Call of Duty

I'm honestly hoping BLOPS 3 will show us Operation Charbydis, and tie together the two BLOPS games more cleanly. (Rogue Cordis Die member gets their hands on Nova 6?)

While I appreciate a good single player, my main concern is the multiplayer. If Black Ops 3 has an absolute atrocious single player campaign but the best multiplayer experience since sliced bread, I wouldn't mind too much.

Though I understand where you're coming from.

For a lot of people myself included, we came for the plot and stayed because it was that well-written.

I don't even play Multiplayer.

I did once and found it too easy once you get a high power sniper rifle.

Necro!

Yeah, I never played multiplayer either. It's all about campaigns.

Do they have good story? Hell no, they are ridiculous.

Do they have good presentation? Hell fucking yes. Personally, I think in terms of sheer exhilarating factor, Modern Warfare 2 could be ranked within the same plane as likes of Saving Private Ryan, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, and so on.

Oh, and Black Ops trailer has some sick narration.

I hope this is okay to post here. I figured this is the best place. My question isn't about a specific game in the COD franchise but a sum of them.

I feel like they over all have went down hill since COD Ghosts. I bought that game and ended up returning it. I have not played one since. I was hyped for BO III but it is too different from BO II. I just feel burned out on the futuristic stuff. Had I wanted to play that kind of game, I'd play Halo.

Am I alone with feeling like the game has went down hill?

edited 4th Feb '17 4:13:50 PM by BlueOnyx

Depends. Personally, I rather liked the change that Advanced Warfare brought, thought BLOPS III was great, and have heard good things about Infinite Warfare's campaign and zombies mode (though it's multiplayer, not so much).

Sounds like you just might've burned out on the series. Don't worry, it happens, especially when the COD franchise tends to have annual or bi-annual releases.

For me the games started going really downhill on Infinity Ward's side since Modern Warfare 2. Modern Warfare one was rather mediocre if you ask me (the entirety of it) but MW 2 was god awful to me. I always thought the Modern Warfare games were ridiculously overrated

I always liked Treyarches more ambitious approach to the franchise. They atleast try to change things if at all possible infact Infinity Ward was forced to start changing up there games in response to that....

I must contest that. Until Black Ops II, they were markedly more....conservative in their development methods. World At War and the first Black Ops pretty much copied and pasted the gameplay for Modern Warfare 1 and 2 respectively but gave them basically a new skin of paint graphically.

There wasn't much the earlier Treyarch games had that made them stand out compared to their Infinity Ward counterparts. At least until the divergence point of Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops II.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Goes Standalone For $40

So, I'm going to do Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered on Hardened difficulty.

Any advice for me?

Edited by fredhot16 on Mar 27th 2019 at 9:41:07 AM

I did the originals on Veteran.

The best tactics and tips are not only to find good cover but distance is your friend, it alleviates the enemy's Grenade Spam and their "Instant Death" Radius automatic weapons fire.

After you establish some distance the best weapons to use are either A) the ones with the most damage especially over range B) the ones with lowest recoil and best fire rate or C) the ones with the most common ammo or largest capacity.

Which means on Veteran (and it applies to Hardened as well) the best weapons list is: (In no particular order.)

• AK-47
• G3
• M4A1 (Base version or Grenadier, SOPMOD is kinda weak owing the the suppressor sucking a lot of the range away. Plus the recoil pattern is a lot harsher with the SOPMOD than the others.)
• Dragonuv sniper rifle
• M21 sniper rifle
• MP 5
• RPD/M249
• M203/GP-25
• RPG-7 (Ammo can be ridiculously common at times for this.)

Under no circumstances is it a good idea to run pistols, shotguns or weapons with squirrely or jumpy recoil patterns such as the G 36 C, Skorpion, or Mini-Uzi.

Yep, sounds about right.

Oh, and if you ever bother with Modern Warfare 2 (or if that ever gets remastered, which is beginning to look more and more likely), don't bother with the dual-wielding weapons on Hardened or Veteran. They have terrible accuracy, and since the enemy can drop you almost instantly at close range it's nothing more than a death wish to use anything akimbo.

Unless, they're planning on bringing back the original akimbo 1887s.... Ooooh man, that would be so ingeniously trollish on Activision's part!

Rumor: 2019's game is called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, soft reboot, made by Infinity Ward, announcement next week.

Edited by tclittle on May 24th 2019 at 11:21:01 AM

As was mentioned in the article, the Co D franchise has a habit of details leaking often months before the official announcement, going as far back as Infinite Warfare. Add in that highly obvious tweet from their devs, and it's safe to say this rumor is 100% legit.

The article also stated that Infinite Warfare was widely hated.

...Man, am I the only guy who enjoyed that title, and wishing they would greenlight a sequel? Or in a more dreamland-ish scenario, give the setting IP to EA DICE, and have them recreate Infinite Warfare, Battlefield style, so that we can FINALLY have epic 64-player space battles?

Nope, I actually enjoyed Infinite Warfare, or at least, the campaign (one of the best in the series). The backlash mainly came from the fact that the sci-fi setting and advanced movement had been done to death, and with Battlefield 1 being released alongside it, it couldn't help but look dated in comparison. Didn't help that the multiplayer was pretty much a watered down version of AW's and BOIII's.

Not just no, but HELL NO. DICE has been abjectly incompetent at absolutely everything they do in recent years.

If it were to be handed off to someone new, it'd better be the guys behind Titanfall and Apex Legends.

Nobody does large-scale battles like DICE. Everybody else seems to struggle with such settings, or just don't come close in terms of scale. Well... maybe SQAUD is an exception, along with ARMA 3, but they're far more on the simulation side of things.

Several do, at least lately. DICE on the other hand has gotten a well-deserved reputation for incompetence at everything. Take Battlefield V, you know a dev team has gone fully incapable when the fanbase's first reaction to a new patch is "What broke this time?". DICE has that reputation and reaction.

Oooh, cross-console play, including PC, AND they're bringing back co-op missions/scenarios? Color me interested, might pick this one up for once for the sake of being able to play with my console peasants- er, I mean friends.

Wish they got the original VA for Captain Price though, not liking this new actor.

So they're rebooting the Modern Warfare series but this time reimagining the whole conflict during today's current wars like Syria and Russian aggression against it's neighbors plus female characters as well.

I hope they can bring back Ghost and Soap.

I thought it was supposed to be a Soft Reboot? Not a real reboot.

I can see potential with what I am hearing but also ways this can go wrong. Time will tell I guess