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12:31 am for me and blametruth, I shouldn't have let people talk me onto getting the game bc even zombies is fucked on some level, so like 7 minutes ago now me and 3 friends were extracting after finishing the the easter egg on the first map and we killed the last 2 zombies needed but it still fucking failed us and we got the "defeated" image. Mind you, WE KILLED THEM AND STILL FAILED, AND SCORE STREAKS DON'T COUNT TOWARD EXFIL KILLS WHICH IS BULLSHIT BECAUSE WHY MAKE THEM USABLE IN A EXFILL THEN!
@@marskila, how do i get to Stephan Galloways world series warzone contributions reddit has nothing on it. idk if us gamers expect sparse payouts or just get off game for other reasons but we all know this can and does happen under the rug. lawyers where are you for that dude.
If Battlefield 6 is trash i might just have to call it on gaming in general, FPS games are my fav genre by far and its been ruff these past few years. Seeing every gaming company get extremely greedy, go woke and then lose all authenticity seems like the only reality now.
bro just play story games. i broke off from fps after bo4 and i’m so glad i did. cod is trash, there’s no reason to keep buying it. fps ain’t the only genre my friend and i can tell you there’s other games out there for you!
@@jcraftgaming76 ive tried man, there are some single player games that i enjoyed like the OG Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption or Cyberpunk to name a few but overtime i realized that most single player games dont have very good storylines and casting, ive already played all the single player games that id enjoy.
Bro, just got chat banned for 14 days for a second time. I have everyone muted except for my team, and it’s party chat on only. The ai is listening to private party chat (regular talking) and banning people. Unbelievable. Now I can hear everyone, but I can’t talk at all
@@mateomorales2129it’s a private party he can say whatever he wants as long as he ain’t planning crimes which guess what (they wouldn’t report or ban you for). Also… why you assumed he’s using slurs ? Even if private party it is what it is
Dude Same thing happened to me yesterday got a second 14 day ban for saying absolutely nothing wrong & definitely nothing that is against TOS, I don’t even talk at ppl I talk with party only. The weird thing is the first time it happened in WZ which I thought was weird since I barely ever play it. So 2 weeks passed got Coms back and played MP and Ranked w no issues, actually having as much fun as I’ve had on the game. Then Dropped into WZ ranked to check it out yesterday and boom another 14 day voice ban. It’s BS I’m going to contact Activision if they don’t give me coms back I’m Done with CoD, I only play MP ranked and it’s horrendous when you can’t communicate. I hear ppl say actual “horrible” words constantly without getting banned so idk if it’s AI. The fact it’s only happening when I play WZ makes me think it’s players spam reporting but regardless the fact that this is even a thing makes me hate it
I don’t know if they do this for certain, but I’m pretty sure EA got reamed for hiring psychologists when they had to go to court for Star Wars loot boxes. I just figured Activision would follow suit since they’ve pretty much dethroned EA in the modern era with regards to shady business practices.
Bro this is why I make arguments against people who claim Activision doesn’t manipulate anything or whatever. I love and study psychology on my own time and I am ABSOLUTELY certain they actively use psychologists and other mental development experts to get people addicted, overwhelmed with options, false expectations, etc. Its disgusting use of psychological practice. However, I do believe we can fight back against Activision using the same power of psychology they use against their consumers. With proper logic, rationale and psychology efforts we can use them to dismantle and expose this disgusting company that has come to be. Straight corruption at full display and we as gamers need to stand up not just because of call of duty but because of the well being of the players in this world. Nobody should be manipulated by anything or anyone and nobody’s experience in gaming should be made to turn people against each other. Its about fun and not taking things so serious but with this matter , we need to.
I do believe we can fight back against Activision using the same power of psychology they use against their consumers. With proper logic, rationale and psychology efforts we can use them to dismantle and expose this disgusting company that has come to be. Straight corruption at full display and we as gamers need to stand up not just because of call of duty but because of the well being of the players in this world. Nobody should be manipulated by anything or anyone and nobody’s experience in gaming should be made to turn people against each other. Its about fun and not taking things so serious but with this matter , we need to.
My grandmother was afraid to go to the casino downtown by herself so I went along as her bodyguard. I watched her spend $90k a year for 10 years. Every once in a while she'd toss me a $20 and say get lost. I spent thousands of hours watching her play slots. I would study the place to try and increase my odds of winning with that $20 she tossed me. One night I won $5000. Everything you described about COD is spot on. Even COD maps remind me of the inside of a casino. The goal of COD is the keep players playing. The longer they play the more likely they are to spend money.
At least in the Casino you get a chance to make money if you spend. With COD its a Casino of manipulation, frustration and no reward no nothing, and you cant get your money back. 😂
Here’s why it’s entirely plausible that Activision is using systems like engagement-optimized matchmaking (EOMM) to manipulate player experience in Call of Duty, even if they claim otherwise. First, Activision has filed patents specifically for systems that manipulate matchmaking, hit registration, aim assist, and more to maximize player engagement. Companies don’t invest in patents they don’t plan to use, especially when those systems are designed to increase playtime and spending. Even if Activision says they’re not using these systems, the patents show clear intent. Second, many of the in-game inconsistencies players experience, like unpredictable hit registration, aim resist, and fluctuating match difficulty, align perfectly with what these systems are designed to do-manipulate live game data to influence player behavior. These manipulations are subtle, meaning they’re not supposed to be obvious but still affect outcomes in ways that maximize engagement. Third, the gaming industry already uses engagement-based design strategies everywhere to keep players hooked. Activision, as one of the biggest players in this industry, is highly incentivized to use these systems, especially in a game with microtransactions like Call of Duty. By manipulating outcomes, they keep players coming back and spending money. Finally, while some may argue there’s no “hard evidence,” the overwhelming number of player complaints about aim assist inconsistencies, spawn problems, and matchmaking issues suggests something is happening. These systems are designed to be nearly invisible, but the effects are clearly felt by players. In short, Activision has both the means and the motive to use these systems, and the player experience strongly supports the idea that some form of manipulation is in place, even if they deny it.
Dude, I'm entirely convinced that's exactly it, cause in one round of MP, I'll be able to have fun and get on average around 10 to 20 kills and than the next day, I'll continuously get stomped into the fucking dirt by pro players and it even feels like I'm either doing less damage to an opponent at point blank or it'll feel like I get killed despite going right around a wall before I die, cause there have been times where I've gotten about a quarter of the way past the doorway I was getting shot in and than I just die through the god damn wall, and it's so damn annoying, cause basically forced me into playing Hard point as the only game mode I can play without feeling like shit afterwards.
@@BlameTruth, Well we can atleast have the Vanderharr waterbottle went down to Goergia song now. Love for CEO's everywhere just not from other CEO's. if you know what i mean. the waterbottle dna
I've definitely seen myself get nerfed mid match. On the other hand, i have also felt myself get buffed mid match. It really brings you back to reality. You'll never convince me the patent was made but never implemented
@@HorizonIn-Finite I can't say I have ever noticed that. But I have definitely noticed when I tank enough bullets to kill me 5 times or more on stakeout
@@HorizonIn-FiniteI've had random animations mid gun fights, a quick black screen flash, my guns not reloading after it completes the animation and my favourite is when I get 10+ kills my connection tanks to borderline unplayable. I don't understand how they allow this to happen and it's only going to get worse.
That's ricochet anti cheat. A lot of those modifiers are reserved to test out cheaters. But imagine thinking Activision is competent enough to implement a AI anti cheat that can modify damage values in real time to not affect normal players by accident.
I've always said this about ricochet. The fact that it was live nerfing cheaters' damage, giving them insane fall damage etc wasn't an intentional anti cheat measure. I think it was just 'skill based optimisation' effects going overboard because the player was achieving insane amounts of kills, head shots, and shot accuracy. There's no way a company that could seemingly barely tie their shoe laces could pull off something that complicated that just targeted cheaters.
I noticed this also… i actually cannot hardly even play Warzone. 7/10 times itll kick me from games and send me to welcome screen talking about “retry, or go offline”.
@@masondykstra9464 what? I have great connection, usually between 20 and 33 and even I have odd lag spikes, if your lagging in a solo game then something is wrong, stop assuming crap man and open your eyes, quit defending sady business practices..
@ not saying it was. But putting zombies on the servers doesn’t help. And it’s just a stupid idea to even do. Why even give people the chance to lag on a solo game
Adding to the “Bots - in - games” please do not forget about the AI bots that were in MW2 Warzone & DMZ. I remember they locked the M13 behind DMZ while it was surrounded by bots with straight Aimbot! They posted a few times saying, “ investigating an unintentional bug where AI was dealing more damage than intended.” Would anyone be surprised if we found out the reason the servers have become so unstable, is because they are adding all of these manipulation tools to perfect EOMM, rather than adding new things or improving the natural experience?
I forgot about this, good call. If I recall, weren't they forced to remove the AI bots due to insane server lag!? Which would explain the terrible stability of the servers in general.
My teammates are NPCS all the time, they always land together and clump together the whole map. I’m getting hunted down by people that don’t exist in the recent players. I am positive they have bots in multiplayer and Warzone. It’s not even cheaters, it’s the ai out of control manipulating the game.
the way things are now I wouldn't be surprised that all these things they have done in the past was just them testing all the crap before implementing it into the game!
Bots were in Caldera,, first at Factory in the towers then removed, then we captured on film a bot on an enemy team running around in a circle with a unusual ID for it's account, the AI has now gone so far beyond that early testing to DMZ Veteran level bots that now fill lobbies due to low player account, they just stare at walls, move if you go near them then aimbot anyone in a one shot, I had one on my team 2 nights ago who had 500,000 in cash, no ID, no player card, just a load of ? in the plane before the game launched.....
23:12 They did NOT remove this from the game. During the last month of MW3 I returned home from a stint in jail and rehab, I had not played MW3 AT ALL THIS YEAR. I decided to play MW3 through game pass and I hated it but thats not the point. What I was saying is, I was having a pretty bad time for a while but suddenly one night, I get into a game and the enemies are just walking past me and not even shooting at me, No one is talking in voice or text chat and im going 90-4. This happened for about 10 games back to back and it NEVER happened again after. I didn't even know there was a bot controversy for this game because I was not even in the free world, but I IMMEDIATELY noticed that I was playing against AI bots, There is a 0 percent chance those were real people, Walking up against walls, Aiming at the ceiling, Not shooting back. In all honesty I enjoyed it because it was a break from the super mega sweat engagement optimized circus I was used to playing in, But yea, They didnt remove it.
Don’t play for a couple days and they lower the skill level of the ai in the match matching. Warzone and Multiplayer are basically bootcamp mode. Half real, half ai
I know you mainly cover multiplayer, but you should 100% take the time to watch MrRoffleWaffles recent video about the zombies voice actors situation. If cod gets even worse than what it is now I’d rather the game died
I think krampus was being affected by the engagement optimized matchmaking, because I'm surprised you didn't mention it, it takes all three cherries to get a jackpot, The guy said he killed krampus two times and he didn't appeared the third time for the challenge, finishing the challenge is the jackpot.
Bo4 was easily the last fun cod in my opinion. Skill base matchmaking wasn't a thing, and if it was it wasn't this crazy! I actually get a pit in my stomach every time my friends ask me to play Black ops 6. That's not how games should be. What a disappointing time to be a cod player.
yea i’ve never had this experience before, where i genuinely just don’t want to play the game. my friends ask me to get on, and i genuinely would rather read a fuckin book lol
Blackout was so fun as well. You just collect your gear and take out players for stuff. You would barely find any sweats and you can win a game with randoms. Warzone is just people scrambling for their load out
I’ve been saying this for a while now. Ricochet is not an anti cheat. Ricochet is the eomm. Eomm is the Ai based system they developed and patented. eomm is ricochet. There’s no way ricochet is so shit, and yet we have so much evidence of ricochet doing what we think skill based damage can do…
This is becoming an issue across all of gaming. Even in NBA2K25 there are things built in the game that cap your shooting percentages. (There's also SBMM)
I'm going to say all MP games utilize some form of manipulation. Fortnite as well. I am experiencing the exact same EOMM bullshit in this, too, with potato aiming, getting lazered and random hit reg issues depending on my performance during a session. Gaming in general just fucking sucks. Time to revisit old gens.
We jail drug users AND the dealers. Activision is as much or more to blame for this. They know they are taking advantage of people, they know they are manipulating people, and they still do it. F both Activision and the regards who buy all these stupid bundles 🤷
Crazy thing is even if the playerbase finds out ricochet anti cheat is indeed the factor lowkey modifying the game in real time, changing damage values, turning hits off, taking 1000x fall damage etc. theyll likely call it a skill issue and continue playing. It's a Hallmark of addiction. We live in an age of stupidity and escapism while the world burns. Also as for the bad servers the game has switched to downloading textures during gameplay bc the file size for the game started getting too big since MW3. So they force the setting on by defualt to everyone.
That's the same era when they released Halo Infinite and added bots to multiplayer lobbies. It shortens the wait times for matches to start. Originally you could spot them because they used no DLC flair but now they're more realistic looking. The bots don't just fill space, they make sure the match is won by the correct team by getting one hit headshot sprees with the default iron sights rifes from across the map, you can see them doing it while spectating them
I’ve started to notice in ranked play recently that LITERALLY they make enemy players invisible on my screen. I watch the killcam and I legitimately just walk straight past them in plain sight. At first I thought I was just tripping but it started happening more and more and I watch the killcams and yep they’re invisible on my screen. Idk wtf that is but it’s happening more and more. The enemy players appear invisible in very crucial moments in the ranked play game. It’s horrible
Seriously. Wtf is going on in the fps space?? Cod is letting us down on record levels, halo is a shell of itself and 343 has fumbled the franchise, battlefield dropped the ball, and now xdefiant is getting shut down. Literally every big name has went downhill. And theres some good alternatives but even they aren't exactly a replacement for these games. Xdefiant at least replaced cod multiplayer for me. I hope and pray battlefield comes through with the next game but l will watch from a distance. I miss the days of xbox 360 where halo, cod, and battlefield were all releasing epic game after epic game and we the community benefited greatly.
Battlefield 2042 is the only modern shooter with 0 skill based matchmaking - its also 10x better than it was on release. Funnily enough 2042 is actually the last bastion of defense against the SBMM scourge.
How people still play this trash is beyond me, like how many times do we have to tell the brain rot tiktok kids who do play this that they're simply just cogs in the machine, hamsters on the wheel, going absolutely nowhere in life either lmfao
I think everyone does, it’s just in different ways, like most people think is SBMM, some people think it’s EOMM, and a small group thinks it monetization based matchmaking ( a theory from primepete)
Nope.. my friends deny it. "You get so caught up in these videos that get like 500 views bro like there is no SB damage or sb shop items or anything bro like you're just being crazy. Take the tinfoil hat off" like dude they don't even try
Remember that banning cheaters means losing MTX purchases in the long-term, so you gotta ban only once a release cycle to min-max profits. In the meantime, addicted 8-40 y/o players have nothing left in life but an unoriginal, trendy piece of slop tailor-made for mouth-breathing simpletons. If you play COD, you're too far gone.
The fact that krampus can detect when people are camping and not playing the objective should be evidence enough that they have algorithms that can live scan matches
I played og Warzone with a guy in his 40s probably. I remember winning a match we had no right winning. He was so stoked, while I was very skeptical. I was literally goofing around with a atv or jeep and died, cuz I could feel we were in a "bot lobby" 😅
If not cod will never be the same again and it all narrows down to 1 factor GREED the activition from 12-20 years ago would NEVER of done this but some point down the road they changed (I suspect when Microsoft acquired them) They became GREEDY, manipulative and scummy wanting nothing but money because of something to do with Microsoft So as well activition Microsoft might also have a part of this as well on why activition is so manipulative and greedy
I'm glad you think this guy is actually gonna make a difference all he does is make himself look stupid screaming and getting as mad as he does on camera always making it seem like it's a bit which I know it's not which I think makes it even sadder tbh I just stopped playing cod stop thinking about stop looking at it that's all it takes cods never gonna be the same again unfortunately y'all just have to come to terms
@@nttreaper4875 oh believe me I quit cod 2 months in to MW3 as well as came to terms with it in fact I had a hunch during MW3 that the next one was going to be worse and I was surprisingly right in pretty much every way possible Do I think he is making a difference? No not by a mile he is one voice amongst millions do I care about his opinion and how he represents it? Tbh not really as long he shows it I mean look at fooly, the rick, ghost of eight they act very similar and do I care no BC they show it the way they want to show it and express it their way and the reason why I watch is to keep on top of things same with Fooly the rick and the ghost of eight
@@Minecraftassassin-re6og my point is that there are bigger youtubers who explain everything more calm and don't act like he is talking to a bunch of toddlers behind a screen that also explain the situation more clearly for example Mrrofflewaffle he has been putting news out about pretty much everything that happens but he also uses a whiteboard shows his thinking and work and genuinely makes it seem like he cares alot more then this screaming fool
@@Minecraftassassin-re6og and i dont watch any of them because of how they act in there vids lol id rather be talked to in a calm manner and see the thought process behind it instead of listening to a dude complain about why cod is bad and how fucked shit is for the 100 thousandth time
The AI bot rumor came from Fortnite point blank period. When 75% of lots of matches became AI bots over there it was only a matter of time until til people started noticing patterns on COD
What if??? What if Krampus is not just an AI bot; what if the code now is any AI element that can knock you off your course; a tactical, a lethal, an armed demon bot or an opposing streak. What if??? DMZ was just another PvPvEvAI to collect…☝️🤓 on how to use these AI elements to deliver proportional outcomes more effectively. Where is Krampus now? Where is DMZ now?
You know, EOMM might have actually worked if people were not purely random beings that don't sweat 24/7, have good days and bad days, or change up with different guns they wanna try and stuff. An algorithm about making them more engaged is making people more frustrated because they CAN'T engage with the game how they want to at that moment. It's either try try try, or it's die die die.
Imagine being such a big gaming studio (was loved by millions) destroying what you once had over greed. It's disappointing to see happen but thank fuck it is!
I learnt quite a bit about the psychology behind customer engagement in different industries while i studied psychology for a few years, and once you realise all of the different ways that everyday, household things (like video games for example) manipulate you into higher levels of engagement, you really see things in a different light. The casino study referenced in this video links very closely to call of duty, and since a few weeks into playing BO6, mainly with my little brother, i have likened "skill based damage" and EOMM to the "next big win" fallacy, as is mentioned in this video.
I think is suspicious asf where ill have matches where ill go 2-15 in the beginning half, and rhen all of a sudden i get lock on aiming onto people and ill end the match with a 19-19 ratio exactly at a 1.0kd. it happens almost every match.
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Boasting you banned 19k cheaters is admitting you have a very low active player count. 19k is nothing to someone like Fortnite with millions of players.
I don’t think there’s as many cheaters as people suspect. There’s obviously way more than there should be, but it’s certainly not every game like some people think. I have over 1000 multiplayer games played. I’m in a very high skill bracket and have over a 2KD with over 30 kills a game on average. I’ve literally never seen a single cheater.
“What are they going to do? Play something else?” Actual question at a quarterly review. Psychologically the casino effect does make sense however, the average person isn’t that good at call of duty to begin with and secondly is too lazy to mentally compute most of this information which is why they continue to succeed in screwing the player base.
They had me convinced ai bots were in the game so bad that I bullied a couple dudes I downed and thought were bots. One guy I kept saying “there’s no way this is a real person, hey are you real? Say something or turn around if you’re real! Ok yeah no way that was a real person that was so bad” Right after I hear a defeated voice “I’m sorry I’m just bad at the game” I was like 😮
When you mentioned near misses I was instantly reminded of a game where we were winning big then suddenly packet burst and lag that resulted in my team barely winning 250-247. Sounds like a near miss for the losing team with all these sweaty close ass games
Should look at marketing phycology and stuff. All businesses use some form of "addiction" type things. You buy a building, turn it into a restaurant, fix it up (because people won't come to a dump), feed them food that is delicious (so they think they get the best..steak), play good music. no one plays "Enya" at a restaurant. unless they serve shit like grass tea and pinecone butter. The big difference comes into places like McDonalds. These people use plastic burgers and mutated chickens as their "meat" but the rest of the food is made of chemicals purposely there for addictive reasons. Bad for our health and our minds. You want someone to be a patron because you did a good job and the environment is likeable. The evil is in greed. Forcing a consumer through manipulation and addictions works, but will eventually be apparent and die off like most things. It'll just take a while and voices like BT. PS. lol . I was voice chat banned in a private chat where I was quoting someone else. Not only was I quoting someone I specified "I am going to quote" someone from someplace. It's only a 3 day ban, but I was in a party chat with people I know IRL, not even gamer friends. Some dudes I grew up with.
This shit happens in COD Mobile all the time, bots literally aiming through walls and getting one hit kills with an AR while hitting your feet. Stopped playing that shit a month ago and I feel relieved.
This title literally just became a reality for me I was somewhat enjoying the game on the 10v10 mode because its map pool selection that takes out maps like babylon and subsonic which are basically fucking faceoff maps cod but I digress. -First I noticed that my matchmaking times have exceed 30+ minutes (no exaggeration ) -Then I noticed that it was trying to matchmake me in server ping above 110 ping which is absurd because I have a gigabit connection and live in New York City next to a server -When I do find matches its only from the Nuketown 24/7 playlist and in my lobbies everyone is Arabic, European and half the time not even talking English - I'm packet bursting all over the place yet my in game overlay states I have 0 packet loss and a perfect 12 ping -my lobbies are never full I can only play 3v3 4v4 because the game is only matching me against blatant cheaters and rage hackers now - too top it all off I cant even play with my friends to circumvent being shadow banned due to this new system that blocks two boxing by putting you in a queue before you join the actual session Shadow banning is only the icing on the cake tho My Sbmm with a 2.50 - 3.00kd makes this game unbearable for my casual friends combo'd with the small maps and they literally cannot help going triple negative while being trapped in spawn. because the maps fails too give new players or non movement intensive players a moment of respite if you're not a "rusher" or "movement demon" you bassically share a spawn with the opposite team because everyone can be on any side of the map at any time. there's no order to any of the maps . they arent 3 lane. they are too small . I DONT CHEAT WITH A VPN , I DONT CHEAT BY 2 BOXING because I don't need it the people who play this game are idiots and only care about being movement demons I average a 3.00KD with a playstyle reminiscent of old cod and people hate me for it I get mass reported and have been shadow banned for over 3 weeks now fuck cod
AI generated art instead of paying a real artist. Is the last nail in the coffin. COD is dead to me. I'm a graphic artist and comic book artist. So thats and affront to my very being and destroys my very livelihood. So I'm uninstalling and throwing away anything Activision touched.
The game is fine. BO6 is one of the better CODs. The only people who dislike SBMM are mid-bad players who have big egos. AI is going to take over literally everything in the world in the next few years. So get used to it
@@ka5atyour voice doesn’t matter because most people are too brain dead to call shit out with their wallets and products. As long as the consumer keeps buying this will happen in every market in our life times
@@teepee2531 It's decent. They dropped the ball with the maps and spawns are mid, but it's fun overall. They do need to fix the servers, though. No excuse for it. And yes, AI is settling in every corner, but it's soulless. It doesn't belong in any creative art
Honestly the AI bot theory kinda started with Modern Warfare II, I remember players complaining about basically NPC bots in their lobbies. It was also the wierd movement behavior by randos that fueled this theory.
Every half prestige or so, I get random lobbies in bo6 with players that genuinely feel like bots. They never aimed, if they did, they lasered me and my team and knew where we were, and were otherwise slow and roamed like a Bethesda NPC….
Every time you win a match, the next lobby will be an npc lobby you cannot win, it’s a particular server and the public text chat communication is disabled, no mic’s and I’m getting walled and aimbotted the whole time. I leave the lobby as soon as it starts and the next servers the chats back and you’ll have actual players and more genuine gameplay.
Look these people up in the recent players and it shows them offline while they’re in the server you’re playing in…. I bet you those servers you get after a win and the chat text communication is not in the server. It’s completely ai populating the lobbies and all game modes.
@@Tuffbruvvvyes, the game makes ABSOLUTELY sure that my kd cannot go down or up. I used to be 2-3 sometimes, I haven’t gotten above or under average 1.20Kd now :(
multiple times, I am crawling, and i get killed. in the killcam, all I see is the person spawn in and aim down at the near the corner waiting for me to slowly pop out my head. HOW DO THEY KNOW I AM CRAWLING. nobody crawls.
On everything that i know to this existence, i had a dream last night that i was playing COD and i was shooting through this guy with no hitmarkers. I gave up and stood there while he knifed me 😭
Ricochet is in the name. They are dead ass having your bullets bounce off when you shoot people if you do too well. I think Ricochet was originally built for EOMM and then masked as an anti cheat system.
*The biggest thing I remember about Krampus was ZLaner locking onto him mid-teleport with his extra strong aim assist (in Warzone)* 💯 That truly is what comes to mind lol.
Remember: to Activision, it doesn't matter how bad the game itself is, they don't care about that, they only care to get you addicted to wasting your money, just like BT said about casinos. Do not. Waste. Your money.
Your on the right track this game is absolutely using psychological manipulation tactics and any game in which money is involved is absolutely rigged! I think it's far more nefarious than anyone has ever realized
Im still stuck in a shadow ban loop and i was found not guilty of any wrong doing the first time. People spam report good players and bam, you go to cheater lobbies now for the rest of your life with no way to appeal. There has to be a way to sue this SCAM of a company. I cant play the game I paid for lmfao.
@@iamanonymous1761 2 accounts, both shadow banned and on 14 day chat bans for talking smack and getting reported. My lobbies are pure hell, very aggressive ai, blatant cheaters, I feel like I’m being trolled and punished by AV. Even when the shadow ban or chat com is up, my lobbies are super aggressive and feel like simulations with half bots, half real players
I got shadowed for 7 days a few weeks ago. Jumped right back into MP and no issues since then. I’m on PC with mouse and keyboard with over a 2KD. Are you 2 boxing? Are you using the chopper gunner trick? There has to be something you are doing to draw attention to yourself
@@teepee2531 I have the rare hella chill operator skin thats selling for like $250 on ebay now lol. Pair that with my nebula skin and there's your answer. Plenty of attention drawn and I'm doing nothing wrong besides playing well and being swagged out.
The engagement level is also based on how much you spend on the store. If you have a high KD but have spent nothing since the game came out, it will want you to be less engaged so odds will be stacked against you. This is because by being good you become the reason others are disengaged so the game will prevent that. Try it out, have 2 accounts with same high KD but spend loads on one and nothing on the other. The way the game feels will be different
I dont know what it is, but for some reason... no matter how bad and how manipulated CoD gets, im drawn in like a moth to the flame. Is it the leveling? The Camos? A fresh start over?
@@LoungeLizard_33this game is actually pretty great. But, I’m also not a shit player like you probably are. I’ve noticed people with huge egos and terrible skill typically don’t like the game. That’s because SBMM constantly reminds them of how bad they are. Me and all my good homies love it. Great content, great progression system, and zombies is great too. Lots of people complain about servers and connection. But the game honestly runs fantastic for me. Im gonna go with you don’t like it because of a skill issue.
@@teepee2531this is the problem with you cod fanboys stop thinking your experience is everybody’s experience , because your not having server issues doesn’t mean 80% of the community isn’t , you rightfully admitted your a shit player that’s probably why your lobbies are super easy , and btw I could dog walk you in cod and I still find the game too be trash
@@imsimplyhimfrmda410 if I’m not in the highest SBMM bracket, I’m definitely in one of the highest. And 80% of the player base isn’t experiencing connection issues. I don’t know anyone in person who has experienced issues. It’s just the loud minority crybabies posting online. Go back to Fortnite, bud.
Had this happen while camo grinding where i kept getting lobbies that would counteract what ever gun I was working on or people that would play harder or weaker as needed, took me nearly 100 hours of in game time to get 100 headshots on all guns and other challenges to get all the main guns gold. Absolutely BS! I also think activision is listening to what I say cuz last night I was talking MAAAD shit on COD stuff like this to a friend and then mysteriously my internet crashes in the house....cant prove anything but maaaad fishy if you ask me
Not to mention that XDefiant’s netcode was *consistently* bad but CoD is way more sporadic with the damage. Also, hitmarkers seem to be server side. So that means that hitmarkers mean that the server has actually acknowledged those bullets connected, and netcode is no longer an issue afterwards.
This community has so many problems. Hackers are 98% of the problems with this game. The other 2% is people who don’t play complaining about it. Either play the game or don’t, why lose sleep and try to not have a good time over it? Seriously man. Go outside, and don’t game for a few weeks if you can’t just enjoy yourself.
I think the reason we’re seeing these rumors pop up consistently is because the greater COD community (for better or worse) is REALLY in tune with the games from a fundamental standpoint. Veteran players have a nose for bullshit, and everything you’ve been talking about is pretty much being proved live in real time lmao. Keep up the fantastic content.
My conspiracy theory is that they're not talking about any of this because they know that they're liable to say something incriminating. I think what they're doing is shady enough that, if it went public, we'd be seeing lawsuits against ATVI like with Battlefront 2 over lootboxes. I think the reason the skill-based damage is so hard to definitively prove is because it's engineered that way. They're learning from their mistakes in the past. EOMM was really easy to track and prove over the years, whereas skill-based damage has the community polarized. They put that shit in the game because that way they can point their collective finger at "bad net code" to mask the fact that they're making EOMM even more aggressive.
A couple of things I want to confirm as a Fortnite player myself. 1. There really is no Skill Based Damage in the game let alone any rumors on it. Every weapon in the game, has a rarity. The Higher the rarity, the higher the damage. 2. The devs have never stolen art. Any time stuff is made by community, Epic always gives credit. The backgrounds that they put in the battle pass always show who the art is made by. Really those are only two things I can think of the moment.
Indeed I believe it’s George Carlin who said, politicians are there to create the illusion of choice, that the real owners of this country (U.S.A) would never allow it’s people to have an actual say in the way the country is ran. Paraphrasing. But something to that affect.
@@FriendlyNeighborhoodDreg Yeah I know which quote you mean, I love George Carlin. If voting mattered, they wouldn't allow it. It's the consent they want from us, and a nice indicator of how many people still believe in the propaganda, but they gotta give you a win every now and then to keep you playing. Discussing politicians, Trump/Harris, is like discussing Marvel heroes
I haven't played CoD in 10 years before coming back to this one to play with a couple friends. I said the other night after going through a weird string of deaths in a match that gunfights feel like die rolls.
Skill based damage makes perfect sense with EOMM/SBMM. Its a fallback, real-time in-game adjustment, incase EOMM/SBMM puts you in a game you would dominate in. Any game i start off with a 15-20+ streak, I inevitably end up somehow beginning to miss all my shots and end the game with a 1.05 KD.
With the news of XD closing, being banned from BO6 falsely, and with the news of fortnite adding a 5v5 fps mode in a couple of days, I've actually reinstalled vanguard and while it is fucking ASS, it's actually fun running TDM in like 3v3 lobbies because theres not many people playing, it's fun surprisingly. the newer maps are fuckin dogpiss and color is atrocious, but it feels good to just hop on and vibe. K/D has dropped from 1.33 to 1.27 but still feels smooth imo
I had a lot of fun with vanguard when it wasn't shitting itself. Every once in a while I'll set up a 20 bot lobby and have a decent time for a few minutes.
I keep seeing them refer to all this being based on players quitting when they are getting "blown out" but tbh, I don't think it has really as much to do with score and winning matches as it does have to do with kills and being killed. I, personally, couldn't care less about if my team wins or loses as much as I care about being killed immediately, feeling like I'm underpowered af, and experiencing the laggy, desync, bullshit that I can't seem to escape. The inconsistency from game to game because their algorithm decides how well I'm allowed to play based on my previous games is the most infuriating part. In objective based games, yes, winning is nice, but when you prioritize the objective, you just get massacred anyway because what matters most when it comes to minute by minute enjoyment is the gunplay and kills. Its like they are so disconnected from what players truly care about and I'm just so exhausted with all their bullshit.
There was also that white shiba dog skin in vanguard. Someone did a render of as a what would this look like in game then like a week later the render was a purchasable skin in the shop. They have absolutely no shame in stealing work or ideas people have made.
Maybe this is not related to this video in specific but, every time I play the multiplayer I just stop when the fun is gone (literally just one match), but I keep going back to it every time even when my original plan is to play zombies. The dopamine and the manipulation in this game is evil, and I hate it
9:30 they don't use bots in the _general_ matchmaking process, once the match is generated matchmaking goes from general to match-fill, this is VERY specific wording to get around the fact that they either do or can dump bots in to fill slots. 18:25 'The matchmaking _process_ does not influence gameplay mechanics' this can easily just be that matchmaking itself doesn't change data, this does not mean that matchmaking _data_ doesn't effect gameplay mechanics.
Load a game Plunder and tell me if it always stalls at 48 players when loading, then instantly finds 48 and the match starts, it’s like clockwork and the patterns in the servers are very noticeable.
There is no way they are this incompetent to leave the mouse pointer, on a taken screenshot of content you didn’t make in the game and you pursue to use it in the in the game. 4 years, 4,000 devs my ass.
You know it’s bad when typically when I looked at my stats on Xbox, FPS games I’m not playing them as much anymore if not at all and have been playing more RPG, adventure, survival type games. The biggest problem is the cheaters and poorly designed matchmaking system where after every good game you have the likelihood of losing to your digital clone increases. It’s especially more frustrating when it’s a standard lobby, and not even ranked.
Not a conspiracy. Even some bots I play with have started to notice. The biggest problems id say have been visibility, like a guy runs through my aim at the speed of light and despite tracking there's sometimes no hit detection let alone aim assist. also the mini map has gone so much down hill that I switched to hardcore. Dead red dots popping up after you kill the guy, not sweeping when you need it, and on Bo6 the mini map is just all grey
This ruined my day and gave me PTSD thinking about how awful Krampus was in the Vanguard era. It was annoying enough in MP, but in Warzone he'd come around and wreak havoc in the final circles all the time
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No you good BT even tho it’s like 1:22 am
12:31 am for me and blametruth, I shouldn't have let people talk me onto getting the game bc even zombies is fucked on some level, so like 7 minutes ago now me and 3 friends were extracting after finishing the the easter egg on the first map and we killed the last 2 zombies needed but it still fucking failed us and we got the "defeated" image. Mind you, WE KILLED THEM AND STILL FAILED, AND SCORE STREAKS DON'T COUNT TOWARD EXFIL KILLS WHICH IS BULLSHIT BECAUSE WHY MAKE THEM USABLE IN A EXFILL THEN!
@@marskila, how do i get to Stephan Galloways world series warzone contributions reddit has nothing on it. idk if us gamers expect sparse payouts or just get off game for other reasons but we all know this can and does happen under the rug. lawyers where are you for that dude.
BLAME tell them to give us Verdansk or Avalon RIGHT NOW PLS (thank you)
Krampus got warzone pro hackers exposed for aimbotting because they locked onto him before he appeared. Cough cough zlaner
If Battlefield 6 is trash i might just have to call it on gaming in general, FPS games are my fav genre by far and its been ruff these past few years. Seeing every gaming company get extremely greedy, go woke and then lose all authenticity seems like the only reality now.
bro just play story games. i broke off from fps after bo4 and i’m so glad i did. cod is trash, there’s no reason to keep buying it. fps ain’t the only genre my friend and i can tell you there’s other games out there for you!
@@jcraftgaming76 ive tried man, there are some single player games that i enjoyed like the OG Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption or Cyberpunk to name a few but overtime i realized that most single player games dont have very good storylines and casting, ive already played all the single player games that id enjoy.
Fortnite has a new fps mode releasing on the 10th it’s like a mix of csgo and search and destroy from call of duty so maybe give it a try
Try escape from Tarkov
@rrxphvel871 No, it isn't. It was a generic shooter
Bro, just got chat banned for 14 days for a second time. I have everyone muted except for my team, and it’s party chat on only. The ai is listening to private party chat (regular talking) and banning people. Unbelievable. Now I can hear everyone, but I can’t talk at all
Stop using slurs
@@mateomorales2129 last time I checked the game is rated M, for Mature. Stop being so soft
@@mateomorales2129No, it’s called freedom of speech and it isn’t even directed at another person. Go to hell.
@@mateomorales2129it’s a private party he can say whatever he wants as long as he ain’t planning crimes which guess what (they wouldn’t report or ban you for). Also… why you assumed he’s using slurs ? Even if private party it is what it is
Dude Same thing happened to me yesterday got a second 14 day ban for saying absolutely nothing wrong & definitely nothing that is against TOS, I don’t even talk at ppl I talk with party only. The weird thing is the first time it happened in WZ which I thought was weird since I barely ever play it. So 2 weeks passed got Coms back and played MP and Ranked w no issues, actually having as much fun as I’ve had on the game. Then Dropped into WZ ranked to check it out yesterday and boom another 14 day voice ban. It’s BS I’m going to contact Activision if they don’t give me coms back I’m Done with CoD, I only play MP ranked and it’s horrendous when you can’t communicate. I hear ppl say actual “horrible” words constantly without getting banned so idk if it’s AI. The fact it’s only happening when I play WZ makes me think it’s players spam reporting but regardless the fact that this is even a thing makes me hate it
You know Activision has psychologists and addiction experts on the payroll. Bet all my life savings on it!
That should be illegal. Plus they are obviously marketing to the Fortnite players (kids) with their stupid ass shark and cell-shaded operators.
isnt that crazy? what type of no morals addiction specialist do you need to be to get hired by activision? shame
I don’t know if they do this for certain, but I’m pretty sure EA got reamed for hiring psychologists when they had to go to court for Star Wars loot boxes. I just figured Activision would follow suit since they’ve pretty much dethroned EA in the modern era with regards to shady business practices.
Bro this is why I make arguments against people who claim Activision doesn’t manipulate anything or whatever. I love and study psychology on my own time and I am ABSOLUTELY certain they actively use psychologists and other mental development experts to get people addicted, overwhelmed with options, false expectations, etc. Its disgusting use of psychological practice.
However, I do believe we can fight back against Activision using the same power of psychology they use against their consumers. With proper logic, rationale and psychology efforts we can use them to dismantle and expose this disgusting company that has come to be. Straight corruption at full display and we as gamers need to stand up not just because of call of duty but because of the well being of the players in this world. Nobody should be manipulated by anything or anyone and nobody’s experience in gaming should be made to turn people against each other. Its about fun and not taking things so serious but with this matter , we need to.
I do believe we can fight back against Activision using the same power of psychology they use against their consumers. With proper logic, rationale and psychology efforts we can use them to dismantle and expose this disgusting company that has come to be. Straight corruption at full display and we as gamers need to stand up not just because of call of duty but because of the well being of the players in this world. Nobody should be manipulated by anything or anyone and nobody’s experience in gaming should be made to turn people against each other. Its about fun and not taking things so serious but with this matter , we need to.
My grandmother was afraid to go to the casino downtown by herself so I went along as her bodyguard. I watched her spend $90k a year for 10 years. Every once in a while she'd toss me a $20 and say get lost. I spent thousands of hours watching her play slots. I would study the place to try and increase my odds of winning with that $20 she tossed me. One night I won $5000. Everything you described about COD is spot on. Even COD maps remind me of the inside of a casino. The goal of COD is the keep players playing. The longer they play the more likely they are to spend money.
At least in the Casino you get a chance to make money if you spend. With COD its a Casino of manipulation, frustration and no reward no nothing, and you cant get your money back. 😂
@@BrokeandFamousPRYOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY…….
Keep up the good work bro, GET SOMETHING OFF YOUR CHEST EVERY DAMN DAY. Expose every single snake crawling in the Garden of Activision.
Here’s why it’s entirely plausible that Activision is using systems like engagement-optimized matchmaking (EOMM) to manipulate player experience in Call of Duty, even if they claim otherwise.
First, Activision has filed patents specifically for systems that manipulate matchmaking, hit registration, aim assist, and more to maximize player engagement. Companies don’t invest in patents they don’t plan to use, especially when those systems are designed to increase playtime and spending. Even if Activision says they’re not using these systems, the patents show clear intent.
Second, many of the in-game inconsistencies players experience, like unpredictable hit registration, aim resist, and fluctuating match difficulty, align perfectly with what these systems are designed to do-manipulate live game data to influence player behavior. These manipulations are subtle, meaning they’re not supposed to be obvious but still affect outcomes in ways that maximize engagement.
Third, the gaming industry already uses engagement-based design strategies everywhere to keep players hooked. Activision, as one of the biggest players in this industry, is highly incentivized to use these systems, especially in a game with microtransactions like Call of Duty. By manipulating outcomes, they keep players coming back and spending money.
Finally, while some may argue there’s no “hard evidence,” the overwhelming number of player complaints about aim assist inconsistencies, spawn problems, and matchmaking issues suggests something is happening. These systems are designed to be nearly invisible, but the effects are clearly felt by players.
In short, Activision has both the means and the motive to use these systems, and the player experience strongly supports the idea that some form of manipulation is in place, even if they deny it.
Dude, I'm entirely convinced that's exactly it, cause in one round of MP, I'll be able to have fun and get on average around 10 to 20 kills and than the next day, I'll continuously get stomped into the fucking dirt by pro players and it even feels like I'm either doing less damage to an opponent at point blank or it'll feel like I get killed despite going right around a wall before I die, cause there have been times where I've gotten about a quarter of the way past the doorway I was getting shot in and than I just die through the god damn wall, and it's so damn annoying, cause basically forced me into playing Hard point as the only game mode I can play without feeling like shit afterwards.
Losing more players than they gain from this crap makes no sense
@@greendog-jy1noyeah wtf is with that. How cannibalistic of them you are correct.
@@greendog-jy1no It does if they're losing players that aren't interacting with the store but keeping the ones that do.
Hundreds of companies put out patents they don't use, this is a very common occurrence actually.
I got a shadowban and all i do is play zombies.
TREYARCH SHADOW BANNED ME FOR NOT GETTING AIMBOTTED 24/7
That’s crazy😭😭😭 feel sorry for you bro
Counter & perma ban them from your console
@@s1xshxr.I'll be ok in a few days this isn't the first time either
K/d over 1.2 puts u in eomm nightmare
@@Matt-n3vim on 1.60 kd with mnk on pc…its sweaty bruh lol
The best argument for skill based damage is that they have a patent for it.
That and a ex cod dev said it’s highly likely they are using skill based damage and that they know how to do it.
Class action lawsuit is necessary at this point
Arbitrary clause might stop those lawsuits
FTC or BBB is the only hope, or maybe Fortnite will just kill this shit
@@BlameTruth, Well we can atleast have the Vanderharr waterbottle went down to Goergia song now. Love for CEO's everywhere just not from other CEO's. if you know what i mean. the waterbottle dna
Well we can atleast have the Vanderharr waterbottle went down to Goergia song now.
Too bad people like to say things like that but not actually doanything about it
I've definitely seen myself get nerfed mid match. On the other hand, i have also felt myself get buffed mid match. It really brings you back to reality. You'll never convince me the patent was made but never implemented
You ever get the movement buff?
Color change to screen
Weird sound plays
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@@HorizonIn-Finite I can't say I have ever noticed that. But I have definitely noticed when I tank enough bullets to kill me 5 times or more on stakeout
@@HorizonIn-FiniteI've had random animations mid gun fights, a quick black screen flash, my guns not reloading after it completes the animation and my favourite is when I get 10+ kills my connection tanks to borderline unplayable.
I don't understand how they allow this to happen and it's only going to get worse.
@@HorizonIn-Finite Isn't that War Cry?
That's ricochet anti cheat. A lot of those modifiers are reserved to test out cheaters. But imagine thinking Activision is competent enough to implement a AI anti cheat that can modify damage values in real time to not affect normal players by accident.
Playing this game is like purposefully hitting your head on a door and complaining that it hurts 😂
Better than being a child rapist.
Kek
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"But I like doors" - MW2019 enjoyers 😅
I've always said this about ricochet. The fact that it was live nerfing cheaters' damage, giving them insane fall damage etc wasn't an intentional anti cheat measure. I think it was just 'skill based optimisation' effects going overboard because the player was achieving insane amounts of kills, head shots, and shot accuracy. There's no way a company that could seemingly barely tie their shoe laces could pull off something that complicated that just targeted cheaters.
in my opinion it was just them testing this crap before they implemented it, they just advertised it as trolling cheaters!
Holy schizophrenia 😭🤣
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@@dylanmathew5387sounds like you don’t know what schizophrenia is
@ sounds like you’re mixing up the fact that you’re dog water with conspiracies
Zombies is entirely online this year…… I can’t play zombies without lag spikes and I play solo..
I noticed this also… i actually cannot hardly even play Warzone. 7/10 times itll kick me from games and send me to welcome screen talking about “retry, or go offline”.
Wallet skill issue
Yall can have your opinions but yalls internet issues isn’t on them lmao
@@masondykstra9464 what? I have great connection, usually between 20 and 33 and even I have odd lag spikes, if your lagging in a solo game then something is wrong, stop assuming crap man and open your eyes, quit defending sady business practices..
@ not saying it was. But putting zombies on the servers doesn’t help. And it’s just a stupid idea to even do. Why even give people the chance to lag on a solo game
I swear this dude has made this video 100 times but I still watch cuz I fw him exposing this bs
It really never gets old. Dude got a monopoly on the market LOL
Adding to the “Bots - in - games” please do not forget about the AI bots that were in MW2 Warzone & DMZ.
I remember they locked the M13 behind DMZ while it was surrounded by bots with straight Aimbot!
They posted a few times saying, “ investigating an unintentional bug where AI was dealing more damage than intended.”
Would anyone be surprised if we found out the reason the servers have become so unstable, is because they are adding all of these manipulation tools to perfect EOMM, rather than adding new things or improving the natural experience?
I forgot about this, good call. If I recall, weren't they forced to remove the AI bots due to insane server lag!? Which would explain the terrible stability of the servers in general.
Or the bots in every call of duty local play?
My teammates are NPCS all the time, they always land together and clump together the whole map. I’m getting hunted down by people that don’t exist in the recent players. I am positive they have bots in multiplayer and Warzone. It’s not even cheaters, it’s the ai out of control manipulating the game.
the way things are now I wouldn't be surprised that all these things they have done in the past was just them testing all the crap before implementing it into the game!
Bots were in Caldera,, first at Factory in the towers then removed, then we captured on film a bot on an enemy team running around in a circle with a unusual ID for it's account, the AI has now gone so far beyond that early testing to DMZ Veteran level bots that now fill lobbies due to low player account, they just stare at walls, move if you go near them then aimbot anyone in a one shot, I had one on my team 2 nights ago who had 500,000 in cash, no ID, no player card, just a load of ? in the plane before the game launched.....
23:12 They did NOT remove this from the game. During the last month of MW3 I returned home from a stint in jail and rehab, I had not played MW3 AT ALL THIS YEAR. I decided to play MW3 through game pass and I hated it but thats not the point. What I was saying is, I was having a pretty bad time for a while but suddenly one night, I get into a game and the enemies are just walking past me and not even shooting at me, No one is talking in voice or text chat and im going 90-4. This happened for about 10 games back to back and it NEVER happened again after. I didn't even know there was a bot controversy for this game because I was not even in the free world, but I IMMEDIATELY noticed that I was playing against AI bots, There is a 0 percent chance those were real people, Walking up against walls, Aiming at the ceiling, Not shooting back. In all honesty I enjoyed it because it was a break from the super mega sweat engagement optimized circus I was used to playing in, But yea, They didnt remove it.
Don’t play for a couple days and they lower the skill level of the ai in the match matching. Warzone and Multiplayer are basically bootcamp mode. Half real, half ai
@@Tuffbruvvv by the way you perform at the game people might as well think the same about you. 😂.......
I know you mainly cover multiplayer, but you should 100% take the time to watch MrRoffleWaffles recent video about the zombies voice actors situation. If cod gets even worse than what it is now I’d rather the game died
yup
AI is going to take over literally everything over the next few years. Get used to it now
Same here 💯💯
I think krampus was being affected by the engagement optimized matchmaking, because I'm surprised you didn't mention it, it takes all three cherries to get a jackpot, The guy said he killed krampus two times and he didn't appeared the third time for the challenge, finishing the challenge is the jackpot.
Yup, good point. My theory was they made him disappear on the third kill to artificially bloat playtime metrics.
Bo4 was easily the last fun cod in my opinion. Skill base matchmaking wasn't a thing, and if it was it wasn't this crazy! I actually get a pit in my stomach every time my friends ask me to play Black ops 6. That's not how games should be. What a disappointing time to be a cod player.
Black Ops 4 was the last true COD. Loot boxes suck, but I'd rather them openly make me gamble than secretly making me a lab rat.
Love black ops 4 I still play from time to time. Last good cod
yea i’ve never had this experience before, where i genuinely just don’t want to play the game. my friends ask me to get on, and i genuinely would rather read a fuckin book lol
Blackout was so fun as well. You just collect your gear and take out players for stuff. You would barely find any sweats and you can win a game with randoms. Warzone is just people scrambling for their load out
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I’ve been saying this for a while now. Ricochet is not an anti cheat. Ricochet is the eomm. Eomm is the Ai based system they developed and patented. eomm is ricochet. There’s no way ricochet is so shit, and yet we have so much evidence of ricochet doing what we think skill based damage can do…
This is becoming an issue across all of gaming. Even in NBA2K25 there are things built in the game that cap your shooting percentages. (There's also SBMM)
i’m sure certain animations or the ball bouncing a certain way off a rebound etc etc all effect outcomes of games
I'm going to say all MP games utilize some form of manipulation. Fortnite as well. I am experiencing the exact same EOMM bullshit in this, too, with potato aiming, getting lazered and random hit reg issues depending on my performance during a session. Gaming in general just fucking sucks. Time to revisit old gens.
@@SamElliottsStacheI can’t say all.. games like league of legends still feel legit. Ping is king in that game you can feel it
What if Krampus was SHG's hidden satire on all the manipulation that was going on?
The community is aware of the predetermine system yet still give in buying the product. Consumers are the enablers of the decline of COD
We jail drug users AND the dealers.
Activision is as much or more to blame for this. They know they are taking advantage of people, they know they are manipulating people, and they still do it. F both Activision and the regards who buy all these stupid bundles 🤷
Crazy thing is even if the playerbase finds out ricochet anti cheat is indeed the factor lowkey modifying the game in real time, changing damage values, turning hits off, taking 1000x fall damage etc. theyll likely call it a skill issue and continue playing. It's a Hallmark of addiction. We live in an age of stupidity and escapism while the world burns.
Also as for the bad servers the game has switched to downloading textures during gameplay bc the file size for the game started getting too big since MW3. So they force the setting on by defualt to everyone.
That's the same era when they released Halo Infinite and added bots to multiplayer lobbies. It shortens the wait times for matches to start. Originally you could spot them because they used no DLC flair but now they're more realistic looking. The bots don't just fill space, they make sure the match is won by the correct team by getting one hit headshot sprees with the default iron sights rifes from across the map, you can see them doing it while spectating them
2042 also has bots.. They're too dumb to do any of that tho 😅
I’ve started to notice in ranked play recently that LITERALLY they make enemy players invisible on my screen. I watch the killcam and I legitimately just walk straight past them in plain sight.
At first I thought I was just tripping but it started happening more and more and I watch the killcams and yep they’re invisible on my screen.
Idk wtf that is but it’s happening more and more.
The enemy players appear invisible in very crucial moments in the ranked play game. It’s horrible
thank god I've been sober from cod activision for 3 years now, never spending a dime on them again.
"sober from activision" is a crazy thought
It's an addiction for sure. I sometimes feel fomo/the want to purchase and play a new cod. But nope. 3 years sober as well lol
Seriously. Wtf is going on in the fps space?? Cod is letting us down on record levels, halo is a shell of itself and 343 has fumbled the franchise, battlefield dropped the ball, and now xdefiant is getting shut down. Literally every big name has went downhill. And theres some good alternatives but even they aren't exactly a replacement for these games. Xdefiant at least replaced cod multiplayer for me. I hope and pray battlefield comes through with the next game but l will watch from a distance. I miss the days of xbox 360 where halo, cod, and battlefield were all releasing epic game after epic game and we the community benefited greatly.
Battlefield 2042 is the only modern shooter with 0 skill based matchmaking - its also 10x better than it was on release. Funnily enough 2042 is actually the last bastion of defense against the SBMM scourge.
I feel like everyone knows that Cod Is Rigged
EDIT: I know some people are Clueless but still how Clueless are you if you don't know this?
How people still play this trash is beyond me, like how many times do we have to tell the brain rot tiktok kids who do play this that they're simply just cogs in the machine, hamsters on the wheel, going absolutely nowhere in life either lmfao
I think everyone does, it’s just in different ways, like most people think is SBMM, some people think it’s EOMM, and a small group thinks it monetization based matchmaking ( a theory from primepete)
Nope.. my friends deny it. "You get so caught up in these videos that get like 500 views bro like there is no SB damage or sb shop items or anything bro like you're just being crazy. Take the tinfoil hat off" like dude they don't even try
What if Krampus was SHG's hidden satire on all the manipulation that was going on?
not npcs they don't see these kinds of videos, they live in bliss. i envy it tbh
Remember that banning cheaters means losing MTX purchases in the long-term, so you gotta ban only once a release cycle to min-max profits. In the meantime, addicted 8-40 y/o players have nothing left in life but an unoriginal, trendy piece of slop tailor-made for mouth-breathing simpletons. If you play COD, you're too far gone.
The fact that krampus can detect when people are camping and not playing the objective should be evidence enough that they have algorithms that can live scan matches
The only people ive talked too, who play cod are 50 year olds just wanting that fast food type game with their friends.
Its not made for us, bros.
I played og Warzone with a guy in his 40s probably. I remember winning a match we had no right winning. He was so stoked, while I was very skeptical. I was literally goofing around with a atv or jeep and died, cuz I could feel we were in a "bot lobby" 😅
The game will never be the same but I'm glad there's contact creators that call out the crap
If not cod will never be the same again and it all narrows down to 1 factor GREED the activition from 12-20 years ago would NEVER of done this but some point down the road they changed
(I suspect when Microsoft acquired them)
They became GREEDY, manipulative and scummy wanting nothing but money because of something to do with Microsoft
So as well activition Microsoft might also have a part of this as well on why activition is so manipulative and greedy
I'm glad you think this guy is actually gonna make a difference all he does is make himself look stupid screaming and getting as mad as he does on camera always making it seem like it's a bit which I know it's not which I think makes it even sadder tbh I just stopped playing cod stop thinking about stop looking at it that's all it takes cods never gonna be the same again unfortunately y'all just have to come to terms
@@nttreaper4875 oh believe me I quit cod 2 months in to MW3 as well as came to terms with it
in fact I had a hunch during MW3 that the next one was going to be worse and I was surprisingly right in pretty much every way possible
Do I think he is making a difference? No not by a mile he is one voice amongst millions
do I care about his opinion and how he represents it? Tbh not really as long he shows it I mean look at fooly, the rick, ghost of eight they act very similar and do I care no
BC they show it the way they want to show it and express it their way
and the reason why I watch is to keep on top of things same with Fooly the rick and the ghost of eight
@@Minecraftassassin-re6og my point is that there are bigger youtubers who explain everything more calm and don't act like he is talking to a bunch of toddlers behind a screen that also explain the situation more clearly for example Mrrofflewaffle he has been putting news out about pretty much everything that happens but he also uses a whiteboard shows his thinking and work and genuinely makes it seem like he cares alot more then this screaming fool
@@Minecraftassassin-re6og and i dont watch any of them because of how they act in there vids lol id rather be talked to in a calm manner and see the thought process behind it instead of listening to a dude complain about why cod is bad and how fucked shit is for the 100 thousandth time
The AI bot rumor came from Fortnite point blank period. When 75% of lots of matches became AI bots over there it was only a matter of time until til people started noticing patterns on COD
What if???
What if Krampus is not just an AI bot; what if the code now is any AI element that can knock you off your course; a tactical, a lethal, an armed demon bot or an opposing streak.
What if???
DMZ was just another PvPvEvAI to collect…☝️🤓 on how to use these AI elements to deliver proportional outcomes more effectively.
Where is Krampus now?
Where is DMZ now?
DAMN
He's just invisible now, like Master Chief
You know, EOMM might have actually worked if people were not purely random beings that don't sweat 24/7, have good days and bad days, or change up with different guns they wanna try and stuff. An algorithm about making them more engaged is making people more frustrated because they CAN'T engage with the game how they want to at that moment. It's either try try try, or it's die die die.
Imagine being such a big gaming studio (was loved by millions) destroying what you once had over greed. It's disappointing to see happen but thank fuck it is!
I learnt quite a bit about the psychology behind customer engagement in different industries while i studied psychology for a few years, and once you realise all of the different ways that everyday, household things (like video games for example) manipulate you into higher levels of engagement, you really see things in a different light. The casino study referenced in this video links very closely to call of duty, and since a few weeks into playing BO6, mainly with my little brother, i have likened "skill based damage" and EOMM to the "next big win" fallacy, as is mentioned in this video.
I think is suspicious asf where ill have matches where ill go 2-15 in the beginning half, and rhen all of a sudden i get lock on aiming onto people and ill end the match with a 19-19 ratio exactly at a 1.0kd. it happens almost every match.
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So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!'" - Network (1976)
Boasting you banned 19k cheaters is admitting you have a very low active player count. 19k is nothing to someone like Fortnite with millions of players.
I don’t think there’s as many cheaters as people suspect. There’s obviously way more than there should be, but it’s certainly not every game like some people think.
I have over 1000 multiplayer games played. I’m in a very high skill bracket and have over a 2KD with over 30 kills a game on average. I’ve literally never seen a single cheater.
im 25 and played cod for years but the last 2 years i just quitted and im happy i did cus its getting worse.
“What are they going to do? Play something else?” Actual question at a quarterly review.
Psychologically the casino effect does make sense however, the average person isn’t that good at call of duty to begin with and secondly is too lazy to mentally compute most of this information which is why they continue to succeed in screwing the player base.
Battlefield isn’t bad 2042 infantry only feels like old cod, I can actually win.
They had me convinced ai bots were in the game so bad that I bullied a couple dudes I downed and thought were bots.
One guy I kept saying “there’s no way this is a real person, hey are you real? Say something or turn around if you’re real! Ok yeah no way that was a real person that was so bad”
Right after I hear a defeated voice “I’m sorry I’m just bad at the game”
I was like 😮
Alot of the time people use the word "bot" to refer to a bad player. Not necessarily an AI bot. Also people don't play their hardest 24/7
@ no shit lmao. That’s why I said AI bots not bot player. I could have done better than the person I mentioned with 1 hand. Literallyz
Ummm I quit in Cold War when I found out they will put you in higher Ping lobbies if you're popping off...After that COD will never get a buck from me
When you mentioned near misses I was instantly reminded of a game where we were winning big then suddenly packet burst and lag that resulted in my team barely winning 250-247. Sounds like a near miss for the losing team with all these sweaty close ass games
Should look at marketing phycology and stuff. All businesses use some form of "addiction" type things. You buy a building, turn it into a restaurant, fix it up (because people won't come to a dump), feed them food that is delicious (so they think they get the best..steak), play good music. no one plays "Enya" at a restaurant. unless they serve shit like grass tea and pinecone butter. The big difference comes into places like McDonalds. These people use plastic burgers and mutated chickens as their "meat" but the rest of the food is made of chemicals purposely there for addictive reasons. Bad for our health and our minds.
You want someone to be a patron because you did a good job and the environment is likeable. The evil is in greed. Forcing a consumer through manipulation and addictions works, but will eventually be apparent and die off like most things. It'll just take a while and voices like BT.
PS. lol . I was voice chat banned in a private chat where I was quoting someone else. Not only was I quoting someone I specified "I am going to quote" someone from someplace. It's only a 3 day ban, but I was in a party chat with people I know IRL, not even gamer friends. Some dudes I grew up with.
This shit happens in COD Mobile all the time, bots literally aiming through walls and getting one hit kills with an AR while hitting your feet.
Stopped playing that shit a month ago and I feel relieved.
Tbh I expect that in mobile games.. That's why I only ever played Flappy bird 😅
Player ran DEDICATED SERVERS would fix this. The console lobby system is absolute BS. No one can trust corpo's to run anything.
This title literally just became a reality for me I was somewhat enjoying the game on the 10v10 mode because its map pool selection that takes out maps like babylon and subsonic which are basically fucking faceoff maps cod but I digress.
-First I noticed that my matchmaking times have exceed 30+ minutes (no exaggeration )
-Then I noticed that it was trying to matchmake me in server ping above 110 ping which is absurd because I have a gigabit connection and live in New York City next to a server
-When I do find matches its only from the Nuketown 24/7 playlist and in my lobbies everyone is Arabic, European and half the time not even talking English
- I'm packet bursting all over the place yet my in game overlay states I have 0 packet loss and a perfect 12 ping
-my lobbies are never full I can only play 3v3 4v4 because the game is only matching me against blatant cheaters and rage hackers now
- too top it all off I cant even play with my friends to circumvent being shadow banned due to this new system that blocks two boxing by putting you in a queue before you join the actual session
Shadow banning is only the icing on the cake tho
My Sbmm with a 2.50 - 3.00kd makes this game unbearable for my casual friends combo'd with the small maps and they literally cannot help going triple negative while being trapped in spawn. because the maps fails too give new players or non movement intensive players a moment of respite if you're not a "rusher" or "movement demon" you bassically share a spawn with the opposite team because everyone can be on any side of the map at any time.
there's no order to any of the maps .
they arent 3 lane.
they are too small .
I DONT CHEAT WITH A VPN , I DONT CHEAT BY 2 BOXING because I don't need it the people who play this game are idiots and only care about being movement demons I average a 3.00KD with a playstyle reminiscent of old cod and people hate me for it I get mass reported and have been shadow banned for over 3 weeks now
fuck cod
Things are so bad I uninstalled and went back to playing 2042
No cheaters play Midfield. Good idea! I hope BF6 is good 🙏
Bout to hop back on sandstorm and ready or not till delta force has better controller support
AI generated art instead of paying a real artist. Is the last nail in the coffin. COD is dead to me. I'm a graphic artist and comic book artist. So thats and affront to my very being and destroys my very livelihood. So I'm uninstalling and throwing away anything Activision touched.
The cod community has finally woke up Activision is going to be forced to stop what they are doing
The game is fine. BO6 is one of the better CODs. The only people who dislike SBMM are mid-bad players who have big egos. AI is going to take over literally everything in the world in the next few years. So get used to it
@@teepee2531 you're delusional and rent is overdue, pay up wagie
@@teepee2531 Maybe we can get used to it, but we also can choose to fight against it and speak up. Getting used to everything isnt the right way.
@@ka5atyour voice doesn’t matter because most people are too brain dead to call shit out with their wallets and products. As long as the consumer keeps buying this will happen in every market in our life times
@@teepee2531 It's decent. They dropped the ball with the maps and spawns are mid, but it's fun overall. They do need to fix the servers, though. No excuse for it.
And yes, AI is settling in every corner, but it's soulless. It doesn't belong in any creative art
Honestly the AI bot theory kinda started with Modern Warfare II, I remember players complaining about basically NPC bots in their lobbies. It was also the wierd movement behavior by randos that fueled this theory.
Every half prestige or so, I get random lobbies in bo6 with players that genuinely feel like bots. They never aimed, if they did, they lasered me and my team and knew where we were, and were otherwise slow and roamed like a Bethesda NPC….
Every time you win a match, the next lobby will be an npc lobby you cannot win, it’s a particular server and the public text chat communication is disabled, no mic’s and I’m getting walled and aimbotted the whole time. I leave the lobby as soon as it starts and the next servers the chats back and you’ll have actual players and more genuine gameplay.
Look these people up in the recent players and it shows them offline while they’re in the server you’re playing in…. I bet you those servers you get after a win and the chat text communication is not in the server. It’s completely ai populating the lobbies and all game modes.
@@Tuffbruvvvyes, the game makes ABSOLUTELY sure that my kd cannot go down or up. I used to be 2-3 sometimes, I haven’t gotten above or under average 1.20Kd now :(
multiple times, I am crawling, and i get killed. in the killcam, all I see is the person spawn in and aim down at the near the corner waiting for me to slowly pop out my head. HOW DO THEY KNOW I AM CRAWLING. nobody crawls.
On everything that i know to this existence, i had a dream last night that i was playing COD and i was shooting through this guy with no hitmarkers. I gave up and stood there while he knifed me 😭
i love your daily crashouts dude. they actually are so entertaining.
Ricochet is in the name. They are dead ass having your bullets bounce off when you shoot people if you do too well. I think Ricochet was originally built for EOMM and then masked as an anti cheat system.
ever since COD became uncrackable, activision has been doing all sort of shit with it...
*The biggest thing I remember about Krampus was ZLaner locking onto him mid-teleport with his extra strong aim assist (in Warzone)* 💯
That truly is what comes to mind lol.
Jesus christ... someone PLEASE flashbang me back to 2012
Remember: to Activision, it doesn't matter how bad the game itself is, they don't care about that, they only care to get you addicted to wasting your money, just like BT said about casinos. Do not. Waste. Your money.
Your on the right track this game is absolutely using psychological manipulation tactics and any game in which money is involved is absolutely rigged! I think it's far more nefarious than anyone has ever realized
I stopped playing. I’m 46 and have been playing since the beginning of the franchise. Tired of this garbage
Don't even play cod but love your vids bro keeping being the light in the dark.
Im still stuck in a shadow ban loop and i was found not guilty of any wrong doing the first time. People spam report good players and bam, you go to cheater lobbies now for the rest of your life with no way to appeal. There has to be a way to sue this SCAM of a company. I cant play the game I paid for lmfao.
@@iamanonymous1761 2 accounts, both shadow banned and on 14 day chat bans for talking smack and getting reported. My lobbies are pure hell, very aggressive ai, blatant cheaters, I feel like I’m being trolled and punished by AV. Even when the shadow ban or chat com is up, my lobbies are super aggressive and feel like simulations with half bots, half real players
I got shadowed for 7 days a few weeks ago. Jumped right back into MP and no issues since then. I’m on PC with mouse and keyboard with over a 2KD.
Are you 2 boxing? Are you using the chopper gunner trick? There has to be something you are doing to draw attention to yourself
@@teepee2531 I have the rare hella chill operator skin thats selling for like $250 on ebay now lol. Pair that with my nebula skin and there's your answer. Plenty of attention drawn and I'm doing nothing wrong besides playing well and being swagged out.
Where do I find more of those SBD clips? Trynna send my friends videos on why I'm not getting BO6 ever.
all over reddit, twitter etc
@BlameTruth Tags or Subreddits I should look for?
just type in hitreg, skill based damage, desync, hitmarkers, etc
The engagement level is also based on how much you spend on the store. If you have a high KD but have spent nothing since the game came out, it will want you to be less engaged so odds will be stacked against you. This is because by being good you become the reason others are disengaged so the game will prevent that. Try it out, have 2 accounts with same high KD but spend loads on one and nothing on the other. The way the game feels will be different
I dont know what it is, but for some reason... no matter how bad and how manipulated CoD gets, im drawn in like a moth to the flame. Is it the leveling? The Camos? A fresh start over?
Psychological addiction. Peep the casino part of this vid.
How are you addicted to these crappy ass games???
@@LoungeLizard_33this game is actually pretty great. But, I’m also not a shit player like you probably are. I’ve noticed people with huge egos and terrible skill typically don’t like the game. That’s because SBMM constantly reminds them of how bad they are.
Me and all my good homies love it. Great content, great progression system, and zombies is great too. Lots of people complain about servers and connection. But the game honestly runs fantastic for me.
Im gonna go with you don’t like it because of a skill issue.
@@teepee2531this is the problem with you cod fanboys stop thinking your experience is everybody’s experience , because your not having server issues doesn’t mean 80% of the community isn’t , you rightfully admitted your a shit player that’s probably why your lobbies are super easy , and btw I could dog walk you in cod and I still find the game too be trash
@@imsimplyhimfrmda410 if I’m not in the highest SBMM bracket, I’m definitely in one of the highest. And 80% of the player base isn’t experiencing connection issues. I don’t know anyone in person who has experienced issues. It’s just the loud minority crybabies posting online. Go back to Fortnite, bud.
Another great video man, keep exposing Activision. You got my vote.
Had this happen while camo grinding where i kept getting lobbies that would counteract what ever gun I was working on or people that would play harder or weaker as needed, took me nearly 100 hours of in game time to get 100 headshots on all guns and other challenges to get all the main guns gold. Absolutely BS! I also think activision is listening to what I say cuz last night I was talking MAAAD shit on COD stuff like this to a friend and then mysteriously my internet crashes in the house....cant prove anything but maaaad fishy if you ask me
Bo6 is the first game to ever have an anti-legit
Not to mention that XDefiant’s netcode was *consistently* bad but CoD is way more sporadic with the damage.
Also, hitmarkers seem to be server side. So that means that hitmarkers mean that the server has actually acknowledged those bullets connected, and netcode is no longer an issue afterwards.
Bro it’s midnight Mr truth go to bed.
Honestly, We're dealing with people who are willing to backstab everyone they meet.
Why do people still trust them
"i dont know how rumors started " he says while making up rumors every video about skill based damage with 0 proof..
Bootlicker
This community has so many problems. Hackers are 98% of the problems with this game. The other 2% is people who don’t play complaining about it. Either play the game or don’t, why lose sleep and try to not have a good time over it? Seriously man. Go outside, and don’t game for a few weeks if you can’t just enjoy yourself.
I think the reason we’re seeing these rumors pop up consistently is because the greater COD community (for better or worse) is REALLY in tune with the games from a fundamental standpoint. Veteran players have a nose for bullshit, and everything you’ve been talking about is pretty much being proved live in real time lmao. Keep up the fantastic content.
They've completely wrecked gaming. Everything has be optimized to take as much money from the consumer as possible.
Vanguard… I AM STUCK!!!
Me and my friends have been experiencing a “glitch” where we can’t be revived in zombies but only on rounds higher than 45
My conspiracy theory is that they're not talking about any of this because they know that they're liable to say something incriminating. I think what they're doing is shady enough that, if it went public, we'd be seeing lawsuits against ATVI like with Battlefront 2 over lootboxes. I think the reason the skill-based damage is so hard to definitively prove is because it's engineered that way. They're learning from their mistakes in the past. EOMM was really easy to track and prove over the years, whereas skill-based damage has the community polarized. They put that shit in the game because that way they can point their collective finger at "bad net code" to mask the fact that they're making EOMM even more aggressive.
They ain't hiding it . if u can't see it lol
At this point with Activision, if it's bad, it's not a conspiracy theory, it's pattern recognition.
I was literally 0.1 seconds away of deciding to finally go to bed and then I see this and I'm like you bet your ass it is.
A couple of things I want to confirm as a Fortnite player myself.
1. There really is no Skill Based Damage in the game let alone any rumors on it. Every weapon in the game, has a rarity. The Higher the rarity, the higher the damage.
2. The devs have never stolen art. Any time stuff is made by community, Epic always gives credit. The backgrounds that they put in the battle pass always show who the art is made by.
Really those are only two things I can think of the moment.
25:55 I've had the same thought of the casino and EOMM a few weeks ago. I also think it applies to the government and voting lmao
Indeed I believe it’s George Carlin who said, politicians are there to create the illusion of choice, that the real owners of this country (U.S.A) would never allow it’s people to have an actual say in the way the country is ran. Paraphrasing. But something to that affect.
@@FriendlyNeighborhoodDreg Yeah I know which quote you mean, I love George Carlin. If voting mattered, they wouldn't allow it. It's the consent they want from us, and a nice indicator of how many people still believe in the propaganda, but they gotta give you a win every now and then to keep you playing. Discussing politicians, Trump/Harris, is like discussing Marvel heroes
I haven't played CoD in 10 years before coming back to this one to play with a couple friends. I said the other night after going through a weird string of deaths in a match that gunfights feel like die rolls.
Lmao Krampus disrupting pro scrims is hilarious. What a guy
Really kramping their style 😅
Skill based damage makes perfect sense with EOMM/SBMM. Its a fallback, real-time in-game adjustment, incase EOMM/SBMM puts you in a game you would dominate in. Any game i start off with a 15-20+ streak, I inevitably end up somehow beginning to miss all my shots and end the game with a 1.05 KD.
With the news of XD closing, being banned from BO6 falsely, and with the news of fortnite adding a 5v5 fps mode in a couple of days, I've actually reinstalled vanguard and while it is fucking ASS, it's actually fun running TDM in like 3v3 lobbies because theres not many people playing, it's fun surprisingly. the newer maps are fuckin dogpiss and color is atrocious, but it feels good to just hop on and vibe. K/D has dropped from 1.33 to 1.27 but still feels smooth imo
I just went and dusted off the legacy cod’s on pc. waw, black ops 1 and 2 and you find matches near instantly compared to these new games
I had a lot of fun with vanguard when it wasn't shitting itself.
Every once in a while I'll set up a 20 bot lobby and have a decent time for a few minutes.
I keep seeing them refer to all this being based on players quitting when they are getting "blown out" but tbh, I don't think it has really as much to do with score and winning matches as it does have to do with kills and being killed. I, personally, couldn't care less about if my team wins or loses as much as I care about being killed immediately, feeling like I'm underpowered af, and experiencing the laggy, desync, bullshit that I can't seem to escape. The inconsistency from game to game because their algorithm decides how well I'm allowed to play based on my previous games is the most infuriating part.
In objective based games, yes, winning is nice, but when you prioritize the objective, you just get massacred anyway because what matters most when it comes to minute by minute enjoyment is the gunplay and kills. Its like they are so disconnected from what players truly care about and I'm just so exhausted with all their bullshit.
1:25
Let’s not forget they legit stole actual art from people. Some panda skin in CoD mobile or something I believe
There was also that white shiba dog skin in vanguard. Someone did a render of as a what would this look like in game then like a week later the render was a purchasable skin in the shop. They have absolutely no shame in stealing work or ideas people have made.
Maybe this is not related to this video in specific but, every time I play the multiplayer I just stop when the fun is gone (literally just one match), but I keep going back to it every time even when my original plan is to play zombies. The dopamine and the manipulation in this game is evil, and I hate it
9:30 they don't use bots in the _general_ matchmaking process, once the match is generated matchmaking goes from general to match-fill, this is VERY specific wording to get around the fact that they either do or can dump bots in to fill slots.
18:25 'The matchmaking _process_ does not influence gameplay mechanics' this can easily just be that matchmaking itself doesn't change data, this does not mean that matchmaking _data_ doesn't effect gameplay mechanics.
The general matchmaking process may not include the matchmaking where they are running experiments. Very clever wording tbh.
Load a game Plunder and tell me if it always stalls at 48 players when loading, then instantly finds 48 and the match starts, it’s like clockwork and the patterns in the servers are very noticeable.
There is no way they are this incompetent to leave the mouse pointer, on a taken screenshot of content you didn’t make in the game and you pursue to use it in the in the game. 4 years, 4,000 devs my ass.
0:27 my tik tok brain can’t do that
You know it’s bad when typically when I looked at my stats on Xbox, FPS games I’m not playing them as much anymore if not at all and have been playing more RPG, adventure, survival type games. The biggest problem is the cheaters and poorly designed matchmaking system where after every good game you have the likelihood of losing to your digital clone increases. It’s especially more frustrating when it’s a standard lobby, and not even ranked.
Not a conspiracy. Even some bots I play with have started to notice. The biggest problems id say have been visibility, like a guy runs through my aim at the speed of light and despite tracking there's sometimes no hit detection let alone aim assist. also the mini map has gone so much down hill that I switched to hardcore. Dead red dots popping up after you kill the guy, not sweeping when you need it, and on Bo6 the mini map is just all grey
This ruined my day and gave me PTSD thinking about how awful Krampus was in the Vanguard era. It was annoying enough in MP, but in Warzone he'd come around and wreak havoc in the final circles all the time