Anyone getting BO3?....BLACK OPS 3 NEWS 11/06

Swain....I just signed in for the first time in like six months.



I'll say this. I haven't played any CoD in like seven months, ...didn't play the BO3 beta. AW just burned me out. But not so much AW, but the whole clan war process. How BeachHead royally fvcked over all the clans that were playing last spring. Clans that had put in the time and effort, got completely shafted when the Beachhead made the sudden announcement they were going to cancel Clan Wars, do a reboot, and force everyone to start over from square one. Fuck Beachhead. Fuck AW. Fuck the game, is exactly how I thought.

I pretty much gave up on CoD.

So last night, I said screw it and did get the $99 digital bundle. To show how much I was into playing it, I fell asleep at 11:30 and never bothered to open it. Oh well. I did get this morning for work at 5:30am, and thought I would sign on for 15 minutes just to check out graphics, maybe play a bot game. So I did. Tried a bot 6v6 Dom match, on the hardest bot settings, on the woods map (big trees). I just picked an AR and some items on the pick 10 list. Gave it go.

Four hours later, I was still playing the same mode and map. Wow.

I got to say this. I really liked how this game plays. Everything, and I do mean everything, just felt unbelievable dialed in. It's everything AW isn't, which is great news. This is the Anti-AW. If someone hated AW and everything it represented, this new BO3 may give you hope that CoD is back.

From what I saw, just playing the bot mode, everything felt great. Movement is spot on. Exos accent movement, but don't overwhelm like AW did. Wall running is fun, but not OP, it's a nice subtle addition. TitanFall light, which is perfect. The game doesn't play like a bunch of Mexican jumping beans. Everything with movement felt great: Sprint, movement wobble, mantling, all dialed in perfectly. Not one bad thing. Subdued (compared to AW), but played fast.

The one map I played, it also felt very right. It was nice size. Not to big, not to small. It was the old Treyarch three lanes concept, so lots of control points, but plenty of flanking if needed. It was fucking great to be playing CoD again INSIDE a map, USING the map, rather than flying all over above the map, rendering it meaningless, like how AW did. Fuck AW. This one BO3 felt perfect, with the bots, and how Dom played. Wonderful angles and points.

Guns felt nice. The amount of damage to kill someone, felt perfect, right in the middle. Not to fast, maybe even a bit on the slow times to kill. That's ok. Killstreaks seemed in line so far, with what I've seen. Pick 10 was nice, and felt easy to use.

I'll end with this. Not having played CoD in ages, part of me wanted this to suck, so I could just be done with this game. AW really left a sour taste in my mouth. That bad. Unfortunately for the above hating, I couldn't find a single negative thing to say about BO3 in the little I played this morning. It actually has me getting my hopes up here. This really feels like CoD. The game I used to like. And love. It felt fucking awesome. I actually WANT to get back on and start playing. Exploring maps, guns, and all the other fun details.

I hope it stays this way, once I move to MP in a few days.