My impressions after playing the beta on PS4 thanks to a fellow GAF member "Masema".
- TTK is really low. If you don't kill in max 3 shots with any weapon you are doing something wrong. It has always been low, but now it's too low. Another person already posted this, I used to think some deaths were my fault or I could improve, now I don't. In objective modes there are way more kills overall than in previous games. As someone who only likes to play these modes its a huge letdown because the low TTK will attract people who farm kills and do not care about the objectives into these games.
- The most popular map on Bops 1 and 2 was Nuketown, then Hijacked, Summit, Firing Range. So do not complain about the size of maps, small maps have always been more attractive to the masses.
- The internet connection was good all the time. Always had green ping and never felt any of the issues some people mention. It can be for a variety of reasons like people in your area playing the beta, etc, but overall it felt great to me.
- It's way more colorful than past games. I'm OK with that, I like colorful games, but my brother and his friends said it looked childish (he's 16 haha).
- I didn't liked the specialist. While it adds something new to veterans and dedicated players, it feels "bloated" for casuals like me or my friends. One advantage of old CoD was that friends who do not play could do it, just grab the controller and start playing, The default classes were decent and now... well, I feel boredom just to think I have to explain all the specialist stuff to someone.
- Also it feels super weird that both teams use the same skins. Some customization needs to be added or at least different skins for both teams.
- Objective modes are still broken, people still care more about their K/D ratio than the W/L, people leave matches all the time so their K/D do not get worse if there is a good opposite team, you can still win more points for killing than for doing objectives, etc. I remember my little brother was bugging me 2 years ago in BlopsII because he had better K/D, then we checked our W/L: his was 0.20 and mine above 1 lol, but the game punishes people who pursue the objectives.
I have been dreaming some day these modes (Dom, CTF) get fixed but it will never happen (how can be fixed?: not counting K/D ratio on these modes and giving more points for objectives).
- The specialist powers are mini automatic kill streaks. Whenever I used the glitch it granted me a kill without merits. These powers are here just to increase the kill counts and to give everybody kills. Kills for everybody! should be their motto. I thought the specialist powers was going to be like the perks, defensive stuff. But I was wrong.
Well, overall it's feels like CoD, smells like CoD and looks like CoD. Just less friendly with newcomers (you have more to learn) and more aimed to veterans and people who just want kills kills and more kills.