BO4 Beta Info

[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

 

5 maps available in the beta - Payload, Seaside, Contraband, Hacienda and Gridlock across 5 modes - TDM, DOM, SnD, Control and Hardpoint. Blackout beta begins in September. 

 

[MrBiron 1,453]

I might pre-order just to play the beta. But I ain't buying the game at launch.

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[GazzaGarratt 11,056]

1 hour ago, MrBiron said:

I might pre-order just to play the beta. But I ain't buying the game at launch.

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I'd like to try it, i mean its CoD. We seemed to have a decent laugh when we play together on it.

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

I wonder the thinking behind open beta for PC and private (pre-order) beta for consoles?

[MrBiron 1,453]

11 hours ago, GazzaGarratt said:

I'd like to try it, i mean its CoD. We seemed to have a decent laugh when we play together on it.

 

No doubt it'd be a laugh but I just can't justify paying what they want. I have no interest in Zombies or a battle royale mode so I'd be paying £50 just for MP. Plus they also then want me to pay another £40 for the season pass.

[phil bottle 9,767]

Not a chance I'll get this unless there is some kind of massive change in the industry.

I've reached a point where I'm pretty much going to stop spending my hard earned money on triple bullshit games companies.

I have plenty of games to keep me occupied for years. Other than Fallout 76 and maybe Red Dead I don't see myself supporting the madness any more.

I need to save money for a new GPU and not buying games seems the bestxeay to save.

Plus, I need to catch up on games I bought in sales. On console I still have Last of us and Horizon to play.on PC there's a queue and I just started Warframe...so yeah...fuck em all...for the time being....end of ramble[emoji6]







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[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

18 hours ago, MrBiron said:

I might pre-order....

[MrBiron 1,453]

17 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

But then I'll cancel when I get the code, obvs.

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

Beta trailer plus Blackout snippet at the end

 

[Diddums 4,346]

That dog 🤣🤣🤣

 

 

Did they just slide a table across the floor and render it as a dog? 

 

I can't help but wonder what bullshit this one's gonna have. Didn't see any jumpy shit so it could be decent.

 

And fuck off with the beta bullshit, it's not a fucking beta, stop using that as a marketing trick. I fucking hate EA. Cunts. 

 

See you all online then.

[Mikepjbell 354]

If blackout is good AND people in the clan play it then I'll get this. Otherwise I'm happy to finish Cod4 remastered and hang up my COD jacket for good.

 

People are way too disenfranchised now with this whole season pass empty your wallet bullshit, understandably too...

[MrBiron 1,453]

20 hours ago, Diddums said:

 

I can't help but wonder what bullshit this one's gonna have. 

 

And fuck off with the beta bullshit, it's not a fucking beta, stop using that as a marketing trick. I fucking hate EA. Cunts. 

 

 

 

The first games we saw of it had ridiculous QSing again. So there's that bullshit.

 

And it's Activision not EA. But both are cunts.

[GazzaGarratt 11,056]

The inner me says 'what's the worst that can happen'.

 

Just worried about answering that. Although, preordering is tempting just to try it. I still have some faith in Treyarch.

[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

I'm waiting for the open beta.  The game looks like it plays okay but it's very unambitious, dated and it's left me suspicious. There is no way this is the game Treyarch started working on 3 years ago - I bet they made an entirely different version of BO4 which was binned along with the campaign and instead had cobble together anything they could from the BO3 SDK and then make radical gameplay changes like 5v5 and manual health regen to give the appearance that it's had some major overhauls to further distance it from its BO3 similarities.

 

I reckon the zombies portion is 100% genuine from scratch but with no campaign and a seemingly rushed multiplayer ripped straight from BO3 that looks worse than some Steam workshop creations;  this isn't the game we were supposed to get especially with it being built around specialists that the majority didn't want. Blackout is also rumoured to have only entered development earlier this year and isn't even being produced by Treyarch. 

 

It's crazy how good COD was on a two year cycle with inferior technology compared to how it is now.

[phil bottle 9,767]

The trailer looks dogshite[emoji847]

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[MrBiron 1,453]

15 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

I'm waiting for the open beta.  The game looks like it plays okay but it's very unambitious, dated and it's left me suspicious. There is no way this is the game Treyarch started working on 3 years ago - I bet they made an entirely different version of BO4 which was binned along with the campaign and instead had cobble together anything they could from the BO3 SDK and then make radical gameplay changes like 5v5 and manual health regen to give the appearance that it's had some major overhauls to further distance it from its BO3 similarities.

 

 

That kid who leaked everything - which turned out to be true - said that the game was completely different but they were essentially made to bin it and start afresh. I think he was telling the truth because, just like you, I can't believe Treyarch have been working on this version for 3 years.

[Mikepjbell 354]

The problem is I really want this game to be good because a part of me thinks that with such a massive budget, they're bound to get blackout right, right?

[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

3 hours ago, MrBiron said:

That kid who leaked everything - which turned out to be true - said that the game was completely different but they were essentially made to bin it and start afresh. I think he was telling the truth because, just like you, I can't believe Treyarch have been working on this version for 3 years.

Yep, pretty much every rumour that has been reported into the mainstream media has been true so far and it wouldn't be published without some form of secondary verification source to back it up either. I firmly believe that the original Black Ops 4 was a terrible Overwatch-formatted hero shooter and when that drifted out of fashion towards the end of 2017 and battle royale became a prominent thing; Activision told Treyarch to bin it off including whatever campaign they had and all they could do was revert to the BO3 dev kit and scramble anything they could and then use the specialists as the face of the product which people generally hated from BO3. Raven are the ones doing the BR mode because Treyarch don't have time if the rumours are to be believed and the only stable and polished part of the package seems to be zombies which would be unaffected away from the MP part of the game. 

 

There is even deleted tweets from Vonderhaar which leaned to the fact they showed off material to testers which were rejected and he wasn't happy about it. The MP portion of the game will have probably been made in less than a year I bet. 

[NCA-Paendrag 2,758]

Hey, multiple reskinned maps and pretty much the same specialists with a few new ones. Rushed like a motherf*cker. 

Didn't like specialists in the previous BO either. And from what I've seen from this, it's a big Fuck No for me.

The QSing alone should put people older than 16 off this game. 

[TigerBurge 2,375]

So it’s live if you preordered digital. Not impressed with the look of it at all. I love the Blops series but this looks disappointing to me. If Bees gets it and wants to play I may get it. If not I’ll pass 

[MrBiron 1,453]

The impression I've got from looking on Reddit is that the body armour is annoying as fuck. Couple that with other things that boost your health and it makes gunfights completely random as you never know how much health people will have. And it has a shit Destiny-ish UI where you navigate with a cursor rather than use the controller buttons and sticks.

[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

I watched bits of Drift0r's stream and he got fucking battered in almost every match. There's no nades or special grenades so you're relying purely on the gunplay and that looks pretty horrendous. It looked so polished and clean on a LAN at E3 but 150 heath + shitty bullet detection/connection + armour and it's a nightmare by the look of things.  The TTK and insta health regen seems fatally flawed and the UI and on screen HUD is ugly as hell. 

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,037]

Another thing I noticed is that you call killstreaks in with triangle/Y now. Small things like that can lead to big irritations. 

[TigerBurge 2,375]

53 minutes ago, J4MES OX4D said:

Another thing I noticed is that you call killstreaks in with triangle/Y now. Small things like that can lead to big irritations. 

I actually like that idea though 

[MrBiron 1,453]

Played a couple of games.

2 main issues were:

1) Load times are painfully long. Sometimes by the time I'd loaded into a game the match had already started. This was an issue with BO3 as well. 

2) The TTK is waaaaayyyyy to high. Takes fucking ages to kill anybody. So if I do end up getting this game then I'll be sticking to Hardcore.

 

Apart from those things it seems OK. Maps are decent.