J4MES OX4D

I read a YouTube comment last night that said something along the lines of 'the second beta releases Friday'. To be honest, that's not too far from the truth. The final game has 4 more maps, 5 more guns and 6 less scorestreaks and that's it. I still haven't bought the game and this could be the first Call of Duty I don't ever ever get. It certainly will be the first one I don't have at launch. If I don't pick it up today I probably never will. I really enjoyed the beta but the lack of content off the bat is disgraceful really. Surely you want to keep people engaged right off the bat rather than dangling one extra map in the next 5 weeks that may or may not be a remake. Treyarch also really piss me off these days - I still regard the original Black Ops one of the best games I have ever played and BO2 was an exceptional package. They are lazy as fuck now and completely out of ideas - all their new maps are shite and in such few quantity, they then have to relentlessly recycle old content. People will probably blame the pandemic and in some cases it has impacted development but let's not forget they had 3 clear years with BO4 and we didn't even get a campaign, only got 12 maps for MP in which 4 were recycled and the zombies community were shafted up the ass for Blackout. If Nuketown is finished already, why the hell don't they give it to us now? Holding out paid content to ransom is a joke! Infinity Ward were churning out MP, gunfight, FFA and GW maps all year and Treyarch seem to be toying with when to release Jungle for the 39th time in the last decade. COD YouTubers are at it again too - one minute they are conveying their concerns about the lack of content and how disappointing the game will likely be on release and then 8 hours later they publish a brand new video saying 'OMG NEW PATCH NOETS IN AND TREEARCH R LISTENING TO US' and '2 WEOPANS BUFFED AND DORK MATTER CAMO IS BACK - THIS GAME IS AMAZzzING YO' and then everything is forgiven even though that doesn't change anything about the lack of maps. I will have to make a choice by this evening - either pay £45, get about 40 hours out of it until Cyberpunk drops and just take what's there or save the money and vote with my wallet. I'll probably have nothing much to play but it'll be a principled move.

Not even this will be here tomorrow

Ouch!

CK2's tutorial is probably the worst ever created in a game plus the UI in that one is very unfriendly. CK3 has the same level of depth but a far cleaner interface and is not as overwhelming. Definitely YouTube videos are the best way especially with experienced players.

Found a video leak showing the other two maps available - Checkmate (0:47) and Garrison (5:32) plus there is a bit of Dead Ops and Zombies in there along with menu screens. Potato quality as with many videos of this nature though

It was the same story pretty much with WW2 which released with just 9 MP maps. We played 3 of those to death during the beta and out of the other 6, three were absolutely dreadful leaving 3 which were borderline acceptable. There were 3 other maps in that overwatch-type mode but that's no excuse to shrink the map pool of the core multiplayer especially when a lot of people had no interest in playing it. The minimum amount of entry maps for 6v6 should be at the very least 12 new ones regardless of how many other modes they are supporting with specifically designed maps. I think 15 would be ideal and I wouldn't care if no new ones came out for 3 months - they should focus on retaining as many people as possible. I got burned on the beta after about 6 hours as the maps got old but I wasn't expecting this to make up about 40% of the final game!

Sitting at 9% positive LOL! The original is £1.99 too

They are basically cutting content intended for the base game and then drip feeding it to us under the illusion that they're giving free stuff. It was bad enough in the past with withheld content being sold as DLC but now they are holding to ransom content we've essentially already paid for. 3 more maps are supposed to arrive for season one but we don't know if that's 3 gunfight ones, 3 6v6 or 3 ground war - it may even be one map for each mode. Embarrassingly shit either way. Treyarch will probably blame the pandemic but even on a 3 year cycle with BO4, they couldn't even concoct a campaign, 60% of the game was recycled form the BO3 SDK and the MP and zombies was unsupported and on life support after Christmas. It kinda puts into perspective how well IW supported MW post-launch - they gave us new maps in every mode and the game was content-laden in the end on top of Warzone. Treyarch have seemingly removed 6 scorestreaks too...

Seems the remake is disappointing according to a few early reviews which is a shame. I've watched quite a bit of gameplay and I can safely irrespective of anything else that this game has the worst screen tearing I have ever seen in a videogame. Almost every scene is plagued with it and this review shows it well Here's some prime examples

Was reading feedback from the zombie community last night - here's the gist:- Treyarch: ''Cold War zombies is our biggest and most groundbreaking Call of Duty zombies experience to date'' Community: ''YOU'RE GIVING US ONE FUCKING MAP WTF'' This may end up being a repeat of Black Ops 4 where Treyarch did fuck all to support the core multiplayer and zombies experiences post-launch and put all their eggs in one basket with the battle royale. They'll probably change the time of day/weather on some of the base maps and then pretend it's sufficient 'new' content.

Thankfully I was lucky enough to pick up the entire collection when it was on Humble Bundle for $12 - it really was a once in a lifetime deal. Thankfully CK3 has a a lot of those features already in the game that appeared throughout the CK2 DLC and is much more user friendly.

What a hole in one!

Credible rumours going around that Cold War will only have 8 playable maps at launch with Nuketown following a couple of weeks later. If this is true then it’s a travesty regardless of how many are drip-fed in the coming months. Those will probably be rehashed ones (Jungle, Summit, Firing Range) too. What’s worse is that barely any can accommodate 6v6. I really hope this isn’t true because it could be a devastating dealbreaker for me. We should be getting at least 15 6v6 maps right off the bat. Seems they are just supporting too many modes which have their own specific maps. A full list can be found in a few articles but this one lays it out nicely All COD Black Ops Cold War MAPS (2020) | Full List of Call of Duty Cold War Multiplayer Maps including Fireteam WWW.GAMESATLAS.COM Full list of multiplayer maps in COD Black Ops Cold War including additional Season DLC maps, Fireteam modes...

Haven't got the expansion yet but I've done the introductory mission and had a mooch around the land. Seems decent from what I've seen although I'm rusty as hell! Enemies seem to be more challenging and the world looks great. Not sure if it's varied or grand enough in relation to the content that has been removed but it's too early for me to judge after my brief experience with it. Very tough decision I'll have to make in the next couple of days because it's a toss up between this, Cold War and Valhalla. I'll definitely have a deeper look tomorrow though. Game looks stunning right off the bat Anyone else been on yet? Took a good 3 hours to get into the game because of the server issues and then queue!

CK2 is now free to play I believe.

It's more of a strategy/RPG surrounding the creation and expansion of your dynasty with characters. CIV is more of a land-based conquer game.

What a pathetic, pointless and embarrassing article The Xbox Series X Is Triggering My Trypophobia KOTAKU.COM As reviews for the Xbox Series X arrive, I’m here to talk about one aspect of... and they wonder why modern videogame journalism is in the gutter and a complete laughing stock among almost all gamers! Next up ‘’PS5 is so white it’s borderline racist’’

Apparently they've done away with the shitty level gating and filler side missions which is great. It's now a power level and much less grindy. Still has the casual things like x-ray vision, no fall damage and climb anything anywhere plus it's still a long game but removing that painful grind so they can sell boosters could make a huge difference.

It's not much but it's something

This made me chuckle - don't worry, he's fine!

Lots of gameplay videos up now - game looks pretty interesting

Arsenal 0-3 Aston Villa Another fantastic result for Villa after two poor defeats. Arsenal's joint-worst home defeat in the Prem and them sitting 11th on -1 goal difference. Bring Wenger back😎

Torquay 5-6 Crawley! Torquay United v Crawley Town - BBC Sport WWW.BBC.CO.UK Live coverage of Sunday's FA Cup game between Torquay United and Crawley Town. 5 goals in extra time! Also Chorley came from 2-0 down to beat Wigan 3-2 away.