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I am ok with them taking from Warzone maps and making smaller maps from it to play 6vs6. I am actually in favor as you would have experience with the map if you play DMZ or WZ. It is something that the could do from day 1 however. It's too bad the terminal map and observatory is not being made available as they are great DMZ maps. Oh well I guess I'll continue spending my time in DMZ

So we get ANOTHER old re-skinned map and then a map that was removed from the game after the beta that was supposed to be in the game at launch? And that's it for 6v6 maps? What an utterly piss poor offering that is. I'd rather they just brought back the map packs from before. At least we got a decent amount of months every few months.

I'd take 4-6 maps per season or none at all. One or two lazy recycled maps is simply not enough whatsoever for a game of this nature and I just wont play it otherwise. The COD community should not accept this level of service - it's beyond insulting now and bordering on laughable. Even Vanguard last year had 3x more map content than what we have now and they probably had 10% of the resources to make their game. People are largely sick of recycled/re-imagined content now - maybe 5 years ago this was still fine and even into MW2019 but not now. We're all mostly fed up of these once-iconic maps like Nuketown, Summit, Jungle, Firing Range and original content is what's needed. No point in having a brand new engine and rebooting a game and then rehashing old stuff. If they are to go down this route then at least back it up with new content on top. If you're giving us 2 old maps but 4 new ones then that's fair enough but 3 old maps out of 4 is embarrassing. IW proved they could create new content and the base game maps of MW2 are pretty decent even though they were naive about a few real world locations but having to resort to recycled stuff or material lifted from Warzone is not good enough especially if you're giving us nothing else.

Yeah have to agree, this was definitely the case. I loved when a new bunch of maps dropped. I enjoyed learning them and sometimes did very well in the initial first few go's at a map. The original MW2 map packs and the Black's OPs 1 ones in particular were my favourites. Maps like Zoo, Kwaloon, Berlin Wall and Drive in were awesome. Even the ones I didn't like as much were still great quality designed maps. Dom on Berlin Wall was epic. B flag sat right in the middle of the 2 sides of wall in a tight choke point. Ai sentry guns high on either sides. Broken rubble, barbed wire, endless explosions and smoke grenades. A real battle to secure, loved it!

That's pretty much what cod mobile is like. All of the most popular maps in one place. Nice thing is that it's all the maps. So you get nuke town, rust, shipment, shoot house, sky scraper and so on. I was playing that before MW 2(022) as it was a lot more fun that Vanguard or black ops. I found there were too many people that didn't buy a pack or another and you had to uninstall them anyways

Yup I'd settle for that especially with infinity ward but they'd probably bring back stonehaven 🤣

I was going to say, the game has nothing to do with JRK, let's keep it on topic, but then I saw it was @J4MES OX4D thread and I'm sure he doesn't mind 🙈😅

@techno, understandable as thats what the Season 2 visual shows. You'd hope the player feedback would convince them to drop another one later down the line. @IRaMPaGe, always a good 'we've listened' moment for them to use in a month or so 😄 I do expect to play more DMZ/Warzone that Season 1 so we'll what happens.

I did like the old map packs, but games were cheaper then. The content was consistent and very good tho. I agree I don't want to pay more, but maybe a middle ground from the big vault edition £100. Game is already £60 or more depending. Now the old map packs were like 11 or 12 quid. You got 4 maps and usually very good quality. So if they released 3 or 4 packs and there was a £80 version with all future maps 3 or 4 promised I would be tempted. It would feel better value. But on the otherhand I agree with @GazzaGarratt mostly here. The separation and division of players isn't good either. Some have it and some don't, it sucks. Also I doubt there will be a mid season new map or whatever, mainly because they would of made a huge thing of it and celebrated it to try retain players and interest with it.

All I've seen regarding mid season additions. Have seen there is now shoothouse and shipment separate playlists woohoo.😁

I wasn't saying I like it how it is. I was just saying we pay £60 for a game, I don't then expect to have to pay even more. I agree there aren't enough maps, but I'm hoping they continue to keep bringing more out as the seasons go on.

I can't wait for it to come if i'm honest. Hoping to get a little time over the weekend to focus on the early part of the story. Nice to see a single player game that sits outside the usual top AAA studios we're usually seeing that is performing well straight out of the blocks. The delays we've had seemed worth the wait.

I'd debate that we shouldn't be expected to pay even more money for maps when they already taken more than enough money off us 🤣

Whilst the concept would be one most of us would buy into, it splits the MP pools further as not everyone will buy them and personally I think if you update a game over time and paid our money upfront like we have, I'd expect the maps to be given for free when they do get released. I noticed it straight away so went to look at what it meant last night before posting it here. I think we knew most subsequent maps would come off the larger Warzone map, but that makes total sense from a developer viewpoint as its the same assets they've worked on and already in the game so doesn't make the game any larger content wise. For a 2-3 month Season, i'm still holding out that we'll get at least 1-2 more maps they haven't told us about mid-season like we did in Season 1. If that is the case, then I'd be okay with that. If they don't release anymore maps mid-Season then i'd agree that its disappointing.

I've just realised (only saw the small image on my phone) that Al Malik and Zaya are both battle maps which mean they will be likely be ground war-type ones. Literally just cut off a a portion of the Warzone/DMZ map. This means that Dome and Museum are the only two 6v6 maps - one recycled and poached off Warzone 2 and the other one from the beta. The rumours they would pass off the removed Valderas map as 'new' season 2 content were spot on even though it had been legally cleared since the beginning of the year to bring back. It's even worse than I first saw! Content creators jokingly said they will probably carve up the entire Warzone map bit by bit and integrate it as 'new' content for the MP portion and it looks like that has come true entirely.

Dome is already from Zaya Observatory. and Al Marik has Terminal inside it which to be honest I wouldn’t mind getting that one back that was probably be favourite map from the OG MW2 6v6 maps content is lacking for sure, great to see additional game modes however it looks like they will be on rotation rather than permanent at least for public play?

Yeah I'm pretty shocked, I didn't expect a lot but wow. Even 1 new map would of cheered a few people up. Apart from the Musuem map being reintroduced, don't forget a remade version of Dome. Excellent fresh brand new content. 💀

thanks for the kind words bud. Hopefully so more writing soon as I just got back from India and Dubai!

Just recently extracted my final weapons case in Al Mazrah, I've had some really interesting runs on the weapons case, with both bad and good players, I recall a few runs in particular, My first was hell of a match, we took down the Jugg at Zarqwa Squad mate picked up the case, I hung back re-plating and re-arming a Squad (two man) turned up and took out the two players in front and whilst they were looting them I was able to get in the building and take them both out got the revive on my team mates. Then a second squad (three man) pulled up in an LTV, two of them stormed and we took them out, they pled for help and my team mates accepted them, the third didn't respond to invites stayed in the LTV and tried to blast us from the turret so I went to the roof and took him out. We extracted that as a 5 man. Then one of the next was with some absolute gigachad beasts, they were in a two man and I was the rando, We spawned in Jugg was at Zaya, they just ran straight for it took the jugg out and we got a hostage extract also within Zaya, we had the case and were out of the match before the timer even hit 20 minutes. To extract the next case I had to hard carry some real potatoes, Jugg at All Sharim Pass they just ran straight at him with one plate vests and no actual extra plates Leeroy Jenkins style and went straight down I had to play it safe managed to loop the jugg around a rock and slowly chip away at his armour to take him out I may have even had to fill up with a munitions box part way through. I was dead proud of that run and felt really good about it. Another good one was with two randoms, we'd had done a couple of contracts got some nice loot and had just had a wholesome game, they wanted to exfil in the weapon case area which was at Al Sharim Pass, I knew the direction we were heading in and knew a tactic to get the Jugg down quite easily (from TheSpazo on YT) so I ran on ahead and got him downed and got the weapons case as the others caught up, Exfil was less than 100m away so we just ran for it knowing it was unlikely that another team would get to us before we reached it. Many of the others were matches where someone had attempted to take out the weapons case but had been taken out by AI and I took a detour either on my own or with the squad whilst on the way to exfil then met back with the squad at exfil. Like the most recent one I found three player packs inside a hostage contract building next to the weapons case picked up the pack and re joined the squad at exfil.

From what I've seen, the game does look very well made. HP was a cultural phenomenon worldwide so its no surprise its selling well. I'm trying not to buy games at full price but it's certainly tempting me.

Just on this note they used to churn out a new game on a more regular basis "back in the day" with better and more content. The only thing they do churn out more of these days is gamemodes 🤷 Maybe we have to put up with poorer quality for diverse content which I suppose is ok if that's your bag which obviously isn't the case. I think @cyberninja2601mentioned how cod mobile is and maybe a push to take MP the same way and just add to it on a rolling cycle.

Apparently dead drops are being moved to new locations too

This is quite risky as both AI and other Operators can kill the hostage. I find if you want to hold the hostage mission you are better off taking the contract but not unlocking the building until you are ready for it.

I generally only used to buy the map packs when there was new Zombies content,

@J4MES OX4D, you'd take a returning map from a previous game over no map surely? I mean, even if you go by what most people have said about CoD over the years you could argue that no one wants new content, just all the old stuff put into one game 😄

No maps listed aka; 'we're making it up as we go along'😂 They'll probably bring back Rust once again to compliment Shoothouse and Shipment or something desperate. I'll keep my eyes on the usual dataminer suspects because they are usually ahead of the game as what to expect and most of the time it's never good news.

She certainly is 'rowling' in it though - making a fat royalty for every copy sold without having to do a thing!

Sure, when you're free just put yourself in an FG gameroom and I'll join if I see you

Bare with me, trying to stop my daughter having too much screen time after school, so introducing her to board games. It's best when I jump on, I'll put myself in a Discord voice channel, so if you see me playing and in Discord, I should be ready.

- There is a glitch for safes and weapons stash. If you all wait to open the safe/stash and open at the exact same time, everyone gets the total loot (so loot x3). So yesterday I was rolling with a co-operative squad. We waiting until everyone can see the open safe (x on xbox) counted to 3 and open simultaneously. We all got the stuff. It work 3 out of 3. - If you extract the hostage and dump his/her ass by the helo. You can go and do a some missions and come back to an helo waiting for you. You don't have to rely on the extract points. Someone might camp you or booby trap but it does work

I'd happily pay for a map expansion like before because it was guaranteed content, you knew what you'd be getting plus it was an obligation and incentive for the developers to produce quality and original (even reimagined) material. I'd take that over painfully waiting for new content that never materialises and always being in the dark about what was coming because not even the developers seem to know half the time. People are paying more on fortnightly bundles now than what an entire quarterly map pack used to cost and I didn't mind paying because the return was always tens of hours at worst and plenty more enjoyment. This time of the year a decade ago and during the golden age of COD, we'd be at around the 24 map mark by now. Even Vangard this time last year had 26 original 6v6 maps at this stage.

Nearly 500,000 people are playing Hogwarts Legacy on Steam before it's truly out | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Despite the backlash against it, Hogwarts Legacy is already a major hit on Steam and Twitch. Just on Steam alone!

I've always said most Battle Passes aren't worth their money as its all pretty much cosmetic if you care for that stuff. Map wise it depends if the 'Battle Maps' will have a part of it that can do 6v6 like Taraq does. I did say we'd get 3 to 4 maps with one maybe being new. I do expect a further map to be introduced mid-season like Season 1 had 2 reintroduced.

LMAO! That’s the final nail in the coffin for this game. They really expect to pass off an old beta map and then 3 cherrypicked locations from the battle royal map as ‘new’ content that will suffice, Christ. The new mode bloat will just spread thin an already depleting playerbase and those playlists won’t survive long-term either. They’ve made a mockery out of fans now but at least the reaction on social media has been absolutely damning, not that it will change anything. I wasn’t expecting much for the paid portion but this is taking the piss. Even Cold War will get more content than this I bet. What an absolute disgrace.

Didn't expect to just read this.

Just been told on twitter it's £9 on Amazon and Argos of they have any.

Happy to see gun game and one in the chamber return for Friday laughs etc as for the rest.... wow it's amazing great job infinity ward you've really outdone yourself couldn't have hoped for more let's hope you're showered in the rewards you absolutely deserve 👍

New maps and gamemodes! @GazzaGarrattOne in the chamber, confirmed ✅ New DMZ map! Battle Royale updates! Plenty more ranks and skill divisions!

Just completed Gears of War after revisiting it for the first time in 16 or so years. Now started on the 2008 sequel. Hoping to get in Metal Gear Rising in a couple of weeks for its 10th year anniversary and somehow gotta find time to squeeze in Hogwarts Legacy if I pick it up this month!

Gears of War 2 - Xbox 360 (2008)

Hogwarts Legacy breaks Twitch viewership record with 1.2m viewers Hogwarts Legacy breaks Twitch record amid streamer boycott - Dexerto WWW.DEXERTO.COM Twitch streamers are boycotting Hogwarts Legacy but the game has already smashed a major viewer... The salt must be flowing on Twitter with this development😂

I've never seen or been interested in anything Harry Potter infact the social media stuff especially twitter is as much interest as I've shown and it's simply ridiculous but where social media is concerned that's nothing new. There was a streamer getting hate in the chat while playing thorough the game and believe he may have posted an apology 🤦 The only other thing I saw is how many content creators 😬 were whining about how they won't do a review as they didn't get a free copy.

Sorry its late @TurboR56Mini but it was a very enjoyable read I must say. I think you certainly hit the ground running on the writing side. The pictures are done extremely well and compliment breaking down your trip nicely. You could even see here that you could mini-reviews that break down stuff even further, such as a car review, watch review and cities/states to review. Make sure you try and get another one done soon as its certainly something you seem passionate about through the words you used. ❤️

Great write-up Lee and the compilation was hilarious. Good highlight of the night and what it's like most weekends!

I’m waiting until Season 2 drops or at least until there is some official news before passing judgement but it’s not looking good for MWII at the moment Warzone 2.0 is getting all of the love. although I do have to say that I am actually OK with MP as it currently stands, sure I would like more maps, maybe a bit of a tweak to the UI but I’m still enjoying the game and don’t regret the purchase.