Black Ops III Multiplayer: Did Treyarch Take It Too Far?

Call of Duty: What Happened to Three? We look at the multiplayer for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, but things don't seem....right.

[StormLegend]

Finally someone who feels just like I do about BO3. I hate the MP but the zombie modes are awesome. The MP is really bad and people do nothing but jump all day. It's also really hard knowing where a person is, the guns are terrible, the maps are bad and it's hard to kill more than 2 people in a row.

[B3NB4IL]

Yes! I'm not alone! It's just not right, it's a huge mess! They better stick to reality in terms of combat for WWII!

[StormLegend]

Agreed! it's garbage IMO I never liked treyarch MP games. (IMO) AW, MW and even IW did it better. This made me realize that the Warfare series is what I like most, but the zombies from treyarch is awesome.

[FITgamer]

TBH I think out of the 3 games they've done with boost jumping BO3 did it best. It really wasn't that bad.
I personally was a beast at the game.

The only thing I really didn't like were specialist abilities, the ridiculous score streaks, scrubby perks and attachments.

[B3NB4IL]

I totally agree, while I'm not a fan of the jumping, it was done well, I was able to mange it fine. but the fast running, specialist perks, freaking boxing gloves, and all that....nah. Just nah.

[vickers500]

" The MP is really bad"

No. It's actually some of the best mp the series has had in a long time. I've played them all, cept Ghosts (played a beta or something of ghosts though) and Black Ops 3 was the first CoD game I prestiged in and kept on playing. I prestiged once in Black Ops 1 and stopped playing after hitting 20 something.

Blops 3 beats Infinite Warfare, Advanced Warfare, probably ghosts, Black Ops 2, Modern Warfare 3, even the remastered version of Call of Duty 4, which for some reason does not feel at all like CoD4 anymore and somehow feels much worse (I don't remember the connections sucking that hard on cod4 last gen, or there being as many campers back then as there are now).

The guns are great, as well as most of the maps. And one thing in particular that Blops 3 excels at over every other cod, it actually has freaking color. I love the vibrant and colorful maps, not JUST because of that, they have good map design too, but the color adds a lot to the experience and enjoyment.

As I've said, I've played every other cod cept ghosts, but Black Ops 3 is the first game I've ever bought the season pass for (bought the digital version of the game + season pass for 60 bucks, even though I already had a 15 dollar copy I bought from gamefly). It's the first cod in a long time that I can proudly admit to enjoying, because it's a genuinely good CoD game, both in MP and campaign, while the campaign is no bioshock, I still enjoyed it.

You may not be good enough to get used to knowing where people are or good enough to navigate the maps efficiently, but that's more of a you problem than a fault of the game. It's just a bit more of a high maintenance CoD than you're probably able to get used to, but that doesn't mean it's bad. I feel like the immature and stupid "git gud" phrase applies here.

Take away wall running, boosting, jumping, abilities, whatever, and you just have the same twitch gameplay, without the skill required in movement. Which is fine, but CoD does not need to stick to either or, it can and SHOULD be both.

One team can do the wall runner cods, and one team can go back to the original done-to-death (imo) formula.

My prediction is that when people get their hands on the ww2 cod, they're going to hate it. They won't know why, they'll blame it on sledgehammer being a shitty dev, but in reality, they'll probably just be trying to live out a nostalgia fantasy, trying to recapture the feelings they had back when the REAL infinity ward made cod games.

I mean lets be honest here, you know what you're going to get from ww2, you're going to get a shitty cod game from a shitty cod developer, except it's going to have less gameplay features/variety. If it was treyarch, then there might be a reason to get excited, but this is sledgehammer we're talking about, they've never made a "good" mp cod game. Advanced Warfare was okay, not good though.

People will ultimately be disappointed in the ww2 cod, mark my words.

[yeahokwhatever]

Blops2 > blops3. fact.

[vickers500]

Disagree. Other than that boat one, the maps in Blops 2 were pretty mediocre (imo).

[DaGR8JIBRALTAR]

Doesn't beat Blops 2 my friend or one, but 3 is a good game tho.

[B3NB4IL]

I respect your comment, very good points! I do know that it's my own fault for being terrible at it, but at the same time it feels too...well what I said. It's a mess for me.

I respect Call of Duty for trying new things, and I do think that the jump boosting was done fairly well in terms of ease of use, but everything else was just eh. I would like to see more team based gameplay as CoD always feels like it's just a blitz to the win.

I do hope WWII is going to be good, and I do think that Treyarch are great, I guess time will tell!

[ChronoJoe]

I don't think it's great but I don't think Infinite Warfare is good either. The last Call of Duty game I enjoyed to any real degree was Black Ops 2, and perhaps Ghosts (even though Ghosts as a whole wasn't great).

My favourite Call of Duty game right now is Titanfall 2.

[yeahokwhatever]

black ops 2 is my jam.

[B3NB4IL]

The only reason I enjoyed Ghosts was literally just for the Gun Game

[NotanotherReboot]

Ever since I bought Black Ops2 a couple weeks ago, I haven't touched Black ops 3. SO much garbage in the mp: from the cancerous melee weapons, those annoying AF specialist abilities (looking at you ripper and flame thrower) and the whole jumping about shit too

[B3NB4IL]

I have Black Ops 1 on backwards compatibility, kind of want to delve back into it, but the Zombies in BO3 is wonderful.

[Next_gen_2015]

They took it too far with the specialists. The specialists in Bo3 are more powerful than the killstreaks XD

[B3NB4IL]

The only specialist I enjoy is Rouge, and using the see through walls perk. Otherwise every other one is stupid. :D

[TheGamez100]

Multiplayer is fun and I loved it for a few months. Then I got sick of the boosts and specialists and then theres the supply drops that ruined it for me. Get rid of those then it'd be the best cod multplayer I've ever played.