IISANDERII
Member
Oh yeah, COD is pay2win now, isn't it? Not getting my hopes up for this.
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RUMOR: Leaked art work suggest COD 2017 will be called Call of Duty: WWII
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SpiceMelange
Member
Prepare to see weapon crates and neon green kar98k
CrimsonGun
Member
This might kill the competitive scene lol. Hard to imagine the pros playing traditional cod after years of fast paced action. Asa viewer I will have an adjustment period.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Shrugs* I might have to pass on the game if that happens. Currently the game is a buy for me if the rumor is true. But the oddball camos will kill the game for me.
The Freeman
Member
Considering they've begun to add them to the CoD4 remaster, I fully expect day one crates with exclusive allied/nazi cammos
Daffy Duck
Member
The professional scene in CoD is a fucking joke.
This whole ban protect system bullshit, and loot crates etc.
It's not remotely the same game, if they were serious about it they would go the CS:GO route and not add weapon variants or shit locked behind crates in the first place and go only cosmetic.
But that's not going to happen.
UnluckyKate
Member
Who's turn this year? Sledge hammer or Treyarch?
The Dear Leader
Banned
Sledgehammer
Collateral22
Member
lol what, since when is CoD P2W? I've played every CoD since CoD 1 and none of them force you to pay for anything. Get out of here with that shit.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
It's pretty much pay2win since Advanced Warfare putting new and better guns behind the Supply Drops.
i HeaR MusiC
Member
Paying doesn't secure you any of those guns. You get the same supply drops you get through playing the game normally.
Pay2win implies spending money to get shit you can't get without spending cash IMO.
Collateral22
Member
Theres only 2 viable guns in AW, and they are unlocked within the first 10 levels. BAL and ASM1 is all you need. Rest of the guns, including MT guns are straight trash. Same for any CoD with MT/DLC guns.
Pros are playing Infinite Warfare despite absolutely hating playing the game for the most part. Some of the most known players even hoped that Black Ops III would continue to be the game for COD competitive this year (like Activision that owns MLG would allow that to happen).
Also most of them play COD since before AW, so it would not be a issue. It might change the competitive landscape though.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Unless Activision publishes the exact odds for Supply Drops it appears, anecdotally, that paying for Supply Drops has a higher chance of dropping new weapons than earning Supply Drops through gameplay. That's pay2win.
OriginofHysteria
Banned
If this happens, I hope Ubi brings back Brothers in Arms as well. Oh man thatd be awesome.
Silent Hill
Banned
When are the reveal trailers? May?
Historically they've been the first week of May. We'll see if they change their mind this go around.
i HeaR MusiC
Member
The supply drops you purchase with COD points are the exact same supply drops you purchase with in game currency. I've seen youtube videos of people spending $100 on supply drops and not recieving a single gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTOHv7X5Qkc
It's all bullshit RNG.. but it's not Pay2win
Karspankey
Banned
I really enjoyed Advance Warfare and a modern CoD going back to WWII is super intriguing for me. But holy hell if they put weapons behind supply drops again there's no way I'm buying this game new or close to full price. My guess is they'll pull a Modern Warfare Remastered and add them down the line if that shit isn't in there for launch.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
Sledgehammer going historical doesn't make sense when their previous COD was actually pretty good, MUCH better than Black Ops 3
Acitivion is forcing the wrong developer to leave the future time period
Acitivion is forcing the wrong developer to leave the future time period
Why do you need confirmation for something so obvious lmao
They need to have a crafting system (sort of like Gears 4 or Battlefield 1) so I can destroy all the cosmetic shit and let me just build the guns.
Karspankey
Banned
Bruh, just let me excited about my callahdoots
PhazonBlazer
Member
Maybe we'll get the return of actual Nazi Zombies.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
There are kids somewhere saying this unironically
I would say that's a fair expectation
STILLethal
Member
World at War was my favorite CoD ever. I'm interested. Although World War 2 as a title? Really? They couldn't come up with nothing better?
I'm sure the graphics and gameplay will be really good, I'm ready to dive back in WW2 era again, its been a long time
I'm sure the graphics and gameplay will be really good, I'm ready to dive back in WW2 era again, its been a long time
Yeah no that isn't pay2win. Even if the supply drop purchased with real money gave better drops, nothing is actually overpowered to the point where it's the best weapon in the game. AW got pretty close to that with the Obsidian Steed and the Speakeasy, but BO3, IW, and MWR have no such weapons. BO3's flavor of the month weapons were ALL base game weapons (Vesper, Kuda, VMP, Man-O-War, M8.. etc) IW is the same way even with weapon variants in the mix. None of the variants give you much of an advantage, and epic variants change the playstyles of the weapons sometimes drastically by modifying how they're used. And IW lets you save up to craft what you want. MWR is like BO3, the supply drop weapons don't give you much if any advantage. The M16 is still the top tier weapon, and that's unlocked from level 1.
So no, CoD isn't pay2win. I personally have been able to get some of the supply drop exclusive weapons in BO3 and found them to be either trash or just outclassed by something else. Some are fun to use occasionally to mix things up (MX Garand for example).
Pay2win implies that a supply drop weapon will make someone (new or not) automatically be able to easily kill everyone else who doesn't have such weapons. Which is certainly not the case at all.
The Omega Man
Member
Isn't Battlefield returning to WW2 this year? (heavily rumored) lol if we get to FPS WW2 games this year. We 2005 now
TheSinkingKnight
Member
probably no battlefield this year, but 2018, sure.
i HeaR MusiC
Member
I don't think there is a Battlefield game releasing this year.
mcz117chief
Member
I hope we get Chinese, Polish (Polish campaign starting in Poland then continuing in Africa and Italy would be the best), German, Canadian, or Japanese campaigns aside from the usual trifecta of USA/Britain/Soviet. WW2 is so incredibly rich and yet all we see is Omaha and Stalingrad and only from the POW of the Allies.
We should be getting Battlefront 2 this year
Battlefield won't be getting a new game until 2018/2019. They aren't annual like Call of Duty.
EA is banking on Battlefront 2 this year.