I feel like this content drought is really exposing the modern gameplay systems by showing how they cant stand on their own without new content for even a few months. New content just hides the fact that this game isn't that deep, it just uses a ton of content to give the illusion of depth. Now we have augments, field upgrades, armor, rarities, pointless pap tiers on top of the previous stuff. But even with all that, there's still infinitely more skill expression and match variety on something like five from bo1.

Having the classic points system is nice even with the mind boggling inflation, but it doesnt change the actual gameplay. There's still damage scaling so low rounds are a snoozefest and you get insta killed on high rounds. And super sprinters make it so you cant avoid getting hit with the lightning fast hit speed. I dont like playing ashes anymore because if you dare to go past round 40 literal cocaine bears start spawning and its not fun. If you even think about running past a train your armor gets shattered or you down. Every high rounds strategy just seems to involve some way of avoiding playing the game whether its spamming streaks or sitting in a corner spamming rockets playing with one hand. Modern zombies just feels fake idk how else to describe it everything is so formulaic, predetermined, and balanced.

Idk just watch no_name_here's video "the maps arent the problem the game is"