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[Reizo Ryuu]

The Boys event is returning to Call of Duty, this time being headlined by A-Train and Firecracker (who I believe is exclusive to the TV show and doesn't exist in the source material)

Trailer via gamespot because the official channel one is age gated:

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Wtf!? Are these official marketing assets sent by Activision to the press? They look so low quality.

 

[Fake]

This is getting ridiculous at this point...

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Wtf!? Are these official marketing assets sent by Activision to the press? They look so low quality.

those were posted on their update blog, I guess the press just grabbed them from there; the firecracker one is what they would use for the banner for the in-game bundle though, but at a higher resolution.

 

[calistan]

What the fuck is Firecracker? I gave up on The Boys when that shrinky guy crawled up some dude's sphincter and exploded his guts.

I'd say keep this shit out of my CoD, but it's already full of peple running around in capes. Ridiculous.

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

There’s nothing quite like getting killed by A-Train, Lilith or Lara Croft whilst playing a realistic military online fps. CoD has become truly shameless.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Man, CoD has really taken 10 steps back. wtf has this become?

 

[Clintizzle]

Looks good!

Spoiler

I just wish COD wasn't in the First Person Perspective

 

[cash_longfellow]

The wild thing is, if Battlefield manages to be somewhat decent on launch with their next entry, it’s possible that they will actually take a big portion of the crowd from CoD this time. There are a whole lot of gamers who are getting older that are growing tired of the nonsense with CoD. They can keep appealing to the younger crowds, but it’s going to end up being their downfall in the end (the way things are going of course lol)

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Looks good!

Spoiler

I just wish COD wasn't in the First Person Perspective

zombies can be played in third person at least.

 

[Gambit2483]

Thafuckisdishit??

They want to be fortnite so bad...

 

[Ozriel]

The wild thing is, if Battlefield manages to be somewhat decent on launch with their next entry, it’s possible that they will actually take a big portion of the crowd from CoD this time. There are a whole lot of gamers who are getting older that are growing tired of the nonsense with CoD. They can keep appealing to the younger crowds, but it’s going to end up being their downfall in the end (the way things are going of course lol)

It’s ok to dream. But this is unlikely to happen.

as long as these cosmetic MTX don’t affect gameplay, does anyone truly care?

 

[cash_longfellow]

It’s ok to dream. But this is unlikely to happen.

as long as these cosmetic MTX don’t affect gameplay, does anyone truly care?

I don’t think it will happen because they are not capable of actually putting out a good Battlefield game anymore lol. To your second point, the gameplay is not that great anymore either.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

They want to be fortnite so bad...

CoD was like this before fortnite even existed. Tons of guest characters have been running around since 2010.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Mom can I buy A-Train

No we have A-Train at home

 

[bender]

This is getting ridiculous at this point...

I think we've circled around "this point" four or five thousand times now.

 

[manfestival]

There’s nothing quite like getting killed by A-Train, Lilith or Lara Croft whilst playing a realistic military online fps. CoD has become truly shameless.

While I still think that this whole collab thing they are doing is ridiculous. I think it is more ridiculous to claim that COD has been a realistic military online fps.

 

[Dutchy]

It’s ok to dream. But this is unlikely to happen.

as long as these cosmetic MTX don’t affect gameplay, does anyone truly care?

I'd say yes.

MCC got an option to turn skins off after a lot of people complained about how they didn't aesthetically fit in the universe like, at all. Some of the models also had more/less favorable hitboxes.

If I could do the same thing for other shooters, I would. But I don't play that many other shooters so I have no idea if this is a functionality that has been incorporated into CoD as well.

 

[poppabk]

While I still think that this whole collab thing they are doing is ridiculous. I think it is more ridiculous to claim that COD has been a realistic military online fps.

Drop the realistic.

 

[manfestival]

Drop the realistic.

Exactly what I am saying though lol

 

[Mythoclast]

To me all these insane cosmetics are a big PLUS. I wanna watch Peter Griffin shooting Shrek, that shit’s fun. Not some random spec ops guy.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

To me all these insane cosmetics are a big PLUS. I wanna watch Peter Griffin shooting Shrek, that shit’s fun. Not some random spec ops guy.

You're under 30, if I had to guess.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

There’s nothing quite like getting killed by A-Train, Lilith or Lara Croft

I'm surprised I hadn't heard about this already, and I know some people might not love it, but I'd welcome them bringing the rest of the cast of Frasier to COD.

 

[Calverz]

Wait until they see the duck operator…..

 

[Sub_Level]

Firecracker has some equipment! Hopefully the Nicki Minaj and Lara Croft sales give Activision the hint to put more waifu skins in Black Ops this year. Nobody wants to play as generic milsim shit (and if they do they been playing the wrong series lmao).

 

[ResilientBanana]

There’s nothing quite like getting killed by A-Train, Lilith or Lara Croft whilst playing a realistic military online fps. CoD has become truly shameless.

Lost me at realistic.

 

[makaveli60]

Damn, this industry is still so good in finding new ways to accelerate going downhill.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Why would the A-Train use guns when he can just run through people or stab them without any chance for reaction?

Ffs make even slightly believable crossovers like Homelander in MK.

 

[[Sigma]]

If I still played this franchise id be sad asf looking at what it has become.

 

[ChoosableOne]

Just put the pokemons in already.

 

[Lunarorbit]

That looks like a mortal kombat fatality. So they just decided to go further down the fortnite hole?

 

[wipeout364]

The wild thing is, if Battlefield manages to be somewhat decent on launch with their next entry, it’s possible that they will actually take a big portion of the crowd from CoD this time. There are a whole lot of gamers who are getting older that are growing tired of the nonsense with CoD. They can keep appealing to the younger crowds, but it’s going to end up being their downfall in the end (the way things are going of course lol)

I personally love the skins they put in the game. Anyone saying COD is a serious military shooter in 2024 is not paying attention, COD is the Quake/Unreal tournament of the present day.

Battlefield will never touch the COD audience in a meaningful way. I play a ton of battlefield 2042 and it’s a completely different experience. There is much more downtime in the game and encounters are 90% medium to long range. Battlefield involves you getting killed from someone you don’t see, then having to wait a few seconds to respawn, then having to run for 30 seconds to a minute to get back to your last position.

 

[Frwrd]

I rather get aids and cancer before I play this wack ass game or watch that PoS tv series or whatever the F it is.

Call of Duty trully lost its north years ago.
They are so thirsty for that Fortnite (f that game too lol) fanbase so bad.
Too bad EA is fucking retarded and will never drop a Battlefield “2.0 3-4” they would sell truckloads on day-one alone.

 

[cash_longfellow]

I personally love the skins they put in the game. Anyone saying COD is a serious military shooter in 2024 is not paying attention, COD is the Quake/Unreal tournament of the present day.

Battlefield will never touch the COD audience in a meaningful way. I play a ton of battlefield 2042 and it’s a completely different experience. There is much more downtime in the game and encounters are 90% medium to long range. Battlefield involves you getting killed from someone you don’t see, then having to wait a few seconds to respawn, then having to run for 30 seconds to a minute to get back to your last position.

If it takes you 30 seconds to a minute to get anywhere in Battlefield you are playing it wrong.

 

[Spyxos]

In Fortnite these skins would work, here they just look stupid.