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sryanbruen wrote: »

What do you mean "beta" access? As in just playing it shortly earlier or beta testing?

Sorry for not being clear, I just saw that people are playing the game already on XB1 and PS4 and I'm wondering if I buy it now will I be able to use it right away or will it be a case of waiting until November 3rd.

WWII veterans at Sledgehammer Games' studios this week playing Call of Duty: WWII

Snake Plisken wrote: »

You are right just found some gameplay in German but it looks the same as Treyarch Zombies nothing really new about it, I was expecting a kind of Dead Space type of zombie game. Pretty disappointing

Looks like I'll be playing multiplayer a lot more than zombies for a change.

quinnd6 wrote: »

Yes and when you buy it after November 3rd you're still going to get a disc that is useless without a bloody patch.
Part of the reason of having a console is you stick the game in and play it.
You shouldn't have to download a patch in order to unlock your own game.
Your after paying 60 quid for it.
To me this is unacceptable.
I for one won't support this kind if anti consumer bs.

Trust me, there are things far far worse about Activision's scummy business practices.

jayo26 wrote: »

This is new to me I've never played cod with them in it? Is this good or bad? I'd imagine it don't make much difference?

Supply drops are essentially a slot machine. They're fine once they keep them cosmetic only but once they add weapons to the slot machine, it's extremely bad. You have like a 1 in 1000 chance of achieving a weapon from a supply drop. For example, Black Ops 3's supply drop system was the worst. The only way you could get a weapon is via a supply drop by your own luck. However, you could spend up to millions of dollars on COD points to buy supply drops and not get any weapon or not get the weapon you want. Some of these supply drop weapons are game breaking and thus pay to win, especially the XMC in Black Ops 3 which is a reimagining of the MSMC from Black Ops 2. Before the launch of each game with supply drops, they have said that supply drops would be cosmetic only BUT they have continued to lie every time. It's the same for WW2 though Michael Condrey specifically said "at launch" with his statement of them being cosmetic only, so we'll wait and see how long 'til they add game changing weapons to supply drops or loot boxes. It takes 10 cryptokeys/keys/depot credits to buy a common supply drop whilst it takes 30 cryptokeys/keys/depot credits to buy a rare supply drop which guarantees you get at least one rare loot.

I'm not aware of how AW did their supply drop system because I never played that game. Black Ops 3 I've pretty much stated already above but as of June 2016, you are given daily and weekly contracts (and sometimes special ones). The daily contract gives you 10 cryptokeys. The weekly contract gives you 30 cryptokeys and a Mercenary Contract to allow you to use the Blackjack specialist. Special contracts come like every few months or month, it's very random. They can be random but the most common special contract has been get 100 wins to achieve a Triple Play. A Triple Play is 10 rare supply drops, a ranged weapon bribe (guarantees a ranged weapon) and a melee weapon bribe (guarantees a melee weapon). The drop rate of cryptokeys/keys/depot credits btw after every match is very low. Some matches you may not get even 1 cryptokey/key/depot credit. You get cryptokeys for every duplicate you receive with the number of cryptokeys depending on the rarity of the loot. So for example, a common loot duplicate will give you 1 cryptokey.

Infinite Warfare's supply drop system works like this: Weapons aren't in supply drops unlike Black Ops 3 but they're not given to you straight off the bat. If you own the season pass, they are given to you for free. If you don't, you must complete a challenge to unlock each weapon. Infinite Warfare (and Advanced Warfare also) has Weapon Variants in supply drops too. These are statistic changing variants, they are not cosmetic. They change the way the gun works. Like a variant may give you higher accuracy but it will downgrade something else of your gun to balance it out. Each supply drop gives you a currency called salvage. This is a crafting currency, so if you have enough salvage, you can buy the weapon variants you want without relying on supply drop luck. You get free salvage/free supply drops just for daily logins to Infinite Warfare also which increase in quantity/quality the more consecutive days you log in - in Black Ops 3 you don't get anything for logging in. However, there are Mark 2 variants which are locked behind supply drops and you cannot craft these using salvage. These Mark 2 variants give you bonus XP if you use the weapon the variant is on. Unlike Black Ops 3, multiplayer and zombies share the same currency in Infinite Warfare which means you can play MP or zombies to earn keys for supply drops. There are separate supply drop crates for both modes but you can choose to open either all you like as they share the same currency. So you can earn keys in zombies and open the MP (Quartermaster it's called) supply drops.

Modern Warfare Remastered also has a supply drop system. It is different to the aforementioned systems again. The currency in this game for supply drops is called depot credits. You earn these via playing the MP. Each supply drop you buy gives you a certain amount of a currency called Parts which is the "Salvage" essentially of MWR. You can craft things using Parts. Game changing weapons can be crafted and only crafted via opening supply drops and collecting the necessary things in the weapon's bounty collection (such as calling cards, a character theme etc) or using Parts to buy each thing in the collection. Once you collect all the things, you are given the weapon. There are plenty of different collections to complete in the game.

We'll wait and see how WW2's supply drops will turn out.

Is that descriptive enough for ya? Lol. So in summary, supply drops are a money machine for Activision and therefore extremely bad for the consumer especially when they add game changing weapons to them, though as you saw, IW and MWR gave us more options in getting the weapons than BO3 which relied 100% on your RNG.

jayo26 wrote: »

So basically we don't know ha

Well knowing Activision, it will be bad.

jayo26 wrote: »

If you pull a weapon from a supply drop is it permanent of just for that game?

Permanent.

https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/925805984831897600

Snake Plisken wrote: »

9 multiplayer maps t launch is pretty poor I’ve no interest in war mode and I think they are short changing the multiplayer community by giving us so few maps

I saw a comment in a reply to a youtuber's tweet on that matter saying something along the lines of ah well, at least we can be guaranteed some good maps at launch than Black Ops 3 having a large number but very poor maps at launch. :cool:

pc version goes live tonight at 12 bells according to the steam page

Call of Duty®: WWII release dates and times:
Japan/Asia Pacific: Nov 3 at 12am JST (Nov 2, 15:00 GMT)
UK/EU/Russia CIS/Africa/Middle East: Nov 3 at 12am CET (Nov 3, 0:00 GMT)
North America/South America: Nov 3 at 12am EDT (Nov 3, 4:00 GMT)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/476600/Call_of_Duty_WWII/