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Finally got in

The Embassy mission is so fucking cool

DarthAragorn posted...

Finally got in

The Embassy mission is so fucking cool

I really hope it works for me when I get home in 4 hours. I don't even care about the MP right now, I just want to play the campaign.
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DarthAragorn posted...

Finally got in

The Embassy mission is so fucking cool

Word, love the unusual gameplay shifts so far
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MuayThai85 posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Finally got in

The Embassy mission is so fucking cool

I really hope it works for me when I get home in 4 hours. I don't even care about the MP right now, I just want to play the campaign.

Campaign can be played even if the servers are down (they're back up now though)
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Smh

I'm on the Embassy level and it not only crashes when you're in the alleyway, the shit SHUTS DOWN MY XBOX

Oh my goodness that patch can't come soon enough
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Finally got in

The Embassy mission is so fucking cool

I really hope it works for me when I get home in 4 hours. I don't even care about the MP right now, I just want to play the campaign.

Campaign can be played even if the servers are down (they're back up now though)

Pretty sure he's on PC though

AvantgardeAClue posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Finally got in

The Embassy mission is so fucking cool

I really hope it works for me when I get home in 4 hours. I don't even care about the MP right now, I just want to play the campaign.

Campaign can be played even if the servers are down (they're back up now though)

Not on PC you can't. Game just made me download a 7.5gb patch, still won't connect.
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I just finished the campaign

holy fuck when's Modern Warfare 2

how is multiplayer
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not playing unfortunately because it's too big of a download.
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Yo IDK if I'm just getting older or something but it was hard as shit spotting enemies on the first level
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Beat the story earlier. Co-OP gets hard as hell. Loved the campaign.
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Not even 24 hours with the game and I already completely fucking hate the multiplayer. Absolute garbage.
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GallisOTK posted...

Not even 24 hours with the game and I already completely fucking hate the multiplayer. Absolute garbage.

what's wrong with it

I haven't gotten it, gotta finish DQ first and then Pokemon, so I prob won't even have it until around christmas (depending on how long I take to finish pokemon), but if it ends up sucking then I might skip it
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My only complaints so far are that the time to kill is a bit too fast and that one of the larger maps sucks ass

DarthAragorn posted...

My only complaints so far are that the time to kill is a bit too fast and that one of the larger maps sucks ass

sounds like wasteland 2.0
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So I never really played the original MW series. How similar is the story in this one compared to 1? I at least know Price so far
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PatrickMahomes posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

My only complaints so far are that the time to kill is a bit too fast and that one of the larger maps sucks ass

sounds like wasteland 2.0

Oh no, Wasteland was much better than this one

I'm talking about the bridge map for anyone who has played, idk the names yet

PatrickMahomes posted...

what's wrong with it

The maps are way too large and complicated, and the time-to-kill is way too fast. One or the other can still make a good game, but these two things just don't go together. When you peek around a corner and there are 5-6 different places that can see and shoot that spot, but you only have time to check 2-3 of them before you're dead, that's not fun gameplay. It's more like Russian Roulette: you check the wrong places first, you die. Then you throw in shitty spawns, sluggish movement (especially since so many of the attachments slow down your movement or ADS speed), a perk that lets you replenish claymores/mines, killstreaks instead of scorestreaks which means even less reason to play the objective... simply put, the game rewards campers way too much and punishes aggressive and objective-focused players way too much.

The game is well put-together, and all of the customization options in the gunsmith and all of the challenges you can grind for are great. But when the core gameplay is just not fun at all for an aggressive player like me, nothing else matters. The 2v2 Gunfight mode is the only thing in the multiplayer that I even find slightly tolerable to play, and that mode alone isn't worth $60 or anywhere close. I already regret my purchase, and unless they update some things to restore the balance of gameplay to not sway so much in favor of defensive players, I'm going back to CoD WW2 for the next year.
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Touch posted...

So I never really played the original MW series. How similar is the story in this one compared to 1? I at least know Price so far

So this game, the story isn't really similar at all

Without spoiling much it's kind of a prequel and a reboot at the same time

Campaign is fun so far and beautiful too.
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Yo that fucking flare battle on embassy level holy shit
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The Embassy was definitely one of my favorite CoD missions in close to a decade. So intense.

GallisOTK posted...

The maps are way too large and complicated, and the time-to-kill is way too fast. One or the other can still make a good game, but these two things just don't go together. When you peek around a corner and there are 5-6 different places that can see and shoot that spot, but you only have time to check 2-3 of them before you're dead, that's not fun gameplay. It's more like Russian Roulette: you check the wrong places first, you die. Then you throw in shitty spawns, sluggish movement (especially since so many of the attachments slow down your movement or ADS speed), a perk that lets you replenish claymores/mines, killstreaks instead of scorestreaks which means even less reason to play the objective... simply put, the game rewards campers way too much and punishes aggressive and objective-focused players way too much.

The game is well put-together, and all of the customization options in the gunsmith and all of the challenges you can grind for are great. But when the core gameplay is just not fun at all for an aggressive player like me, nothing else matters. The 2v2 Gunfight mode is the only thing in the multiplayer that I even find slightly tolerable to play, and that mode alone isn't worth $60 or anywhere close. I already regret my purchase, and unless they update some things to restore the balance of gameplay to not sway so much in favor of defensive players, I'm going back to CoD WW2 for the next year.

That was my problem with the beta and why I didn't buy the game. TTK was way to fast considering how many spots you had to check around corners in a map and how slow ADS is. In this game, whoever shoots first usually wins the gun fight. Didn't help that spawns were not good and camping was everywhere.

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does this have online DRM?

bought it but holy fuck. so much memory needed
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Touch posted...

So I never really played the original MW series. How similar is the story in this one compared to 1? I at least know Price so far

It's a soft reboot

If I say any more it'll be spoilers

Let's just say that this time line and the original MW trilogy have a lot in common
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To address some greviances:

a perk that lets you replenish claymores/mines,

Run EOD. IIRC it also let's you see them through walls.

There's also a grenade that'll mark enemies through walls for you to see.

killstreaks instead of scorestreaks which means even less reason to play the objective... simply put,

Scorestreaks ARE an option in the game, it's just that pretty much no one has reached the level yet high enough to use them (40s)

This game is actually a little too fast for me personally; it's totally possible to play good like that but with the TTK so low you have to avoid open areas more so than ever.

The good news is that shotguns are super good in close quarters in this game. Run it with Overkill and you're covered indoors. Use the DP-12 and watch people get melted in 1-2 shots.

I get the frustration but it is way too early to be writing it off, give those things a try and see if they help.
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I already run EOD on every class, and I plan on avoiding objective modes like the plague. I'll try the snapshot grenade tonight.

I'm hoping that things will get easier once I level up my guns and get more attachments that speed up my ADS and sprintout times. I'll give the game at least a month before I completely give up on it and go back to WW2.
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GallisOTK posted...

I already run EOD on every class, and I plan on avoiding objective modes like the plague. I'll try the snapshot grenade tonight.

I'm hoping that things will get easier once I level up my guns and get more attachments that speed up my ADS and sprintout times. I'll give the game at least a month before I completely give up on it and go back to WW2.

You can see all the unlocked attachments and test them out in a local match.

Things get pretty nutty later on. So many people are snapping on people because they have basically no attachments yet
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So many whiners in this topic. Get good at the game??
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evil_zombie11 posted...

So many whiners in this topic. Get good at the game??

It's horrible so far. Just a clusterfuck of nonsense, nothing's changed at all, I don't understand how people like CoD like this.

The maps are just awful, too. Nothing but spawn killing, just like WWII

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Slightly above-average campaign, absolutely hideous multiplayer
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viewmaster_pi posted...

just like WWII

WW2 is actually part of the reason why I'm going to try and stick with MW to see if it gets better. WW2 also launched in a really shitty state with bad spawns and gameplay that favored campers too much. But Sledgehammer listened to the community and kept patching and updating the game, and in its current state, WW2 is my favorite CoD game of this generation. I'll give Infinity Ward a chance to listen to the complaints and do the same thing.
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I just don't understand how you can release so many fucking CoDs and somehow just forget how to make good maps, as if they never made maps before.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

I just don't understand how you can release so many fucking CoDs and somehow just forget how to make good maps, as if they never made maps before.

What exactly constitutes a good map that also isn't a three lane map design

Many of Modern Warfare 1 and 2's beloved maps are either three lanes or absolute clusterfucks
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Hype for CoD. Lmfao what is this 2007. Also lol at having DRM

it's a reboot prequel
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

What exactly constitutes a good map that also isn't a three lane map design

Many of Modern Warfare 1 and 2's beloved maps are either three lanes or absolute clusterfucks

idk man, i just know it wasn't always like this

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Euphrates Bridge, that's the one I mentioned earlier

legitimately one of my least favorite CoD maps, the spawn trapping is awful and it's way too easy to doit

DarthAragorn posted...

Euphrates Bridge, that's the one I mentioned earlier

legitimately one of my least favorite CoD maps, the spawn trapping is awful and it's way too easy to doit

Yeah but when you're on the spawn trapping side though

Gotta level up those sniper rifles somehow lol
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GallisOTK posted...

PatrickMahomes posted...

what's wrong with it

The maps are way too large and complicated, and the time-to-kill is way too fast. One or the other can still make a good game, but these two things just don't go together. When you peek around a corner and there are 5-6 different places that can see and shoot that spot, but you only have time to check 2-3 of them before you're dead, that's not fun gameplay. It's more like Russian Roulette: you check the wrong places first, you die. Then you throw in shitty spawns, sluggish movement (especially since so many of the attachments slow down your movement or ADS speed), a perk that lets you replenish claymores/mines, killstreaks instead of scorestreaks which means even less reason to play the objective... simply put, the game rewards campers way too much and punishes aggressive and objective-focused players way too much.

The game is well put-together, and all of the customization options in the gunsmith and all of the challenges you can grind for are great. But when the core gameplay is just not fun at all for an aggressive player like me, nothing else matters. The 2v2 Gunfight mode is the only thing in the multiplayer that I even find slightly tolerable to play, and that mode alone isn't worth $60 or anywhere close. I already regret my purchase, and unless they update some things to restore the balance of gameplay to not sway so much in favor of defensive players, I'm going back to CoD WW2 for the next year.

So it's just like the first MW games.
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I'm at the flashback where you play as young Farah in the campaign

Fuck me this is unnerving, I can see why they showed this to journalists behind closed doors
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Tupacrulez posted...

So it's just like the first MW games.

CoD4 (plus its remaster) was sort of, like that, but not to this extent. It had Juggernaut as a perk option to counter all of the Stopping Power users and make it easier to play aggressively without being melted in an instant, plus the maps weren't as big as in this game. MW3 definitely wasn't like that, it was much more balanced and aggressive play was very viable.

MW2 and Ghosts definitely were slow like this game though, and those two are my least favorite games in the franchise largely for that reason.
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I already uninstalled it, lol. My gut told me to ignore the beta, I did, it said ignore the hype, don't waste your money, but I bought into the hype once a few friends got it. I like the gun selection and customization, it's just a shame the gameplay itself is putrid.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

I already uninstalled it, lol. My gut told me to ignore the beta, I did, it said ignore the hype, don't waste your money, but I bought into the hype once a few friends got it. I like the gun selection and customization, it's just a shame the gameplay itself is putrid.

Shame, I'm having the most fun with a CoD game in years.

I'm sure Black Ops 5 will double down on the clown makeup and specialists to help win you back next year

GallisOTK posted...

MW2

slow

Excuse me

Those words

Is it possible to use them to use them together in a sentence like that

Here's three words to remind you of MW2's speed

Marathon

Lightweight

Commando
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

I'm sure Black Ops 5 will double down on the clown makeup and specialists to help win you back next year

That's the shit that made me stop liking it to begin with.

Wanna talk about clown makeup? How about getting a pissy attitude with someone because they don't like Call of Duty? I didn't challenge you, dude, it's going to be okay.

The game is shitty tho, and it's not my fault if that opinion makes you mad. I'm the one who should be mad, I flushed 60 bucks down the shitter. I'd have rather bought Crypt of the Serpent King 60 times

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Actually that's not fair, the game isn't shitty, it's just the shitty maps that ruin the game.

It's like a slot racing track if you made it a convoluted mess with like 8 corners where cars could be, no matter where you look, and then dump 12 cars into it and just watch them hit each other. And some of the cars keep ramming ones again as soon as they get placed back on the track.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

Wanna talk about clown makeup? How about getting a pissy attitude with someone because they don't like Call of Duty? I didn't challenge you, dude, it's going to be okay.

Fam I don't give a rat's ass about someone not liking something, if it ain't it then it ain't it. But what does it say about you if you bought it less than 24 hours after release despite apparently being reluctant about it in the first place?

I will say it's annoying af when someone doesn't like thing but doesn't really have a foundation for why. You don't like the maps? What DID you like about the older maps? You don't know? Well how is anyone supposed to know what you thought made the maps good in the first palace, let alone agree?

People like Black Ops 3/4 for being Overwatch with scorestreaks mostly, and the three-lane maps that you could traverse with your eyes closed. That's why they overload their shops with clown makeup and dabbing emotes. They know people will stay with them for consistency. Then people complain about the three lane maps, they try something new, and back again. Never ending cycle of not knowing what people want

Hope you bought it from GameStop; they offer full trade credit for it all weekend I think, if not then god bless
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