Call of Duty used to be the biggest shooter in the entire world and yes it still has a massive
following but it's no secret to anybody that it has taken a dive in fact the hype around Call of
Duty may be at an all-time low right now and it's a shame because there's never been more
people working on it which really sounds kind of backwards to me but why is Call of Duty in such a
rough place what is up everybody chaos here today we're gonna be uh talking about Call of Duty again
it's been a while but it's not going to be pretty today we're going to go over the 15 worst things
about Call of Duty in 2023. hopefully these things will be addressed in the near future because if
they're not Call of Duty may end up going the same way as Battlefield and Halo so you guys let
me know in the comments what you think the worst thing about Cod is right now drop a like and we'll
start off with the map design now this is probably the most obvious problem with Call of Duty over
the last few years and it's a huge issue with infinity war game specifically a lot of modern
Cod games I mean maps are literally designed to discourage movement and engagement makes
the game feel much more random than ever before because you could just be walking around a map and
then boom you'll get shot from a random Direction you weren't expecting simpler map designs were
part of the reason why cod was so fun in the past because you always knew where to expect enemies
you had that predictability it made the game way more about the combat modern Cod map designs way
too punishing they are way too punishing on people that want to move around in Call of Duty at number
14. the gunsmith this may be a controversial take but I honestly think people are getting
tired of the gunsmith system it was interesting when it was introduced in Modern Warfare and it
certainly added a lot of depth to the class customization but after four games of using
it I think players are ready to go back to the Pickton system or even just classic customization
of cod 4 and Black Ops 1. the gunsmith does add a lot of extra variables to the game that just
inherently make things less arcadey and Casual it was so many people criticizing Call of Duty
for being too serious and sweaty it may be because of the gunsmith before we move on guys if you get
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at number 13 The Nostalgia bait am I the only one who's getting pretty tired of the Nostalgia bait
it's one thing to remind us of the past and pay tribute to it but it's another thing entirely to
keep ripping out long time features and yet still profiting off old games you guys know what I mean
here Modern Warfare 2 2022 is almost nothing like classic Modern Warfare 2 and yet it keeps trying
to Market itself on Nostalgia with things like map remakes classic weapon bundles and I'm just
getting I'm getting tired of it honestly if the new Modern Warfare 2 played more like classic Call
of Duty I wouldn't mind it but since the new Cod is almost nothing like the old Cod The Nostalgia
bait is a little bit annoying to be honest with you like why are you trying to use a classic game
that everybody loves as a way to sell us on the new game that not everybody loves why not
just make the new game more like the old game so we could have more fun with it if you just made
new Call of Duty more like oh Call of Duty you probably wouldn't have to do that at number 12.
the lack of hype have you guys taken a look at the official Call of Duty Twitter recently
because there is uh there there's zero hype or on anything they post anymore and it's really sad to
me especially despite having over 4.6 million followers the official Cod Twitter account
regularly struggles to get more than a thousand likes on a post even on major announcements just
the other day they tweeted out that double XP was live in both Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone
in the Tweet didn't even manage to get 900 likes now for a franchise as massive as Cod what is
going on for reference the official Apex Legends Twitter account only has 3.5 million followers
but almost always breaks 2 000 likes and up on its post Call of Duty needs to figure out what's
going on with their social media presence because nobody's engaging with them anymore
and in the past they were the juggernauts of it it's time to Pivot it's time to innovate
at number 11. the lackluster patch notes one thing I've noticed recently is that whenever a new
Modern Warfare 2 or Warzone patch comes out it's pretty rare for the developers to give us solid
number values on weapon tuning and I don't get it if a gun or attachment gets nerfed the patch notes
will simply say damage reduced or damage increased or something along those lines back in the old
days we used to get solid numbers on those damage values and it made very made it very clear right
from the get-go whether or not the patch was going to have a big impact on the game now we just have
to cross our fingers hope the patch is actually enough to do something and that always doesn't
change the fact that it's not uncommon for massive Buffs and Nerfs to go live without them ever even
being in the patch note seriously how hard is it to give a detailed patch note list especially
since it didn't used to be a problem at number 10 the time to kill the ttk not much to discuss here
the time to kill a modern warfare Call of Duty is way too fast and that goes for both Modern Warfare
2 and Warzone the Modern Warfare 2 time to kill is stupid fast and encourages more camping and
less movement the war zone time to kill obviously isn't as fast as the standard multiplayer ttk but
it's not much better for months the war zone Community has argued that the time to kill
is far too fast because it means that should be an honest back and forth gunfight quickly turns
into a simple game of who shot first and it was all done by Infinity War to make the game easier
for bad players which is not a conspiracy the devs have literally admitted this on multiple occasions
the time to kill in Call of Duty has always been quick but it's never been so fast that it hurts
the Integrity of the game until now if Cod 2023 wants to fix it Sledgehammer needs to slow down
the time to kill in both multiplayer war zone at least a little otherwise nothing will actually
change in the core game play Loop at number nine lawsuits probably heard about this but Activision
recently sent cease and desists letters to the developers of the sm-2 project in the extremely
popular iw4x mod which obviously led to a lot of backlash from the community for years these mods
have helped keep classic Call of Duty games alive on PC in the sm2 project in particular was going
to be a gold mine for classic Call of Duty action but Activision sent cease and desist letters to
the development teams basically means the only way to play classic Cod now on any platform is to
play the official releases which are completely hacked up in some cases legitimately dangerous
to play Activision's attempts to take down the fans effort to keep classic Call of Duty alive
and safe is honestly it's unnecessary and it put a dent in their public reputation even if they back
off the season assist letters now the damage is done at number eight optimization with all these
developers and all that money you would think Call of Duty would be optimized you would but
you would be wrong both Modern Warfare 2 war zone two have massive performance issues and
are subject to crashes semi-regularly even though the performance isn't as bad as it used to be it's
still nowhere near as good as it should be for a game of this high profile Capcom has set the gold
standard for AAA game optimization and performance and with how much extra money Activision has to
throw at Call of Duty I don't think there's any reason this series should ever be known
for having bad performance at number seven pay to win DMZ bundles I'm amazed this is something that
happened a few months ago Activision started to start selling bundles in the war zone shop that
gave you explicit gameplay advantages when using them in the DMZ extraction mode which deliberately
goes against the point of extraction based Shooters certain sins give you built-in perks
and advantages that you could spawn into the match while other players have to work to earn those
perks during the match meeting paying real world money for these bundles gives you an objective
advantage in DMZ does this sound familiar Blast from the Past people have complained for a long
time that Call of Duty microtransactions are predatory and unnecessary but it's never been
so blightly paid to win before this I don't know let me know what you think at number six no more
community events who remembers raise your hand how awesome community events were during the mid-2010s
of Call of Duty Activision started experimenting with seasonal community events and they were
pretty fantastic it started with infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare remastered but they really
kicked it into high gear with Cod World War II there was a new community event going on every
couple months it was a great way to introduce new content into the game while also keeping
the community engaged with new things winter map overlays zombies to multiplayer daily challenges
they rewarded with you Cosmetics even new weapons community events are never anything more than just
shop updates anymore and it it's it kind of sucks because even though the mid-2010s didn't have the
best Cod games the community events kept people engaged with the series made sure people were
still coming back to see what was up and what was going on at number five the seasonal system
I'm not sure why the seasonal system is being used for COD because it seems like the entire
Community hates it now at first using season seemed like a decent idea because it helps
space out the post-launch content while also replacing the paid DLC model and keeping the
community together however it quickly became clear that the seasonal system was basically only
implemented so Activision could cheese engagement numbers and keep people coming back for that drip
fed content instead of just giving us all the content for the game we paid for on day one
games like Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops 2 never needed a seasonal content drop system like this
back in the Golden Age the new Cod games dropped with tons of content right out of the gate and the
gameplay was solid enough to keep you playing for months on end without getting bored now it
feels like the devs are holding out on us all the time refusing to give us the content that previous
Cod games gave us on day one it's frustrating I really hope the seasonal system has dropped
in COD 2023 and we just get all the content out at once stop making us wait for fan favorite game
modes to come back just give it to us let us play it at number four the poor Community Management
it has to be said Call of Duty is really really gone down with Community Management the franchise
this big it's a problem I already mentioned that the official Call of Duty Twitter account barely
gets any engagement on their post but in general the Community Management for COD is struggling
there's so many things in both Modern Warfare 2 and war zone that the community has been
unanimously criticizing since day one and they haven't fixed it in many cases they haven't even
acknowledged it Infinity Ward also seems to have a habit of deliberately fighting the community
on things like time to kill map design movement speeds which makes zero sense to me Community
Management needs a total a total overhaul at this point because the Cod Community is tired of it
at number three movement speeds speaking of things the community needs to or seems to universally
hate I don't know why movement speeds are so slow there have been so many comparison videos shown
on Twitter showing off just how slow movement speeds are in Modern Warfare 2 and War Zone 2
compared to Classic Cod games like Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops 2 and the difference is astounding
strafe speed Sprint out times overall movement in general has been dramatically slowed down over
the last few years and that's part of the reason why modern Call of Duty feels so slow like you're
running around in oatmeal compared to Classic God it's literally slower I get that if any Ward likes
to go for realism but there comes a point where it hurts the gameplay Loop and I think everybody
in the community will agree that the movement speeds need to be cranked up across the board
at number two the bugs the bugs this kind of ties back into what I said about performance
and optimization but there's so many bugs in modern Call of Duty it blows my mind again I
don't know how there can be so many people working on a franchise and so much money
being poured into it there's still so many oversights in the game and how it performs on
people's consoles and PCs I mean I guess there are maybe too many cooks in the kitchen I don't know
and finally the matchmaking no shocker matchmaking is a number one problem with Call of Duty in my
opinion it's an issue has been forever Modern Warfare 2019 brought with it a complete overhaul
of the matchmaking system and it seems to have only gotten worse Cod matchmaking is sweatier
than ever and it's literally impossible to play a game casually if you're half decent
at first-person shooters the devs can change every single other thing on this list but if
they don't fix matchmaking it's not going to matter in the long term of things at the end
of the day the vast majority of cod players don't want to be sweating their hands off every match we
just want to sit back experiment with different classes goof around a bit I mean the X defiant
beta reminded us just how awesome a multiplayer FPS could be without skill based matchmaking and
hopefully Activision takes notes for that for the future of Call of Duty because this is the number
one biggest problem with it right now if you ask me if the matchmaking doesn't get fixed Nothing
Else Matters and there you have it those are the 15 worst things about cod in 2023 and I know it
really sounds like I went in there and you're probably like Jimmy why are you so pissed I'm
passionate it Call of Duty has been a big part of my life for over a decade and to see it in
the state it's in now it just saddens me let me know what you guys think and I'll see you soon