175GB at launch. Wow. 250GB HD space for the Ultra recommendation. I guess that means there’s some kind of high res texture pack that’s available optionally.
Free with 3080s and 3090s now btw. New 3070 buyers: nope!
There are 3080s and 90s available somewhere?
The trailer that played during the Football games yesterday on TV, and the trailer playing all the time on youtube ads knows my weakness: they’ve set the trailer to Blue Monday by New Order.
To resist the game, I’ll just go over my history with the Call of Duty games so far:
- Call of Duty - Ok, but not as good as MoH: AA
- Call of Duty 2 - best launch game on the 360 - very good. Advancing through war-torn Europe block by block, through new fangled smoke grenades is still memorable in parts.
- Call of Duty 3 - eh
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Truly excellent, a classic. In retrospect I guess it was a bit gimicky, but this is the game that set those gimmicks in the first place.
- Call of Duty: World At War - Excellent. Advancing through the Pacific front and fighting Japanese soldiers was quite different from other CoD games.
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - Unpleasant, but still fun in parts. No Russian should be skipped, and the rest of the campaign is decent and quite varied in terms of gameplay. Going uphill in a Brazilian Favela is still something I remember quite well from this game.
- Call of Duty Black Ops - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, sorry I fell asleep, never finished it. You move forward and shoot some guys, which triggers an event, repeat ad naseum.
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - I liked the new coop mode, but otherwise boring
- Call of Duty Black Ops II - I didn’t enjoy the multiplayer for long, never played the campaign since I never finished the first Black Ops campaign
- Call of Duty: Ghosts - I played through about 3 hours of campaign, boring
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - I played through the whole campaign! First time since Modern Warfare 2 actually, but it’s not memorable, I can’t even remember what happened beyond press X to pay respect, and that Kevin Spacey was a bad guy
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III - I played some multiplayer with friends, but like Black Ops 2, it dropped off quick, this is the moment we realized we were done with multiplayer CoD games. I never played the campaign, since I never finished the first Black Ops.
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - I enjoyed the demo level (the opening of the game), I liked the setting. But once I’m lost in the city moving forward and triggering the next event, it all got so boring again. I might come back to this one, as I’ve heard it gets good again later, but man, getting lost in the city just exemplifies their repetitive campaign structure in every game. Even in this futuristic cool game with flying through space, and all these cool things, you’ve got the player advancing block by block in a city doing the same shit that you do in every f***ing Call of Duty game.
- Call of Duty: WWII - Never got it or played it, warned off by @Telefrog.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - I only played the Battle Royale. I quite enjoyed the few games I played. My only Battle Royale game so far. I never got a single kill though. But I did make it to the end a couple of times to fight against the last guy in a small circle.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Never got it or played it, warned off by @Telefrog.
Which brings us to Call of Duty 17 I guess.
Here’s the Blue Monday cover’s trailer remix:
It’s been so long that I can’t really remember much of the first two games, apart from that incredible Stalingrad mission where you start without a gun, so my top picks for the best CoD campaigns would be the o.g. Modern Warfare (shocking choice, I know), Black Ops, and the underrated space adventure Infinite Warfare. That last one is definitely a departure from the rest of the series with its home-base structure, and although it suffers from a weak antagonist the presentation is absolutely stellar and the rest of the cast was quite charming. It resembled one of those corny, old WWII films where the crew undertakes a suicide mission and have a lot of quips along the way.
I played through Black Ops for the first time two days ago after hearing that Raven’s Cold War campaign would most closely resemble it, and outside of Sam Worthington’s appalling performance the whole SP adventure was short but varied. You get to have exciting shootouts in Kowloon, a Siberian prison camp, and a USSR island under a gas attack. From someone who had never experienced it, the whole campaign is pretty decent a decade on. I wasn’t surprised to see it tops a lot of best campaign lists.
The one I want to try is Black Ops 2 as supposedly actions you take during the gameplay can have minor reverberations in the campaign, which sounds like a cool idea.
Since I suddenly found myself without any big game to play in November (thanks a lot XBOX One and PS4 Cyberpunk skus!), I impulsively jumped on board the GMG discount deal for Cold War, which will be the first CoD game I’ve bought anywhere close to launch since 2009 when I got caught up in the hype for Modern Warfare 2. I just can’t pass up a new Raven campaign. I hope it’s a decent time. The official blog has some details about the early missions.
Led by Raven Software, the Campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will act as a direct sequel set 13 years after the original Black Ops story, allowing veterans and newcomers alike to experience this clandestine world from a new perspective.”
So I guess this releases tonight? I had so many issues with this last release and my 2080 that I quit trying to play months ago. Yet here I am thinking of dropping money on this. Sigh
I’m through Fracture Jaw and while the shooty parts are pretty straightforward, the world building and characters and globe hopping are tremendously entertaining, especially if you’re into spy and espionage stuff. Everyone is chewing scenery in 80’s style. The music selections are superb too.
It also has phenomenal looks on PS5.
I played just two rounds of multiplayer and got one of the unseen maps that wasn’t in beta and it’s very good. It has Air Force One as a centerpiece.
Credits roll. I’m the rare person who plays CODs for the single player campaign and I really dug it, especially the final mission. Definitely going to replay that one at least one more time, hint hint!
I purchased COD Cold War for the PC and it is my first time playing a Call of Duty game. I have been playing with my kids and their wives mainly on the Zombie map.
I have been playing solo trying to learn the map and have some basic questions so my kids do not have to constantly play baby sitter for me (Call of War Dad Duty so to speak lol). I am currently level 22.
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I understand that leveling a weapon opens more mods you can place on the gun. Does it also make it more generically powerful? I ask because I seem to have acquired most of the recommended pieces that I have seen on some builds. So is it still smart to level the gun for sheer power?
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I have also kept using my Hauer 77 rather than switching guns that hang on the wall figuring it is better to just keep leveling up one gun etc. rather than switching around. Am I right or would I be better off picking up guns that I can not create a class around yet?
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Raising my overall level - will that allow me to carry more than one item type? Right now I can either carry grenades, or stims but not both at the same time. I am not sure if that is just part of the Zombie map or if raising my overall level will add the ability to hold more than one item type.
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What is a wildcard exactly and how do I get one?
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Does anyone know of a site that has a diagram of the important locations? I die a lot because I do not know where I am going. I have been leaving one zombie alive to run around to look things over but that only gets me so far. I can watch YouTube videos but a diagram would be nice (I have been trying to hit the Caps key to get a map up but it has not worked for me yet. The mini map is not that helpful for overall position knowledge at least for me.
Bumping this thread because you need Cold War for this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHBzHS87w6k
@tomchick I hear you like Zombies?
I do like zombies! However, I don’t play Activision games. I’d rather not support companies that consider human right “a divisive political issue”.
-Tom
Outbreak is a blast. We don’t like the zombie modes in any COD games but this one totally ticks the right boxes. Larger open-ish world, exploring and searching for gear, upgrades, and a super tense couple final encounters. I went in solo once, took my time sniping zombies from roofs, just enjoying searching for items…and died right before the exfil.
This mode is now our fav mode for COD. With all the zombie modes, Warzone, a decent campaign, and many multi maps and modes, you definitely get your money’s worth…if you like shooters.
In strong agreement with you here. I liked the early COD Zombie modes that were more simplistic such as surviving as many waves as you could in a house. I lost interest in them when they became these solve Willy Wonka’s wacky convoluted puzzle thing.
I tried a few matches of Outbreak and this offers a much purer form of Zombie killing in large open maps that gives room for exploration, discovery, and combat. I have been pining for a Battle Royale against AI/Bots for a while now and while this isn’t quite that it actually gets really close to what I have been looking for. Wide open maps, loot chests hidden all about, random weapon pickups, equipment upgrades, and so on in a co-op PVE setting. Really impressed with Outbreak.
I played it last night. I’m definitely more inclined toward PvE shooters as you all likely know by now, but I did enjoy Outbreak!
The maps from Dirty Bomb are all good and they fit this mode really well. It’s also great how quickly you can level guns while playing it. I snatched about five high levels on the FFAR last night which will make it great for leveling the new guns. I get tired of playing Plunder and running Supply Run contracts the entire game.
If you haven’t tried Dirty Bomb in Cold War, I do recommend that as a middle ground between Outbreak and the Warzone if you’d like real players now and then.
But yeah, this is a great addition. The zombie ship in Warzone is cool too if a little half-baked by comparison, but I do like the other map changes there too with the missile silos.
Living outbreak
Picked this up as it was on sale, partly because of @DaveLong and his glowing praise! Also because Raven. The campaign plot is uber-cheesy but the production values are good. I like this era more than contemporary, even if so much of the story is over the top in a way that would make even a zombie Tom Clancy blush. Just scratching the surface so far to get a feel for things.
Ha! I think you’ll dig it! There are definitely some campaign twists headed your way and yeah, it definitely is Tom Clancy on 11 silly at times. Woods is easily my favorite CoD character. He gets all the best lines.
The setting is my jawn too. Not only the 80’s stuff but the action spy stuff too. More games should be built in different eras like this and dig into them the way this game does. When you consider the arsenal they give you is pretty broad and we get new guns with each season, they really go all out to add great flavor and variety to the gunplay.
Between Cold War, Warzone, and Modern Warfare, Call of Duty is now a platform all its own for different types of shooter gameplay. I was playing twin stick stuff in Dead Ops last night after Zombies in Outbreak, and that’s months after finishing the cool campaign and enjoying lots of multiplayer and using these guns daily in Warzone!
Ok, played some Outbreak. Had to quit when my mouse hand was cramping up and it was time to go to bed. So. Much. Goodness. Jumped into a regular match and without knowing squat managed to top the scoreboard in both matches. Pretty much pure run and gun mayhem, with excellent gunplay. I have zero clue about all the vending machines, currencies, BattleRipoff, etc. and I still can’t figure out if you can actually melee the zombies (doesn’t seem you can) but wow, worth the price of admission for sure.