Genuinely baffling at times and stuck in perpetual beta 24/7 nothing has changed since its inception al mazrah is still a boring map none of the resurgence maps are good, (rebirth island is coming back woopdedoo nobody has to play these dogwater maps anymore) the UI consistently shits itself every season with a billion different sensory overload icons that bloat your vision (i have lost actual engagements because a HUD element was covering what i was aiming at so i couldn't even see).
I also admire the fact that activision has convinced themselves they need a billion crossover skins that all look like shit none of them are thematic or even look good all the season 6 crossover stuff is fucking awful the only good spawn skin is locked at tier 100 in the battle pass (seriously who the fuck gives a shit about al simmons the character??) and the rest of the skins are absolutely atrocious looking representations of the comic characters (violators skins is awful) this also somewhat ties into the fact that the new battle pass system has been consistently awful since day one the zones system is fucking stupid and makes it feel ten times more grindier (auto claim wasn't even added till like 4 seasons in).
Also dear god even with the increased health pool every firefight either drags or ends in two seconds the balance has always been horrendous but its even more on display here everyone uses the same 3 guns because everything else doesn't do as well their commitment to having a billion fucking guns doesn't work when the same 3 guns are always consistently in use.
Quick footnote on DMZ but it sucks support for it has been atrocious since day one they slammed a beta tag on it to i assume deflect some criticism but its clear they think its seaworthy enough to sell P2W fast track bundles that give you in game items i wouldn't even have a problem with DMZ if you could even do the main missions maybe its just an issue with the servers i land on but every lobby feels like a thunderdome killathon where everyone is trying to join a 6 man fast enough so they can gang up on the lobby and ensure you're not allowed to play the assimilation works well enough but it also lends itself to the issue of entitled players thinking they deserve to be revived after every firefight (because they want to stomp with players they think are "good") realistically a truce system would solve maybe 2 out of 50 6 man kill squads but i barely trust the playerbase to be able to engage in critical thought let alone use a truce system to say they aren't gonna treat it like its warzone.
Do i think MW3 integration will fix it in its current state? not really sledgehammer has proven to always be the black sheep of the studio and i don't think they're beating those allegations anytime soon the movement might end up being better but my hope for the new map is nill and i think a lot of the issues here are both tied to the fact raven software cannot manage a seasonal FOMO experience without shitting the bed.
I also admire the fact that activision has convinced themselves they need a billion crossover skins that all look like shit none of them are thematic or even look good all the season 6 crossover stuff is fucking awful the only good spawn skin is locked at tier 100 in the battle pass (seriously who the fuck gives a shit about al simmons the character??) and the rest of the skins are absolutely atrocious looking representations of the comic characters (violators skins is awful) this also somewhat ties into the fact that the new battle pass system has been consistently awful since day one the zones system is fucking stupid and makes it feel ten times more grindier (auto claim wasn't even added till like 4 seasons in).
Also dear god even with the increased health pool every firefight either drags or ends in two seconds the balance has always been horrendous but its even more on display here everyone uses the same 3 guns because everything else doesn't do as well their commitment to having a billion fucking guns doesn't work when the same 3 guns are always consistently in use.
Quick footnote on DMZ but it sucks support for it has been atrocious since day one they slammed a beta tag on it to i assume deflect some criticism but its clear they think its seaworthy enough to sell P2W fast track bundles that give you in game items i wouldn't even have a problem with DMZ if you could even do the main missions maybe its just an issue with the servers i land on but every lobby feels like a thunderdome killathon where everyone is trying to join a 6 man fast enough so they can gang up on the lobby and ensure you're not allowed to play the assimilation works well enough but it also lends itself to the issue of entitled players thinking they deserve to be revived after every firefight (because they want to stomp with players they think are "good") realistically a truce system would solve maybe 2 out of 50 6 man kill squads but i barely trust the playerbase to be able to engage in critical thought let alone use a truce system to say they aren't gonna treat it like its warzone.
Do i think MW3 integration will fix it in its current state? not really sledgehammer has proven to always be the black sheep of the studio and i don't think they're beating those allegations anytime soon the movement might end up being better but my hope for the new map is nill and i think a lot of the issues here are both tied to the fact raven software cannot manage a seasonal FOMO experience without shitting the bed.