Yep. I can’t play with friends for about 5 years now because I’ll get 70 kills and they’ll get 20 with 50 deaths. But if I solo q I’m lucky to go positive. Ruined the franchise entirely and I’ve played since cod4
At least you are getting wins. Last time I played I lost 20 games in a row because everyone on the other team was a god player and my team were potatoes. When I am consistently the top player of my team something is wrong, I am average at best and usually fall 3rd-4th place on my teams. I don't mind losing, it's part of the game, but to not stand a chance, getting spawn trapped and not being able to fight back, or just getting stomped is just not fun
Call of Duty has been chasing new players and short-term profit at the expense of their core fan-base for years, people are sick of it. They've spent all the community loyalty earned over the past decades, and certainly aren't earning more any time soon. Reap what you sow.
Core fan base isn’t enough. Most people who play are casual. They play a few times a week because they have other things in their life. COD fan base ithink is older than a lot of other games, which means players playing less often because they have less time to play.
@@ĆrankyÓldMan2024 3-4-3 is a marketing rule. 3 always will 3 never will and 4 can be swayed either way. This rule overlaps with a lot of things even as older communities age out the casual to hardcore % remains about that same unless the game is dying then casuals will hemorrhage much faster.
BO6 is a boring game with manipulative/rigged matchmaking, bad maps, and exhausting gameplay. After completing the camo grind there is nothing left to do.
@@swirly3643 you have been caught by a common talking point. The point of FPS games it to play them thats whats left to do its not some end game MMO. If you don't like Bo6 don't play it? personally i play it because it's the current best in slot shooter the second a better game shows up with a decent player base im out. but you know what doesn't help your point? always talking about a game you dont like especially with hate based marketing being so dam popular right now.
Black Ops 6 at its core is such a good game but they keep cutting corners where it really matters like the AI art, connection issues, cosmetics, and strict SBMM.
I agree for the most part. But with how poor the maps (including spawns) are, which is a huge part of the game, im not sure i'd call it a "good game" at it's core. Some great parts for sure though.
The largest issue is the default settings being so vastly different from what the optimized settings are. By buffing the default settings you would effectively alleviate skill based matchmaking.
@@TheDom277at its core I’d at least call it a “fun” game. When I don’t feel manipulated the entire time I have some fun moments. Cheaters and sbmm are the biggest flaws for me. Nothing feels organic anymore.
You did the right thing, I quit during mw22. I did play mw3 a bit at my brothers but never bought it. Same infuriating experience, slightly better but not nearly enough. I even have gamepass, won't play this mess. I have had enough. They know what they are doing, it's been 5 years. This is cod now 🤷
@@alexisserrano9807 i have all camos except for warzone ... but there is no point to play with camos when i habe 10ms but this shit lagging every fukingg game of rebirth
Having a good K/D used to be something we would look forward to but now it feels like a punishment unless all you do is play COD and take the game very serious
I’m a 1.4 on mp(I only grind guns) and my win percentage is like a .38. I constantly play objective as I net more kills anyway doing so but NEVER win, unless it’s on the shootout maps for some reason.
Matchmaking and server/connection experience will kill this franchise if they don’t change things. The other thing that’s killing it is the goofy ass skins and bundles. I think this is causing a loss of identity.
Because they’re not banning players for saying cuss words, they’re banning players for saying slurs. People who complain about chat bans won’t admit it but they just want to be able to say slurs again.
@Yash-hr3uv Saying slurs without even having a mic plugged in? Yeah, I'm sure no mic players are very upset about not being able to drop an n bomb again...
@@Yash-hr3uvseems like you’re pulling this out of thin air, but yes it would be nice if we could say slurs in this rated M game. Why do they keep catering to woke snowflakes?? They’re just running this franchise into the ground.
As a solo player, disbanding lobbies is the biggest issue for me. Maybe I'm just old, but I haven't made a single friend in modern Call of Duty. I miss the banter that would continue after each game, but now it's only 10 seconds of after game chat...
@@Redmont_ "CoD ain't your Tinder" 💀 I absolutely adore hopping on Tinder to build friendships and rivalries! I swipe on people and call them slurs just for fun!
The game burns me out after like an hour cause every match feels like I’m fighting in a tournament is what it used to to be and the servers always crash on me so I end up moving on and playing another game
I thought people were trolling when they mentioned game crashing Then I saw a devour video in which he was 12 and something in round 3 and the game crashed for him Game is cooked. 😂
Games a mess. Glad it's finally started a decline. We need Battlefield and Halo to get their shit together. I'd ditch Cod in a heartbeat if those two franchises got good again.
It’s the manipulative EOMM that really gets me. The EOMM that we don’t know exactly how it works. The EOMM that could have far more predatory features than we ever could have imagined. If you’ve read the patent that they’ve published it should concern you. Especially because that patent is multiple years old so it’s likely significantly more sophisticated. As long as my gaming experience is being manipulated to that level I’m not playing a single minute of the game. If people really want to send a message to activision they need to NOT buy COD 2025 (which will be another MW3 style “DLC.”)
We live in a world of socially delicate teens and young adults. They are just feeding into these weak minded people. Most of these people wouldn’t even be offended by shit talking of there weren’t so many telling them to be offended. It’s so freaking gay 🤣
The mute button exists for everyone. They have also made it more difficult to mute people/lobbies then it used to be too. There has been a solution to this problem for 2 decades. They are the ones making this problem worse ffs
I personally keep it on lobby chat and we have a buddy from work who’s it’s their first time playing COD and learning as he goes but a little slow but he’s got the point. As a joke i put us in a HC TDM match without telling him and told our other buddy to not say anything even noticed something different. Sure enough the new guy accidentally team kills our other friend and they go off talking crap to each other and then me for putting us in HC TDM but the new guy ended up getting chat banned in a PARTY ONLY chat. The other guy recently got chat banned and we have no clue why, we were just playing and he stopped talking and me and him for some reason always have issues with VC and text each other and ended up telling me he got a 3 day ban and didn’t know why. We still use the game chat but just switch to discord but might end up just staying on discord.
20 minutes of extremely valid criticism and you didn't even get into the AI art slop debacle and all of the zombies voice actors quitting/striking/being fired because Activision refuses to give them protection from their voices being replicated with AI.
@@tobiasrieper6640 why do you care if the ART is made by a person or AI, it makes absolutely no difference to the gameplay. You just want to complain for the sake of complaining
@@OMGItzSlickerzhey look everyone, this guy doesn't understand the simple principle of quality over quantity! No but seriously. Multi-billion Dollar publisher owned by a multi-trillion Dollar company, pulling the shit they do. It's us, the players, defending the rights of the artists and voice actors that have spent years of their life giving us the content that we so know and love. It's fine to get New voice actors, It's fine to get New artists. But replacing everything with AI to save some money, despite every single cod having a fucking massive profit margin is ridiculous. Cod never had the need to nickel and dime everything the way they do now, it's the suits that are trying to fill their pockets more and more and more.
@ again, in what way does it affect you or your gameplay? To add to this, there’s no evidence of any AI art being used, it’s nothing more than RUclipsrs crying, trying to get clicks
Yes! Agreed which side is the sharks and which the clowns!!! I play hardcore and team kills is horrible with spawns and no uniforms. Add sleeper agent and spawn flips with small maps and I will ruin your score steak when spawns flip and you’re running at me!
It's the monetization for me. It's not even monetized like it's a free to play game, it's monitized like it's a MOBILE GAME. The shop is always in your face. Skins and guns have crazy colors and death effects designed to create as much FOMO as possible. It's so shamelessly greedy, and at the same time they have the balls to put AI art in our faces. CoD has become completely backwards and the recent drop in players is finally showing it: People are fed up.
It doesnt feel like a CoD game, when someone kills me and I turn into a blunt on death. Let alone all these clowns running around as nicki minaj or art the clown.
I'm noticing a ton of rage quits per match. Whenever a team is getting destroyed, people will just straight up leave leading to a snowball effect. EOMM also can't seem to create a fair match to save it's life. I know that's not the actual purpose of EOMM, but I don't think it's gotten it right once. Either I'm dominating the team, or I'm getting dominated.
No point in staying in a match that's a guaranteed L. I know you get bonus xp for staying but id rather have fun and actually be able to grind my camos instead of sticking out a sweat fest 6 v 4 or less.
I think that's the point of EOMM. Just had a good game? Here you go, you're MLG for a game now. Oh, just got stomped? Here's a free win! It feels horrible and artificial.
Call of duty needs to go back to its basics, no Strict SBMM, Disbanding lobbies, no weird perk system or mini map gimics, no overhauled movement system, no gunsmith, just a normal pick 10 system, honestly BO4 is a great example of what Call of Duty should be
The skins are outrageous. I don’t know who’s on my team half the time. And they need a tournament for these sweats that got something to prove instead of pub stomping casuals
Yeah the skins are out of hand. They should bring back factions where your teammates look and sound like You do, and they can still sell skins for each faction
The best thing I found out in this cod is that at least you can disable those stupid kill animations that come with bundles (like the explode in a lava swamp or fall apart in rainbow farts kill animation) by disabling gore in settings. Small tip that makes it all a small tiddybit easier.
Glad others are noticing that people are leaving lobbies more often this year, it’s gotten so bad recently that half of my games are either spent being dominated, or are spent with me unable to find any enemies.
Exactly the same. Its rare now to get a balanced match that is close. 2 Minutes in you can usually tell how its going to go too. I played 10 matches half of them people were quitting out. They can not or will not balance teams. I think now the player base has dwindled to the point that they are having to match much higher tier players with Average Joes and then they get destroyed and start quitting, myself included.
@@king_vision4085 I don't have to do sht. I can't carry a damn team. Nor am I going to try. If I get put into a losing match, I'm quitting, I have Zero reason to stay in the match. Its the developers job to balance the teams and they aren't doing it. I don't mind losing but I'm not going to be target practice when nobody on my team get get a kill and they are ALL 1 and 5, 2 minutes in to the match. This is just one video game. Its not my life. I have a life and WHEN THE GAME SUCKS, I'M LEAVING IT.
@@spartanx169x sounds like a “you” problem. You join a losing game mid match and leave. Instead of staying so a fresh match to start. B06 is good. Only people complaining are the ones who keep losing
Ace you hit the nail right on the head. These are the top four things I believe are attributing to the downfall of cod, coincidentally you mentioned them all in your video: 1. Ping not being king anymore. Skill based match making prioritizes a lobby full of equal skilled players based off recent games rather than your ping, leading to terrible connection. 2. Skill based match making on steroids. I understand protecting very new players but there used to be a time when I could mess around with knives/pistol only or any other kind of random strategies and still have fun. If I try that nowadays I get destroyed. Everybody is my skill(~1.5kd) and are using the most overpowered guns. It seems like unless I'm sweating it out that I just can't relax and have fun, and that sucks when you just want to relax and play casually. It was so much more fun when it took all the players in a lobby and balanced the teams equally based off overall KD. I'd check the leader board and if I was the highest KD on my team I knew I had to carry my team. But other times when I saw I wasn't, it meant I could mess around with random weak guns, strategies, go for bizarre challenges, etc. 3. Disbanding lobbies. There is no longer any sense of community. You don't have that friendly banter in between each match. You can't stay in a lobby for a rematch again a party or an individual player. I added many friends that we've met in COD lobbies and then ended up teaming up to have somebody to play with. That aspect is gone. Yes there are ways to still accomplish this like through discord or other things but it was so much more fun to meet players organically and have that friendship. 4. Skill base match making causing teaming up to be a terrible experience for some players in your lobby. I used to be able to play with lesser skilled friends/family members in cod multi-player and we all could have a good time. The teams were balanced equally so I had good match ups against the better enemy players and my lesser skilled teammates had success going against the other equally skilled players on the other team. Now it seems like playing with a friend will put my friends in lobbies that are all full of players near my skill level making them hate the experience and never wanting to play with me. I'm in my early thirties and I can say the last COD I thoroughly enjoyed was black ops 2. Those were the days. I did enjoy black ops 3 as well because it still did not do the things above, but they implemented specialists which made the gameplay inconsistent. They also introduced supply drops which gave randomized guns to players. It was no longer fair and seemed pay to win for certain weapons. There were guns in that game that I wanted to get that I still have not gotten to this day. Despite that although I was frustrated, at its core the game mechanics were still relatively the same and therefore tolerable. Unfortunately after that they have made poor decisions after poor decisions and they are no longer listening to the community about feedback. They care more about profits and in game purchases than they do about improving the player experience. I used to be a person that would buy cod year after year even if a game wasn't ideal, however I have stopped completely after Modern Warfare and have not gone back. I still watch an occasional Xclusive Ace video when he talks about the state of the game and unfortunately every time I hear him mentioning the same problems I've mentioned above. It is truly sad to see a game I've loved so much to turn into something that irritates me and pushes me away simply because the devs caring more about profit margin than game play experience. It did not used to be that way but unfortunately that is where the current state of the game is. Let's hope they turn this around sooner than later. Until that day comes I will be getting my gaming fix from other games. Take care everyone.
Could not agree more. I have not bought COD after MW2019 because due to the SBMM (also map design etc.) it just was not fun to play. I wasn't quite as good as you but the matchmaking system still killed me
I think CoD is suffering from the same thing a lot of AAA games are suffering from, which is pushing for a profitable product instead of a good game. I don't want to be down on the devs and people who care about the game within the studio, but I'm sure a ton of the decisions we see are more about pumping numbers that appeal to shareholders rather than pushing for changes and work that benefit the players first. I don't even mind the skins and monetization, I love the silly shit and shiny tracers as much as the next brain-numbed guy spamming Stakeout for camos, but multi tier battle passes, expensive skins that don't even offer much/look great, adding ANOTHER potential seasonal/limited paid adventure path or whatever? It gets hard to defend after a point. To make it worse, CoD's best feature is the fast paced arcade-style shooter gameplay. The core gameplay elements of CoD are what they've always been, and even though they still offer the best version of that experience, it doesn't mean much if people are having a hard time accessing it. Broken features, bad servers, and at times baffling decisions when it comes to matchmaking and game balance? It makes sense that people would be stepping away. I think COD will be fine, but there have certainly been a lot of things in recent CoD history that just make it harder to defend or suggest to old or new players.
Something's 100% up with the servers, I'm almost always playing on 15-25 ping yet the amount of times I die in a single frame, experience desync is insane.
@@lifestream1689 I think it's 60. I remember TheTacticalBrit talking about it in his videos about servers. I mean, Warzone servers run at 20, so I think 5 isn't that impossible.
Tired of getting spawn trapped, tired of getting shot in the back constantly,tired of the hit markers, tired of running into players that seem like gods on here, tired of enemies knowing where i'm at all the time and the movement system is trash, the list goes on.....
@ggx444 lil bro most of these are things the developers need to fix, by the way your talking i bet your not 25, so you don't know the old COD days. These last 2 Call of duties have been garbage
I disagree. The green perk bonus along with other perks that stack allow you to get streaks very quickly especially in objective based game modes like dom or kc. Score streak spam like in cold war gets annoying and frustrating. I’d much rather see people really earn streaks than everyone just spamming them nonstop.
@@NickPoly17but thats dependent on the mode which is badly designed imo since Strategist/Scorestreaks wasnt fine tuned. Tdm needs to be 125 per kill and something like Ransack makes 0 sense how you only get strategist bonus (50) if you deposit a full stack all at once. Its very inconsistent.
@@NickPoly17 "i disagree because you can use perks to make a chopper gunner only take 13 kills instead of 16!" (fine print* in some gamemodes) huuuurrrrrrrrr the matchmaking gets progressively harder, yet the streaks keep requiring more and more score, thats dumb.
Thank you so much for calling out the skins -- it has turned me off the game almost to the point of abandoning it. I don't want to play a cartoon game for children, I want to play an adult FPS. If they at least partnered with Hasbro to produce a GI-Joe skins pack, I'd be all over it, but otherwise this game is just crumbling in on itself. :(
Yup and what's more screwed up is every AAA multiplayer game followed this trend. I've been just playing single player games exclusively the past few years.
I was chat banned for three days for says "Guys be careful the little Bit$% is camping behind the bus" That made my whole team go back to Discord and turn off BO6 chat. They put characters into the game that say @$$h^%$ Motherf$#@$# and many other cuss words but we get chat banned? What a bullsh%$ double standard.
You nailed everything that I’ve been thinking during this game. Especially when talking about SBMM with partied up with my casual friends and the comms bans. Most of my friends who I’ve played COD with since BO2 ended up buying this COD for the first time since MW19 and absolutely loved it the first month. THEY HAVE ALL QUIT SINCE THEN, and it’s because of two reason: 1. SBMM makes their gaming experience hell as they are .6-.9 kd players who are now put against master prestige diamond- iridescent players because they are in a lobby with me and/or some of our other friends who play competitively. 2. This is the main reason why all of my friends left the game and that’s communication bans. These are casual players who don’t have discord, they are all on different platforms so they can’t use ps game chat or Xbox game chat so instead they just put the sticks down and give up on the game because we can’t talk to each other in game. This is the most anti-gamer experience I’ve ever seen out of a game let alone a AAA title.
This is the number 1 issue in bo6 nobody talks about. Hackers are 2nd. Connection is 3rd but that last one is in mw3 too it didn't cause a loss of playerbase like this
Even MW2 which had some of the laziest Warzone insert maps had a better selection than these hand crafted BO6 maps. Treyarch need to get rid of their map developers and hire some actual talent.
Need some bigger maps. They are all too small and sweaty. I don’t want to sprint around like a looney all night. There’s no combat against vigilance and recon, making stealth nigh on impossible now.
I have been playing COD consistently for so long, however, forcing crossplay in ranked was the last straw for me. It is too frustrating running into a hacker pretty much every game. This is the first time where I have thought i won't play it again. Games are meant to be fun, and i am just not having fun now
I now play with exactly zero of the 13 people I used to play call of duty with. simply because our skill levels vary so much, most of them can’t compete at the same level as me and a couple of others. It’s so taxing to them, sometimes they can’t speak in game for 3-4 games in a row because they are concentrating so so hard just to stay alive they can’t have a conversation or even string a sentence together. All you hear is them puffing air out over and over and over again as they get more and more frustrated. Modern warfare genuinely ruined how all of our group play this game and now non of us play the same thing or barely talk. My kd isn’t even that high and it’s just so so painful to play. Also, not everyone has the capacity to understand when the game is playing them and will turn it off. These tactics being used to get people addicted are downright disgusting and if it doesn’t ease off, I can see In the future someone harming themselves over the levels of frustration this game causes. Activision will have a lot to answer for then.
The EOMM when playing solo is so rough. It also sucks that I can't really have fun when I play with a couple of my friends who are really good because I get destroyed and likewise I can't play with my friends who aren't very good because they get destroyed in my lobbies. BO6 at it's core is such a good game, but it's ruined by greed, bugs, mediocre maps and EOMM.
Its gotten to the point where now I go into each lobby and before the match ask if anyone wants to play in a party. If someone has a mic and plays similar gametypes to me, I send them a friend request. The lobby disbanding is the single worst part of the game to me. EOMM is second.
@@Commenter5651 I lump disbanding lobbies into EOMM because the lobbies disbanding is critical to that manufactured experience between games. They wouldn't be able to generate the artificial ups and downs without lobbies disbanding after every game. It's critical to the EOMM system. And I totally agree and think it's arguably the worst aspect of EOMM.
You have to learn the maps as you play then upgrade your guns so that you have a chance to get kills!!! Once you level up your guns, spend time in the gunsmith to add ammo mods, scopes, barrels, stocks, magazines!
I agree with everything you said really, I would just like to point out, being a good game, doesn't mean it's a good cod game. There are still core issues that the modern titles are designed on that make it drastically different from every cod pre mw19, the best titles. The entire gameplay loop of being able to soundwhore so easy, mount anything for laser beam aim, and have the spawn system reward this (there is no longer a traditional "my side" vs "your side" spawn system) by literally spawning people near you regardless of whatever obscure back corner of the map your hiding in... There is probably like 10 major issues that are fundamentally not what cod ever was, that are core building blocks and mechanics today. I'm happy some of you guys like it, who am I to wish a bad time on anyone lol. I just like cod, and they stopped making it in 2019, they sold it out but kept the name. Its as if my favorite cookie brand suddenly changed its formula and tastes nothing like it used too 🤷 haha
I think COD needs to feel the heat for once so they actually listen to their playerbase. Either that or an actual COD killer needs to not suck for once
COD won’t feel the heat as long as people continue to spend £20 on anime bundles and unicorns. It’s the same with every big game. Pay £60 for the game and then the devs neglect the core gameplay throughout the year whilst pushing 100s of cosmetics and micro-transactions
@@samking5101 unfortunately that is correct, though I've never understood buying a cosmetic for a game that lasts for one year and then you can't use the skin in the next game
Feel the heat from who? The content creators who buy the bundles and battle passes? The dumb consumers who carelessly buy bundles then sit wondering why their game is super choppy and unfun? Or the CoD competitors like Battlefield or XDefiant? This is what you get when you've got pushover consumers and next to no competition.
This. Players can whine and complain all day long. But until the community as a whole decides to stop giving them their money, nothing will change. Even just a week long boycott would wake them the fuck up.
That's exactly the point that annoys me so much. People have been complaining for years and when there is finally an alternative like XDEFIANT, this game is hated to death for things that CoD has been allowed to get away with for years. It's like wanting a king only to find him stupid. Stupid publishers like Ubisoft who drop a game like a hot potato after less than half a year are the icing on the cake. The whole industry is artistically at its limits
@@erikwiederstein4322People really have a bad case of stockholm syndrome. They keep paying and playing this game even though they hate it. Right now, I can purcahse a game under $5 that would be better than the last 8 COD's combined. Hell, im not even sure why it took some people this long. Looking at Ace's gameplay this COD doesnt seem as bad as others but is still like a 3 out 10 game. While other COD's like Vanguard seem like a 1 out of 10. It was terrible a long time ago and combine this with the fact that naturally as some good players age, they will start showing signs of slowing down reaction time wise which will lead to even more frustration.
The last three minutes of this video really sums up why I’m choosing to stop playing BO6. If the developer and publisher don’t take their game seriously, why should I? Coming from someone who started the series with World at War, their darkest themed game, it’s hard to stay immersed with the constant stream of Fortnite like skins. This game is now clearly made for children.
Got in at the og call of duty played call of duty 4 modern warfare stayed until black ops 2 that was the last one I bought and played online it has consistently been the same thing now for well over a decade which is crazy
I started with W@W and played every CoD since, and I agree. The difference is, I’m all for the silly skins in Fortnite, because it fits the theme of the game. This is just not it.
I've been playing since BO2 and I agree, there are far too many issues these days, with so many conspiracy theories, especially from Blame Truth... Issue is, now even Ace has shown the same stats Blame has, so that really makes me concerned for the other stuff he's said... If he was telling the truth about all this, has he lied about any of it? And if not, this series has really fallen off... I stopped playing during season 3 of MW3 2023 because of all the issues with servers, I was consistently getting inconsistent ping, bouncing from 19-20, all the way up to 100+, I mean, I know I live down under but seriously? Couldn't even find enough people in my own COUNTRY with my skill level? I'm not even that good, maybe around a 0.9K/D average in that game and SBMM was screwing me over!
No Call of Duty game will ever be good again until they seriously rethink or eliminate SBMM. It just destroys every CoD. Plus, you can’t even sneeze on the mic without getting voice chat banned this year. What a disgrace 😡
If I get in a match, and I die more than 3x in a row, I leave.. if I start a match, and I see my latency is over 30, I leave.. if i get in a game thats started already winning or losing, I leave! If I dont have fun in a match.. i leave..
Xdefiant was never going to make it. They should have released their game when mw22 was horrendous. They missed their window and they half assed the games development. Xdefiant was a lost cause
@@xxPhoenixX-sg9tr The XDefiant devs seems to have wasted a lot of time and effort on the Linear Maps and Game Modes (Escort) that are not played by the vast majority of players. Would have been much better if they would have released a game with a much tighter focused game a couple of years earlier and including Last-Gen... But I still find Ubisoft's timing to be beyond stupid!
XD was pretty garbage honestly. Shit maps and only two gamemodes on launch. Hit detection that felt like it was ripped from an early 2000s FPS. Plus the name sounds like something an edgy middle schooler would come up with.
Taking some maps from the map pool and replacing them with more colorful and fun maps, like bo2, would make the game MUCH more enjoyable. And take away the “eliminations”; give me kills and assists. I want to know how many kills were actually mine.
SBMM is the biggest issue. I logged on Boxing Day expecting some noobs or an easier time…….Nope, 5 games with lobby’s full of no life prestige masters all using Zens. I’m barely going positive and having to sweat for it. It’s not fun or enjoyable anymore. Your experience feels false. You do well when the algorithm says it’s your turn.
I hope it is on the downfall. You won't see good change at this point if it isn't... it's pitiful the community turned its back on Infinite Warfare but not really as much when it comes to this ai art, ai voice actors, garbage map design, shipment pacing, lazy recycled maps, money HUNGRY(less cod points per battle pass & new paid event progression coming soon), ZERO ART DIRECTION/IDENTITY TRASH
I was honestly expecting a click bait video like many other creators do. I was pleasantly surprised how well, thoughtful and actually insightful this was. Well put together
Ping is king, my ass. I’m constantly hitting lobbies where my ping is 50+. I too play PS with crossplay off and the amount of players I’m seeing, that are the SAME players in the same 5-6 man parties, leads me to believe that ping is NOT king. I’m also playing KC, TDM, Hardpoint and Domination. I’m not locking myself into one mode as I know that’ll make things even worse. I’m that “addicted” player that hasn’t quit since 2007. I’ve turned the game on 4 times since I went on vacation for the holidays and I’ve turned it off after no more than 4 matches. My character feels unresponsive and my aiming feels different from match to match as well. One match things are buttery smooth but then the next match I’m feeling like I’m stuck in mud. I’m also one of those players that was comms banned for 14 days, with my mic muted and the very next match after stomping a full 6 man party where I called in 3 straight chopper gunners, so I’m guessing they all spam reported me. Not to mention, I’m always playing solo because my friends don’t want to play with me because my k:d and SPM is 2-3 times higher than almost all of them. So they just don’t even play CoD anymore. I’m so close to just uninstalling CoD and letting the franchise die to me. Unless they relax their matchmaking and comms bans while updating the connections, I’m probably closer to done than coming back heavily, unfortunately.
I didn't even buy BO6 because it started with Cold War for me (their game) and has gotten progressively worse every title. ping is absolutely not king for them I guarantee it. every 2nd or 3rd game was completely unplayable in MW3. couldn't even play ranked because I knew I'd lose 1/3 of my games on connection alone practically. (also roughly 1 in 15 I load in and literally can't even play because its so bad I can't even move). 0 point in trying anymore imo.
the matchmaking has completely burned me out, especially with the social aspect and not being able to play with friends. I gave up on Pubs and now just play ranked so i can feel some type of reward
@K-fc6sh Because my friends are not nearly as good at COD as me, so when we play together they have the worst time of their lives and I'm rolling people, so they don't want to play.
@K-fc6sh every time i play with my friends the lobbies progressively get harder and harder for them and no one has fun bc of the skill balance between teams
@@eligreg99i got on BO6 for some search and destroy and literally nobody spoke. Jump back on MW3 and everyone is chatting. It’s really weird. BO6 feels so soulless
Damn great video. Hit the nail on the head with every point. As someone who is also mid 30’s this game now 100% feels like it’s not made for me anymore.
Same man I use to play all the time. I'm pretty good at the game but it's not worth the frustration. I don't enjoy doing a 14hr shift and coming home and losing 10 matches in a row because the game decides to screw me
casual long time player checking in. I got back into the franchise for mw2019 after quitting after bo2. that game had plenty to find enjoyable but it has been less and less enjoyable for each one since then. The lack of quality maps, weapons behind pay walls, massive file sizes, non enjoyable movement systems, disbanding lobbies, all make the game not worth my time anymore. My biggest issue with this current cod is the maps. I can't think of one launch map that I looked forward to getting.
@@TypicallyUniqueOfficialhe means a lot of weapons you can’t access unless you have a battle pass aka you have to pay for weapons! The Krig C and Saug are free weapons from the battle pass that you can get without paying. If you grind for prestige levels then you can get free powerful weapons as well that you don’t have to pay extra for.
Disbanding lobbies, EOMM, terrible monetization, and lack of polish have all turned me away from CoD over the years in different but impactful ways. This franchise is a far cry from its glory days during the Xbox 360/PS3 era, and the execs at Activision are the most responsible for its decline.
I’ve been shadow banned with limited matchmaking for 29 consecutive days now. I play on Xbox and have never cheated and when contacting support they just say the account is under review. Meanwhile I solo queue into spinbotting hacker lobbies and have lost my desire to play the game entirely. I simply cannot understand why no decision has been made on my account yet. I have sheepishly played call of duty on the same account for over a decade just to be treated like trash. Enough is enough…
Fundamentally, BO6 has some features and minor improvements that are fine (not great), at best. Omni-Movement is (arguably) an improvement, though it still makes me laugh that Black Ops 3 already introduced a great new movement system TEN YEARS AGO that literally let you soar through the air, wall run, and swim with far great fluidity - and everyone complained that it was too difficult to adapt to (even though games like Unreal Tournament actually introduced more kinetic movement even years earlier). So now, here are we are a decade after BO3 and the amazing new movement system is... advanced sliding. Advanced sliding paired with AI artwork, character designs, and map designs that largely soulless - not to mention worse cheating, no crossplay filtering for anyone not on PlayStation, server issues, and rampant cheating. No wonder people are bailing.
It's a Sunday, on Christmas break, at 3pm EST, and their is barely anyone streaming or watching COD, and Warzone on Twitch. I also am playing against the same players multiple times in a row even when lobbies break up.
Nailed it again Ace. I don’t use my mic, I bail on games when you can tell the connection is f’ed and you are at a disadvantage. So many of the games I do play in are very, very close. Or complete blow outs due to folks bailing.
This game was the last straw for me. BO2 was peak CoD for me, and I made the mistake of hoping that BO6 would provide me something close to what that experience was. Between the awful server lag, with all the packet burst/loss and ping variance, and what seems like the strictest SBMM I've experienced in any CoD, I'm fed up. The moment I found myself asking, "is skill based damage really a thing?" I decided to call it quits before I went full conspiracy theory brained.
That’s for the best. If you’re not having fun with it anymore, quit and find another game to play. Honestly it’s even easier to drop cod now than it ever has been in years. Give other different kinds of games a chance.
SBMM which literally tells you "I won't let you play better," as well as crossplay, because of which there is no escape from PC cheaters = is the perfect formula for the failure of any shooter
You can play strictly console but on Xbox, its a royal PIA to do so. Every time you boot up the game it wants you to change your profile to crossplay. You hit cancel then it will only match you to console.
COD is broken. Frags are insane, the amount of sliding is ridiculous. Lobbies are super sweaty. How the F can you shoot through a car?. I get hit markers by nobody. Assists count as a kill, so does two hits to the body. I started a game, had zero kills, but I’m showing 5 kills… WTF? Is my KD unrealistic?
I honestly just hate that people keep on buying bundles. When the game first came out the 2nd day I was already seeing people with the new skin. They absolutely rely on people like that buying every single skin and bundle. If people stop and just play the game maybe they will invest more in making the game better rather than churning out bundle after bundle
I'm literally playing vanguard and modern warfare 19, modern warfare 2 and 3 when I want to play call of duty now. I've completed the interstellar or whatever it's called this year camo dark matter and after that I have no desire to play multiplayer because of all the stuff I listed in my previous comments. They did this in season 1 usually you don't see this craziness like monsters and laser guns until season 4 or 5 but at launch you got a green dragon shooting a laser beam
I'll be honest this is the first CoD that I haven't bought and it sounds like it was a good decision. I may not come back which makes me sad as a long time grinding player who always did the camo and prestige master challenges.
@@MrMegaMario64 I'm the same way. I like to hear perspective. Based on all of Ace's points from the video, what have you enjoyed so far? Has your level of enjoyment changed in any way after launch?
Regarding trust issues, this is Activision/IW's fault. 2019 really felt like the devs had turned on the core audience and decided that they were no longer important. That was when EOMM was introduced and things haven't neen the same since.
@@xCriZzZ In recent years most AAA devs are like this, because higher ups only care about $$$. As long as the game is making money they don't care about the actual gameplay. I hate to be a boomer, but back in the day they really had to put effort in to make a good game sell well; now all you have to do is make a halfway playable and addictive game, then pump it full of microtransactions.
Yeah I agree. People harp on 2019 being the best all the time but these people must have not played in the old days or experienced an og cod. 2019 was literally the beginning of all this crap. A lot of the issues we’re seeing now were things introduced with 2019.
I'm one of the people who exclusively play cod on pc, solo. I will 1000% leave if I can't make it out of spawn after being spawn killed 2 or more times in a row. I'm trying to have fun, grind camos WHILE playing OBJ and i know nobody likes being spawn trapped game after game. So I just leave! If it's a back and forth game B flag constantly changing I'll stay bc that's actually fun! But taking 3 steps out of spawn and being killed over and over just isn't for me...
True. Was mainly a TDM player but the spawn flipping ruined it for me, dom is better but spawns are way to sticky as you said. Leaving matches is the way
One day my father got on and found out he was banned. No reason for it apparently, he says he hasn't gotten an email and he logged into his account on the Activision website and it says it shouldn't be banned, but he can flat out no longer play the game. Anyone else have anything like that? I don't know how true it is, but he's adamant about being done with CoD period from here out
The fact that people are getting banned randomly out of the blue for nothing is not good. This whole system is being handled incompetently. It’s inexcusable especially for Activision, a multibillion dollar company who has all the resources and yet can’t even handle a ban system correctly that innocent players get banned. I don’t care anymore that they are a for profit entity, they need to absolutely give a fuck about the state of their game and actually make some very necessary changes. Greed is absolutely destroying this franchise and it sucks to see. I only play infectious holiday and zombies as those are the only modes that are enjoyable to me. Hell most of the time I’m playing other games like Project Wingman, Balatro, Darkest Dungeon 2 and now the new Indiana Jones game. If you decide to quit cod after this, check out the games I mentioned. You might like them, could be a good change of pace.
It feels like BO6 has way less content or variety compared to MW3 this time last year. A major difference being that MW3 provided a new *something* every week, whether that be an attachment or conversion kit. It wouldn't always be huge but it really did make the game feel fresh every week.
My experience of mw3 was generally decent until they forced texture streaming on. It quite literally became unplayable overnight. Just because poor people exist doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to install textures if we have the space.
So glad he mentioned the skin situation. So overlooked but the skins are so obnoxious that it doesn’t even feel like call of duty anymore. On top of that the trailing effects of the some of the characters & effects of getting killed by some of the weapons (like turning into pixels) is so damn annoying.
No one talks in the lobbies as much due to the ai chat bans. In the UK we have a slang word for cigarettes. You could use that slang word the ai only picks up the word not the context of what's been said. You get com banned. It's a mature rated game treating people like children. If we are upset we can report it. I think they are taking things too far and killing the game.
My uncle his son are two of those casual players that just play the game and don’t interact with it outside of the game itself. Usually they play mostly COD all year long. This year they’ve barely even touched the game since December and having been playing a ton of NBA2K25 instead. Casuals are noticing the drop in quality. They might not be able to pinpoint the exact reasons why they aren’t having fun anymore, but all they know is that they have a bad experience every time they play. After enough bad experiences in a row, people quit playing.
When the hell are RUclipsrs like Xclusive Ace going to unite and tell their millions of subs to Boycott BO6 until revolutionary changes are made. When??? RUclipsrs are great at complaining and telling you the Truth yet have no Answers when it comes on how to make a Change. The only way COD will evolve is to boycott on a massive scale. When?!
They don’t have a plan. This is just engagement bait. Whining videos get way more views than than tutorials that show players how to get better at the game. Multiple cod RUclipsrs coincidentally making the same “CoD is dying” video around the same time. It’s all for clicks and views. They will keep playing no matter what.
On PC I still have packet loss every single game. Maybe my first game or two I'll be able to play without any packet issues, but then I get dropped connections, large extrapolation errors, and a terrible experience overall. I end up playing maybe a game every couple of days and turn it back off after one or two matches for another few days. The maps suck, the hackers suck, and the matchmaking is just atrocious. In the one game I don't have any problems, I am usually top of the leaderboard, trying to carry the whole team, or close to it. The next match always ~feels~ like hacker city, whether they are actually hacking or not.
Also totally agree with the skins and monetization you mentioned. Just feels weird to be 30+ and its like this weird kid/adjacent appeal to the skins and customization. Great video, my dude.
my gf exclusively plays it for zombies and prop hunt and she days it might be her new favorite cod over cold war. i also personally really enjoy the zombies. but i only played for a month on game pass. im not paying 70 dollars for just zombies. the multiplayer sucks. ive played like 10 games, and it was not fun. i should preference this by saying. I'm bad at Call of Duty, so any game where you lose your kill streaks when you die is automatically not gonna be fun for me. Which is why I liked cold war and MW3(the original) so much. i also haven't cared about the story since they rebooted it and combined modern warfare and black ops stories together witch i think was an insult to the original stories. also all the goody ass skins and emotes are really stupid. and the weapon smith customization or whatever it is called, is way worse than mw3. not a large variety of good maps or guns either. and no outbreak mode in zombies. just a lot of missed opportunities. if they release zombies as its own game, and ass a bunch of the missing features from cold war, than ill buy it. but thats probably it.
Bro , i can’t even create a new build. And it’s the same for many other people. When u click create a new build it just doesn’t work. I mean that’s the most simple, bread n butter part of the game and it doesn’t even work… But yet they’ve been releasing bundles everyday. I’m honestly sick of it at this point. I mean bo2 and bo3 which are 10 years old never had problems with the basics of the game .
I'm using a translator to communicate, so I hope I don't sound rude or crazy... haha! This video is perfect! It precisely sums up my experience with the franchise (especially Black Ops 6). I received a shadowban on 4 different accounts during the first week of release! I was forced to request a refund for the Game Pass on each of them to avoid a massive financial loss. 80-90% of the time while playing, I have a constant feeling that something is wrong: Whether it's the hit detection The sense of weight/lack of responsiveness in the controls In specific matches, playing with a ping between 8 and 30 feels worse than servers with 40 to 100ms Not knowing if I'm improving or getting worse due to SBMM manipulation After about 1 hour of gameplay, I experience intense fatigue or a mental fog And the worst of all... The paranoia of thinking I'm playing against cheaters (especially in ranked matches). On top of that, I constantly encounter a lack of polish! Crashes and server disconnections have become routine (I can't stand losing 200 points anymore due to being disconnected from a ranked match). I notice my friends getting worn out quickly when playing with me because of the added difficulty from SBMM, and playing with fewer people or solo has significantly reduced my enjoyment because I end up taking it too seriously and worrying about the stats. Speaking of which, it’s unnecessarily difficult to maintain consistent performance in BO6 since ALL the maps feel like Swiss cheese, making predictability and control much harder. I live in Brazil, and I was surprised to notice that my experience is practically identical to the points mentioned by Ace.
@@structs On The Photo Techy channel, the creator mentions a bug with deadzones in controllers, where the game suddenly applies a value without your consent. This might be what’s affecting the feel of aim assist.
It's nearly impossible for our group to have fun in multiplayer, that's pretty much it. We're always fighting an uphill battle trying to get a decent streak such as just a care package. Fighting people at your skill level all the time just doesn't work for us
@Pit_1209 The issue is it means you have to olay your best and really try in EVERY game or you get murked. That's not the casual chill FUN experience that people want. That's the RANKED experience but it's happening in pubs.
@kunimitsune177 that's not true because if you get "pummeled" then you get into a much easier match until you're the one pummeling, people just want to stay in the latter permanently. There are videos of matches were people are chilling, they don't even know how to move, sbmm let them play at their level and have some fun and that's the point.
@@Pit_1209 The problem I have come to see is, that in fact people are not playing people at their skill level. Over half mf my matches one team utterly destroys the other one team will have a K/d of 2.5 every player, and the other can barely have 1 player with a 1.1. That is a broken system to do that, or the playerbase has gotten so small its putting the people together, but even in that, the system absolutely hardly ever balances the teams.
@@spartanx169x There are people smurfing, there are people been banned for hacking and creating new accounts, there are people losing matches on purpose until they get a easy one. I'm not saying sbmm it's perfect but there's nothing one can do against people trying to cheat the system.
It seems that the three studios involved in developing Call of Duty titles often struggle to collaborate effectively due to their differing visions, design philosophies, and gameplay priorities. For instance, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer tend to focus more on graphics and audio design, while Treyarch prioritizes gameplay mechanics and leans into an arcade-like art style. Additionally, map designs vary significantly: Treyarch generally employs a three-lane structure, while Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer favour more open, freeform layouts. To better align their efforts and maximize the series’ potential, a restructuring could be beneficial. For example, Infinity Ward could lead development on Warzone, given their commitment to the battle royale experience, while keeping Warzone as a separate entity from the core multiplayer experience. Treyarch could take charge of multiplayer and Zombies (if that mode continues to be developed), ensuring their strengths in gameplay mechanics and distinctive style are fully realized. Meanwhile, Sledgehammer could focus on delivering high-quality campaigns, capitalizing on their expertise in narrative-driven experiences. By adopting this division of responsibilities and releasing new Call of Duty titles every two to three years, the series could achieve higher quality and better-defined gameplay experiences.
As a mouse and key player, im just tired of cod at the minute. Still no signs of input based matchmaking, strong SBMM and terrible maps. Black ops 6 is the first cod in years that I have barely played.
The aim assist is so strong, mk is a huge disadvantage in ranked😂. Input based mm would probably resolve in 20 minute queues tbh. Crossplay saved cod on pc. Cod Pc player since 2014. Bo3 went from 15k players week one to 5k then towards the end it had 1-2k. Once mod tools released it had 5-10k consistently but not for MP, but for zombies. Adv war died in a week, Inf War died in a week, CODWW2 didn’t die, bo4 died in a week on pc.
@@kunimitsune177 all top 250 players are controller, its a fact that controller is a huge advantage for cod. Learn how to aim without assistance you bot player
YES YES YES MCCOD99 ur god damn right! As a mouse and keyboard player it is sad that call of duty devs don't take mouse and keyboard players seriously, controller is aimbot in call of duty it's sad and while playing any other games its very noticeable how hand holding the controller is in cod. This cod mouse and keyboard feels the worst it's ever been just the clutter while shooting you can't see your target its horrible. MW3 felt good on keyboard and mouse but treyarch dropped the ball with bo6, it's awful and I quit almost immediately. Its ridiculous there is no input based matchmaking in cod, why can I not only play against keyboard and mouse and not aimbot controller bots?
COD needs to go back to its roots. Have a playlist where the pace is slowed down a bit and there's no sliding around. I be been watching old MW 2 footage and its so much more peaceful and non-sweaty. Just my opinion.
MW2 was just a goofy mess that was fun to play. MWII was a game with AMAZING visual design for guns and was satisfying for a gun nut to look at and play as well as being a game that's grounded and not about zipping around the map like it's a tik tok shooter. Black Ops 6 is starting to feel like it was made for ages between 10-18 while somehow being a mature rated game. And as a 33 year old man, I never felt like a CoD was outright not made for me even back when we had jetpacks until now. Because even with jetpacks, you couldn't boost yourself as fast as you can with a slide in this game.
I have a 9-5, and am going back to school. It has significantly reduced my playtime. BUT my WILLINGNESS to play has been solely reduced by my sbmm from my previous performances. SBMM is the problem…
@@Existing_Echobrother if I have to come home after a long day at work to play against some sweaty 13 year old on his 6th hour playing that day, who thinks he is going pro. I have no fun
@@maxdempsey2808look all I’m saying is sbmm will never leave, 50+ hour work weeks as an industrial welder leaves me no time to play, but if someone can’t hang in the main mode, play zombies, it’s more enjoyable anyways.
I think people are getting burnt out on the franchise like we saw before the big changes with MW19. Feels very similar to me. I'd love if they let each of their studios make unique experiences in a CoD universe. Let IW go off and make what they clearly want to make - FPS titles that are nothing like traditional CoD. Let Treyarch make the traditional arcade style CoD experience. And let Sledgehammer do something completely different. That way you're not oversaturating the arcade shooter space, games might actually feel fresh when they're released since they're not just going to be iterative updates on a game that released 12 months earlier, and they can let their devs (IW in particular) work on things they actually want to work on.
Alot of us had high hopes for this game 4 years of development, Treyarch, Zombies etc But it has all of the same old issues. We're burnt. This was their big chance and they blew it
I stopped playing largely due to sbmm. I played cod for casual fun time with my casual friends. They get destroyed when they play with me, no one has a fun time. With treyarch cods I gave up on them. Slow ttk, advanced movement, extremely adhd map design, none of this is cod and I hate it. I just want old cod back. Make a new cod that actually feels like BO2 and I'm all over it. Nah hard disagree about chat bans. The cod community is incredibly toxic and they're mostly just angry they can't scream slurs at people over the internet. It's really not hard to just, not be toxic.
This is my last cod I put a decent amount of time into. Hoping Halo and Battlefield make a comeback in future. Would gladly play those two franchises over cod.
It's funny how they BAN certain words but there's a blueprint that's called crackshot and when you try to duplicate and rename it to get rid of the (copy) it won't allow you to save it as crackshot
The skins are absolute cringe. I’m now embarrassed to show people the game now. Before it looked like a somewhat cool milsim. Now it looks like roblox and fortnite. I struggle to believe anyone would actually purchase these lame skins. I can only assume grans are buying them for their granddaughters
To me : 1) Matchmaking is not "ping is the king" at all : your ping is never accurate : you can have a 19ms match but your match will have the micro-stutter for every 2 sec but you can also have a match of 50ms that all your shots are hitting perfectly and you feel like your opponents are not reacting to you. Clearly, the ping is just an UI cover for the SKB damage or lobbies. Shady as hell if you ask me. 2) Once again, hit detection problems : the game server cannot keep up with omni-movements : when players are sliding or doing all those crazy movements, you bullets dont hit and this is close to mid range where all shots are hit scans. I always find that my opponents are dodging my bullets when they perform those movements and I compare my gameplay vs kill cam : on my end, my bullets werent registering at all even though my reticle is spot on. 3) Crossplay issue : because the connectivity and desync is a huge issue, this makes crossplay an extremely frustrating experience. PC players have the option for really high refresh-rate monitors that are up to 360hz or higher while console players are locked at 120. Even on a local match, 360hz will have an advantage over 120hz. In Black Ops 6, too many instances I just die before I can even see my enemy's character model but if I look at the kill cam , the enemy was on me for a good 5 seconds... When I turn off crossplay and play versus PSN players (im on PS5), I do not have this type of death AT ALL. 4) Cheating is absurd now, never a COD that has been plagued with cheaters within 2 months of launch. Overall, I think crossplay should be turned off and let console players matching against each other for now, until Treyarch iron out the connectivity issues and cheating problems.
I don't like being forced to lose because I had a good game previously. Ruins the whole concept for me.
I've just stopped trying and caring, therefore smurfing my account a little. Makes the game a bit more bearable.
Yep. I can’t play with friends for about 5 years now because I’ll get 70 kills and they’ll get 20 with 50 deaths. But if I solo q I’m lucky to go positive. Ruined the franchise entirely and I’ve played since cod4
At least you are getting wins. Last time I played I lost 20 games in a row because everyone on the other team was a god player and my team were potatoes. When I am consistently the top player of my team something is wrong, I am average at best and usually fall 3rd-4th place on my teams. I don't mind losing, it's part of the game, but to not stand a chance, getting spawn trapped and not being able to fight back, or just getting stomped is just not fun
@@potapotapotapotapotapotait shouldnt be that way tho
For me, I just don't get it. I'm not really good at COD, I'm like average at best, but somehow I always end up in beat down lobbies
Call of Duty has been chasing new players and short-term profit at the expense of their core fan-base for years, people are sick of it. They've spent all the community loyalty earned over the past decades, and certainly aren't earning more any time soon. Reap what you sow.
that's it they cashed in their banked trust/reputation
Core fan base isn’t enough. Most people who play are casual. They play a few times a week because they have other things in their life. COD fan base ithink is older than a lot of other games, which means players playing less often because they have less time to play.
@@ĆrankyÓldMan2024 3-4-3 is a marketing rule. 3 always will 3 never will and 4 can be swayed either way. This rule overlaps with a lot of things even as older communities age out the casual to hardcore % remains about that same unless the game is dying then casuals will hemorrhage much faster.
BO6 is a boring game with manipulative/rigged matchmaking, bad maps, and exhausting gameplay. After completing the camo grind there is nothing left to do.
@@swirly3643 you have been caught by a common talking point. The point of FPS games it to play them thats whats left to do its not some end game MMO. If you don't like Bo6 don't play it? personally i play it because it's the current best in slot shooter the second a better game shows up with a decent player base im out. but you know what doesn't help your point? always talking about a game you dont like especially with hate based marketing being so dam popular right now.
Black Ops 6 at its core is such a good game but they keep cutting corners where it really matters like the AI art, connection issues, cosmetics, and strict SBMM.
Spot on, I couldn’t agree more
I agree for the most part. But with how poor the maps (including spawns) are, which is a huge part of the game, im not sure i'd call it a "good game" at it's core. Some great parts for sure though.
Game is still fun to me honestly
The largest issue is the default settings being so vastly different from what the optimized settings are. By buffing the default settings you would effectively alleviate skill based matchmaking.
@@TheDom277at its core I’d at least call it a “fun” game. When I don’t feel manipulated the entire time I have some fun moments. Cheaters and sbmm are the biggest flaws for me. Nothing feels organic anymore.
Call of Duty isn’t Fortnite. There shouldn’t be any non human skins.
Exactly. How we got unicorn fating rainbows is beyond me.
They know that's how Fortnite makes money, so they copying it
Or skins in general
They are so shit 😂 I don't understand why they have to look like a 10 year old's drawing. They look so out of place in the game.
Sadly, I decided to quit COD permanently two weeks ago. What's the point of playing a game that isn't made to be fun?
SBMM/EOMM has been f*cking with us for YEEEARS now. It has been long enough.
Its not even fun to get the camos anymore, did the same thing for this cod
You did the right thing, I quit during mw22. I did play mw3 a bit at my brothers but never bought it. Same infuriating experience, slightly better but not nearly enough.
I even have gamepass, won't play this mess. I have had enough. They know what they are doing, it's been 5 years. This is cod now 🤷
I only touch this game whenever my friends and I want to complete the new Zombies EE. Just been playing single player games or Rivals atm
@@alexisserrano9807 i have all camos except for warzone ... but there is no point to play with camos when i habe 10ms but this shit lagging every fukingg game of rebirth
yeah when Ace makes a video on the state of Call of Duty, you know people aren’t vibing with Black Ops 6 rn
Bt, Nero, rick, eight thoughts, thunder etc are all echoing the same sentiments. It's really bad this year. It's sad
Skill based damage is skill based ping; if me or my squad do too well our ping creeps up there when I’m paying for the fastest internet I can get…
@@varunaXikr those ppl are fucking annoying but they always have a point
Good game but devs or activision is cheap as hell with crap servers and still add MORE microtranctiom
I only play objective game modes, and the sticky spawns make BO6 unplayable IMO. I went back to MW2019.
1.5 KD with 28 % win ratio. I'm so engaged with EOMM, I haven't played for over a month. Game forces me to lose no matter how hard I try to win.
its the teammates.
Having a good K/D used to be something we would look forward to but now it feels like a punishment unless all you do is play COD and take the game very serious
Thats what sucks, you feel like you’re improving and yet do worse on scoreboard. Demoralising and more likely to give it up
@@Redmont_ I look at the leaderboards and I have some friends with like a .7kd and they have like a 80% win loss ratio
I’m a 1.4 on mp(I only grind guns) and my win percentage is like a .38. I constantly play objective as I net more kills anyway doing so but NEVER win, unless it’s on the shootout maps for some reason.
Matchmaking and server/connection experience will kill this franchise if they don’t change things. The other thing that’s killing it is the goofy ass skins and bundles. I think this is causing a loss of identity.
I feel they are trying to be too much like Fortnite with the skins in their attempt to beat Fortnite at their own game.
I’ve literally heard my character say every cuss word in the book, how can they comms ban players when that literally happens multiple times a game
Because they’re not banning players for saying cuss words, they’re banning players for saying slurs. People who complain about chat bans won’t admit it but they just want to be able to say slurs again.
@Yash-hr3uv Saying slurs without even having a mic plugged in? Yeah, I'm sure no mic players are very upset about not being able to drop an n bomb again...
@@Yash-hr3uvseems like you’re pulling this out of thin air, but yes it would be nice if we could say slurs in this rated M game.
Why do they keep catering to woke snowflakes?? They’re just running this franchise into the ground.
@DanielJBarragan it's because of money.
The more you know 🌈
cod players might just like freedom of speech lol not trying to parent others kids yk
As a solo player, disbanding lobbies is the biggest issue for me. Maybe I'm just old, but I haven't made a single friend in modern Call of Duty. I miss the banter that would continue after each game, but now it's only 10 seconds of after game chat...
bro go outside and meet people
cod aint your tinder
Facts, you cant ever “run it back” agasint the same people, it SUCKS
Nah, he's right. Why do you care enough to be negative and not have anything to really say anyway?
the use of discord and party chat ruined the true cod lobby experience. its never coming back.
@@Redmont_ "CoD ain't your Tinder" 💀 I absolutely adore hopping on Tinder to build friendships and rivalries! I swipe on people and call them slurs just for fun!
The game burns me out after like an hour cause every match feels like I’m fighting in a tournament is what it used to to be and the servers always crash on me so I end up moving on and playing another game
I thought people were trolling when they mentioned game crashing
Then I saw a devour video in which he was 12 and something in round 3 and the game crashed for him
Game is cooked. 😂
@everyone1liesd459
*12 TO something
Smfh
First week when EOMM was not on was great. Its just not worth it any more
My exact experience.
Games a mess. Glad it's finally started a decline. We need Battlefield and Halo to get their shit together. I'd ditch Cod in a heartbeat if those two franchises got good again.
It’s the manipulative EOMM that really gets me. The EOMM that we don’t know exactly how it works. The EOMM that could have far more predatory features than we ever could have imagined. If you’ve read the patent that they’ve published it should concern you. Especially because that patent is multiple years old so it’s likely significantly more sophisticated. As long as my gaming experience is being manipulated to that level I’m not playing a single minute of the game. If people really want to send a message to activision they need to NOT buy COD 2025 (which will be another MW3 style “DLC.”)
Literally this!
Blows my mind how most people won't care they're being manipulated
Thank you for talking about the no longer allowed “shit talk” in chat while we are playing a M rated game. It’s ridiculous
Gotta get those fortnite kiddies for the shareholders
We live in a world of socially delicate teens and young adults. They are just feeding into these weak minded people. Most of these people wouldn’t even be offended by shit talking of there weren’t so many telling them to be offended. It’s so freaking gay 🤣
The mute button exists for everyone. They have also made it more difficult to mute people/lobbies then it used to be too.
There has been a solution to this problem for 2 decades. They are the ones making this problem worse ffs
I personally keep it on lobby chat and we have a buddy from work who’s it’s their first time playing COD and learning as he goes but a little slow but he’s got the point.
As a joke i put us in a HC TDM match without telling him and told our other buddy to not say anything even noticed something different.
Sure enough the new guy accidentally team kills our other friend and they go off talking crap to each other and then me for putting us in HC TDM but the new guy ended up getting chat banned in a PARTY ONLY chat.
The other guy recently got chat banned and we have no clue why, we were just playing and he stopped talking and me and him for some reason always have issues with VC and text each other and ended up telling me he got a 3 day ban and didn’t know why.
We still use the game chat but just switch to discord but might end up just staying on discord.
It’s a like a ghost town out there.. never hear anyone in game or lobbies it’s chalked.
Hackers are insane. EOMM is basically win trading.
20 minutes of extremely valid criticism and you didn't even get into the AI art slop debacle and all of the zombies voice actors quitting/striking/being fired because Activision refuses to give them protection from their voices being replicated with AI.
the AI stuff is genuinely disgusting. And they doubled down with that new bundle art where the moon is in front of the clouds lol
@@tobiasrieper6640 why do you care if the ART is made by a person or AI, it makes absolutely no difference to the gameplay. You just want to complain for the sake of complaining
@@OMGItzSlickerzActivision makes billions of dollars off of COD every single year. The least they can do is pay real artists. Dumb dumb.
@@OMGItzSlickerzhey look everyone, this guy doesn't understand the simple principle of quality over quantity!
No but seriously. Multi-billion Dollar publisher owned by a multi-trillion Dollar company, pulling the shit they do. It's us, the players, defending the rights of the artists and voice actors that have spent years of their life giving us the content that we so know and love. It's fine to get New voice actors, It's fine to get New artists. But replacing everything with AI to save some money, despite every single cod having a fucking massive profit margin is ridiculous. Cod never had the need to nickel and dime everything the way they do now, it's the suits that are trying to fill their pockets more and more and more.
@ again, in what way does it affect you or your gameplay?
To add to this, there’s no evidence of any AI art being used, it’s nothing more than RUclipsrs crying, trying to get clicks
Getting a warning for trash talking in the lobby due to their corny new “code of conduct” means they have completely lost the plot
I've always hated that you can't tell if someone is an enemy just by looking at them anymore.
Yes! Agreed which side is the sharks and which the clowns!!!
I play hardcore and team kills is horrible with spawns and no uniforms.
Add sleeper agent and spawn flips with small maps and I will ruin your score steak when spawns flip and you’re running at me!
Which is why I liked Vanguards Visibility.You can easily tell.
Every game they make visibility so shit it's annoying
Litr can if u have common sense
And now, you have Sleeper Agent added to an already frustrating experience. Trash.
So true.
It's the monetization for me. It's not even monetized like it's a free to play game, it's monitized like it's a MOBILE GAME. The shop is always in your face. Skins and guns have crazy colors and death effects designed to create as much FOMO as possible. It's so shamelessly greedy, and at the same time they have the balls to put AI art in our faces. CoD has become completely backwards and the recent drop in players is finally showing it: People are fed up.
It doesnt feel like a CoD game, when someone kills me and I turn into a blunt on death. Let alone all these clowns running around as nicki minaj or art the clown.
I'm noticing a ton of rage quits per match. Whenever a team is getting destroyed, people will just straight up leave leading to a snowball effect. EOMM also can't seem to create a fair match to save it's life. I know that's not the actual purpose of EOMM, but I don't think it's gotten it right once. Either I'm dominating the team, or I'm getting dominated.
Yupp. No filling in vacant spots and its annoying. Especially when you play game modes like search.
I remember in cod when it was team balancing and good and bad player where put together to balance out the teams not it feels so artificial
No point in staying in a match that's a guaranteed L. I know you get bonus xp for staying but id rather have fun and actually be able to grind my camos instead of sticking out a sweat fest 6 v 4 or less.
@@talala5883as artificial as what you describe.
I think that's the point of EOMM. Just had a good game? Here you go, you're MLG for a game now. Oh, just got stomped? Here's a free win! It feels horrible and artificial.
Call of duty needs to go back to its basics, no Strict SBMM, Disbanding lobbies, no weird perk system or mini map gimics, no overhauled movement system, no gunsmith, just a normal pick 10 system, honestly BO4 is a great example of what Call of Duty should be
Bo4 was straight ass
Nah the Golden era games were MW, MW2, BO1, and BO2.
They all played the best, each with their own drawback.
The skins are outrageous. I don’t know who’s on my team half the time. And they need a tournament for these sweats that got something to prove instead of pub stomping casuals
This is why you see everybody shooting to everybody
The skins are out of control
Yeah the skins are out of hand. They should bring back factions where your teammates look and sound like You do, and they can still sell skins for each faction
The best thing I found out in this cod is that at least you can disable those stupid kill animations that come with bundles (like the explode in a lava swamp or fall apart in rainbow farts kill animation) by disabling gore in settings. Small tip that makes it all a small tiddybit easier.
I miss the BO3 method of slapping red lights on enemy character models. It was perfect. You could tell who was who before you even ADS.
Glad others are noticing that people are leaving lobbies more often this year, it’s gotten so bad recently that half of my games are either spent being dominated, or are spent with me unable to find any enemies.
People leave because theyre not having fun in that game since 2 boxing isnt a thing anymore the new method is just to leave until u get a good game
Exactly the same. Its rare now to get a balanced match that is close. 2 Minutes in you can usually tell how its going to go too. I played 10 matches half of them people were quitting out. They can not or will not balance teams. I think now the player base has dwindled to the point that they are having to match much higher tier players with Average Joes and then they get destroyed and start quitting, myself included.
@@spartanx169xget good. I join bad matches and turn it around more often than not
@@king_vision4085 I don't have to do sht. I can't carry a damn team. Nor am I going to try. If I get put into a losing match, I'm quitting, I have Zero reason to stay in the match. Its the developers job to balance the teams and they aren't doing it. I don't mind losing but I'm not going to be target practice when nobody on my team get get a kill and they are ALL 1 and 5, 2 minutes in to the match. This is just one video game. Its not my life. I have a life and WHEN THE GAME SUCKS, I'M LEAVING IT.
@@spartanx169x sounds like a “you” problem. You join a losing game mid match and leave. Instead of staying so a fresh match to start. B06 is good. Only people complaining are the ones who keep losing
Ace you hit the nail right on the head. These are the top four things I believe are attributing to the downfall of cod, coincidentally you mentioned them all in your video:
1. Ping not being king anymore. Skill based match making prioritizes a lobby full of equal skilled players based off recent games rather than your ping, leading to terrible connection.
2. Skill based match making on steroids. I understand protecting very new players but there used to be a time when I could mess around with knives/pistol only or any other kind of random strategies and still have fun. If I try that nowadays I get destroyed. Everybody is my skill(~1.5kd) and are using the most overpowered guns. It seems like unless I'm sweating it out that I just can't relax and have fun, and that sucks when you just want to relax and play casually.
It was so much more fun when it took all the players in a lobby and balanced the teams equally based off overall KD. I'd check the leader board and if I was the highest KD on my team I knew I had to carry my team. But other times when I saw I wasn't, it meant I could mess around with random weak guns, strategies, go for bizarre challenges, etc.
3. Disbanding lobbies. There is no longer any sense of community. You don't have that friendly banter in between each match. You can't stay in a lobby for a rematch again a party or an individual player. I added many friends that we've met in COD lobbies and then ended up teaming up to have somebody to play with. That aspect is gone. Yes there are ways to still accomplish this like through discord or other things but it was so much more fun to meet players organically and have that friendship.
4. Skill base match making causing teaming up to be a terrible experience for some players in your lobby. I used to be able to play with lesser skilled friends/family members in cod multi-player and we all could have a good time. The teams were balanced equally so I had good match ups against the better enemy players and my lesser skilled teammates had success going against the other equally skilled players on the other team. Now it seems like playing with a friend will put my friends in lobbies that are all full of players near my skill level making them hate the experience and never wanting to play with me.
I'm in my early thirties and I can say the last COD I thoroughly enjoyed was black ops 2. Those were the days. I did enjoy black ops 3 as well because it still did not do the things above, but they implemented specialists which made the gameplay inconsistent. They also introduced supply drops which gave randomized guns to players. It was no longer fair and seemed pay to win for certain weapons. There were guns in that game that I wanted to get that I still have not gotten to this day. Despite that although I was frustrated, at its core the game mechanics were still relatively the same and therefore tolerable. Unfortunately after that they have made poor decisions after poor decisions and they are no longer listening to the community about feedback. They care more about profits and in game purchases than they do about improving the player experience. I used to be a person that would buy cod year after year even if a game wasn't ideal, however I have stopped completely after Modern Warfare and have not gone back. I still watch an occasional Xclusive Ace video when he talks about the state of the game and unfortunately every time I hear him mentioning the same problems I've mentioned above.
It is truly sad to see a game I've loved so much to turn into something that irritates me and pushes me away simply because the devs caring more about profit margin than game play experience. It did not used to be that way but unfortunately that is where the current state of the game is.
Let's hope they turn this around sooner than later. Until that day comes I will be getting my gaming fix from other games. Take care everyone.
For your 2nd point, I think that's more of gamers taking gaming way too seriously than SBMM.
@@brandonj.9638 ping is still most certainly king… My connection is ALWAYS 15-30ms
I feel the same except I'm like a 100 times more mad over it and utterly disgusted with Activision. Im done with them for life
Could not agree more. I have not bought COD after MW2019 because due to the SBMM (also map design etc.) it just was not fun to play. I wasn't quite as good as you but the matchmaking system still killed me
bro why did u write an essay summarizing the video
I think CoD is suffering from the same thing a lot of AAA games are suffering from, which is pushing for a profitable product instead of a good game.
I don't want to be down on the devs and people who care about the game within the studio, but I'm sure a ton of the decisions we see are more about pumping numbers that appeal to shareholders rather than pushing for changes and work that benefit the players first. I don't even mind the skins and monetization, I love the silly shit and shiny tracers as much as the next brain-numbed guy spamming Stakeout for camos, but multi tier battle passes, expensive skins that don't even offer much/look great, adding ANOTHER potential seasonal/limited paid adventure path or whatever?
It gets hard to defend after a point. To make it worse, CoD's best feature is the fast paced arcade-style shooter gameplay. The core gameplay elements of CoD are what they've always been, and even though they still offer the best version of that experience, it doesn't mean much if people are having a hard time accessing it. Broken features, bad servers, and at times baffling decisions when it comes to matchmaking and game balance? It makes sense that people would be stepping away.
I think COD will be fine, but there have certainly been a lot of things in recent CoD history that just make it harder to defend or suggest to old or new players.
A.I. bundles, cheaters, 5 tick rate servers, and being put in losing games ALL the time when i solo queue with my team going 20 and 200. Its rough
I'm playing the devils advocate, though I hate Activision as much as everyone here, the servers do have a 60 tick rate. Tick rate isn't everything.
Something's 100% up with the servers, I'm almost always playing on 15-25 ping yet the amount of times I die in a single frame, experience desync is insane.
@@tiredcaffeine thought it was 30? Either way I was definitely being facetious. It's not 5 tick rate.. I don't even think that's possible
@@lifestream1689 warzone uses 20 or 30 tick rate servers.
@@lifestream1689 I think it's 60. I remember TheTacticalBrit talking about it in his videos about servers.
I mean, Warzone servers run at 20, so I think 5 isn't that impossible.
Tired of getting spawn trapped, tired of getting shot in the back constantly,tired of the hit markers, tired of running into players that seem like gods on here, tired of enemies knowing where i'm at all the time and the movement system is trash, the list goes on.....
git gud lil bro
@ggx444 lil bro most of these are things the developers need to fix, by the way your talking i bet your not 25, so you don't know the old COD days. These last 2 Call of duties have been garbage
“Tired of getting spawn trapped”
This is why SBMM exists because of people like you. Ruins the game
Actual skill issue
I agree wit everything besides the movement. The spawn trappin is ridiculous
My biggest gripe is the scorestreaks cost over double.
Getting a UAV is so expensive and getting a high end kill streaks happens once a decade.
WaW 3-5-7 dogs was legendary,
I disagree. The green perk bonus along with other perks that stack allow you to get streaks very quickly especially in objective based game modes like dom or kc. Score streak spam like in cold war gets annoying and frustrating. I’d much rather see people really earn streaks than everyone just spamming them nonstop.
@@NickPoly17but thats dependent on the mode which is badly designed imo since Strategist/Scorestreaks wasnt fine tuned.
Tdm needs to be 125 per kill and something like Ransack makes 0 sense how you only get strategist bonus (50) if you deposit a full stack all at once.
Its very inconsistent.
@@NickPoly17there was only score streak spamming in Cold War because the progress towards streaks did not stop on death
@@NickPoly17 "i disagree because you can use perks to make a chopper gunner only take 13 kills instead of 16!" (fine print* in some gamemodes)
huuuurrrrrrrrr
the matchmaking gets progressively harder, yet the streaks keep requiring more and more score, thats dumb.
Thank you so much for calling out the skins -- it has turned me off the game almost to the point of abandoning it. I don't want to play a cartoon game for children, I want to play an adult FPS. If they at least partnered with Hasbro to produce a GI-Joe skins pack, I'd be all over it, but otherwise this game is just crumbling in on itself. :(
12:15 call of duty promotes and supports drugs but you aren’t allowed to curse or talk smack. Game is rated M +18
Agreed. Everything WOKE turns to 💩💩💩
Yeah can't say the UK slang word for cigarettes it's a ban. But you can sell weed related drug skins that's fine lol
@@stevenjugginsliterally no one says that talking about cigs but yeah game chat moderation is trash
@@stevenjugginsyep I said it last night, 20 seconds later I was comm banned, 10 seconds later the game was closed.
And the game characters swear and curse after pretty much every match. But you can’t swear in comms, even to yourself.
the matchmaking has totally ruined cod since 2019
Yup and what's more screwed up is every AAA multiplayer game followed this trend. I've been just playing single player games exclusively the past few years.
COD:B06 has comms? I have yet to hear anyone on mic and I am on Prestige 7.
I was chat banned for three days for says "Guys be careful the little Bit$% is camping behind the bus" That made my whole team go back to Discord and turn off BO6 chat. They put characters into the game that say @$$h^%$ Motherf$#@$# and many other cuss words but we get chat banned? What a bullsh%$ double standard.
First thing I turned off anyway. Not playing to hear people with 2 dollar mics agrueing with their mom after a shift
This is crazy to me, on OCE servers, pretty much half the lobby is chatting each game.
No point playing on mic, every 20something is a knowitall A-hole that thinks they should be in a league.
Lol. This is funny. But in a sad way.
You nailed everything that I’ve been thinking during this game. Especially when talking about SBMM with partied up with my casual friends and the comms bans. Most of my friends who I’ve played COD with since BO2 ended up buying this COD for the first time since MW19 and absolutely loved it the first month. THEY HAVE ALL QUIT SINCE THEN, and it’s because of two reason:
1. SBMM makes their gaming experience hell as they are .6-.9 kd players who are now put against master prestige diamond-
iridescent players because they are in a lobby with me and/or some of our other friends who play competitively.
2. This is the main reason why all of my friends left the game and that’s communication bans. These are casual players who don’t have discord, they are all on different platforms so they can’t use ps game chat or Xbox game chat so instead they just put the sticks down and give up on the game because we can’t talk to each other in game.
This is the most anti-gamer experience I’ve ever seen out of a game let alone a AAA title.
They have been saying that "anti cheat upgrades are coming" since MW19
The packet burst is so bad for me I just quit
BO6 is garbage. The MP maps are so bad they have to be a.i generated.
I wish that were the case. Then we'd have as many maps as we do skins in the store. lol. I wouldn't mind having to buy a good map.
This is the number 1 issue in bo6 nobody talks about. Hackers are 2nd. Connection is 3rd but that last one is in mw3 too it didn't cause a loss of playerbase like this
I think that shipment was so popular that they figured they'd shrink maps across the board.
Even MW2 which had some of the laziest Warzone insert maps had a better selection than these hand crafted BO6 maps.
Treyarch need to get rid of their map developers and hire some actual talent.
Need some bigger maps. They are all too small and sweaty. I don’t want to sprint around like a looney all night. There’s no combat against vigilance and recon, making stealth nigh on impossible now.
I have been playing COD consistently for so long, however, forcing crossplay in ranked was the last straw for me. It is too frustrating running into a hacker pretty much every game. This is the first time where I have thought i won't play it again. Games are meant to be fun, and i am just not having fun now
I spend more time searching for a match than actually playing. 50% of the maps are deep shit and I really can’t enjoy playing them.
I now play with exactly zero of the 13 people I used to play call of duty with. simply because our skill levels vary so much, most of them can’t compete at the same level as me and a couple of others. It’s so taxing to them, sometimes they can’t speak in game for 3-4 games in a row because they are concentrating so so hard just to stay alive they can’t have a conversation or even string a sentence together. All you hear is them puffing air out over and over and over again as they get more and more frustrated.
Modern warfare genuinely ruined how all of our group play this game and now non of us play the same thing or barely talk.
My kd isn’t even that high and it’s just so so painful to play.
Also, not everyone has the capacity to understand when the game is playing them and will turn it off. These tactics being used to get people addicted are downright disgusting and if it doesn’t ease off, I can see In the future someone harming themselves over the levels of frustration this game causes.
Activision will have a lot to answer for then.
Save the friend group, buy a vpn.
The EOMM when playing solo is so rough. It also sucks that I can't really have fun when I play with a couple of my friends who are really good because I get destroyed and likewise I can't play with my friends who aren't very good because they get destroyed in my lobbies. BO6 at it's core is such a good game, but it's ruined by greed, bugs, mediocre maps and EOMM.
Its gotten to the point where now I go into each lobby and before the match ask if anyone wants to play in a party. If someone has a mic and plays similar gametypes to me, I send them a friend request.
The lobby disbanding is the single worst part of the game to me.
EOMM is second.
@@Commenter5651 I lump disbanding lobbies into EOMM because the lobbies disbanding is critical to that manufactured experience between games. They wouldn't be able to generate the artificial ups and downs without lobbies disbanding after every game. It's critical to the EOMM system. And I totally agree and think it's arguably the worst aspect of EOMM.
You have to learn the maps as you play then upgrade your guns so that you have a chance to get kills!!! Once you level up your guns, spend time in the gunsmith to add ammo mods, scopes, barrels, stocks, magazines!
@@randompillow5146 fair point
I agree with everything you said really, I would just like to point out, being a good game, doesn't mean it's a good cod game.
There are still core issues that the modern titles are designed on that make it drastically different from every cod pre mw19, the best titles.
The entire gameplay loop of being able to soundwhore so easy, mount anything for laser beam aim, and have the spawn system reward this (there is no longer a traditional "my side" vs "your side" spawn system) by literally spawning people near you regardless of whatever obscure back corner of the map your hiding in...
There is probably like 10 major issues that are fundamentally not what cod ever was, that are core building blocks and mechanics today.
I'm happy some of you guys like it, who am I to wish a bad time on anyone lol. I just like cod, and they stopped making it in 2019, they sold it out but kept the name. Its as if my favorite cookie brand suddenly changed its formula and tastes nothing like it used too 🤷 haha
I've seen that under every video a known COD youtuber talks about this, the comments are just straight up saying the game is ass.
I think COD needs to feel the heat for once so they actually listen to their playerbase. Either that or an actual COD killer needs to not suck for once
COD won’t feel the heat as long as people continue to spend £20 on anime bundles and unicorns. It’s the same with every big game. Pay £60 for the game and then the devs neglect the core gameplay throughout the year whilst pushing 100s of cosmetics and micro-transactions
if they listen the community still yaps about it
its not worth hearing a manchild community
Ain't happening. Like the comment above me says, dipshits love blowing money on actual crap.
@@samking5101 unfortunately that is correct, though I've never understood buying a cosmetic for a game that lasts for one year and then you can't use the skin in the next game
Feel the heat from who? The content creators who buy the bundles and battle passes? The dumb consumers who carelessly buy bundles then sit wondering why their game is super choppy and unfun? Or the CoD competitors like Battlefield or XDefiant? This is what you get when you've got pushover consumers and next to no competition.
As long as we all collectively stop playing, they'll start making a difference
This. Players can whine and complain all day long. But until the community as a whole decides to stop giving them their money, nothing will change. Even just a week long boycott would wake them the fuck up.
That's exactly the point that annoys me so much. People have been complaining for years and when there is finally an alternative like XDEFIANT, this game is hated to death for things that CoD has been allowed to get away with for years. It's like wanting a king only to find him stupid. Stupid publishers like Ubisoft who drop a game like a hot potato after less than half a year are the icing on the cake. The whole industry is artistically at its limits
@@erikwiederstein4322 xdefiant got “dropped” because it has about 10 people playing it 😂 don’t blame Ubisoft
For every person that quits, Activision will find a way to make another join
@@erikwiederstein4322People really have a bad case of stockholm syndrome. They keep paying and playing this game even though they hate it.
Right now, I can purcahse a game under $5 that would be better than the last 8 COD's combined. Hell, im not even sure why it took some people this long. Looking at Ace's gameplay this COD doesnt seem as bad as others but is still like a 3 out 10 game.
While other COD's like Vanguard seem like a 1 out of 10. It was terrible a long time ago and combine this with the fact that naturally as some good players age, they will start showing signs of slowing down reaction time wise which will lead to even more frustration.
The last three minutes of this video really sums up why I’m choosing to stop playing BO6. If the developer and publisher don’t take their game seriously, why should I? Coming from someone who started the series with World at War, their darkest themed game, it’s hard to stay immersed with the constant stream of Fortnite like skins. This game is now clearly made for children.
Got in at the og call of duty played call of duty 4 modern warfare stayed until black ops 2 that was the last one I bought and played online it has consistently been the same thing now for well over a decade which is crazy
I started with W@W and played every CoD since, and I agree. The difference is, I’m all for the silly skins in Fortnite, because it fits the theme of the game. This is just not it.
Yeah, to me the fortnite skins where basically the final nail. They totally kill the vibe of the game.
I've been playing since BO2 and I agree, there are far too many issues these days, with so many conspiracy theories, especially from Blame Truth... Issue is, now even Ace has shown the same stats Blame has, so that really makes me concerned for the other stuff he's said... If he was telling the truth about all this, has he lied about any of it? And if not, this series has really fallen off... I stopped playing during season 3 of MW3 2023 because of all the issues with servers, I was consistently getting inconsistent ping, bouncing from 19-20, all the way up to 100+, I mean, I know I live down under but seriously? Couldn't even find enough people in my own COUNTRY with my skill level? I'm not even that good, maybe around a 0.9K/D average in that game and SBMM was screwing me over!
Im from down under and constantly get matched against people from China, UK etc is ridiculous @@RubyMSylver
Skins killed CoD
Nikki Minaj?! John Cena?! Frank the Bunny?! A Dragon?! Unicorn Fart fatality?!🤡
The last great CoD was MW’19
No Call of Duty game will ever be good again until they seriously rethink or eliminate SBMM. It just destroys every CoD. Plus, you can’t even sneeze on the mic without getting voice chat banned this year. What a disgrace 😡
If I get in a match, and I die more than 3x in a row, I leave.. if I start a match, and I see my latency is over 30, I leave.. if i get in a game thats started already winning or losing, I leave! If I dont have fun in a match.. i leave..
Same, I’m not going to try and play with sbmm sweats. Most often you get put into a better lobby anyways
skill issue
Dude I play on 60 with 2.5 ed 50 elimination per game. 30 is very good.
@ good for you homie im proud of you!
@@elg7365you do not get 50 kills every single game. Not even pros have a 2.5 kd you liar.
Still baffled by the fact that Ubisoft didn't even wait until the beginning of 2025 before announcing their decision to "Sunset" XDefiant!
Xdefiant was never going to make it. They should have released their game when mw22 was horrendous. They missed their window and they half assed the games development. Xdefiant was a lost cause
@@xxPhoenixX-sg9trthey should’ve released it on Steam from day one.
@@X02Overdose they were going to release it when season 3 was gonna come out
@@xxPhoenixX-sg9tr The XDefiant devs seems to have wasted a lot of time and effort on the Linear Maps and Game Modes (Escort) that are not played by the vast majority of players. Would have been much better if they would have released a game with a much tighter focused game a couple of years earlier and including Last-Gen... But I still find Ubisoft's timing to be beyond stupid!
XD was pretty garbage honestly. Shit maps and only two gamemodes on launch. Hit detection that felt like it was ripped from an early 2000s FPS. Plus the name sounds like something an edgy middle schooler would come up with.
Taking some maps from the map pool and replacing them with more colorful and fun maps, like bo2, would make the game MUCH more enjoyable.
And take away the “eliminations”; give me kills and assists. I want to know how many kills were actually mine.
I got a comm ban even though my mic wasn’t plugged in.
Nobody talks in the lobbies anymore.
I haven’t made a friend in years.
I barely play anymore.
Yeah it's so rare to actually be in a lobby where solos are actually talking to each other.
SBMM is the biggest issue. I logged on Boxing Day expecting some noobs or an easier time…….Nope, 5 games with lobby’s full of no life prestige masters all using Zens. I’m barely going positive and having to sweat for it. It’s not fun or enjoyable anymore. Your experience feels false. You do well when the algorithm says it’s your turn.
So you mean you didn't get to shoot up the 12 year olds that just got the game, making them want to quit.
with 2/3 of the player base gone, I think a good bit of whats left are the sweats lol
@ wow. Logic skills are so poor
I hope it is on the downfall. You won't see good change at this point if it isn't... it's pitiful the community turned its back on Infinite Warfare but not really as much when it comes to this ai art, ai voice actors, garbage map design, shipment pacing, lazy recycled maps, money HUNGRY(less cod points per battle pass & new paid event progression coming soon), ZERO ART DIRECTION/IDENTITY TRASH
Everyone hated IW at the time to bandwagon due to the futuristic game fatigue. By today's standards it would be the best Cod since BO2.
@@Jules279 oh dude EASILY 💯
I was honestly expecting a click bait video like many other creators do.
I was pleasantly surprised how well, thoughtful and actually insightful this was. Well put together
Ping is king, my ass. I’m constantly hitting lobbies where my ping is 50+. I too play PS with crossplay off and the amount of players I’m seeing, that are the SAME players in the same 5-6 man parties, leads me to believe that ping is NOT king. I’m also playing KC, TDM, Hardpoint and Domination. I’m not locking myself into one mode as I know that’ll make things even worse. I’m that “addicted” player that hasn’t quit since 2007. I’ve turned the game on 4 times since I went on vacation for the holidays and I’ve turned it off after no more than 4 matches. My character feels unresponsive and my aiming feels different from match to match as well. One match things are buttery smooth but then the next match I’m feeling like I’m stuck in mud. I’m also one of those players that was comms banned for 14 days, with my mic muted and the very next match after stomping a full 6 man party where I called in 3 straight chopper gunners, so I’m guessing they all spam reported me. Not to mention, I’m always playing solo because my friends don’t want to play with me because my k:d and SPM is 2-3 times higher than almost all of them. So they just don’t even play CoD anymore.
I’m so close to just uninstalling CoD and letting the franchise die to me. Unless they relax their matchmaking and comms bans while updating the connections, I’m probably closer to done than coming back heavily, unfortunately.
I didn't even buy BO6 because it started with Cold War for me (their game) and has gotten progressively worse every title. ping is absolutely not king for them I guarantee it. every 2nd or 3rd game was completely unplayable in MW3. couldn't even play ranked because I knew I'd lose 1/3 of my games on connection alone practically. (also roughly 1 in 15 I load in and literally can't even play because its so bad I can't even move). 0 point in trying anymore imo.
the matchmaking has completely burned me out, especially with the social aspect and not being able to play with friends. I gave up on Pubs and now just play ranked so i can feel some type of reward
why cant you play with friends?
@K-fc6sh Did you watch the video?
@K-fc6sh Because my friends are not nearly as good at COD as me, so when we play together they have the worst time of their lives and I'm rolling people, so they don't want to play.
@K-fc6sh every time i play with my friends the lobbies progressively get harder and harder for them and no one has fun bc of the skill balance between teams
Disbanding lobbies and com band is the worst thing to happen in cod
Easily
EOMM
I agree bro. There’s no community
@@eligreg99i got on BO6 for some search and destroy and literally nobody spoke. Jump back on MW3 and everyone is chatting. It’s really weird. BO6 feels so soulless
Monetisation from the Xbox one/PS4 period killed cod community
Damn great video. Hit the nail on the head with every point. As someone who is also mid 30’s this game now 100% feels like it’s not made for me anymore.
Same man I use to play all the time. I'm pretty good at the game but it's not worth the frustration. I don't enjoy doing a 14hr shift and coming home and losing 10 matches in a row because the game decides to screw me
casual long time player checking in. I got back into the franchise for mw2019 after quitting after bo2. that game had plenty to find enjoyable but it has been less and less enjoyable for each one since then. The lack of quality maps, weapons behind pay walls, massive file sizes, non enjoyable movement systems, disbanding lobbies, all make the game not worth my time anymore. My biggest issue with this current cod is the maps. I can't think of one launch map that I looked forward to getting.
Weapons behind paywalls??
@ yes
@@youtubehandle102 there are no weapons behind paywalls. Weapon skins, yes, but every weapon in the game can be earned easily.
@@TypicallyUniqueOfficialhe means a lot of weapons you can’t access unless you have a battle pass aka you have to pay for weapons! The Krig C and Saug are free weapons from the battle pass that you can get without paying. If you grind for prestige levels then you can get free powerful weapons as well that you don’t have to pay extra for.
@@TypicallyUniqueOfficial not the battlepass ones
Disbanding lobbies, EOMM, terrible monetization, and lack of polish have all turned me away from CoD over the years in different but impactful ways.
This franchise is a far cry from its glory days during the Xbox 360/PS3 era, and the execs at Activision are the most responsible for its decline.
I’ve been shadow banned with limited matchmaking for 29 consecutive days now. I play on Xbox and have never cheated and when contacting support they just say the account is under review. Meanwhile I solo queue into spinbotting hacker lobbies and have lost my desire to play the game entirely. I simply cannot understand why no decision has been made on my account yet. I have sheepishly played call of duty on the same account for over a decade just to be treated like trash. Enough is enough…
Check your linked accounts. Someone hacked my steam and was cheating on it. I am now also shadowbanned.
contact better business bureau, im so serious
Fundamentally, BO6 has some features and minor improvements that are fine (not great), at best. Omni-Movement is (arguably) an improvement, though it still makes me laugh that Black Ops 3 already introduced a great new movement system TEN YEARS AGO that literally let you soar through the air, wall run, and swim with far great fluidity - and everyone complained that it was too difficult to adapt to (even though games like Unreal Tournament actually introduced more kinetic movement even years earlier). So now, here are we are a decade after BO3 and the amazing new movement system is... advanced sliding. Advanced sliding paired with AI artwork, character designs, and map designs that largely soulless - not to mention worse cheating, no crossplay filtering for anyone not on PlayStation, server issues, and rampant cheating. No wonder people are bailing.
It's a Sunday, on Christmas break, at 3pm EST, and their is barely anyone streaming or watching COD, and Warzone on Twitch. I also am playing against the same players multiple times in a row even when lobbies break up.
Nailed it again Ace. I don’t use my mic, I bail on games when you can tell the connection is f’ed and you are at a disadvantage. So many of the games I do play in are very, very close. Or complete blow outs due to folks bailing.
Activisions engagement manipulation is the reason they started disbanding lobbies in the first place.
Omg omg omg thank you for mentioning the non human skins. I thought I was alone with this but I absolutely hate it.
This game was the last straw for me. BO2 was peak CoD for me, and I made the mistake of hoping that BO6 would provide me something close to what that experience was. Between the awful server lag, with all the packet burst/loss and ping variance, and what seems like the strictest SBMM I've experienced in any CoD, I'm fed up. The moment I found myself asking, "is skill based damage really a thing?" I decided to call it quits before I went full conspiracy theory brained.
That’s for the best. If you’re not having fun with it anymore, quit and find another game to play. Honestly it’s even easier to drop cod now than it ever has been in years. Give other different kinds of games a chance.
No cod today will ever come close to BO2 unfortunately. Beta males and DEI hires have infested the studios now thanks to the higher ups.
SBMM which literally tells you "I won't let you play better," as well as crossplay, because of which there is no escape from PC cheaters = is the perfect formula for the failure of any shooter
You can play strictly console but on Xbox, its a royal PIA to do so. Every time you boot up the game it wants you to change your profile to crossplay. You hit cancel then it will only match you to console.
COD is broken. Frags are insane, the amount of sliding is ridiculous. Lobbies are super sweaty. How the F can you shoot through a car?. I get hit markers by nobody. Assists count as a kill, so does two hits to the body. I started a game, had zero kills, but I’m showing 5 kills… WTF? Is my KD unrealistic?
where have you been
What is the incentive to put time and effort into this game and get better? that is the question the devs need to really ask themselves.
The incentive is worse matchmaking times, worse connection quality, and less fun lobbies in general
I honestly just hate that people keep on buying bundles. When the game first came out the 2nd day I was already seeing people with the new skin. They absolutely rely on people like that buying every single skin and bundle. If people stop and just play the game maybe they will invest more in making the game better rather than churning out bundle after bundle
Dweebster
My friend group said im not allowed to play with them because every lobby becomes a sweatfest after I join. 14:01
I'm literally playing vanguard and modern warfare 19, modern warfare 2 and 3 when I want to play call of duty now. I've completed the interstellar or whatever it's called this year camo dark matter and after that I have no desire to play multiplayer because of all the stuff I listed in my previous comments. They did this in season 1 usually you don't see this craziness like monsters and laser guns until season 4 or 5 but at launch you got a green dragon shooting a laser beam
I'll be honest this is the first CoD that I haven't bought and it sounds like it was a good decision. I may not come back which makes me sad as a long time grinding player who always did the camo and prestige master challenges.
See I’m the opposite. This is the first one I did get in a while and I’m enjoying. I do like hearing from the opposite perspective though,
I pay $2 bucks a month through GP. lol. It might be an exploit. Though, I haven't used it to play BO6 for a few weeks now.
@@MrMegaMario64 I'm the same way. I like to hear perspective. Based on all of Ace's points from the video, what have you enjoyed so far? Has your level of enjoyment changed in any way after launch?
I wish Activision would just give us DMZ back. That was such a fun experience for me and my casual COD buddies.
@@jwood6902 you can still play DMZ… all you need to do is load up MW2, the game still has a decent playbase
Regarding trust issues, this is Activision/IW's fault. 2019 really felt like the devs had turned on the core audience and decided that they were no longer important. That was when EOMM was introduced and things haven't neen the same since.
@@xxPhoenixX-sg9tr I don't think you even understand what those words mean
In 2019 devs changed... Old ones left this franchise that's why this game became so garbage
"Call of Duty is bad because the people coding it are women and minorities"
@@xCriZzZ In recent years most AAA devs are like this, because higher ups only care about $$$. As long as the game is making money they don't care about the actual gameplay. I hate to be a boomer, but back in the day they really had to put effort in to make a good game sell well; now all you have to do is make a halfway playable and addictive game, then pump it full of microtransactions.
Yeah I agree. People harp on 2019 being the best all the time but these people must have not played in the old days or experienced an og cod. 2019 was literally the beginning of all this crap. A lot of the issues we’re seeing now were things introduced with 2019.
I'm one of the people who exclusively play cod on pc, solo. I will 1000% leave if I can't make it out of spawn after being spawn killed 2 or more times in a row. I'm trying to have fun, grind camos WHILE playing OBJ and i know nobody likes being spawn trapped game after game. So I just leave! If it's a back and forth game B flag constantly changing I'll stay bc that's actually fun! But taking 3 steps out of spawn and being killed over and over just isn't for me...
True. Was mainly a TDM player but the spawn flipping ruined it for me, dom is better but spawns are way to sticky as you said.
Leaving matches is the way
One day my father got on and found out he was banned. No reason for it apparently, he says he hasn't gotten an email and he logged into his account on the Activision website and it says it shouldn't be banned, but he can flat out no longer play the game. Anyone else have anything like that? I don't know how true it is, but he's adamant about being done with CoD period from here out
Same with someone in my group. This cod lost our party of 6 because one person was falsely banned
The fact that people are getting banned randomly out of the blue for nothing is not good. This whole system is being handled incompetently. It’s inexcusable especially for Activision, a multibillion dollar company who has all the resources and yet can’t even handle a ban system correctly that innocent players get banned.
I don’t care anymore that they are a for profit entity, they need to absolutely give a fuck about the state of their game and actually make some very necessary changes. Greed is absolutely destroying this franchise and it sucks to see. I only play infectious holiday and zombies as those are the only modes that are enjoyable to me. Hell most of the time I’m playing other games like Project Wingman, Balatro, Darkest Dungeon 2 and now the new Indiana Jones game.
If you decide to quit cod after this, check out the games I mentioned. You might like them, could be a good change of pace.
It feels like BO6 has way less content or variety compared to MW3 this time last year.
A major difference being that MW3 provided a new *something* every week, whether that be an attachment or conversion kit. It wouldn't always be huge but it really did make the game feel fresh every week.
My experience of mw3 was generally decent until they forced texture streaming on. It quite literally became unplayable overnight. Just because poor people exist doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to install textures if we have the space.
@@ps3beatswii its not that. its because the mp maps are built as POIs in Warzone. so you are loading warzone as the same time as multiplayer
So glad he mentioned the skin situation. So overlooked but the skins are so obnoxious that it doesn’t even feel like call of duty anymore. On top of that the trailing effects of the some of the characters & effects of getting killed by some of the weapons (like turning into pixels) is so damn annoying.
This was in mw2019 lol I love the way you guys don’t realize how long this stuff has been in these games
More like Call of Fortnite. A skin maybe, but kill effects now is ridiculous.
No one talks in the lobbies as much due to the ai chat bans. In the UK we have a slang word for cigarettes. You could use that slang word the ai only picks up the word not the context of what's been said. You get com banned. It's a mature rated game treating people like children. If we are upset we can report it. I think they are taking things too far and killing the game.
My uncle his son are two of those casual players that just play the game and don’t interact with it outside of the game itself. Usually they play mostly COD all year long. This year they’ve barely even touched the game since December and having been playing a ton of NBA2K25 instead.
Casuals are noticing the drop in quality. They might not be able to pinpoint the exact reasons why they aren’t having fun anymore, but all they know is that they have a bad experience every time they play. After enough bad experiences in a row, people quit playing.
When the hell are RUclipsrs like Xclusive Ace going to unite and tell their millions of subs to Boycott BO6 until revolutionary changes are made. When??? RUclipsrs are great at complaining and telling you the Truth yet have no Answers when it comes on how to make a Change. The only way COD will evolve is to boycott on a massive scale. When?!
They don’t have a plan. This is just engagement bait. Whining videos get way more views than than tutorials that show players how to get better at the game. Multiple cod RUclipsrs coincidentally making the same “CoD is dying” video around the same time. It’s all for clicks and views. They will keep playing no matter what.
On PC I still have packet loss every single game. Maybe my first game or two I'll be able to play without any packet issues, but then I get dropped connections, large extrapolation errors, and a terrible experience overall. I end up playing maybe a game every couple of days and turn it back off after one or two matches for another few days. The maps suck, the hackers suck, and the matchmaking is just atrocious. In the one game I don't have any problems, I am usually top of the leaderboard, trying to carry the whole team, or close to it. The next match always ~feels~ like hacker city, whether they are actually hacking or not.
Also totally agree with the skins and monetization you mentioned. Just feels weird to be 30+ and its like this weird kid/adjacent appeal to the skins and customization. Great video, my dude.
It's especially bad if you do well in those first couple games.
Does anyone else have more packet loss while playing solo? If i play with a friend it doesn't seem as bad
@@green6055 No packet loss issues solo or with friend. Eu servers
Game rigging. Basically skill based damage
my gf exclusively plays it for zombies and prop hunt and she days it might be her new favorite cod over cold war. i also personally really enjoy the zombies. but i only played for a month on game pass. im not paying 70 dollars for just zombies. the multiplayer sucks. ive played like 10 games, and it was not fun. i should preference this by saying. I'm bad at Call of Duty, so any game where you lose your kill streaks when you die is automatically not gonna be fun for me. Which is why I liked cold war and MW3(the original) so much. i also haven't cared about the story since they rebooted it and combined modern warfare and black ops stories together witch i think was an insult to the original stories. also all the goody ass skins and emotes are really stupid. and the weapon smith customization or whatever it is called, is way worse than mw3. not a large variety of good maps or guns either. and no outbreak mode in zombies. just a lot of missed opportunities. if they release zombies as its own game, and ass a bunch of the missing features from cold war, than ill buy it. but thats probably it.
Bro , i can’t even create a new build. And it’s the same for many other people. When u click create a new build it just doesn’t work. I mean that’s the most simple, bread n butter part of the game and it doesn’t even work… But yet they’ve been releasing bundles everyday. I’m honestly sick of it at this point. I mean bo2 and bo3 which are 10 years old never had problems with the basics of the game .
I'm using a translator to communicate, so I hope I don't sound rude or crazy... haha!
This video is perfect! It precisely sums up my experience with the franchise (especially Black Ops 6).
I received a shadowban on 4 different accounts during the first week of release! I was forced to request a refund for the Game Pass on each of them to avoid a massive financial loss.
80-90% of the time while playing, I have a constant feeling that something is wrong:
Whether it's the hit detection
The sense of weight/lack of responsiveness in the controls
In specific matches, playing with a ping between 8 and 30 feels worse than servers with 40 to 100ms
Not knowing if I'm improving or getting worse due to SBMM manipulation
After about 1 hour of gameplay, I experience intense fatigue or a mental fog
And the worst of all... The paranoia of thinking I'm playing against cheaters (especially in ranked matches).
On top of that, I constantly encounter a lack of polish! Crashes and server disconnections have become routine (I can't stand losing 200 points anymore due to being disconnected from a ranked match).
I notice my friends getting worn out quickly when playing with me because of the added difficulty from SBMM, and playing with fewer people or solo has significantly reduced my enjoyment because I end up taking it too seriously and worrying about the stats.
Speaking of which, it’s unnecessarily difficult to maintain consistent performance in BO6 since ALL the maps feel like Swiss cheese, making predictability and control much harder.
I live in Brazil, and I was surprised to notice that my experience is practically identical to the points mentioned by Ace.
Such a good point about the sense of weight. Every match feels different. I feel like my aim assist is different too.
@@structs On The Photo Techy channel, the creator mentions a bug with deadzones in controllers, where the game suddenly applies a value without your consent. This might be what’s affecting the feel of aim assist.
It's nearly impossible for our group to have fun in multiplayer, that's pretty much it. We're always fighting an uphill battle trying to get a decent streak such as just a care package. Fighting people at your skill level all the time just doesn't work for us
What? "fighting people at your skill level doesn't work for us?" Thats why SBMM exists, don't see the issue myself
@Pit_1209
The issue is it means you have to olay your best and really try in EVERY game or you get murked.
That's not the casual chill FUN experience that people want. That's the RANKED experience but it's happening in pubs.
@kunimitsune177 that's not true because if you get "pummeled" then you get into a much easier match until you're the one pummeling, people just want to stay in the latter permanently.
There are videos of matches were people are chilling, they don't even know how to move, sbmm let them play at their level and have some fun and that's the point.
@@Pit_1209 The problem I have come to see is, that in fact people are not playing people at their skill level. Over half mf my matches one team utterly destroys the other one team will have a K/d of 2.5 every player, and the other can barely have 1 player with a 1.1. That is a broken system to do that, or the playerbase has gotten so small its putting the people together, but even in that, the system absolutely hardly ever balances the teams.
@@spartanx169x There are people smurfing, there are people been banned for hacking and creating new accounts, there are people losing matches on purpose until they get a easy one.
I'm not saying sbmm it's perfect but there's nothing one can do against people trying to cheat the system.
It seems that the three studios involved in developing Call of Duty titles often struggle to collaborate effectively due to their differing visions, design philosophies, and gameplay priorities. For instance, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer tend to focus more on graphics and audio design, while Treyarch prioritizes gameplay mechanics and leans into an arcade-like art style. Additionally, map designs vary significantly: Treyarch generally employs a three-lane structure, while Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer favour more open, freeform layouts.
To better align their efforts and maximize the series’ potential, a restructuring could be beneficial. For example, Infinity Ward could lead development on Warzone, given their commitment to the battle royale experience, while keeping Warzone as a separate entity from the core multiplayer experience. Treyarch could take charge of multiplayer and Zombies (if that mode continues to be developed), ensuring their strengths in gameplay mechanics and distinctive style are fully realized. Meanwhile, Sledgehammer could focus on delivering high-quality campaigns, capitalizing on their expertise in narrative-driven experiences. By adopting this division of responsibilities and releasing new Call of Duty titles every two to three years, the series could achieve higher quality and better-defined gameplay experiences.
As a mouse and key player, im just tired of cod at the minute. Still no signs of input based matchmaking, strong SBMM and terrible maps. Black ops 6 is the first cod in years that I have barely played.
The aim assist is so strong, mk is a huge disadvantage in ranked😂. Input based mm would probably resolve in 20 minute queues tbh. Crossplay saved cod on pc. Cod Pc player since 2014. Bo3 went from 15k players week one to 5k then towards the end it had 1-2k. Once mod tools released it had 5-10k consistently but not for MP, but for zombies.
Adv war died in a week, Inf War died in a week, CODWW2 didn’t die, bo4 died in a week on pc.
Imagine being a mouse player and whining about input based matchmaking LMAO
You literally have the advantage. Get good
@@kunimitsune177 all top 250 players are controller, its a fact that controller is a huge advantage for cod. Learn how to aim without assistance you bot player
@@kunimitsune177 lil fella is such a sad persson he has to trigger people in YT comments - imagine being you.
YES YES YES MCCOD99 ur god damn right! As a mouse and keyboard player it is sad that call of duty devs don't take mouse and keyboard players seriously, controller is aimbot in call of duty it's sad and while playing any other games its very noticeable how hand holding the controller is in cod. This cod mouse and keyboard feels the worst it's ever been just the clutter while shooting you can't see your target its horrible. MW3 felt good on keyboard and mouse but treyarch dropped the ball with bo6, it's awful and I quit almost immediately. Its ridiculous there is no input based matchmaking in cod, why can I not only play against keyboard and mouse and not aimbot controller bots?
COD needs to go back to its roots. Have a playlist where the pace is slowed down a bit and there's no sliding around. I be been watching old MW 2 footage and its so much more peaceful and non-sweaty. Just my opinion.
MW2 was just a goofy mess that was fun to play. MWII was a game with AMAZING visual design for guns and was satisfying for a gun nut to look at and play as well as being a game that's grounded and not about zipping around the map like it's a tik tok shooter. Black Ops 6 is starting to feel like it was made for ages between 10-18 while somehow being a mature rated game. And as a 33 year old man, I never felt like a CoD was outright not made for me even back when we had jetpacks until now. Because even with jetpacks, you couldn't boost yourself as fast as you can with a slide in this game.
Grinded for a few months, loved it, then it felt like a switch was flipped and it feels horrible now
its called "the honeymoon phase." It happens every year with cod and activision heavily relies on it to sell the next shit title.
@@Carrion2 idk if it's just me but the honeymoon phase for each cycle seems to be getting shorter and shorter.
I have a 9-5, and am going back to school. It has significantly reduced my playtime. BUT my WILLINGNESS to play has been solely reduced by my sbmm from my previous performances. SBMM is the problem…
SBMM should only protect the absolute lowest players.
“Oh no I can’t pub stomp bad players anymore and have to actually play against players of my skill lvl”
@@Existing_Echobrother if I have to come home after a long day at work to play against some sweaty 13 year old on his 6th hour playing that day, who thinks he is going pro. I have no fun
@@maxdempsey2808look all I’m saying is sbmm will never leave, 50+ hour work weeks as an industrial welder leaves me no time to play, but if someone can’t hang in the main mode, play zombies, it’s more enjoyable anyways.
@@Existing_Echo bait
Activision doesn’t use SBMM. They use EOMM and it’s far more sophisticated and predatory than SBMM ever was.
I think people are getting burnt out on the franchise like we saw before the big changes with MW19. Feels very similar to me. I'd love if they let each of their studios make unique experiences in a CoD universe. Let IW go off and make what they clearly want to make - FPS titles that are nothing like traditional CoD. Let Treyarch make the traditional arcade style CoD experience. And let Sledgehammer do something completely different. That way you're not oversaturating the arcade shooter space, games might actually feel fresh when they're released since they're not just going to be iterative updates on a game that released 12 months earlier, and they can let their devs (IW in particular) work on things they actually want to work on.
Cuz Activision is too lazy for that unfortunately. They know they can just live off the nostalgia bait IPs.
@@Jules279fr they’re just gonna keep reskinning these terrible games because they’re all technically the same game under the COD HQ/ Warzone engine.
Alot of us had high hopes for this game
4 years of development, Treyarch, Zombies etc
But it has all of the same old issues. We're burnt. This was their big chance and they blew it
I stopped playing largely due to sbmm. I played cod for casual fun time with my casual friends. They get destroyed when they play with me, no one has a fun time.
With treyarch cods I gave up on them. Slow ttk, advanced movement, extremely adhd map design, none of this is cod and I hate it.
I just want old cod back. Make a new cod that actually feels like BO2 and I'm all over it.
Nah hard disagree about chat bans. The cod community is incredibly toxic and they're mostly just angry they can't scream slurs at people over the internet. It's really not hard to just, not be toxic.
This is the first cod I haven’t bought in years and no plans on coming back
This is my last cod I put a decent amount of time into. Hoping Halo and Battlefield make a comeback in future. Would gladly play those two franchises over cod.
It's funny how they BAN certain words but there's a blueprint that's called crackshot and when you try to duplicate and rename it to get rid of the (copy) it won't allow you to save it as crackshot
It was already being over moderated pre MS acquisition. But welcome to Microsofts new world of over-policing.
it's console dependent too. tags ok on xbox are illegal on playstation 😂
The skins are absolute cringe. I’m now embarrassed to show people the game now. Before it looked like a somewhat cool milsim. Now it looks like roblox and fortnite. I struggle to believe anyone would actually purchase these lame skins. I can only assume grans are buying them for their granddaughters
“Milsim” lmao I love you little larping dorks 😂
I played a match last night with someone who had the stoner lizard skin…they also kept doing the raygun dance. It looks so dumb.
To me :
1) Matchmaking is not "ping is the king" at all : your ping is never accurate : you can have a 19ms match but your match will have the micro-stutter for every 2 sec but you can also have a match of 50ms that all your shots are hitting perfectly and you feel like your opponents are not reacting to you. Clearly, the ping is just an UI cover for the SKB damage or lobbies. Shady as hell if you ask me.
2) Once again, hit detection problems : the game server cannot keep up with omni-movements : when players are sliding or doing all those crazy movements, you bullets dont hit and this is close to mid range where all shots are hit scans. I always find that my opponents are dodging my bullets when they perform those movements and I compare my gameplay vs kill cam : on my end, my bullets werent registering at all even though my reticle is spot on.
3) Crossplay issue : because the connectivity and desync is a huge issue, this makes crossplay an extremely frustrating experience. PC players have the option for really high refresh-rate monitors that are up to 360hz or higher while console players are locked at 120. Even on a local match, 360hz will have an advantage over 120hz. In Black Ops 6, too many instances I just die before I can even see my enemy's character model but if I look at the kill cam , the enemy was on me for a good 5 seconds... When I turn off crossplay and play versus PSN players (im on PS5), I do not have this type of death AT ALL.
4) Cheating is absurd now, never a COD that has been plagued with cheaters within 2 months of launch.
Overall, I think crossplay should be turned off and let console players matching against each other for now, until Treyarch iron out the connectivity issues and cheating problems.
For me - the connection issue. It’s really bad this year - those matches, where you suddenly shot marshmallows, are just killing the fun for me((((