the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@willtheprodigy3819 Keep that mentality! Don't let some low life pretentious guy bash your playstyle. Keep on winning, keep on improving your skills!💕
@@edgarcmtz because no matter how skilled you are, all an enemy has to do to kill you is stick you with a thermite, and since it's impossible to dodge, you're basically offering yourself to others as a free kill. All it takes is a stun, Semtex, thermite, and if even if you don't have that, you can easily approach and prefire a shielder, not to mention trophy systems render the shielder useless too. There's so much you can do but people will always complain about a Riot Shield playstyle because they aren't smart enough to use their brain.
I couldn't help but laugh heartily when I saw that happen. From the suddden panic when running out of ammo to the slight hesitation when he realise he pulled out a laucher before ultimately deciding "Screw it" and firing anyway, all the while his ennemy _does not even react._ That's just pure comedy gold right here.
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
I really did like the core gameplay of this. I actually felt like I was getting better at the game, to the point where near the end, I hardly went negative no matter how sweaty the game got.
Same, all these people complaining about sbmm just need to get good. These cod players think that because they played other cods they’re automatically a good player and should go positive in each game. You simply have to practice before you can get to that level.
@@thesituation5315 What you mean with the point of SBMM? I noticed with cold war that the first 100-200 games I went pretty bad.. I had a kd of 1.00… Then after 300+ games I could get 2 k/d games standard and now I can easily get 3 k/d if I try a little. Ive got over 10 days played or something.
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
coming from someone who only played MW and CW in the last years i can only really compare my CW experience to MW. that being said, map design has felt alot better in CW. no maps that felt huge for no good reason, aswell as a more simplified map design. no having to keep an eye out on 10 different doors and windows at the same time. proper ninja/dead silence being the next, its quite off putting going from CW with ninja equipped, to MW and hearing just how insanely loud your footsteps are. and lastly, i have much more enjoyed the longer ttk in CW compared to MW. so many times in MW do you die without having anytime to react. this is where i feel CW feels more rewarding in that you can have time to react and survive being shot at. aswell as the longer ttk rewarding being able to keep your aim on your target in a gunfight while firing.
Idk man. In CW u have the field agent foregrip, which makes many guns have low recoil. So it’s not that hard to aim. I think BOCW is good but MW 2019 was excellent. Map design might be better in BOCW and I like having the ninja perk, but the fast ttk of MW makes guns feel powerful and rewarding. A fast ttk is also what most of the older CoDs before it had. The gunplay was top notch in MW. Although not saying I hate the 150 health and gunfights in BOCW. I don’t mind them actually. But I prefer the fast ttk. Obviously u die quicker, but u kill quicker - which also means it isn’t sometimes difficult to get a triple or even double kill like with 150 health.
Another reason why I prefer MW is cos of the setting. I didn’t care for the Cold War era particularly and the modern setting I thought was really cool. The first CoD I owned was BO3 and I’ve played all the CoDs since then (although also BO1) until MWIII (except Vanguard).
I really liked the core fundamentals of Cold War. It felt like a true call of duty that can cater to all playstyles from maps to perk variety, unlike MW19, where a lot of the maps were too complex and the lack of a dead silence/ninja perk really put an emphasis on camping, which is why I quit MW19 after 2 seasons. I also felt that the camo grinding wasn't as obnoxious this year (except for the launchers) and the mastery camos were actually worth it unlike Damascus that just seemed like an extra camo they took out of the topography section and called it a day. All in all, it just felt like a true call of duty and I am glad I gave it a second chance
@@AlmightyRager95 In comparison to MW19, I personally think all the mastery camos in cold war (except gold viper) are all really good. But yea. The end goal is just dark matter. I have both of them
While not perfect, I enjoyed this game a lot more than MW. The pacing, gunplay and most of the map design were great. Also the campaign is definitely a top 5 CoD campaign for me. Enjoyed the story, twists, choices and multiple endings and some of the unique mission designs.
to each their own. I thought MW2019 was way better than CW. MW is what actually got me back to COD after my last game being MW2. I just got bored of CW after a couple of months.
Original Miami map was the only map that I thought had bad pacing. Was in a few games there that ended on the time limit. One of them I had 46 kills myself in TDM and it ended on the time limit 😂. Outside of Miami though, the pacing was great on the rest of the maps.
yeah, the campaign really surprised me. i only played cod4 yeas ago before cold war, so i expected a simple "go from A to B and kill everything that moves" sort of campaign. instead we had a campaing that makes us play stealth missions, solve puzzles, and gives a nice plot twist at the end, with that mission where you re live the memories in vietnam that really mindfucks you if disobey adler's orders
Yeah i hated the streak system this year too, 1 they aren’t even streaks to begin with cause you can die 30 times and still get the highest streak and 2 the streak system completely takes any satisfaction you would get when earning streaks in previous cod games take the swarm in bo2 for example: when you earned that streak you felt a since of accomplishment and like you reached somewhat of a goal. Meanwhile the ac-130 in cold war while is does take a lot of score to earn you can die like 10 times in a row after going on a 10 killstreak and still get it.
@@Mizaruu I have no doubt they added that into the game specifically for noobs lol.... one of the easiest streaks to get takes out every other streak in the game?? Yeah fucking right lmao
CW def stands out compared to the other recent titles. Felt like a big return to the roots of the game. I loved MW19's graphics and gunplay, but hated the maps and its system changes
I liked Cold War a lot because i felt that it mixed elements from the past with some present mechanics( some weren’t always perfect) I would’ve liked to see the pick 10 come back since wildcards were in the game. SBMM was still toxic, but in my experience, it wasn’t as bad as MW for me. Overall I would rank it 8/10, far from the golden age games, but a “Good” Experience for me.
I liked Cold War a lot because I felt that it mixed elements from the past with some present mechanics( some weren’t always perfect) I would’ve liked to see the pick 10 come back since wildcards were in the game. SBMM was still toxic but in my experience, it wasn’t as bad as MW for me. Overall, I would rank it 8/10, far from the golden age games, but a “Good” Experience for me.
Ive been playing since black ops 2 and am a decent player, cold war has been my favorite cod in a long long time, feels so good to have classic rush gameplay. Radar and simple movement was so nice and still has room for outplays
Magazine and optical attachments. Mags where really well designed and diverse. Optics where almost all viable, and had no impact on ads speed regardless of zoom. Perfect.
Only thing I'd change is that a huge amount of them are bulky and narrow your peripheral vision too much compared to MW's sights. The Microflex is king in CW because it lets me see around me.
@@julianscomposer I've used almost exclusively Millstop and Microflex up until around season 5, but I started giving the Snappoint and the Hawksmoor their time in the spotlight for various reasons. Hawksmoor is bulky for sure but the sight picture is unbeatable. Snappoint offers 1.5x zoom with not too intrusive peripheral vision penalty.
Really? I thought all of the red dots were suuuuper ugly(except for the micro flex). I also wish the mags made more sense. 60 round mag the same size as a 30 round? Check. 12 round mag for a six shot revolver? Check. In my mind I always thought the gunsmith was rushed and not thought out.
@@noahcarlson3819 at least the speed mags on a lot of dlc guns actually look like they could hold that amount of ammo, like the 53 round fast mag on the MAC10
One of my favorite things about Cold War was the variety of game modes. It always felt like there was something different to play depending on what type of style I was looking for
I liked cold wars scorestreak system. It was so cool to still be able to earn scorestreaks and not worry about resetting upon deaths. Now i think it was balanced because you still had to do really well to earn really high streaks
I REALLY enjoyed Cold War. This was my first FULL Call of Duty experience and I'm so happy it was this game. Multiplayer and Zombies were so fun and I'm happy to hear a lot of people in both communities really liked this game in the context of the other CoDs.
@@BlindIntent it’s literally the shittiest blackops game ever made. You cannot possibly say it’s better than blackops 1 or 2 or 2. Even blackops 4 is better than that garbage. The multiplayer was the worst thing I’ve ever played. No offence but most of the people that say Cold War is good are kids or people who haven’t actually played any of the good old cods. Cold War was garbage
@@pahulmultani972 Ive played all cod’s since WAW except BO4 and it is significantly better than bo2 multiplayer, It doesn’t have the stupid pick 10 and multiplayer is a pretty solid experience maybe you should elaborate more on what makes CW worse because it’s underrated
@@BlindIntent bruh significantly better than bo2??? Bo2 is highly regarded as the best cod game ever game, please don’t ever say Cold War is better than bo2.
Also, i think it fit the Cold War aesthetic really well, the guns that were added to the game were really cool for the time period. The store skins were definitely on the flashy/wacky side of things, as they usually are in cod but there were a healthy amount of real world and movie cold war era operator/weapon skins.
It really felt like what a COD game should be. And at the end, mine and safe to say many player's wish will be that since the game ain't gonna bring a lot of money, please turn off the SBMM for CW.
I couldn't agree more. BOCW had an awesome core gameplay philosophy where (unlike MW2019) it actually felt good and rewarding to play aggressively rather than feeling like I was being punished for it. Plus, as a primarily MP-focused player for a long time, this was the first time where I really got into Zombies. What was originally just a way for me to level up weapons before taking them into MP turned into a genuinely fun experience, both in the round-based maps and in Outbreak.
I think the game was fun, the core gameplay was actually amazing. I only quit due to SBMM, it was absolutely horrendous and having fun wasn't a option anymore. Maybe the occasional less "sweaty" game. Gameplay wise, gunplay was solid.
@@promethazine8019 personally I'm going to wait for Black Friday when it goes on sale for $45-50. I'm for sure getting Infinite since that beta was 🔥 fingers crossed that Vanguard is actually decent
First Cod I have played enough to prestige prestige since MW3. The TTK I think actually is the best thing about this Cod cause you have to hit your shots instead of insta death. Also like all the field upgrades and I feel like every gun is good and has their pros and cons.
Best thing for me in this iteration of COD was zombies. I became a first time zombie mode player, specifically Outbreak mode. After getting continuously frustrated trying the regular round zombies in each game and utterly failing to navigate in the dark plethora of corridors and sealed doors, I tried Outbreak and it was literally a breath of fresh air. Outside large maps where you could explore at you leisure (solo) or plunder wit a team of 3 other players. They kept play fresh by adding new maps for each season and you had a choice of trying to see how far you could last with endless rounds or play a short 3 round game then exfil to safety. Had loads of fun playing this game mode of zombies. Well done Treyarch!
From a zombies player POV, they did a great job with the gameplay of the mode, as well of story, map design is above average but still fun to play, and the amount of time tryarc listen to the community is great, they rebuff the ray gun, lit the DIE be upgraded, and put a LTM for unslaught on the game forever, for the negative, I would say the lack of personality in the game, for an example the player characters, that’s why Vanguard got me a bit with the old gods, second is the EEs, they feel a bit to, noob Friendly, forsaken ee was a disappointment. Overall: CWz has the biggest amount of player choice, great gameplay, interesting story and the developers listen to the players, but lacks a personality, maps can get boring, and baby’s first EE
@@bigchief8493 I’d say it’s the reverse for me mostly for the less cryptic bullshit ee steps imo not related but the music you can get in outbreak (albeit rng) is so good like generation and Avogadro that you can get
CW zombies is the best in the series. I've never done an easter egg even in Cold War. I end up just getting to like round 30. You pretty much have to look up guides to do the easter eggs as they're not that obvious to someone like me.
@@kevindragon213 that’s fair tbh, BO3 EE steps can be dumb as hell literally none of the void bow steps from DE would be something you’d find without the help of a guide lmao
I mean are you guys pretending World at War didn't have MP40.All Call of Duty games including COD 1 has had OP weapons. Sooo since everyone loves exploiting game mechanics can I blame anyone besides Tryhards.I still use MP5 like it was on Season 1
After playing MW2019 and warzone, and enjoying the hell out of them for a year, when I switched over and got CW, I found myself enjoying the pacing and gunfights better. I liked the aesthetic of it. I liked the arcade-style jumping, sliding, and shooting. It was just more fun in my opinion. When I hop in and play warzone occasionally, it takes me a minute to get back into the swing of things, as it feels like I'm playing in molasses compared to CW.
What Cold War did right... Whew, this is tough. Answering the first couple months of promise would have been easy. 1) higher TTK 2) fun, organic, and dynamic maps 3) real attempts to listen to players, critics and etc 4) awesome new stat listings 5) a general action packed vibe with the whole retro theme 6) I didn't finish the campaign, but even the earliest helicopter flight was great
Higher TTK only rewards one shoot weapons, which amazingly, did happen. Snipers are the best guns in this game. 3 lines maps are good ok, but they are boring, specially Treyarch 3 lines style. And I’m not defending MW2019 style maps with this, they are trash, but looking to older maps like rust, dome, terminal, favela, scrapyard, etc, they have the same “3 line” principle but they are more dynamic, not just 3 vertical lines from end to end like hijacked where you can just run straight on any line. They indeed tried to listen to players but I didn’t saw any great difference after all. Sniper glinch is still the same. Matchmaking was still the same even when everyone hated it. Ray gun on zombies was the best and most loved weapon in the game and Treyarch just nerfed it to the ground knowing how everyone loved it. They tried to copy the gunsmith system and also add the real stats to it, but IMO they did an horrendous job with it. The reason in the original gunsmith was to create a hell lots of weapons and mods to any weapon. For example, you can made an Ak74u out of the Ak47, an G36 out of the Holger, Honey badger out of the M13, baby guns with any gun, almost every weapon had a special ammo, barrel, muzzle, something that changed it completely. In CW all weapons are the same, they all use the 5 same attachments while giving exact stats that only helped people like Xclusive ace, JGOD, truegamedata, etc. No one is really making the maths out of the stats everyday. They started as a Cold War game, ended up in a weird looking game with leds skins retroactive alien stuff, idk, I didn’t liked any skin at all that they added Campaign was great but extremely short to be a $60 game, only 3 hours. This game had to be moved one year for them to give us a better product, not a half ass game with crazy buggs happening still to this day that goes from glitchy graphics to completely shutting down consoles
cold war is fantastic. in the future people will definitely look back on it. mark my words it will be the last classic feeling cod we get. from here on out itll be all slide cancelling with tac sprint
The zombies was good in this game, it was just borderline criminal how little content we got. Especially when you factor in that most old school zombies players didn't like Outbreak at all, meaning we got 4 maps total over 11 months...
Cold War is a fun game, I feel like if it wasn't for SBMM we could have enjoyed it much more. You know... without having to play for our lives every time we got on.
I agree with you, this cod imo is the best out of the “warzone” call of duties, i can actually rush in this game, mw i felt punished to rush and i felt pretty bored of slowing down the play style. Overall i agree with ace’s stuff in this video
@@kurokaen1234 i prefer mw's mechanics (besides mounting, it promotes sitting still and takes the skill out of recoil control) but i do wish overall sound, ghost balancing, and dead silence/ninja as a perk were similar to cw. those changes would rlly help mw's pacing and reduce the camping/sound whoring prob, then id have no complaints ab the game maybe besides the val and 725 still being crutches for lower skill players.
@@BlayF13 i will agree mw felt better, but gameplay was imo was terrible, i also think they shouldve done what cold war did like what u said as footsteps and dead silence as a perk. It wouldve been the best cod in yrs but it missed it potential. Another thing i think mw shouldve done was bring back the old minimap. Vanguard is sort of doing that but as a perk which i think it shouldnt be like that
I loved Cold War more than previous COD’s in the past years. As a whole, I enjoyed grinding this game with my brother and friends, the map designs were fluid and the throwback maps were great. For zombies, yes the lack of round based maps were disappointing and the maps that were added felt stale after a while but all the mechanics and new features they added were relieving. I’m pretty sure the things I didn’t like are gonna be in the 2nd part of the video
Just like BO4, I think the gun balance was pretty solid. Every gun filled a different niche in its weapon class and nothing really stood out as being significantly stronger than any of the other guns up until the very end with the EM2
To be honest, since I never got to experience Bo1 and Bo2 in it's prime, CW was a pretty refreshing experience that gave me elements set in a time that morphed gaming as a whole. So honestly, there's a lot I like about CW.
I enjoyed CW for what it was. It might've been rushed but it was far more enjoyable than MW imo. However my problems with CW are: -Sbmm(can get around it but is still annoying) -Melee weapons(most swing slow,no movement speed bonus,no lunge or swing distance,completely miss targets that are in front of you,and die mid animation.) -Snipers(too controversial to get into but I will say that ill shoot a sniper and its aim doesn't move and still kills me) -Lmgs and burst rifles(kill way too fast even after nerfs) -Visibility at longer ranges -Perk balance -Not enough unique attachments
@@marcusduck The fuck was broken in Cold War? Weapon balancing was better than MW. Skins and lighting weren't messed up and no skins had to actually be nerfed
Honestly it was alot of fun to play according to lot of people, if you team up with your friends the had barely any SBMM because teaming up with your buddies made SBMM useless I guess.So I don't know man. Can't blame Treyarch for SBMM.Its under Activision
i never cared about my kd even now and then ill get in to a game with uber try hards but that was like 1 in 10 games or so i never really got the sbmm complains my kd is1.4 not sure if thats so low that sbmm dosnt affect me or anything. thing that annoyed me most is the swiss with m82 secondary meta that is so common in 6v6 face off
Besides the scorestreak system and obviously SBMM, I enjoyed Cold War throughout its cycle and will be playing it into next year since I don't plan on buying this year's cod. I feel like I'm one of the few that actually enjoy this game for what it is.
For me personally, the game has only one major problem, The "SBMM" matchmaking and lobby disbanding... besides that it's easily one of the best Cods since the golden era of Mw2, BO1...
I think its because cold war stuck with the traditional 3 lane map where as mw tried more realism so they made it a 3 lane map with multiple mini lanes inbetween.
I agree completely, people over look the gunplay and movement and mistake it for core game-play and pacing. The pacing yes is slower than most COD games however. MW definitely have the best boots on the ground movement. It was very smooth. The gunplay was very satisfying especially when getting a kill. TBH MW had great Gunplay and movement, if had better core designs like Cold War (More balanced perks, Maps, Footsteps) it would easily been the best COD since BO2.
I hesitated cold war, but i received it as a gift. While it broke no new ground, as a package, it shipped with a lot of content, 4 major modes. I had fun with all of them.
Really liked this game, have been having a lot of fun throughout the year, I probably enjoyed this game way more than most, same with mw and probably gonna be the same with vanguard, I just really like cod it’s my favorite franchise
Theyre ok at best, if you played in the golden age of CoD over 10 years ago you'd understand why were mad with some things and its direction to punish people good at the game and baby noobs, or punish you once you get good, if you were better back the day you were better thats it, no compensation system part of mechanics or serverside of the game helping the noob and making the game slow paced.
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@Rickiwot I've been playing since world at war on the PS3 and I like Cold War, could it have been better with reduced SBMM and more original content, sure. But I don't think it's a bad game.
I am quite an infrequent CoD franchise player but one thing that made me really get into CW was the health bars. It gave more instant reward in gunfights as opposed to the binary survive/lose. The emotional peaks of seeing exactly how near you were from winning a gunfight really helped me track my own performance and want to improve my game.
Cold war did a few things right for me, I looooved Zombies so much this year. I never did any of the EEs before because they could be very convoluted but this year I did participate in it, and while outbreak wasn't everyone's cup of tea I really enjoyed playing it, it was a refreshing take on zombies. I loved the campaign, it was really fun to play and one I'll remember. I loved how it ties to MW and this new universe they are setting up with it and I'm always looking forward to the next bits of story. The multiplayer was fun only in bursts for me but the weapons were always a fair bit of fun. I loved to try and pull snipers shots in Armada.
As a major Zombies player, I appreciate the acknowledgement. Though this wasn't the most fruitful Zombies experience. It was really enjoyable. The easy to learn hard to master feel they went for with this was amazing. And it got more people into the Zombies community than ever before.
I actually remember why I subscribed to you in the first place! I know this is your opinion but everything just makes sense. So far I shared your opinion on every video (in regard to what a certain cod did wrong or right) and I like how you not only state your opinion but also explain how things would work it if stuff would be different and therefore "worse". As always, great content Ace, keep up!
I kinda found out that Cold War is a great game. I enjoyed the camo grinding in zombies in the first four seasons and in multiplayer for the last two seasons of the game, but it doesn’t play as slow as Modern Warfare when it comes to TTK.
I realised Cold War is good when I switched from ps4 to ps5. I couldn't immerse with constant pop up of textures and visual glitches. And haptic feedback works great too. I like that I can play with my music instead of focusing on not making a lot of noise like in MW 2019
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@m4a1snerfed I never use those weapon based scorestreaks cuz I die if I try to get a kill with like a War Machine, Hand Cannon, Death Machine, or a Flamethrower.
I appreciated the fact that all the weapons unlock challenges were achievable in zombies as well. I also appreciate that all the LTMs had limited zombies unlockables. With MW, I felt that the Co-op mode was the red-headed stepchild, with barely any updates or fixes, but Cold War had plenty of updates for their third mode.
This is my favourite Call of Duty since Black Ops 2, I still play today. It gives me mad Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 vibes and I will forever love it for that
I also am not primarily a zombies player, however I loved zombies in this game. A played zombies here and there in older games, and bo4 was the first time I was invested. In this game, I have nearly 10 days played in zombies. That leads me to an issue of the game, the xp rate.
Gun variety is good too besides withthe em2 and tec 9 introduction, but that’s fixed now and the movement in Cold War is absolutely fantastic honestly really enjoyed this game overall , played so much league play in this game because the maps flowed so well in hardpoint and control
Honestly the campaign was so much fun that I've played 19-25 times.And even people kept telling Jev over a year to play and the way how Zombies, Campaign and Multiplayer maps connected.Like everything about Black Ops Cold regarding Art direction,Art style etc.We have a level design based on Campaign so we have a MP map based in Berlin.And Mauer Der Toten based on that Berlin map. Personally I don't like playing on a 4BC Roman map when a game is based on 2045
Unpopular/controversial opinion: We as a cod community are spoiled, back in the day we got a good amount of weapons and maps at launch but that was it for the next 12 months (unless you bought the season pass). No post launch weapons, maps, perks, killstreaks, no character customization, no battle passes, no events. And often no needed weapon nerfs or buffs (like the mp40 from waw). Maybe the games were better back then but the devs havent gotten lazy over time.
Hi Ace! I've been luving your gun guide throughout the year on CW mp. Really count on it. Thanks for that intel!! To me CW has been my best experience and fav game of all-time. Have bought and played MW2, MW3, BO2, AW, BO3, BO4, and finally CW. I usually get at CHristmas and play through Aug. Not CW, still playing actively now and see myself playing well into 2022. Why? Why not? To me, a big fan of MP moshpit, this game is the reward for staying with the franchise -reasonable lobbies(no longer playing all stars like you and other amazing players). Now, I'm often in top 3 out of 12 in match. -great weekly playlists(fresh moshpit maps almost every week) I now also enjoy Com Arms and 12vs12. I'm just not bored!! -great operators and customizing -great scorestreak system(I play the objectives and I get rewarded) -time to kill fun for me(not too fast) -loud footsteps good by me I don't play with headset All in all, I think Trey did a great job with this game. I have even bought some skins where I never did in past. Yes, it had a slow start with maps but lets face it, it was a global pandemic lol. This has been a great year of entertainment for me. Thanks Treyarch!!!
when cold war announced I thought it's gonna be similar to bo1 in term of gameplay but when I played it I think cold war is the closest thing we'll ever get to a bo2 remaster, the gun play and the art style feels so similar to bo2 I think cold war is a good game overall, and really feels like you are playing call of duty unlike last year.
The problem with ninja is there is no real counter to it. So paired with enemies spawning behind you less than 10 seconds after you respawn, you can't respond to the spawn flip and the enemy gets free kills
Personally, one thing I really love is the seasonal challenge system. It's a huge step up from MW, with calling card challenges that are actually challenging to get the Prestige Master Season calling card of that season. Really love that and love that each calling card is unique between both MP and Zombies. In general I love the grind of this game. The seasonal challenges, the daily challenges for a free Double XP token. Calling card challenges in MP, Campaign, and zombies. Camo challenges for the two modes as well. Only thing that sucked is there's no 100% calling card for the standard launch challenges.
CW has that classic COD feel and I REALLY appreciated that after MW19. The gunplay is this game was awesome in my opinion and I really feel like you could totally outgun someone if you were better.
I think Cold War is gonna be one of those underrated CODs in the future. Solid gameplay, fun weapons, great maps, they just missed the mark on killstreaks, but other than that, they created a great game, like Treyarc always does
Love this video. Black Ops Cold War is easily more comparable and fits closer to Black Ops 2 than any other COD since BLOPS2. People hate on Cold War wayyyyyy too much. 100% people are going to look back on Cold War in a few years and appreciate this game so much. Guarantee it. It gets soooooo much hate for almost no reason.
@@jextra4096 If people actually took the time to play the game, learn how people play and adapt to what the meta is, they would do fine. I have a 1.73 KDR, have gotten a few nukes under my belt, and the guns i use i do quite well consistently with now and ive played almost the whole games life cycle. Outside of the BROKEN streetsweeper and Tec9, the game has been balanced REALLY well and you can use any gun and anyrhing you want. SBMM is no worse or better than on MW2019 but somehow people worshipped that garbo game with dead silence as a field upgrade. Cold Wars really good and it plays just like an OG black ops COD. Blows my mind people didnt understand that it was MEANT to be an arcadey throw back game. Its great.
Honestly the only thing that killed Cold War for me was the lack of content at launch, particularly the lack of maps. It just got so stale so quickly and I moved on to other games, which is unfortunate because I agree with pretty much all of the positive things you mentioned.
The Pines was the map I liked the least (even more so than Miami) but even those two were still solid to me. I'd rather play them than almost any of the maps in MW2019.
One of the best Cods made. I know a lot of people don't like it but I find it awesome. If you like Warzone you'll prefer MW2019 if you like older cod then CW is for you.
as an hardcore zombies fan, I find myself in the minority when i say this but this is definitely the second best cod for zombies by a long margin, right behind bo3. I never got the constant whining but the maps were solid, we had loads of content and yeah
I know a lot of people like to hate on cold war but imo it's a lot of fun to play, the maps are great and this game has fast paced action, I love to run and gun and that's the dominant play style in cold war.
I didn’t purchase this game not because I think it was a bad Call of Duty but because MW2019 left such a bad taste in my mouth that when Cold War came around, my interest in the CoD franchise was practically nonexistent. But now, I’ve been getting that slight urge to play again so I might pick this game up when it gets discounted over the holidays. One thing is for certain, this game is infinitely better than MW2019 and it’s not even CLOSE.
As someone who plays hardpoint the majority of the time, I thought the spawns were pretty good in the game. You could get spawn trapped (at times) when a hardpoint location is located near a spawn area (i.e, the houses in nuketown)
Shout out to the Combat Record in Cold War! For years people have been crying out for a good combat record and when they finally implement one we don't even acknowledge it. It was great and glad you talked about it
How much are you willing to bet that the same people that hated Cold War, asked for CoD to be more faster pace and action. It boggles me that only now people are praising Modern Warfare if that game received so much negativity at launch over its camping issues
The game was fun. I really loved how it curbed the camping problem. The spawns were predictable especially compared to MW 2019. I think people who aren't as accurate or don't have good gunskill hated this game because it was harder for them, but that rewarded good players and made the game so much more enjoyable to me. I loved the setting of Cold War. I really hope Treyarch comes back to this setting in the near future as it's an era we don't see much in COD games. I liked league play a lot too. MW didn't even have a ranking system. Overall this might be one of my favorite COD games to come out.
Cold War pissed me off so much. It would’ve been an amazing game if it came out in 2018. Going from MW19/Warzone back to this felt horrible. Huge step back.
I usually hold on buying the latest CoD game, and I did not enjoy the multiplayer compared to MW. I used to tell my friends, "the more I play it, the less I want to buy it." But then we got Outbreak. Outbreak pushed me over the edge and made me pull the trigger on buying Cold War. They better have Outbreak or something similar on Vanguard.
I just liked that Cold War felt like an actually CoD compared to MW19. All though Cold War is pretty average in most things, it just felt like I was playing that arcade FPS shooter that I grew up playing. Someone who follows the competitive scene as well, it was super nice that the core gameplay/ttk/fundamentals gave almost everyone an even playing field and skill actually mattered.
It’s disappointing to hear people talk about it in the past tense. I’m a late joiner on CW , I’ve only been playing since the last couple of weeks of season 5. Prior to that I had only been playing Shipment 24/7 on WWII for about 9 months straight. CW has blown me away with Face Off 6v6 and Nuketown playlists. Super hectic and great fun. Love the guns too. Initially I didn’t like how the multiplayer lobbies would break up after each game but I actually really like it now. I’m not getting worked up about rivalry’s and trash talking and can just enjoy the game for what it is. Hoping the updates / bundles keep coming into the future and the player base stays strong! Amazing work Treyarch !! 👑
The campaign was probably the best the series, seriously, it was fantastic. I also think the multiplayer and zombies was solid - I am just completely burnt out on COD at this point tbh so didn't play for more than a month.
There are people (even youtubers) who think removing flinch increases the randomness and lowers the skill gap. I can't believe people with brains say these things.
Hot take I enjoyed Cold War more than MW19 simply because it didn’t idk feel as hyper if that makes sense, MW19 had its super sweat 0-100 lobbies but when it had its lows it was really low where in CW on terms of lobby and skill gaps between players I felt like it was less of a snooze fest or sweat fest just kinda in the middle. 😅
I feel like Cold War was the last OG vibe-cod we will get anytime soon. They did an excellent job and more to get in consideration knowing they had like 10 month to develop the game. Btw, they broke the game wt the lunch of the Tec-9. They literally mess all the good things they did all year long.
For Cold Snore there wasn’t a need for the choose my class series since everyone used the same load out in every lobby. Silenced weapon, shotgun or akimbo pistols as secondaries, perk greed wildcard, and of course the mandatory stim shot
Where do I start? Positives - dead silence perk - no unplayable maps - no true meta gun for majority of game - dark matter grind was good for most part - shotgun secondary Negatives - perk balance - overpowered perks - no great map - sniper flinch - overpowered tacticals - lack of tactical sprint - lack of mounting I have more but I’ll stop there
The best thing in CW is that they have a perk that counters stuns and actually works
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@willtheprodigy3819 Keep that mentality! Don't let some low life pretentious guy bash your playstyle. Keep on winning, keep on improving your skills!💕
@The Bro if they were so easy to use, why are they not meta and why don’t pro players and high KD players use them?
@@edgarcmtz because no matter how skilled you are, all an enemy has to do to kill you is stick you with a thermite, and since it's impossible to dodge, you're basically offering yourself to others as a free kill. All it takes is a stun, Semtex, thermite, and if even if you don't have that, you can easily approach and prefire a shielder, not to mention trophy systems render the shielder useless too. There's so much you can do but people will always complain about a Riot Shield playstyle because they aren't smart enough to use their brain.
@The Bro dude said movement skills like the other person literally can’t run or aim lmao.
4:44 - “Crap, my magazine’s empty! Well, guess I better fire a rocket launcher from point blank range!” 😂
I couldn't help but laugh heartily when I saw that happen.
From the suddden panic when running out of ammo to the slight hesitation when he realise he pulled out a laucher before ultimately deciding "Screw it" and firing anyway, all the while his ennemy _does not even react._
That's just pure comedy gold right here.
Switching to your pistol is faster than reloading XD
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@m4a1snerfed Respect to your opinion and all, but how does this have to do anything with what this comment thread is about.
Absolutely obliterated him 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really did like the core gameplay of this. I actually felt like I was getting better at the game,
to the point where near the end, I hardly went negative no matter how sweaty the game got.
Same, all these people complaining about sbmm just need to get good. These cod players think that because they played other cods they’re automatically a good player and should go positive in each game. You simply have to practice before you can get to that level.
@@StriveMinded Funny, isn't that the point of SBMM...? Please tell me how it works for you but not for me.
@@thesituation5315 What you mean with the point of SBMM? I noticed with cold war that the first 100-200 games I went pretty bad.. I had a kd of 1.00… Then after 300+ games I could get 2 k/d games standard and now I can easily get 3 k/d if I try a little. Ive got over 10 days played or something.
Just play the PC version and dance around all the controller dudes.
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
coming from someone who only played MW and CW in the last years i can only really compare my CW experience to MW. that being said, map design has felt alot better in CW. no maps that felt huge for no good reason, aswell as a more simplified map design. no having to keep an eye out on 10 different doors and windows at the same time. proper ninja/dead silence being the next, its quite off putting going from CW with ninja equipped, to MW and hearing just how insanely loud your footsteps are. and lastly, i have much more enjoyed the longer ttk in CW compared to MW. so many times in MW do you die without having anytime to react. this is where i feel CW feels more rewarding in that you can have time to react and survive being shot at. aswell as the longer ttk rewarding being able to keep your aim on your target in a gunfight while firing.
Idk man. In CW u have the field agent foregrip, which makes many guns have low recoil. So it’s not that hard to aim. I think BOCW is good but MW 2019 was excellent.
Map design might be better in BOCW and I like having the ninja perk, but the fast ttk of MW makes guns feel powerful and rewarding. A fast ttk is also what most of the older CoDs before it had. The gunplay was top notch in MW.
Although not saying I hate the 150 health and gunfights in BOCW. I don’t mind them actually. But I prefer the fast ttk. Obviously u die quicker, but u kill quicker - which also means it isn’t sometimes difficult to get a triple or even double kill like with 150 health.
Another reason why I prefer MW is cos of the setting. I didn’t care for the Cold War era particularly and the modern setting I thought was really cool. The first CoD I owned was BO3 and I’ve played all the CoDs since then (although also BO1) until MWIII (except Vanguard).
I really liked the core fundamentals of Cold War. It felt like a true call of duty that can cater to all playstyles from maps to perk variety, unlike MW19, where a lot of the maps were too complex and the lack of a dead silence/ninja perk really put an emphasis on camping, which is why I quit MW19 after 2 seasons. I also felt that the camo grinding wasn't as obnoxious this year (except for the launchers) and the mastery camos were actually worth it unlike Damascus that just seemed like an extra camo they took out of the topography section and called it a day. All in all, it just felt like a true call of duty and I am glad I gave it a second chance
I mean, the gold and dark matter are, but the diamond camos look like ass.
@@AlmightyRager95 We talkin about Cold War or Warzone? Cuz all the mastery camos in Warzone are wack
@@basu2428 Cold War.
@@AlmightyRager95 In comparison to MW19, I personally think all the mastery camos in cold war (except gold viper) are all really good. But yea. The end goal is just dark matter. I have both of them
@@basu2428 Making progress towards Dark Aether; already know it's probably gonna be a reeeeally long time before I get Dark Matter.
While not perfect, I enjoyed this game a lot more than MW. The pacing, gunplay and most of the map design were great. Also the campaign is definitely a top 5 CoD campaign for me. Enjoyed the story, twists, choices and multiple endings and some of the unique mission designs.
The missions where very fun i won't lie however im still not use to the new voice actors of woods and Mason
to each their own. I thought MW2019 was way better than CW. MW is what actually got me back to COD after my last game being MW2. I just got bored of CW after a couple of months.
I loved this game in comparison to MW. MW2019 was such a slow paced boring snore fest
Original Miami map was the only map that I thought had bad pacing. Was in a few games there that ended on the time limit. One of them I had 46 kills myself in TDM and it ended on the time limit 😂. Outside of Miami though, the pacing was great on the rest of the maps.
Facts
yeah, the campaign really surprised me. i only played cod4 yeas ago before cold war, so i expected a simple "go from A to B and kill everything that moves" sort of campaign. instead we had a campaing that makes us play stealth missions, solve puzzles, and gives a nice plot twist at the end, with that mission where you re live the memories in vietnam that really mindfucks you if disobey adler's orders
I know ace is going to have a feast with the “scorestreaks” power ups next video
Yeah i hated the streak system this year too, 1 they aren’t even streaks to begin with cause you can die 30 times and still get the highest streak and 2 the streak system completely takes any satisfaction you would get when earning streaks in previous cod games take the swarm in bo2 for example: when you earned that streak you felt a since of accomplishment and like you reached somewhat of a goal. Meanwhile the ac-130 in cold war while is does take a lot of score to earn you can die like 10 times in a row after going on a 10 killstreak and still get it.
@@Charliecraig2003 don't forget about the air patrol lol
@@Charliecraig2003 You can't die 30 times and get the high streaks.
@@Mizaruu I have no doubt they added that into the game specifically for noobs lol.... one of the easiest streaks to get takes out every other streak in the game?? Yeah fucking right lmao
Nom nom nom.
Time to kill was perfect for my liking. Also really liked the map design on most maps.
I really enjoyed Cold War. And I feel like it’s going down as one of the most underrated Cod of all time.
Agreed
I'm already nostalgic about loading and playing the game for the first time. Hearing the menu music still... It's the most unique CoD in my opinion
I just hate its' sbmm it ruins most of the fun for me
CW def stands out compared to the other recent titles. Felt like a big return to the roots of the game. I loved MW19's graphics and gunplay, but hated the maps and its system changes
I liked Cold War a lot because i felt that it mixed elements from the past with some present mechanics( some weren’t always perfect) I would’ve liked to see the pick 10 come back since wildcards were in the game. SBMM was still toxic, but in my experience, it wasn’t as bad as MW for me. Overall I would rank it 8/10, far from the golden age games, but a “Good” Experience for me.
I liked Cold War a lot because I felt that it mixed elements from the past with some present mechanics( some weren’t always perfect) I would’ve liked to see the pick 10 come back since wildcards were in the game. SBMM was still toxic but in my experience, it wasn’t as bad as MW for me. Overall, I would rank it 8/10, far from the golden age games, but a “Good” Experience for me.
But you are not allowed to like it acc to the MW fanboy constitution section 1 paragraph 16 because and I quote "mUh gWapHicS"
I give Cold War an 8 out of 10.
5/10
@@lm_slayer1 The worst part is that CW looks better in most areas and it's just lighting that looks better in MW
Ive been playing since black ops 2 and am a decent player, cold war has been my favorite cod in a long long time, feels so good to have classic rush gameplay. Radar and simple movement was so nice and still has room for outplays
Magazine and optical attachments. Mags where really well designed and diverse. Optics where almost all viable, and had no impact on ads speed regardless of zoom. Perfect.
Only thing I'd change is that a huge amount of them are bulky and narrow your peripheral vision too much compared to MW's sights. The Microflex is king in CW because it lets me see around me.
@@julianscomposer I've used almost exclusively Millstop and Microflex up until around season 5, but I started giving the Snappoint and the Hawksmoor their time in the spotlight for various reasons. Hawksmoor is bulky for sure but the sight picture is unbeatable. Snappoint offers 1.5x zoom with not too intrusive peripheral vision penalty.
Really? I thought all of the red dots were suuuuper ugly(except for the micro flex). I also wish the mags made more sense. 60 round mag the same size as a 30 round? Check. 12 round mag for a six shot revolver? Check. In my mind I always thought the gunsmith was rushed and not thought out.
@@noahcarlson3819 at least the speed mags on a lot of dlc guns actually look like they could hold that amount of ammo, like the 53 round fast mag on the MAC10
I liked that part. CW is definitely better than MW.
One of my favorite things about Cold War was the variety of game modes. It always felt like there was something different to play depending on what type of style I was looking for
I liked cold wars scorestreak system. It was so cool to still be able to earn scorestreaks and not worry about resetting upon deaths.
Now i think it was balanced because you still had to do really well to earn really high streaks
I REALLY enjoyed Cold War. This was my first FULL Call of Duty experience and I'm so happy it was this game. Multiplayer and Zombies were so fun and I'm happy to hear a lot of people in both communities really liked this game in the context of the other CoDs.
First full call of duty experience and it was Cold War?? lol I feel bad for you. Cold War was garbage compared to the old call of duty’s
@@pahulmultani972 it’s one of the best modern call of duty’s to be made, a solid multiplayer, campaign, and the most diverse zombies we’ve ever seen
@@BlindIntent it’s literally the shittiest blackops game ever made. You cannot possibly say it’s better than blackops 1 or 2 or 2. Even blackops 4 is better than that garbage. The multiplayer was the worst thing I’ve ever played. No offence but most of the people that say Cold War is good are kids or people who haven’t actually played any of the good old cods. Cold War was garbage
@@pahulmultani972 Ive played all cod’s since WAW except BO4 and it is significantly better than bo2 multiplayer, It doesn’t have the stupid pick 10 and multiplayer is a pretty solid experience maybe you should elaborate more on what makes CW worse because it’s underrated
@@BlindIntent bruh significantly better than bo2??? Bo2 is highly regarded as the best cod game ever game, please don’t ever say Cold War is better than bo2.
Also, i think it fit the Cold War aesthetic really well, the guns that were added to the game were really cool for the time period. The store skins were definitely on the flashy/wacky side of things, as they usually are in cod but there were a healthy amount of real world and movie cold war era operator/weapon skins.
It really felt like what a COD game should be.
And at the end, mine and safe to say many player's wish will be that since the game ain't gonna bring a lot of money, please turn off the SBMM for CW.
Sbmm won't be a problem once vanguard releases and the player base is split and all the youtubers, streamers, and cdl wannabes move to the next title
@@michaeljessica9150 the only argument to this, is that the players who stick to CW will probably be ones who excelled specifically at this game.
@@PreacH0921 Maybe, idk.. I have a 2.1 kd on bocw and ill be moving over to vanguard just like I do every year, onto the next
I couldn't agree more. BOCW had an awesome core gameplay philosophy where (unlike MW2019) it actually felt good and rewarding to play aggressively rather than feeling like I was being punished for it. Plus, as a primarily MP-focused player for a long time, this was the first time where I really got into Zombies. What was originally just a way for me to level up weapons before taking them into MP turned into a genuinely fun experience, both in the round-based maps and in Outbreak.
I think the game was fun, the core gameplay was actually amazing. I only quit due to SBMM, it was absolutely horrendous and having fun wasn't a option anymore. Maybe the occasional less "sweaty" game. Gameplay wise, gunplay was solid.
And strict SBMM will follow in Vanguard sadly
@@ThePughski Yeah so I've heard. I'm a bit sceptical of buying it. Will most likely watch some videos before I make that decision
@@ThePughski Yeahhhhh... It's my only reason why I'm not copping it. It's CW and Battlefield 2042 going into the next year for me.
Face off 6v6 is a saving grace.
@@promethazine8019 personally I'm going to wait for Black Friday when it goes on sale for $45-50. I'm for sure getting Infinite since that beta was 🔥 fingers crossed that Vanguard is actually decent
First Cod I have played enough to prestige prestige since MW3. The TTK I think actually is the best thing about this Cod cause you have to hit your shots instead of insta death. Also like all the field upgrades and I feel like every gun is good and has their pros and cons.
Best thing for me in this iteration of COD was zombies. I became a first time zombie mode player, specifically Outbreak mode. After getting continuously frustrated trying the regular round zombies in each game and utterly failing to navigate in the dark plethora of corridors and sealed doors, I tried Outbreak and it was literally a breath of fresh air. Outside large maps where you could explore at you leisure (solo) or plunder wit a team of 3 other players. They kept play fresh by adding new maps for each season and you had a choice of trying to see how far you could last with endless rounds or play a short 3 round game then exfil to safety. Had loads of fun playing this game mode of zombies. Well done Treyarch!
My favorite thing about CW is the best play over final kill. i like seeing people go off rather than someone who just got lucky
Half the time it doesn’t work :(
I loved this game. The removal of specialists was at the top of my list.
Wait what was so bad about specialist and are you talking about MW specialist or Bo4 specialist because if it is Bo4 I agree if MW then why?
Sorry to burst your bubble but they just made specialists as part of the horrible score streak system in Cold Snore
@@XboxNightmare_NM yes, but then at least you had to earn it. Getting them for free like BO3 and BO4 was an actual nightmare
@@PreacH0921 how do you “earn” the specialist weapons / kill streaks when your score does not reset upon death?
@@XboxNightmare_NM simply get good lol
Cold War is Indeed the most CoD feeling within the past 3 CoDs to come out in the past 3 years.
From a zombies player POV, they did a great job with the gameplay of the mode, as well of story, map design is above average but still fun to play, and the amount of time tryarc listen to the community is great, they rebuff the ray gun, lit the DIE be upgraded, and put a LTM for unslaught on the game forever, for the negative, I would say the lack of personality in the game, for an example the player characters, that’s why Vanguard got me a bit with the old gods, second is the EEs, they feel a bit to, noob Friendly, forsaken ee was a disappointment. Overall: CWz has the biggest amount of player choice, great gameplay, interesting story and the developers listen to the players, but lacks a personality, maps can get boring, and baby’s first EE
IMO CW zombies is the second best zombies mode, only behind (yes, i know it’s cliche) BO3
@@bigchief8493 I’d say it’s the reverse for me mostly for the less cryptic bullshit ee steps imo not related but the music you can get in outbreak (albeit rng) is so good like generation and Avogadro that you can get
CW zombies is the best in the series. I've never done an easter egg even in Cold War. I end up just getting to like round 30. You pretty much have to look up guides to do the easter eggs as they're not that obvious to someone like me.
@@ProphetTLKwhat I mean is that they are easy to do, if you did find one you could do it first time
@@kevindragon213 that’s fair tbh, BO3 EE steps can be dumb as hell
literally none of the void bow steps from DE would be something you’d find without the help of a guide lmao
I really like how they built tac sprint into the standard sprint, saved my left stick a year of abuse
as much as i’ve been doing the sprint trick i never noticed they added it to compensate for a lack of tac sprint LMAO
i switched to auto tac sprint to save my controllers
Looking forward to the Tec-9 section of the next video
And the Ironhide/ Marshall section
@@xenondestiny as well as the sbmm and streak system section of the video.
I mean are you guys pretending World at War didn't have MP40.All Call of Duty games including COD 1 has had OP weapons.
Sooo since everyone loves exploiting game mechanics can I blame anyone besides Tryhards.I still use MP5 like it was on Season 1
@@xenondestiny Streetsweeper
@@Charliecraig2003 The streak system is a positive, it doesn't force you to camp for streaks anymore
After playing MW2019 and warzone, and enjoying the hell out of them for a year, when I switched over and got CW, I found myself enjoying the pacing and gunfights better. I liked the aesthetic of it. I liked the arcade-style jumping, sliding, and shooting. It was just more fun in my opinion. When I hop in and play warzone occasionally, it takes me a minute to get back into the swing of things, as it feels like I'm playing in molasses compared to CW.
Yeah cold war its what cod used to be but worse,mw its what cod is now a days,casual shooter with slow pace maps full of safe spaces...
@Lucas Black
All of this!
What Cold War did right... Whew, this is tough. Answering the first couple months of promise would have been easy.
1) higher TTK
2) fun, organic, and dynamic maps
3) real attempts to listen to players, critics and etc
4) awesome new stat listings
5) a general action packed vibe with the whole retro theme
6) I didn't finish the campaign, but even the earliest helicopter flight was great
Higher TTK only rewards one shoot weapons, which amazingly, did happen. Snipers are the best guns in this game.
3 lines maps are good ok, but they are boring, specially Treyarch 3 lines style. And I’m not defending MW2019 style maps with this, they are trash, but looking to older maps like rust, dome, terminal, favela, scrapyard, etc, they have the same “3 line” principle but they are more dynamic, not just 3 vertical lines from end to end like hijacked where you can just run straight on any line.
They indeed tried to listen to players but I didn’t saw any great difference after all. Sniper glinch is still the same. Matchmaking was still the same even when everyone hated it. Ray gun on zombies was the best and most loved weapon in the game and Treyarch just nerfed it to the ground knowing how everyone loved it.
They tried to copy the gunsmith system and also add the real stats to it, but IMO they did an horrendous job with it. The reason in the original gunsmith was to create a hell lots of weapons and mods to any weapon. For example, you can made an Ak74u out of the Ak47, an G36 out of the Holger, Honey badger out of the M13, baby guns with any gun, almost every weapon had a special ammo, barrel, muzzle, something that changed it completely. In CW all weapons are the same, they all use the 5 same attachments while giving exact stats that only helped people like Xclusive ace, JGOD, truegamedata, etc. No one is really making the maths out of the stats everyday.
They started as a Cold War game, ended up in a weird looking game with leds skins retroactive alien stuff, idk, I didn’t liked any skin at all that they added
Campaign was great but extremely short to be a $60 game, only 3 hours.
This game had to be moved one year for them to give us a better product, not a half ass game with crazy buggs happening still to this day that goes from glitchy graphics to completely shutting down consoles
cold war is fantastic. in the future people will definitely look back on it. mark my words it will be the last classic feeling cod we get. from here on out itll be all slide cancelling with tac sprint
The zombies was good in this game, it was just borderline criminal how little content we got. Especially when you factor in that most old school zombies players didn't like Outbreak at all, meaning we got 4 maps total over 11 months...
Cold War is a fun game, I feel like if it wasn't for SBMM we could have enjoyed it much more. You know... without having to play for our lives every time we got on.
I agree with you, this cod imo is the best out of the “warzone” call of duties, i can actually rush in this game, mw i felt punished to rush and i felt pretty bored of slowing down the play style. Overall i agree with ace’s stuff in this video
@@kurokaen1234 i prefer mw's mechanics (besides mounting, it promotes sitting still and takes the skill out of recoil control) but i do wish overall sound, ghost balancing, and dead silence/ninja as a perk were similar to cw. those changes would rlly help mw's pacing and reduce the camping/sound whoring prob, then id have no complaints ab the game maybe besides the val and 725 still being crutches for lower skill players.
@@BlayF13 i will agree mw felt better, but gameplay was imo was terrible, i also think they shouldve done what cold war did like what u said as footsteps and dead silence as a perk. It wouldve been the best cod in yrs but it missed it potential. Another thing i think mw shouldve done was bring back the old minimap. Vanguard is sort of doing that but as a perk which i think it shouldnt be like that
Its not that sweaty.
Clearly not understanding what "focusing on the positives" means.
I loved Cold War more than previous COD’s in the past years. As a whole, I enjoyed grinding this game with my brother and friends, the map designs were fluid and the throwback maps were great. For zombies, yes the lack of round based maps were disappointing and the maps that were added felt stale after a while but all the mechanics and new features they added were relieving.
I’m pretty sure the things I didn’t like are gonna be in the 2nd part of the video
Zombies Outbreak was the best addition I can think of, it was a blast. We spent hundreds of hours playing in groups with this mode.
Just like BO4, I think the gun balance was pretty solid. Every gun filled a different niche in its weapon class and nothing really stood out as being significantly stronger than any of the other guns up until the very end with the EM2
I don't think any of the guns stood out or "filled a niche" they all really felt the same within their category
Exactly
To be honest, since I never got to experience Bo1 and Bo2 in it's prime, CW was a pretty refreshing experience that gave me elements set in a time that morphed gaming as a whole. So honestly, there's a lot I like about CW.
I enjoyed CW for what it was. It might've been rushed but it was far more enjoyable than MW imo. However my problems with CW are:
-Sbmm(can get around it but is still annoying)
-Melee weapons(most swing slow,no movement speed bonus,no lunge or swing distance,completely miss targets that are in front of you,and die mid animation.)
-Snipers(too controversial to get into but I will say that ill shoot a sniper and its aim doesn't move and still kills me)
-Lmgs and burst rifles(kill way too fast even after nerfs)
-Visibility at longer ranges
-Perk balance
-Not enough unique attachments
"far more enjoyable"
I see that people enjoy half assed, unoriginal and broken games
@@marcusduck I clearly said it was rushed but the overall gameplay was better. Its preferences and you can have your own.
@@marcusduck The fuck was broken in Cold War? Weapon balancing was better than MW. Skins and lighting weren't messed up and no skins had to actually be nerfed
@@namelol.mp4561 Burst rifles and lmgs were broken. Alongside snipers having no flinch. Everything else was ok besides a few exceptions.
@@MrKing-he3eo Ah forgot, my bad
But yeah I agree I like CW
It’s tough to know what they did right with all the strict sbmm as a solo player
Ngl I kinda liked it after I stopped tryharding and caring about my KD
@@BasedChadman I was more concerned about my W/L ratio than anything else. After struggling for a year, I finally crossed the 1.0 W/L ratio.
Honestly it was alot of fun to play according to lot of people, if you team up with your friends the had barely any SBMM because teaming up with your buddies made SBMM useless I guess.So I don't know man.
Can't blame Treyarch for SBMM.Its under Activision
@@bensunnyisaac Win / loss is irrelevant to me too because most companies admit their MMR system is intended to keep you as close to 50% as possible
i never cared about my kd even now and then ill get in to a game with uber try hards but that was like 1 in 10 games or so i never really got the sbmm complains my kd is1.4 not sure if thats so low that sbmm dosnt affect me or anything. thing that annoyed me most is the swiss with m82 secondary meta that is so common in 6v6 face off
Besides the scorestreak system and obviously SBMM, I enjoyed Cold War throughout its cycle and will be playing it into next year since I don't plan on buying this year's cod.
I feel like I'm one of the few that actually enjoy this game for what it is.
Im with you, I enjoyed CW a lot and had fun with it
I had more fun on this game more than Mw throughout the whole year, I never had to take a break since CW was bearable compared to Mw
Can’t agree more enjoyed cw a lot
SBMM was not strong in this game. Easy to pub stomp
@@smasherjt Not enough people realized this. Too many people just listened to angry old youtubers.
For me personally, the game has only one major problem, The "SBMM" matchmaking and lobby disbanding... besides that it's easily one of the best Cods since the golden era of Mw2, BO1...
Cold War is twice better than Modern Warfare and I’ll forever stand by it
It simply felt more like a call of duty game than MW19
Crazy how mw and cold war are the exact opposite... mw had great gunplay and movement, and cold war had great mapflow
I think its because cold war stuck with the traditional 3 lane map where as mw tried more realism so they made it a 3 lane map with multiple mini lanes inbetween.
Mapflow, huh?
@@nikolasusac4987 ?
I agree completely, people over look the gunplay and movement and mistake it for core game-play and pacing. The pacing yes is slower than most COD games however. MW definitely have the best boots on the ground movement. It was very smooth. The gunplay was very satisfying especially when getting a kill. TBH MW had great Gunplay and movement, if had better core designs like Cold War (More balanced perks, Maps, Footsteps) it would easily been the best COD since BO2.
The maps in cold war are for the most part trash, and given the camping playstyle that rewards bad players it just makes the problem worse.
I hesitated cold war, but i received it as a gift. While it broke no new ground, as a package, it shipped with a lot of content, 4 major modes. I had fun with all of them.
I liked that CW was actually fun to play compared to MW19
Looking back they have the best perk system and I loved setting up exactly how I want to play. Weapons customizing was good too
Really liked this game, have been having a lot of fun throughout the year, I probably enjoyed this game way more than most, same with mw and probably gonna be the same with vanguard, I just really like cod it’s my favorite franchise
Theyre ok at best, if you played in the golden age of CoD over 10 years ago you'd understand why were mad with some things and its direction to punish people good at the game and baby noobs, or punish you once you get good, if you were better back the day you were better thats it, no compensation system part of mechanics or serverside of the game helping the noob and making the game slow paced.
@@Rickiwot MW2 rewarded bad players with OMA and noob tubes. Every cod had SBMM
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@Rickiwot I've been playing since world at war on the PS3 and I like Cold War, could it have been better with reduced SBMM and more original content, sure. But I don't think it's a bad game.
@@deathtrooper2048 lmao. No every cod did not have sbmm. What a noob.
You never played mw2 did you kid?
I am quite an infrequent CoD franchise player but one thing that made me really get into CW was the health bars. It gave more instant reward in gunfights as opposed to the binary survive/lose. The emotional peaks of seeing exactly how near you were from winning a gunfight really helped me track my own performance and want to improve my game.
The biggest thing CW did right was ditch that passive camp style cod.
How? Cw is a slower paced game.
Cold War movement speed was a W I could play it all day
Cold war did a few things right for me, I looooved Zombies so much this year. I never did any of the EEs before because they could be very convoluted but this year I did participate in it, and while outbreak wasn't everyone's cup of tea I really enjoyed playing it, it was a refreshing take on zombies. I loved the campaign, it was really fun to play and one I'll remember. I loved how it ties to MW and this new universe they are setting up with it and I'm always looking forward to the next bits of story. The multiplayer was fun only in bursts for me but the weapons were always a fair bit of fun. I loved to try and pull snipers shots in Armada.
I really like this Final Review (Part-1)
I want to see Part 2 Xclusive Ace
As a major Zombies player, I appreciate the acknowledgement.
Though this wasn't the most fruitful Zombies experience. It was really enjoyable.
The easy to learn hard to master feel they went for with this was amazing. And it got more people into the Zombies community than ever before.
Its easy to learn easy to master lol
I actually remember why I subscribed to you in the first place! I know this is your opinion but everything just makes sense. So far I shared your opinion on every video (in regard to what a certain cod did wrong or right) and I like how you not only state your opinion but also explain how things would work it if stuff would be different and therefore "worse".
As always, great content Ace, keep up!
Who remembers the 50 minutes video about what Modern Warfare did wrong 💀
I kinda found out that Cold War is a great game. I enjoyed the camo grinding in zombies in the first four seasons and in multiplayer for the last two seasons of the game, but it doesn’t play as slow as Modern Warfare when it comes to TTK.
I realised Cold War is good when I switched from ps4 to ps5. I couldn't immerse with constant pop up of textures and visual glitches.
And haptic feedback works great too.
I like that I can play with my music instead of focusing on not making a lot of noise like in MW 2019
@@Nazylexx The sound whoring in MW is so obnoxious lol
@@Nazylexx Lower your FOV
the worst thing about cw is that they brought back specialist weapons as scorestreaks and because scorestreaks are quicker to rack up it has the same overwatch abilities spam feeling as bo4.
@@m4a1snerfed I never use those weapon based scorestreaks cuz I die if I try to get a kill with like a War Machine, Hand Cannon, Death Machine, or a Flamethrower.
I appreciated the fact that all the weapons unlock challenges were achievable in zombies as well. I also appreciate that all the LTMs had limited zombies unlockables. With MW, I felt that the Co-op mode was the red-headed stepchild, with barely any updates or fixes, but Cold War had plenty of updates for their third mode.
I've been playing Cold War throughout the entire year. Multiplayer and zombies are great! Also love the color they used in the game. Really pops!
This is my favourite Call of Duty since Black Ops 2, I still play today. It gives me mad Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2 vibes and I will forever love it for that
I also am not primarily a zombies player, however I loved zombies in this game. A played zombies here and there in older games, and bo4 was the first time I was invested. In this game, I have nearly 10 days played in zombies. That leads me to an issue of the game, the xp rate.
Gun variety is good too besides withthe em2 and tec 9 introduction, but that’s fixed now and the movement in Cold War is absolutely fantastic honestly really enjoyed this game overall , played so much league play in this game because the maps flowed so well in hardpoint and control
Tec still best gun in the game
Honestly the campaign was so much fun that I've played 19-25 times.And even people kept telling Jev over a year to play and the way how Zombies, Campaign and Multiplayer maps connected.Like everything about Black Ops Cold regarding Art direction,Art style etc.We have a level design based on Campaign so we have a MP map based in Berlin.And Mauer Der Toten based on that Berlin map.
Personally I don't like playing on a 4BC Roman map when a game is based on 2045
great work on finding an excuse for reusing maps in every mode
@@de_gree You seem new to the franchise, cod always been using reused maps.
Unpopular/controversial opinion: We as a cod community are spoiled, back in the day we got a good amount of weapons and maps at launch but that was it for the next 12 months (unless you bought the season pass). No post launch weapons, maps, perks, killstreaks, no character customization, no battle passes, no events. And often no needed weapon nerfs or buffs (like the mp40 from waw). Maybe the games were better back then but the devs havent gotten lazy over time.
The best thing Cold War did is it released, so we didn't have to play modern warfare another year
Hi Ace! I've been luving your gun guide throughout the year on CW mp. Really count on it. Thanks for that intel!! To me CW has been my best experience and fav game of all-time. Have bought and played MW2, MW3, BO2, AW, BO3, BO4, and finally CW. I usually get at CHristmas and play through Aug. Not CW, still playing actively now and see myself playing well into 2022. Why? Why not? To me, a big fan of MP moshpit, this game is the reward for staying with the franchise
-reasonable lobbies(no longer playing all stars like you and other amazing players). Now, I'm often in top 3 out of 12 in match.
-great weekly playlists(fresh moshpit maps almost every week) I now also enjoy Com Arms and 12vs12. I'm just not bored!!
-great operators and customizing
-great scorestreak system(I play the objectives and I get rewarded)
-time to kill fun for me(not too fast)
-loud footsteps good by me I don't play with headset
All in all, I think Trey did a great job with this game. I have even bought some skins where I never did in past.
Yes, it had a slow start with maps but lets face it, it was a global pandemic lol. This has been a great year of entertainment for me. Thanks Treyarch!!!
when cold war announced
I thought it's gonna be similar to bo1 in term of gameplay
but when I played it I think cold war is the closest thing we'll ever get to a bo2 remaster,
the gun play and the art style feels so similar to bo2
I think cold war is a good game overall, and really feels like you are playing call of duty unlike last year.
Not even close
Not even close to bo2
This is straight slander
The problem with ninja is there is no real counter to it. So paired with enemies spawning behind you less than 10 seconds after you respawn, you can't respond to the spawn flip and the enemy gets free kills
Personally, one thing I really love is the seasonal challenge system. It's a huge step up from MW, with calling card challenges that are actually challenging to get the Prestige Master Season calling card of that season. Really love that and love that each calling card is unique between both MP and Zombies.
In general I love the grind of this game. The seasonal challenges, the daily challenges for a free Double XP token. Calling card challenges in MP, Campaign, and zombies. Camo challenges for the two modes as well. Only thing that sucked is there's no 100% calling card for the standard launch challenges.
CW has that classic COD feel and I REALLY appreciated that after MW19. The gunplay is this game was awesome in my opinion and I really feel like you could totally outgun someone if you were better.
Best cod since BO2
I think Cold War is gonna be one of those underrated CODs in the future. Solid gameplay, fun weapons, great maps, they just missed the mark on killstreaks, but other than that, they created a great game, like Treyarc always does
Love this video. Black Ops Cold War is easily more comparable and fits closer to Black Ops 2 than any other COD since BLOPS2.
People hate on Cold War wayyyyyy too much.
100% people are going to look back on Cold War in a few years and appreciate this game so much. Guarantee it. It gets soooooo much hate for almost no reason.
I agree Cold War is underrated but I think SBMM was the main problem
@@jextra4096 If people actually took the time to play the game, learn how people play and adapt to what the meta is, they would do fine.
I have a 1.73 KDR, have gotten a few nukes under my belt, and the guns i use i do quite well consistently with now and ive played almost the whole games life cycle.
Outside of the BROKEN streetsweeper and Tec9, the game has been balanced REALLY well and you can use any gun and anyrhing you want.
SBMM is no worse or better than on MW2019 but somehow people worshipped that garbo game with dead silence as a field upgrade.
Cold Wars really good and it plays just like an OG black ops COD. Blows my mind people didnt understand that it was MEANT to be an arcadey throw back game. Its great.
Honestly the only thing that killed Cold War for me was the lack of content at launch, particularly the lack of maps. It just got so stale so quickly and I moved on to other games, which is unfortunate because I agree with pretty much all of the positive things you mentioned.
I enjoyed the MP maps except the Original Miami map
The Pines was the map I liked the least (even more so than Miami) but even those two were still solid to me. I'd rather play them than almost any of the maps in MW2019.
Miami was at least ok for camos.
It was fun as hell on 12 v 12 so what do you mean
Okay I forgot that it was bad on 6v6 Respawn modes
One of the best Cods made. I know a lot of people don't like it but I find it awesome. If you like Warzone you'll prefer MW2019 if you like older cod then CW is for you.
Worst CoD ever made*
I like older CoDs yet love MW2019, and hate Warzone and CW.
as an hardcore zombies fan, I find myself in the minority when i say this but this is definitely the second best cod for zombies by a long margin, right behind bo3. I never got the constant whining but the maps were solid, we had loads of content and yeah
well...most people prefer normal round base map more so that why they were saying that tbh. Most are not a fan of outbreak at all
I know a lot of people like to hate on cold war but imo it's a lot of fun to play, the maps are great and this game has fast paced action, I love to run and gun and that's the dominant play style in cold war.
I think this was my favorite zombies. Part of that coming from how I no longer have to pay $100+ just to get all the maps
i think its just a bit too easy to where it becomes boring but thats just in my opinion but I actually love the zombies in cold war
I didn’t purchase this game not because I think it was a bad Call of Duty but because MW2019 left such a bad taste in my mouth that when Cold War came around, my interest in the CoD franchise was practically nonexistent. But now, I’ve been getting that slight urge to play again so I might pick this game up when it gets discounted over the holidays. One thing is for certain, this game is infinitely better than MW2019 and it’s not even CLOSE.
As someone who plays hardpoint the majority of the time, I thought the spawns were pretty good in the game. You could get spawn trapped (at times) when a hardpoint location is located near a spawn area (i.e, the houses in nuketown)
Shout out to the Combat Record in Cold War! For years people have been crying out for a good combat record and when they finally implement one we don't even acknowledge it. It was great and glad you talked about it
How much are you willing to bet that the same people that hated Cold War, asked for CoD to be more faster pace and action. It boggles me that only now people are praising Modern Warfare if that game received so much negativity at launch over its camping issues
I don't see a single person calling modern warfare a good cod game both cold war and mw2019 are at the bottom of the barrel
Positives: TTK, engine, maps, balance (Minus the DLC guns), Movement, Create-a-class system, Streak system, brought back theater mode, overall audio, graphics, FOV slider, an option to select a double-tap mantle system, campaign and zombies, overall better CDL viewing experience and champs on LAN.
Balance???? Every sniper is op
@@jolbertti7421 That's every cod
@@deathtrooper2048 first time without flinch
@@deathtrooper2048 best way to counter someone sniping is to hit few bullets to get sniper flinch... Cw you cant do anything against sniper
The game was fun. I really loved how it curbed the camping problem. The spawns were predictable especially compared to MW 2019. I think people who aren't as accurate or don't have good gunskill hated this game because it was harder for them, but that rewarded good players and made the game so much more enjoyable to me. I loved the setting of Cold War. I really hope Treyarch comes back to this setting in the near future as it's an era we don't see much in COD games. I liked league play a lot too. MW didn't even have a ranking system. Overall this might be one of my favorite COD games to come out.
Short answer: nothing
Long answer: absolutely nothing
Finally!
Cold War pissed me off so much. It would’ve been an amazing game if it came out in 2018. Going from MW19/Warzone back to this felt horrible. Huge step back.
Can’t wait to see what they did wrong.
Last year was a 40 minute video!
only 25 minutes this year, way better than last year
I usually hold on buying the latest CoD game, and I did not enjoy the multiplayer compared to MW. I used to tell my friends, "the more I play it, the less I want to buy it." But then we got Outbreak. Outbreak pushed me over the edge and made me pull the trigger on buying Cold War. They better have Outbreak or something similar on Vanguard.
I just liked that Cold War felt like an actually CoD compared to MW19. All though Cold War is pretty average in most things, it just felt like I was playing that arcade FPS shooter that I grew up playing. Someone who follows the competitive scene as well, it was super nice that the core gameplay/ttk/fundamentals gave almost everyone an even playing field and skill actually mattered.
It’s disappointing to hear people talk about it in the past tense. I’m a late joiner on CW , I’ve only been playing since the last couple of weeks of season 5. Prior to that I had only been playing Shipment 24/7 on WWII for about 9 months straight.
CW has blown me away with Face Off 6v6 and Nuketown playlists. Super hectic and great fun. Love the guns too.
Initially I didn’t like how the multiplayer lobbies would break up after each game but I actually really like it now. I’m not getting worked up about rivalry’s and trash talking and can just enjoy the game for what it is.
Hoping the updates / bundles keep coming into the future and the player base stays strong!
Amazing work Treyarch !! 👑
The campaign was probably the best the series, seriously, it was fantastic. I also think the multiplayer and zombies was solid - I am just completely burnt out on COD at this point tbh so didn't play for more than a month.
For my WAW campaign is better but CW campaign is top 3
There are people (even youtubers) who think removing flinch increases the randomness and lowers the skill gap. I can't believe people with brains say these things.
Hot take I enjoyed Cold War more than MW19 simply because it didn’t idk feel as hyper if that makes sense, MW19 had its super sweat 0-100 lobbies but when it had its lows it was really low where in CW on terms of lobby and skill gaps between players I felt like it was less of a snooze fest or sweat fest just kinda in the middle. 😅
My fun in this game, grinding non-meta & max out on all weapons. Trying to make them decent.
I cannot wait for the cons.
I do expect it to be double the time of the pros
I feel like Cold War was the last OG vibe-cod we will get anytime soon. They did an excellent job and more to get in consideration knowing they had like 10 month to develop the game.
Btw, they broke the game wt the lunch of the Tec-9. They literally mess all the good things they did all year long.
I miss Ace's pick my class series. // tbh, even I like MW2019 more than cold war but still enjoy all of cold war contents.
For Cold Snore there wasn’t a need for the choose my class series since everyone used the same load out in every lobby. Silenced weapon, shotgun or akimbo pistols as secondaries, perk greed wildcard, and of course the mandatory stim shot
Where do I start?
Positives
- dead silence perk
- no unplayable maps
- no true meta gun for majority of game
- dark matter grind was good for most part
- shotgun secondary
Negatives
- perk balance
- overpowered perks
- no great map
- sniper flinch
- overpowered tacticals
- lack of tactical sprint
- lack of mounting
I have more but I’ll stop there