It seems like it’s doing pretty well for a modern CoD. All the other recent ones have been pretty garbage. So far I’m hearing mostly good things about this one but I wanted to get more info before I buy it. How is it? Is it relatively balanced? Doesn’t it have any p2w elements like its recent predecessors? Is the dlc reasonably priced?
Edit: so it appears the servers are bad to the point that the game is almost unplayable. I’ll hold off on buying it for now
Pros:
- The gun customization is the best its ever been with dozens of different optics and other attachments for every single gun that are all obtainable by gameplay
- The gun play and hit detection is great as with Infinity Ward tradition. All the guns feel powerful when you shoot them.
- The audio in the game is excellent from the gun sounds to killstreak sounds
- Every gun feels useful and there's not that one-single weapon that dominates everything. They patched the 725 a bunch of times to the point where its useless.
Cons:
- All of the maps excluding the remakes and new ones like Shoothouse are complete garbage and forgettable. Some of them are just too big and there's way too many angles to be shot at from it can be overwhelming at times.
- No custom emblem creator and there's a severe lack of player ID customization as a whole.
- They change the playlist rotation every week so its annoying when your favorite maps and gamemodes no longer come up because of that.
- The game has skill-based matchmaking so you will need to sweat your ass off like everyone else that you get matched with. There's hardly a moment where you can just sit back, relax, and drop a 50+ kill game without trying like in the older CoDs.
- The servers are dogshit.