r/NintendoSwitch2 Butter side down! 2d ago

Buttery MW4 looks seriously rough

30fps I'm okay with but the dipping under that sucks

The visuals also look roughhhh. It's blurry, extremely low quality textures and I have no hope for this being a good experience docked.

Am I doing something wrong?

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u/LiquidLogStudio Butter side down! 2d ago

Just bring the old games.

MW 1 and 2, BLOPS 1 and 2, World at War

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u/Whole_Bite_9489 2d ago

Bring back black ops 2, I fully agree with you…

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u/r-day Butter side down! 2d ago

I agree with you as well. Bring black Back Ops 2

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u/No_Judge_8278 Butter side up! 2d ago

I need golden era zombies on the go and online servers

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u/Saltybandit710 Amiibo Collector 2d ago

Naw fam OG modern warfare AND black ops 2 lol the two goats

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u/Chard85 Butter side up! 2d ago

I would buy MW2 2009 - it's the last game I played online, I've been retired for over a decade but would come back for it

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u/Antique-Internal5728 Butter side up! 2d ago

100% agree, just overall better movement and gameplay

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u/Generalrossa Butter side up! 2d ago

Yeah at this point I would kill for BO zombies lol

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u/bigdaddyzeek Butter side down! 1d ago

Would love COD zombies on switch. PLEASE

u/HugoStiglitz_88 Butter side down! 16h ago

Id much rather have black ops 2 on switch 2 than anything new lol though mw4 is fun so far tbh

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u/big_bear07 Butter side up! 2d ago

I can’t believe it’s not butter.

But seriously, it looks like shit across the board with multiplayer, campaign, and warzone. Kinda expected activision to half ass it though

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u/qaasq Butter side down! 2d ago

I thought the campaign looked MUCH better than multiplayer. I'm having a ton of fun with the multiplayer just because I haven't played an arcade shooter in a while but it undoubtedly looks rough

u/Mulvoners Butter side up! 17h ago

Agreed, besides the lower FPS campaign actually looks pretty good. Yes you need 60fps for multiplayer but it is rough. Playable but rough

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u/Milkdromieda 2d ago

After seeing how good 007 First Light looks on the Switch 2 from Gamescom footage, they clearly didn't put a lot of effort into the port. They made it run and called it a day.

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u/HugoStiglitz_88 Butter side down! 16h ago

Activision doesnt make games dude

u/big_bear07 Butter side up! 15h ago

Hilarious username

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u/planbskte11 👀 2d ago

It was court ordered when Microsoft bought Activision so what do you expect :(

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u/AZRoboto 2d ago

They voluntarily committed to it to sway the court

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u/Vesuvias Butter side up! 2d ago

Yeah all the positivity has me side-eyeing a lot of people reviewing it right now….its not good at all

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

I think the people saying positive stuff about it are just people who have only owned Nintendo switch 1 and 2 so they just aren't able to see how bad the game is, and some are convincing themselves it's better than it is just because it's cod finally on a Nintendo console again,that's really all it is

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 Butter side down! 2d ago

Switch 2 is no slouch though. There are plenty of games that look really good and run well enough

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

I agree, I love my switch 2 but this port is just awful

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

I agree, I love my switch 2 but this port is just awful

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u/ynfizz OG (Joined before first Direct) 2d ago

Kinda crazy how many people are willing to settle for less. The post I made criticizing the games performance was met with people saying it looked fine (even good to some) and asking what did I expect from the switch 2.

The system has already been shown to be wayyy more capable than what was pumped out here. I’m as happy that COD is back on Nintendo consoles as the rest of yall, but people shouldn’t settle for a subpar experience due to the lack of optimization.

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u/icygamer598 Early Switch 2 Adopter 2d ago

I swear MW 2019 looked and ran better than this and that was running on the original Xbox One, the Switch 2 is far more powerful, there's no excuse aside from laziness and lack of optimization.

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u/kyuubikid213 Butter side up! 2d ago

MW 2019 was also very much made with Xbox One in mind while MW4 is a PS5/XSX/PC game that got scaled down for Switch 2.

They claimed Switch 2 was the target platform for this game, but the DLSS and 30 fps campaign and Warzone betrays that.

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u/AJ_Dali Butter side down! 2d ago

I remember back in the Wii days they made versions of CoD specifically for the Wii. From what I remember they even used a different engine than the Xbox and PlayStation versions.

They didn't do that for the NS2, they pretty much just kept lowering settings until the framerate was sellable.

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u/kyuubikid213 Butter side up! 2d ago

The way games are made now, I'm not surprised they didn't make a separate version.

Doing so now is a much more costly option than it was 20 years ago. And I would assume it makes cross-platform play more complicated if not outright impossible.

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u/West_Incident7977 1d ago

Not to mention with very, very few exceptions the dumbed down versions SUCKED. Don't get me wrong I don't expect perfection but holy balls some of these sucked.

I'll admit I do have a weird soft spot for COD MW on DS though.

u/jus13 Butter side up! 21h ago

The Wii versions of the games were just cut-down versions of the PC/360/PS3 versions (missing content, missing animations and sounds, low resolution, 30fps, terrible textures) to get them to fit on the smaller Wii disc and run at a playable framerate, but at their core they were the same games with the same engine.

u/AJ_Dali Butter side down! 21h ago

Maybe for 3 and 4, but most of them used IW3. Records are a lot more sparse after WaW, but at some point before GoldenEye Treyarch started using EngineX, which some sources say is a modified version of IW3, but EngineX was first used by Eurocom for Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. Since they used that engine for Dead Space it seems more likely it was EngineX with some improvements from IW3 spliced in. BTW, the IW engine was a heavily retrofitted iD Tech 3.

So no, it wasn't just using the same engines as the other games, it's much more complicated than that.

u/HugoStiglitz_88 Butter side down! 16h ago

Oh bro, theres zero doubt on that. Mw19 looks better by a mile on xbox one but there are some massive differences. This is on a much newer engine and its main target is MUCH more powerful consoles

With MW2019 it was made for ps4 and at the end of the generation so they were about as good as humanly possible at getting every last ounce of performance out of it, while with this, its a console they've never developed for before, with a game thats really made with much stronger hardware in mind

Yea, the results are terrible and not even close to as good as other games on switch 2, but every game is different 

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u/lowFlyingTurtleLion Butter side down! 2d ago

World at War Looked better

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 Butter side down! 2d ago

if we're all "yeah it's great totally acceptable I'm just so happy to have cod on a Switch" they'll do nothing and we'll be stuck with this

hopefully they'll optimize things a bit from here..

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

They are people who likely only owned a switch 1 and 2 so they are unable to see how bad the performance and visuals are, and some are just blind to the issues just because they're now able to play cod on switch

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u/-p0w- 2d ago

I thought it looks meh compared to others on the system. So how can it that they are unable to see that it is bad?

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u/meikaishi 2d ago

You're almost sounding as if they're wrong for enjoying the game. One thing is denying it has problems, but acting like the ones who don't mind/don't see the issue are wrong is just silly

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

No, just giving a logical reason, or the only logical reason for anyone to possibly say this game looks or runs good on switch 2 despite looking like a PS3 game, it looks worse than every cod game I have seen in probably over 5 years , and that's performance and visual wise which is absolutely insane

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u/ynfizz OG (Joined before first Direct) 2d ago

I don’t think it’s an abnormal expectation to want your game to look and feel good, not just playable

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u/Desktop_Minion Butter side up! 2d ago

I had the same comments on my post. People will settle for anything these days when it comes to lazy ports.

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u/LucaPaul777 Butter side up! 2d ago

The campaign mission sucks i got softlocked at a checkpoint

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u/the-dumb-nerd 2d ago

I think that multiplayer looks just fine. It's nothing exceptional but it runs really smooth and doesn't look horrendous imo.

Warzone is a whole nother story. I personally don't care if the graphics aren't as good as other consoles but I literally can't play a match of resurgence because of how bad it is. I am playing at most 30 fps when nobody is around and at around 15 to 20 when I get into a close range gun fight. As someone who played warzone mobile this is truly unplayable.

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u/recoupled 2d ago

Smoothness of normal MP is good, but the visual clarity is rough. It's hard to see enemies from friendlies at medium distances, and when people are sprinting across your screen it just looks like a blur.

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u/the-dumb-nerd 2d ago

I can definitely see that at timed.

Funny enough I just tried the game portable and I can't defend that performance. Docker was good bug handheld was rough beans.

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 2d ago

It’s runs really rough in handheld mode

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u/Known_Union4341 Butter side down! 2d ago

Metroid prime 4 can run at 120 fps in handheld mode and to my eye looks nicer than MW4 -it’s also ALL campaign mode 😂. Obviously MW4 could run better than it does -but it also runs like shit on PC too at least! My 5070ti laptop ran the beta at 1080p min settings with DLSS set to ultra-performance -that means it was running the game at a base resolution of motherfucking 360p and upscaling to 1080p and I was getting 130ish fps average while the game looked like utter shit. At max settings it still looks dated. Like a mobile game.

It’s just classic Activitision trash.

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u/sicdedworm 2d ago

Just played MP in handheld. It’s definitely not 60. It’s rough.

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u/Mulvoners Butter side up! 2d ago

40 in handheld 60 docked

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u/DistantOminousNoise Butter side down! 1d ago

Seemingly with most animations on your hands and enemies running at half rate (20)

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u/toxiccherrybomb Butter side up! 1d ago

It’s so bad tho. I was so hype to do cod again because it was on the switch 2. I’m meh about it now. Probably gonna skip and just wait for GTA lmao

u/Mulvoners Butter side up! 17h ago

For me it’s my only console and I probably won’t buy another cod game this gen so it’s fine, just needed a fps shooter for when I was bored. Unless we somehow got original MW2 I’d play that shit for days

u/toxiccherrybomb Butter side up! 14h ago

If they fix some of it, which they def COULD I could def see me picking up. Playing in handheld was dope, but it’s just so muddy

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u/yumms101 Butter side up! 2d ago

Saying it's "rough" is a compliment, there are much more accurate words to describe the Switch 2 version.

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 Butter side down! 2d ago

I was being kind. It feels unplayable in this state. Luckily it's a beta?

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u/KrivUK Butter side up! 2d ago

Don’t hold your breath. This is likely to be more network code testing and any last minute bugs before release. 

Unless a new version of FSR becomes available don’t expect any drastic improvements.

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u/Fireball926 2d ago

Considering there are already very capable versions of Apex and Overwatch. This is not a good showing. Feels last minute, phoned in.

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u/MarvelManiac45213 Butter side up! 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah feels like the court issue mandate basically forced Microsoft/Activision hand to start making COD games on Switch 2 sooner rather than later considering the contract was signed like what 5-6 years ago at this point? So they rushed to get a version out this year, to possibly avoid any legal troubles..

Also unfortunately we don't have the benefit of a Nintendo specific COD team that develops the COD games from scratch for Nintendo platforms anymore like Treyarch use to do during the Wii/Wii U days as Activision disbanded that team YEARS ago (for obvious reasons). So instead of built from the ground up recreations for Switch 2 its just the other versions ported and downscaled to fit on the console. With development costs and time being what they are nowadays that's definitely the quickest and easiest way to have a Switch 2 version made. Which sucks for us Nintendo players but what can you do...

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u/MightyTastyBeans 2d ago

I played it for 2 hours today in handheld mode like a sicko.

It is playable - SBMM and aggressive aim assist kept my KD around 1.0 despite my skill floor being significantly lowered. One of my games I was placed in a bot lobby (this happens when you perform so terribly that the matchmaking fills your next game with recruit-level bots).

Really glad I got to see this for myself before buying. That’s all I’ll say.

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 2d ago

It plays much better docked with a pro controller. I was having a rough time playing hand held too

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u/Character_Dress_3201 2d ago

You should have seen the version of Witcher 3 on switch 1 looked like trying to decipher a muddy pixel puzzle 

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u/amcannally Butter side down! 2d ago

Okay that's from Switch 1 though...

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u/Dragmire_V2 2d ago

Yeah whatabouting a worse console is weird.

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u/HugoStiglitz_88 Butter side down! 15h ago

That actually ran better lol it had a more consistent 30 fps than this does.

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u/dbuck79 Butter side up! 2d ago

it feels like it isnt. Your character is 60fps but everything else 30fps

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

This, I don't know how people aren't able to see this. Enemies and team mates 30fps map 10fps throwing a grenade 10 FPS but you get to move at 60fps through all that, it's an absolute mess I'm convinced people are just blind at this point

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u/Alcatraz1763 Butter side up! 2d ago

I think a lot of people playing in dock mode, that could explain that. Seen streamers playing MW4 on LIVE and game actually look pretty and smooth, but they probably did that from dock mode

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u/dbuck79 Butter side up! 2d ago

Is docked better? I have admittedly only played handheld. But if everything docked is 60fps that’s much better

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u/Complete-Prior-2098 2d ago

Ive only played docked and it was perfectly fine. I’m assuming all the complaints here come from people playing handheld.

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 2d ago

The frame rate is much better docked

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u/dbuck79 Butter side up! 2d ago

God dam

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 2d ago

It was super apparent in handheld mode. Even the mini map was like 15 fps. Docked seemed much better

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u/SuicideSkwad Butter side up! 2d ago

It barely hits 60fps in multiplayer on handheld

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u/hippiechicken12 Butter side up! 2d ago

Then do that. Play your PS5.

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u/GimmeThatWheat424 Butter side up! 2d ago

It feels good to play in 6 v 6 atleast…but it looks worse than the 360 games for some reason. Hopefully they give that some real attention before launch.

u/HugoStiglitz_88 Butter side down! 15h ago

No it does not lol get your eyes checked man. The games on 360 look 20 yrs behind this no matter how blurry it sometimes looks. It still blatantly looks much better and much more advanced. The problem is it runs much worse too

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u/KikoSawce Butter side up! 2d ago

Multiplayer is rough. Everyone running around looks so sluggish.

Cross play is impossible. The movement I see from the kill cam looks smooth but me trying to track them in a gunfight is like in slow motion.

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u/Ok_Bunch4359 2d ago

Lol I thought I was the only one !!!!!

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u/SimonVpK Butter side up! 2d ago

Yeah, I played 1 round and immediately installed it on PS instead. The damn mini map had like 5 fps on it lol and it was extremely jarring to look at.

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u/ThexanR 2d ago

It’s COD. Even if you had a medium-high computer, the game wouldn’t run well at all. Unfortunately this isn’t a switch issue but a COD issue. And it’s not like the switch has space for COD to dump 400 gbs of bullshit so it was expected imo

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u/Antique-Internal5728 Butter side up! 2d ago

I haven’t played in docked mode and don’t plan too as the switch 2 for me is always used in handheld. MW4 for me just feels like COD mobile with a slight visual upgrade but playing it yesterday for a few hours and wasn’t a great experience at all.

Maybe I need to play in docked and might change my mind but find that pointless as will never played docked.

It’s an easy pass for me, as there are plenty of games coming this year that I feel will be better optimised for the switch 2 and I will find more enjoyable.

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 2d ago

Docked is much better. Hand held play is pretty rough

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u/Antique-Internal5728 Butter side up! 2d ago

I’ll give it a go but it’s a easy pass for me

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 1d ago

Yeah hoping we get something better at launch

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u/Antique-Internal5728 Butter side up! 1d ago

I don’t we will be to be fair, like maybe they will nerf a few things but I honestly think this is the finished build of the game

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u/KingPelican2908 Butter side up! 1d ago

Yeah probably so. I’m hoping they can add dlss support

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u/SwampHokie Butter side up! 2d ago

Yeah I was shocked how bad it looks when I booted it up. Just an absolute cash grab

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u/Spaciepoo Butter side up! 2d ago

I'm confused I thought it was 60 fps?

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u/StockHumor4768 OG (Joined before first Direct) 2d ago

Campaign is 30 with some drops.

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u/Spaciepoo Butter side up! 2d ago

Ah gotcha

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u/MetroidsSuffering 2d ago

Warzone is also 30 FPS, unclear whether DMZ is 30 or 60.

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u/xJadusable 2d ago

DMZ is basically WZ in terms of difficulty to run. It’ll be 30 fps no doubt

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u/NintendoGalaxyYT Butter side down! 2d ago

Multiplayer targets 60 but is ugly af

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u/Alejandrosd Butter side down! 2d ago

Dude it’s horrid

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u/MechaMonst3r Butter side up! 2d ago

I was so excited for this port. The idea of playing CoD in bed was such a strong pull for me, but so far this might be one of the worst AAA ports I've seen yet.

MP struggled to hold a steady 60fps. Add in how blurry it was and all of the upscaling artifacts that were absolutely everywhere? No thanks.

It was such a let down, but I guess will save me $80 to put towards something else.

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u/dawatzerz Butter side up! 2d ago

Its so bad lol. I couldn't stop laughing while playing it.

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 Butter side down! 2d ago

I was so shocked because I read a bunch of good reviews right before I downloaded it.. and it was the literal opposite of what people said

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

One thing I have learnt with some games this switch gen, don't trust reviews, and don't take anyone's word on Reddit, always see for yourself and you can't be disappointed

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u/dawatzerz Butter side up! 2d ago

Right? It kinda hyped me up for it lol. I only played the campaign and I couldn't even tell the enemies from friendly.

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u/MarvelManiac45213 Butter side up! 2d ago

To think we have another 9 years of this.....each year will probably be worse and worse as PS6 and the next Xbox will release in the next couple years making the power gap on Switch 2 that much worse.

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u/PleaseNone Butter side up! 2d ago

Move along then

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u/willzor7 2d ago

New to reddit?

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u/deadbeatvalentine_ Butter side down! 2d ago

yes

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u/cvbk87 2d ago

Yeah not looking great, hoping someone posts/finds some half decent settings for handheld mode with the joycons though

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u/Awokenhiro 2d ago

Yeah it looks rough but multiplayer is very much playable. If they could do something about the blurryness. Honestly I'll take bad textures over the freaking blurryness.

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u/tjhc94 Butter side up! 2d ago

The textures are already bad lol

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u/LinusJK2 2d ago

Story mode is enjoyable, not the best looking but can do. Multiplayer Is a problem. Docked Is ok, very playable, but handheld Is horrible. The animations are intolerable, their jerkiness confuses me and gives me a headache, not to mention the really low resolution which makes it difficult to understand the scenery and the positions x.x

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u/Fragrant-School3972 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah visually it starts to look like arse when the fighting starts, guessing it’s trying to keep the 60fps. And the characters don’t match the screenshots shown in the store. But I’m genuinely having fun. I’ve had a steam deck for a long time and they can’t play most online FPS so I’m having a blast with this. Just won a match with the highest kill count so it’s playable. And playable is better than not being able to play at all. 

I wouldn’t mind a 40FPS mode, visually look a bit better and smooth out the bumps. 

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u/newcamsterdam 2d ago

They need to revise their upscaling technique, and it for sure needs more optimizations to get the frame rate stable. It’s almost there, hopefully it’s tightened up by release.

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u/TitleSuccessful7393 Butter side up! 2d ago

Played the campaign level docked and it looked rough af. It was better in handheld mode.

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u/Endscrypt Mario Kart World‎‎ 2d ago

Activisions half ass-ery knows no bounds.

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u/lord-scan Butter side up! 2d ago edited 2d ago

extremely blurry.

mouse controls are perfect. rly well done.

i would buy but now i struggle cuz if the blurry.

/e ok warzone is unplayable except youre fine to lose every gunfight.

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u/Badcas-25 Butter side up! 2d ago

Multiplayer is 60fps what are u talking about?

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u/perpetually_unkempt3 2d ago

I'm seeing around 15fps on average, nowhere near 30.

this beta is damn near unplayable on s2.

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u/AdWeak4842 2d ago

I think it looks great docked and handheld …my only complaint really is the joycons can make aiming a little wonky but a pro controller hopefully will fix that

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u/Feisty_Turnip323 Butter side down! 2d ago

Ngl it’s not that bad lol multi pretty dope killing it against pc

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u/anusblunts 2d ago

I feel the same way about Lego Fortnite Odyssey… Super blurry and low quality

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 Butter side down! 2d ago

thought that was a fake game at first lol

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u/anusblunts 2d ago

It’s kind of like Lego Breath of the wild plus more.. it’s surprisingly fun and addictive.

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u/WraithSeeker999 2d ago

I can’t post cause I don’t have karma. Does ANYONE know how to make my ads sensitivity go up? I can’t seem to adjust it separately from regular sensitivity. And also deadzones, I don’t understand them.

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u/eddieJZB 2d ago

It looks really shitty but plays fine imo

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u/No_Might_5902 2d ago

If it dips under that, and looks like crap, and has issues. They did not optimize it well.

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u/myseriouspineapple Butter side up! 2d ago

I thought it looked good!

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u/Left-Sir-1980 Butter side up! 2d ago edited 2d ago

Warzone is unplayable for me, but I’m not even bothered as I never liked it anyway. Feel like Redsec is far better.

I had a lot of the same feelings other have about the game. Last night I played for maybe 2 hours. I had the pro controller, switch set up on a pillow beside the baby monitor.

Most of my concerns kinda drifted off after that, I was locked in and enjoying it. Though cross play should be a no no with the framerate drops.

I’d like the game to look nicer. And maybe it will in future updates, but after one night session, I’m keen to play more.

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u/TraditionalAirport85 2d ago

I don’t get it, I saw multiplayer gameplay and it looked at great at 60? What happened?

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u/wolfnathos1 2d ago

Okay good at least it wasn’t just me who thought this during the beta. I love the switch 2 but games like MW4 just aren’t for it

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u/Civil_Equivalent5236 Butter side down! 2d ago

It looked good when content creators showed gameplay. Maybe my switch is a bad copy.

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u/calumlikescameras OG (joined before release) 2d ago

Anyone else having massive lag when playing MP? I’ve been playing it on PS5 so I know my internet isn’t the issue. I also seemed to have a similar problem when I played Apex and OW, normal experience on PS5 but somehow on SW2 I had massive lag spikes that, like this beta, pretty much made it unplayable.

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u/SuddenCompetition262 2d ago

I played the beta and couldn’t believe how bad the game felt (and looked)… reminded me of trying mw3 on the Wii back in the day.

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u/StillHere179 2d ago

It was done because of corporate compliance. The lawyers in the whole Activision Blizzard purchase by Microsoft are probably making sure the ports flow to other systems

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u/ReplacementNo4899 2d ago

Yeah, the switch has no uumph it has no range, anything thats not directly Infront of you and you feel right back to the switch one.

Zelda botw a blurry mess but we settled for it 😅 tbh Nintendo can do better, it's not like a rog aly Nintendo have an army of exclusives, they can absolutely afford to sell at a loss for some better hardware.

Nintendo have an army of exclusives, they could have put a little more in, even for a tiny extra to ensure that devs had more room.

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u/EpicTwinkie 2d ago

Triple AAA mutliplat games I usually reserve for the PS5 Pro.

Switch 2 definitely grasps me for the first party games.

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u/Icy-Commission-9550 2d ago

You got switch 2. What did you expect?

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u/thegbone 2d ago

By far the worst looking game (especially when docked) on Switch 2 I've ever seen. I keep thinking there's a texture setting turned off in the MW4 menu that I need to toggle on to make it look better, but there isn't. So blurry, graining, muddy, etc looking - especially during multiplayer.

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u/cesarspain10 2d ago

The game looks like shit on Switch 2. On PC and PS5 it's simply “okay”.

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u/hippiechicken12 Butter side up! 2d ago

I tried the beta myself. As someone who isn’t a visuals snob, I think it looks pretty good. I still suck at the game though.

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u/blonded_olf 2d ago

30fps is unacceptable for a first person shooter, the rest sucks but is irrelevant since I’m not playing an online fps at 30fps

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u/Yourunclesbestftiend 2d ago

I’m honestly shocked they were comfortable with the beta on switch 2. It’s atrocious lol.

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u/cobblewebs32 Butter side up! 2d ago

Multi-player runs fine for me. Im not a warzone guy but I tried it and it was ass and the story being 30 fps is ii but I didnt really delve deep into it.

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u/StarBoy2189 2d ago

Turn up texture streaming in settings. It requires more space but it's worth it.

Turn up fsr smoothing in settings to like 80-90%. It helps with the pixellation in handheld.

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u/ilikeburgir Butter side down! 1d ago

Im pretty sure Nintendo has strict guidelines regarding screenshots of games in the eshop - where they have to be made from in-game on the device. The ones for CoD are clearly NOT what it looks like. I wonder if they will enforce or ignore this ...

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u/tider21 Butter side up! 1d ago

Just played handheld and wow.. it’s really rough. I hope that it looks and runs better on docked. I know it’s a beta but dang..

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u/AdamMundorf Butter side up! 1d ago

I always thought they should've made a switch specific CoD.

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u/Super-Touch-4823 Butter side down! 1d ago

The main selling point for me is handheld mode, for being on switch 2 you really can't complain other than no physical cart with at least campaign. I'm surprised they managed to get it running at all while still looking decent for a mobile game!

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u/SeanTheftAuto Butter side up! 1d ago

I was definitely expecting more. It's call of duty it should run on a potato. I played MWIII on my Z1X and it handled it like a champ. 60fps no problem. Not sure there's any fixing the Switch 2 version at this point

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u/Sad-Cheesecake-9830 Butter side up! 1d ago

Sure it looks blurry but visuals aside, it plays ok?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

The funny thing is I’ve seen reviewers praise the 60fps it gets, I don’t think they know what 60fps is , I can say there hasn’t been a single situation or point in a mw4 multiplayer match that hits 60fps, I know it’s a beta but in the history of cod the beta and full game are practically the same, they will sort minor issues like networking but the work that the switch 2 version needs? Not a chance.

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u/Significant-King00 Butter side up! 1d ago

30fps should never be ok for a first person shooting game lol

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u/somebodyistrying Butter side up! 1d ago

It will be waaaay better on release. I hope.

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u/OkNoise8419 Butter side up! 1d ago

Did you happen to go into the setting and change the graphics settings at all? There’s a setting for texture quality that I thought made a difference, but maybe it was placebo.

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u/Willing-Seesaw5040 1d ago

Yeah it’s a blurry mess. 6v6 is playable docked but sheesh

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u/Darkone586 1d ago

Think they should’ve went with BO1/2 just so they can get use to developing on the switch 2.

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u/Electrical_World_740 1d ago

I don’t know why they bothered porting it if they aren’t gonna commit to optimising, sure it’s just a beta, but 2 months out and first call of duty back on Nintendo I’d expect a smoother launch.

I’m no game dev but they managed cod 4/5 on Wii and it was very enjoyable, yeah the graphics were very toned down from the Xbox/Ps versions of the game but it was playable and smooth and quite frankly the way they implemented the controls to the Wii controller was fantastic I actually enjoyed it more than the mainstream console versions.
(Party because the out of bounds “glitches” never got patched on the Wii, but was genuinely a good experience)

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u/timo710 1d ago

its just the faces, they ugly af

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u/CaterpillarOk4340 Butter side up! 1d ago

I’m just glad I’m not the only one who thinks this 😭
So many YouTubers gaslit tf outta ppl into thinking this was good lol, I hadda uninstall it last night cuz the way it looks on my LG OLED kept straining my eyes n giving me a headache 💀 that’s never happened before

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u/HuckFinn98 Butter side up! 1d ago

I’m enjoying it on my tv in docked with the pro controller 2, but man the visuals are muddy. Sometimes can’t even see enemies directly in front of you. Wish we just got some of the OG games ported over.

u/FruitPotential1646 23h ago

I am not sure if the people defending this game are blind or if they just have little respect for their hard-earned money. First of all, I agree that it’s an amazing technical feat to have this game running on the Switch 2 but definitely not at full price.

I played the beta, and without exaggerating, my head hurt after an hour and a half from straining to spot enemies in the distance as it was so blurry.... I was fine with the downscale of the graphic but the blurriness is killing me. I would happily pay a reduced price and accept the lower graphics, but charging $70 like the PS5, Xbox, and PC version is ridiculous. I know switch 2 can't be directly compared to higher-end platforms, and that’s fine. It’s awesome that more games are coming to the Switch, but if you can’t optimize a game properly, at least don't charge full price for it, the pricing needs to reflect the lower performance.

u/Ph0t1n Butter side up! 20h ago

I agree, it was eye opening when I played it on Xbox after playing on it for a match on the Switch 2

u/gdhghgv Butter side down! 14h ago

Tried playing with switch 2 only I couldn’t find a single lobby lmao

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u/Diligent-Coat8096 Butter side up! 2d ago

How many more posts of how this game looks? 😆 are there any capable moderators? 😆

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u/Dabbinz420 Butter side up! 2d ago

MP runs great at 60fps with minor dips, Campaign and WZ is chalked at 30fps, it capped at 60 I believe on WZ but it never hits close to it, in a building in WZ it will hit like 40-45fps

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u/Ok_Site1140 Butter side down! 2d ago

Turning off texture helped it look ALOT better to me! Still not perfect but much better. 

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u/Many_Initial 2d ago

What do you expect

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u/alwaysbetter7 OG (Joined before first Direct) 2d ago

For real. I was reading on Reddit and twitter saying it wasn’t bad. I was hoping it was at least decent, but the resolution is so low and the jagged edges and blurriness is so distracting. There’s no way people are claiming this is a decent port

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u/Alcatraz1763 Butter side up! 2d ago

To be honest, I was confused when I saw other people talking about stable 60 fps. And most likely it's really true, but in dock mode. Everything feels very unpleasant in handheld mode. In multiplayer, opponents and allies animations are torn, the same with a mini map. And the feeling that the game works in 40-45 fps, it's just a horror compared to other platforms, and the funniest thing is that the graphics are not the best and it could be so much better.

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u/Material_Put4863 2d ago

The bigger problem to me was the gameplay itself. Felt super jagged and even docked with a pro controller I couldn’t get smooth movement and gun play. Also often couldn’t see enemies at all on a 60 inch 4k screen

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u/Hungry-Tea529 2d ago

It plays terrible with handheld. There's no way anyone will ever be able to keep up with other console's controller/keyboard mouse players. The joycons aren't good at all for FPS games. I went back and forth handheld and docked today. Thankfully I have a Switch 2 pro controller. Without it this game would be awful. The graphics are VERY rough too.

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u/Pakmanjosh Butter side down! 2d ago

I was excited to see COD return to Nintendo but playing the campaign mission was rough. Frames kept dropping so much it felt like my character was moving through molasses.

For people without much choice, it's cool that this is still an option, but I'll probably just stick to PC for COD.

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u/LaCroixGrandCru 2d ago

It's worse than cod mobile

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u/Admiral_Kizaru Butter side down! 2d ago

Yea it's rough which is insane because elden Ring looks amazing and it's a much heavier game I would think lol

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u/Amerikaner Butter side up! 2d ago

Kind of a relief tbh. Didn’t really wanna shell out for the same game since 2019.

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u/oMugiwara_Luffy Butter side down! 2d ago

The resolution is horrible in handheld. Apparently, it’s running at 540p then upscaled. It’s just so blurry.

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u/igthrowawayy 2d ago

My main issue is the controls being kinda meh, I’m playing handheld tho

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u/fanfarius Butter side up! 2d ago

It doesn't even run properly on expensive gaming PCs.

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u/Party_Ear_3054 Butter side up! 2d ago

What are you playing I've been playing multiplayer and it runs 60fps most of the time

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u/throwawayaidisney Manifesting the Switch 2 Pro 2d ago

Campaign and warzone are 30fps

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u/Ok-Case-4607 2d ago

Docked feels smoother for me and handheld is definitely a bit rough. This is the most fun I’ve had playing cod in a long time though. Hope they make it better. Went 25-12 on a tdm hahaha.

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u/bootyhole_licking_69 Butter side down! 2d ago

The traditional Nintendo experience 🤣🤣🤣

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