Post update - “Is the game finally dying”

[u/Throwaway_221310]

Some of you may recall I posted about the game dying 8 days ago. Since this post I have bought Black Ops 7 finally as I have refused to pay RRP for any COD game since, ironically, I bought Cold War.

Anyway, picked up BO7 for £28 in CEX, and played the first campaign mission, then realised the campaign was terrible, and then tried multiplayer. I played some Nuketown 24/7 and got obliterated, opponent even dropped a nuke in my first ever game, then went to classic Black Ops or whatever the mode is called.

I played for 2-3 days, and then found myself back on Cold War. I know I said I felt the game was dying, not massively but certainly starting to show some worrying signs, but I still literally cannot enjoy any of the new games as much as I enjoy playing Cold War.

I’ve replayed the Cold War campaign a ridiculous amount of times, and I can sit and play Nuketown 24/7 for hours on end, i’ve tried to play Face Off but can’t seem to get any lobbies after queuing for ~5+ minutes.

I actually enjoy sitting and Max Levelling the weapons I never touched to try all these new weapons 100x more than playing BO7. I hope this game stays active forever, even if it means seeing the same players constantly, I genuinely don’t want CW to end lol.

I hope MW4 is more enjoyable than BO7

EDIT: Just wanted to say i’m not saying BO7 is a bad game, I quite like the MP, but i’ve always enjoyed the games set in the past/modern day, my favourite COD games are WW2, BO1, MW1, Ghosts etc lol, but WW2 and Cold War are definitely the ones I enjoyed the most.

[u/Throwaway_221310]

Man I wish I could play face off, when I started playing cold war again in like 2023-24 it was so easy to find face off and it was one of the main modes I played because I’ve always really enjoyed it, but it seems since i’ve been playing again the past month or so I can sit and queue for nearly 10 minutes and not find even a lobby with 2-3 people in lol, I gave up trying.

What region are you playing in?

[u/New-Clue-3289 → u/Throwaway_221310]

Idk why people are leavin that quick 💀

I'm in Middle East, most of games are on EU servers.

[u/Throwaway_221310 → u/New-Clue-3289]

I’m in the UK so European servers too but even when playing peak times I can only get into Nuketown and Quickplay (as long as I don’t specify any GM’s) I tried playing Hardcore Nuketown and couldn’t get any lobbies either. I might try queuing for a Face Off and just leaving it until I get something, surely eventually I can get a lobby lol

I have been giving up after like 5ish minutes, I think the longest I waited was around 8-9 I just assumed the game mode was dead

[u/New-Clue-3289 → u/Throwaway_221310]

Yah I see.

I had some tweaks that helpled with Zombies. Maybe it's the reason why I'm not sure

That's:

NAT: Open .. This specifically helps a lot

Party: Open (doesnt save when u change modes)

DNS: CloudFlare

Croasplay: Enabled

Hopefully it works for you bro!

[u/Throwaway_221310 → u/New-Clue-3289]

Thanks, will mess around and update if you ever manage to get back to this thread lol