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Call of Duty's biggest design failures

Admittedly, the Call of Duty series has at least attempted to rectify many of its most frustrating implementations. Many might argue that the series has changed little from iteration to iteration, but cosmetic changes are often made in light of community feedback to help adjust the experience.
The engine might have remained untouched since Call of Duty 4, but many gameplay features have changed in light of a shaped and dedicated community of gamers.
Looking over each of the games raises some genuine frustrations, and it's certainly no wonder why the series is just as aggressively hated as it is passionately loved: certain design elements are quite bewildering, added in such a way as to unbalance the experience and give players/teams unfair advantages over the opponent.
In many cases these frustrations have been rectified, but some still remain in the latest iteration: Modern Warfare 3.
Let's take a look back at the most frustrating design elements in the Call of Duty series over the years, how these issues have hurt the experience, and if they've even been rectified.

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SITH4548d ago

FTA "Team Killing is when a player accidentally or incidentally..."

WTH, I assume he meant intentionally.

Kenshin_BATT0USAI4548d ago

Yeah lol. I was reading that and thinking "wha....?"

Hicken4548d ago

The biggest design failure would be that engine they re-used. Sorry, but it's the truth.

GraveLord4548d ago

Current-gen consoles aren't capable of displaying much better graphics at 60FPS.

30FPS is great for slow gameplay like BF3 but for a COD game it would ruin the game.

Hicken4547d ago

Rage says hello. May not be my style of game, but its graphics are far superior to MW3. I'd expect more out of 60fps than what I get from MW3.

And "slow gameplay" is hardly the phrase I'd use to describe everything that's going on in any given Battlefield match. It may seem slow to an outsider because the maps are bigger and the action is more strategic, though. Four tanks, two choppers, two jets, and a dozen people shooting and blowing things up on foot... yeah, I guess that's pretty slow.

flyinrhyno4548d ago

why would they completely overhaul something that works so well? the yearly tweaks they use are great and when they develop a new one i have complete confidence it will stand the test of time. you see if you do a job right the first time you dont have to completely redo it again and again

death2smoochie4548d ago (Edited 4548d ago )

The game looks the exact same from 2007.
They wanted to keep 60 FPS FOR CONSOLES and in doing so had to keep the dated visuals and physics.
Just because they nailed the mechanics for the game does not mean they need to bleed it dry for years and let it become stagnant like they did with Tony Hawk and other Activision games.
This was fine for 2007...however this is 2011...
The franchise has not moved...because they want 60fps...for consoles...which the PC has been doing since the mid 90's....
Yet the PC version of MW3 still looks like a 2007 game...

BraveToaster4547d ago

The biggest design failure in Call of Duty is killstreaks. Oh look, this guy is good enough to get 7 kills without dying? WHY DON'T WE JUST MAKE IT EASIER FOR HIM TO GET 7 MORE KILLS WITHOUT DYING!
Also, what's this about knives, quickscoping and noobtubes being in CoD 1, UO, and 2?

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U.S. Army Planned to Pay Streamers Millions to Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty

Internal Army documents obtained by Motherboard provide insight on how the Army wanted to reach Gen-Z, women, and Black and Hispanic people through Twitch, Paramount+, and the WWE.

isarai518d ago (Edited 518d ago )

It's well known the US Army has been using gaming as a gateway for recruiting for a LOOONG time. Hell even in high school recruiters would ask whoever wasnt interested for their gamertag so they can play Cod together. Not to mention they've sponsored several fps tournaments. Not a conspiracy when it's out in the open. Plus Arma exists so...

Inverno518d ago

Instead of trying to get them to join then military through bs trends why not instead tell em of the benefits that joining the military bring? Least in times of peace and without the threat of war, having your studies paid in full sounds better than "hey you can do what you do in COD by joining the army, isn't that cool?"

kneon518d ago (Edited 518d ago )

The USA has been involved in wars/conflicts for 90+% of its existence so you're unlikely to be in the US Military during peacetime

Old_Scout518d ago

I was a recruiter. You can tell a kid the benefits all day long. Ultimately it's a calling and you just call the right person and do the paperwork.

thorstein517d ago

"I was a recruiter. You can LIE TO a kid about the benefits all day long."

FTFY

thorstein518d ago

I think it is absurd that the US military has millions if not billions of dollars in their advertising budget. It is absurd that they have an advertising budget.

TiredGamer518d ago

Would you prefer forced conscription like in Russia?

gold_drake518d ago (Edited 518d ago )

i had that in austria
wasnt all too bad. 6 months of listening to idiots screaming nonsense. you dont actually participate in any war, but i guess ametica is a different kind of hell when it comes to that. who knows what they'd put ppl through lol

ended up enlisting actually haha. sniper training was like 7 weeks. not a bad life

thorstein517d ago

The alternate to spending millions of dollars on advertising is forced conscription?

Wow, you learn something every day.

Gee, how would anyone in the whole world learn about the US military if it weren't for advertising.

Vengeance1138518d ago

Can't wait to die and respawn in real life! Oh wait...

jznrpg518d ago

We all wish … I’d love to see my baby bro and grandfather again .

TheColbertinator518d ago

@jznrpg

Sorry about your losses, friend.

On topic :

I thought the Army was always using FPS games. This is not new.

HyperMoused518d ago

A bit on the nose isnt it...like killin in the game...join up and kill in real life

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Ranking the 10 best Call of Duty maps ever

In nearly 20 years of Call of Duty games, which maps do we consider to be the absolute best? Find out as we rank the top 10 CoD maps ever.

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XxINFERNUSxX1092d ago

My fav and last COD I played and never anymore after that is COD 4 map: Killhouse.

Rebel_Scum1092d ago

None from COD3? At least one of Eder Dam, Merville, Poisson & Rouen should be in there.

Gardenia1092d ago

The best maps were made in COD4, BO1 and BO2. The golden era of COD I would say.

Abear211092d ago (Edited 1092d ago )

Wow can’t argue with that top 5. Raid is my personal fav. Everything BLOPS2 and before were pretty solid. Now the maps have been remade so many times I don’t remember what’s what. Rust, really? This is why I don’t play COD anymore, Nuketown I can take, but Rust is pure COD respawn get shot in the back garbage

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Activision Expects Lower Sales From Call of Duty 2021 Compared to Last Year

Activision has confirmed that it's not expecting Call of Duty 2021 to beat Black Ops Cold War's sales numbers.

Amplitude1182d ago (Edited 1182d ago )

Cold War was honestly a mistake lol it took a massive amount of people away from MW and it seems the vast majority of us didn't like any of the changes in CW, and the cherry on top is that it ruined the balancing in Warzone.

Used to play MW all the time but then I bought Cold War day one and beat the campaign in one sitting. Played quite a bit online and idk I couldn't get into it. Feels like I should prolly be progressing in CW instead of MW and the result of that mentality is that I just dropped both lol and don't even buy the season passes anymore. I'm sure a lot of people are in the same boat. The idea of ANOTHER one coming out is really pushing it. Shoulda just had MW be updated with dlc for a few years

Kabaneri1182d ago

Treyarch has been trash since Black Ops 4.

Amplitude1182d ago (Edited 1182d ago )

I might be wrong but I'm pretty confident the only thing theyve made since Black Ops 4 is Cold War. ...so I mean I guess you're not wrong lol

414gamer1182d ago

Cold War also got pushed out a year early because Sledgehammers game got canned

Unknown_Gamer57941182d ago

Am I supposed to feel bad for Activision? "Lower than expected" sales for a CoD game is still a pipe dream for a lot of other games.