This happened to me before; I restarted my Xbox, it was my WiFi not connecting, but I eventually got it to work. Now I restarted normally twice, nothing happened, then held the power button and unplugged the power cable, but it still hasn’t worked.
I play on Xbox and remember watching the videos when the game came out. I was really annoyed Xbox didn’t get it until it did. I preordered, loved it, and still do, but I can’t help but notice now it feels a bit shit. What I mean is, before Xbox got it, you had moments like the DSS, Super Earth, Creek, choosing between the mech or anti-tank mines, and TCS, which caused Hive Worlds. For Xbox, we’ve had Oshaune and Cyberstan. They are supposed to be big moments, but didn’t feel like it at all. For example, Oshaune—what really changed? The spore moved back a bit. I know this is confusing, my title being “I love Helldivers 2,” and I do. I think it’s a good game and the only game I’ve been excited for in a long time, but when I compare it before Xbox got it till now, I can’t help but feel the quality has dipped. For example, the mech Warbond—I fully think that should have been a major order. It would make the war feel more alive again. I get it, they still need to make money, but can’t we get stuff like that now and then?
Bringing back the old sprint system we seen in cod4-bo2, I think it helped keep the maps flow by being able to read the maps better and predict players pushing. It kept most of the fighting in the middle, rather than people being able to rush through into each other spawns, which adds to my other point, it helped the spawns being stable instead of constantly flipping. Overall, I think it rewarded game sense rather than reaction.
I preferred the older sbmm we had, I liked the unpredictability, you could get stomped or stomp others and just playing against people like you basically didn’t feel repetitive.
Less focus on grinding, I think people care a bit too much on grinding, I mean how many more mastery camos are they going to add, same with black cell and battlepass, I would like to see them gone and just put it behind challenges but I know money.
Campaigns, they are getting worse, they do put little effort into them, I was really disappointed with reboot, they just felt so generic in a bad way, I’ll take a world war 3 instead of preventing it.
Aesthetic of maps feels bland and very generic, not all but most do, for example meltdown, I know it got remastered but it doesn’t look nice at all anymore, the thing that stood out to me was the sky in the newer version, it might be more realistic but in bo2 it looked better, I don’t know the correct terms for them.
Activision has given you so many reasons as to why you shouldn’t play their game nor spend money on it. Many people here spend money on skins, yet we know they have reused skins that were in previous games but slightly tweak them, and costs as much as a new one. We also know they are using ai to create content, and you get the bit of outrage, and cod will say it won’t happen again, yet it’s a fucking lie; they will only get better at hiding it. They also try to push ads into the game and still do; look at the fallout collab, you’re literally buying an ad. How many things have been removed for “safety”? I’m talking about custom emblems; you can talk about the racism that happened with it, you aren’t wrong, but we live in an age with ai. I mean, activison is owned by Microsoft, that develops its own ai and are pushing it into cod; they have systems in place to track players behaviour. Technology is not a problem; they just want to monetise everything, and you let them. Let’s also take a look at sbmm; it’s not to create fair lobbies, it’s to maximise your playtime, same with season pass or black cell, they make it limited time to keep you playing like a fucking hamster on a wheel. They will keep pushing ai content, lock more behind a paywall, because people moan and still put hours upon hours into the game, fork out hundreds of pounds worth of money into the game, because it’s only a few bundles.
There’s more I’m wanting to add. I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio in Don’t Look Up because it’s right there. I’ve had someone argue with me because I said I hope Grand Theft Auto VI takes money from Activision, and he said I wanted families to go hungry, even though it’s a billion-dollar company owned by a trillion-dollar company. The devs aren’t seeing a crumb, and what many people here also love to forget about is the scandal that came from Call of Duty that included sexual assault and suicide.