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Just remaster BO2. Ooooops sorry @GazzaGarratt😁 Tbh most of what's been said I can get on board with. I liked bo3 (jet packs done right) I liked the specialists too, some were annoying though and should never be in an fps of this type. However I'd be fine with boots on the ground, not the bunny hopping sliding bullshit simple running around quick paced. I'd like interesting unique weapons that actually felt different to use. As for perks make them compliment a playstyle or loadout, no crutch perks. 2 things cod needs and has lacked, connection based matchmaking in cold war I very rarely hear English in the lobbies, the other thing is good maps, not big cluttered head glitchy bullshit that gives the arseholes that play easy kills for just sitting in one spot. Good fun to use scorestreaks that reset. Cut down the number of gamemodes too ffs.and better less grindy challenges. The suggested cod mobile online idea 👍

We're good at making the best of a bad situation, that's life in a nutshell I suppose. That doesn't mean we shouldn't demand the best or be satisfied when we are served shit.

I want a COD with Kowloon in it. COD died a long time ago for me, my tastes may have changed, although the new Modern Warfare was a step in the right direction (glad I didn't bother with Cold War however). I'm just hoping Battlefield returns to form rather than expecting anything decent from this dead horse.

For me, mirroring what other have said, simplicity is key. I don't care about tonnes of weapon customization, definitely don't want wall running and all that. Just a clean, simple game as we saw from CoD4 through to the Black Ops days. In terms of matchmaking, SBMM has really ruined the multiplayer experience for me. I feel like as with other multiplayer games there should just be both a ranked and unranked playlist to let players decide which they want. At the very least, if SBMM is necessary, there could be better transparency so you have some way of indicating how good you actually are at the game! I don't see the point in multiplayer as is, I need a goal to work towards whilst playing! I've really enjoyed Warzone over lockdown, but again would love a barebones version without loadouts, having to rely on finding weapons/attachments etc.

I want a COD that is basically a boots on the ground version of COD. Not jet packs/magnetic boots or shit like that. There are other games for that. I want a COD with new maps. I sick of the same maps re-ashed. if they want to release old maps I ok with that, but they should all be available at launch. It should take them very long to do Nuketown/rust over again and again and again I like the basic score streaks. Focus on the fundamentals. UAV/Counter/care package/Sentry/attack helo/cruise missile/chopper gunner/ac-130/advance UAV. I don't particularly like those OP crazy ass streaks I want a COD that has score streaks to encourage playing the objective. I want it to reset the streak however when you die. So stack the points from the score streaks. I liked that in MW you could chose one of the other. So playing a game like kill confirm you want the scorestreaks. Teamdeath match you want the kill streaks I like cod having something like zombies and I think that cold war did a nice job of it. I like the ranking system which uses the XP from Zombies/warzone/Multiplayer. I get zombie games with over 100K XP and want it to count for something I don't care about the skins or the camo. I never even use them I want good connection that doesn't go to shit during a match I want solid fundamental game modes like domination, kill confirm, Hardpoint I would like the ability to play moshpit on any specific map of my choice. Since the lobby DCs all the time it should be possible As much as people complain about the current games, I am OK with them. I think I am level 250 on cold war, but a lot of that is zombies and Warzone. I think I have only played 3 maps on Multiplayer and the same ones keep coming up and selected. I don't even know what my KD is. Don't care. I think it is around 1, so as much as people hate SBMM it hasn't affected me too badly. It has probably helped. I like being able to jump in, play 2-3 matches and leave. I can't do that with destiny which has too much of a grind for me. I want something that doesn't require me to invest a ton of time so that I can play the game without being too disadvantage because someone has the time to play 20-30 hours a week and all the good guns/perks and everything else

I just want a Call of Duty where we don't get 8 maps at launch and then the rest of the withheld content that should've been in the game in the first place, spoonfed to us over the duration of months under the illusion that it's FREE updates. In Cold War, we got 40% of a game and not only are they giving out decade old recycled content to make up part of the other 60, they are even resorting to giving us 'new' scorestreaks that have been in the franchise a decade and were located in the game files during the beta. Give us a game with 15 maps and then another 15-20 to follow. They make billions out of thin air on coloured guns yet we don't get anything back like we used to in terms of new maps because we aren't directly paying for them. There is no incentive for the devs to deliver 4 map packs so we just accept getting new content when it comes under this bullshit season model that's adopted into all this shitty live service titles. The big problem is the eSport meta and SBMM which is the norm now. I don't think I will ever truly enjoy or play COD like I used to because of how connection-based matchmaking and lobby balancing has been replaced with artificial crap such as ping manipulation, monetized matchmaking and the very sweaty nature of the mechanics. Casual COD is dead and it's replaced by a carefully crafted algorithmic framework to benefit player retention and customer spend for Activision. I do think the franchise is completely exhausted and deathmatch as a whole heavily saturated now and whilst I did have fun on Cold War at times, it's a tired format on a threadbare product. MW2019 now with all the content is where a COD game should be at launch - jam packed of content with tonnes to do right off the bat. Activision doesn't seem to get that player retention is a factor on content so rather than alienating players and focusing on the dedicated open-wallet ones, they should try and satisfy all fans. As I said in another thread, I cannot understand why they haven't released a universal game like COD Online or COD mobile which contains stacks of content all rolled into one. Keep that updated and you'll keep people happy for years and they wont need to spend all that money concocting a whole new game where 50% of people immediately don't like the era. Having this with the battle royale and then you've got two rolling products. Microtransactions now outweigh money made through sales so a brand new game from a tiresome franchise may not be the answer each year.

I loved that map! Absolutely dude! I feel the same way. CoD was the video game GoD for a while but I've just moved on as a gamer. I can't even put my finger on why. I'll miss it sometimes. Random places on CoD maps will pop into my mind out of no where sometimes (I worry about this). But, when I actually play it, I'm just not having fun anymore.

Looking for something lightweight for myself and Mina to watch, we settled upon Cobra Kai. 5 episodes in, great decision. It's a lot of fun and very funny in some places. Some excellent references to the film and to the 1980s...and i think the writers are enjoying themselves with the script. Plus I'm getting drawn into the 'strike first' approach 😁

I agree with a lot of what others have mentioned already. I might be in the minority here, but I would fancy the next COD more in the World At War style. I want a Pacific/Gulf Pearl Harbor style with mostly Japanese and American guns. A few German, Russian and British weapons sprinkled in. No AK-47,74u or MP5'S. I want a simple 3 perk loadout and I want weapon attachments to feel specific and I DON'T want the guns to be generic with mono surpressors and agent field grips and no stock on everything. Launchers and specials get attachments. It's ridiculous you can run 6 perks so you are immune to explosives/tactical equipment. You get scavenger and another perk whilst also being silent and being off the radar. I think WaW is underated, the maps were awesome and some of the maps had tanks and they weren't a problem like more recent COD'S. I don't want cheesy specialist operators and advantages that heavily change the flow of the game. Boots on the ground please. I don't know why Treyarch haven't used WaW maps, only 2-3 in all this time. Whilst BO1 Firing Range, Summit,Jungle, Nuketown are constantly done. Even BO 2 maps haven't been done much. So yeah simplicity is the key for me as well and lot's of maps at launch and through the life cycle. 2-3 new maps every season.

Personally I loved it. There was a moment for me when Lee was out breaking himself at one of hairpins so I lifted early to give him space etc but someone behind rear ended me into Lee anyways. 🙈. I think it was a pretty clean race with no issues. When going into the pits I didn’t know you could stop the fuelling early to suit how many laps were left so ended up losing a lot of time refuelling for 2laps 😂😂

I mean, really...

Very stylish trailer that oozes Dishonored, No One Lives Forever and James Bond. Made by Arkane and published by Bethesda so definitely one to watch:-

I cannot believe people go so triggered over this People were literally having meltdowns and threatening to 'boycott' Amazon and their services for life if they didn't amend their 'Nazi-inspired' logo😅

What kind of melt do we inhabit this planet with that actually thinks this shit up let alone complains about it.🤦

Over 5,000,000 copies sold now!

Good thoughts, La. I enjoyed reading all of that. Usually this is my tagline for anyone at FG when i'm trying to get them to join in on the fun 😄 The only thing I would say is that not all shite games are salvageable, even with the fun levels us lot can create 🤣

Turned out to be a very enjoyable race, and no one seemed to get left behind, which was nice to see. Penalties didn't really feature in the race, which was good, and to be honest I thought it was very straightforward. I managed to go a whole race without fucking up or getting fucked up. Kiwi managed to do the whole 5 laps on one tank and it nearly paid off. Excellent strategy. I'll post the league table up later today.

Yeah seemed a good race from what I could hear. Unfortunately that incident completely ended the race for me really early on but that's racing for you. I also didn't put fuel in by accidentally pressing X on the wheel so for 3 full laps @ 4mins a pop, I had to conserve fuel massively. If I didnt need to do that I would've been at least one or two places higher even after having a huge deficit to claw back. Penalties weren't as bad as qualifying. I got through the whole race without them until right near the final few corners.

To be honest it's not until you fight ultimate weapon that you get free reign of the map. Even the open world stuff has a clear 'sequence' and you can't really go anywhere than where you need to go. The first bit after Midgar is going to the chocobo farm, catch a chocobo and cross the midgar zolom pit......

If D2 is in good game development, it's because it's a cash cow. It because they were given what they needed to fix their initial Destiny and become what it is today. But, being successful in that sense is because a cheetah was asked to run and not do something it couldn't naturally do. I think a lot of fun in multiplayer games happens in spite of bad game development. For example, when @TurboR56Mini and I played No Man's Sky with a few people, just getting an update or a patch was intriguing because of various things breaking or completely changing. Every patch and update was like getting a new game. It was always a question of "What's broken today? What's fixed now that we couldn't previously do because it was broken?" I'll cite Square Enix on actual good game development, but the culture there is vastly different. We only recently talk about that "crunch" time in gaming studios, but that's like embedded in anime production and game production for them. However, they don't necessarily abandon games because they give up either. Again, FFXIV was a redo, and congrats on them for making good on that. Admitting they were wrong in a puff piece was an orchestrated move pushed by their PR, most likely. I've been on the side of companies with their C-suite needing to do this BS. I've seen the arguments that PR and Marketing make to the C-suite to do these things. They put it out there to pacify the game audience. That's it. They expect people to forget in a week. If they follow through, I will be pleasantly surprised. If they don't, it's what was expected. Them giving the studios they bought "more freedom" is vastly different than what they are used to. It's not what their Board is used to. It's not what their major investors are used to. Unless their Board is on the same page, it won't happen. And, Boards only care about profit. "More freedom" to studios is not an overnight thing. It's not even a "couple of months" thing. It's a culture change that will take time and the willingness to fight for it. I love games, and the industry as a whole makes me sad. Sony is my bright spot in how they manage their studios. Look at Bend Studios and Guerrilla Games. Look at how they are being grown and guided vs what EA has done to studios they bought. Sony does it right. And, I look forward to anything they do for the gaming world. They aren't perfect, but they have always tried to be for the gamers.

Thanks. 185-200 lbs, then work on strength mostly as I move in that range. I'm kicking around the idea of a half marathon, but no time goal. Just run the whole thing.

That's super amazing! I'm super jealous on those times! But, I also hate running hahaha. Congrats on all the hard work. I didn't scroll up, but what are your goals?

Almost two years later, I'm at 208.4 as of this morning, and am in significantly better shape. I can do a 1 mile run in right at 8 minutes, 5k in under 28 minutes, 10k in under 60 minutes. The Garmin has been really helpful, both in terms of motivation and in data points and feedback.

I think the idea of a big and small partnerships is good, as long as everyone is comfortable with their players. Would be sick if you could share some of your builds, and perhaps a bit on how to cover passing lanes, since I always seem to play worse the bigger my player is! The reason I disagree with LM/RM positions, is because most of the attribute increases come in the form of defensive stats (which are still too low to be an effective defender), with the crossing and long passing being the main advantage. Being a winger gets you +4 acceleration and agility, and +3 balance and sprint speed, plus some minor boosts to dribbling and a few other stats. Just doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade off to me.

Fortnite was free and is 3rd person so skins like camos sort of make some sense, but yeah I still think it's somewhat a waste of money unless you feel your helping a game you enjoy to continue, a forum run or your particular favourite only fans 😉

I really don't understand why people are willing to buy cosmetic bullshit for real money, especially when they paid full price for a game. I mean skins in an fps 😂

That must be why @Nutcuttlit is always calling me one 🥰