I got COD: Ghosts for Xmas on the 360 and, though COD has largely been unappealing to me since COD2, I have been enjoying it a lot. Not the competitive multiplayer mind you- I have little doubt that that mode is as unfun as ever. No, I play campaign.. and Extinction.
Extinction, the 'kill aliens' gamemode, features 4 player co-op where you need to destroy these alien hives to get through the map. Once you reach the end, you need to run back to the helicopter to be extracted. I've never even made it to the Cabin, which I think is the halfway point.
Yet this is through little real fault of my own. I am level 14, with probably around almost a dozen games under my belt (keep in mind, these games last much longer than a typical game of competitive multiplayer), and from my first game to the one I just finished, I have never not had the most points, kills, revives, and drill repairs on my team. And it's really frustrating. See, I'm not the type to get mad at teammates just because they don't do as well as me, though. It's a game, and we're having fun. No, what irritates me is their method for being so bad.
Every round you get an objective such as 'only use melee,' 'have 75% accuracy,' 'kill 25 enemies while prone,' and many more. I have NEVER been in a game where any more than me and one other person has even made a half-hearted attempt to meet the objectives. Meeting these objectives is important because they provide substantial benefits to you and your team both, and by ignoring them you make it nigh impossible to win because your character is too weak when you are trying to finish the City part. So when you need to use only melee? Randoms always use the pistol. I think I've had it happen six times now where due to me shooting with my magnum we have had 100% shot accuracy, then the randoms see people and start shooting their assault rifles and we're immediately down to 20-25%. Kill while prone; try kill with electric fence while they run in circles. Ugh.
The second issue is that people leave. Out of my games, I have played with the full four people once. And then two of them left once the first round ended. So I have never played a full game with four people. Randoms in Ghosts either completely ignore the objectives, they run off doing who knows what on the map, or quit. And it is very frustrating.
Despite all of this, I do enjoy the mode. It's really fun, it's a really cool twist on game modes we have seen before, and I encourage people to play Ghosts just for this one mode, hah.
So yeah. I suppose... discuss lame meetings with randoms, and if anybody wants to play Extinction it'd rock to get a team together that will actually give it a shot, hah.
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You clearly haven't played BF4 then... Well, you might have done... but still. Mouthbreathers. Mouthbreathers everywhere.