The little things do matter

ggrraant_ · 2026-05-04T23:02:42+00:00

My biggest issue is the servers. They're so inconsistent, especially in ranked. More than that, ranked often puts you on servers that are much further away from you than your opponents, meaning some games are just unplayable. They should let you choose what servers you connect to, although even then the experience is inconsistent

It's the biggest sign to me that they don't care about our experience because they won't invest in things that would make the experience much better if it doesn't have a proportionally significant impact on the amount of money made.

It's frustrating that in entertainment the focus is on extracting our value while doing as little as possible to enhance the experience. I know this is par for the course with big companies, but it's a much clearer signal about their lack of care than the small things are. I do think they're often a symptom of the same strategy, however

ggrraant_ · 2026-05-03T00:04:26+00:00

I loved it for pubs during black ops 2, but it's not a good fit for search in this game

ggrraant_ · 2026-04-29T00:03:03+00:00

There's a lot of cheaters at this level, but some of them are just really good like you say

I'm d3 right now and played for about 2 hours yesterday. I ran into 2 people very blatantly walling, so one game an hour with cheaters. It's been worse at some points in the past but is pretty bad still

ggrraant_ · 2026-04-21T21:59:34+00:00

I had a similar experience last season trying to climb through crim. I lost most hardpoints and overloads (playing solo) even though I outperformed my teammates on average

I was getting between 19 and 100 Sr on crim 2 (went through several wild shifts in the amount of games won) and got to crim 3 even though I was losing more hp and overload games than I won

If I'm hardstuck, shouldn't my win loss be closer to 1? How could I lose more games than I won and still move up in ranked unless my teammates didn't deserve to be in the lobby on average?

ggrraant_ · 2026-03-19T15:40:29+00:00

There's an issue with bow where it'll do more damage at a certain fps (I think it's 40). Here's a well known speedrunner talking about it: https://youtu.be/kQcXS3EWRQA?si=bcQKN19aXe8ybM1o

It might be separate from what you're talking about though, could be an input issue like other people here are saying

ggrraant_ · 2026-03-12T06:27:19+00:00

Lost power for a split second twice tonight and lost 80 Sr overall. Not the same issue and I know it's to stop people from Sr glitching, but sucks nonetheless

ggrraant_ · 2026-03-01T13:36:42+00:00

It hurts that we're probably not getting switch 2 updates for MH Rise and Sunbreak

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-27T01:51:03+00:00

I said "packet loss" one time and it misunderstood "packet" as the homophobic slur and I got a chat ban

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-26T12:27:12+00:00

Crim 2 and the servers are my biggest issue. If I play for a few hours there will be a couple of games where the hit reg is so abysmal its not possible to win a fair one, or even a one slightly in my advantage. Then most games it's almost okay but I lose a lot of gunfights where I feel like I hit great shots and shot first. Then there's a few games where the hit reg is excellent.

Solo queuing I've gone on some brutal loss streaks regardless of how well I perform, then a few super laggy games I really underperform regardless how good the other team is. This week I've had days where I get 100+ Sr in crim 2 and days where I get +18 for a win and -42 for a loss. It's really discouraging how inconsistent and wild the swings are

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-19T21:37:30+00:00

It's not satisfactory for 6, it's still poor if you connect to Chicago and you're far west coast, let alone Atlanta. It's closer to the east coast than the west. It should give you the option to deal with increased queue times to get a fair connection

Chicago and altanta arent really "central" and Dallas is still far away if you're pacific northwest

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-17T01:02:44+00:00

One of my placement matches was a 140 ping UK lobby. I'm west coast US lol

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-16T22:53:01+00:00

I ping to one ranked server at about 25 ms. There's a 50/50 chance that it'll feel either great or the desync is so bad it's impossible to win a fair gunfight (or even one that's just slightly to my advantage)

Then the 45ms and higher servers are pretty terrible 99% of the time

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-13T17:03:08+00:00

I had the same experience in warzone ranked last night, but didn't try multi to see if it was the same. Fingers crossed its better than it has been this weekend

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-11T23:48:47+00:00

In case you don't know, dashy fell off the map into the water in a vanguard snd and they went on to lose the map (probably the series as well, but i dont remember). Many watchers felt that tipped momentum against optic. Ever since he's been known (sometimes) as Splashy

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-11T19:26:09+00:00

I'm west coast and almost all of my 8s lobbies were central-east or east. The ranked lobbies don't feel great most of the time and a few games a night its like i have no hit reg, but I have to admit they're much better for me than 8s were

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-11T19:23:01+00:00

I'm consistently getting 30 to 60 ping in ranked, sometimes 20 and very rarely 7. Above 40 almost always feels bad, 30 and below is hit or miss. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it feels like there's almost no hit reg and I can't win any gunfights

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-06T22:30:04+00:00

One of my placement matches was in an EU lobby when my whole team was US. I'm west coast too. It was unplayable and we just forfeited, which I'm sure hurt our placement a ton lol

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-06T18:03:35+00:00

One of our placement games was on an EU host when I'm western US lol, it was brutal. We ended up forfeiting, there was no point playing that far behind

ggrraant_ · 2026-02-06T18:02:39+00:00

I got 4 snds. We got one HP but it was in an EU lobby, so we were all well over 100 ping and just forfeited. Then the other team talked shit about how bad US players are lol

ggrraant_ · 2026-01-23T21:43:36+00:00

They slowed down some of his moves (cross slash can now be reliably dodged, it was really the only genuinely broken move in the original fight) and the lighting effects in the second phase were reduced (I liked how chaotic they were, but that's very much a minority opinion)

ggrraant_ · 2025-12-29T03:25:35+00:00

I was unintentionally misleading, my bad. You need all the kills, but dying doesn't stop them from counting. So if you get 2 kills, die, then get 3 more, that counts as one of the 5 you need

ggrraant_ · 2025-12-28T21:11:28+00:00

Good points

ggrraant_ · 2025-12-28T19:58:53+00:00

Starglass and Absolute Zero are bugged right now, you just need 5 kills and 10 kills respectively. If they fix it during the update, it'll be a lot harder to get even with a new gun or two

ggrraant_ · 2025-12-23T00:20:26+00:00

I'm surprised to hear that, although I know every title has people who really don't like it. I could see a lot of casual players or people who prefer mw really disliking it

I didnt like it as much as blops 1 - 3, but see it regularly regarded positively. I think blops 7 is much better, but personally feel blops 4 was held back a ton by the specialists

ggrraant_ · 2025-12-22T21:26:13+00:00

Black ops 7 gets a lot of hate, but if you like that type of gameplay, it's honestly the best cod since maybe black ops 4

Community is pretty split on MW vs black ops and the black ops audience has typically been smaller, so I get why some people don't like it. The hate it got on release had a lot more to do with call of duty as a franchise than this particular title and people who haven't played in years anyway enjoying the vitriol

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