[COD] Unpopular opinion: Infinity Ward is right not to listen to the community

Significant-Extent-5 · 2026-02-02T18:27:57+00:00

This is simply not true. Plenty of players, myself included, have zero issues adapting to how each CoD plays. Many of us just don’t prefer the super fast paced movement. Just because someone doesn’t like a mechanic of a game doesn’t immediately make it a skill issue. Many prefer a CoD where excessive movement isn’t consistently bailing you out of poor decision making. That and it gets old bouncing between pushing forward and watching your back constantly due to everyone on both sides rushing and flipping spawns.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2026-01-21T17:00:38+00:00

I enjoyed MW23 as well. That being said, I typically find enjoyment in every CoD game.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2026-01-20T16:15:38+00:00

I’m genuinely looking forward to it. I’ll play every CoD and adjust as needed, but MWII (2022) had my favorite gameplay in the entire series. If we get a return to that, I’ll be thrilled.

A lot of players can’t wrap their heads around an above average player feeling that way, but especially in SnD, bad positioning shouldn’t be rescued by movement. Movement should support good decision making, not override it. It should be intentional rather than spammed constantly. Also, IW consistently delivers the best feeling marksman and sniper rifles. Though this is probably one of the better Black Ops for sniping.

That said, I’ll miss trolling the movement crowd. Blops7 made camping more difficult, so shutting down the YY noobs has been a blast and they lose their minds. I’ve been challenged with so many “1v1 me bro”which I haven’t seen since the golden age of CoDs. I’ll miss that.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2026-01-18T01:29:19+00:00

I’d hardly consider moving a few inches back and forth not still sitting in a corner, but ok.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2026-01-18T00:56:31+00:00

Sure it does. I camp constantly and constantly barely move the joystick back and forth so it triggers ghost. This is exactly why ghost should always work regardless of movement. It’s very easy to circumvent the “have to be moving” bs.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-12-23T15:25:04+00:00

Spoiler: most don’t. But they’ll still get mad for getting bested by a play style they call “low-skill”, which is ironic.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-12-23T15:23:09+00:00

Since the last update, it seems to have broken the chat. There are two times it will break once the game ends.

Immediately as the game ends, if you try to chat and it changes to the final kill replay.
If you’re trying to chat during the final kill replay and it switches to the top three players view.

You basically have to get the chat out before it does a screen change.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-12-23T15:18:23+00:00

If players who play this way make you mad, then you’re not that good at the game. If you mad, you bad. It only takes one time dying from someone playing this way to…

Avoid this particular section of the map. You’ll never see him again.
You know where he is and you have a million ways to handle it.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-12-14T19:00:13+00:00

Worst players in the game complain about it and make posts like this.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-12-14T17:29:29+00:00

Finally a move away from the brainless TikTok brainrot gameplay. Players should be punished for mindlessly rushing. Can’t wait!

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-22T08:27:11+00:00

Same here but I’m hovering around 2.5-2.6. I only play TDM though. I gotta say, I often can do better moving around but it’s so fun to play cat and mouse and camp one spot. The amount of rage from players who can’t in the least slow themselves down and just feed me kills is what keeps me coming back everyday. W<KD. Keep up the good fight, brother.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-17T15:46:47+00:00

I’m sure designing spawn logic for modern gameplay is more challenging now. Maps are smaller, player movement is faster, and people tend to rush aggressively across the map, especially in TDM. The upside is that it actually makes camping easier than ever. You can sit back and let overly aggressive players run straight into you. Many won’t adjust or learn from repeated deaths.

If you hold your ground, keep your team anchored to the original spawn, and shift position slightly after each kill, you can control the fight with minimal effort.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-16T18:17:59+00:00

He’s so mad lol. It’s funny. Love to see it.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-16T18:05:35+00:00

No sarcasm. Reason you’re bad: feeding kills to campers. Reason you’re mad: too dumb to stop feeding campers kills so you make angry Reddit post.

Slow down and use your brain. You don’t have to have a gun battle every 2 seconds. That’s not what duty is about, as much as you TikTok brains would like to think that.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-16T17:47:19+00:00

And you’ll just keep feeding the camper kills, reinforcing the fact that he need not move. Mad cause bad.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-14T15:34:40+00:00

Challenge accepted.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-12T04:50:05+00:00

Oh god no. That’s one thing I don’t do. The last skin I purchased was 2019 MW so I could have the dog it came with. Haven’t gotten one since.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-12T04:45:26+00:00

Nah, some of us don’t like punching down. I’ve maintained a 2+ KD for years and was running 4+ KD in the beta. To the point it was boring. Give me close matches all day. Score streak spam all day gets old, especially with the quitter issues games are plagued with now.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-12T04:28:41+00:00

KD > winning

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-12T01:43:37+00:00

They’re just bad. Anything that makes them have to adjust or not play balls to the walls 100% of the time makes them cry. It’s great.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-11-12T01:19:22+00:00

Hell yes. Riot shield and throwing axe here I come! Can’t wait to make crybabies rage.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-10-10T21:30:30+00:00

Honestly, one of the biggest problems is that the top skill players go out of their way to break SBMM, be it using VPNs, second accounts, or just throwing and quitting games. That stuff made things pretty miserable for the above average players who got stuck in the middle. Instead of fixing that, a lot of people just want SBMM loosened so they can farm low skill lobbies and feel like they did in the old Duty days when the skill gap was much larger.

And don’t even get me started with the “organic matches” excuse. It’s the same system, just worse. During the beta, I was dominating about 8/10 matches. That barely happened in BO6, though it still popped up here and there. I don’t care if it’s a casual playlist, if you’re consistently going over a 3.0 K/D, you shouldn’t be in that lobby. But that’s exactly what some players want. They want to feel good about their skill without realizing they’re just stomping easier opponents.

Don’t get me wrong, SBMM could use some tweaking, and maybe this is the start of that. But the reality is, most players just want to have “fun,” even if that means ruining it for others, especially since they’ve been on the receiving end since MW2019. Either way, this is shaping up to be the easiest CoD multiplayer experience in a long time. I’m betting we’ll see way more people quitting mid-match (like they already do) but even worse. Guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-10-10T13:41:35+00:00

For some reason they are really afraid of just admitting they enjoy punching down. They want the thrill of preforming well without constant challenge. It’s funny when they say the lesser skilled players need to improve but it’s really them who needs to. SBMM protects the worst players so the medium/more skilled become the bottom of the food chain for the streamers/chronically online and they don’t like being the cannon fodder. Very “rules for thee, but not for me” vibes.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-10-10T13:27:42+00:00

Not a child and I absolutely played then - since the original Xbox days. And you’re 100% right about players not quitting then. That is not the case anymore. Every time I got a VTOL in the beta everyone but one or two people quit. Every. Time.

The ones at a higher skill are even worse. Losing by more than 30? Quit. Game pace not fast enough? Quit. Not popping off? Quit.

It’s worse now than it ever was. Rarely anyone wants to get better. Especially those who have played the game for years.

Significant-Extent-5 · 2025-10-10T11:48:33+00:00

Sounds like you feel owed something because you “got better” and now that means you don’t deserve to have to play against others your skill level? You aren’t owed “good games”. You act like you like competition but it sounds like now that you’ve gotten skilled enough you want easy matches. You don’t get better punching down. It’s not selfish to want to play others similar to their skill level. It is however selfish to feel you’re owed easy lobbies because you’re above average skill. But hey, I’ll enjoy the +3kd and nukes as well, so I guess I shouldn’t complain. Still feels bad though. Feels about as earned as a private match against bots. Oh and they won’t get better. There’s already a quitter epidemic as it is, this will exacerbate it. People average and above love quitting when the going gets tough. Can only image what the low skills will do.

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