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Also they're buffing the ION Sniper minigun attachment and reverting the AN-94 nerf for Zombies. Hope these changes turn out well!

It was so damn cool how BO4 brought these icons back as part of the prestige master system. To this day these icons are an iconic part of BO2. So to see them not return in either BO6 or BO7 is such a damn shame.

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And it's not like they don't have an excuse either like it would be weird fitting them into the system. It could go like this:

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Level 300– Single Bone

Level 400– Double Bone

Level 500– Skull

Level 600– Skull w/ Blue Eyes

Level 700– Knife Skull

Level 800– Knife Skull w/ Blue Eyes

Level 900– Shotguns Skull

Level 1000– Shotguns Skull w/ Blue Eyes

Now look, I don't want to come off as sounding ungrateful or spoiled but it has started to get more noticeable with the lack of new perks and ammo mods so far throughout this game's life cycle. When Paradox Junction released I was okay with us not getting a new perk or AAT, and while Totenreich having map specific equipment is a great addition and we got a new field upgrade, I was kind of disappointed with no new perks.

Last Perk we've gotten was Mule Kick in Astra Malorum and the last ammo mod we've gotten was Fireworks from the launch. Other than that it's been radio silence for both of these. Now of course, that's not to say that the devs have been completely neglecting them as them going back and buffing some of the previously weaker auguments for stuff like Jug, Deadshot, Quick Revive, etc has been a great QoL improvement. Making new perks and ammo mods is also more difficult as they now have to make four major auguments and four minor auguments with every new release now instead of the usual 3 like in BO7, especially with a fully researched Perk/Ammo Mod/Field Upgrade being able to take 2 minor auguments at a time instead of one so it even further complicates game balancing and testing for these new additions. Not to mention perks needing new machines.

I think the main thing I'm trying to get at here is that I'm annoyed we haven't gotten anything new yet and instead we keep getting these new LTMs that people will forget about in a week or so. Instead of that extra manpower going into making new additions or having more people work on a map, we instead get modes that people will forget in like a week like Zombie Battle. And it's even worse when these modes get removed and are no longer playable, meaning all that work in the mode is essentially wasted when it could have been put into something that could help the game long term. I'm afraid that the new Rouge-Like mode we're getting may be the exact same thing with the way Zombie Battle was treated.

Now I get WHY they need to make these modes: it's for either collabs or something to advertise to make things look good for the investors. And while Survival maps could fit similarly to these LTMs, at least you can play them permanently and serve as essentially junk food to hold folks off until the release of the next map (Plus the addition of Cursed Survival adds more replayability). Most of the times LTMs don't add anything in the long term, with the exception of Starting Room & Cranked. This was probably my biggest problem with BO6 Grief as well. It wasn't something sustainable for the long run of the game.

Anyways, hope I'm wrong and we get at least something new with Kowakujo.

And with that I can now tailor Cursed as a more "Classic" mode. I'm gonna take a break now. Those last three attempts left me drained 😴