what's up guys this is M3RKMUS1C and welcome to call of duty vanguard the good the bad and the
ugly the call of duty vanguard beta is over and i wanted to share my feedback with you guys and
sledgehammer games as well because i actually really enjoyed playing vanguard despite what a
lot of people are saying about the game but even though i had fun and i enjoyed playing
vanguard we can't ignore the fact that there's a lot of things that were just straight up wrong
with this beta so at any point in this video if you agree with what i'm saying and you'd like
to see this video get out there more make sure to like the video share it with whoever you want to
definitely send it to sledgehammer games maybe your grandma would like to watch maybe you'll find
out if meemaw's gonna be a playable dlc character in this game okay stupid jokes aside it's time to
dive into the call of duty vanguard feedback got my trusty calculator here i took notes the entire
time while i was playing the vanguard beta so let's start by talking about what was good with
vanguard patrol as a game mode just as general existence i think is a very good thing i love
the objective moving hard points it sort of felt like playing safeguard from black ops 3 maybe not
quite as good maybe not as predictable but overall i like patrol as a game mode and it's one of the
main reasons i kept playing the beta the slower kill feed i like the fact that it is just like
modern warfare's kill feed and it doesn't move by too quickly in contrast to black ops cold war it
just moved too quickly i don't really like that i don't think anyone who likes to actually go for
clips and make montages or anything like that likes the fast kill feed either but one thing
i will say is that the kill feed could be even better if we had the option to customize it more
take some notes from battlefield and consider having the ability to just show your team kills
maybe even just your own kills maybe allow us to resize the kill feed and choose how big we'd
actually like it to be maybe give us the option to change the colors the visibility of the kill feed
these are all things that would be amazing for the game but it's not in there another feature
i really liked was combat pacing which basically allows you to pick between either like 6v6 or 24
versus 24. this was basically a genius feature that i came up with years ago talking about the
player size to map size ratio this combat pacing feature in vanguard allows you to pick exactly the
kind of flow that you want you can choose slower pace tactical or you can go insane and play blitz
the reason why combat pacing is such an amazing feature is because you can take a map that is
large and boring and you can now make it fun and chaotic which is just another positive on the list
is maps i mean overall they're decent i don't think they're the best maps we've ever seen but
they're also not terrible either the destructible elements on the maps are pretty cool but they
could push it a little bit further kind of in the battlefield levelution territory but i don't know
if the full game's gonna actually have that but it would be nice to see them expand upon that in the
full game i also like the palm tree spot on gabutu i hope it does not go away shout and destroy is
basically what they call this whole thing where if you're playing search and destroy both teams
can hear each other talking the entire time that is hilarious for reactions i didn't really get to
play search and destroy at all i wasn't going for reactions i was trying to do coffee with
every gun so yeah i missed that but i would like to be able to actually play it in the full game
and i hope they consider actually keeping it as a feature but yeah that's gonna do it for
the good things now let's move on to the bag as i scroll here we're gonna we're gonna be on the bad
section for a while so i'm just gonna read this straight from my phone the mini map i don't think
anything will change about this but it's really odd that instead of having a classic functional
mini map we have a somewhat useless minimap that only gets better if you use the radar perk
intel and or a spy plane overall it feels like an unnecessary change and i don't think it adds any
value to the game unless you're a camper consider just going back to the old mini map either in this
game or just for future cod games broken perks the demolition perk in slot 3 is just straight
up broken if you use it you will not spawn with an extra lethal no matter what you pick and it just
makes it a waste of a perk until it's fixed kill streaks i think it's called the mortar barrage
killstreak it's difficult to call in at times and other times the pull out game is weaker than the
introverse it needs to be easier to use you need to be able to throw it down on the ground and use
it whenever the dog kills streak sometimes you get killer bloodhounds and other times you get
toy pomeranians overall the dog killstreak needs to be more consistent in terms of how many kills
they can actually get when you call them in out of map glitches and unusual spots there
are ways to get out of the map on eagle's nest either by choice or by accident there are also
some suspicious spots on the maps that you can get into that you probably are not supposed to be able
to get into on govutu specifically there's a spot that literally lets you see across the map because
it's not fully textured all of those things need to get fixed before this game launches sound
design footsteps are still too quiet in my opinion and they could be louder all the guns sounds
too similar and don't have enough distinction amongst each other the voice announcer constantly
screaming double kill double kill i don't even know how to sound like him but it gets annoying
and i hope that there are more multiplayer announcers in the full game at launch patrol
spawns i really do like patrol as a game mode but the squad spawning needs tweaking if someone on
your team or the other team is either camping or afk they can break the flow of the game entirely
since they're too far away from the objective causing the entire team to spawn around that
one person in general players should spawn near the objective at all times to encourage objective
play and help the flow of the match attachments they not only don't seem to properly display
proper stat changes but some of the attachments are just straight up broken and don't display
properly on weapons i was looking at my gun and it said i had negative 9 million mags and bear in
mind that in the vanguard beta you can only get your weapons to level 30. there's still so many
more attachments that haven't been tested out that could be broken overall it seems like sledgehammer
is gonna have to do a lot more testing on the gunsmith before this game launches level one
glitch in the vanguard beta our buddy yato aka spagulio was not able to level up at all he was
stuck at level one throughout the entire beta and he's already on the fence about buying the game
in the first place i think it's safe to say it's not gonna encourage anyone to buy the game if they
can't progress through the game on day one are you still not able to level up i don't understand
like that is a legitimate concern you were a [ __ ] level eight yesterday and now you're back
to one and you can't even rank up what is wrong with this game no field of view slider on console
now again this one's not gonna really matter too much because i'm pretty sure it's gonna be in the
full game but the lack of it in the beta makes me question how it's going to affect frame rate and
performance in the full game especially on ps4 and xbox one latency and lag issues the vanguard beta
suffered from some pretty brutal lag issues the high latency packet loss and extrapolation errors
were present in almost every single game that was played on the beta the server issues have to get
smoothed out for the full game so people can enjoy their matches without having to worry about this
oh are you lagging out yeah what the [ __ ]
because we do skill place matchmaking oh boy the dead horse is begging for some better lobbies but
for real skill-based matchmaking is most likely here to stay and i just wanted to mention it
briefly since it has the potential to make or break the game strong skill-based matchmaking
can lead to reverse boosting and manipulation of stats and lobbies which defeats the purpose
of skill-based matchmaking in the first place connection should be the number one priority
for matchmaking and a random matchup of skill sets amongst players should theoretically lead
to fair matches although there can never really be a guarantee since there's literally so many
variables it's impossible to ensure that everyone in any given match will always have fun and play
fair games sledgehammer games and anyone else who develops call of duty please consider just having
a server browser this would get everyone to just shut the hell up about skill-based
matchmaking since you can just look at all of the available servers for the game at any given moment
and pick exactly what you want to play and it's just random players you never know where you're
going to get i can basically guarantee you that would 100 ends the skill-based match
making conversation because you wouldn't even need it but again that's handled by activision
and we all know how activision is doing right now so gun specific issues now this is talking more
about weapon balance so this is a little bit more subjective but i'm going to bring it up anyway oh
this is a long one the intro burst needs a damage buff the sdg needs a fire eight nerf the bar needs
its recoil reduced the nz41 and the volk are fine for smgs the thompson's fine the mp40 needs a fire
rate nerf the sten needs a damage buff both of the shotguns buckshot needs a damage buff
lmg's overall i felt like we're fine maybe look into how effective they are with incendiary rounds
though because they have so much ammo the m1 grand is okay you could maybe speed up the sprint to
fire and the 80s time so that way it actually has more of a fighting chance at closer ranges both of
the snipers overall need faster handling so you need to reduce the sprint out time in the 80s
time and consider reducing the flinch when shot with frangible rounds since you basically can't
kill anyone if you're hit with frangible pistols were overall weak and could use some sort of buff
maybe to damage the launchers were pitifully weak and could use increased damage and blast radius
especially against counter spy planes and spy planes because even if you hit one you're probably
not even gonna be able to destroy it the knife was okay but the knife and the launchers could
probably both benefit from getting some kind of attachments or proficiency slash kits in the
full game to add more variety and improve their performance so yeah basically for weapon balance
i feel like some of those like really meta guns could maybe get toned back a little bit some of
the guns that were really trash could be given some kind of buff to actually have a chance
and it's just kind of weird that you can level up launchers but you don't get any kind of benefit
from them at all and even though the knife is stuck at level one you should still be able
to get something for it to help make it better because if you're just running around with a knife
you're gonna suffer more often than not but now let's finish up here with the ugly
gonna start off here with hackers there were hackers on this beta enough said
the game needs a proper anti-cheat to stop hackers from ruining the game so far in this video there
have been hacks ranging from people using aimbots to people forcing hosts and ending the games early
it needs to be addressed before launch and for future cod titles it's just unacceptable
and honestly since vanguard is so similar to modern warfare and really isn't hyping up the
call of duty community for this year's release why didn't they just take some time to break and pause
take an extra year to develop a call of duty game that people might actually care more about and
then actually make anti-cheat for warzone and the upcoming call of duty game and the last thing i
have for ugly which i just really can't ignore is the visual glitches the removal of the distortion
visuals pretty much broke the graphics of the vanguard beta there's all kinds of visual bugs
ranging from seizure-inducing light shows to dogs flying around the map like helicopters and the sun
in this game gives me some serious teletubbies on vibes and i do not claim that kind of energy
in a world war ii game this game needs to look normal without the need for the distortion effects
it's so weird because you know most people don't actually buy and play call of duty for
the graphics it's just not a thing but just because that became a meme doesn't mean you
have to take it one step further and completely destroy everything about the graphics i have a
section on here just kind of wrapping up things as well i don't think this is the worst cod game as
of now probably because it's just a beta but there is a lot of work that needs to be done before this
game actually ships out the vanguard beta had an astonishing lack of polish and my best guess is
that this game was rushed and there wasn't enough time to actually test and get the quality control
where it usually is for a call of duty game this is the highest selling video game franchise on a
yearly basis and even though some of these weird glitches are funny it's also kind of embarrassing
i wish sledgehammer games the best though and i hope that they can take this feedback into
consideration at the end of the day i'd ideally like to see vanguard be the best possible game
that it can be and improve as time goes on but that's ultimately up to what sledgehammer games
does in the coming months leading up to the full release of call of duty vanguard but yeah that's
gonna do it for my cod vanguard beta feedback video thank you guys very much for watching
i hope you guys enjoyed this video again if you guys agree with anything that i said in
this video and you want to get it out there make sure to like the video share it wherever you can
anything and everything you guys can do to get this video out there and get the word
out there is greatly appreciated and with that being said i really do hope you guys enjoyed
this video if you guys did and you want cod vanguard to actually get better make sure to
drop a like i'll see you guys later i don't need it i don't need it i don't need a dive