COD should’ve never switched to pc to many cheaters to much inconsistent gameplay with players having the best hardware due to follower count and players with low end pcs consoles all hit 120hz and it would eliminate the cheaters from the legit grinders
As a college athlete I'm not arguing that video games take skill, and I'm not great at them, but you saying they're a sport is utterly ridiculous. If you can say competitive chess is a sport I'll give it to you, but that whole micro-transactions cod is a sport??? this whole e-sports thing is nuts. I'm not arguing competitive video games exist, but comparing it to sport bugs me so much.
Wasn’t the pros.., there is always cry baby’s for new cods and I remember tons of fans disliking jet packs because they did it like two years in a row different styles.
great map selection, great weapon balance, great campaign, great zombies too and I’m not even a big zombies guy still had so much fun. Game was so great when ghosts flopped we all went back to BO2 for a second year 😭
The one thing no one ever talks about with SBMM is it ruined the game for friend groups that vary in skill. My whole group stopped playing because playing together was miserable. Good players need to back pack their asses off and the bad players just get destroyed game after game.
This, I just came to cod haven’t played since bo4 and that’s the first thing I noticed, I started out getting carried but once I got used to playing and got good again I was sweating like crazy every game and my homie were bottom frag going negative
skillbase matchmaking in its current state is literally the reason i dont ever play multiplayer. i have 1 good game and for the next 10 matches im against people that are just absolutely way better and try way harder than me in pubs makes it so unfun its horrible
I definitely got better as a player when sbmm came out. But that was because we didn’t have ranked to play. It would be nice to have regular multiplayer be no sbmm and just make sure every game has ranked going forward
I personally like SBMM because it makes you better. I also try to stay away from the whole "he's only better than me because he's trying his ass off." Not throwing shade at you, that's just geniunely my take.
@@lt8400 Engagement Optimized Match Making, SOME of it is proven, some of it is skeptism. It's the idea that Activision "rigs" games by putting you with better players on other team, bad on your team, bad connection, some people even say skill based damage lol. But it makes you lose more which makes you want to play to make up for losing, kinda like gambling when you chase your losses.
its always so funny hearing the dialogue about jetpacks now. Back when we were in the jetpack era, everyone in the pro scene was crying to go back to boots on the ground. Now its we need to go back to jetpacks and it was the best.
@@auburntigers444 bo3 is beloved because of zombies, not because of multiplayer. The community HATED jetpack cods, including BO3. It was just hated least of the bunch.
People hated AW because it was janky and unpolished. Everyone loved BO3 because it fixed all that. you'll notice that most of the complaints are about the game being bad and not what the game is.
In terms of SBMM - I'm a 33 YO dad and I played against Octane and Nadeshot the first few weeks it came out. Every game I'm in is sweaty af when I'm just trying to get camos. In MW2 there would be just a few games a night where games would be this sweaty.
I understand what you mean, but if you go and play any other shooter, it's the same. Xdefiant, seige, apex, valorant. The average skill of gamers in general is just higher than 10 years ago. It probably has something to do with the rise of Twitch and youtube and how everyone has access to meta loadouts etc. I don't really think SBMM has as much to do with it as you might assume.
@@joechinchar9833 This is absolutely not true, in battlefield and Delta force, ,2 shooters with absolutely no SBMM AFAIK, i am averaging a 2.5 KD playing a pure run and gun style, i dont get anywhere near this on CoD, the difference is completely night and day
As long as we aint on about battlefield 2024 i can agree with you to a degree😂 im much better when facing no thumbs comapred to the average SBMM game, and never heard or played the other ones ya mentioned so can't comment @@lowelocinema2430
Hector takes over the comms WAY too much. You have world champions and guys have have tens of thousands of hours on CoD in there, and yet he still is the loudest in the room. Love Hector but damn man.
I remember the feeling of hearing the bo1 multiplayer menu theme. The theming if the ui, dialogue and weapons/skins. The whole atmosphere made me feel like black ops it was undeniably better and more memorable for cod. Each cod game now has no character/identity
@@UpTheWaahs02they had so many more good maps. Search and destroy meltdown was one of my favorite along with altermath and cargo. Earlier in the game they even had hijacked in the pool and they had plaza. Capture the flag on express was amazing too. I love all those maps looking back
I felt like bo2 was more competitive side of cod than any other game.I just personally don't like it much as even for pubs I'm getting melted down. About sbmm in latest cods it's so damn cancer how people camp on spawn for small maps.I really wouldn't play any cod like this. For me perfect cod would look like if competitive players would go ranked play matches and pubs could go casual mp.
Noticed Karma bringing up that they’ve said SBMM is in the older cods and feel the need to bring it up because i think it confuses people. Feel like this has become a more persistent myth about SBMM/EOMM in older cods. It 100000% did not exist the way it’s described now. It was Score Based Team Balancing. Or better put, if you and another guy stomped the opponents, the game would try to put you on different teams the next game. The SBMM thing in older cods is something bad players and angry devs have tried to use to gaslight the public by not actually/vaguely describing what was going on then and whats going on now.
This makes so much sense. When Damon said that I was like no fucking way, cus I've been a pubstomper for a while and what he's saying just seems so false. I do remember what ur saying tho where it would always put the 2nd best player in the enemy team
And that old set up created these great little in-lobby rivalries before they would automatically disband lobbies post-game. You’d often have a rival on the other team for a few games and you two would duke it out. I used to love that so so much.
Its partially true. Tho I can definitely remember getting paired with better players just because I had a higher kd back during bo1, mw3. bo2, etc. In my opinion it was just more 'balanced' because often times if you ran in a party and stayed in the game, you had a good chance to get host in your party, and the matchmaking could always pair you with lower skill players because of your party members.
hecz is the nicest dude ever, I met my family from Chicago when i was in 9th grade (2014) and saw one of my uncles in an optic hoodie.. turns out he grew up w hecz, called him and hecz went around a cod tournament passing the facetime around to people like banks and Mboze so i could say whets up. then he sent me an optic care package to my house in cali. made my century as a kid lol
I'm a 43 year old grandpa . . and skill based matchmaking pisses me off. As much as I hate getting pubstomped, I can just quit out of that game and load up another one. With SBMM on, every single game of pubs is a sweatfest. I'm tired of every single game being like a main stage match at champs. I'm just trying to knock out some camos so I can rock dark matter while I struggle to stay in plat on comp. Without SBMM, some of the games are fun. With it, none of the games are fun. XDefiant has the best system I think, welcome playlist for 40 levels with it on so you don't get obliterated trying to learn the game, but then the training wheels come off at some point. Should be off for pubs and on for comp. If it's on for all, then all pubs amounts to is comp with cheese.
I miss having the option to rush or take it easy. That's why they old maps from CoD4-Mw3 were so good. They fit every play style while. You could rush with akimbo FMG9s or post up with claymores and an ACR. The killstreaks were great and they stacked on eachother. The blueprint for great CoD games is there. Now we gotta be cracked out 24/7 on these small maps with everyone sliding and diving everywhere it's so silly.
I remember when legit everyone would say "We need boots on the ground to return!" "Jetpacks isn't call of duty" "Jetpacks ruined the gameplay" im sitting there like....jetpacks weirdly might've been the best thing they added to CoD and yall want it gone. Ngl would 1-2 boots games be acceptable....for sure but I feel like the Jetpack era was the second golden era of CoD or at least the tail end of the golden era. We need another game with jetpacks asap.
@@IAmTakeru17he can be lol. He just shit talks for fun. He's the org owner of OpTic and rich, he can literally do whatever. He just shit talks and stirs the pot.
I honestly would like to see jetpack cod But without this stupid bundles, bring supply drops back and separate warzone as different game.I wish to see new maps ,weapons ,features and everything without depending from which season it is realised or for what time period this thing is available.I want to play like this all entire time.Warzone can keep seasons but I don't want this in MP in new title .
Really disappointed with their opinions on SBMM and microtransactions. SBMM is single handedly ruining multiplayer. It’s shafting Jimmy to protect Timmy. It’s a false sense of reality for casual players. Matchmaking wasn’t broken so there was no need to fix it. Every so often casual players in say for Example CoD4 came up against a quality player in the lobby. Thats how they got better, that’s how I learned. It’s ruining the experience for profitability and anyone that says differently is quite frankly wrong. It’s destroyed the casual experience when you play with friends who are casuals. I don’t want to play every game against players where it seems their life is on the line. It might mean it retains players more but it doesn’t say that when they’re playing that their experience is enjoyable. Microtransactions, whoever came up with the idea is a very clever person, because again, surprise surprise it increases profitability. But people are already forking out £70+ for new releases that could have been £30 DLC’s. These Optic guys are brands, they’re businesses so I get that’s where their mind is at but remember we aren’t all as well off like you. You shouldn’t have to pay to win. If you’re paying £70+ for the game, that’s it, you get what you pay for. It’s the mentality of the above from people whose opinions matter to the devs that’s never going to see SBMM and microtransactions gone.
If it was ruining multiplayer, it wouldn’t be in the game. The makers clearly have data that says SBMM helps retention. If they were losing a significant amount or players bc SBMM, do you really think it would be here?
@@TraumaTizedLOL1 @ You’ve just backed my point tho? The matchmaking favours lesser players who make up the majority of their customers so ofc it’s going to help with retention? It’s profitable to forget about the players who are half decent and loyal and have played for 17+ years like myself. They have no interest in my experience who are wise to what they’re actually doing, they care about Timmy that’s just picked up the game and will spend his pocket money on bundles.
@@XLNC7 well yeah. I mean why would they? The whole point for them is making money, and SBMM helps them do that by retaining casual players. I agree it sucks for good players, but what is the alternative? They are a business
@ I 100% get that everything revolves around making money. But they’re a multi billion dollar company and they’ve surpassed greed. They’re a monopoly. And now they’re affecting the core gameplay experience for a lot of people. There was nothing ever wrong with old matchmaking, I’ve played online since CoD4, it was never an issue. If they want some form of SBMM to line their pockets then have it, but tone it right the fuck down. Or just put it in a ranked playlist where it belongs.
We also have to remember that a LOT of people didn't have headsets back then compared to now. Not many people would of considered having the idea of buying a Turtle Beach or Astro headset back in the day. That's just my take on that 4:47
Call of duty ghosts was my best cod. I had Tritton Triggers and was able to hear footsteps very well. I had around 280 kem strikes because of it. People did have headsets, but it wasn't like the current games. Footsteps now control these games, which ruins it for me. It's what I don't like about warzone and the gunfight game mode
@@clifflee54 Dead silence on Ghosts gave a 99% deafening effect. Footsteps couldn't be heard with it on. You could play without a headset in competitive. They sounded like elephants without it. A cheap headset was more than enough.
13:31 i'm mad no one elaborated about the dynasty. I would've loved to hear their thoughts explicitly on how they compared to the other dynasties. I saw the optic dynasty, but that was 7 years ago
Never in my life did I think I would ever hear anyone be nostalgic for AW. 4 out of the 5 games released between BO2 and MW2019 were genuinely awful, IW, AW, WW2, Ghosts, all easily at rock bottom in a tierlist of the franchise.
i agree with everything except WW2. yes it was quite buggy but at least it had an identity. all the guns felt good and some of the new game modes they introduced were very fun. WW2 is still one of my favorites of all time.
That's what most people who didn't play GBs or UMGs back then say man. It's just how it goes. AW and Ghosts were so fruitful and competitive in ways COD had never experienced before. Bo2 was solid it was, but AW and Ghosts specifically were amazing. IW was downhill in my opinion.
@pahul79 COD4 is garbage compared to games like BO2, WW2, BO MW2 (2009). *WW2* : • *Straightforward FPS* ✅ • *Simple Aim settings* ✅ • *Great MP* ✅ • *NO Automatic Disbanded Lobbies* ✅ • *Trash Talk & Competition* 🎧 • *NO SBMM* ✅ imo & experience • *Mini Map & Map Voting* ✅ Thats everything BO2 had it was exceptionally better after the Overhaul Update but *I bet you ran to Fornite, Apex Legends like everybody else* WW2 is the best COD in the last 7 years and I played for 7 years until BO6 dropped. Agree to disagree , play what you like and I'll do the same.
@ ww2 was just another in a long line of trash cods infected with supplydrops. Dosent even come close cod4-bo2, maybe top 12 best cods if being generous
I loved the randomness of the lobbies back then. it made me play wanna play harder when i was up against higher skill. and i wasnt being “punished” the next game if i done well. now you play hard, youre shit on for the next 5-10 games. its mentally draining to keep trying that hard every single fucking game
Just as many “new players” that stick around cause of SBMM there will be just as many mid-upper level players that leave cause they aren’t allowed to chill on the game. Have to sweat out every game they’re in.
I agree with Zinni absolutely. Seth says he hates it, but it's good for the community. Absolutely NOT! Zinni said, "If you hated losing, get better." Nowadays, you have to try your ass off every game.
Bro, going to be honest the SBMM moment in this video. Let’s talk about it: If you want a “competitive” experience and improve play ranked, GB’s, wagers, or 8’s. As the more I get older I just want to enjoy a franchise I enjoy sit back from my stressful life (I feel like everyone could agree). And let CoD be my escape goat. At my best in CoD it’s when competitive was everything and I was “nasty.” But as time goes on and my interests change I just want to sit back play good a couple games, grind some cameos. And enjoy a franchise I feel in love with like the rest of us did. People could say I’m in those “easy lobbies” I’m on main stage for half a million dollars prize money 300k twitch views on an event. It’s actually insane I have a 1.3 KD those lobbies are easy 2.00+ why am I having to sweat or try so hard just to get so little it is killing the franchise. I don’t ever remember CoD ever being that sweaty as it once was. Back then you got a sweaty match tell me if I’m wrong but it made you want to try even harder and get better?! Having that satisfaction of going insane one game against people that I was once at there skill level. But trying to get better feels like impossible task because you’ll always always get main stage lobbies!….
im a multiplayer player and i think pro warzone players are better than pro multiplayer players, i shifted over to warzone and it takes alot of planning and strategy and pressure to win, sometimes you gotta go against a full squad solo
I was never a fan of the jet packs but for me I feel that bo2 was definitely peak cod. I’ve made memorable moments in bo2 than any other cod game I’ve ever played period
Personally, I don’t think I would have bought the last 5-6 games if I didn’t still keep up with pro cod or watch content creators. I don’t think the game would die but it wouldn’t be what it is without these scenes.
Because of SBMM, my friends don't have fun playing with me anymore. They say my lobbies are too sweaty and rage a lot. It's kind of depressing actually from my perspective. I just want all my friends and I to enjoy playing the game together.
Wasn’t a big fan of jet pack cods but Mw1 Mw2 Bo1 Bo2 and ghost were all my favorite . Didn’t play much of bo3 or aw. But 1440p 120hz on a nacon revolution 5 pro and Omni movement? This has been very fun cod experience I ain’t complaining 😶🌫️
i just got off after two matches because SBMM decided I had to play my mandatory games being the worst player in the lobby. That’s the problem is that sbmm doesn’t solve anything long term. As a player who is mediocre at best with a 1.5 KD sbmm always shoots me back and forth between lobbies where I feel like a sweat and lobbies where I can’t even get off spawn.
i feel like whenever they come out with a new cod should stary off with 16 of the best maps from previous cods and just progressively add more maps, can keep the trash maps in game but dont add them to new games
I agree with Methodz on SBMM - it wasn’t a problem back in the day for the older heads playing against kids that would scorch them …why would we think we should cater to the casual gamers now?
I mean it’s cool but Black Ops 1 and Modern Warfare 2 on rust with the intervention will always be #1. Cookin in the kitchen with some care package out with the commando knife and doing the elevator glitch on Derail. Memories😎
I think the fact that I get put in lobbies with the sweatiest of the sweats where every player has dark matter in the first week and every game feels like a cdl match is what does it for me. I don’t want to sweat my ass off every time I pick up the sticks. I’m not even a bad player but this shit is bad at this point.
Sbmm question needs to be more specific. The current iteration is ass. Never once heard hecz have a single valid opinion about cod. The fact he even mentions cod2 ever shows he's just a boomer. Best cods were way after even cod 4. Cod2 was ass
You can't even disagree with me.
I agree with this take
Even in the comments he tells truth
COD should’ve never switched to pc to many cheaters to much inconsistent gameplay with players having the best hardware due to follower count and players with low end pcs consoles all hit 120hz and it would eliminate the cheaters from the legit grinders
As a college athlete I'm not arguing that video games take skill, and I'm not great at them, but you saying they're a sport is utterly ridiculous. If you can say competitive chess is a sport I'll give it to you, but that whole micro-transactions cod is a sport??? this whole e-sports thing is nuts. I'm not arguing competitive video games exist, but comparing it to sport bugs me so much.
BO3 goated 👍🏿
JETPACK ERA >>>>>>
Use me as a thumbs up button
mhm
@@OpTicGaminggimme advanced warfare 2😮💨return of the king arc
People hate on infinite warfare but that was the most fun I had only sending to black ops 4
Bro why was I insane at iw 🤣
And years later i am still stuck on stick and move controls
GIVE US ADVANCED WARFARE 2
I remember pros crying for boots on the ground. Now they have nostalgia for jet packs
Wasn’t the pros.., there is always cry baby’s for new cods and I remember tons of fans disliking jet packs because they did it like two years in a row different styles.
it’s because you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. can’t blame them.
Nah 3. Aw bo3 and iw@clarkskents
Only 2 agreed
Boots on the ground in a phone booth. ADHD kids ruined COD.
I still play and enjoy CoD now but honestly Blops 2 was peak. Game was great, ranked mode, good camos and the pro scene was electric to watch.
great map selection, great weapon balance, great campaign, great zombies too and I’m not even a big zombies guy still had so much fun. Game was so great when ghosts flopped we all went back to BO2 for a second year 😭
@@binothedegen compared to bo2 ghost was a flop but if u look back ghost was a good game especially SND
@@Indio02RS pretty much any cod game before iw is better than any after iw, including aw and ghosts
The one thing no one ever talks about with SBMM is it ruined the game for friend groups that vary in skill. My whole group stopped playing because playing together was miserable. Good players need to back pack their asses off and the bad players just get destroyed game after game.
This, I just came to cod haven’t played since bo4 and that’s the first thing I noticed, I started out getting carried but once I got used to playing and got good again I was sweating like crazy every game and my homie were bottom frag going negative
That’s not how sbmm works with a party..
I really don't know how this isn't talked about as much as it should be cause it's the only reason I don't play cod anymore.
@@TxSnipes lol every time my friends play with me they complain that the lobbies get insanely harder so idk
@@TxSnipes It is absolutely how it works with a party. No matter how much they try to balance it it always sucks.
skillbase matchmaking in its current state is literally the reason i dont ever play multiplayer. i have 1 good game and for the next 10 matches im against people that are just absolutely way better and try way harder than me in pubs makes it so unfun its horrible
Eomm is the true villain here. The game decides your wins and losses before the game even begins. It’s pretty much a slot machine
@@johnnybaboon8166 What us EOMM ive seen a few people say it but not describe
I definitely got better as a player when sbmm came out. But that was because we didn’t have ranked to play. It would be nice to have regular multiplayer be no sbmm and just make sure every game has ranked going forward
I personally like SBMM because it makes you better. I also try to stay away from the whole "he's only better than me because he's trying his ass off." Not throwing shade at you, that's just geniunely my take.
@@lt8400 Engagement Optimized Match Making, SOME of it is proven, some of it is skeptism. It's the idea that Activision "rigs" games by putting you with better players on other team, bad on your team, bad connection, some people even say skill based damage lol. But it makes you lose more which makes you want to play to make up for losing, kinda like gambling when you chase your losses.
its always so funny hearing the dialogue about jetpacks now. Back when we were in the jetpack era, everyone in the pro scene was crying to go back to boots on the ground. Now its we need to go back to jetpacks and it was the best.
lol I knew I wasn’t the only one who feels that way
wrong. people didn't like IW so much they wanted BOTG back. however BO3 was BELOVED.
@@auburntigers444 bo3 is beloved because of zombies, not because of multiplayer. The community HATED jetpack cods, including BO3. It was just hated least of the bunch.
People hated AW because it was janky and unpolished. Everyone loved BO3 because it fixed all that. you'll notice that most of the complaints are about the game being bad and not what the game is.
When I rise to power we can have both
In terms of SBMM - I'm a 33 YO dad and I played against Octane and Nadeshot the first few weeks it came out. Every game I'm in is sweaty af when I'm just trying to get camos. In MW2 there would be just a few games a night where games would be this sweaty.
I understand what you mean, but if you go and play any other shooter, it's the same. Xdefiant, seige, apex, valorant. The average skill of gamers in general is just higher than 10 years ago.
It probably has something to do with the rise of Twitch and youtube and how everyone has access to meta loadouts etc. I don't really think SBMM has as much to do with it as you might assume.
@@joechinchar9833 This is absolutely not true, in battlefield and Delta force, ,2 shooters with absolutely no SBMM AFAIK, i am averaging a 2.5 KD playing a pure run and gun style, i dont get anywhere near this on CoD, the difference is completely night and day
Second this. I average around a 1.2-1.3kd even with camp grinding and average a 1.7-1.8 in 2042 @@lowelocinema2430
As long as we aint on about battlefield 2024 i can agree with you to a degree😂 im much better when facing no thumbs comapred to the average SBMM game, and never heard or played the other ones ya mentioned so can't comment @@lowelocinema2430
Boomer
Hector takes over the comms WAY too much. You have world champions and guys have have tens of thousands of hours on CoD in there, and yet he still is the loudest in the room. Love Hector but damn man.
100% agree
He is one of the most important people in COD history lmao relax
@@dblain2729yea cause hes good at running a business not because he knows alot about the game
@@dblain2729hes ass in comparison to everyone else on stage
lol it’s his org he can do what he wants. He’s always vocal😂
Lowkey let's go back to 5v5
who's your 5th?
Who's your 5th hypothetically?
I'd guess either scump or formal @@PlagueFather
@@PlagueFatherCell
Teaser for formal (I’m delusional)
The micro transaction round was so disappointing to hear
Seriously kinda wild but not baffling
Every one of them standing there is a multi millionaire 😂
Yeah they can get any skin they want without caring, doesn’t matter to them much
@ life is full of perspective and in this moment we see what certain things are like through their lives.
I remember the feeling of hearing the bo1 multiplayer menu theme. The theming if the ui, dialogue and weapons/skins. The whole atmosphere made me feel like black ops it was undeniably better and more memorable for cod. Each cod game now has no character/identity
Black ops 2 was first cod with ranked play. It is the staple of call of duty now. COD wouldn’t be the same without bo2 ranked play
League play was 🔥💯👌 4on4, Hardpoint, CTF, SND. Maps were Raid, Standoff, Slums, Express & Yemen. Good times man cod hasn't been the same for me since
Bo2 was the first for a lot of things
@@UpTheWaahs02they had so many more good maps. Search and destroy meltdown was one of my favorite along with altermath and cargo. Earlier in the game they even had hijacked in the pool and they had plaza. Capture the flag on express was amazing too. I love all those maps looking back
I felt like bo2 was more competitive side of cod than any other game.I just personally don't like it much as even for pubs I'm getting melted down.
About sbmm in latest cods it's so damn cancer how people camp on spawn for small maps.I really wouldn't play any cod like this.
For me perfect cod would look like if competitive players would go ranked play matches and pubs could go casual mp.
5:36 "Damon I've never left the f***ing game in my f***ing life damon" 🤣🤣 Hector is a foo
hahaha
Had me dying lol
Lowkey, Kenny a top tier addition over this last year of optic. The vet stays true to himself always. So refreshing
Noticed Karma bringing up that they’ve said SBMM is in the older cods and feel the need to bring it up because i think it confuses people.
Feel like this has become a more persistent myth about SBMM/EOMM in older cods. It 100000% did not exist the way it’s described now. It was Score Based Team Balancing. Or better put, if you and another guy stomped the opponents, the game would try to put you on different teams the next game.
The SBMM thing in older cods is something bad players and angry devs have tried to use to gaslight the public by not actually/vaguely describing what was going on then and whats going on now.
This makes so much sense. When Damon said that I was like no fucking way, cus I've been a pubstomper for a while and what he's saying just seems so false. I do remember what ur saying tho where it would always put the 2nd best player in the enemy team
And that old set up created these great little in-lobby rivalries before they would automatically disband lobbies post-game. You’d often have a rival on the other team for a few games and you two would duke it out. I used to love that so so much.
Its partially true. Tho I can definitely remember getting paired with better players just because I had a higher kd back during bo1, mw3. bo2, etc.
In my opinion it was just more 'balanced' because often times if you ran in a party and stayed in the game, you had a good chance to get host in your party, and the matchmaking could always pair you with lower skill players because of your party members.
exactly, I rmr playing with demons and then against them the next game and I welcomed the challenge...now it's just...well..ass
Yes man. Nobody on reddit understands this i swear to god
hecz is the nicest dude ever, I met my family from Chicago when i was in 9th grade (2014) and saw one of my uncles in an optic hoodie.. turns out he grew up w hecz, called him and hecz went around a cod tournament passing the facetime around to people like banks and Mboze so i could say whets up. then he sent me an optic care package to my house in cali. made my century as a kid lol
SBMM is so good that made my all friends quit this game after MW19 came out
One thing no one talks about with SBMM is it doesn’t work when you have friends you play with. Maybe if it was solo queue only
It does though it averages out all of your guys skill and gets you in the highest average sbmm matches
I disagree, when I play solo most of my team doesn’t have hands and the other team is full of gamer fuel sweats.
Or EOMM
I'm a 43 year old grandpa . . and skill based matchmaking pisses me off. As much as I hate getting pubstomped, I can just quit out of that game and load up another one. With SBMM on, every single game of pubs is a sweatfest. I'm tired of every single game being like a main stage match at champs. I'm just trying to knock out some camos so I can rock dark matter while I struggle to stay in plat on comp.
Without SBMM, some of the games are fun. With it, none of the games are fun. XDefiant has the best system I think, welcome playlist for 40 levels with it on so you don't get obliterated trying to learn the game, but then the training wheels come off at some point. Should be off for pubs and on for comp. If it's on for all, then all pubs amounts to is comp with cheese.
Omnimovement >>>
Goat
Movement king has spoken 🙌🏼
Omnimovement lowers the skillgap, making gunfights more randomized. Bo2 had the highest skillgap of any cod.
Yea diving thru the window worldstaring Bruce ofc u love omni lmao
@godfather53 nah its higher bro if you think the better player doesn't win the gunfight more often ur crazy haha
Kenny and hecz need to teach every optic member how to dress up 😂😂
fits good shoe choices are in question here sorry just my opinion what are we going to defend them with they wore that trash for contrast wtf
bro kenny is wearing female pants lol
You need to stop worrying about dumb shit
Damon DOES NOT care lmao
The pants?!
Zin shouting the sly cooper series just made my day. best trilogy of all time
hecz talking over pamaj on the snipers question. like dude we want to hear the god of cod snipers opinion, not the team managers
Hecz Modern Warfare 2 Sniper Montage - November 2009
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@@red5587is this your burner hecz?
I miss having the option to rush or take it easy. That's why they old maps from CoD4-Mw3 were so good. They fit every play style while. You could rush with akimbo FMG9s or post up with claymores and an ACR. The killstreaks were great and they stacked on eachother. The blueprint for great CoD games is there. Now we gotta be cracked out 24/7 on these small maps with everyone sliding and diving everywhere it's so silly.
I remember when legit everyone would say "We need boots on the ground to return!" "Jetpacks isn't call of duty" "Jetpacks ruined the gameplay" im sitting there like....jetpacks weirdly might've been the best thing they added to CoD and yall want it gone. Ngl would 1-2 boots games be acceptable....for sure but I feel like the Jetpack era was the second golden era of CoD or at least the tail end of the golden era. We need another game with jetpacks asap.
It was just a loud minority lol bo3 had crazy numbers and crazy interactions, especially pro league
I always thought a jetpack game mode like uplink in a normal cod would be the best
The boys have been coming out with banger content on both channels and you absolutely love to see it!!!!!
“You will NEVER experience that” - Hecz 😂
Methods and the sly cooper comment is just straight gas. Guy knows his stuff 🔥
How far back in time was this filmed? They are still talking about the beta lmao 😅😅
Seriously wtf??? No relevance
of course they thought the movement was clunky then, its so much better now
All these past TH-cam videos were filmed during the Race.
Well considering Seth's hair is buzzcut, its pretty recent lmao..
Lowkey feel like they delayed posting this because the Adsense is better this month/time of year, compared to when this was filmed
The boys talking CoD, having some debates and just having a good time. Great content
I love how Hector always brings up being super good at the game 😂
hasnt played a cod since host advantage and nobody knew what a headset or back paddles was , of course he was good
He’s a big talker. He doesn’t back it up.
@@IAmTakeru17he can be lol. He just shit talks for fun. He's the org owner of OpTic and rich, he can literally do whatever. He just shit talks and stirs the pot.
It has taken many a year…. But finally the scumperjumper has evolved into the high and mighty, King BigT.
I love hearing karma talking about cod I swear when he talks everybody is quiet and listen to him. GO4T !
This is one of the best videos you guys have ever created. Love it.
idk why but love seeing Kenny wearing that chain bro
getting a pie ad blocker ad on this video while using pie ad blocker is gold
12:44 the only CoD MP we've ever had made entirely by Raven 👀 makes you wonder....
Scump looking like BigTymer from a distance lmfaoo
Scump might be the best ever to play CoD, but holy shit that man gets dressed like he's Helen Keller.
Lmfao fr he needs to let Hecz pick his closet
Grown men that care bout their (and especially other men's) appearance get the side eye from me. That's a female trait.
I fuck with it, especially that space cat shirts he wears
@@ryanaa9321 worrying about another man's outfit is side eye worthy
Who cares
New CoD released means yearly check-in on the OpTic boys. Only been 10 years.
why wasn't one of the questions "Should jetpacks make a return to Call of Duty???" or "Should treyarch remaster bo3?"
I was waiting for this
I honestly would like to see jetpack cod
But without this stupid bundles, bring supply drops back and separate warzone as different game.I wish to see new maps ,weapons ,features and everything without depending from which season it is realised or for what time period this thing is available.I want to play like this all entire time.Warzone can keep seasons but I don't want this in MP in new title .
I normally only watch the podcasts and streams but this was solid content!
Really disappointed with their opinions on SBMM and microtransactions.
SBMM is single handedly ruining multiplayer. It’s shafting Jimmy to protect Timmy. It’s a false sense of reality for casual players. Matchmaking wasn’t broken so there was no need to fix it. Every so often casual players in say for Example CoD4 came up against a quality player in the lobby. Thats how they got better, that’s how I learned. It’s ruining the experience for profitability and anyone that says differently is quite frankly wrong. It’s destroyed the casual experience when you play with friends who are casuals. I don’t want to play every game against players where it seems their life is on the line. It might mean it retains players more but it doesn’t say that when they’re playing that their experience is enjoyable.
Microtransactions, whoever came up with the idea is a very clever person, because again, surprise surprise it increases profitability. But people are already forking out £70+ for new releases that could have been £30 DLC’s. These Optic guys are brands, they’re businesses so I get that’s where their mind is at but remember we aren’t all as well off like you. You shouldn’t have to pay to win. If you’re paying £70+ for the game, that’s it, you get what you pay for.
It’s the mentality of the above from people whose opinions matter to the devs that’s never going to see SBMM and microtransactions gone.
If it was ruining multiplayer, it wouldn’t be in the game. The makers clearly have data that says SBMM helps retention. If they were losing a significant amount or players bc SBMM, do you really think it would be here?
@@TraumaTizedLOL1 @ You’ve just backed my point tho? The matchmaking favours lesser players who make up the majority of their customers so ofc it’s going to help with retention? It’s profitable to forget about the players who are half decent and loyal and have played for 17+ years like myself. They have no interest in my experience who are wise to what they’re actually doing, they care about Timmy that’s just picked up the game and will spend his pocket money on bundles.
@@XLNC7 well yeah. I mean why would they? The whole point for them is making money, and SBMM helps them do that by retaining casual players. I agree it sucks for good players, but what is the alternative? They are a business
@ I 100% get that everything revolves around making money. But they’re a multi billion dollar company and they’ve surpassed greed. They’re a monopoly. And now they’re affecting the core gameplay experience for a lot of people. There was nothing ever wrong with old matchmaking, I’ve played online since CoD4, it was never an issue.
If they want some form of SBMM to line their pockets then have it, but tone it right the fuck down. Or just put it in a ranked playlist where it belongs.
I think sbmm need to be made for competitive modes like ranked play
And any game mode outside will be casual without sweety matchmaking algorythm
We also have to remember that a LOT of people didn't have headsets back then compared to now. Not many people would of considered having the idea of buying a Turtle Beach or Astro headset back in the day. That's just my take on that 4:47
Call of duty ghosts was my best cod. I had Tritton Triggers and was able to hear footsteps very well. I had around 280 kem strikes because of it. People did have headsets, but it wasn't like the current games. Footsteps now control these games, which ruins it for me. It's what I don't like about warzone and the gunfight game mode
@@clifflee54 Dead silence on Ghosts gave a 99% deafening effect. Footsteps couldn't be heard with it on. You could play without a headset in competitive. They sounded like elephants without it. A cheap headset was more than enough.
That Iced T dude a chronic yapper holy shit
13:31 i'm mad no one elaborated about the dynasty. I would've loved to hear their thoughts explicitly on how they compared to the other dynasties. I saw the optic dynasty, but that was 7 years ago
My boy karma checked Hecz real quick 😂 2:10
5:38 Hecz checked him right back lmao 😂
u can tell Kenny knew his fit was hard, he moving around fixing his pants ,selves ,walking in place like he at the mall
Never in my life did I think I would ever hear anyone be nostalgic for AW. 4 out of the 5 games released between BO2 and MW2019 were genuinely awful, IW, AW, WW2, Ghosts, all easily at rock bottom in a tierlist of the franchise.
I 100% agree! I started with COD4 up to BO2.
Mw2 was my golden era.
When Ghosts came out, I knew they went into the wrong direction.
i agree with everything except WW2. yes it was quite buggy but at least it had an identity. all the guns felt good and some of the new game modes they introduced were very fun. WW2 is still one of my favorites of all time.
That's what most people who didn't play GBs or UMGs back then say man. It's just how it goes. AW and Ghosts were so fruitful and competitive in ways COD had never experienced before. Bo2 was solid it was, but AW and Ghosts specifically were amazing. IW was downhill in my opinion.
This Jubilee style video is tight. Very well done. Loved it
No one making an argument for complexity being the best dynasty?
"Never left a fucking game in my fucking life DAMON!" 🤣🤣🤣
Remember Blackout? I do. F Warzone and every single variation of it that has ever been made.
kenny laughs at hecs jokes like his paycheck is on the line lol
8:05 the problem is that they buff the gun that they're releasing a skin for
dude in grey hoodie had no idea what was going on
Had no opinion on anything
0:23 *Respect to Call of Duty WW2* the 2nd Greatest COD of All-time.
LOL 😂😂😂.
Ww2 was mid at best.
Did you even play cod4-bo2? Ww2 2nd best cod ?? LOL
@pahul79 WW2 was not mid and did you read what I said, I said 2nd best, BO2 is the GOAT No. 1 and COD 4 is not in my Top 5. 😌 🤦🏾♂️
@ ww2 was garbage in my opinion
@pahul79 COD4 is garbage compared to games like BO2, WW2, BO MW2 (2009).
*WW2* :
• *Straightforward FPS* ✅
• *Simple Aim settings* ✅
• *Great MP* ✅
• *NO Automatic Disbanded Lobbies* ✅
• *Trash Talk & Competition* 🎧
• *NO SBMM* ✅ imo & experience
• *Mini Map & Map Voting* ✅
Thats everything BO2 had it was exceptionally better after the Overhaul Update but *I bet you ran to Fornite, Apex Legends like everybody else*
WW2 is the best COD in the last 7 years and I played for 7 years until BO6 dropped.
Agree to disagree , play what you like and I'll do the same.
@ ww2 was just another in a long line of trash cods infected with supplydrops. Dosent even come close cod4-bo2, maybe top 12 best cods if being generous
I loved the randomness of the lobbies back then. it made me play wanna play harder when i was up against higher skill. and i wasnt being “punished” the next game if i done well. now you play hard, youre shit on for the next 5-10 games. its mentally draining to keep trying that hard every single fucking game
Is Hecz ever gonna not wear shades 😂
Just as many “new players” that stick around cause of SBMM there will be just as many mid-upper level players that leave cause they aren’t allowed to chill on the game. Have to sweat out every game they’re in.
I agree with Zinni absolutely. Seth says he hates it, but it's good for the community. Absolutely NOT! Zinni said, "If you hated losing, get better." Nowadays, you have to try your ass off every game.
Bro, going to be honest the SBMM moment in this video. Let’s talk about it:
If you want a “competitive” experience and improve play ranked, GB’s, wagers, or 8’s. As the more I get older I just want to enjoy a franchise I enjoy sit back from my stressful life (I feel like everyone could agree). And let CoD be my escape goat.
At my best in CoD it’s when competitive was everything and I was “nasty.” But as time goes on and my interests change I just want to sit back play good a couple games, grind some cameos. And enjoy a franchise I feel in love with like the rest of us did.
People could say I’m in those “easy lobbies” I’m on main stage for half a million dollars prize money 300k twitch views on an event. It’s actually insane I have a 1.3 KD those lobbies are easy 2.00+ why am I having to sweat or try so hard just to get so little it is killing the franchise.
I don’t ever remember CoD ever being that sweaty as it once was. Back then you got a sweaty match tell me if I’m wrong but it made you want to try even harder and get better?! Having that satisfaction of going insane one game against people that I was once at there skill level. But trying to get better feels like impossible task because you’ll always always get main stage lobbies!….
Big optic hecz is the goat man been around forever and still has dope energy to him
Disagree with the skill base , even as lower skilled player I always wanted to at least have the chance to match make with popular YTubers
im a multiplayer player and i think pro warzone players are better than pro multiplayer players, i shifted over to warzone and it takes alot of planning and strategy and pressure to win, sometimes you gotta go against a full squad solo
One thing about what Ken said about the rival, I used the bruen bastion angled grip and it eliminated the visual recoil, oh well. New game now lol
I was never a fan of the jet packs but for me I feel that bo2 was definitely peak cod. I’ve made memorable moments in bo2 than any other cod game I’ve ever played period
100% agree with Kenny on the 5v5 it was so good to play & watch in BO4, Also specialists were a good addition.
Best movement is jetpacks/wall running Because it allowed for an entire game mode to exist in Blitz.
Personally, I don’t think I would have bought the last 5-6 games if I didn’t still keep up with pro cod or watch content creators. I don’t think the game would die but it wouldn’t be what it is without these scenes.
Because of SBMM, my friends don't have fun playing with me anymore. They say my lobbies are too sweaty and rage a lot. It's kind of depressing actually from my perspective. I just want all my friends and I to enjoy playing the game together.
I met hecz mom at home depot years back when I worked there. She had an OpTic shirt on. I was a huge fan boy growing up. Cool he's from my area
Caldera when you bought a bundle and the character had no head and took them weeks to fix pay to win transactions
Wasn’t a big fan of jet pack cods but Mw1 Mw2 Bo1 Bo2 and ghost were all my favorite . Didn’t play much of bo3 or aw. But 1440p 120hz on a nacon revolution 5 pro and Omni movement? This has been very fun cod experience I ain’t complaining 😶🌫️
I wanna hear feedback on this “Too many GA’s Can make competitive boring and repetitive to watch/play”
Hecz buys physical movie tickets and spits at the idea of a non-gasoline vehicle that gets over 15mpg. 😂😂😂
WAW with an honourable shout out ❤️❤️
Hecz is like a super senior with cod 4 he just won’t let it go😂
i just got off after two matches because SBMM decided I had to play my mandatory games being the worst player in the lobby. That’s the problem is that sbmm doesn’t solve anything long term. As a player who is mediocre at best with a 1.5 KD sbmm always shoots me back and forth between lobbies where I feel like a sweat and lobbies where I can’t even get off spawn.
19:05 someone needs to fill in hector about pred being the king of sound hoarding lmao
Zinni knows ball with that sly cooper shout
Definitely need more vids like these
hecz had to be so high to be wearing sunglasses in a room that dark
Damn Pam switching opinions in the beginning like he switches from faze and optic 😭
i feel like whenever they come out with a new cod should stary off with 16 of the best maps from previous cods and just progressively add more maps, can keep the trash maps in game but dont add them to new games
We ain’t ever getting a cod game with that old cod feeling ever again.
Black ops 3 jet packs were insane. Great maps to. Can we get black ops 3 remastered?
I agree with Methodz on SBMM - it wasn’t a problem back in the day for the older heads playing against kids that would scorch them …why would we think we should cater to the casual gamers now?
Crazy how scump agrees on SBMM when he complained about how crazy SBMM was in MW3. And somewhat in BO6.
I mean it’s cool but Black Ops 1 and Modern Warfare 2 on rust with the intervention will always be #1. Cookin in the kitchen with some care package out with the commando knife and doing the elevator glitch on Derail. Memories😎
“you can say pokémon” thank you pam for being cultured 🤞🏽
Bo3 was godlike, it felt so smooth and natural
“Sly cooper exists” realest thing I heard
We need another video like this.
W for zin for the casual player love, thanks.
I think the fact that I get put in lobbies with the sweatiest of the sweats where every player has dark matter in the first week and every game feels like a cdl match is what does it for me. I don’t want to sweat my ass off every time I pick up the sticks. I’m not even a bad player but this shit is bad at this point.
I can’t pretend there’s any soul behind these videos
i love kenny man never let that guy leave optic
Advanced Warfare pro league matches was peak pro cod.
Sbmm question needs to be more specific. The current iteration is ass. Never once heard hecz have a single valid opinion about cod. The fact he even mentions cod2 ever shows he's just a boomer. Best cods were way after even cod 4. Cod2 was ass