Here is a look at camping and sniping in Call of Duty, from the perspective of an annoyed gamer. Why do people complain about the tools given to them by the developers? Matthew Schuchman from Den of Geek takes a look into camping and sniping, and other deemed annoyances by Call of Duty gamers
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Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
Many players on social media are now reporting unannounced matchmaking fixes have been put in place by Activision ranging from Call of Duty 3 to Modern Warfare 2 to Black Ops 2, on Xbox 360. Players are reporting that player counts are updating, lobbies forming, and matchmaking times have been reduced. Neither Activision nor Microsoft have commented on the matter when reached out to at this time. This is currently impacting both 360 and BC versions of the games. PS3 is not affected at this time.
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Multiple users coming forward saying the games are finally working again after years of server issues. Note that not all issues such as player counts are totally fixed at this time however matchmaking is fully working again. With legacy Call of Duty games releasing on Game Pass within the next 2 years, it does make sense for these servers to eventually be corrected. Good to see the preservation of these legendary games. Hopefully PS3 receives the same treatment for these legacy titles!
“Activision Unexpectedly Fixes Old Call of Duty Servers, Just One Day After FTC Verdict”
Imagine that.
Conspiracy theory: MS have been planning on purchasing ABK for a long time. They let Sony outbid them for having console-exclusive CoD stuff/being first for certain dlc so the PlayStation player base would increase.
Years later, MS buy ABK, with plans to make CoD either exclusive/platform exclusive features etc with the release of a new console (Xbox Series X2?) So the established CoD player base migrates over to their platform, taking a huge percentage off Sony?
Wild theory
Game Rant Writes "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been available for 10 years, and in that time, no other entry has topped its weapon balance and variety."
Although Black Ops 2 is one of the more loved entries in the series, there seemed to be an overall lack of recoil when I played back in the day, which made the guns feel toy-like. The overall art style didnt really sit well with me at the time either. A bit too cartoony. I think zombies could have been cool, but on the PS3, playing splitscreen made the frame rate drop to unplayable levels.
I'm a BF3 man so I don't mind snipers and campers so much but the reality is that most people suck at both.Playing cat and mouse with a genuinely good player is part of the fun but I'll never understand the player who will sit right next to his spawn beacon at the edge of the map, or at the top of a crane round after round and be satisfied with two or three kills per game.
thats just one of the many reasons why i stoped playing black ops 2 it is by far at its highest point of awful of every word you can think of in relation to the word awful
BO2 has tried to eliminate camping by making every room have more than one access point. I think it's pretty effective, snipers really grind my gears though.
that is why i prefer MOBA and RTS games for online gaming.
Imo camping in the cod series is a sin because of the smaller maps. Sniper cod campers are fine with me because thats what snipers do....you may lose a lot of close up gun fights when armed with a sniper rifle vs a smg. Its kinda worthless if you dont camp...but unforgivable when you camp with a smg. No such thing as campers in bf, stages are big, snipers can be deadly and tanks are rolling around. I absolutely love sniping on bf there is no feeling like getting a head shot from the other side of the map and getting marksmanship bonus points...
That practically sold me on bf.