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Call-Of-Duty-Black-Ops-6 |OT| Even the Truth Lies Apparently Phil.

COD just doesn't do it for me anymore. Not surprising after what, 20 years? The good ol' "rank up and unlock new shit" kick is gone. Not refreshing, just boring now.
With me not having played the series in so long, I sorta look at it almost as nostalgia, but the fact it sort of feels the same as it did almost 20 years ago, it would probably feel like ‘same old shit’ to someone who actually kept up with it.
 
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marjo

Member
Playing the campaign on PC via Game Pass. Surprised how much I'm enjoying it. It's really top notch. Only thing I don't like is the stupid launcher. Is there any way to jump straight into BlackOps 6 without going through the main launcher?
 

Reizo Ryuu

Gold Member
Playing the campaign on PC via Game Pass. Surprised how much I'm enjoying it. It's really top notch. Only thing I don't like is the stupid launcher. Is there any way to jump straight into BlackOps 6 without going through the main launcher?
no

the launcher does load straight into blops6 though, just the campaign needs to load separately for some reason, so it wouldn't matter either way.
 

Timberwolf25

Gold Member
Amazing how people memory holed the FUD clickbait saying BLOPS6 took up 300GB a couple of months ago.
Hmm, shows installed size of only 88GB which is good news. It doesn't separate out the campaign and MW from what I can tell

Crap: Went back to the GamePass page on the Series X and my old ass was seeing it wrong. The base game is only 11.1GB and I probably saw that as 111GB.
The campaign is 56.5 and the MP is 44.3GB for the B06 content.

The various other MWII and MWIII stuff would've added another 431+GB
 
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Timberwolf25

Gold Member
it's not that big, unless you are installing literally everything, so both copies of every game since there are last gen versions too.
Thx. I probably wouldn't install them anyway unless I really get pulled in by B06.
The last CoD I played was Modern Warfare a long time ago. Not even sure if it was OG MW, MWII or MWIII :(
I just remember it was a MW game
 
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Bartski

Gold Member
Just beat the campaign, first time since... MW2? Honestly can't remember. No idea how it ranks among current-gen CODs but here I am rolling credits while MW3 put me to sleep and I dropped it after 2 missions. Might check some MP later
 

ManaByte

Banned
Yea it’s good.

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Dorfdad

Gold Member
can someone please for the love of all that is good tell me how to disable pressing L3 twice to auto run?

My thumbs are heavy on controllers and when Im running I press forward to run on Left analog stick but for some reason 80% of the time it start to auto run where it moves on its own. It constantly puts me out in the open or moving. I have reset default and turned off settings but can't find where the hell to prevent this function and I can't disable it from control mappings.
 

Dorfdad

Gold Member
Playing with crossplay on and not noticing anything out of the ordinary.
I tuned it off, not because of cheater which will appear in less than a week im sure, but because the new system clearly favors Mouse / Keyboard with the diving mechanics its harder to pull off on controller and super easy on PC. People running at 100 mph flying through the sky and instant locking on to me made me retire early on day 1 for sure.

If your better than me on controller I can live with that, but having 360hz monitors and m/k mechanics against a max 120hz controller plater isn't a level playing field IMHO.
 

Reizo Ryuu

Gold Member
can someone please for the love of all that is good tell me how to disable pressing L3 twice to auto run?

My thumbs are heavy on controllers and when Im running I press forward to run on Left analog stick but for some reason 80% of the time it start to auto run where it moves on its own. It constantly puts me out in the open or moving. I have reset default and turned off settings but can't find where the hell to prevent this function and I can't disable it from control mappings.
pressing L3 twice is tac sprint, pressing it once is just sprint; I don't think you can disable it, I believe the only setting you can change for it is to have sprint be automatic, so you only need one press for tac sprint.
 

Dorfdad

Gold Member
pressing L3 twice is tac sprint, pressing it once is just sprint; I don't think you can disable it, I believe the only setting you can change for it is to have sprint be automatic, so you only need one press for tac sprint.
im screwed because I kinda panic sprint I guess. I don't mean to hit to so hard but when pressing forward I do I guess and its costing me 5-10 kills a game.
 

Killjoy-NL

Member
I tuned it off, not because of cheater which will appear in less than a week im sure, but because the new system clearly favors Mouse / Keyboard with the diving mechanics its harder to pull off on controller and super easy on PC. People running at 100 mph flying through the sky and instant locking on to me made me retire early on day 1 for sure.

If your better than me on controller I can live with that, but having 360hz monitors and m/k mechanics against a max 120hz controller plater isn't a level playing field IMHO.
I can see that, but tbh, I'm able to dominate matches against PC players on PS Portal (Remote Play at 60fps).

I don't think playing against PC is that big of a deal, tbh.
 

skneogaf

Member
I have loads of call of duty games on steam, 5 on battle.net and now 2 on xbox gamepass.

What a crazy mess my pc is due to these games.

It would be amazing if xbox had every call of duty in the call if duty launcher on the gamepass version in the future.
 

BigLee74

Gold Member
So, my first real session with multi player and it wasn’t a great first impression.

Maps were meh, graphics haven’t improved at all since BO3, and the new slide movement pretty much sucks. Folk slide through doors and are way behind you before you even know what’s happening. Some pretty janky animation too, although that’s likely to be folk from different countries warping their way around.

Game to game feels as inconsistent as MW2 and MW3. Some matches are fine, in others you can’t drop anybody yet die yourself in the blink of an eye.

Way too early to pass judgement but I can’t see this one scratching the Cold War itch!

It’s definitely lost some identity playing on the new engine.
 

terrible1fi

Neo Member
it's a bastardized quake at this point. took them 20 years to finally come around to realizing twitch shooters are the most fun and what keep people playing and moving away from boring ass slow camp fests. but it doesn't go with the whole CoD vibe, which has always been sniper based slow ass camping, and hiding in corners 🤷🏼‍♂️
Cod has always been about fast arcade action, that’s the reason I think bo6 is really good so far. The only ones that went off track were the mw series (mw19 & mw2) and man were those bad
 

twilo99

Gold Member
My biggest complain thus far, and I think this is just a CoD thing in general, but to me it feels particularly bad in this version, is that the SMG are way too strong compared to the ARs and it doesn't help that the ARs feel especailly slow and... muddy overall. Why not just copy/paste the balancing between SMGs and ARs from Counter-Strike? They have it just right.
 

twilo99

Gold Member
Cod has always been about fast arcade action, that’s the reason I think bo6 is really good so far. The only ones that went off track were the mw series (mw19 & mw2) and man were those bad

Sure, but it's never been as close to a proper fast shooter like Quake as it is now, at least in terms of movement, there is obviously still a huge gap overall.
 

Dorfdad

Gold Member
I have to say, I never dive during matches. That might have something to do with it. Lol
going to have to add you on PSN so I can learn some things. Also seems no matter what game mode I get on we end up losing. The other team has UAV's constantly etc and we never put one up
 

Killjoy-NL

Member
going to have to add you on PSN so I can learn some things. Also seems no matter what game mode I get on we end up losing. The other team has UAV's constantly etc and we never put one up
You can always add me: Psyko_Dad

Have to say that I play on irregular hours and never use a mic with a 16 month old in the background and all.

Also, there are matches where I end up dead last on the team as well, so I'm definitely not a pro. Lol
 
I tuned it off, not because of cheater which will appear in less than a week im sure, but because the new system clearly favors Mouse / Keyboard with the diving mechanics its harder to pull off on controller and super easy on PC. People running at 100 mph flying through the sky and instant locking on to me made me retire early on day 1 for sure.

If your better than me on controller I can live with that, but having 360hz monitors and m/k mechanics against a max 120hz controller plater isn't a level playing field IMHO.

Not having any trouble at all keeping up on SX with a controller TBH. It’s suicide to use slide and dive too much, it can be useful like diving away from a grenade and being able to go straight on your back and ready to fire, or making yourself a smaller target quickly at range.

But if anything people over use it. I’ve got the semi-auto shotgun as my secondary and the amount of times people just feed me kills by diving towards or into me is nuts (like if I took a screenshot the exact moment I fired their head takes up 30% of the screen).
 
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FoxMcChief

Gold Member
I will say this, this game feels a lot better than the last one that was added to game pass a few months ago. Like a lot better. The menus are also way less retarded.
 

FoxMcChief

Gold Member
Yeah. I like the multiplayer a lot more than I expected. I feel like my deaths are reasonable. I’m still trying to get my footing. It is awesome the few time I dived around a corner and surprised the other team. I’m far from good. Just middle of the pack.

I like the MP5 and the LMG. One you get the attachments, they become a whole lot better.
 

Topher

Identifies as young
Anyone else playing the PC Game Pass version? I've got frame rates in cut scenes jumping from 120 to 60 and back. Stuttering mess.
 

Reizo Ryuu

Gold Member
I like how most of the attachments aren’t a mess of questionable tradeoffs, which never made a ton of sense in most cases. But ones with real world tradeoffs like drum magazines have handling penalties, as they should.
It's nice but at the same time I feel like it kills build variety, in MWIII you could either have an average at all things gun, or you could optimise for ADS, hipfire or Tac stance; of course you'll wind up with some meta builds but it still allowed more creative and fun builds imo.
 

FoxMcChief

Gold Member
It's nice but at the same time I feel like it kills build variety, in MWIII you could either have an average at all things gun, or you could optimise for ADS, hipfire or Tac stance; of course you'll wind up with some meta builds but it still allowed more creative and fun builds imo.
I guess that’s where I’m just a meat and potatoes type of multiplayer player. I want less options of weapons and less shit to mess around with the numbers. I’m happy that the game launched with a few weapons in each category. And the way you unlocked stuff in the last game was weird. I like the idea that you have to use the weapon to unlock stuff for it.
 
Multiplayer is better than beta, but maps are fairly simple. I feel like it has a place between modern and Blops III, which is ok. Either fast or methodical, anything in between is tough to get interested in.
 

DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
So i have played and completed 2 Call of Duty campaigns

Call of Duty 2 on 360 -was bored by the linear onrails design

Call of Duty 4 on 360 -
was bored by the linear onrails design

Then i quit cod

Now with this being on gamepass i am now about half way through the campaign…

…. And it is still the same game i played on 360 - with some light addons such as more stealth, dialogue options and a hub

I am still bored by the on rails campaign. Jump on a motorcycle - ”on rails” of course. Go through a combat area and turn the ”wrong” way - ”return to mission area”

And this is part 6 of just one cod spin off series? How can you cod players NOT be bored?

I am bored by the design and my last cod was on 360..

It's completely fine that it's not for you.

I play the campaign for one weekend and then I'm good. It's just one hell of a bombastic raid to the senses from your set up.

I really like all the convo stuff and could watch Adler talk to me forever 😆
 

KaiserBecks

Member
Maps are horrible and the game looks like complete ass. I regret spending €10 on a code for 1 month of GPU. This is the worst CoD since Vanguard imo. I have absolutely no clue how people get any entertainment out of this turd.
 
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