I have been MIA for the past few months and I want to note this video was made back in July right before the servers got “fixed” for some of the older titles on Xbox 360. You can find matches for MW3 , BO1 and a few of the others now from what I heard but player counts are still limited ! Will be doing a zombies video for all the cod games next discussing which games still have players on them for that, stay tuned !
Man I’m so glad you back, not being weird but your videos fit my style so much. Old cods and gears and seeing some of the crap some companies put out today and call it a full game and you call them out! Glad you’re alive and well man!
@@Hurriedboss22 that’s not weird at all man I’m glad you stuck around and enjoy my videos. Yeppp all the older games are still better than what’s being put out nowadays. They’re even resorting to adding all the maps for mw2 into this years cod games , no innovation 😆
Remember that with all the pre MW2019 games the DLC map packs you have installed will effect match making make sure you have either all or none installed for the best results
Yeah this definitely applies for Bo1 xbox. With no dlc, it's insanely easy to get lobbies. It's annoying though because I bought the dlcs for zombies so I have to constantly uninstall or reinstall to play multi-player and zombies.
@@SkyworldStream You can store the DLC on a separate hard drive that way you can just plug them in and out when needed instead of uninstalling and reinstalling them over and over
The toxic crybaby community made Warzone 1 killed. It was never good for them and they cried to the developer and Activision didn’t know what to do and just give them pay2win guns and also Vanguard
@@madtitanthanos7898 I strongly disagree. It took the devs months to fix the bugs after Vanguard integrated, they nerfed the shit out of every weapon that wasn’t from Vanguard (worse than they did when CW integrated) so you were forced to use the new stuff and everything you grinded for or bought previously was irrelevant, the pacific map was horrible, the events sucked, and the hackers never went away even after ricochet released. Oh and its zombie mode was hated. Vanguard was terrible.
A few days ago, my buddy came over my place and saw my 360 still chillin on my dresser with my collection of games. He wanted to play some Black Ops multiplayer and zombies so we hopped on it and omg the nostalgia of playing on the 360. We got into lobbies with no issues even getting to round 40 with 2 other online players. We both really had a blast in those moments reliving our childhood all over again.
I played a ton a month or 2 ago when the Xbox servers got fixed. I mainly came back to play MW2 and Bo2 for some trickshotting and sniping nostalgia, and to no surprise the lobbies died again within a few weeks, at least in Australia anyway. From what I hear from other Aussies on Twitter we can still get the occasional TDM on MW2 and maybe Bo2 but that's about it, which was bound to happen anyway, once the nostalgia wears off you remember why these games died in the first place lol. I just hope that when these old games come to Game Pass they actually fix Bo2 theatre mods, could easily get 50k players online if they do..
the devs don’t support the games anymore duh the would die , hackers run rampant . the old cods still so much better than the new fortnite cods even with the issues the old ones have
@@wrongdoings2934 Obviously hackers is the main reason why these games are dead, being on near 20 yr old consoles with no security it's kinda a given how hacked up they would be. but also cause only 1 console has backwards compatibility, and with Playstation being more popular than Xbox it alientates half if not more the potential playerbase to come back, realistically no PS4 or 5 user is going to buy a PS3 just to play Cod, it just doesn't happen. There is still interest in these old Cods, only have to look how popular XLabs and Plutonium have been on PC the last couple years, people want to play these old Cods now more than ever due to how bad new Cod is. Just sad these companies don't care about their older products to keep them safe and playable, shame.
Cod 4 is active on the PS3, you can easily find full lobbies of TDM during the day and on weekends FFA is populated aswell. Edit: Found out that on weekdays FFA is also active but only during the day! (NA)
Really?!?! Ahh man I am about to get a ps3 I only got a ps4 right now , cod 4 was my first cod I was 7 years old , I played cod 3 but I barely remember it I was so young but I remember cod 4 bright as day
@@jordanmarazzi3548 I got a ps3 from eBay about a month ago just so I could play Cod 4, Black Ops 1, MW3 and GTA4 since these are all games I can’t play on the ps5. It’s insane to me that people still keep these games alive in 2023 after so many years lol.
@@AndreJHicks yeah I still play, even domination lobbies are active on MW3. You just need an account that had progress on the game prior to 2018. Also for most of the other cod games on ps3 your stats will not save unless you played the game before 2018. You’ll just play games and when u get back on again you’ll be level 1.
Great video ! I’ve been playing OG MW2 on the 360 since the servers opened. What you said about time of day is very accurate. I find that 11am-11pm is the best for finding consistent matches. You will run into some of the same players , so much to where they even know your playstyle already. But overall I see a lot of new players everyday under level 30 no prestige still grinding. The hacked lobbies are SUPER fun too ! I love those lobbies on Rust with the neon lights flashing and Super Jump mods.
Man, I was playing COD 1 in it's prime on PC. 1-3 were such a blast at the time. Cod 4 is where things started to really became what they are today. I'd love to go back and play a match of 1-3 again.
Wow that’s awesome man I started off on cod 4 and it was memories that I won’t ever forget , I was 7 years old when cod 4 came out and I remember replaying the campaign mission and grinding multiplayer and creating core memories that I worn ever forget … I forgot most my childhood but not the special games I played
I've been playing BO1 consistently for the past 2 weeks and been finding games okay. Every little while though it has bad connection issues and disconnects and reconnects for about 5 minutes straight but other than that it's alright to find TDM FFA or Domination on in my experience. I haven't tried zombies yet so I'll have to see what happens with that. I also have MW3 but I've had no such luck with it. I just get put into the same hacked lobby every time I hop on it so I dunno if that's just crap luck or if it's actually dead. I'm getting MW2 again to try and get back onto it for that nostalgia binge but I'm hoping that it's okay to play
COD3 was some of the best Xbox Live memories I ever had and I was playing it long after the Modern Warfare trilogy ended. Community was always small but there were usually at least a couple populated matches going on and since there was actually a server browser on the 360 version, you didn't have to wait 50 years to find the active matches. An almost insultingly underrated game.
31 yo here who grew up during the best era of gaming. COD3 was amazing! Back then it was all about having fun and not about sweating. Everyone was on to just have a good time. Truly great memories.
I played CoD 2 a ton on PC back in the day. I was in a clan too and there even was like a little ESL scene where clans would play in 5v5 matchups against one another which we too did for a good amount of time. The best part honestly were some of the custom multiplayer servers and maps though. Those dedicated servers were a thing of beauty and the communities that formed in them and what they managed to do with all those custom maps and map events. Logging in every day and meeting the same people to have fun with in that one server that you found your home on was just hitting different back then man :D
I played COD2 when it was first released and the first game I’d stay up till like 3-4am in the morning. At that time everyone spoke on their mics, it was also very common to add lots of random friends requests and play again every night. Nowadays no one speaks and everyone stays off chat, it’s turned the game upside down in my opinion :(
It's because nobody wants to walk on eggs shells while playing a game, so nobody talks anymore. You can thank the woke and liberals for that one. Everything is a "safe space" now. In a private match with your friends and you trash talk like the old days or curse and you get communication banned, there's an AI that monitors all voice communication now. People don't like being spied on either.
CoD3 old player here. Haven’t played it since 2013 as it was still possible to play back then but it was only at certain times and usually with the same players over and over again but it had about 30-70 players per week. Playing in the morning was impossible but during my time (uk time) around 4pm you’ll find these players during that time. Now the game is heavily criticised but that’s only because it don’t have what every call of duty has too date. No perks, no kill streaks, vehicles was in this game, if I remember (we are talking 10 years ago) I don’t think you could prone unless you had the LMG class which dropshotting with that class was OP, but I could be wrong about if you could prone or not. The hit registration wasn’t bad but wasn’t great either. Too say I played it a lot it was quite rare to find a laggy lobby, I don’t know why but the game felt lag free. And the game had classes but more of a squad mechanic (bit like battlefield) which I actually was a fan off as you didn’t have everyone running the same weapon over and over again and every class had it usefulness and negatives. Medic had the shotguns which if I remember it had stupid ranges especially it’s 1 hit kill. Overall I loved the game even if it wasn’t perfect it was just unique compared to the same CoDs we get every year. Met a bunch of awesome gamers from that game over the years, even tho I haven’t spoken to any of them in over a decade I still have my memories with them. It got harshly reviewed because it wasn’t like CoD4 but like you said in the video and I agree majority of CoD players first game is most likely CoD4 and if anyone would play CoD3 after playing CoD4 then of course it’ll be judged as they’re two separate unique games and I was a fan of them both just more of a fan of CoD3 and WaW (must be a WW2 thing as I grew up on those type of shooters).
I was playing cod 2 and 3 back in 2010 and it was still more than alive. It was really fun and messing about in the motorcycles and tanks is a blast, shame that they are dead now though because they're great games.
@@neetatwork2739 I was on at 11 AM and playing with tons of other people! Definitely not as many people online on the scale of mw2 or cod4 but still enough to fill 24 player lobbies
I'm 20 rn and have played cod consistently every year since the release of MW3 however my first ever CoD was CoD 3 on the PS3. my dad brought me the console for Christmas and picked up the cheapest shooting game he could find. now although this wasn't the prime years of the game, lobbies used to be full and I remember having a blast for hours on end playing it. felt like a genuine war game, very similar to medal of honour
Dude this game was so glitched lmao. I remember playing capture the flag and when I had the flag occasionally when I struck people with the flag I would go flying across the map 😭😭
Loved COD 3! I was 13-15 years old when playing it online. It was my first online game and played it nonstop. My brother and I got to be ranked top 1,000 in the world. I rocked the M1 Garand while in the Allies and the MP44 while on the Axis. Sometimes I’d snipe. Capture the flag was my go-to game mode. I think War was a popular one too. So many glitches in every map. It was perfect for an early teen.
Cod 2 was incredibly active back in the day very balanced. Rifles were almost always a 1-2 hit kill. Each faction had their own specific weapons and while they acted similarly to each other they presented enough visual differences that they stood out. And the maps were amazing.
Cod 3 didn’t get the same level of polish because of their unusually short development time however, when you got games going, that were organized, it was a lot of fun. The weapon handling wasn’t always the greatest, but the class variety and the open Maps for the vehicles made it unique in its own battlefield, lite kind of way There were definitely some games that felt like the final battle of saving private Ryan and that’s about as good you can give a World War II shooter in my opinion.
Cod ww2 was highly underrated. Ardennes forest was top 5 cod maps of all time imo. I get why you didn’t like it, it wasn’t my cuppa tea for the longest time but now it’s growing on me. Especially being the 2nd last “old school” cod before the engine overhaul
@@SantanaBanana47 agreed! I still hate paratroopers and the paratrooping in after a tac insert 😂 game could have went without that but overall it went crazy
COD WW2 was terrible at launch which is a major reason why people hated it. What really helped this game was the amount of work Sledgehammer did with the game which meant if you didn't give up on the game immediately, you really were rewarded.
I absolutely loved it it was actually the COD i had the best stats in any game i dont remember excatly but i had avg 2,96 kd or something like that i used to play it day n nite
I used to play COD finest hour on PS2 . The online multiplayer was fun as hell. It holds a special place in my heart. COD 2 I didn't play much as I don't have an Xbox. I remember when COD 3 came out it was cool for a few weeks, but then my clan went back to Finest Hour.
Started on mw3 on 360, bought and played every cod after with the only exception of vanguard, haven’t played it. A lot of good memories throughout the years.
Played CoD 1 only on single player because I didn't have internet back then. Played CoD2 intensively in 2008-2010. Was a great experience with interesting maps (thinking about Toujane, Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Burgundy ..) Thinking about it, I loved nearly all of them :). The biggest problem I remember was the grenade spamming.
You just unlocked some memories for me watching Cod2. I remember playing that map. Cod2 was actually super fun at the time. Same with Cod3. The transition from all of us at the internet cafe playing Cod3 to Cod4 was just insane. Theres a reason Cod was the best selling fps
Bro I managed to find several TDM matches in CoD 4 recently on Xbox (Speaking of CoD 4, if you want to do 100% of this game, DO NOT ACTIVATE THE CHEATS UNTIL YOU GET ALL THE INTELS, because when starting a new game the INTELS counter does not reset)
Oh man… I was 16 when I started playing Call of Duty 2. It was my first game with my Xbox 360, and also the first time I played online multiplayer, and I gotta tell you man, it was glorious. Very simple. No kill streaks, no perks, no progression. Just basic gun fights, and screaming obscenely at people for using the trench shotgun, or camping with the Springfield. Good times.
i played alot of call of duty 2. the sniper maps will always carry a spot in my heart. the server based call of dutys will always be a time of greatness
I miss the jet packs. People hated IW, but I loved it. Mastered the movement and to this day can’t drop nukes (deatomizers) like I could on that game. Amazing
Bo3s did the jetpacks well but IW is where they really mastered the map design. I can see why people don't like it cause it's pretty far removed from standard COD gameplay but if you got good you could literally play an entire match without touching the ground if you were good and I personally love that skill gap.
I have 30k kills on BO1 and 15 days played for the PS3 version over the last 3 years. It's active and I get into search & destroy games every day. Sometimes there'll be a sabotage lobby or even a headquarters game running. There is even a small community that run private party games with 18 players and they play sniping only s&d, one in the chamber, gun game, sticks and stones, dodgeball etc. As far as PS3 cod's the only cod's ones that aren't dead are BO1 and Ghosts. As far as cod Ghosts is on PS3 I usually can get into a gun game or infection lobby most of the time, sometimes a drop zone game, but all the other game modes including s&d are dead which is sad. When I checked out the the other cods on PS3 this is what I found. WaW is holding on by a thread but is playable BO2 is hacked beyond repair MW2 Hacked to shit MW3 is bugged COD4 is holding on by a thread but is playable
WaW will always be my favorite cod of all time…. That’s my 1st cod I started with and that’s when the zombies era was born! Glad I was apart of it ! Bout to hop on it now lol ya bo2, mw classics were a,ways bugged/hacked and never played those in a long time.bo2 I didn’t like since the zombie rounds were tough af lol
Do the meatgrinder maps show up in regular rotation or are they totally quarantined to their own playlist, like Dust 2? I'm okay with them coming back regularly to grind weapons, but only if they're not clogging up the regular matchmaking. I guess they must show up for stuff like S&D, since those are never in the 24/7 playlists.
Been playing BO1 consistently for the past few months (almost exclusively S and D) and theres a small community that still regularly plays. Problem is, is that theres a number of hackers that also consistently play so whenever they join you have to find a new lobby. Some nights are better then others, but when it works, it's still peak MP.
Just so everybody knows, COD4, CoD MW2, Black Ops 1, and ghosts are all active on PS3. I’m not talking about Black Ops 2 and MW3, because BO2 crashes and MW3 boots me out when I try to get into a game. Edit: I used my brother’s old account to play MW3, and it works. MW3 is still active.
@Steeezzzzz There is a glitch on bo2 for the ps3 were the screen freezes while loading into the menu. I looked it up and it seems that this is a big problem, and obviously it won't be fixed because treyarch is no longer updating the game
I can't wait for the active zombies games video. I've been wanting to get back into zombies, that'd give me a good idea of which games are worth reinstalling. Great video man, looking forward to the next.
I got banned for the majority of lobbies in call of duty 4 on computer just for using heavy guns and getting kill streak it's incredibly hard to find a server now and a cheater banned me from MW2
cod really did go down hill after the black ops days . the thing that stands out most to me is how in all the older cods . it was easy to see your enemy but in all the newest ones half the time if somones standing still right in front of you. you can hardly see them untill they move . match making and sbmm is the worst thing in cod though
Yeah man I had some personal stuff going on but I should hopefully be back to my schedule now 1-2 videos a week. How have you been ? Glad you’re still around , appreciate that
CoD 2 & 3 player here, back when they were populated they were really fun from my little childhood nostalgia. From what I remember, they were genuinely the best multiplayer FPS experiences of the time. Sure, they did not have custom create-a-classes, that came in CoD 4 however because we never experienced that, we never felt like we were missing out. We played with what we had, and we enjoyed what we had.
I think the problem you say on BO1 and MW3 it's only on NA, cause on Europe servers it finds match on both games in less than 5 seconds, ive playin both for 5+hours with full lobbies and not on weekend
i've been playing bo3 and infinite warfare on ps5 and i'm finding lobbies very quickly so it's clear that there are many more players on playstation than on xbox especially for slightly the newer cods. also sony have been beating microsoft in sales since the 3rd generation of consoles which explains it.
Booted up cod4 and WaW on the 360 this past weekend. Found a couple matches immediately for both games. Didn't run across any hackers either (thankfully). But yeah, the entire weekend I was able to easily play both games on xbox live on my 360. It was amazing and super nostalgic lol.
There was an update on PS3 that’s logged me out off my old PS3 account and I couldn’t remember my old password. Since then I use my ps4 account and after that updated I noticed Cod’s player based dropped massively so I reckon loads off people had the same issue
If anybody wants to play any call of duty, I’m online everyday I never quit call of duty, it’s my life, I literally love every bit and piece of every single call of duty, besides the new generation CoDs
The main issue about call of duty is people are losing interest because of Activision, the new call of duty games doesn’t feel the same anymore, and there neglecting their player base in favor of new players!
Black ops 3 is hella popular on the plaststion 4. It's on sale with the chronicles zombie map pack right now, so a lot of players are on there as of today.
Yeah I used to try getting on some matches last year on bo3 and took me awhile to find matches which made me surprised because I loved the multiplayer.
both the original COD (not Finest Hour, the actual original COD) and COD2 both do have active servers on PC and even have competitive scenes. They are harder to navigate but neither game is dead.
I just bought Black Ops 1 on PC and I easily found matches on it. There are even multiple crouch servers where you have to play tactically. Even on Zombies I found several players after waiting a few seconds.
I can find matches on WAW rarely but BO1, BO2, and MW2 pretty often on Xbox, after a couple days tho you start to see the same names and realize you're just switching between the same group of people who are still playing or started again cause they still love these games so it's not really active but the group of people who still love these games are keeping the game alive enough to be able to play with full lobbies. Mainly around 6pm onwards is when they're most active in my experience. It may not be as active as at their prime obviously but it's still worth it to play, and way better than the newer cods
BO4 has some of my favourite maps, weapons, and overall gameplay of all time. The whole specialist thing sucked but it only became unplayable when they added a specialist who could hijack the other team's equipment and streaks.
Wait is the cod ghost gameplay recent or did you just play old gameplay footage? Im asking because when i played it years ago everyone would camp with shields ieds and works. Yet youre able to run and gun.
My opinion is after cod ghost is the last cod they made before it started going down hill. Advanced was my last one other then playing the newer ones at my buddy’s
Just played cod 4 last week and loaded into a tdm lobby like not even a second after I searched for it. Ever since they fixed the servers it’s been pretty active even dom has games?
MAN I MISS MODERN WARFARE 2 SO MUCH….. it was my first real COD I actually grinded multiplayer in… found a clan and learned how to quickscope and trickshot…. Such an amazing feeling seeing the game… I truly hope we get a real full 1:1 remaster that’s not packed with microtransactions
Call of Duty Finest Hour was a console exclusive, and the PS2 and Xbox versions had multiplayer. It was shut down years ago, but you can play it through modding your console. Good luck getting a group of people to do that with you though.
CoD 1 actually had a pretty good MP back in the day on PC. It was essentially the first WWII game that had aim down sight mechanics and there was a competitive scene with it in 2003 and 2004. All of the best clans knew each other and we would customize our tags with custom colors doing the (^#) trick. CoD United Offensive added vehicles to the mix and had some great MP maps as well and was like a hybrid between BF 1942 and CoD 1. The Devs that made CoD 1 also made MoH: AA which had my favorite mp in a WWII game. MoH: AA maps were so good and the music was the GOAT.
Thanks man , glad you’re still around. I actually had someone else mention that too , im happy that games still thriving even with Apex coming out and it being almost a decade old. Might have to check it out again soon and make a vid !
I was lucky enough to play CoD 3 a little over 10 years ago, but I always had a team member that would team kill friendly fire and try to report me. Still, with vehicles it was great.
A lot of the games people would still play but the prices. Server health many won’t go near them especially on PC - what they need to do it’s stop charging £50 for 10 year old games with dead servers - put them on game pass - and do a £20 price for a bundled price for like 3or 4 games I.e. black ops bundle, MW bundle etc - then people would return
Fun fact for bo1 if I don't have dlcs installed u can get a bunch of games but if u have dlcs it dosent ever find a match or takes forever to find a single person idk why but bo1 the dlcs u have downloaded effects the matchmaking cuase u have dlcs installed that other people dosent
I have been MIA for the past few months and I want to note this video was made back in July right before the servers got “fixed” for some of the older titles on Xbox 360. You can find matches for MW3 , BO1 and a few of the others now from what I heard but player counts are still limited ! Will be doing a zombies video for all the cod games next discussing which games still have players on them for that, stay tuned !
Man I’m so glad you back, not being weird but your videos fit my style so much. Old cods and gears and seeing some of the crap some companies put out today and call it a full game and you call them out! Glad you’re alive and well man!
@@Hurriedboss22 that’s not weird at all man I’m glad you stuck around and enjoy my videos. Yeppp all the older games are still better than what’s being put out nowadays. They’re even resorting to adding all the maps for mw2 into this years cod games , no innovation 😆
MW1 works now and it's a blast!
On black ops 2, I was playing later in the day, not a weekend, and black ops 2 on Xbox got to 20k people playing just multi-player
I can find domination and team death match games every day in COD 4
Remember that with all the pre MW2019 games the DLC map packs you have installed will effect match making make sure you have either all or none installed for the best results
this was a pain with advanced warfare, but uninstalling and doing something special worked for me
Yeah this definitely applies for Bo1 xbox. With no dlc, it's insanely easy to get lobbies. It's annoying though because I bought the dlcs for zombies so I have to constantly uninstall or reinstall to play multi-player and zombies.
@@SkyworldStream You can store the DLC on a separate hard drive that way you can just plug them in and out when needed instead of uninstalling and reinstalling them over and over
I found a couple years ago installing my mw3 and mw2 maps killed my lobby chances but black ops always worked
Vangaurd is garbage. It was so bad it killed Warzone 1 before Warzone 2 even had a beta.
Never played it, or call of duty 2 or whatever it’s called now 🤢
The toxic crybaby community made Warzone 1 killed. It was never good for them and they cried to the developer and Activision didn’t know what to do and just give them pay2win guns and also Vanguard
Well stated point sir! My hat is off to you
It really wasn't tho. It was MW2019 with better maps and a more responsive dev team.
@@madtitanthanos7898 I strongly disagree. It took the devs months to fix the bugs after Vanguard integrated, they nerfed the shit out of every weapon that wasn’t from Vanguard (worse than they did when CW integrated) so you were forced to use the new stuff and everything you grinded for or bought previously was irrelevant, the pacific map was horrible, the events sucked, and the hackers never went away even after ricochet released.
Oh and its zombie mode was hated. Vanguard was terrible.
A few days ago, my buddy came over my place and saw my 360 still chillin on my dresser with my collection of games. He wanted to play some Black Ops multiplayer and zombies so we hopped on it and omg the nostalgia of playing on the 360. We got into lobbies with no issues even getting to round 40 with 2 other online players. We both really had a blast in those moments reliving our childhood all over again.
You got minecraft 360?
I played a ton a month or 2 ago when the Xbox servers got fixed. I mainly came back to play MW2 and Bo2 for some trickshotting and sniping nostalgia, and to no surprise the lobbies died again within a few weeks, at least in Australia anyway. From what I hear from other Aussies on Twitter we can still get the occasional TDM on MW2 and maybe Bo2 but that's about it, which was bound to happen anyway, once the nostalgia wears off you remember why these games died in the first place lol. I just hope that when these old games come to Game Pass they actually fix Bo2 theatre mods, could easily get 50k players online if they do..
Sadly the most active older call of duty in Australia is ww2 and even then it’s so hard to find a good connection but everything else is a ghost town
In SEA, almost all COD that release before MW2019 are dead, take 1 hr for madchmaking and zero match found 😢.
they died because the released on the ps3/xbox360 and were now way past those years
the devs don’t support the games anymore duh the would die , hackers run rampant . the old cods still so much better than the new fortnite cods even with the issues the old ones have
@@wrongdoings2934 Obviously hackers is the main reason why these games are dead, being on near 20 yr old consoles with no security it's kinda a given how hacked up they would be. but also cause only 1 console has backwards compatibility, and with Playstation being more popular than Xbox it alientates half if not more the potential playerbase to come back, realistically no PS4 or 5 user is going to buy a PS3 just to play Cod, it just doesn't happen. There is still interest in these old Cods, only have to look how popular XLabs and Plutonium have been on PC the last couple years, people want to play these old Cods now more than ever due to how bad new Cod is. Just sad these companies don't care about their older products to keep them safe and playable, shame.
Cod 4 is active on the PS3, you can easily find full lobbies of TDM during the day and on weekends FFA is populated aswell.
Edit: Found out that on weekdays FFA is also active but only during the day! (NA)
just Playd cod4 yesterday its populated
Really?!?! Ahh man I am about to get a ps3 I only got a ps4 right now , cod 4 was my first cod I was 7 years old , I played cod 3 but I barely remember it I was so young but I remember cod 4 bright as day
@@jordanmarazzi3548 I got a ps3 from eBay about a month ago just so I could play Cod 4, Black Ops 1, MW3 and GTA4 since these are all games I can’t play on the ps5. It’s insane to me that people still keep these games alive in 2023 after so many years lol.
I can't play mw3 online on my ps3 anymore
@@AndreJHicks yeah I still play, even domination lobbies are active on MW3. You just need an account that had progress on the game prior to 2018. Also for most of the other cod games on ps3 your stats will not save unless you played the game before 2018. You’ll just play games and when u get back on again you’ll be level 1.
Great video ! I’ve been playing OG MW2 on the 360 since the servers opened. What you said about time of day is very accurate. I find that 11am-11pm is the best for finding consistent matches. You will run into some of the same players , so much to where they even know your playstyle already. But overall I see a lot of new players everyday under level 30 no prestige still grinding. The hacked lobbies are SUPER fun too ! I love those lobbies on Rust with the neon lights flashing and Super Jump mods.
Man, I was playing COD 1 in it's prime on PC. 1-3 were such a blast at the time. Cod 4 is where things started to really became what they are today. I'd love to go back and play a match of 1-3 again.
me too
Wow that’s awesome man I started off on cod 4 and it was memories that I won’t ever forget , I was 7 years old when cod 4 came out and I remember replaying the campaign mission and grinding multiplayer and creating core memories that I worn ever forget … I forgot most my childhood but not the special games I played
@AMMoments369 3 is still decently active on xbox from my experience.
I've been playing BO1 consistently for the past 2 weeks and been finding games okay. Every little while though it has bad connection issues and disconnects and reconnects for about 5 minutes straight but other than that it's alright to find TDM FFA or Domination on in my experience. I haven't tried zombies yet so I'll have to see what happens with that.
I also have MW3 but I've had no such luck with it. I just get put into the same hacked lobby every time I hop on it so I dunno if that's just crap luck or if it's actually dead. I'm getting MW2 again to try and get back onto it for that nostalgia binge but I'm hoping that it's okay to play
COD3 was some of the best Xbox Live memories I ever had and I was playing it long after the Modern Warfare trilogy ended. Community was always small but there were usually at least a couple populated matches going on and since there was actually a server browser on the 360 version, you didn't have to wait 50 years to find the active matches. An almost insultingly underrated game.
Bro COD3 was so amazing. Back then cod was all about having fun and not sweating like it is now. Truly great memories
I remember cod 2 and 3 being counterstrike clones played by people that couldn't play counterstrike
Precious game
That BAR was a monster in COD3
He is bad at call of duty
31 yo here who grew up during the best era of gaming. COD3 was amazing! Back then it was all about having fun and not about sweating. Everyone was on to just have a good time. Truly great memories.
I played CoD 2 a ton on PC back in the day. I was in a clan too and there even was like a little ESL scene where clans would play in 5v5 matchups against one another which we too did for a good amount of time. The best part honestly were some of the custom multiplayer servers and maps though. Those dedicated servers were a thing of beauty and the communities that formed in them and what they managed to do with all those custom maps and map events. Logging in every day and meeting the same people to have fun with in that one server that you found your home on was just hitting different back then man :D
Hackers are an issue in older cod games, it does suck that those losers think its cool to cheat on a game
Lifeless people
Tbh there's more hackers on modern CoD 💀
just get a mod menu so modders cant join you since your forced host
I played COD2 when it was first released and the first game I’d stay up till like 3-4am in the morning. At that time everyone spoke on their mics, it was also very common to add lots of random friends requests and play again every night. Nowadays no one speaks and everyone stays off chat, it’s turned the game upside down in my opinion :(
It's because nobody wants to walk on eggs shells while playing a game, so nobody talks anymore. You can thank the woke and liberals for that one. Everything is a "safe space" now. In a private match with your friends and you trash talk like the old days or curse and you get communication banned, there's an AI that monitors all voice communication now. People don't like being spied on either.
CoD3 old player here. Haven’t played it since 2013 as it was still possible to play back then but it was only at certain times and usually with the same players over and over again but it had about 30-70 players per week. Playing in the morning was impossible but during my time (uk time) around 4pm you’ll find these players during that time.
Now the game is heavily criticised but that’s only because it don’t have what every call of duty has too date. No perks, no kill streaks, vehicles was in this game, if I remember (we are talking 10 years ago) I don’t think you could prone unless you had the LMG class which dropshotting with that class was OP, but I could be wrong about if you could prone or not. The hit registration wasn’t bad but wasn’t great either. Too say I played it a lot it was quite rare to find a laggy lobby, I don’t know why but the game felt lag free. And the game had classes but more of a squad mechanic (bit like battlefield) which I actually was a fan off as you didn’t have everyone running the same weapon over and over again and every class had it usefulness and negatives. Medic had the shotguns which if I remember it had stupid ranges especially it’s 1 hit kill.
Overall I loved the game even if it wasn’t perfect it was just unique compared to the same CoDs we get every year. Met a bunch of awesome gamers from that game over the years, even tho I haven’t spoken to any of them in over a decade I still have my memories with them. It got harshly reviewed because it wasn’t like CoD4 but like you said in the video and I agree majority of CoD players first game is most likely CoD4 and if anyone would play CoD3 after playing CoD4 then of course it’ll be judged as they’re two separate unique games and I was a fan of them both just more of a fan of CoD3 and WaW (must be a WW2 thing as I grew up on those type of shooters).
I was playing cod 2 and 3 back in 2010 and it was still more than alive. It was really fun and messing about in the motorcycles and tanks is a blast, shame that they are dead now though because they're great games.
I used to play it in 2006-2007
3 sure as hell isn’t dead! Playing 12v12 on it rn
@@DohMeansDoh I'm sure it depends on time and region, I'll have to give the 360 a boot up
@@neetatwork2739 I was on at 11 AM and playing with tons of other people! Definitely not as many people online on the scale of mw2 or cod4 but still enough to fill 24 player lobbies
CoD 2 has like 1k+ players on pc, def not dead
I'm 20 rn and have played cod consistently every year since the release of MW3 however my first ever CoD was CoD 3 on the PS3. my dad brought me the console for Christmas and picked up the cheapest shooting game he could find. now although this wasn't the prime years of the game, lobbies used to be full and I remember having a blast for hours on end playing it. felt like a genuine war game, very similar to medal of honour
Cod 3 was also my first.
Such an underrated game.
Dude this game was so glitched lmao. I remember playing capture the flag and when I had the flag occasionally when I struck people with the flag I would go flying across the map 😭😭
@GoldenStateOfMind831 I've heard the ps3 and wii versions are all messed up. The 360 port(which I played) is relatively polished though.
mine was ww2
Loved COD 3! I was 13-15 years old when playing it online. It was my first online game and played it nonstop. My brother and I got to be ranked top 1,000 in the world. I rocked the M1 Garand while in the Allies and the MP44 while on the Axis. Sometimes I’d snipe. Capture the flag was my go-to game mode. I think War was a popular one too. So many glitches in every map. It was perfect for an early teen.
Cod 2 was incredibly active back in the day very balanced. Rifles were almost always a 1-2 hit kill. Each faction had their own specific weapons and while they acted similarly to each other they presented enough visual differences that they stood out. And the maps were amazing.
Cod 3 didn’t get the same level of polish because of their unusually short development time however, when you got games going, that were organized, it was a lot of fun. The weapon handling wasn’t always the greatest, but the class variety and the open Maps for the vehicles made it unique in its own battlefield, lite kind of way There were definitely some games that felt like the final battle of saving private Ryan and that’s about as good you can give a World War II shooter in my opinion.
Cod ww2 was highly underrated. Ardennes forest was top 5 cod maps of all time imo. I get why you didn’t like it, it wasn’t my cuppa tea for the longest time but now it’s growing on me. Especially being the 2nd last “old school” cod before the engine overhaul
Fr dude. It’s kinda a throw back to og cod. It was just a simple game and was pretty good imo
The class building system after all the updates is really fun and allows a lot of freedom. You get really good perks when you prestige.
@@SantanaBanana47 agreed! I still hate paratroopers and the paratrooping in after a tac insert 😂 game could have went without that but overall it went crazy
COD WW2 was terrible at launch which is a major reason why people hated it. What really helped this game was the amount of work Sledgehammer did with the game which meant if you didn't give up on the game immediately, you really were rewarded.
I absolutely loved it it was actually the COD i had the best stats in any game i dont remember excatly but i had avg 2,96 kd or something like that i used to play it day n nite
I used to play COD finest hour on PS2 . The online multiplayer was fun as hell. It holds a special place in my heart. COD 2 I didn't play much as I don't have an Xbox. I remember when COD 3 came out it was cool for a few weeks, but then my clan went back to Finest Hour.
they need to remaster finest hour.
Big red one was cool too
@@joeystrait7987 100% agree
Started on mw3 on 360, bought and played every cod after with the only exception of vanguard, haven’t played it. A lot of good memories throughout the years.
my wallpaper had the a train status with message from the stars playing and your cuts sync'd PERFECTLY with the bass
the server issue on black ops 1 is now fixed and so many people play. i usually get a full game in zombies and 8-10 players in multi player
I low key loved advance warfare, it's underrated and underappreciated
I loved the online and the zombies but for me the campaign wasn't very good, same with infinite warfare.
@@roccojames4703infinite warfare imo is just a more flesh out out aw with bo3ish movement
Both advanced warfare and infinite warfare were garbage including bo3.
@@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222 story, yes. Online not so much
Played CoD 1 only on single player because I didn't have internet back then. Played CoD2 intensively in 2008-2010. Was a great experience with interesting maps (thinking about Toujane, Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Burgundy ..) Thinking about it, I loved nearly all of them :). The biggest problem I remember was the grenade spamming.
You just unlocked some memories for me watching Cod2. I remember playing that map. Cod2 was actually super fun at the time. Same with Cod3.
The transition from all of us at the internet cafe playing Cod3 to Cod4 was just insane. Theres a reason Cod was the best selling fps
Bro I managed to find several TDM matches in CoD 4 recently on Xbox
(Speaking of CoD 4, if you want to do 100% of this game, DO NOT ACTIVATE THE CHEATS UNTIL YOU GET ALL THE INTELS, because when starting a new game the INTELS counter does not reset)
Oh man… I was 16 when I started playing Call of Duty 2. It was my first game with my Xbox 360, and also the first time I played online multiplayer, and I gotta tell you man, it was glorious. Very simple. No kill streaks, no perks, no progression. Just basic gun fights, and screaming obscenely at people for using the trench shotgun, or camping with the Springfield. Good times.
Cod ww2 isn’t dead on ps4
Or on Xbox, it usually seems fine to me
Thank you for this video ! I've been curious about this! Helpful! Cheers!
i played alot of call of duty 2. the sniper maps will always carry a spot in my heart. the server based call of dutys will always be a time of greatness
I miss the jet packs. People hated IW, but I loved it. Mastered the movement and to this day can’t drop nukes (deatomizers) like I could on that game. Amazing
Bo3s did the jetpacks well but IW is where they really mastered the map design. I can see why people don't like it cause it's pretty far removed from standard COD gameplay but if you got good you could literally play an entire match without touching the ground if you were good and I personally love that skill gap.
Infinite warfare and advanced warfare were garbage. Mw3, ghost, bo3, vanguard and ww2 are all garbage.
@@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222why
@@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222 or are u garbage
COD isn't Titanfall. Go play that if you want advanced movement
I have 30k kills on BO1 and 15 days played for the PS3 version over the last 3 years. It's active and I get into search & destroy games every day. Sometimes there'll be a sabotage lobby or even a headquarters game running. There is even a small community that run private party games with 18 players and they play sniping only s&d, one in the chamber, gun game, sticks and stones, dodgeball etc. As far as PS3 cod's the only cod's ones that aren't dead are BO1 and Ghosts. As far as cod Ghosts is on PS3 I usually can get into a gun game or infection lobby most of the time, sometimes a drop zone game, but all the other game modes including s&d are dead which is sad. When I checked out the the other cods on PS3 this is what I found.
WaW is holding on by a thread but is playable
BO2 is hacked beyond repair
MW2 Hacked to shit
MW3 is bugged
COD4 is holding on by a thread but is playable
WaW will always be my favorite cod of all time…. That’s my 1st cod I started with and that’s when the zombies era was born! Glad I was apart of it ! Bout to hop on it now lol ya bo2, mw classics were a,ways bugged/hacked and never played those in a long time.bo2 I didn’t like since the zombie rounds were tough af lol
Do the meatgrinder maps show up in regular rotation or are they totally quarantined to their own playlist, like Dust 2? I'm okay with them coming back regularly to grind weapons, but only if they're not clogging up the regular matchmaking. I guess they must show up for stuff like S&D, since those are never in the 24/7 playlists.
Been playing BO1 consistently for the past few months (almost exclusively S and D) and theres a small community that still regularly plays. Problem is, is that theres a number of hackers that also consistently play so whenever they join you have to find a new lobby. Some nights are better then others, but when it works, it's still peak MP.
CoD 3 was amazing in my opinion. RIP... so many fond memories
i used play cod3 on my slim ps2 back in the day i kinda cried when they killed frank
Just so everybody knows, COD4, CoD MW2, Black Ops 1, and ghosts are all active on PS3. I’m not talking about Black Ops 2 and MW3, because BO2 crashes and MW3 boots me out when I try to get into a game.
Edit: I used my brother’s old account to play MW3, and it works. MW3 is still active.
Is it still active? I might need to get a p3 again omg
@@Steeezzzzz Yes
@Steeezzzzz There is a glitch on bo2 for the ps3 were the screen freezes while loading into the menu. I looked it up and it seems that this is a big problem, and obviously it won't be fixed because treyarch is no longer updating the game
@wholelottagangshid For me, it crashed repeatedly on the first mission of the game
Dude I watched this video thinking it was from someone who had way more subs and was shocked this was a small channel. Kudos bro. Definitely subbing.
CoD 2 was an absolute nightmare on Veteran. Multiplayer was a blast while it lasted. Cool video, man - gonna go watch your Battlefield one next.
BO4 on PS feels like it's more popular than MW2022. I'm finding games alot faster and also Blackout servers lol
Bo4 is even rocking on xbox, ive been playing so much rebirth in blackout its amazing
bo4 last cod where you can stay in the same lobby 🤯
Which multiplayer should I start playing right now? I have a ps5
Modern warfare 2019. Best cod before current gen
@@Hayden-pp2dydef. cold war
@@Hayden-pp2dy so mw2019 or cold war
@@Hayden-pp2dyworst one
Mw3,Bo4,Bo3,WW2
I can't wait for the active zombies games video. I've been wanting to get back into zombies, that'd give me a good idea of which games are worth reinstalling. Great video man, looking forward to the next.
bo3 and bo4 are active all day bo2 too ofc
I got banned for the majority of lobbies in call of duty 4 on computer just for using heavy guns and getting kill streak it's incredibly hard to find a server now and a cheater banned me from MW2
cod really did go down hill after the black ops days . the thing that stands out most to me is how in all the older cods . it was easy to see your enemy but in all the newest ones half the time if somones standing still right in front of you. you can hardly see them untill they move . match making and sbmm is the worst thing in cod though
I know this video was made in July but you haven’t posted a video in a long time
Yeah man I had some personal stuff going on but I should hopefully be back to my schedule now 1-2 videos a week. How have you been ? Glad you’re still around , appreciate that
@@About36GreeksI’ve been good 👍
CoD 2 & 3 player here, back when they were populated they were really fun from my little childhood nostalgia. From what I remember, they were genuinely the best multiplayer FPS experiences of the time. Sure, they did not have custom create-a-classes, that came in CoD 4 however because we never experienced that, we never felt like we were missing out. We played with what we had, and we enjoyed what we had.
I think the problem you say on BO1 and MW3 it's only on NA, cause on Europe servers it finds match on both games in less than 5 seconds, ive playin both for 5+hours with full lobbies and not on weekend
Yeah that part of the video was before the servers were fixed. It’s better now for sure. People on both games
i've been playing bo3 and infinite warfare on ps5 and i'm finding lobbies very quickly so it's clear that there are many more players on playstation than on xbox especially for slightly the newer cods. also sony have been beating microsoft in sales since the 3rd generation of consoles which explains it.
Bo3 still has HELLA players to this day both for zombies and online MP, shits crazy 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheRxtnNero exactly I just turned on my Xbox and went to BO3 and everyone basically play zombies tbh
BO3 on console still has hackers that can steal your IP address & freeze your game
@@Austin2tall97 no that's actually on PC servers i've heard of it already.
Yo I still run WW2 on Xbox one
Yep same here mainly on war mode
Booted up cod4 and WaW on the 360 this past weekend. Found a couple matches immediately for both games. Didn't run across any hackers either (thankfully). But yeah, the entire weekend I was able to easily play both games on xbox live on my 360. It was amazing and super nostalgic lol.
There was an update on PS3 that’s logged me out off my old PS3 account and I couldn’t remember my old password.
Since then I use my ps4 account and after that updated I noticed Cod’s player based dropped massively so I reckon loads off people had the same issue
If anybody wants to play any call of duty, I’m online everyday I never quit call of duty, it’s my life, I literally love every bit and piece of every single call of duty, besides the new generation CoDs
Its still possible to find matches in COD 2 & 3 and World At War but its hard to come by execpt in WAW.
For BO1 on xbox in EU servers, i play nearly daily, finding full lobbies of tdm most of the time. Not sure whats up with NA servers
For BO(2010) you can definitely find lobbies on PC, from capture and flag to team death match mostly.
The main issue about call of duty is people are losing interest because of Activision, the new call of duty games doesn’t feel the same anymore, and there neglecting their player base in favor of new players!
Black ops 3 is hella popular on the plaststion 4. It's on sale with the chronicles zombie map pack right now, so a lot of players are on there as of today.
i actually really enjoyed the commentary on your opinion of the games
okay blud, what is that music that you have in the transition in between games?
*I NEED IT*
*NOW*
*PLEASE!*
*ITS SO GOOD*
Yeah I used to try getting on some matches last year on bo3 and took me awhile to find matches which made me surprised because I loved the multiplayer.
both the original COD (not Finest Hour, the actual original COD) and COD2 both do have active servers on PC and even have competitive scenes. They are harder to navigate but neither game is dead.
I just bought Black Ops 1 on PC and I easily found matches on it. There are even multiple crouch servers where you have to play tactically. Even on Zombies I found several players after waiting a few seconds.
for advanced warfare i seen people in the kill feed i play with on a daily basis if you ever return to the 360 version might run into ya
beginning with MW1 2019 all CODs are very active. I think u have a connection problem with Cold War because i find matches instantly
I play Xbox and I find matches quick and easy especially tdm. Also matchmaking is different if you have dlc installed
OG MW3 felt like OG MW2, and now the new MW3 feels like an expansion of MW22. Crazy how history repeats itself.
A lot have matchmaking issues like bo3 mw2 and 3
Same I could barely find any Black Ops 3 multiplayer lobby’s
Tbh I agree on ur take on Cold War, I recently got back after like 4 years of not playing COD and Cold War felt cool and nostalgic
I can find matches on WAW rarely but BO1, BO2, and MW2 pretty often on Xbox, after a couple days tho you start to see the same names and realize you're just switching between the same group of people who are still playing or started again cause they still love these games so it's not really active but the group of people who still love these games are keeping the game alive enough to be able to play with full lobbies. Mainly around 6pm onwards is when they're most active in my experience. It may not be as active as at their prime obviously but it's still worth it to play, and way better than the newer cods
Try changing dlc packs installed if you have trouble finding multiplayer games on bo1
Great info. Thank you 👍
Great video and you are pretty funny. Glad I found your channel
BO4 has some of my favourite maps, weapons, and overall gameplay of all time. The whole specialist thing sucked but it only became unplayable when they added a specialist who could hijack the other team's equipment and streaks.
Cold War was so underrated, I loved that game
Wait is the cod ghost gameplay recent or did you just play old gameplay footage? Im asking because when i played it years ago everyone would camp with shields ieds and works. Yet youre able to run and gun.
I love advanced warfare. The Jack pack movement was dope and it just felt like breath of fresh air it was something new for cod
Been trying to play Advanced Warfare but it’s completely dead. There is always 1 other person to join my lobby but that’s not good enough 😥
Depends. In Europe we still play Cod2 Cod4-first MW and also new one but when Xfire is turned off also that games goes down
MWR On Xbox One Is Active But Only Hardcore TDM,TDM,Cage Match, And DOM You Have Too Invite Recent Players!
My opinion is after cod ghost is the last cod they made before it started going down hill. Advanced was my last one other then playing the newer ones at my buddy’s
uninstall your map packs for mw2/3, iirc you can only queue with people with the same map packs
Thanks man for making this
Just played cod 4 last week and loaded into a tdm lobby like not even a second after I searched for it. Ever since they fixed the servers it’s been pretty active even dom has games?
I find a lobby on mw2(og) on pc everytime I try to play. Normally the connection is pretty good and MOST of the time no one is hacking
Alittle thing on Bo1 the Xbox servers have connection issues but the ps3 servers work fine and you can find tdm matches
My best friend and I met when we were like 8 via CoD 3. I'm kinda sad to see that it's dead.
MAN I MISS MODERN WARFARE 2 SO MUCH….. it was my first real COD I actually grinded multiplayer in… found a clan and learned how to quickscope and trickshot…. Such an amazing feeling seeing the game… I truly hope we get a real full 1:1 remaster that’s not packed with microtransactions
Call of Duty Finest Hour was a console exclusive, and the PS2 and Xbox versions had multiplayer. It was shut down years ago, but you can play it through modding your console. Good luck getting a group of people to do that with you though.
CoD 1 actually had a pretty good MP back in the day on PC. It was essentially the first WWII game that had aim down sight mechanics and there was a competitive scene with it in 2003 and 2004. All of the best clans knew each other and we would customize our tags with custom colors doing the (^#) trick. CoD United Offensive added vehicles to the mix and had some great MP maps as well and was like a hybrid between BF 1942 and CoD 1. The Devs that made CoD 1 also made MoH: AA which had my favorite mp in a WWII game. MoH: AA maps were so good and the music was the GOAT.
Glad u r back GREEKS ! 🎉🎉🎉
How abt checking out titanfall 2 ? it had a recent upsurge in players due to the servers being fixed
Thanks man , glad you’re still around. I actually had someone else mention that too , im happy that games still thriving even with Apex coming out and it being almost a decade old. Might have to check it out again soon and make a vid !
What about og titanfall? Is that any good?
Love This man keep the content up
Thank you man 🤙
I was lucky enough to play CoD 3 a little over 10 years ago, but I always had a team member that would team kill friendly fire and try to report me. Still, with vehicles it was great.
Call of duty 3 was awesome back in the hayday. It was a glitch fest (out of bounds/under map), but that was part of the fun back then. Loved it
Its sad about a year ago it took no time to find a full lobby in bo3
A lot of the games people would still play but the prices. Server health many won’t go near them especially on PC - what they need to do it’s stop charging £50 for 10 year old games with dead servers - put them on game pass - and do a £20 price for a bundled price for like 3or 4 games I.e. black ops bundle, MW bundle etc - then people would return
Fun fact for bo1 if I don't have dlcs installed u can get a bunch of games but if u have dlcs it dosent ever find a match or takes forever to find a single person idk why but bo1 the dlcs u have downloaded effects the matchmaking cuase u have dlcs installed that other people dosent
Yes especially since a lot of people are using new accounts not too many people have the same account with their purchased dlcs from 10 yes ago
Some corrections:
- The Activision deal will go through sometime in October.
- Black Ops 1 is on Plutonium as well.
I have to say, my favorite online COD experience was AW. Really underrated multiplayer imo