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It's not a Sunday Cod history community top 10, but it is a top 10 nonetheless
We are going to go over the ten dumbest gimmicks in Cod history for everybody. That asks me
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Suggestion that I got from somebody over on discord my boy Price and he said what about the dumbest gimmicks in Cod history now?
Call of Duty is a series that has changed quite a bit throughout the years in an effort to stay on top of the pack
That's that's just the competitive nature of the market. And while those changes have definitely worked throughout its lifespan
There have been plenty that didn't really fly with the community. And those are the ones that we're going to be going over
These are going to be changes to Call of Duty mechanics or design that were intended to shake things up a bit
But end it up just annoying people or even driving them away from the game. So
Without further ado drop a like for a Call of Duty top ten and let's get started
Kicking off. Our list is the infamous SATCOM who puts a freaking UAV on the ground in the grass
You probably knew it was going to be on here
You just didn't know where now Call of Duty ghosts was full of weird changes
But this one
Was one that ended up going down and infamy as opposed to having the standard UAV or recon plane from previous games
Which worked well goes tried to encourage teamwork by replacing UAVs with satcoms
Which were little boxes you dropped on the map and you stacked with your teammates to eventually get a full-fledged grown-up UAV
this was such an unnecessary change to a system that had had no problems ever to begin with nobody ever complained about UAVs and
It just caused more annoyance than anything else keep
UAVs in the air and off the ground and you will probably never see this happen again
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Number nine character customization. Alright. Alright. Hold on. Hold on
Let me explain what I mean
character customization is definitely a great thing and it's something that multiplayer games should have however
I think it's safe to say that the character customization we've gotten in the last few cod games
well
It's been pretty lackluster and it seems more and more like the devs included just to say they have it
World War two was the worst that we've had in a while is you just chose between a handful of preset faces and then you
Can just change the uniform and of course, you have to get the uniforms out of supply drops now
hopefully future Cod games will have a more extensive character customizer to make your character feel like your own instead of just a collection of
Micro DLC and I go back and it was micro DLC as well, but I go back to advanced warfare
Yes, you had to get a lot of it have supply drops all of it
Maybe I don't remember but that character customization was at least in depth
There were some really cool characters and that we seem to be digressing every year
So hopefully hopefully black ops 4
Brings us back up and we really get to own our character because that's important to a lot of people
animate
Freaking and Knight maps now. I know a lot of people love Knight maps and I'm the same way
but what I'm referring to for this entry is a map remake with the lights off like what Trey art did
with black ops 3 a time or two
I think it's pretty awesome to go get original maps with different environments like with less lighting or a different weather effects
But when we get a new map out I'm saying new. Ok, it's just a remake of an existing map with a lighting change
I think it's safe to say that it's just a half-assed attempt to get people to play the game a little more now
I hope in the future we get more
Original night Maps instead of just the depth switching the lights on or off with existing maps and Signum is dlc
I love night maps, but give us
original night maps
Speaking of maps we're gonna just we're gonna encompass one map for the number seven spot today
Can you guess what that map is I'll give you two seconds to guess in the comment section one
two
Free-fall who remembers this map from call of duty ghosts' free fall. It was supposed to be cool
It was supposed to be innovative
It was supposed to feature multiple levels in a changing environment
Which it kind of did but it all ended up being a one massive headache
It literally would give you a headache or it would make your stomach hurt
Literally the map it just it wasn't uncommon for players to just back out of the lobby if this map was selected for the next
Match of Call of Duty ever ever ever ever ever ever decides to do a map like this again
Please do it in a way
It doesn't make the players physically sick and you know
What on the other end if the glass is half full that's pretty impressive to make a map in a video game
That can actually make you nauseous
at number six headquarters a
World war two is the first game in the series to have a hub of an area for players to gather in between matches
Show off their gear get their supply drops much like the tower in destiny
but the feature quickly fell flat on its face at launch the
Headquarters in World War two didn't work properly for weeks and weeks after launch, and there was also a ton of bugs after
It did start working
Plus there were a bunch of community events that were supposed to take place in HQ
And they were either delayed indefinitely or just never really happened and who can forget the whole paint jobs coming soon?
Fiasco now HQ was a cool idea for sure but its implementation
Well, it was a total joke that was just put on full display on how rushed and sloppy the game actually was
at
Number 5 you either cringe when you hear this or you smile weapon
variance now weapon variants were first introduced in advanced warfare and they are still alive and kicking well in
today in Call of Duty World War two
although in a different way
the weapon variants first appeared his actual game changing things that could give you a bit of a boost to your performance and then they
Were brought back in the same way for infinite warfare, but in World War two
They were toned down a bit to be only cosmetic changes with XP boost now
I think it's safe to say they no one really cares that much about the variants. Are they cool?
Sure, but what the variance represented is really the problem because in advanced warfare and infinite warfare
The variants were insanely
unbalanced and in World War two the variants are just pointless micro DLC in a game that barely had any content to begin with so
Where's the middle ground? Let's stick with variants and let's talk about attachment variants
It number four this black ops 3 feature
Well, you you decide I love black ops 3 but this feature
I just I felt like it was pointless that I even put. I just I don't know
it's on the list because of that bo3 was infamous for having tons and tons of pointless stuff in the supply drops in order to
Make it harder to get the weapons and one of those pointless things were attachment variants
These were cosmetic changes to various attachments
For all the guns that buried and rarity meaning there were probably a couple hundred of them in the drops now were some of them
cool
absolutely, but are those handful of cool variants worth it absolutely not the attachment variant system was very obviously just a way to kind of
pad out the supply drops and if they decide to bring them back for black ops 4
I hope at least we can choose the ones we want and buy them directly instead of having to wade through tons
of them in supply drops
at number three support streaks
They were first intro back in modern warfare 3 and they've gotten a pretty mixed reception as opposed to traditional streaks support streaks
Do not reset upon death and they encourage less skilled players to run them as a way to still provide for support
For your team in the form of UAVs, ballistic vests and turrets and other non-lethal things except for the stealth bomber
I know I know the no skill multi kill
which I have no clue how it was put in the support category now support streaks have been brought back is
Different perks and various Call of Duty games as a way of trying to get lesser skilled players engaged with the game
But the problem lies
With this system and it's it's annoying as hell to the players who actually earn their streaks streaks are supposed to be earned
That's what makes them more rewarding running support streaks or the support perks
Like like requisitions just makes you look kind of lame because you're not confident enough to go get those streaks legitimately
And I'm not talking down to people that aren't as good at the game go get better
And once you earn those streaks, it's going to mean a lot more to you number two speaking of streaks
Riley
Riley we used to be amazed your selling point for Call of Duty ghosts
But ended up just being another gimmick
Riley is a German Shepherd that plays a somewhat large part in the campaign
But is reserved to a killstreak reward in the multiplayer and that is where he fell apart
The AI for Reilly is extremely dodgy at best and sometimes he'll get you a bunch of kills or sometimes
He'll just run around and do nothing
ghost was
advertised as a game where you got to play as one of the epic attack dogs that you called him black ops 1 & 2
But you could only actually do that in the campaign in the multiplayer. Reilly was just he well
I don't know he was he was something he was a gimmick, I guess and the final gimmick today
EXO
Suits let me say it again
EXO suits you guys probably saw it coming a mile away
The EXO suits are pretty much the epitome of a gimmick in the Call of Duty series
Especially back in the advanced warfare days when they were just good
for double jumping and a little thrust here and there the EXO suits were introduced as a way to spice up the cod franchise and
Get people interested again, but the way they were implemented was just not a lot of it
well
A lot of people just wrote it off altogether and just chose to parently use them or sit in a corner and not use them
at all now
I think the big problem was the map design because even though the movement of the exosuit games was different the map design was the
Same three lanes set up as always
so the advance movement wasn't nearly as integral to the gameplay as it would be in a game like titanfall or
Lawbreakers and never thought I'd compare Cod to lawbreakers
But all in all I know
There were people who enjoyed EXO's but I think we can all agree that they were
kind of a gimmick and I'm pretty glad they're gone now and I know there were an
Innovation to try to make things new but in the end
It just didn't work out that way and there you have it my friends. Those are 10 gimmicks and caught history
That just didn't go over well and every game has gimmicks
I'm not hating on Call of Duty at all, but there have been some questionable things that they have done under the banner of
Innovation or trying to change things up and that's not necessarily a negative and saying they're doing them for bad things
They want their franchise to succeed and sometimes well, sometimes you look a little down the horizon
Maybe a little farther than you should and it just doesn't go
well
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