So I’ve been playing the Alpha for Modern Warfare.
Basically it’s the same twitch shooter but now with added recoil. It’s unmistakably COD.
If you are like me and never liked the core multiplayer COD experience this game won’t change that. Even when they add capture the flag on larger maps it’s still going to essentially be the COD experience.
We have all been saying that BFV is doomed because of COD but I think it will do ok as the alternative to what COD offers. Like it always has.
I think it’s the opposite of COD. It plays great. It’ll steal alot of Battlefield players, some temporarily and some for the long haul. It looks great, it plays great, the guns are very satisfying to use, the gun variety destroys BFVs, gun sounds, visibility is excellent, no prone meta, no garbage or clutter in the air making visibility worse (sand, dust, snow, smoke from destroyed buildings), plenty of cover.
The maps are urban, lots of cover and alleyways and corners. While BFV maps are mostly open fields with some geometry and a bunch of trees, ie Garbage.
No bugs. Its alpha and has no bugs. BFV is almost a year old and is the buggiest game I’ve ever played.
I’m not jumping ship yet either but I’m also not pre-ordering another game from EA, much less any other developer. If SWBF3 turns out to be another loser, than I’m going to begin to doubt that the next BF in 2020 (BC3??) will be any better. If that turns out to be the case, I’ll be convinced that the best days of BF are behind them.
Its not a mode that I like, but it gives you a hint of how gun play works. Medal of honor War fighter is exactly how this game will feel with 24 plus players in a server.
I’m passing on the new COD. I will play the Campaign though and try it out. I suspect Activision are going to monetize it to redicoulous levels. Like Pay to Win levels.
The last CoD I played online was Ghosts but peak for me was MW 2 & 3. Was it anything like that? With the new engine, is the lag compensation the same obnoxious “crappier connection gets the advantage” nonsense like BF V has turned into? Between the netcode and the weapons/abilities, CoD was always about leveling the playing field with cheap mechanics so any casual could compete with anyone who played religiously. That was always my biggest peeve - has it improved at all in these aspects?
Surprisingly, it actually feels mostly like Black Ops 1 (Vietnam). I haven’t experienced any latency. The guns feel VERY good, and there’s something about the gunsmoke and muzzle flash effects that make the gun kills feel sooo satisfying. The gameplay is surprisingly slow though, compared to previous COD’s, and again, It feels exactly like Black Ops 1 pasting wise, but slightly slower. Weapon recoil; like Black Ops 1, it feels different for each gun and requires a small amount of time to get use too. ( Overall, it has the traits of what made Mw2 fun, and it has the traits of what made Black Ops 1 require skill)
Battlefield’s next game will have to be on some Bad Company 2 / Battlefield 3 styled quality, because ..man classic COD is back.
I gotta admit, it looks very very good but I don’t think it can win me over. I don’t think COD will ever be better at large scale battles than Battlefield and that’s what I’m looking for.
Yes classic COD is back. That’s exactly the problem I have with it. I never enjoyed the multiplayer so a few modifications and ungraded visuals isn’t going to change the core experience as a whole. It’s still very much COD.
What BF did, that may be the reason MW will kill them off, is they tried to beat COD at their own game, by making BF…COD. They poached many during the Infinite Warfare debacle apparently with BF1. Now, they’re going to go back to their game.
That alone is going to dismember this game, or what’s left of it as of now. But i do feel, it is still…COD, and like all the hyped CODs of the past few years, a bit much overhyped .
It’s just that this particular BF isn’t a very good game. So, it will kill this, but the only thing that could kill the BF Franchise…is DICE/EA themselves, and that is quite more possible than not atp.