down comparing it to other cod releases. Activision stock has had a terrible year compared to the s and p 500 having an incredible up year. They are gonna have to start caring but I don't know if it will matter
@@americas_soldier1490 yeah ikr. i feel like the only reason they change anything about the game anymore boils down to short term profits for the lifecycle being affected. if it hurts their bottom line they'll change it, otherwise they dont care.
Thats because We the complaining ppl are 0.2% of the playerbase. Most players are 40 year men who want to hop on 1-2 hours a week. And for them it’s great sadly
@@vgod2287 I'm 44 guy.
I think Warzone has at least half the reason to blame alone and not just the game the focus they have on it while neglecting the core fans that made this franchise what it is today. We been here from the jump and now we’re on the back burner. It’s sad truly sad..
Just out of curiosity: how do you measure the downward trend?
This is the very reason "Counter-Strike" still does well, and will not die. I'll admit the gun skin thing did damage it. But the core mechanics were NEVER touched. To this day, CS will keep defeating games in the FPS space like COD & BF, because publishers don't know and remember. That it was THE developers that made the product what it was. Not the publishing.
Ide say the issue here is CODs annual release. Counterstrike has a tried and true formula but I guarantee if it had an annual release every year it would suffer from similar issues
Agree 1000% as someone who hadn't played CoD since MW2, MW2019 felt great to play - graphics were amazing, gunsmith was amazing and I generally like modern setting games but when I got to the point where I felt like I finally started getting good again at CoD it started feeling like a chore to play. I'm a grown ass man now, between work & family I don't have time or desire to sweat my ass off because I had a few good matches or spend hours going for stupid ass longshot, mounting or crouching kills that completely take you out of games. Toning down the skill based matchmaking and making camo challenges that don't require you to completely ruin MP modes for your teammates would help the game drastically.
I'm so sorry for newer cod fans they missed cod in its prime and they will most likely never experience it
That would be me :/
tru ...
@@arturoperez3826 I mean you can still play WAW if I'm not mistaken
@@amosamwig8394 yes but it won't be the same like back then
@@arturoperez3826 hopefully I'm wrong
How COD multiplayer can succeed:
1.) Do the bare minimum market research. Offer a free skin for completing a survey. What era do players want to see? What do they love about the game? What do they hate?
2.) Actually listen and make changes accordingly.
3.) Create a Ranked mode with transparent ranking and remove SBMM from casual play. I actually don't hate SBMM because playing with good people makes you better, but sometimes you just want a chill game, or want to try new setups, or want to complete camo challenges without wrecking your stats.
4.) Don't disband lobbies. I've never heard of anyone who prefers this.
5.) Map voting. Never heard opposition to this.
6.) Reduce the camo challenge grind. No one really wants to play 1000 matches on Shipment, and NO ONE wants to get 100 mounted kills or 100 hold your breath kills with every weapon, NO ONE.
Whys is your character constantly in flame? is that a skin? I do not have Vanguard btw
I think there's a problem with the overall gameplay itself, Call of duty has mastered the casual multiplayer arcade shooter formula, and that has worked amazingly for a long time, however; People begin to lose interest. Think back on games like Counter-Strike 1.6, there was no progression, there was nothing in the way of levels or anything to that nature. People played it because it was enjoyable and very well detail oriented and community-based. The people you would play with/against in a server would be people that you would start to know and might become silent rivals, like when you go to a server to play gun game you would see people that also join that server frequently and know that you're going to have a challenge. The only reward that you would get, would be the end of the round saying you're the winner, or having the announcer say "M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!" The best games we've had were simple but memorable. Your goal was to have a good time, not to get everything unlocked. Even if there were things to be unlocked, they felt like the pregame, and everything afterwards where you just had fun was the real game. I feel like developers/publishers need to focus on the quality of a game instead of games-as-chores to stay relevant.
Arcade shooter? Lol 🤣 Found the new gamer
@@PhilRewa This is 100% an arcades shooter. Do you think it's realistic?? Lmao
@@MrYTPnetwork do you know what an arcade shooter is? 🤣🤣🤣
I'll help you out. Yes it is a shooter.... So you just need to identify what an arcade game is and what that means when a game is an arcade style game. Examples: pacman, flappy bird, duck hunt or COD ZOMBIES ARCADE!!! 🤣
I feel like the game doesn’t need to change as much as just go back to what it used to be. Focus more on player enjoyment rather than player retention
Totaly agree, I remember trying to unlock “perfectionist” title in MW2 just to act cool in the lobby lol.
Also would like to add that Call of Duty nowadays is much more easier to play for newbies, therefore the studio wont patch OP weapons in order to keep playing retention going, or else the newbies will just throw the game and start playing something else
The change in challenges to “get a small number of kills over a large number of games” is absolutely exhausting.
can’t wait for them to mention lobby retention in the next CoD as if it’s a groundbreaking feature to “bring back people who fell in love with the series before”
I recommend you all go back to BO4 which imo was the last decent 6v6 multiplayer they put out and is still in a good state👍
I’ve said this many times - BO4 was amazing game ruined by Activision business decisions (mostly OP DLC guns in supply drops, bad DLC maps, not many maps at launch)
Black ops 4 is so much fun. Only thing missing is an FOV slider
a solution that might be worth looking into for activision is letting player choose if they want SBMM in their settings.
Because like you said, for new players that don’t want to get dumped on constantly it’s worth it for them. But once you hit that certain skill threshold you should be able to just turn it off
I feel that the new leveling system and SBMM are the main reason for the decline. You get to a point and the game stops being fun and is ridiculously hard to progress past that wall. I hate the battle pass system, it seems that most of the good stuff is at the end. It takes a ridiculous amount of dedication to reach the end and what you earn is lame when compared to what you can buy from the store. I miss the old calling card days.
Vanguard is the first CoD that my group and I have skipped buying since CoD4 way back, and that's largely due to the new matchmaking system implemented in MW '19. It just feels really bad to have a couple good games then immediately get slammed into sweat lobbies that just aren't fun to be in.
I've been playing since first one in 2003, and it's shifted so far away from player experience and fun to 'what makes them money'.
Seriously, I had more fun on CoD 1 on a dial up modem than I am on Vanguard. SBMM just needs to go because the OG players are already leaving or left.
🖐🏾left
SBMM and disbanding lobbies are the biggest problems to me. Your reward for getting better at the game is being stuck in high prestige sweat lobbies constantly. It just starts to feel like a grind. In older CODs when I would get a weaker lobby, it was a great time to work on leveling weaker guns. Now I either stick with my best builds or get my ass kicked, there's no margin for goofing around.
Disbanding lobbies is also very impersonal. It was fun to play with people for an hour or two and build a friends list along the way. With no social aspect to the games anymore, I think a lot of people will burn out quickly and move on.
Are with the premise of the video. Quick question though, Do you always play vs bots on your vids?
I play a very wide range of players in Vanguard since I open my party up for viewers to join whenever I play and of course I choose to record the ones where I do very well so these are the ones you end up seeing on RUclips.
@@TheXclusiveAce I would of course post my best as well lol. Viewing from my phone I could've sworn it was against bots (probably the way I'd look)
Completely agree. The SBMM, disbanding lobbies, and no traditional prestige system is killing this franchise quickly. Why they felt the need to "innovate" in areas that don't need it, and in fact, making it far worse is beyond me. They also have shown us time and time again that they don't actually care or value us as their players and fans and consistently choose to ignore us and what we actually want. The current system literally punishes you for getting better or having a good/fun game.
As someone who has completely left the call of duty series behind, I think this video is quite interesting.
I had no idea about all the changes, especially the challenges one, and really don't have any desire to ever go back after watching this.
One massive problem I have with alot of these games is the season pass and battle passes. Its feels more of a force to login and play, than just actually wanting to. I noticed this with 8ball pool on mobile, I'd login get rewards and turn it off, until I just quit caring about it, same with pokemon go. Any one else feel the same?
Games just suck now
The "battle pass/game pass" system is becoming more common but nobody actually wants it. It's just a money grab.
Cod is the worst it’s ever been and this video perfectly explains why.
Well said, I think a lot of the stuff that came out with MW worked in the first year because it was new, when CW and Vanguard came out it was exciting for a month and then it was just the same play loop over and over. Grinding out battle pass tiers is exhausting, I still don't quite understand how the xp for that works, tie it to something, tie it to normal xp so if you have really good games, you get more xp and level up faster and get through the battle pass faster, battle pass xp is a mystery to me. Disbanding lobbies is huge, I use to get on with friends and we would lobby surf until we found a good one and then we stayed in it all night and competed with the other team and developed rivalries with them. It made TDM, demolition, search games so much more fulfilling when you've played with the same group all night.
Sledgehammer put in the game mode Armageddon, I played through most of December and I still don't understand how that game mode works. Was it glorified TDM? Was it Team Defender? Was it that game mode where supply drops come in and it's more or less hard point for controlling the zone? None of their playlists have any explanation to what they are. Are they that lazy?
what's the load with that gun?
I only played multi-player to lvl guns up for wz. It's feels like a chore rather than any fun, but now even wz is in a bad state so cod is useless now
Yeah i agree. You grind guns to....go play buggy warzone...? Why even bother now?
WW2 probably had the best prestige system out of the most recent cods, and that's 4 cods ago. Shows how far we've fallen.
I agree. WW2 got that right
Ww2 shipment is still full lobbies
I truly believe the single biggest factor is rebirth. Because I used to play multiplayer mainly and little warzone. But once rebirth came out I switched to playing rebirth instead of multiplayer. And the same withe many friends I play with. I don't think the multiplayers got anything horribly wrong with it I just think that people are playing rebirth now
Ace, I’ve been watching you for YEARS. To be honest, I haven’t seen as many videos recently, but that’s only due to my diminishing interest in cod over the past few years. With that being said, you put my thoughts PERFECTLY. I completely agree, and the reasons you stated are exactly why I haven’t had the desire to play. Black Ops 4 was the last call of duty game that I thoroughly enjoyed. That game was amazing; I played it consistently from launch up until MW. Once the newness of everything in modern warfare wore off, I began playing less and less. I sincerely hope the dev team can see your video and the videos of other content creators and do something before we lose a franchise that so many people love. Thank you.
As a long time 6v6 COD fan, I feel betrayed that Warzone has taken centre stage over everything. It feels like every multiplayer and even every campaign is just an add on to the Battle Royals. This latest year in Vanguard, the multiplayer was a bug ridden mess even after the beta. They even pushed all their store bundles out without even fixing half of the problems players were mentioning. Fans can’t even find refuge in zombies because that mode is just a disgrace this year (I am aware it was developed by Treyarch, but we all know daddy Activision is pulling the strings). I feel alienated nowadays in one of my mainstay video games because I am not the audience they seek anymore.
Personally I hate the seasonal leveling was the main reason I stopped playing COD
it’s so dumb. what’s the point of grinding if your rank is just going to get reset?
I never really noticed the lobby disband issue because I never cared to interact. And I have played one lobby exclusively (FFA) and despite the lobby disbanding I still ended up playing multiple matches with the same people.
I agree 100%. I came back to CoD with MW2019 and enjoyed it a lot. Between that game and BOCW I got pretty decent, and really started feeling the negative effects of sbmm and the disbanding lobbies. It was even worse when I played with my friends, that weren't as good as me. Full time sweat bands and still losing because the mm algorithm wants to manipulate you into playing more just isn't fun.
Then, one night I had the realization that I just wasn't having fun anymore. I shut the game off and started playing a game that was actually fun and haven't looked back since.
So edgy
The MW setting plus the expanded gun customization are the reasons I came back for MW2019. All of the downsides you listed are things I disliked and simply put up with.
I think this is an issue with metric based game design. There's a reason that the scientific method has you only change one thing at a time and that's because it guarantees you know what caused positive or negative changes. MW2019 would've been just as popular without the changes you listed. If these changes debuted with any other title, we would've never seen the return of them.
MW2019 would have been way more popular if it had what Ace listed...
The public opinion of MW was bad at release because of what Ace is talking about
@@jonathanvilla6964 mw is the most popular cod to date and it achieved that before warzone was released, turning it in to a treyarch game would have killed the hype the game created. thinks like moving ghost and ninja arent needed if you just balance other things correctly. cold war had the loudest footsteps in cod history so ninja was mandatory, and ghost was mandatory because there was a UAV in the sky every 30 seconds and unlike MW you couldnt take it out in 3 bullets
Metric based design wasn't that apparent in pre-warzone MW. I liked the blueprint unlocking challenges, they pushed me to try different playstyles and the challenges were usually "X something 50 times". Later Raven or Activision pushed playtime based challenges not Infinity Ward.
Bring back pick 10
@@bladeclanhalo3 Cold War did *not* have the loudest footsteps lol. That’s goes to MW. Also there’s a reason why people were constantly complaining about how annoying ghost was to deal with. The problem was that it *wasnt* enough like a cod game.
One thing I really don't like about these new cods, so since MW19, is how long it takes to level up your guns. For three games now, we are having to level up guns to a level that is not needed. Having to go to level 70 and grind these guns that aren't good until like level 60 is exhausting. Currently there is double xp but it still feels so slow. Sbmm doesn't help keep players playing the game. The reason MW19 was so good and people kept playing was the fact that loot boxes were gone. We got free maps and guns. We didn't have to pay for anything after getting the game.
I had been playing cod multiplayer since cod4, this is the 1st year where I’ve stopped playing fully. I can’t bring myself to play Vanguard, there’s no fun and boredom sets in really fast
I somehow got shadowband with a .34kd? And vanguard I play two maybey 3 games and it crashes. On ps4
My main issue with this game is the connection issues. Grinding aimlessly doesn't bother me. Moonwalking across the map is not enjoyable. The worse part was I got 2 weeks of amazing connection only to divert right back to worse than day 1 connection.
I also dislike the disbanding lobbies
Can you even blame people for not playing? Imagine sweating out this game after a long day at school or work, you want to relax not put maximum effort into a game that forces you to play a certain way through matchmaking and having a stale meta. There should be a casual playlist purely focused on connection and a seperate competitive playlist that is more rewarding.
Must haves for every COD. Theater mode. Custom Emblem creater. No disbanding lobbies. SBMM is a choice. Show all players stats, favorite weapon, 6 clips from theater mode like in BO1. Kill cams show class setup and attachments. No party chat in Search and Destroy. Wager matches. Unlock calling cards and emblems for actual cool challenges like 1000x tomahawk kills ect not just from leveling up
Weapon camouflages also take forever now too. I remember when it only took a reasonable amount of time to complete weapon camouflages but now it’s ridiculous how long it takes to complete them.
Besides the problems associated with Disbanding Lobbies you mentioned, it has also resulted in that there is no longer any MAP VOTING. We've therefore also lost the Self-Regulating system that dictated the frequency/prevalence of the respective maps, where the "Cream" rose to the top. With the current system, eg. more maps at launch, isn't necessarily a good thing if it means that players will be forced to play more matches on bad maps, before they'll get the chance to play a match on good map!
6:08 💀 he was on fire for the whole match
I totally feel exhausting due to these things that is I am personally experiencing as a COD gamer, SBMM is one of the main’s one but recently I have been getting mostly joined in game session like 80% of the time and I always join the losing teams, then after the same thing. Also recently the maps like Decoy and Oasis I am getting server disconnected specially on Blitz modes. My KD and my W/L dropped significantly because of joined in sessions. The other annoying thing about this game is launchers camo glitch, I worked days for launchers and I progressed some of it and mostly are just glitched, my operators all are maxed out but the black outfit for Barbarians squad are locked as a result of a weird glitch. Most players on lobbies are muted and whenever I try to unmute them it does not work. This game is totally feel a recycled beta game!!!!
Sledgehammer that’s the number 1 problem… I doubt the devs even play the game