No matter what muzzle I slap on the thing, my AK-47 still rattles like a hollow aerosol can with every shot. In comparison, Cold War’s guns sound like plastic knockoffs. LMGs scream louder than the teammates in your ear, while near-miss shots snap the sound barrier like a rubber band. Modern Warfare (and Warzone, by extension) set a high bar with its bassy, abrasive sound effects. Hit detection is only half the reason Cold War’s guns aren’t very fun to shoot. Treyarch has surfaced loads of useful weapon stats that were hidden in Modern Warfare. It’s hard to tell if this is a consequence of the servers or simply a lower bullet velocity. Hit detection is sluggish, taking anywhere between 5-7 frames after shooting to register a hit in Cold War (Modern Warfare had a consistent 3-frame delay in my testing). Call of Duty games have always struggled with low tickrate servers that let you get shot after you've already made it behind cover, but this is the worst it has felt in years. Thanks, I hate it!īallistics are also a major step back in Cold War. Across four different matches, I’ve shot down choppers just to watch another fly into the airspace ten seconds later, and another after that. If that sounds like a recipe for more chaos than ever, you’d be correct. Going on a streak will help earn them faster, but the new system allows even a simpleton like me to carpet bomb the map with napalm at least once per match. Except now, progress toward streaks isn’t reset upon death (making “streak” a total misnomer). Cold War switches back to the Treyarch-style of scorestreaks that account for all points earned, not just kills. This is a roundabout way of saying that killstreaks are still around and still unfortunately prominent. The need for Ghost or Cold Blooded wastes a slot I’d rather use on a fun perk that lets me shoot while sprinting. All of the stealth-based perks like Ghost that I usually use to avoid UAVs are relegated to the third slot. Perks in the first two slots are minor bonuses to grenade resistances and cooldowns. I think this is partly why perks are less impactful this time around. I enjoy the absurdity of Gunfighter, which lets you stick eight attachments to a gun instead of the usual five, though I suspect most players will stick to the Perk Greed wildcard to score an extra three perks for free. Wildcards, class modifiers seen in past Black Ops games, let you bend the rules in some fun ways. Treyarch’s latest take on Create-a-Class does come with a few improvements. Pick up my sci-fi novels Herokiller and Herokiller 2, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. But yeah, prepare for an expensive next gen launch if more and more games keep going down this road.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. We should know more about these editions and what they cost tomorrow. Things like Smart Delivery were supposed to make this situation easy for consumers, but it’s clear that some companies see an opportunity being left on the table, and they’re taking it. It does seem like players will have a choice to make soon enough here, whether to buy the more expensive edition at launch so they can play across generations, or wait on it for when the next gen systems are out and the new version is sold by itself. It’s not clear how much better say, PS5 Cold War would look and play compared to PS4 Cold War, and raises questions about potential backward compatibility, as in, can PS5 definitely run PS4 Cold War if need be? If so, what sort of native improvements might that give it? Or would Activision deliberately hold those back for a new version? It’s an annoyance for players who have seen other big games and companies offer free next-gen upgrades, from all first party Microsoft games to large third party titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. (Update: Another leak says the release date is November 13 which seems like it should be.very close to next-gen launch indeed, so we’ll see how that goes) If the Standard Edition is $60, the Cross-Gen Edition could be $70 or potentially even $80, depending on how much Activision wants to push it. We also do not have a release date for Black Ops Cold War, but it stands to reason that it will purposefully debut before PS5 and Xbox Series X come out, which would force players to either wait to buy the next gen edition by itself when it comes out, or spring for the Cross-Gen Edition at launch.
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