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Post by Phattso on Oct 22, 2022 21:06:22 GMT
The campaign is excellent (as far as I have got) it's a lot of money for a 5 or 6 hour experience if you won't play the multiplayer though. Good to hear it’s not a stinker. It’ll take me longer than six hours, but I’m cool with the preorder tax. I’m positively opting into the bullshit. I might try some of the online at some point. If there are any co-op missions I’ll try them too. Downloading now.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 22, 2022 21:07:29 GMT
Oh wait. I’m thinking of Nintendo on the keys thing. Well. Either way no PS5 keys on MW2 2022 that I can see. No, you were right the first time, unless something's changed recently. Nintendo still sells game download vouchers. Nintendo don’t sell keys for their game any more, just those £84 vouchers. Sony do have keys for some games, but oddly not all. Seems like it’s relatively few titles though. Edit: actually just looks like PS4 and crossgen.
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Post by Frog on Oct 22, 2022 21:21:52 GMT
There is a mission called Alone which people on Reddit seem to think is probably the best cod mission ever. I have yet to get there so I can't vouch for it, however there are some excellent ones in the bits I've done. Should have time to finish it tomorrow, it's definitely a little more paced and tactical than the usual cod campaign. One of my friends works as an armed police officer and he said the building clears etc are pretty authentic to doing it in real life.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2022 23:59:49 GMT
Just finished it. Much like the original two MWs, a great ride but not quite as good as the original, although the story was very good on this. It does try some new stuff on 'Alone', but it can be very frustrating. Put aside a solid 40 minutes plus for that one. The AI has that thing whereby once they're alerted to you they all instantly bring accurate fire on you. I thought MW19 campaign was a 10, this one a 9. One of the more ridiculous levels was a clear tribute to Pursuit Force . If anybody hasn't played Black Ops Cold War, that was a really excellent story mode.
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 23, 2022 11:16:55 GMT
The way the story is presented is very good, definitely a step up from anything I’ve seen before (in cod games). Could easily be watching an episode of 24 or homeland. It’s very engaging and pulls you in. Looks great. Gameplay is nothing groundbreaking yet, but it feels good and it’s solid cod.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2022 15:44:51 GMT
I'm kinda glad there isn't the outright hatred I expected and it's been good to share in the excitement for it.
I've been an unashamed fan of COD since the second one on the Xbox and if anybody hasn't played the following campaigns (always feel daft saying that) and can get them at a price point they are happy with, Infinite Warfare (if you can dig the sci fi), Black Ops Cold War and both of the two newer Modern Warfares are great, tight and brilliant looking rides. I also thought WW2 was very good.
Agree with the presentation and I think the acting is of a high standard. The new Ghost and Price actors are excellent. Price's actor is actually Liverpudlian, it was quite shocking seeing him interviewed when I looked him up!
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Post by Phattso on Oct 23, 2022 16:35:45 GMT
Played a bunch of the campaign today. A good time was had. One particular convoy mission outstayed its welcome but everything else has been perfectly pitched for me. Expensive, but scratched the specific itch I had on a rare day when I had the time to dive in. Result.
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Post by PatrickEwing on Oct 23, 2022 23:13:56 GMT
I would echo that. Currently playing through Alone mission and on the whole I’d say it’s a recommend. It’s good fun in places but that convoy mission is the worst, it just went on and on. Strange level design considering the rest of it is very good in the main.
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Post by Frog on Oct 24, 2022 5:28:17 GMT
It's to show off a new mechanic that's going to be in the multiplayer. I have a feeling that if you replayed it, that it would be quite a bit quicker due to having a clue what's happening. Could definitely be shorter though if that's not the case as it took me forever.
Can only speak for myself but it took me a while to work out that you need to switch motors as often as possible. Could be wrong as I only played it the once. I couldn't hit shit on the upside down bit though.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 24, 2022 7:06:01 GMT
Heh, I didn’t switch until the very end when you had to. It wasn’t difficult, I think, just needlessly long. I’m gonna do a Veteran play through and I’m already bricking it about that bit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2022 7:15:09 GMT
Buying the PSN credit from Shopto will save you about a tenner on £70 games.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 24, 2022 7:38:49 GMT
Aye, I did that for GT7 and then it also went on sale which was great. Picked up CoD for £54 on XBOX in the end. It usually has the slightly higher res of the two anyway and VRR takes care of the frames. Loading time is fine. Haven’t missed the haptics so far.
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Post by richardiox on Oct 24, 2022 8:06:29 GMT
Where did you get it for £54 on Xbox?
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Post by Phattso on Oct 24, 2022 11:13:18 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Oct 25, 2022 19:57:41 GMT
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 26, 2022 6:56:31 GMT
Finished this up yesterday. For the most part I enjoyed it. It’s really slick and feels really good to play. Liked that they tried to change things up often, leaning into war zone type gameplay in the latter missions.
It’s a bit trial and error though at times that brings it down a notch. The convoy mission l, alone and the last mission can be annoying at times if you get caught in a save loop where you have to get Out of a situation. But it’s far more experimental, if a little rough round the edges, than what I was expecting. It doesn’t quite have the finesse of the games it’s looking to borrow from. Still good fun for 7 hours though.
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Post by Frog on Oct 26, 2022 8:03:49 GMT
I got caught in a save spot with under a second before the tank killed me, had to redo the whole mission.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 26, 2022 9:55:44 GMT
Mere niggles against beautiful, and entirely authentic, dialogue such as “bloody fucking hell” which I’m sure we all fondly remember from hanging around bars in East London.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 27, 2022 12:20:43 GMT
Wrapped up the campaign (on whatever the standard difficulty is - Recruit?) this morning.
Final mission was good, but as a finalé was something of a damp squib?
Had a glance at the Achievements, and for a change they're all excellent and give a good reason for at least one more play through to pop the mission specific ones.
I think I agree with what was said above: an easy 8/10, but it's possible I prefer MW 2019 and Cold War more (skipped Vanguard as the reviews weren't effusive).
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Post by Frog on Oct 27, 2022 12:30:10 GMT
Next year's cod is supposed to be paid dlc for this I think which will continue the story. I think it's set to continue across warzone seasons until then as well.
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Post by Vortex on Oct 27, 2022 12:33:31 GMT
Vanguard was pretty shit Phattso, you missed nothing.
I got thst because the two before were supposed to be decent. More fool me!
Probably get this one too though.
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Post by patrick on Oct 27, 2022 13:38:10 GMT
The AI has that thing whereby once they're alerted to you they all instantly bring accurate fire on you. This wound me up no end. Absolutely infuriating. I've not played a COD campaign for a while so I was a little surprised to see stuff like that still in a modern game. Enjoyed everything else though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 14:19:27 GMT
Vanguard wasn't great but a lot of the panelling it took was from closet incel/racists.
There were several good sections in it and it looked fantastic. However there were some bad decisions like each 'hero' having specific, confusing powers that changed level by level.
It was a bit 'Kelly's Heroes' in the sense that the WW2 setting was almost incidental, a background to a swashbuckle by a mixed cast of oddballs basically. The Russian missions were excellent.
COD WW2 was a genuinely good playthrough and felt like you were in Band of Brothers
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 15:52:46 GMT
Yes! I thought WWII was really great, and made similar Band of Brothers connections. So Vanguard wasn't as good? Shame.
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Post by Vortex on Oct 27, 2022 17:05:58 GMT
Ww2 was ok. Campaign & mp was fine.
Vanguard campaign was ok.
Multiplayer, however, was the worst CoD mp I have ever played.
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Post by Vortex on Oct 27, 2022 17:06:30 GMT
Seriously, even now you will spawn right in front of other team players regularly.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 17:23:31 GMT
The guns were wank as well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 7:45:42 GMT
Played an hour of multiplayer from midnight like the sad b*stars I am.
It feels like there have been some minor changes from the beta. It feels really great, the movement is very smooth.
The guns are great. There's a lot to plug away at as there are 'families' to unlock from one platform, for example I think the M4 turns into about five distinct weapons.
A map around a castle/fort stood out so far. It's really colourful and good looking.
The 141 operators are locked to vault edition.
Played basic 6v6 on TDM, Kill Confirmed, Hardpoint and Domination. I'll probably continue in that vein tonight but will try some of the larger modes over the weekend. Some of those involve bots and vehicles and random care drops.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 8:13:33 GMT
Please say there is Hardcore TDM?
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Post by Frog on Oct 28, 2022 8:19:03 GMT
It's being added soon, they renamed hardcore to tier 1
It's fucking shite that price, soap and Gaz don't have a usable skin on day one of you didn't buy vault.
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