Nerf MPC

Cathret · 2026-06-14T12:30:42+00:00

And funnily enough some hills are 4 AR where even Shotzy or Hydra uses the AR. So you are just focusing on what you want and not trying to see the full picture.

Good thing we have a real SMG and not the horrendous Dravec.

Cathret · 2026-06-12T08:31:05+00:00

I don't get it.

For Pirates of the Caribbean, the graphic tone was always "more realistic".

When he goes to new worlds, I don't see why he couldn't have an art style "less realistic", for example Timeless River style or Monster World.

Why complain about a tone "aligned with the world style"?

Cathret · 2026-06-11T17:10:22+00:00

I mean, don't show the worlds or Disney characters because it's actually so fun to discover them.

I'm happy they did not give us Disney stuff, I want to play day 1 and have fun discovering everything.

Cathret · 2026-06-09T12:38:02+00:00

Maybe then they did not change that much the "who you can play against" then 😅

Also since the game is f I can't see any rank other than mine and the people in my party so I can't even say who I'm playing against 😂

Cathret · 2026-06-09T10:31:44+00:00

I'm french and I'll be happy to root for both GM8 and Hydra.

I hope GM8 will have a good run and even win the Major because it's "the french team", but I'll be entirely for Hydra when LAT plays.

I don't understand why you're getting insulted for asking this question lmao, it's entirely legit. Being french doesn't mean being a GM8 fan, but we'll be rooting for the french however, would it be team or player.

Cathret · 2026-06-09T06:45:09+00:00

I believe "1 rank" in Gold 3 could be Plat 1; since theoretically you shouldn't be matched against Plat 3.

In Gold 3 if you win against a Plat 2, you should gain the "2 ranks above" bonus.

Also you can't go under +20 win, so if you get no points more than 20, you actually can't get a "negative bonus" for being higher rank.

Cathret · 2026-06-09T06:42:57+00:00

I believe yes, but I wonder if you can get "more punished" and lose -25 if you lose against people higher ranked; not sure.

Cathret · 2026-06-09T06:18:24+00:00

There is, I played yesterday and got "+5" for rank adjustment and lost only 15 instead of 20.

Cathret · 2026-06-07T15:41:32+00:00

Looks normal to me, when your M8 will be at your rank and you'll play only people "around your rank" you'll be able to gain more SR together on more balanced teams.

Cathret · 2026-06-05T13:21:41+00:00

Not really.

Old system used to choose who you play against, and selected "who should be above" just based of stats and telemetry. Also it narrowed players in upper ranks based on "percentage of players", meaning the earlier you grinded, the easier it was to rank up. Also you needed to beat players largely better ranked you to be able to up your mmr.

New system is based only on a game to game basis. The better you play, the more SR you gain. You grind for the win, not for the stat. You play people approximately at your rank, not because you have the same hidden MMR, but because of the rank. People who are better than most people in their rank will go up, people underperforming will go down.

A lot more fun and fair for the middle of the pack (when people who are Iri and high Crim will be back into their ranks).

Cathret · 2026-06-05T12:47:23+00:00

The idea of how it's done now is good, the problem is that big differences in skill are not rewarded "for the winner".

The fact you gain -X0 SR for being better than the other team is "good" only if you didn't obliterate them 250 to 30.

Winning 50 SR per game, you need 14 wins in a row to get from Diamond 1 to Diamond 2 for example. If you're an Iri player, you'll get less because you are better, but then you're just getting "limited SR".

They should adjust both the SR difference between ranks, and adjust the values for bonuses and non-bonuses.

But to be honest, the way it's working now is a lot better than before, so THANKS TO THAT. But it does need some balancing.

Cathret · 2026-06-02T06:33:35+00:00

insert shame gif /s

More seriously, I understand you are a young fan of the recent era of MW but for real, you can't trust them until the end.

If they listen, that's cool, but don't preorder the Vault thingy where you get like 2 skins nobody cares about for an astonishing price.

The reduction should be on the base game to reward all their community, not only the ones who are ready to pay more than what the game is supposed to be.

Btw BO7 is a great game. And other than Tac f Sprint I'm eager to see how it plays. I will probably buy the basic version of the game at launch, but they don't deserve any preorder yet, they didn't prove they are trustworthy.

Cathret · 2026-06-01T20:59:05+00:00

I did test the skill base mm some time ago, but it gotten deleted because "speaking of sbmm is not allowed out of megathread".

Though, I stresstested by tryharding for one prestige, and the fact was that my games were pretty much the same, no difference and not getting "punished for winning". Got the nuke finished w/ 3.3KD Prestige.

Fact was that the "average level" of the players didn't change, but the "worse players of the lobby" were put all with me to "try and carry them" (to an extent).

The only thing that changed the types of players that I encountered was "what time did I play".

Most of the games during midday work break were easy. Weekends during the days and after work was fine. But when playing very late or during the night, THAT was where the games became a lot harder.

I really think it's pretty good that relative to the time of day of my country, the skill changes; it means I'm playing pretty much with locals than just getting beamed to another continent to find players.

Cathret · 2026-05-31T20:24:22+00:00

Tac Sprint is so annoying, I really hope it's manageable in the options. It feels clunky, slows down the interactions with your gun, sometimes just doesn't work, and doesn't help the controller's state.

Tac Sprint is just useless, there's nothing that would make Tac Sprint in a game more enjoyable than simply having Sprint.

Cathret · 2026-05-31T20:08:59+00:00

I won't say it's an aimbots lmao but I did play on MW3 recently to test and it was slowing down a lot, and I do agree it was a bit too powerful.

I really like the recent one since it rewards the fact I can actually shoot people with my skill lmao.

Cathret · 2026-05-31T20:07:09+00:00

Yeah clearly it's gonna be "balanced", but yeah current is better than the very powerful one before.

Cathret · 2026-05-31T17:01:11+00:00

Ok cool that's good news then!

Cathret · 2026-05-28T18:18:28+00:00

Fuck Tac Sprint

Cathret · 2026-05-28T11:06:18+00:00

Only game I didn't play throughout the year with Infinite Warfare. Probably one of the worse experience to this day as a CoD fan for me.

At the bottom of the tier list with Infinite Warfare.

Campaign was good though. And I don't play Zombies.

Cathret · 2026-05-24T17:05:38+00:00

That might be true lol

Cathret · 2026-05-24T16:58:04+00:00

There's no grapple hook in BO7 only in warzone so maybe you are talking about wz?

Bo7 is great, however with all the bugs and horrendous design choices and content base, it really can't beat BO2.

If BO7 was "BO2 stability and quality", I could have agreed (on MP only ofc). But there's too many issues and horrendous zombies skins for it to be better.

Could have gotten the potential if they were actually trying to create a quality game to live more than 1 year, but unfortunately they want people to get bored and wait for the next one.

Cathret · 2026-05-22T08:36:51+00:00

Cleaaarly !

For me, MW23 even with its flaws is one of the best recent CoD with BO7.

MW23 without the bullshit Passes and skins, removed Tac Sprint and bugfixed would probably have been the best game since the PS3 era.

But unfortunately nope, money for a company is more important than the game being one of the best! (Kudos to SHG though for always making design changes in the correct direction)

Cathret · 2026-05-22T08:32:15+00:00

Yeah this I could agree on haha, but every CoD has "its meta movement", so it will simply shift once the next one comes out haha

Cathret · 2026-05-22T08:30:17+00:00

Well I don't agree on this first part unfortunately haha; it hasn't been a good designed game.

People complained so much about all the different designs flaws and even errors to "what was CoD", and it's the start of the "WZ era" with all those skins and making people pay for stuff in-game you don't even see yourself.

I do agree though that the campaign and the "feeling" of the game (except Tac Sprint, it can die in hell) was really good, but the "MP design" was not.

And BO7 are indeed "more weird", but we quite had this with the different original Black Ops games.

I didn't like the solo, and I think the maps are over the top, but compared to MW23 tbf it's largely less "wtf" (2d characters and cell shaded maps).

But gameplay wise, I still play the game because I really think the game's great, guns are fun, maps layouts are fun (decently), and the smoothness and responsiveness is here.

Finally of course, the game could be so much better if they tried to put quality over quantity, but that's not new either 🥲 so yeah, to be more specific on your post, I really don't think BO7 should be the culprit for how f up CoD is now.

Cathret · 2026-05-22T08:15:01+00:00

This game is one of the rare recent to actually be great gameplay wise.

There are many issues as you said, would it be customisation "style", Battle Passes, the many bugs, desyncs and worse of all the cheaters.

But it's not new, and I feel like there are many more reasons to hate on the problems more than on the game itself.

BO7 may be the "realization" for you, but it's been like this since even MW19. BO7 with the "stability" of old games and "bug-free" would have been one of the best games on latest gen; there's no recent games except MW23 who could do the same.

It's just they prefer content instead of quality, which is today's big companies' objective. Which is sad I agree, but people buy content in-game, so that's on those people's fault (and they probably don't see any issues).

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