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I’m going to post this ignoring the partying up and regular crashing bugs. They really shouldn’t be in a game of this size but hopefully they can be patched quickly and they don’t really effect gameplay. So let’s start with the bad as we all like a good moan. - Maps, or more specifically the border crossing map. It has to be contender for the worst CoD map ever made. - Gun customisation is just a mess and over complicated. Why do I need to level up a battle rifle to get a scope for the M4? - Talking about a mess and over complicated the UI definitely makes the bad list for me. Why when starting a match do I press triangle to look at the gamemodes selected but then have to press square to change? Why doesn’t triangle take you straight in to the gamemode selection? and that is assuming you somehow noticed from the prompt to press triangle at top left corner to the prompt to press squaee in the bottom corner. Or why are camo’s in the gunsmith? I kinda get why but it the extra steps seems unnecessary when you’re going to look in there regularly for challanges and progress. - I still don’t like the perk system in this but guess we’re stuck with it That’s enough morning for me though so the good. - Maps, outside of the border crossing, are good in my opinion. - Guns so far seem well balanced and nothing stands out as being too OP. I’d also add that guns feel different too. Some previous CoD’s smg’s have had such range and accuracy they made AR’s redundant. But this has the balance of different guns being best in different situations and ranges. Movement - I like the movement and so far there seems to have been a huge reduction in jumpy slidey around corner twats. Whether that will change as SBMM kicks in more we shall see but first impressions are positive.

My first game last night it matched me with PC players using M&K. So I just quit and went "off you fuck, crossplay." I'm already at a disadvantage because I'm old. I don't want to be disadvantaged because I'm using a controller.

I'm kinda in two minds - in terms of gameplay, it's pretty decent with solid and more grounded mechanics. I was getting sick and tired of Treyarch's knee sliding and corner jumping propped up by SMG's and being able to run 18 perks. The Warzone sweats may be upset but it's for the good of the wider COD audience. Aside from a couple of truly woeful maps, they are all reasonably playable albeit nothing special plus I'm a little disappointed with the lack of terrain variety. On the whole though, the gameplay is solid enough and despite people playing in very annoying ways. I am really shocked at the lack of missing staple features with no explanation to their current omission. There's also some bugs which have caused crashes plus the interface is an absolute disgrace. I just wish they would do the work in-house instead of sourcing shitty media employees off LinkedIn with their corporate waffle trying to over-complicate simple things. I also don't think it's as refined as MW2019 in some areas but at least more thought has gone into the core design this time. Whoever designed the border crossing map should be jailed though.

Yeah that border crossing map is fucking awful. I've enjoyed every map I've played apart from that one. I really hate that both Ghost AND Dead Silence aren't unlocked til a late level (51 and 52 I think). Seems that IW just don't like people trying to be stealthy.

Well first impressions, as I said last night I enjoyed my start with this game due to really having a long break and my change in attitude to MP games while finding how to have fun in destiny. If it wasn't for the forum nights like last night I wouldnt have bothered or if there was another solid FPS game out there that I enjoyed *cough* battlefield*cough* I wouldn't have bothered. All the stuff that is missing is a disgrace, go watch Nero's video, the maps are as expected awful for the most part but designed to be, the market map is by far the best and the road map, well whoever designed that needs to be fired along with those that ok'd it. Gunplay was solid but only used the m4. The perk system wil be somewhat irrelevant as I'll find my favourite set up and probably never change that. I only had 1 crash but I was playing solo the crash bug was one reason the other being I can't do with all the "shit" gamemodes so I will mostly stick with KC. The main reasons, and I don't know how long this will last, for me enjoying last night was alcohol, chat not giving a shit about going positive or winning and using the pila as much as possible to get kills. Got that to level 3 last night on kills alone. Oh yeah score in game why so small. Now I knew this going in but it's not a good game, it could have been but once again map design sucks hopefully they do release the old maps and more to the point don't fuck with them. It will be something I play and get my monies worth out of due to it being a 2 year game but nothing like in the past.

I really did not expect to play the game as long as I have on the first day. Nice to see like @techno says, many of us in the same party but in different groups, solo or up to 4 players. That seemed to be the limit before the game screwed the party for some of us. It also got many different people together again and that was pretty cool too. @datfroggieguy @Capn_Underpants @TheMuggySpud @Misneach_ @Greboth @Luseth @LordBaguette @Bluebear to name a few. I also think I'm agreeing with you @J4MES OX4D 😄 Mainly because the game itself plays really well. Its super solid and the early guns we all try seem well balanced. I only saw one guy using the X12 handgun that was wrecking us which I didn't feel too bad about. The only annoyance is the lack of usual functions and gamemodes that you would expect to be in the game from launch. That is masking the external news on places like Twitter and rightly so - I just hope people don't pass on this one as there are many plus points already to it. We had a laugh last night as it seems the UI divides us all. I really like it, as does @Luseth , but its clear what @Greboth felt about it! 🤣 As did others. The reason why I think its less cluttered is that there hasn't been a CoD game that has been inviting me to understand the Challenges and Objectives I can focus on. They're always really hidden deep in the game. This time round, its a little easier in a logical place in the Gunsmith when you customise them. I think they could make it even easier but this is CoD so little gains are huge imo 😅 I think the Perk system is still weird. I'm not hugely caring for it or equally not that bothered but I know something doesn't feel right about it. I'm not starting to think that they are trying to get players away from those types of things to rely on all the time and just go back to basics of trying to beat the team with just yourself and the gun. I think this shows why I think they are making us not worry about it. And if i'm honest, I love it. Every CoD always brought out the rage in people sitting in the most campiest corner for 15 mins trying to pick people off. Playing slower is the way sometimes otherwise you can get rinsed easily, but to the point where I need these perks. So many people last night in the party were also getting decent scores to the objective and KD so you don't need these perks for the game to survive. I hope they add the missing stuff like Hardcore, Crossplay options and in-game stats within the next month - but i'd argue right now it isn't hurting us actually play the game. If I had to have the choice what to have first, I'd vote for more maps to be released over this lot. Crossplay with SBMM shows it doesn't hurt the game, we won 80% of the games still. Games are goign this way and it allows us to play with everyone so I'd start to embrace it now. Last thought would be that TTK is that quick that you don't miss Hardcore....just yet.

They removed all of the crack-adled movement mechanics that kept me away from COD for 10 years. It's a bit slower and more tactical now. Probably the truest version of COD that has been released since.

Yet Activision are happy to host convicted cheaters in their tournaments and events because they have a big viewership base or tits🤣

Nero's happy 🤣

Expressions?? Impressions lol

First expressions are good, I’m level 22 and just levelled up the m4 to 20, I still don’t understand everything there is to do with guns etc as haven’t played a cod for a good while but slowly getting there, I’m more of a rusher type player so like my smgs so finding one I like is interesting, the maps seem solid so far, the race track one is awesome to run around in but overall a positive start 👍

I think that's just PC. Basically if you have certain software running in the background then the game thinks you're trying to hack so bans you.

Oh there is one more rather big issue, it seems quite a few people are getting permanent bans for no reason and so far Activision are basically sticking their fingers in their ears going lalalalalalalla. So we'll done for that.🤦

Disgraceful...... Will watch the video later.

No challenges, no camo stat tracking, no leaderboards, no after action report, no combat record, no XP token time tracking, no hardcore mode, plus more These are basic staple features.

Spawn system is shit. I played on that Embassy map. Had somebody spawn right in front of me. Killed them, ran off and got shot in the back as somebody spawned right behind me. Then later I spawned in the same spot as the player above and I had spawned directly in front of somebody.

Watched a really good sci-fi comedy yesterday about hunting spectres that I would thoroughly recommend

My God that convoy and survive missions were so boring, I almost couldn't finish them. Some missions are so solid, and then the others are total slogs.

There's also a new contender for the worst map in COD history.

Lets hear them. Gamemodes, hit connection, lobbies, making groups, guns, perks, etc. Good to know how the first few days go for you all below! 🔽

What do you think of Mariota as your qb? Think it’s for a few years or until you draft or trade for someone? i think you should beat Carolina but it’s been one of those seasons where we’re getting random results coming through every so often, and given they just got rid of mccaffree they should have no way of winning. The fact that 3/4 of the nfc east is in the top 10 best records in the league so far is mind blowing. Only the commies holding true form.

Your falcons are making some good progress with the rebuild, the fact you could go top of your division tomorrow is a bit crazy. Think your division is tied with the afc south for the worst in the league. For me I’m just hoping the bills destroy packers

The same guy 3 times in 7 seconds. Oh @J4MES OX4D you have a way with words that just speaks to me! 🤤. Don't get me wrong, being spawn killed is horrible. But when your the one doing it, it's a different story. 🙂

Another thing I forgot to mention is the spawns - on some maps they are utterly horrendous. On the race track map which is actually quite big, I've sometimes spawned literally in front of enemies who are already shooting someone else. I also managed to kill the same guy 3 times in 7 seconds on another map!

Episode 17 is LIVE on Youtube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!! Sarah's back and almost back to 100%. Spoiler... Play Cat Quest!!

Watching the new one not long ago, was such a great film and nod to these two films. Very well made and a great ending for anyone that loved the originals.

How can you work on a game for 3 years and have features missing that have been in the series for 15 years? Looks like I was correct 😎

Went to Game and grabbed it. 6-7 games in and I'm happy to say its feeling pretty solid and stable with a feel good factor from what I had in the Beta - if not better. Barely lost a game too which clearly helps but I find the early struggles are based around learning some new maps in the game, which is something that should get better over time anyway. I found using the default set classes that they give you really give you a great start to the game. If you use the M4 class they've created (press R1 before selecting a class), then it will level up the gun for you to customise your own class over time. The 74-U still works well but doesn't feel OP. Better on close quarters games. Just needs some adjusting to the slowness of reloads and activating perks - UAVs and DDOS attacks can take ages for you to put the phone away so be mindful when you select them. Whilst I'm no way near as fast when I used to play as a kid, I feel that because we've learned how to go around CoD maps through shared experiences, its really helped me get off to a flyer. I've never been in a positive KD position, playing the objective in any CoD game this early.

Well I'll soon find out as I'm downloading the game now and I can't even blame alcohol for once 🤪

With all the info to hand why can't they design good quality MP maps, the rest of the game could be great and it can be ruined by bad map design. Maybe they should design MP maps first then fit them to the campaign somehow.

Ah I have to say my first hour on it has been enjoyable, this is the first time I have dropped into COD on launch for quite some time and first impressions are good. There is the usual with COD lots of campers and players who have been ignoring the game mode somewhat but I have been enjoying it. The first few guns I have used have felt punchy and the maps seem decent (I like the one with ruins and the water you can swim round the edge or under the map, means you can be creative with your plan of attack). I did have a bug earlier in that I couldn't launch the 3 missiles / planes?, is the SEA or something like that (can't remember the name of it). I brought up the tablet and it would not let me pick any points, that majorly sucked because I got 7 kills in like 30 seconds (Team death match), got that and could not launch it so had no killstreaks. I tried 4 times and the worst of it is that I could not back out each time so I had to wait for it to timeout (30 seconds a time) so lost 2 minutes of killing. I did finish on 17 kills though so did ok 🙂 But yeah first impressions are positive.

It's too bad you feel that way. I quite like it so far. My team mates have been kill whores and we managed to lose every game but other than that it's been great. Can't even complain about the connection which if you know me, that's an accomplishment right there

They could have been trying to troll but I suspect it's just because they're useless.

Game is definitely less refined than MW2019. Interface is a catastrophic mess - it doesn't even tell you what XP tokens you have currently activated for instance. Everything else seems completely and unnecessarily bloated. This is what happens when you hire TV streaming clowns when it could be done in-house through common sense. The rest of the maps seem absolute garbage - haven't seen a spec of snow or anything - it's all South American/Middle Eastern terrains which fits the campaign but doesn't provide any variety. The weapon unlock and progression system just limits customisation too. Cold War was definitely way more polished than this although not technically as impressive.

Maybe they just wanted to troll and see who would complain. It was listed in all of the data mines. I figured they would know better but I guess not 🙂

Turns out that Kill Confirmed is in the game. How incompetent do you have to be to not know which games modes are in your own game? 🤦‍♂️

Well after a few games it plays a hell of a lot better than the beta did (connection wise) which I’m so happy about. I got smacked in most games but still had fun and put that down to the fact it’s only the true hardcore playing at the minute.

Lmao, you can tell it’s the sweats and die hards who are playing it now.

Good to hear about KC I had seen the emblem on the gamemode list. Also I'm the same as you, I will buy the game against my better judgement though if it wasn't for the forum Id likely give it a miss at least for a while.

Sometimes it's got to be done if your team isn't up to much and playing solo. I do try pick them up if I can, there are games that are going to the wire and 10 tags a piece each. I will throw myself on them for that W. Playing Shipment Vanguard or Das Haus, I've seen me grab over 40 confirms on rare occasions.

Tag Whore!! 😂😂😂

Kill confirmed will be a rotational playlist thing I believe as there is screenshots of it on the blog. Watching some early streams and KC is confirmed (lol pun intended) to be in! In other news I went against all my instinct and bought the game, so who is ready to lock and load on launch night? I do play MP on my xbox though, so hopefully you PS boys wont mind turning crossplay on to link up with a leper 😂

Yeah hopefully, why should we have to wait for it....... The thrill you get when you land a triple kill and pick up about 6 tags immediately is awesome. TDM is dead and dry for me since Kill Confirmed existed. Domination is quite rough solo sometimes if your the only one trying for the objective. At least in Kill Confirmed you can pick up 20-30 tags and make a difference on your own.

Just one more dumb decision by infinity ward.

The season finally begins tonight!!!! So the Rams-Bills game tonight kicks off the new season and it should be a cracker of a game. I'm really looking forward to this season. I think the Bills will have another good season, and could go to the Superbowl. It will be interesting to see how the Bengals do after such a great season last year. There have been a lot of changes in the rosters over the summer so will be good to see how new players fit in and if they can make the impact the team hopes they do...Russell Wilson and the Broncos comes to mind. After Matt Ryan went to the Colts i'm hoping that Mariota can have a decent first season with the Falcons and that we can have a better season this year. It will be cool to hear what you all are looking forward to this season and what your predictions are for your team and the league as a whole. Who is going to surpise everyone like the Bengals last year, and who will not meet the expectations for the season 🙂