I really do think it's time that we talk about the state of Modern Warfare 2 and warzone 2.
we just got season one reloaded and while it does bring us some really nice quality of life changes
there seems to be this consensus that every single time they take one step forward they
take two steps backwards I do want to preface all this by saying that I'm not sitting here to
just complain because that is unproductive and accomplishes nothing for any issue or problem
that I'm going to talk about in this video I'm going to provide a direct Solution on how to make
these things better because otherwise there's no point of making a video like this so right
here right now I want to talk about the issues that are plaguing Modern Warfare 2 and War Zone
2 and provide direct feedback and suggestions that can improve these things and make the game better
which is pretty much all I ever hope to accomplish by making videos like this so if you guys enjoy
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like this and today we're really going to take a deeper dive into what is messing up this game
what the first issue that I'd like to talk about which is something that actually kind of more
recently came to light but it's something that I've kind of noticed in the experience
of playing Modern Warfare 2 is skill based damage for quite a while now there's been some ridiculous
conspiracy theories going around about skill based damage skill based hit markers skill based
hit detection it sounds kind of dumb right and it almost kind of nullifies the seriousness of
skill based matchmaking and how much it actually influences the gameplay well here's the thing if
any of this stuff is actually true and it can be proven then this could seriously be a breaking
point for Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer and Warzone 2. and unfortunately there have actually been some
clips recently being shared that show us different things happening in the game that actually just
straight up look to be impossible I'm talking about the MK2 Marksman rifle getting a literal
One-Shot kill to the toe without the player taking any previous damage which just makes no sense the
MK2 is not able to get a One-Shot kill at that range and at that location of the body and on top
of that there's clips surfacing from Warzone 2 of players losing melee fights even though
they melee the enemy first and they melee them more times than the enemy with the same amount
of armor how exactly can that be explained literally if that's not proof of skill based
damage I don't know what it is there's no stim hit markers there's no battle rage being used
it is a level fight but it's not a fair fight and if that wasn't bad enough there's Aimbot
hackers running rampant again so that's cool look I don't want to believe that the matchmaking is
being manipulated to this level but it can't be ruled out entirely when there is actual footage
that says otherwise we're starting to see more and more of this evidence stacking against them
and I think Activision needs to actually just come clean about skill based matchmaking and
or engagement optimized matchmaking systems in these games so people know what they're really
investing their time and money into but moving on from that let's talk more about the season
1 reloaded specific changes and things that are going on with the game somehow camo progression
has broken again unlocks once again make no sense for what you do and don't have unlocked
in the game at this point for modern Warfare 2 it's hard to tell what's a bug and what's
actually a feature in the game I've also seen multiple tweets and comments from people saying
that camo progressions have reset again and if I'm not mistaken this happened at the beginning
of season one as well but Infinity war did undo this issue and they did eventually restore the
camo progress so that is good and hopefully they'll do that again another strange thing
regarding camos in this game is that they appear brighter in the preview but it doesn't look like
they were actually changed in game again is this a bug or a feature who knows next up let's talk
about the riot shield because it was nerfed hard the changes that Infinity Ward made to
the riot shield make using it less viable but you can still put it on your back and be a complete
out with no issue at all now look we have no clue if they have data to back this up but nerfing the
riot shield this hard seems like Infinity Ward intentionally wants it to be harder to progress
riot shield camos for players on shipment there can't possibly be any evidence to show that the
riot shield was broken and overpowered and that it needed a serious Nerf I mean this is now the
weakest riot shield in Call of Duty history you move slower it's harder to use throwing
knives paired with the riot shield and it's now a three-hit kill in core and what really doesn't
make sense is that turtleing which is the process of putting the ride shield on your back and just
using a primary weapon as your other gun has started to become the meta once again in this
game and is a very annoying and frustrating one with changes like this it actually just feels like
an Infinity War doesn't even play their own games as multiplayer because if you're someone who plays
this game's multiplayer regularly like I do you know how frustrating it is to be playing against
people constantly using riot shields as cover for their backs and this is coming from someone
who has already done the riot shield camos and I have Orion camo so good luck to everyone else who
needs to get this stuff done my suggestion to you guys as players is maybe wait for a riot shield
buff to start going for those camo challenges and I really feel strongly that Infinity Ward
should undo the Nerfs that they did to the right Shield it just seems so unnecessary and I do feel
strongly that they should Nerf how the riot shield performs when you put it on your back you should
either move slower or the right Shield should be able to be broken or deteriorated in order
to discourage people from playing like complete next up let's talk about building 20 20. but not
Z mode and you can extract and you can have the card but you can't even access this area
yet Infinity Ward says that it's a surprise slash secret but we really don't know how to get into
the building some people are speculating that DMZ might have a similar kind of like Warzone
nuke challenge where you'd have to exfil five times in a row to get access to Building 21 or
they'll just randomly release it who knows great communication guys speaking of which there's also
no combat records for war zone 2 yet so when are we getting combat records well guess what
it's TBD because of issues tracking the data everyone I remember you all in therapy I think
a lot of us are hoping that this means Raven is working to retroactively include all of our war
zone stats from the very beginning of the launch of Warzone 2 but if they don't do that then none
of your past or current progress right now will be recorded for your combat record so please just
keep that in mind before you start pouring in more hours into this game next up let's talk about the
kill feed in the game oh wait there's nothing to talk about because it hasn't been improved this
is truly one of the most Bland kill feeds in a Call of Duty game it only shows a maximum of four
kills and new kills instantly push old kills out of the kill feed this kill feed functions worse
than Call of Duty games that are a decade plus old and there are no settings to change things
and they haven't improved it on their own at all and on top of that there's still no kill feed in
Tier 1 and there's been no improvements to the user interface in tier one my suggestion for the
kill feed to an Infinity Ward is to just make the default kill feed more like modern warfare
2019s and also give us some kill feed settings please now I know it's all been sounding like
bad news so far for season one reloaded so let's talk about something good they have
not brought back original hardcore modes okay yeah I think I might have jumped the gun there there
has still been no communication from Infinity Ward about feedback that this community has given them
about wanting hardcore back I really don't have much else to say about this I mean currently it
just sounds hopeless but Infinity Ward if you are listening the hardcore Community would love
to have the original modes back again tier one is not a proper replacement for hardcore while there
are similarities it plays fundamentally different and there's also a lot of missing elements that
hardcore has or at least used to have since it's just a dead and non-existent Game Mode
in Modern Warfare 2. but thankfully it's not all bad news and there actually have been some nice
things added to the game and I do want to talk about that because it's only fair you can play
The Holiday version of shipment in the game early I made a quick video about this yesterday it was
actually really interesting and looks great and I think they put a lot of time and effort into
this version of shipment and I think people might actually enjoy playing it more because shipping
is kind of dark by default which by the way let's talk about shipment it is back and actually really
good the map mostly flows like OG con 4 shipment which is great but like I said before it is
kind of a dark map visibility can absolutely be an issue on this map but at least it plays well
just make sure to check those corners and really pay attention when you're in dark areas next up
let's talk about war zone cup I thought it was fun I'm not exactly sure what regular rocket league
players might think about this game mode but from a casual player standpoint I actually had a lot
of fun playing it it's nice to see some different and unique modes come into the game even if that
means that they're essentially being borrowed or stolen from other games but yeah I enjoyed
it and you also get a lot of XP for playing this LTM it's great for leveling up and just kind of
goofing around so if that's your thing go for it and we absolutely have to talk about the raid that
was added to Modern Warfare 2 because this is very different for Call of Duty the first raid that was
added with season one reloaded is called Adam grad it's available in regular and Veteran difficulties
and you get different rewards depending on the difficulty that you beat you're guaranteed the
Gaz skin for beating the regular difficulty but if you beat the raid on veteran difficulty you're
guaranteed a unique weapon blueprint and you will get other rewards as well but they're randomized
in order to actually play The Raid it requires three players you have to have a party of three
and infinity War does claim that it can take up to two hours to beat the raid which is a pretty
heavy time investment oh and by the way there's no matchmaking so yes you have to get three people
into a party before you can even start this this definitely makes raids similar to Destiny but
again you can't solo The Raid you have to be at least in a Party of Three I think for that reason
lfg will be great for actually trying to complete the raid and even though I haven't played Destiny
in quite a while and I don't keep up with the game one of the things that was very annoying
was not being able to match make into raids with random people I think a good solution for
this in Modern Warfare 2 raids would be to have matchmaking but have forced game chat so that way
people can communicate Infinity Ward actually did add some great new group features into the game
as well which could help with completing the raid some other nice quality of life improvements that
Infinity Ward has made to the game is that you can save custom mods for your weapons which is nice it
makes it easier to save your own variants of guns so that way you don't have to keep reapplying the
same attachments that you like to use they also added the ability to go straight into the firing
range next to your creator class which again is a nice little feature something that I'm kind of
torn turn on is the double XP UI additions to the game they are good and you can easily see
how much time you have left for double XP and you can activate them in the middle of a match
but it does make it harder to rage quit games because you can't get to the leave game Button
as quickly and you really do have to be careful not to accidentally use your tokens while trying
to leave a game on top of that as well as I'm sure you guys saw the Chimera assault rifle was added
it's the honey badger from Ghost and it's actually a really good gun but I think they still have not
figured out a proper flow for unlocking these new guns yet see you can do the DMZ challenge
to unlock the Chimera but not really since none of us can properly access Building 21 in DMZ
yet you can't extract with the gun and unlock it that way and since there's no war zone challenge
you have to play multiplayer to unlock it for free thankfully the challenge is to just get two kills
in 15 different games so you can just leave the game and then rinse and repeat and quickly get
it unlocked in about 10 to 15 minutes playing shipment it's kind of weird that some people
actually have an issue with this they don't like the fact that people are rich quitting and that is
understandable but literally the only other way to get the gun is to buy the store bundle which
is not great me personally I don't care if other people Rich quits to get the gun that's totally
understandable given how Infinity Ward has set things up for the unlock paths for this gun my
main feedback to an Infinity Ward would be to have unlocked methods for every main mode in the game
to unlock these guns and have the unlock path be possible at release versus making people wait and
lastly guys we knew this one was coming but I just want to savor the moment again the LA thieves CDL
skin was actually nerfed there's more bright red accent colors added to the skin which is perfect
since that skin would be nearly invisible on shipment one thing I have not seen yet though
is that there's still no official word on refund potential on different platforms specifically
PlayStation and steam we did see some information saying that if you play on Xbox or Battlenet you
can start a refund process but it's still not completely clear as to what is going to happen
here I mean I personally have not bought the skin I will not buy it so I'm not gonna ever refund it
but I figured I would mention that because you're probably still going to see a lot of those skins
on shipment but with that being said Thank you guys very much for watching I hope you guys
enjoyed listening to me talk about the state of Modern Warfare 2 right now I genuine evenly wish
Infinity award the best of luck with handling things as far as it goes for Modern Warfare 2
DMZ and Warzone 2 I want this game to continue to succeed and be as good as possible I know people
say that they're passionate about Call of Duty but I don't think that necessarily means that they
genuinely care about and love the game and want to see it nurtured and become better that's something
that I can confidently say that I want to happen to the game I don't want this game to die I don't
want it to be bad if the game's having problems or issues I talk about it because I want the game
to get better so please keep that in mind before you say that I'm just sitting here complaining
and with that being said I really do hope you guys enjoyed this video If you guys did and you
want Modern Warfare 2 to get better make sure to drop a like and I'll see you guys later I might
have almost just scored it on us dude this is so cool ah come on he killed me how did he kill me