YMMV / Call of Duty: Mobile

• Broken Base: The Aerial Platform was met with mixed reviews from the community. Some liked that the spot is a reliable hot drop and has lots of high-tier items. However, others didn't see how it was different from other high-tier loot locations. Plus the fact that sometimes the weapon boxes aren't always loaded when the player drops there causes some players to avoid it completely.
• Catharsis Factor: Didn’t like Rorke's status as an Invincible Villain? Now he’s a skin and can be killed over and over and over again.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: A lot of the original characters get this treatment, especially the female ones; Urban Tracker and Artery are the biggest examples, with the former showing up in tons of marketing and the latter being beloved for her Ms. Fanservice status.
• Game-Breaker:
  • The S36 Light Machine Gun has lots of ammo and minimal recoil, making it extremely deadly for battles at medium to long ranges, with the only thing holding it back for close-quarters combat is its slow mobility. The gun was actually Nerfed twice to make it much harder to control.
  • Wonder Weapons make Zombies Mode a whole lot easier because of their special abilities, though they're only available in Loot Boxes.
  • Dual Fennecs are a nightmare to go up against in close quarters due to the sheer amount of lead they can distribute in just two seconds. Never let their users get close.
• Goddamned Bats:
  • Much like their main game counterparts, Hellhounds are a real pain in the ass to many players, even moreso in this game because, much like the zombies, they have much more health than normal. The fact that they spawn as early as round 5 could mean bad news for most players, as they'll most likely be underequipped.
  • The miniboss zombies (Brutus, Avogadro, and Inferno) could also be really annoying to deal with as you fend off the shambling bullet sponges. They actually don't have as much health as you'd expect coming from the main games, but they come in packs of 2-4.
• Good Bad Bugs: Domination mode on Hijacked has a bug where players can capture the B point from below deck. This map was soon removed from ranked.
• High-Tier Scrappy: The S36, specifically the "Evil Clown" variant, doesn't have a very pretty reputation within the community for what many perceive as it being very overpowered, worsened by its extremely low recoil and the fact that the Evil Clown version in particular was a free gift. Rendered irrelevant after the Gunsmith update as skin buffs no longer apply.
• I Knew It!: A post on Reddit correctly predicted the addition of the GKS - Tactical Unicorn gun from Black Ops 4.
• Memetic Badass:
  • Owners of the Merc 5 - Yellow Snake and AK-47 - Tank skins, due to how high the ranks required to gain those skins are (Master II in Battle Royale and Multiplayer, respectively) and how much of a grind they can be to achieve. Since then, every maximum-rank skin users are subject to such reputation as well.
  • Having a teammate with a foreign-language name, specifically Chinese or Russian, usually means that you have a valuable asset on your side and they'll carry your team to victory. until they realize that most of them are bots meant to fill in non-ranked sessions when matchmaking took too long.
• Memetic Loser:
  • Outrider - Arctic, not for being the first free female skin, but for the catch that her eyes look hilariously goofy and crossed.
  • Ruin - Jade was also made a mockery of due to his perceived ridiculous color palette and sticking out like a sore thumb compared to most other skins.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Outrider - Arctic's derpy eyes have been mocked relentlessly by the community, especially considering that she was supposed to be an Author's Saving Throw from complaints of female skins being locked behind the much-hated Loot Boxes. To put this into perspective, the earlier Outrider - Skeleton skin from, what else, a lootbox, had normal eyes.
  • S36 - Evil Clown^* An infamous weapon in the community, due to its absolutely deadly damage and low recoil, and the fact that it being a free gift means way too many players have it. Rendered irrelevant after the Gunsmith update as skin buffs no longer apply.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Mythic Weapons, a usually sci-fi or fantasy themed remodels of existing guns with exclusive kill effects, for being a real-life Money Sink for "whale" players (which also include a paid-for update to "evolve" the gun and increase the effects) and for being very ridiculously designed storage space bloat for the vast majority who didn't bought the weapons.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • All together now! "Friendly VTOL inbound."
  • For Domination: "Friendly sentry gun deployed."
• Older Than They Think: Android players may be unaware that the first mobile Call of Duty game is actually Call of Duty: Zombies, which is only available on iOS as well as Call of Duty Strike Team, which was on IOS and Android.
• Pandering to the Base: At launch, most of the content, including the default soldier, is based on Call of Duty: Black Ops II, owing to how it was considered the best selling COD game in history and was the best-received game of the series.
• That One Attack:
  • Abomination's entire moveset can be considered this due to how unpredictable and punishing it is.
  • Jubokko has an attack where it spawns spiky chunks of wood from the earth, which has a rather unpredictable probability of downing a player. The only way around it is to be completely far away from it, which most players won't be since the most effective way of dealing with Jubokko is shooting its head.
• That One Boss: The Abomination, the boss of Zombies' Raid mode. It has a very erratic and unpredictable attack pattern and is a huge bullet sponge, especially in a Hardcore Raid. Most players typically decide to perform the easter egg in order to swap it for Jubokko^* this is only possible in Hardcore Raid, another boss which is much easier to deal with, and has a pretty simple, clear attack pattern.
• That One Level:
  • Crossfire is a wretched hive full of vantage points for snipers to pick off the opposing team almost completely unseen. It's arguably even worse in Domination.
  • Speaking of Domination, the game mode itself is a major nuisance to some players, particularly on Nuketown, Crossfire, and Hijacked. It doesn't help that most of the Ranked matches (of which the game mode and map are all completely random) end up being Domination.
  • Maps like Shipment 1944 and Rust can be a pain in the ass to play on in any mode due to their small sizes and both being camper-friendly (it didn't help that Shipment 1944 has a lot of containers open by one side which encourages camping even more). In Rapid Fire and 10v10? Good luck getting anything done by pure skill.
• Unexpected Character: While initially the game consist of the best bits of the series multiplayer gameplay and content, mostly on Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with focus on gameplay instead of plot, the introduction of story comics as well as Battle Pass characters, no doubt leading to this:
  • The World War II season (August 2020) introduces Reznov, who lived on to the present day.
  • The Anniversary season (October 2020) introduces Adler, who also lived on to the present day.
  • The Cyberpunk (February 2021) season introduces ATLAS, Cordis Die, and the most unexpected of all, the presence of the Ghosts unit, apparently in cahoots with Makarov.

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