I'm liking it! After three years of advanced movement (even though I am a defender of it) it's nice to play a Call of Duty and not have to worry about people jumping two screens above you every game.
I'll preface this saying that I'm mainly a TDM player.
The guns feel good for the most part although I think there is some balancing to be done for sure. The PPSH and STG seem a little too strong, along with the Type 100 and Grease Gun, albeit to a lesser degree.
I'm not sure I'm completely sold on the divisions system as a replacement for the pick 10 create-a-class but with how limited the scope of the beta is, it's hard to say either way right now. There's stuff I like and stuff I don't.
Speaking of being a beta, they really need to sort out the post-game load times. Coming off of Infinite Warfare's absurdly fast load times it's really hard to sit through. I've read that they're working to fix a bug that is causing the post-game scoreboard staying up too long but I think my main issue is how much you have to wait through.
The game ends, it shows the play of the game, scoreboard shows up, game loads back to lobby to show another scoreboard, then it moves to the winners circle, then it finally gets to the after action report so you can see what you unlocked and how you did.
Just remove that second scoreboard altogether and go from the game ending scoreboard to loading into the winners circle. The whole process, bug or not, is too long right now.
While we're on the topic of lobbies, they need to make it so you can see who's in your lobby in a few places. When a friend joins me there's no way to immediately see if they've joined me. I have to go over two or three tabs to the social menu, then another two tabs on that screen to see if anyone is partied up with me. Crazy. I'd also like to see a real lobby screen of who's in a game before it starts. Their menu of all the soldiers chilling before the match looks cool but it makes it harder to know if you're facing a big premade team, what their k/d or w/l is, etc.
Most of my problems are with the menus and back-end stuff. I'm really enjoying the gunplay and combat, spawns seem good in my experience (I'm not getting people spawning behind me and gunning me down as often as IW), the available scorestreaks could be better (recon plane and paratroopers seem weak), the beta maps are good in the case of Ardennes and Gibraltar but Pointe Du Hoc can be a little chaotic and can result in running circles around the map chasing the enemy team, I don't hate the map though.
Lastly, I think it's way too easy to hear the enemy team's callouts (eg: "He's in the bunker!") It's happened to me loads of times where I'm running through an area and I hear a German accent call out a soldier in the barn, for example. I think to myself, I'm in the barn, and I'm the allies faction right now so nobody on my team should be speaking German. I turn around and get an easy kill on someone that didn't even know I was there.
Maybe it's working as intended but I think it's a little too punishing and it's already leading to a lot of kills I wouldn't be getting if I wasn't listening.
That's all I can think of right now, kind of a brain dump but I'm a big Call of Duty fan so it's on my mind right now lol.
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