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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 116.2 hrs on record (45.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 23 Mar, 2022 @ 1:58pm
Updated: 15 Apr, 2022 @ 3:44pm
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After some serious gameplay testing of this game, i find it to be fairly good overall but it does contain some small problems that seriously need to be fixed for the game to shine properly today. Primarily, it's a "cod clone" around the era when COD was actually not sad and insane. Black ops 1, MW3, BO2 era esc. But the twists are designed to be self-contained and that make the game work real well.

Now to the problems. Killstreaks which appear after being pre-set and the points achieved, often then to glitch out and cannot be used. Keep in mind i have re-bound some buttons but this shouldn't trigger any bugs. HISTORIC FACT: As the first person on planet earth that failed to upload his M.O.A.B clip from MW3 due to the freaking BUTTON REMAPPING ruining my button press to use the nuke; fix this general glitch so we can use our killstreaks and then we'll call it a day.

Secondly, the exploding throwing knives are infuriating. They are too strong and worse yet people can wield 2 of them. They should be removed from the game or made to be far weaker. The last serious problem the game got, is that you get staggered when taking a hit. This is fine but things like explosions and molotovs also trigger the annoying effect. If an smg bullet hit me extremely far away, a nade or molotov flame nick me for 5% damage. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME MOVE, fix these issues and the game got only other annoying issues to take care of.

For example, some of the spawns in certain game modes are so horribly bad it is always about "first come first win". If you win the first battle on the map that rotates in the middle at capture the point, you most likely win the ENTIRE game due to how that entire round is won. This leads to your teammates staying more often and the enemies leaving. This in return means often that you keep playing 6v5 = Victory most likely. Extremely bad design for some of these sites, with, again, horribly bad respawn logic that brute-force losses or victories because of:
A: You spawn so far away you cannot get to the point in time.
B: You spawn on enemies and cannot even try to get a fight going properly because you are taken offguard.

The rust map here is by far the blatantly worst map in the entire game. It's triangle design is so horrid i would urge the developers to delete the map and re-make it fundamentally. The triangle design don't work, it's horrible, and despite playing at god-tier levels you can still get spawn-camped to hell and back at one of the spawns due to how the enemy can see you. But that's not even the issue, the problem is that 1 team is legitimately funneled into 2 general paths and can be sniped infinitely. This isn't just bad design, it's some of the worst i have seen in my entire life when we all should KNOW of the grotesque spawn-camping that was possible in MW3?!?!?!?! (people getting 500+ kill games, look it up).

So overall, the game look really good and play on most if not anything. You can get stellar fps on a 12 year old PC even. Or a weak one today. You also get plenty of frames, a 360Hz display would work with this game. There's also lots of settings to adjust to your liking. Past how the game is F2P and there's a few wallhack cheaters you meet rarely, the game is a very refreshing experience today due to how COD have left this style in the dirt. And for that, good riddance. This game let you do anything and it IS therefore better fundamentally. The explosive-spam won't be missed. Only thing i can wish for is for the bugs i mentioned to be fixed eventually; past other updates.

Competitively: The cod genre was never really about the competitive, truthfully. And CS:GO rose above COD in the blink of an eye because of how the game fundamentally was created around the aspect being the main priority of the game and it's heritage. Sadly, COD won't ever be that. But that's why it should excel at the casual shooter experience instead. Take note of how few historically TRULY care about S&D or competitive COD/Ironsight. Nobody does. And nearly nobody will. From this perspective, i'll always recommend game developers to rather polish the gamemodes they got and make them more fluid. And on that note, Black Ops 1 is the god-tier example of a world-class spawn dynamic system that always let the player get his footing before respawning. Past any other map design flaws.

Strongly recommend the game to older COD lovers, or people that want a casual fps shooting experience and is getting dead tired of the horribly annoying Battle-Royale inane spam-fest the entire market is being plagued over by. Overall i'll give this game 7.5/10. Any games above 5, i will actively play some or a lot. But as a veteran of FPS gaming at this point, this smash COD so let it be known.

Did get a pental kill today btw, that was siiiiiiick.
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