Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War

[Unspecified]

f***. I’m buying it tonight and was looking forward to some zombies nonsense with friends.

Maybe it is just first day lag with everyone trying to play it but it was TERRIBLE last night after it dropped. The frame rates were disastrous.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

Seems like every year I blow $60 and play it for a week.

MW was a huge disappointment for me. They've never seemed to get back to the CoD4:MW and MW2 level of games, where almost every multiplayer map was a banger.

Last game there was something like a total of six maps for 6v6 on release? And one of them was f***ing Piccadilly, which is the worst map CoD has ever made.

 

[Smelling Salt]

The game ran pretty good for me in alpha and beta on PS4 Slim (the odd noticeable framerate drop), but the full version runs super smooth in my experience. And the graphics look tighter.

Haven't got to play MP as much as I would have liked so far but:

- Jeez guns rank up slow
- The scorestreak system still sucks. So much spamming
- The aiming still feels janky at times. Sometimes when ADSing and trying to follow a moving target it seems like you're fighting aim assist or something

 

[Blitzkrug]

The game ran pretty good for me in alpha and beta on PS4 Slim (the odd noticeable framerate drop), but the full version runs super smooth in my experience. And the graphics look tighter.

Haven't got to play MP as much as I would have liked so far but:

- Jeez guns rank up slow
- The scorestreak system still sucks. So much spamming
- The aiming still feels janky at times. Sometimes when ADSing and trying to follow a moving target it seems like you're fighting aim assist or something

How's the matchmaking?

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Modern Warfare was incredible in terms of graphics, feel, gun play and mechanics, just the maps almost forced camping and a really un COD style of play.

I was hoping for classic 3 lane Treyarch maps with some brighter colors on the same engine and feel as MW. It didn’t look like that’s what we were getting but I was hopeful the game would at least play out somewhat like that.

But idk, it doesn’t feel great. No heaviness to the guns or recoil. Nor does it feel like Treyarch. More like WW2. Which isn’t a good thing.

So far I think it’s really bad. Hoping that changes because I love all of the Black Ops series, even III and IV.

 

[MAHJ71]

Played all day today...I didn’t play the beta so this version is the only one I have to go off of.

*Biggest thing for me is how much it looks and feels like Battlefield Hardline (lol)*

Definitely not a fan of the lobby system. Feels limited in terms of maps and the maps they did launch with are not the best IMO.

Overall I’m kinda 50/50 with it.. a lot of good and bad... Still too much jumping and sliding every game.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

I've played for a couple hours now...

This is the first time in a long time I've had an initial run on the maps and not gotten overly frustrated and hated a map immediately. Not bad so far.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

While sitting in the lobby:

 

[Smelling Salt]

How's the matchmaking?

I haven't noticed any outrageous SBMM yet if that is what you mean.

 

[JohnC]

It’s still early, but so far I like it. At least definitely more than MW.

Zombies is zombies, so that’s always fun.

I’m sure they’ll release a battle pass soon enough and ruin the regular multiplayer, though.

 

[PK Cronin]

It’s still early, but so far I like it. At least definitely more than MW.

Zombies is zombies, so that’s always fun.

I’m sure they’ll release a battle pass soon enough and ruin the regular multiplayer, though.

I think the zombies is awful so far. It's too convoluted for me to enjoy. I'd rather just wave after wave and survive for as long as you can, instead I'm being tasked with running around collecting things, entering alternate realities, and just generally be lost and confused as to what exactly I'm supposed to be doing. I hit round 15 and it just becomes a gigantic cluster f*** of running in circles shooting small amounts of zombies when I have enough ammo and hoping I can kill them all off as they do the conga line.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

With a minimal 3 hours of gameplay, I've gotta say, I expected to be disappointed like I've been with every CoD since MW3.

... I haven't been so far. The 6 v 6 maps, with very limited exposure, are pretty good. I haven't yet gotten to a single map where I groan and back out of the lobby. We'll see how they age on me.

 

[MAHJ71]

I’m enjoying the fireteam dirty bomb game mode.

 

[542365]

Scale of 1-10, how good is zombies? I’m impatiently wait for a friend to get his console before we dive in and have largely ignored all content so it will be fresh hopefully tomorrow.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Not a huge fan of the new VIP Escort game mode. Cool idea but it's pretty lame, IMO.

I'm liking the maps so far. I didn't buy MW so this might not be a new change, but why the change from assists to full kills now? It feels less rewarding.

 

[MMC]

This game is NOT a reboot of the Black Ops series, right?

 

[John Price]

This game is NOT a reboot of the Black Ops series, right?

it is not

 

[x Tame Impala]

I've heard this plays and feels like the first Black Ops game.

 

[Unspecified]

I am way better at Cold War than i am at MW. My k/d is 2.1 whereas my k/d in MW is 1.1. Something feels different as far as the moving/shooting mechanics that is making really good players worse and worse players better.

 

[Smelling Salt]

I am way better at Cold War than i am at MW. My k/d is 2.1 whereas my k/d in MW is 1.1. Something feels different as far as the moving/shooting mechanics that is making really good players worse and worse players better.

It's the maps IMO. They flow better. Less hiding behind doors. Which lends itself well to the speed of the game.

And maybe the SBMM has been toned down a bit? You are right, though. My K/D is way up to where it used to be before MW.

 

[SpoolCat]

Is anybody elses controller being disconnected on the vietnam mission

 

[Smelling Salt]

Is anybody elses controller being disconnected on the vietnam mission

This happens in multiplayer too and has been a problem for some people since the alpha.

 

[John Price]

Nuke town Nov 24

 

[Wes9310]

I have an XBox One, with the disc. Multiplayer won't work. Have been trying since Friday morning. Many times I have done a reinstall

 

[sa cyred]

I only played a few games, but killstreaks going off pretty much all game is a common occurrence eh.