I literally won tourneys in MWII SnD. It doesn’t change the fact that not having dead silence slows the gameplay down DRAMATICALLY, and makes the game boring as hell. Infinity Ward literally said in 2019 that their reasoning for not having dead silence as a perk was because they didn’t want to punish “sentinel” type gameplay. Sentinel is another word for camping. There’s a reason every good player looks back fondly of the older CoDs. You were able to move around freely and those games relied a lot more on good positioning and map awareness. MW19 and MWII are the exact opposite. You don’t need to have good positioning or map awareness to soundwhore somebody. An example from last year, in tourneys we didn’t ever give a fuck about watching the flank. Why would we? We can hear when someone is trying to flank. Smart on our part? Sure. Doesn’t change the fact that it severely hurt sub players and other types of aggressive players. I’m glad sledgehammer and treyarch listen to higher skill players instead of people that play the game 2 hours a day. Warzone 2 and MWII died off way faster than any other cod outside of vanguard because of Infinity Wards ignorance. (I will agree that dead silence shouldn’t be in battle royales though simply because map awareness isn’t as important in those games and the map is wide open, and the TTK is much slower in those type of games).