u/Designer_Marzipan583

Mercenary Moshpit should be available all year round. The difference is huge, especially with persistent lobbies. I honestly don’t understand why they only bring it back every now and then.

Multiplayer is completely ruined. Everything was going well until the end of Season 4, but they just had to shoot themselves in the foot. The SBMM now feels exactly like BO6.

At least the SBMM in older games was more relaxed. BO6’s system is completely unbalanced.

Team balancing is also worse than it was before. Out of 15 Team Deathmatch matches, I only won four. I am constantly being placed with the worst teammates the game can possibly find.

Every match is full of stacked teams, usually with two to six players from the same clan.

It also takes much longer to find a match, and my ping is noticeably higher.

There are countless matches where players leave halfway through. Whenever I log in for the first time, I am almost always thrown into an ongoing match where the team I join is already being completely demolished.

It is now almost impossible to use anything other than a meta weapon. Until recently, I could use pretty much any gun without having to sweat constantly.

I have almost completely lost the desire to keep playing this game or even bother with the next one.

Since r/modernwarfare4 removed my post, I'll ask here instead.

After the SBMM changes they just made in BO7, which will also carry over into the MW4 Beta, what do you guys think?

I've been a fan of NXT since the beginning, and right now it's easily better than both Raw and SmackDown combined.

Just yesterday's Raw show was awful. They keep trying to convince us that the "circus" is happening in the other company, when in reality it's happening inside WWE.

I wish AJ Styles was in charge of at least Raw or SmackDown. Triple Nose, double chin Bruce Prichard, and the worn out Michael Hayes all seem completely out of ideas.

The best thing about NXT is that, despite having less TV time, it manages to give almost everyone on the roster meaningful screen time. The women's division consistently delivers fantastic matches, and the biggest shame is what happens once those wrestlers reach the main roster. Instead of continuing to grow, they end up going backwards.

Raven just keeps butchering Warzone for the sake of it.

Now every match has those loot drones... Even the Buy Stations are on the drones...

Who's making these decisions at Raven now? It has to be the same person who thought Black Ops Royale was going to be a huge success.

I kept seeing people saying we were going to get an SBMM system more like BO2's, but it honestly feels like the exact opposite. If anything, it seems even stronger than before (BO6 vibes)

Lobby disbanding also happened after every single match I played today. I didn't stay in the same lobby even once.

I bought a Logitech Pro Superlight 2 about two years ago, replacing my Razer Mamba Elite because I wanted a lighter wireless mouse. I saw a lot of people praising it, and for the first year I had absolutely no issues. I just charged it and used it.

Then I updated the mouse's firmware through Logitech's software, and ever since then it has never been the same.

When I plug it in to charge, after about five minutes it says the battery is fully charged. But as soon as I unplug the cable, it immediately reports that the battery is empty. Sometimes it still works for a bit before dying completely, other times it won't even turn on.

A few days later it'll suddenly come back to life and charge again, but the exact same thing happens. It says it's fully charged, I unplug it, and it instantly shows 0% battery again.

Now it hasn't turned on at all for almost a month.

Has anyone experienced something similar or know what could be causing this? I first noticed the problem right after the firmware update, so I've always wondered if that's what triggered it.

Positives

The graphics look great. Kill Block seems like an interesting mode, although I hope it launches with a wider variety of game modes. The menu and UI are excellent, probably the best we've had in years. I also really like being able to assign a different operator to each class, especially with Warzone in mind.

Negatives

Screen shake and smoke still makes no sense to me. It just causes unnecessary visual clutter and even makes me feel nauseous at times. I don't understand how they keep saying they listen to community feedback when this has been one of the biggest complaints with MWII and it's still here with MW4.

Sliding also feels a bit excessive. I'd prefer something closer to MWIII. Some of the movement mechanics seem a little too fast and over-the-top. I'd rather see a more balanced approach.

Aim assist also feels too strong AGAIN.

Another thing I'm not a fan of is the weapon progression. The gun levels are way too high again. One of the things MWII actually got right was keeping weapon levels relatively short, around 18 to 22 levels. Now we're back to grinding through long weapon level.

Overall, I think they revealed the game too early. I would have preferred they waited longer and showed something more polished instead of this early build.

Honestly, I came away a little disappointed by some aspects of the Alpha. Hopefully, by the time the Beta arrives, everything will feel much more refined and complete.

I'd like to know how many matches you can win in a row in Multiplayer, what your K/D is, and what your teammates are usually like.

I have around a 2.28 K/D, but I always seem to get the worst teammates imaginable. It's just loss after loss. I regularly get teammates who honestly make me wonder if they're actual bots. Some finish with a 0.00 K/D, others with a 0.11. Most of the time, I'm the only player on my team with a positive K/D, while the enemy team is basically farming kills off my teammates.

Just yesterday I played seven matches. I won the first two, and after that I kept getting matched with teammates who couldn't do anything. To make it even worse, the same clueless players kept ending up on my team game after game, while whenever I did win, the second-best player on my team was replaced.

This honestly kills my motivation to play because it feels like I'm being manipulated by an algorithm that does a terrible job of balancing teams.

Do you think Warzone will still be around when MW4 launches? Honestly, I'm not so sure anymore.

These last two years have probably done more damage to the game than MWII ever did. Almost none of my IRLs still play Warzone. Most of them quit last year, a few came back this year, but none of them stuck around for long.

Between the same maps, the movement, the gameplay mechanics, and the overall direction of the game, they all eventually gave up on it. It just doesn't seem to hold people's attention anymore.

Since the start of the year, I'd only come across around four or five suspicious players in Multiplayer and another four or five in Warzone. Nothing too unusual.

But ever since this new season launched, it's been an absolute plague. It genuinely feels like every hacker came out of hibernation.

The funniest part is that this season they forced me to update my BIOS, and I honestly have to ask... for what? The result has been the complete opposite of what you'd expect. Cheating feels worse than ever.

Even on console, some players have aim assist that feels incredibly sticky. I've been using the REV-46, probably the best strafe weapon in the game, and I've had moments where certain console players' aim just seems glued to me.

Everything feels messed up right now, on both console and PC. To be honest, I was expecting something like this, especially with Nuke contracts back. They were always going to attract people looking for any advantage they could get.

To top it all off, I even ran into a cheater using the MWII Nuke operator skin who is still playing the game. Something in the anti-cheat system isn't working.

I honestly think only players with at least a 1.0 K/D should be allowed to play Ranked.

The quality of some teammates I get is genuinely unbelievable. It often feels like certain players are being carried far beyond the rank they actually deserve. Ranked is supposed to be the competitive mode, yet I regularly end up with teammates who struggle with basic gunfights and decision making.

Another controversial opinion aim assist should be reduced by at least half in Ranked. I think it would create a much better balance between controller and MNK players and put more emphasis on skill rather than input advantages.

I also think HAVEN'S HOLLOW  should be removed from the Ranked rotation. It's by far my least favorite Ranked map. Regaining feels significantly harder than on the other maps, and too small. Personally, I'd be perfectly happy if Ranked was played exclusively on Fortune's Keep. The map has a better balance.

The last few games have been a real disappointment, especially BO6. This year with MW4, I'd love to see them focus more on action movie collaborations. John Wick, for example, feels like an obvious choice and I doubt many people would complain about it.

I'd also like to see some classic action stars make an appearance. Why not Chuck Norris or Jean-Claude Van Damme? They fit the military-action vibe.

As for superheroes, the only ones I can really see fitting a more grounded cod setting would be The Punisher and Black Widow. They feel believable enough to blend into the game's world without completely breaking immersion.

When it comes to Halloween events, though, I don't mind seeing something more over-the-top. In that case, I'd actually prefer collaborations based on slasher movies, since horror icons fit the seasonal theme much better than random pop-culture crossovers.

Still, I think being able to create our own operator would be a much better feature, and we'd end up seeing a lot more variety in character designs and personal styles.

On top of that, it could be a huge source of revenue for them. They could sell cosmetic items such as clothing, different hairstyles, boots, tactical vests, military helmets, and other customization options. Players would have far more freedom to create a character that actually feels unique to them instead of everyone running the same operators.

Just an idea.

The biggest disappointment for me was the setting itself. I went into the book expecting a more traditional fantasy world, something that felt ancient, almost medieval, with Japanese inspiration and magic woven into it naturally. Instead, it ended up feeling way too contemporary with planes, technology and modern elements that completely killed the atmosphere I was hoping for.

Misaki was probably the only part of the book I genuinely liked. She felt like an actual layered character with regrets, emotions and history behind her. Every time the story focused on her, the book became more interesting. But her son did absolutely nothing for me. I found him annoying for most of the story and never built any emotional connection with him, which became a huge problem because the book clearly wants you to care deeply about his journey.

The worldbuilding also felt messy to me. You have tons of Japanese names and terms constantly thrown at you, but barely any explanation for what they mean, while at the same time other places and concepts suddenly have English names. It made the world feel inconsistent instead of immersive.

The reading experience itself was honestly boring for large portions of the book. It took me forever to get through some chapters because I just didn’t feel invested in what was happening. Even the magic system felt strange and unconvincing to me. Nothing about it really grabbed my imagination.

I can understand why some people love this book emotionally, especially because of Misaki, but overall it just wasn’t for me at all.

Right now, NXT is the WWE show I enjoy watching the most. I’ve always been a huge fan of NXT because I love seeing a wrestler arrive still very green and then watching them grow and evolve over time.

But now I’d even go as far as saying that, for me, NXT manages to do more in less time than the main roster shows, more matches, more backstage segments and on top of that, I genuinely think it has the best women’s roster in wrestling today.

Everyone gets their time to shine. Even if some talent don’t appear every single week, they still get their moments every other week.