Can't avoid talking about it: CoD MW2 beta...

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@Daeyon-be wrote:

So, I decided to try out the MW2 beta... Last CoD I played was Black Ops II or Modern Warfare 3, whichever came out last but whatever...

And tried the game mode invasion... It actually felt like a BF game, although with dumbed down vehicle gameplay... The other modes are okay too, but invasion was really nice.

Few things to mention:

- Map design: It's good. Buildings with actual layouts and furniture (not just 2 pots of paint and a ladder inside). The map flow was decent too, plenty of options and constantly shifting

- Gun-play: Very solid, recoil feedback a bit much but at least all the scopes are functional and varied. In BF2042 it feels like you're gimping yourself using anything other than fusion holo and the impact attachments make seems inadequate.

- Graphics: Pretty good, obviously no serious destruction but eh, don't have that in BF2042 either tbh. I do like the overall feel of the soldiers and maps.

- Customisation: plenty to do, operator skins seemed a bit "meh" but maybe because it's beta? Gunsmith is great, lots of options to mess around with.

- Balance: seems okay so far. Haven't had any "wth, how?" moments like I frequently have in BF2042

- Menu/UI: Guess they hired the guy who did the original UI for BF2042 because it's awfull. Way too much unecesarry stuff...

- Sound: OMG yes. So good. Makes the pea-shooter sounds from BF2042 laughable...

So that's my small take on MW2 beta. Enjoying it more than BF2042 but might be because it's new... Plus kinda have to play this game because I paid for the season passes... aaaanyways, I might probably switch to COD after all this time because BF-series has let me down one too many times...

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I didn’t really like it. Too many bots and these aren’t bots like in this game where they’re placeholders for human players. Vehicle gameplay being meh just makes it worse since the appeal of BF to me is that it’s vehicle focused.

@Daeyon-beIt would take a lot to get me to buy another CoD. I reluctantly bought Advanced Warfare and when I saw the trailer for Infinite Warfare, I threw my hands up in the air and vowed not to buy another one. Same thing I’m about to do with the BF franchise.

I've purchased both series since the beginning, typically preorders--I get something from CoD and something else from Battlefield.

In terms of what each series has been for me in the past, this CoD beta delivers as it typically does and is stretching itself to offer more while 2042 pretty much failed at maintaining the quality I had been used to.

I'll continue to preorder CoD but definitely won't do that for the Battlefield series.

"- Gun-play: Very solid, recoil feedback a bit much but at least all the scopes are functional and varied. In BF2042 it feels like you're gimping yourself using anything other than fusion holo and the impact attachments make seems inadequate."

This is one of the main features I look for in these games. CoD has handled it very well while I still feel 2042 failed miserably.

Am I still playing 2042? Yup, mainly because I paid full price for it. Don't get me wrong, there are somethings I like about 2042 but there is still so much wrong with it, it feels like a chore to play. I shouldn't feel this way about the game after playing it this long.

They added Ground War to the playlist today.  Not as large scale as AOW but you can actually move around in the transport choppers.  Which I thought was cool.

MW2?  

My god, there's been so many CoD games that we ran out of numbers and had to start over.

MW2 is good for a CoD game. Player movement and gunplay is excellent. It even has a stealth class which 2042 needs.

The vehicle gameplay is a major letdown though. All the vehicles and aircraft handled like clunky RC cars and had no first person view.

It's hard going back to CoD after playing Battlefield. I miss the destructible environments and vehicle gameplay.