Man cod needs a competitor. Ever since battlefield fell off FPS games don’t even try to compete or force better products to be made. I’d gladly spend money on products i actually enjoy. I bought every camo, season pass, and had 60-70 days of playtime on blackops 2. I cant even play this game for 20 mins without uninstalling it again
The only actual CoD competitor was Titanfall and EA killed the franchise. That Ubisoft XDefiant game looks to be trying to appeal to the CoD niche of 6v6 fast-paced shooters, but reception has been so meh so far.
I would be happy with more maps, the old prestige system, more calling cards and emblems to grind, more challenges, and go back to old perk system, but you know that wont happen.
If you could somehow make a retrospective video comparing map design between the new and old games and how they have changed and why the new maps suck that would be interesting.
That would be an awesome video. I wish the devs would realize how much maps matter for 6v6. We haven’t gotten a cod game with multiple good NEW maps in YEARS. I know everyone always uses black ops 2 as the template because it was so good look at how many awesome maps are in that game. No reason they can’t give us a multiplayer with at least 10 maps at launch (not all of them have to be new maybe 2 of them are remakes we haven’t seen in a while) and about 3 maps per new season (1 new 2 popular remakes)
MW2 2022 was probably the best thing that could of happened to me. It made me realise how DONE I am with Call of Duty, and just multiplayer games in general. Because of MW2, I made a list of all these games I want to play and finish (because I, along with many others, have a massive backlog of games I never got around to finishing). So far this year, I've beaten 5 games and I'm having a blast just chilling on a single player game, talking with the mates in the party. So thank you Call of Duty, for being a nice, massive, steaming pile of shit :D
Congratulations man as someone in who can relate to that I believe whole heartedly you've made the right choice, it'll be less stress and more fun for you :)
Have you heard about For The Hive? Supposed to be some intricate bug colony game. Seen it posted on Facebook I think. It’s just 2 devs, so it’ll probably be a while till release but it looks amazing. I’m no promotion guy either, just think it’s a cool idea and want to see it succeed
agree, recently started single player games again & i'll tell you, getting literally ALL 100% achievements on minecraft & left4dead, is so much rewarding than playing the heaping pile of horse shit that cod is today.
The new shotgun is actually crazy broken. They 100% made it that way to encourage battle pass and tier skip purchases. Activision is so scummy, it’s honestly crazy.
They did the same thing in MW2019 for every new gun The Grau? Meta for half the season until the next gun and so on and so forth, each old gun getting nerfed
@@Siah_hell you level up the BP really fast and the Grau was meta for ever like acaully I was viable every season and even was meta in the last cycle of wz1
Sorry you’re feeling like this Nero. I feel you 100%. Been playing since CoD3 I was really looking forward to this release, but I am struggling to want to play. It’s just not as engaging as old school CoDs
@@jakedizzle Exactly this. Old days you stayed in the lobby and you had time to learn and win some campers or good players. Now if you play well you're being punished by putting you against someone better and different. It's just so bad. I went back to BO2 with plutonium, that works👌
@@Vsprivate yea you’re just a noob you’re the player activision caters too. People who actually play the game regularly don’t feel that way. Plus depending on WHEN you started playing cod it’s a big factor. People who started within the last few years have a skewed perspective because they never knew what cod was actually like when devs who actually play the game knows what the community actually wants
@@Vsprivateit’s only amazing because you barely play it so you don’t notice the bullshit that goes on in the game if were to play it every day. The game is dogwater
Just gonna throw this out there, the 3000 devs was a marketing scheme (obviously) the reason behind them saying it though is because the are making cod a more "subscription" based game where the next 3 cod's will be featured in the same mw engine we have in cod mw2019, vanguard and mw2022. So all devs have a hand in the "codHQ" (the folder name for codmw2022 and future cod's) universe. Also fun fact vanguard zombies was primarily made by 3 people through out the entire development cycle of vanguard. Puts perspective on this huh?
@SethizFTW Yeah, but we still dont have round based survival, which was at launch in MW2019 and at launch in MW3 11 years ago. Also, no gun fight, no search and rescue, no Demolition In MWll. "The most supported game" lol
@@throwbackglitcher you are entirely correct. I am only pointing out that you really cannot take anything from them at face value. I promise you though, the next game is going to do the same even though it is on the same engine as mw2 using the same code.
I don't think the studios have as much say as you think in terms of what is released. Activision have a very heavy hand in how the content operation is run and what is or is not released. It all boils down to maximising game sales and micro transactions. I'm sure very studio would love some level of autonomy to properly show off what they can do but even the studios have Activision bosses they have to answer to. Activision runs the show, the studios just deliver it.
Hey Nero! We the viewers and the cod community feel what you’re feeling. Playing a different game can make a huge impact on you as a creator and as a person. I’ve stoped playing cod since Cold War came out, and it’s changed my life. If you want to keep doing cod, and have that last little bit of hope. There’s SM^2. I know you’ve talked about it in a previous video, but it might be our only hope. Take care of yourself man, and keep doing what you’re doing!
I'm with you on this Nero. I haven't touched cod once since the end of December.. I've got literally zero interest into turning the game on and playing.
it's hard to be a content creator when there's no content to work with. I think I speak for many people when I say that if you diverted to similar games or something like COD history we will still support you!
I'm in the same situation as you Nero, but for different reasons. I'm not a COD grinder, I don't really play COD and grind everything out in the first month it's out, I just play casually. However, it's been over 3 months or so since I've played MWII and I actually like the game. I'm not sure why I "quit" the game but I've just haven't had the urge to play MWII in a long time. I'm not even level 55 yet, I think I'm like level 53 or something. I just haven't put a lot of effort into this game than I have with other COD games. Maybe I'm just burnt out of the franchise.
same for me. i just stopped playing and dont really have a reason but tbh we should all stop playing and then maybe activision & treyarch will put out a decent game
Nero, if you need a video idea, you should do a tier list style video for all the multiplayer maps from the games you've played. Maybe even host a fan night to play some of the games again on some maps
I really wish they would learn from Treyarch and just leave Shipment 24/7 so people have the option to play crazy and fast paced. Treyarch kept Nuketown 24/7 ALL YEAR in Cold War
Nero, Brother... everything you said in the video is valid mate. I could not put it better. I played mwii like 5 times since the new years eve. Im at similar stage to you "bunch of longshots left" and I just can't get myself to care.
Gun game and grind modes are not in the game. Only infected. 3rd person is gone too. Museum is a campers paradise. Dome is the same as vangaurd Radar map but worse, smaller
Interestingly enough, I'm actually the opposite in terms of MW: I thoroughly enjoyed it, and played it for almost 3 straight years (dropping both CW and Vanguard due to bugs, and generally not enjoying the gameplay as much). The problem with MW2 is that it doesn't even have a fraction of the content that MW did: no earnable stickers, charms, emblems and only a small collection of grindy Calling Cards. While the Camo grind was simplified this year (which is good in certain ways), at the same time it worried me about how they would keep people's attention for the 2 years. Answer: they didn't plan on it from the beginning. This is really starting to feel like Activision is trying to find the Least Viable Product with COD, and it is frustrating. They just keep going down the rabbit hole of "How can we squeeze as much money out of these idiots" and aren't even seeing COD as a game anymore, just a social experiment to make them money. It frankly is just stupid at this point. Though hopefully they will make so changes, since now both XclusiveAce and PrestigeIsKey are refusing to buy the battle pass this season. That is not good optics for them at all (though seeing all the controversies that Activision and Blizzard have gotten into lately, I don't think they care about their public image anymore).
The thing about Infinity Ward games is that they don’t really have a personality. Ever since ghosts they got more and more dry and now you see the outcome.
@@vladimirrienas5546 as someone who has just now returned to the franchise after black ops 2 i 100% agree. And they really don't. They do not put work into it at all. They are recycling assets and maps others made. To the point where all maps we have seen added so far: Shipment, Shoothouse and Dome are all non OC maps. It's all pre-existing stuff with very little texture overhauls and so on. This has been going on since the OG MW2 days but right now it's at a point where it's obvious the game is just a money making scheme and multiplayer itself doesn't really matter anymore due to warzone being so popular.
This is why I want the deal to go through with Microsoft. Clearly there is no passion going into these games and it’s all about the money. I’m sure they’d be getting a lot more sales if they made the games better but doubt it will get any better
Tbh I d love seeing videos about the old games and comparing them to this mess we have now. Kinda underlining how good it used to be and stuff they should bring back
I lost a lot of interest in video games after 30 and I’ll be 40 in 3 months. I’m a super casual gamer now who doesn’t even finish most games I buy and play. I think your going through this also.
@@positiveplay1 I'm 35 and 'too old' to play 'competitively' with 15-25 year olds. Especially considering when I was 22, with MW2 2009, I was not playing competitively. It was just fun. I have no problems playing a few single player games, but obviously family, home life, and jobs come first. And I am burned out on CoD. Most people over 30 are like this, as I can see.
Can't get it to start it crashes during the cut scene I've done everything possible to fix I've reinstalled the game 3 times 70$ wasted on a game I can't load
If you take the blinders off, deep down, you knew this season would be empty. If you're honest with yourself, you knew this game was going to suck before you bought it. Just gotta accept reality.
Finally convinced myself to install the update today and try some of the new moshpit playlist and the first death i had i realized there were zero killcams. Great way to stop the cheaters activision. Also the game crashed 3 times in a row sitting in the menu waiting on a game
The game has become more and more sweaty and less fun. Also omfg they come out with like 3 BRAND NEW maps a life cycle of call of duty. Remember map packs? 4 maps every what 3 or 4 months? I don’t remember.
I lost interest because the maps are stale at this point. General rule should be a NEW map a month (not rehashed old maps), small to medium sized preferably.
I like the way hardcore plays, but the issue I’m having is most games I feel like I’m half a second behind game. I have no clue what to do? Is it SBMM or lag
that new museum map is awful, people sitting ADS in hallways, laying down, bunny hopping round every corner, visibility is terrible and the map is just too big
Content aside, what I have a problem with is capping progression every season and their awful SBMM system still in place ever since 2019. This system makes every game terribly unfun. Hell, I'd take BO4, WW2, or Infinite Warfare over these past few years. Anyone know any good alternatives to COD??
Them building these games around dragging players on and “player retention” is what’s killing/killed the franchise. It’s so simple, make a good game and I promise the people will play it, you’ll get those retention numbers with a good finished game
Yes please make a change! I love your honesty and the personality you bring to the channel. Unfortunately I don't really have an idea of what you could change it up to but I'd be willing to watch a video where it's not COD but still you
Hey Nero I saw a few comments on Twitter and it would be really cool to get into this history of interactive cod maps from back in the day. I feel like they could add stuff like that to help with map replay-ability.
Hi Nero, long time lurker here. I do enjoy your videos, your content is pretty decent. I usually don't comment on videos but I'd like to say a few things. Tho I usually agree with almost everything you say about the game, I think the fact that you're mostly a 6v6 MP player (like Ace) reduces your enjoyment quite a bit. It's true they've pretty much abandoned 6v6, but that's been the case since a few games ago. I'm not a Warzone player, mostly considered myself a 6v6 player as well, but given the lack of support I started playing other modes, especially DMZ and Invasion. Those are FUN! To me at least.Tbh, if I was to play this for a "living", or "8 hours a day" like a job, I'd probably get bored real quick too. Right now I feel like I have quite a few things to do in the game, and that's a great feeling. I want to play 6v6 maps to get the 15 victories for the Crossbow, I most definitely want to play more of the new map on DMZ, Invasion just because the Airport map seems to be really fun, wanna try some Resurgence, and I haven't even touched the co-op maps just yet. It's almost an overwhelming amount of content if you only have a set numbers of hours per week to play. Just wanted to give you a different perspective on the subject. Maybe you are "having a bad day" like you mentioned. Yes, 6v6 needs more support, but the game feels actually pretty good to me and other people as well. Also getting old sucks, believe me I'm waaay ahead of you there.
Bunny hoppers jumping straight but aiming to the left without aiming penalties. All the fixes that were promised isn’t there. I’m still getting hit markers with shotguns while being one shot’ed constantly, pistols beating out automatic weapons in a gun fight. There’s so much bullshit with this game I’ll be listing them well into 2024. I can’t even say this game is trash because at this point trash is gold so to describe this game there is no dictionary word that supports the word. Oh lag switching is in every lobby I play in.
I wish I could go back in time to play cod in the golden age, the bo2 mw3 days. I keep hoping each year it’ll go back to that but every year I get disappointed. Sucks we never knew those were gonna be the last few good games
Season 2 is an L, Dome's lighting is horrible, Museum should have been there at launch, party game modes should have been there at launch, ranked should have been there at launch, and I hate Warzone so. I'm about done with MWII and Call of Duty in general. I've been loving single player games lately/recently.
Being in the yugioh we have a decent amount of drought times from time to time I tend to supplement that with retrospective content or even stories of the past maybe you do a story segment telling stories from past CODS or even real life stories! Good luck with everything homie I’ll still watch you no matter what lol
I get what you're saying dude, I played season 2 for like a couple hours and it was completely lacking. Idk if it's just me but one of my biggest problems with mw2 is the maps. They're just too big for 6v6 imo, I feel like I'm mostly running around than actually being in gunfights
Got my start in COD4, and my God, were those the days... then WaW blew my freaking mind, probably my favorite out of the bunch in hind sight. And, well, we all know what came after. Obviously, MW2 was all the hype and more.. especially on launch. I wish I would have known while I was playing MW2 in high school that I would miss it so much.
Honestly Nero’s I think it would be great to look into SM2 which should be releasing soon, there’s also a game called xdefiant which should be a competitor in the 6v6 universe, and going through previous cods talking about perks and stuff would be awesome too like all the things they got right
Cold War releases: Uuuuugh this sucks! Modern Warfare was better than this! Vanguard releases: Uuuuuugh this sucks! Cold War was better than this! Modern Warfare 2 releases: Uuuuuugh this sucks! Vanguard was better than this! When will you people ever learn to stop forking your $60 to this franchise?
I'm convinced that map isn't being moved ahead of schedule and was actually right on schedule. They just withheld it from us, so our expectations would drop and it looks like they're listening, but clearly they don't care... Such a shame, I was looking forward to playing the game when they finally fixed it, but I don't think there's much hope for it improving now...
What's crazy to me is that on day 1 of the new season the shop wasn't even updated. It's still the stupid soccer and Christmas bundles. It's February, nobody is buying the Christmas bundles now and soccer ended months ago.
Yeah.. for the first time in literal ages I've been hyped for MW2 to release after playing the BETA and so were my friends. But it got so stale so fast and the maps were just awful with SBMM on top of it that we all quickly dropped it. I personally have went back to a game (while not for everyone) that is actually content rich and active not the same atmosphere but still enjoyable, Fortnite Zero build. Not at all interested in the rumored coming COD later this year. Pretty much done with the series as a whole. Dice also dropped the ball as you mentioned so no Battlefield either sadly.
Honestly at first when the game dropped i thought you were being critical but tbh im only playing dmz and resurgence atm i feel like i wasted money on the multiplayer mode. Id love to hear you speak on bo2 bo1 mw2 and advanced warfare
What I don’t understand is the team balancing or lack thereof. Every single game I play my team gets absolutely destroyed. It’s not even close. Enemy team averages 20 plus kills while my time struggles to get one guy over 10. I have a .47 win percentage. That’s terrible like this game.
Bo4 gameplay brings me back to good days. Retrospective videos would be awesome to watch. Thinking about the great maps of BO1 and wondering where did the soul and passion go
as a siege player i can relate to the content drought. every season is 3 months long and basically after the first initial season drop and you’ve completed the pass and got your rank, there’s nothing to do.
Idk who have this bug. But once you activate SAE killstreak, open the tablet part and map was zoom in where you cant pin green mark to activate. Lol 🤣🤣
It’d be cool to see Nero go into a sort of blueprint for what he would like to see in the “perfect CoD” taking and refining aspects from previous Call of Duty’s
Oh it's not a you problem, it's definitely a COD problem. Dome and Museum don't do jackshit to make the game any more fun, and the new map won't come for over a month. Game needs overhaul changes AND a lot more good maps to be any fun. People will 100% play this season for a few weeks at most and it'll be back to dying player numbers again. I personally haven't played for almost 2 months, and season 2 does nothing to make me want to come back to it. There being no progression systems besides camos is another thing that murders modern COD. The prestige system is still useless and the number next to your name has no meaning whatsoever. It's all just so sluggish and clunky that it feels like a downgrade from MW19 in so many ways. I used to love IW, but Treyarch are truly the only studio that can make a fun, fast-paced COD games nowadays. Even BO4 was more fun to play than this slow mil-sim wannabe.
I still haven't even had a f****** chance to try it. My game crashes every single time I try to load it. I've made it to the homescreen a couple times but as soon as I try to start a match it freezes and closes
the problem is with how little base content there is because they want to make the game seasonal but then the actual COD game is only for a year so we are waiting like 8 months to get the full planned game and then the next one comes out and almost every cool cosmetic item in the game is paid for so we are now paying more for the base game and getting the maps for free (so many remakes though) but people are still spending more in total just to have it wiped for them but not the warzone players.
What I don’t understand is why Dome? You have these maps to choose from: Cheshire Park Hover Sawmill Favelas Terminal Gun runner Vacant Broadcast Atlas Superstore Hackney Yard Overgrown
I put in a couple hours today, and I could believe the fact that the random disconnects still exist, I guess on the bright side, my game didn't crash? But that turned me off big time, not to mention the lag spikes that were there at launch, especially in DMZ, still exist. It's not my internet, I have gigabit, it's 100% the COD servers. I think it's cool that ranked play has a decent amount of rewards for playing, but me personally, I'm not that good, so I know I won't grind for them, so that doesn't really interest me. Overall, definitely not enough for me to come back and play every day.
What also sucks is that they lowered the points for multiplayer from 100 points to 75 points! It’s so underwhelming all together! Horrible! The respawn screen is so dumb. I’ve almost given up on it too. It’s like the developers don’t have a clue what they’re doing. They need to get rid of them.
Yeah, I was hoping to enjoy s02. But my first game went like this, 25ms, 35ms, 50ms, 80ms then a Dom match in Museum starts. Map two players with akimbo revolvers, rush B flag. Find a Timmy prone on the B flag, fire 4-6 shots in his back no hit markers, Timmy turns around shoots me, I die in two bullets. Flank B flag, he’s still prone on the flag even though it’s cap’d. Four bullets no hit markers, he turns and melts me. I delete the game
Man cod needs a competitor. Ever since battlefield fell off FPS games don’t even try to compete or force better products to be made. I’d gladly spend money on products i actually enjoy. I bought every camo, season pass, and had 60-70 days of playtime on blackops 2. I cant even play this game for 20 mins without uninstalling it again
it's cause the game lacks content, the movement is terrible and every match is rigged.
I swear I wish someone would take over and make them regret all these money grab decisions
I stopped playing once I found out the game rigs your damage, hit detection, and footstep audio. They deserve to go bankrupt
The only actual CoD competitor was Titanfall and EA killed the franchise. That Ubisoft XDefiant game looks to be trying to appeal to the CoD niche of 6v6 fast-paced shooters, but reception has been so meh so far.
I would be happy with more maps, the old prestige system, more calling cards and emblems to grind, more challenges, and go back to old perk system, but you know that wont happen.
If you could somehow make a retrospective video comparing map design between the new and old games and how they have changed and why the new maps suck that would be interesting.
Safe spaces, thanks for watching
Shortest video ever
Too many pieces of cover, too many lanes, too many doors and windows
New style maps are so bad
If you’ve been watching this channel for a while he’s already covered all this a few times and others as well
That’s a great idea
That would be an awesome video. I wish the devs would realize how much maps matter for 6v6. We haven’t gotten a cod game with multiple good NEW maps in YEARS. I know everyone always uses black ops 2 as the template because it was so good look at how many awesome maps are in that game. No reason they can’t give us a multiplayer with at least 10 maps at launch (not all of them have to be new maybe 2 of them are remakes we haven’t seen in a while) and about 3 maps per new season (1 new 2 popular remakes)
stopped playing this game ages ago and nothing it’s bringing in is drawing me back in
MW2 2022 was probably the best thing that could of happened to me. It made me realise how DONE I am with Call of Duty, and just multiplayer games in general.
Because of MW2, I made a list of all these games I want to play and finish (because I, along with many others, have a massive backlog of games I never got around to finishing).
So far this year, I've beaten 5 games and I'm having a blast just chilling on a single player game, talking with the mates in the party.
So thank you Call of Duty, for being a nice, massive, steaming pile of shit :D
See you in the next CoD
Congratulations man as someone in who can relate to that I believe whole heartedly you've made the right choice, it'll be less stress and more fun for you :)
MW2 made me try BF2042 and it's been a blast. Fair Battle Pass, tons of Content. And free to play with Game Pass.
Have you heard about For The Hive? Supposed to be some intricate bug colony game. Seen it posted on Facebook I think. It’s just 2 devs, so it’ll probably be a while till release but it looks amazing. I’m no promotion guy either, just think it’s a cool idea and want to see it succeed
agree, recently started single player games again & i'll tell you, getting literally ALL 100% achievements on minecraft & left4dead, is so much rewarding than playing the heaping pile of horse shit that cod is today.
The new shotgun is actually crazy broken. They 100% made it that way to encourage battle pass and tier skip purchases. Activision is so scummy, it’s honestly crazy.
%100. The new AR is going to be meta too, 556 has no recoil and 300 blk has crazy damage.
This… the new weapons in every season are broken until mid season nerf.
By the time anyone with a life outside gaming unlocks it it’ll be nerfed and made useless
They did the same thing in MW2019 for every new gun
The Grau? Meta for half the season until the next gun and so on and so forth, each old gun getting nerfed
@@Siah_hell you level up the BP really fast and the Grau was meta for ever like acaully I was viable every season and even was meta in the last cycle of wz1
When you haven't played in weeks so you log on play a match and immediately turn it off, that's when you know it's the MOST ADVANCED COD EVA!
I couldn’t even turn it on, just… damn I miss zombie’s!
That's exactly what I did. I don't think I could even finish ONE GAME.
@@Grudgebearer4life servers are alive and well on almost all games go play b03 or 2
@@xXMIKENOVAXx 👍I don’t need servers brother!!! ZOMBIES 🤣🤣
@@Grudgebearer4life I was just saying the older games servers are still up
Sorry you’re feeling like this Nero. I feel you 100%. Been playing since CoD3 I was really looking forward to this release, but I am struggling to want to play. It’s just not as engaging as old school CoDs
No personality to these games anymore
SBMM and especially the disbanding lobbies is killing the fun. I wouldn’t mind SBMM as much if the lobbies stayed together.
@@jakedizzle Yeah no point because you can't even make friends or have rivalry matches and become friends. No community.
@@jakedizzle Exactly this. Old days you stayed in the lobby and you had time to learn and win some campers or good players.
Now if you play well you're being punished by putting you against someone better and different. It's just so bad.
I went back to BO2 with plutonium, that works👌
@@jakedizzle this....Disbanding lobbies is cods worst ever feature!!! Period
It's not just you feeling like this man, it's pretty much all of us.
@@Vsprivate yea you’re just a noob you’re the player activision caters too. People who actually play the game regularly don’t feel that way. Plus depending on WHEN you started playing cod it’s a big factor. People who started within the last few years have a skewed perspective because they never knew what cod was actually like when devs who actually play the game knows what the community actually wants
@@thehighpotato1009 yo mommuh
@@Vsprivatetell me you’re 12 years old without telling me. Absolute clown best cod ever made stfu 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Vsprivateit’s only amazing because you barely play it so you don’t notice the bullshit that goes on in the game if were to play it every day. The game is dogwater
@@GloomToon only shit players think the game is good
MWll is the best call of duty ever created
Lmao
Or a usable interface
Just gonna throw this out there, the 3000 devs was a marketing scheme (obviously) the reason behind them saying it though is because the are making cod a more "subscription" based game where the next 3 cod's will be featured in the same mw engine we have in cod mw2019, vanguard and mw2022. So all devs have a hand in the "codHQ" (the folder name for codmw2022 and future cod's) universe.
Also fun fact vanguard zombies was primarily made by 3 people through out the entire development cycle of vanguard. Puts perspective on this huh?
@SethizFTW Yeah, but we still dont have round based survival, which was at launch in MW2019 and at launch in MW3 11 years ago. Also, no gun fight, no search and rescue, no Demolition In MWll. "The most supported game" lol
@@throwbackglitcher you are entirely correct. I am only pointing out that you really cannot take anything from them at face value. I promise you though, the next game is going to do the same even though it is on the same engine as mw2 using the same code.
the activision bootlickers are like "this is the best season ever!!"
7:55 Crazy how Treyarch at their worst still managed to do more than Infinity Ward with a full cycle of development
I don't think the studios have as much say as you think in terms of what is released. Activision have a very heavy hand in how the content operation is run and what is or is not released. It all boils down to maximising game sales and micro transactions. I'm sure very studio would love some level of autonomy to properly show off what they can do but even the studios have Activision bosses they have to answer to. Activision runs the show, the studios just deliver it.
@@PhilBot4OOO aint readin allat
Hey Nero! We the viewers and the cod community feel what you’re feeling. Playing a different game can make a huge impact on you as a creator and as a person. I’ve stoped playing cod since Cold War came out, and it’s changed my life. If you want to keep doing cod, and have that last little bit of hope. There’s SM^2. I know you’ve talked about it in a previous video, but it might be our only hope. Take care of yourself man, and keep doing what you’re doing!
WAW imo had the perfect rank and weapon progressions. You got better at the weapon by grinding it. I got my m4a1 gold and hardly know how to build it.
Nero is back!! lets go man. sorry all that happened to you but so relieved to see your videos slowly roll out.
It’s hard for me to go back especially with the aggressive sbmm system. I just have no motivation to play it. Been playing more single player games
Cod died when they valued engagement over fun, sbmm ruins games it’s really that simple
I'm with you on this Nero. I haven't touched cod once since the end of December.. I've got literally zero interest into turning the game on and playing.
it's hard to be a content creator when there's no content to work with. I think I speak for many people when I say that if you diverted to similar games or something like COD history we will still support you!
No matter what, my day is always made when Nero posts a video
I’m so let down…They talk about all the fixes such as UI tweaks… yet it still feels as if I’m scrolling through a Netflix tryna find multiplayer mode
I'm in the same situation as you Nero, but for different reasons. I'm not a COD grinder, I don't really play COD and grind everything out in the first month it's out, I just play casually. However, it's been over 3 months or so since I've played MWII and I actually like the game. I'm not sure why I "quit" the game but I've just haven't had the urge to play MWII in a long time. I'm not even level 55 yet, I think I'm like level 53 or something. I just haven't put a lot of effort into this game than I have with other COD games. Maybe I'm just burnt out of the franchise.
same for me. i just stopped playing and dont really have a reason but tbh we should all stop playing and then maybe activision & treyarch will put out a decent game
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Man, I haven’t played any new COD since MW19. That completely ruined it for me.
Nero, if you need a video idea, you should do a tier list style video for all the multiplayer maps from the games you've played. Maybe even host a fan night to play some of the games again on some maps
An old school cod youtuber named Chaos does those types of videos already
@Erick Edwards thank you I didn't know about know that! I'll have to check out his channel
I really wish they would learn from Treyarch and just leave Shipment 24/7 so people have the option to play crazy and fast paced. Treyarch kept Nuketown 24/7 ALL YEAR in Cold War
I like Shoot the Ship as those are my two favorite maps...
One of the few honest COD youtubers we have left 🤝🙏
Nero, Brother... everything you said in the video is valid mate. I could not put it better. I played mwii like 5 times since the new years eve. Im at similar stage to you "bunch of longshots left" and I just can't get myself to care.
"Nero my brother🤓" I hate to break it to you but he doesn't know you go get some friends pussy🤣🤣🤣
Gun game and grind modes are not in the game. Only infected. 3rd person is gone too. Museum is a campers paradise. Dome is the same as vangaurd Radar map but worse, smaller
Another great video of NEROCINEMAA. Another great day to talk about the shjtty games of cod nowdays. Keep the good job.
Interestingly enough, I'm actually the opposite in terms of MW: I thoroughly enjoyed it, and played it for almost 3 straight years (dropping both CW and Vanguard due to bugs, and generally not enjoying the gameplay as much). The problem with MW2 is that it doesn't even have a fraction of the content that MW did: no earnable stickers, charms, emblems and only a small collection of grindy Calling Cards. While the Camo grind was simplified this year (which is good in certain ways), at the same time it worried me about how they would keep people's attention for the 2 years. Answer: they didn't plan on it from the beginning. This is really starting to feel like Activision is trying to find the Least Viable Product with COD, and it is frustrating. They just keep going down the rabbit hole of "How can we squeeze as much money out of these idiots" and aren't even seeing COD as a game anymore, just a social experiment to make them money. It frankly is just stupid at this point. Though hopefully they will make so changes, since now both XclusiveAce and PrestigeIsKey are refusing to buy the battle pass this season. That is not good optics for them at all (though seeing all the controversies that Activision and Blizzard have gotten into lately, I don't think they care about their public image anymore).
Games literally 35% off it's following the footsteps of vanguard at this point
“Quality, always outweighs quantity.”
-Probably Sun Tzu
But what about going light on quality and quantity?
Activision (probably)
Yeah Infinity Ward didn’t give us quality nor quantity not even the bare minimum
The thing about Infinity Ward games is that they don’t really have a personality. Ever since ghosts they got more and more dry and now you see the outcome.
I love the idea of you doing retrospectives of some sort on the previous games
I don't understand how a game called MW2 has brought back a map from every modern warfare except from MW2. I'm done with this game. It's a joke.
Season 3 will have High Rise, Quarry, and Terminal coming in Season 3 reloaded as the only 6v6 maps, I'm calling it right now
I’d rather play only those three maps than all the other horrible maps on this game. They can’t makes maps anymore it’s pathetic.
@@vladimirrienas5546 as someone who has just now returned to the franchise after black ops 2 i 100% agree. And they really don't. They do not put work into it at all. They are recycling assets and maps others made. To the point where all maps we have seen added so far: Shipment, Shoothouse and Dome are all non OC maps. It's all pre-existing stuff with very little texture overhauls and so on. This has been going on since the OG MW2 days but right now it's at a point where it's obvious the game is just a money making scheme and multiplayer itself doesn't really matter anymore due to warzone being so popular.
This is why I want the deal to go through with Microsoft. Clearly there is no passion going into these games and it’s all about the money. I’m sure they’d be getting a lot more sales if they made the games better but doubt it will get any better
Microsoft would just screw it up like they did with halo!
@@thebodykeepsthescore2828 probably but COD still needs a change in direction and leadership.
Hopefully this new season 2 map will be smaller as I'm sick of running half way across the map 10 times over to die to someone camping at spawn
Tbh I d love seeing videos about the old games and comparing them to this mess we have now. Kinda underlining how good it used to be and stuff they should bring back
I lost a lot of interest in video games after 30 and I’ll be 40 in 3 months. I’m a super casual gamer now who doesn’t even finish most games I buy and play. I think your going through this also.
Nah bro you just lost interest in video games alot of us are in our 30s and still love to beat and finish video games
@@positiveplay1 I'm 35 and 'too old' to play 'competitively' with 15-25 year olds. Especially considering when I was 22, with MW2 2009, I was not playing competitively. It was just fun.
I have no problems playing a few single player games, but obviously family, home life, and jobs come first. And I am burned out on CoD. Most people over 30 are like this, as I can see.
Can't get it to start it crashes during the cut scene I've done everything possible to fix I've reinstalled the game 3 times 70$ wasted on a game I can't load
Great news! After 6 months we will get 1 new map that appears to be another rip off of a Hotel
No it’s bailout from mw2(2009).
If you take the blinders off, deep down, you knew this season would be empty. If you're honest with yourself, you knew this game was going to suck before you bought it. Just gotta accept reality.
Finally convinced myself to install the update today and try some of the new moshpit playlist and the first death i had i realized there were zero killcams. Great way to stop the cheaters activision. Also the game crashed 3 times in a row sitting in the menu waiting on a game
We need SOCOM to come back
100% agreed.
The game has become more and more sweaty and less fun. Also omfg they come out with like 3 BRAND NEW maps a life cycle of call of duty. Remember map packs? 4 maps every what 3 or 4 months? I don’t remember.
It would be cool to do a retrospective of the warzone 1.0 era of cod
I lost interest because the maps are stale at this point. General rule should be a NEW map a month (not rehashed old maps), small to medium sized preferably.
I like the way hardcore plays, but the issue I’m having is most games I feel like I’m half a second behind game. I have no clue what to do? Is it SBMM or lag
that new museum map is awful, people sitting ADS in hallways, laying down, bunny hopping round every corner, visibility is terrible and the map is just too big
Content aside, what I have a problem with is capping progression every season and their awful SBMM system still in place ever since 2019. This system makes every game terribly unfun. Hell, I'd take BO4, WW2, or Infinite Warfare over these past few years. Anyone know any good alternatives to COD??
Them building these games around dragging players on and “player retention” is what’s killing/killed the franchise. It’s so simple, make a good game and I promise the people will play it, you’ll get those retention numbers with a good finished game
Talking about the older cods as to why features were good is a good way to show people what cod truly was.
0 original MP maps in mid February yeah I'm checked out
Yes please make a change! I love your honesty and the personality you bring to the channel. Unfortunately I don't really have an idea of what you could change it up to but I'd be willing to watch a video where it's not COD but still you
Hey Nero I saw a few comments on Twitter and it would be really cool to get into this history of interactive cod maps from back in the day. I feel like they could add stuff like that to help with map replay-ability.
Hi Nero, long time lurker here. I do enjoy your videos, your content is pretty decent. I usually don't comment on videos but I'd like to say a few things. Tho I usually agree with almost everything you say about the game, I think the fact that you're mostly a 6v6 MP player (like Ace) reduces your enjoyment quite a bit. It's true they've pretty much abandoned 6v6, but that's been the case since a few games ago. I'm not a Warzone player, mostly considered myself a 6v6 player as well, but given the lack of support I started playing other modes, especially DMZ and Invasion. Those are FUN! To me at least.Tbh, if I was to play this for a "living", or "8 hours a day" like a job, I'd probably get bored real quick too. Right now I feel like I have quite a few things to do in the game, and that's a great feeling. I want to play 6v6 maps to get the 15 victories for the Crossbow, I most definitely want to play more of the new map on DMZ, Invasion just because the Airport map seems to be really fun, wanna try some Resurgence, and I haven't even touched the co-op maps just yet. It's almost an overwhelming amount of content if you only have a set numbers of hours per week to play. Just wanted to give you a different perspective on the subject. Maybe you are "having a bad day" like you mentioned. Yes, 6v6 needs more support, but the game feels actually pretty good to me and other people as well. Also getting old sucks, believe me I'm waaay ahead of you there.
Bunny hoppers jumping straight but aiming to the left without aiming penalties. All the fixes that were promised isn’t there. I’m still getting hit markers with shotguns while being one shot’ed constantly, pistols beating out automatic weapons in a gun fight. There’s so much bullshit with this game I’ll be listing them well into 2024. I can’t even say this game is trash because at this point trash is gold so to describe this game there is no dictionary word that supports the word. Oh lag switching is in every lobby I play in.
Yep. Welcome to rigged SBMM...
I wish I could go back in time to play cod in the golden age, the bo2 mw3 days. I keep hoping each year it’ll go back to that but every year I get disappointed. Sucks we never knew those were gonna be the last few good games
Season 2 is an L, Dome's lighting is horrible, Museum should have been there at launch, party game modes should have been there at launch, ranked should have been there at launch, and I hate Warzone so. I'm about done with MWII and Call of Duty in general. I've been loving single player games lately/recently.
Stay positive, bro I enjoy your content.
Being in the yugioh we have a decent amount of drought times from time to time I tend to supplement that with retrospective content or even stories of the past maybe you do a story segment telling stories from past CODS or even real life stories! Good luck with everything homie I’ll still watch you no matter what lol
“B O A R I N G!” Haha I totally noticed that. Blame Truth lingo
I played DMZ for like an hour, then tried MP - game crashed, now it crashes every time I boot it up (steam). IW is aware...
I get what you're saying dude, I played season 2 for like a couple hours and it was completely lacking. Idk if it's just me but one of my biggest problems with mw2 is the maps. They're just too big for 6v6 imo, I feel like I'm mostly running around than actually being in gunfights
The opening clips of you on Dome was my exact experience. Turned it off and went straight back to Hogwarts.
Got my start in COD4, and my God, were those the days... then WaW blew my freaking mind, probably my favorite out of the bunch in hind sight. And, well, we all know what came after. Obviously, MW2 was all the hype and more.. especially on launch. I wish I would have known while I was playing MW2 in high school that I would miss it so much.
Honestly Nero’s I think it would be great to look into SM2 which should be releasing soon, there’s also a game called xdefiant which should be a competitor in the 6v6 universe, and going through previous cods talking about perks and stuff would be awesome too like all the things they got right
I quit in December. Doesn’t look like I’m missing out on much.
Haha, I was also reminded of Bailout with that image, so you and me both on that 1.
Cold War releases: Uuuuugh this sucks! Modern Warfare was better than this!
Vanguard releases: Uuuuuugh this sucks! Cold War was better than this!
Modern Warfare 2 releases: Uuuuuugh this sucks! Vanguard was better than this!
When will you people ever learn to stop forking your $60 to this franchise?
I'm convinced that map isn't being moved ahead of schedule and was actually right on schedule. They just withheld it from us, so our expectations would drop and it looks like they're listening, but clearly they don't care... Such a shame, I was looking forward to playing the game when they finally fixed it, but I don't think there's much hope for it improving now...
What's crazy to me is that on day 1 of the new season the shop wasn't even updated. It's still the stupid soccer and Christmas bundles. It's February, nobody is buying the Christmas bundles now and soccer ended months ago.
Yeah.. for the first time in literal ages I've been hyped for MW2 to release after playing the BETA and so were my friends. But it got so stale so fast and the maps were just awful with SBMM on top of it that we all quickly dropped it. I personally have went back to a game (while not for everyone) that is actually content rich and active not the same atmosphere but still enjoyable, Fortnite Zero build. Not at all interested in the rumored coming COD later this year. Pretty much done with the series as a whole. Dice also dropped the ball as you mentioned so no Battlefield either sadly.
I agree, this is completely unacceptable.
Honestly at first when the game dropped i thought you were being critical but tbh im only playing dmz and resurgence atm i feel like i wasted money on the multiplayer mode. Id love to hear you speak on bo2 bo1 mw2 and advanced warfare
What I don’t understand is the team balancing or lack thereof. Every single game I play my team gets absolutely destroyed. It’s not even close. Enemy team averages 20 plus kills while my time struggles to get one guy over 10. I have a .47 win percentage. That’s terrible like this game.
Bo4 gameplay brings me back to good days. Retrospective videos would be awesome to watch. Thinking about the great maps of BO1 and wondering where did the soul and passion go
Do the retrospective videos, Nero!
It would honestly be a great change of pace while at the same time giving us all that wonderful nostalgia.
Infected should have throwing knives till the last 3 or 2 players then no throwing knives and it will be balanced giving a chance for players to win
as a siege player i can relate to the content drought. every season is 3 months long and basically after the first initial season drop and you’ve completed the pass and got your rank, there’s nothing to do.
I’d love to see you make an “Act Man” style video talking about some of the old cods. Like what they did right and made them so good
Idk who have this bug. But once you activate SAE killstreak, open the tablet part and map was zoom in where you cant pin green mark to activate. Lol 🤣🤣
I think that's fixed now. I had the same problem...
I’ve been playing battlefield 2042 since launch (please don’t hate me) and I have more hours built up in that game then vanguard and mw2 put together
It’d be cool to see Nero go into a sort of blueprint for what he would like to see in the “perfect CoD” taking and refining aspects from previous Call of Duty’s
8 months before a NEW Mp map🤦🏾♂️damn, glad I didn't buy dis game,first COD in years,Good Vid💯👍🏾
Same. I literally played 4 hours today and I was already bored after.
Oh it's not a you problem, it's definitely a COD problem.
Dome and Museum don't do jackshit to make the game any more fun, and the new map won't come for over a month. Game needs overhaul changes AND a lot more good maps to be any fun. People will 100% play this season for a few weeks at most and it'll be back to dying player numbers again. I personally haven't played for almost 2 months, and season 2 does nothing to make me want to come back to it. There being no progression systems besides camos is another thing that murders modern COD. The prestige system is still useless and the number next to your name has no meaning whatsoever. It's all just so sluggish and clunky that it feels like a downgrade from MW19 in so many ways.
I used to love IW, but Treyarch are truly the only studio that can make a fun, fast-paced COD games nowadays. Even BO4 was more fun to play than this slow mil-sim wannabe.
I still haven't even had a f****** chance to try it. My game crashes every single time I try to load it. I've made it to the homescreen a couple times but as soon as I try to start a match it freezes and closes
the problem is with how little base content there is because they want to make the game seasonal but then the actual COD game is only for a year so we are waiting like 8 months to get the full planned game and then the next one comes out and almost every cool cosmetic item in the game is paid for so we are now paying more for the base game and getting the maps for free (so many remakes though) but people are still spending more in total just to have it wiped for them but not the warzone players.
Still havent gotten the game and sucks to say I still have no reason to get it
I loaded into the menu and couldn’t even hit find match because I got so annoyed knowing what was coming so I didn’t even bother
What I don’t understand is why Dome? You have these maps to choose from:
Cheshire Park
Hover Sawmill
Favelas
Terminal
Gun runner
Vacant
Broadcast
Atlas Superstore
Hackney Yard
Overgrown
Can't play multiplayer trying to find a match and it crashes every single time which is baffling to me I can't be the only one
I put in a couple hours today, and I could believe the fact that the random disconnects still exist, I guess on the bright side, my game didn't crash? But that turned me off big time, not to mention the lag spikes that were there at launch, especially in DMZ, still exist. It's not my internet, I have gigabit, it's 100% the COD servers. I think it's cool that ranked play has a decent amount of rewards for playing, but me personally, I'm not that good, so I know I won't grind for them, so that doesn't really interest me. Overall, definitely not enough for me to come back and play every day.
What also sucks is that they lowered the points for multiplayer from 100 points to 75 points! It’s so underwhelming all together! Horrible! The respawn screen is so dumb. I’ve almost given up on it too. It’s like the developers don’t have a clue what they’re doing. They need to get rid of them.
Literally who could've predicted this?!
Yeah, I was hoping to enjoy s02. But my first game went like this, 25ms, 35ms, 50ms, 80ms then a Dom match in Museum starts. Map two players with akimbo revolvers, rush B flag. Find a Timmy prone on the B flag, fire 4-6 shots in his back no hit markers, Timmy turns around shoots me, I die in two bullets. Flank B flag, he’s still prone on the flag even though it’s cap’d. Four bullets no hit markers, he turns and melts me. I delete the game
Activision is strait up trolling us now the battlefield isn’t a contender for player base
This is definitely my last cod.
is dishearted the word i'm looking for? idk, all i know is i finally uninstalled today
same thing happened last yer. they need to rethink the christmas break timing