okay so the black ops cold war beta is over i played way too many hours of it i stayed up way
too late i definitely kind of lost my voice as well i'm not exactly sure if that's just
because of raging or actually having too much fun playing it but what i hope to accomplish with this
video is give some direct feedback to treyarch on how to improve black ops cold war so yeah
this video is basically going to be broken down into two different sections fixes they can make
for black ops cold war right now and improvements or suggestions for future call of duty games the
main reason i want to do that is because there's going to be some things that i want for call of
duty that are not going to be possible to add for this game so i want to start this video by talking
about what we can do for black ops cold war and what we can do for future call of duty games
after if at any point in this video you agree with what i'm saying and you would like to see
some of these changes or fixes happen make sure to drop a like do whatever you can to spread this
video share it on social media send it to treyarch send it to david vonderhaar tony flame anyone else
your grandma whoever can help get the word out about this video so with that being said here's
my feedback and suggestions for black ops cold war number one skill based matchmaking you know what
had to start here man obviously there's a ton of talk about skill-based matchmaking for this game
already i already made an entire separate video talking about removing still based matchmaking but
we know that's not gonna happen i mean to be fair i didn't necessarily suggest to outright remove
it because we know that's not gonna happen but i did ask for them to pull back on it a little bit
that was my suggestion for the black ops cold war alpha and it's still my suggestion for the black
ops cold war beta and the full game but when it comes to skill based matchmaking we need to
understand that it's not necessarily treyarch's decision apparently it's activision decision this
has already been confirmed in the past by michael condrey who used to work at sledgehammer games he
has said that activision actually has control over the skill-based matchmaking so when it
comes to tweaking skill-based matchmaking and making it either stronger or weaker it's kind
of up to that now if it's not possible to reduce skill-based matchmaking or at least pull back on
it a little bit at least add a separate ranked play mode i feel like this isn't necessarily too
far-fetched of an idea for trick because of league play and black ops 2 kind of being like the staple
for competitive play in call of duty they've done it before they could definitely do it again at the
end of the day when it comes to playing public matches and call of duty a lot of people just
want to be able to play fun lobbies that have good connection not too many issues as well and
in an effort to make the public matches less sweaty just add a separate rank play mode that
has special rewards and things that are going to have those players feel good about playing
competitively number two fix the glitches asap i'm not sure if this is something you guys necessarily
experience in the black ops cold war beta but there are actually some really bad under the
map glitches in the beta for the sake of getting it fixed i am going to show you guys one of the
glitches that you could do on armada i didn't kill anyone in this glitch i just wanted to be
able to have it recorded so that way treyarch can fix it oh come on another glitch oh come on
wow that is such [ __ ] cheese dude holy [ __ ] it actually kind of seemed like a pretty common
issue in the beta where you could auto mantle out of the map pretty easily against certain surfaces
i kind of have a feeling it's obvious that these glitches are going to be fixed before the full
game is released but i wanted to point it out anyway number three for the combined arms playlist
separate domination and assaults don't force us to go into a mosh pit this game isn't some kind
of metal concert where you go into a mosh pit and you accidentally get underwear thrown at your head
in the black ops cooler alpha i had a blast playing assault i think it's one of the most
fun modes you can play in the game so far but i don't necessarily care about playing domination
so when you force it all together in a mosh pit you get stuck playing modes and maps that you
don't necessarily care about as a cod player i like being able to have the choice to pick the
exact modes that i want to play hopefully that's going to be something that will be in the full
game number four smaller maps what was really interesting about this black ops cold war beta
is that i actually found myself playing the 12v12 modes way more than 6v6 and a lot of that has to
do with the map sizes feeling way too big for 6v6 they need to really work on the player size
to map size ratio i've talked about this a lot in the past what we really need for call of duty 6v6
multiplayer is to have more small to medium-sized maps i'll pull up a call of duty map list so i
can give some specific examples of the kinds of maps we want to see more of if i'm looking at
call of duty 4 we're looking at maps like vacant shipment showdown crash and bogger pretty good as
well with the variety map pack of course you have kill house that's a pretty good one too
it's kind of a hard call with world of war but you know you have dome you have courtyard those
are some pretty small maps with modern warfare 2 obviously you have rust and you have scrap yard
and i think even more relatably you have black ops 1 you have nuketown and firing range i don't
have a doubt that treyarch is going to bring these maps back with black ops cold war but we
would like to see some new small to medium-sized maps it feels like with a lot of the recent call
of duty games that are coming out we get a lot of new maps but they're so big they ultimately
end up being maps that the call of duty community just finds to be very forgettable and they don't
play too much modern warfare 2019 is a perfect example most people just want to play shipment
in shoot house with the occasional rust and while those maps are great for grinding out kills and
grinding out camo challenges it does get very repetitive it gets very repetitive i just had
to do that right so yeah for the full release of black ops cold war all i'm asking for is some
smaller maps at launch and some smaller maps as dlc maps in the future and for number five
i'm gonna ask for four's game chat and an online player count now it's a really unfortunate thing
because these are actually features that have been in past call of duty games time and time
again but they've kind of just gotten swept under the rug and we don't really talk about it too much
and i know this is a difficult topic because in the past when we've asked for forced game
chat around the time of like black ops 3 david vonderhaar specifically had tweeted out that
they didn't want to bring forest game chat back because it really does just lead to more trolling
videos and more toxicity online now to be fair i don't know if that's necessarily true because you
still hear people in game chat just casually saying really [ __ ] up things all the time
i think for past call of duty games what gave force game chat value is the fact that people
couldn't boost because they were forced to talk in game chat they couldn't hide in party chat
and depending on which modes in the past had forced game chat it also kind of forced people
to be more social and to interact with the cod community i'm definitely in agreeance
that nowadays when you play call of duty if no one's really talking it does kind of feel like
it's almost like a bot lobby where there's really nothing going on it's nice every so often to have
something going on in game chat and you can take my word for this because in the past i
did gun game reactions videos i was trolling people in call of duty lobbies and i haven't
done that in a very long time because there is no forced game chat it's just way too time consuming
to try to get reactions trying to go out of my way to get reaction from people is not something that
i'm really doing on call of duty anymore so i'm purely asking for this because it does increase
the social aspect of the game and it kind of ties the community in more together and it potentially
stops boosting and as far as it goes for online player counts again this helps make the game feel
alive i'm kind of blanking on where the online player counts kind of stopped i think it was any
game after call of duty ghosts is when they stop showing the amount of players online at any given
moment and i'm not exactly sure why this feature is gone we weren't exactly told why they stopped
showing online player counts for the game but it does make the game feel more dead when you can't
see how many people are playing i don't know if this is just me but it felt good to launch the
old call of duty games and see millions of people playing or maybe even a couple hundred thousand
people playing it just kind of made you feel good because it made it feel like the game was booming
and doing well and you could see how many people would be in certain playlists and how populated
it was it feels like that information was just kind of taken away from us and we don't know why
and based off of a lot of articles that i've read online call of duty seems to be doing really well
so i don't know why we can't see how many people are playing it just doesn't necessarily add up so
yeah i'd like to see the player counts come back too and my final suggestion for things that we can
do for black ops cold war i don't necessarily know what to call it but it could potentially
be a really big problem for the game but i'm not exactly sure how to go about like covering this
it kind of has to do with the time to kill and the net code for the game because sometimes the
gunfights just felt very weird and inconsistent there were a couple of nights during this beta
that i stayed up till 5 am playing i played so many matches and in some of them it would feel
like your guns would kill pretty fast and then in others it would feel like your bullets were just
like not necessarily connecting to their targets it's just it's really weird and hard to describe
but the one thing i will say is that i felt like this was a bigger issue when i played on ps4
versus pc and i feel like it would just be kind of weird if i didn't caution you guys
about this before you decide to purchase this game if you are going to buy it we've
already been through this problem before with call of duty ghosts and i don't want
anyone to have to make the same mistake with black ops cold war but this is going to be a
multi-generation call of duty game black ops cold war is going to be released on ps4
xbox one ps5 xbox series x and all the different variations and iterations of those next-gen
consoles and pc and it's gonna be cross-play i just want you guys to consider that call of duty
ghost was also a multi-generation call of duty game that was released on the xbox 360 the ps3
the xbox one and the ps4 and pc now at the time call of duty ghosts didn't have cross play it
didn't have support for it so you didn't really have to worry about that if you were on xbox 360
you would only be playing with the 360 player but the biggest reason i want to point out that this
is a multi-generation call of duty game is that there are going to be issues with the game on
last gen that is just a given it was the case with call of duty ghost and i'm pretty sure it's going
to happen all over again with this game and i'm kind of worried about it a prime example from call
of duty ghosts was the dual render system for the sniper scopes if you played on stonehaven and you
tried to snipe on the xbox 360 the frame rate was disgustingly low i've poked fun of this a ton of
times in the past but the reality is that the game is not going to run as well on last gen so when it
comes to inconsistent gunfights people just kind of eating your bullets and things like that weird
frame rate drops you do have to consider what console you're playing on and since black ops
cold war is going to be a multi-generational call of duty game i would recommend trying to play on
next gen or pc because that's where it's going to run the best but that's pretty much it for part
one that's gonna do it for my suggestions for things that can be done for black ops cold war
let's move into part two which is things that can be done for future call of duty games number one
custom mod support i feel like not having custom mod support for call of duty is a huge miss
it was so awesome for black ops 3 on pc and i'm so glad that treyarch did it and it's just one
of those features that i'd like to see more of in the future especially if it can be done on
the next gen consoles because they're going to be stronger i'm not exactly sure if it's going
to be possible to do for black ops cold war which is why i'm suggesting it for future call of duty
games i'm pretty sure it might be too late if it's not something they're considering and my second
and last suggestion is support for custom servers i personally would like to see support for custom
servers more than anything i think it would be incredible i think it would not only be a massive
benefit to me and the entirety of the call of duty community but also to treyarch and activision as
well let me explain i get asked by you guys constantly why don't you do more open lobbies
how come you don't host them and unfortunately the biggest reason why it's so difficult to do
with these newer call of duty games is because it's just hard to host private matches like that
especially on playstation because i'm pretty sure you have to add anyone that you want to actually
invite into a game it's just very convoluted wouldn't it just be a lot easier if we could
host custom servers that people could join and play at any given moment exactly if there was
support for custom servers for black ops cold war or a future call of duty game i could easily just
rent a server kind of like battlefield in the past and i could just make it public for you guys and
we could have an open lobby server we could have like a special server for members only for people
who join the channel it would open up a lot of great opportunities would make for some great
content we could be doing open lobbies and have a lot of fun again i'm gonna use battlefield as
an example because they have a server browser you could easily just search for the merc music server
and join it i wouldn't have to tweet about open lobbies i wouldn't have to be getting thousands
of messages and just kind of hoping people can join in it would just be way easier it would give
me tons of options as a server admin which would be great but obviously when it comes to server
rental there's going to be some kind of cost that would be something that they would have to decide
but they would also be able to make money off of this idea too and i have no problem with that
i've rented servers from battlefield before in the past and it was definitely worth the money so yeah
that's pretty much gonna do it for my feedback for the black ops cold war beta i think it's amazing
that treyarch is going to be continuing so many of the features from modern warfare that were
good whether that's crossplay cross progression not having supply drops doing a battle pass doing
free maps etc and on top of that as well this is gonna be the first call of duty game to have a
field of view slider on console we've been asking for it for so long and they finally delivered so
thank you treyarch and all i can do now is hope that treyarch takes this feedback takes these
suggestions into consideration and hopefully we can make black ops cold war the best game
possible but with that being said thank you guys very much for watching i hope you guys enjoyed
my feedback video for black ops cold war if you guys did enjoy this video and you want black ops
cold war to be the best call of duty game to date make sure to drop a like i'll see you guys later
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