Modern Warfare 2

ChickenDish

Trying to play MW2 on a PS4 isnt much fun, seems anyone on a PS5 gets the drop on you. Screen freezes between matches so you cant change anything without leaving a lobby. Found even leveling up guns I cant seem to get recoil under control. Spent a lot of time spawning in front of the enemy. No interest in campaign, so hopefully warzone 2.0 will be playable.

Thought Vanguard wasnt great, but I'm back playing it and having more fun than playing MW2.

EagererBeaver

69gb on the Series S, with everything else already installed as well. Thankfully my 1Gb fibre in Spain took care of it in 25 mins :)

EagererBeaver

Game is a bit ass so far. They've made interacting with items so much harder in my opinion. Everything is harder to see, have to get super close to items to find out exactly what they are etc. Contracts are impossibly small.

Like the map from the little I've seen of it though.

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119887304#Comment_119887304

My initial impressions arent great, and mainly because of how unstable it is, took us about 30 mins last night to actually get into a game of WZ last night, and even then the servers were all over the shop with lag spikes and rubberbanding. DMZ was interesting but again, 2 of us had crashes to desktop during the session. Social tab is completely busted, and the problems with the games UI are totally amplified now that I've had to spend so much more time than usual trying to navigate it.

General comments -

The map is very interesting, and I'd have to reserve final judgment once the server issues are sorted, as the lobby wasnt full, but in battle royale, it felt very dead. no action to be heard for miles around, and the loot is incredibly sparse. I died and lost the gulag and ended up spectating for ages as there simply wasnt any ground cash to be found for a buyback.

The backpack looting - I dont mind it, but it feels weird compared to pubg or tarkov. The tab key in those games pops you straight in and out of looing, here, theres a weird kind of stickiness to it, where you actually have to start moving away from whatever you're looting to close the menu. They'd be better off having a drag and drop system imo, but that would likely put console players at a disadvantage.

I think I'll leave it for a week or so before trying it again, to see if things settle down a bit. The game has a long future ahead of it, hopefully they can polish it up quickly.

Craig_David

I'm a complete newbie to warzone and find it very frustrating as it takes so long to get a game going, then i'm dead in no time.

Any others want to join up for a game and show me the ropes? Drop me a pm.

I'm on xbox but its all cross gen now isn't it? so guess that's irrelevant ..

dreamers75

MW2 I liked it since Beta (1st COD in a long time i actually enjoyed) TTK is low so suits me, gunplay is good, maps and modes are varied. The addition of Realism/hardcore this week has got a few buddies on cos they sucked at normal Core modes 😁 UI is shocking and aim assist is what it is for controllers, at least its fair in that if you a lil bitch on pc you can play an FPS with a controller 🤐 I find with most of the guns if I fire 1st im gonna win the fight and that was my main gripe with presvious COD was losing a shootout to some 360 no scoping **** when i shot 1st.

Warzone 2

Didnt like 1 as imo it looked and played like a PS2 game compared to PUBG at the time it was technically miles apart, MW2 is a lot better (1st win after 3 games 😎) Missions, map and gunplay all a lot better and the fact the circle moves so it doesnt become a sniping fest with whoever has the high ground winning. We were pinned by a sniper squad and the circle moved from behind them to behind us 😁 Oh how the turns were tabled then!

Finding both suprisingly good and worth playing.

eggy81

Anyone find themselves firing at their teammates frequently when rushing a point in domination or hard point. It seems more difficult than in previous games to differentiate teammates from enemy’s. Also teammates having the same colour blue dot over them as the domination points causes you to miss enemy’s too. Hadn’t noticed this in 2019. Maybe it’s just me getting slow and jumpy.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119890438#Comment_119890438

Yes and I also mistake enemies for team mates which is worse.

I take back everything I said about SBMM. I'm now lucky if i can get more than a couple of kills in a game. Its turned so sweaty since the battle pass started. I keep playing one more game thinking any game now I'm going to be back down to the lower leagues and the game will be enjoyable again. But it's not happening. 2 days now of hard core pros dominating the games.

dreamers75

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119894306#Comment_119894306

tbh thats the penalty for playing well and it brings up simple point, players want to stomp and not be stomped on. So they want SBMM off and some sort of ranked play so they can avoid it and just play against players they can stomp.

I find it hilarious that people are complaing about not getting to stomp on players regulary and being stomped on after 5 decent matches.

That's not true, not for me anyway. I don't consider stomping all over people as the only way to enjoy the game.

The issue for me right now is that the dynamics of the game have changed. Up until the battle pass started the game had a lot of creeping around. A lot of single figure kills and deaths across the whole team not just me. It was tactical, positional, cautious.

Now I'm dying as soon as I spawn. I can forget about creeping about, it's certain death to stand still. It's become a run and gun game and it's all about getting your shot in first, which of course I very rarely do.

My point about the SBMM is it should put me back where I belong. If it doesn't soon I honestly can't see myself ever playing the game again. I don't have a lot of time for gaming, I'm not going to spend that time on a game that is frustrating and not inctge least bit enjoyable. Especially when it was very enjoyable before and something has changed or broken to make it very unenoyable.

I don't care about stomping over people or topping the leaderboard. Just a balanced game where everyone is doing well. I also would have had a lot of close games, often down to the final kill as a decider. Now it's 200-0 and players dropping out half way through. It's really messed up right now.

And I'm back now to my usual skill level 👌Much more enjoyable. Slower paced, tactical, positional, cautious.

Edit: Nope, spoke too soon. I just got 6 kills and 26 deaths.

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119896385#Comment_119896385

I’m at that level now too. Still going positive the odd time but my god some teams utterly obliterate you. I think maybe go away from the mixed uou have been playing to other modes might help it balance a bit again.

dreamers75

Play well for 5 games then go play WZ/DMZ or Invasion but do not play that 6th game.

I am really liking DMZ, its quite fun with others on comms. If anyone struggling for M13B I can drop it for you.

Ultimate Gowlbag

DMZ is a really decent mode,especially with some mates!

Warzone is a lot better than the previous,it feels more tactical and slow and closer to what a BR(in my mind) should be....instead of the slide cancelling,bunny hopping,adderall infused speed merchants flying around the maps!

Stone Deaf 4evr

I can't seem to get a match in warzone for some reason, no matter what gamemode I pick, it just gets stuck on matchmaking and never joins a lobby.

Everything else works fine, so its an odd one. DMZ is good craic, but I do want to at least have a few runs of Battle Royale every now and then.

dreamers75

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119914683#Comment_119914683

Port issue?

https://support.activision.com/warzone-2/articles/connecting-to-warzone-2

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119916552#Comment_119916552

I wouldnt think so, given I've no issues with any other gamemode, or indeed, any other game, But I'll have a look.

irish_goat

Played a bit of DMZ but I find other players are nearly always useless. I find loads of times I'll have teammates who go off in random directions or refuse to revive you if you're down. Biggest thing I can't understand are players who call in the exfil helicopter after only a few mins of the game. It takes a few mins to get a game going and they're immediately looking to bail out. Don't get it at all.

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119930030#Comment_119930030

probably doing missions where you've to get out with an item, for example the ones where you've to get gas cans or stims and bandages. The quickest, most risk free way of doing it is to head straight for the nearest petrol station, then book it for extract while everyone else is still finding their feet.

Personally, I think that if they're going to restrict you to doing 3 set missions, the matchmaking should try and pair you with people looking to do the same thing, or otherwise, have it in such a way that the missions can be achieved at any point once you've unlocked it, as sometimes a random spawn may dictate that the run is a bust as you're miles from whatever your objective is.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119930030#Comment_119930030

Yeah it's not one for radom team ups. I've had guys not revive me when I'm right beside them or hop into a vehicle and drive off without waiting for you to hop in. Waste of time, wouldn't touch it again unless playing with friends and to be honest I would be arsed even at that.

irish_goat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119931872#Comment_119931872

I get the opposite sometimes too. I'll be gunned down and another player will immediately try and revive me, instead of taking 2 seconds to check if the enemy player is still about.

gimli2112

Can't stop playing DMZ, loving it, not sure why but I am. Some of the exfils are absolute mayhem, deep in the radation, trying to revive two teammates, while my gas mask disintegrates and a truck with maybe enough petrol to get out and get to the chopper. It's much better in a trio but even if it is randoms it adds to the rng.

Ultimate Gowlbag

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119942242#Comment_119942242

it is a great game mode,we try to skip any mayhem or ambushes at extractions by just doing a hostage contract when we are ready to dip!

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119942242#Comment_119942242

I think its after reintroducing the 'special gaming moment' potential.

we played a game the other night, was way down the south doing contracts and quests and didnt cop the time going when the radiation rolled in. went to the nearest extract and 2 of us got killed by a team waiting for the the chopper. Our teammate left them extract, and then we were running to get a car and get out of the radiation.

Arrived at the middle of the map, and the next extraction, proceeded to get into a long firefight with another team, which we won, but the radiation had caught up to us and we couldn't use the extract, cue running like mad through the city streets to get to the northeast corner, we see the chopper coming in, and the announcer says they're leaving in 60 seconds. Just as we arrive at the extract, we notice a team circling in an LTV, and we assumed the worst was about to happen.

For some reason they didnt push until we had gotten into the chopper and we mowed them down on the steps just 3 seconds before it took off.

It was epic, and I was buzzing for the night after it.

gimli2112

yeah I've had a few like that. The one that would have been the best ever ended with me crashing a chopper and killing my last teammate with me. I felt awful, he had picked up an M13 too from someone we killed. I've been on a few final choppers, as far as I can tell no one will chance teaming up, I certainly wouldn't take a chance on a fellow random cod player requesting to go friendly. Final chopper is kill or be killed as far as I'm concerned although I have found it's not too busy - I've only extracted on it a handful of times.

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119943313#Comment_119943313

As far as I know, If you hold down the ping wheel, you can select an option to invite players to squad up, where they essentially become friendlies and you cant kill them. I must try it next time to see if theres any takers.

gimli2112

I was activating a SAM site with two randoms when we were attacked by a lone wolf sniper. We rushed him and I put him down as he parachuted away, of course he revived before I got to him and he ran into a building. I threw a stun at him which turned out to be smoke which just aided his escape. Couldn't see where he went, then he popped out from behind dumpster put down one of the randoms and disappeared once more.

Appeared again and almost stuck me with a molotov but I put him down a second time. This is when he decided that he wanted to join our group. Battlefield justice is harsh however.

Blazer

Still need to finish the first level in DMZ.. exfil the white lotus intel.

Every goddamn squad I team up with (ramdomers) just **** off doing their own thing and in solo mode the bots are way way op and just like terminators.

Definitely up for teamups if anyone's up for it.. I'm on Pc.

CptMonkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119943821#Comment_119943821

You think that’s bad. I got the intel and went to a buy station to get a uav before I extracted and I went to sell some stuff and I sold the intel 😵

Vicxas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119944790#Comment_119944790

Did the exact same thing last night, 2 lads in my squad made a mockery of me.

Also, really enjoying the Irish operator.

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119948434#Comment_119948434

yeah, the voice lines are gas,

ya dope!

NoviGlitzko

What class is everyone using most?

There's a lot of stuff about this game that annoys me like some of the maps, excessive camping, SBMM etc. but I LOVE that they have iron sight sniping back. Reminds me of the good ol days of World at War with the Mosin Nagant.

Primary: SA-B 50 (marksman rifle)

Secondary: Lockwood 300 (shotty)

Perks: Bomb Squad, Overkill, Fast Hands, High Alert

Ultimate Gowlbag

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119949221#Comment_119949221

DMZ = any gun that needs leveling

BR = P890 akimbos and RPK with the 3.4 scope

Shoothouse is all i play in the multiplayer,so usually run different SMGs!

Sexual Chocolate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119949221#Comment_119949221

Leveling up a few at the minute. Main one of the lot would be MP5 and Glock 17. Scar L if it's a bigish map but most playing shoothouse lately.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I'd love to see what the player distribution is following the launch of maps like shoothouse and shipment. personally havent looked at the launch maps since shoothouse arrived, and even then, I don't particularly love it, but its certainly the easiest to jump in, hit your xp challenges and then leave.

farada

And I'm back now to my usual skill level 👌Much more enjoyable. Slower paced, tactical, positional, cautious.

CptMonkey

I’m liking most of the map but the border crossing one can kiss my ass. I hate it. The rest are good imo. The levelling up guns takes a good while

Ultimate Gowlbag

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119963608#Comment_119963608

Worst map from any CoD,there was a hilarious vid of some dude spawning,running 10 yards and a car blowing up killing him over and over at the start of the match!

DMZ or Shoothouse is great for leveling,spam decoy grenades too!

NoviGlitzko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119964022#Comment_119964022

At the start I hated it too but once your run Bomb Squad it's bearable.

Maps like Breenbergh Hotel (truly awful for TDM), Crown Raceway (one of the worst maps I've played), and last but not least El Asilo, the spawn killing paradise are worse for me. I'd add Taraq to this list but honestly it shouldn't be in a 6v6. I just leave when I see it and El Asilo especially.

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119967784#Comment_119967784

Funnily enough, I love border crossing, but I dont play modes that reset the cars, so once they're exploded, they're gone.

Hate the hotel map, no matter how often I play it, it feels like I'm constantly running to try and find someone to shoot, El Asilo is an awful map as well.

I also like Taraq and Crown Raceway, but farm 18 or hydroelectric are probably the best of the launch maps.

Snake Plisken

Actually hope they never bring back the Museum map horrible to big for 6V6.

Also I want proper Hardcore back Tier 1 is not the same

farada

Every goddamn squad I team up with (ramdomers) just **** off doing their own thing and in solo mode the bots are way way op and just like terminators.

Ultimate Gowlbag

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119970664#Comment_119970664

There's a Boards discord on the go,you might be able to find people to play with from that..... https://discord.gg/7bXqZ5CZyg

farada

Appeared again and almost stuck me with a molotov but I put him down a second time. This is when he decided that he wanted to join our group. COD mod apk justice is harsh however.

The battle pass is a bitch in this game. I'm level 82 but only have 4 zones on the battle pass.

You also have to level up a 0 token before you get to the first useable 1 token.

This is a complete and utter rip off. I used credits I had stored up but definitely won't be getting the battle pass again.

Stone Deaf 4evr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119983805#Comment_119983805

really? I only play about 30 mins per day, hit my dailies and log off, and I'm 46% complete. I dont see any major change to previous years progression rates.

Ultimate Gowlbag

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119983805#Comment_119983805

The only problem i had with tokens was having to restart the game so they would actually show up!

CptMonkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119983805#Comment_119983805

That must be a glitch. I don’t play a huge amount but I have got the first free gun and only 4 tokens from the next free gun. I’m only level 50

F1ngers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119943821#Comment_119943821

You probably have this done by now, for others still trying to do this, you don't have to do it in one go.

I acquired the keycard one day, another day I killed a guy who dropped the white lotus intel(grabbed it and exfilled straight away) and then lastly I cleared the stronghold.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119987912#Comment_119987912

Yea that is what i mean by slow, do you.not think you should be further in than that? You're on level 50 so by the old system you'd be 50% through but you've only just scratched the surface.

Heres an example. I got 31 kills, 3 assists, 6 deaths. 5.17 k/d and it gave me just over 1/2 a token. But I got just short.of 2 levels up. If we were on the old xp system I'd be nearly finished the battle pass.

No surprises there's an option to buy tokens.