Call of Duty: Unfinished Warfare

[J4MES OX4D 10,130]

For those that don't know; Infinite Warfare still doesn't have basic features such as leaderboards, a combat record or an emblem editor. The latter two are expected to arrive towards the end of February which is almost 4 months after the game was released. Leaderboards are supposed to be coming at the end of this month but the catch being that users will only be able to view the top 10,000 players and then the remaining players will be seen as a percentage. The only reasoning behind this and the fact that leaderboards were omitted from the start is surely censorship of the player counts and the top 10k only being visible supports this initial widespread suspicion. Leaderboards is a feature that have been in games since the 1980's and all Call of Duty titles so it's ludicrous that the feature has been absent especially on an MP game in this day and age. They've already removed the player counts in COD games and leaderboards seems to be the next thing they want to restrict just to hide the dying population. 

Combat records and emblem editors were present from Black Ops 1 onwards and whilst some IW games missed these features since; it's shambolic that neither portion was implemented before release. The few players that are left playing COD have been begging for such features not because they are essential but as they are just expected and it is pathetic that they are absent especially on a game that had a 3 year development cycle. Rumours are also rife that IW spent two years on the campaign and only around 6 months on MP and having played both; I'd say this is not too far from the truth based on the disparity between the quality of each aspect. The kick in the teeth is that Infinity Ward have been working like troopers on supply drop shit which says it all. 

I really couldn't give a toss about this game or Call of Duty now but it's pretty bad to see it in such mortifying shape. The new Infinity Ward are a total embarrassment and not only do they always try and grab credit for the old teams work; they are destroying everything that the original team produced. I'm shocked they haven't been disbanded in all honesty but oh well! 

[The3rdWalker 1,279]

Call of Duty just being Call of Duty.

[Greboth 2,721]

It wouldn't surprise me if it was done to hide numbers, especially as everyone I know only bought it for MW:R.  What would be interesting would be to know the numbers on IW compared to MW:R as I suspect more will be on MW:R.  COD's heyday in my opinion was MW, Blops, MW2 and Blops2 and while there were other FPS games around I always ended up back on COD.  These days though, I would rather play any FPS (or any game) over COD.  It is a shame really but unless they do something special I can see the decline continuing.

Maybe it is just age but I think it is an FPS thing in general rather specifically COD.  BF4 was good fun while there was a group but it wasn't anything special, Hardline was particularly rubbish and BF1 is a bit meh.  I can't really fault BF1 but I find little to enjoy about it.  The only thing saving FPS for me recently has been the PVE side of Destiny and Overwatch.

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25 minutes ago, Greboth said:

It wouldn't surprise me if it was done to hide numbers, especially as everyone I know only bought it for MW:R.  What would be interesting would be to know the numbers on IW compared to MW:R as I suspect more will be on MW:R.  COD's heyday in my opinion was MW, Blops, MW2 and Blops2 and while there were other FPS games around I always ended up back on COD.  These days though, I would rather play any FPS (or any game) over COD.  It is a shame really but unless they do something special I can see the decline continuing.

Maybe it is just age but I think it is an FPS thing in general rather specifically COD.  BF4 was good fun while there was a group but it wasn't anything special, Hardline was particularly rubbish and BF1 is a bit meh.  I can't really fault BF1 but I find little to enjoy about it.  The only thing saving FPS for me recently has been the PVE side of Destiny and Overwatch.

Completely agree. I think I just outgrew Call of Duty in general since the last gen and it happily coincided with the franchises downfall in general. Regardless though; I expected far better quality from the franchise in this gen considering the budget, longer development cycle and far better technology available but all the developers in their 3 year cycle have failed to deliver and with the series growing even more stale; it's pretty much added to the woes. Even Treyarch let me down with BO3 and they were my last hope in all honesty! 

I know a fair few users who haven't even tried Infinite Warfare after buying the legacy edition and most of them don't even play the remaster now since supply drops were introduced and the memories of COD 4 were shat upon with broken bottles and pink guns. It wouldn't surprise me if both games are completely dead but even so; I expect MW:R still to be outplaying IW 5/1 or so. I remember when you'd see 1m+ online back in the day but now I very much doubt either COD gets 50,000 on each system playing. There was no logical reason for them to remove the playlist player counts from Advanced Warfare onwards which happened after Ghosts saw dreadful numbers which included the game being outplayed by BO2 the very first weekend and there is certainly no logic for them to not include and then restrict leaderboards unless they want to hide something. 

The tragic thing now is even if by sheer miracle we did see a good Call of Duty get released; Activision would ruin it regardless! 

[J4MES OX4D 10,130]

Good video here explaining the situation

 

[NCA-Paendrag 2,767]

I found only one positive thing about Indefinite Warfare, the graphics. Looked great but that was it. I borrowed it from a mate and I uninstalled it after an hour. Too many routs/camping spots, too few guns and the usual shit with hit detection.

I believe the franchise will stop in 2-3 years max.