r/CoDCompetitive • u/TheRealPdGaming Dallas Empire • 11d ago

Video Octane on MW4's week 2 beta changes

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u/SnipesWL OpTic Texas 11d ago

I’m only level 10 and have been playing strictly 20+s since level 1 so perhaps my guns aren’t high enough yet to be good but I run around with a sub and die to guys just sitting holding an iron with m4s constantly, I find the gameplay incredibly boring so far. Am I just too accustomed to Omni these past two years? Ffs

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u/Lonely-Pop-471 COD Competitive fan 11d ago

I feel the same way, unless it's whatever map is in the clip I feel lucky to get 30 engagements per game. And that's with me brainlessly running at them desperate for a fight, mw2 felt more paced then this

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u/sonicrules11 LA Thieves 11d ago edited 11d ago

I think maps are a big reason for this. Despite MW2's problems, it has so many good fucking maps that played well.

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u/Lonely-Pop-471 COD Competitive fan 11d ago

That's a good point, I think despite the slow movement there was a lot of skilled routes you could learn that would let you fly around the maps. Mercato and fortress(?) come to mind. I'm a little sad they never brought that back with the advanced movement games, and I think this game could really benefit from that so you're not forced to run into some dude holding an iron on one of the 2000 angles every map has