Agree with everything said above. This game is a pile of dog sheet.
I generally dont complain when something is beeing copied with improvements over the copied product. This however is like 2 steps backwards compared to BO3. It feels like all the advanced movements they took from bo3 are pointless in this game for the majority of time, except to create more cluster-F* so that you can get killed more by ppl jump over your "screen" due to the abysmal FOV.
You all remember the AW map Solar, where you get killed every 5 seconds from all possible directions and angles. IW feels like you play Solar on every single map thats in the game.
The specialists this time are even more OP, its like a guaranteed 2-3 kills on average, esp. with that Robot Dual guns, that Claw rapid fire ricochet weapon and the Gangster Pistol. If you run into ppl with a specialist weapon in close fights, youll get wrecked no matter if you shoot faster, aim better etc.
On top of that, they have increased the earn rate of the specialists, now you can get like 3 times the specialist reward per match, whereas in BO3 it was significantly less.
You could tell that in BO3 they tweaked the specialist rewards so that it doesnt get spammed too much and that it requiers at least a little skill to own with it. Now you just spray and pray and destroy everyone.
Sniper rifles are dumb easy to use and OP again..
Overall this game is a huge messy chaotic cluster-F*, with emphasis on Weapon Variants and with emphasis on giving bad players some participation Medals/participation Rewards. Its like whiteboy7thstr pointed out- back in BO2 you needed to get a killstreak of 5-6 kills to get a war machine, now you get it for free, just for beeing in the game. Except that in BO3 you could counter most of the BS gimmicks, in IW its way out of hand.
Look at all those gimmicky BS participation medals in IW. You get gangster pistols, ricochet guns and akimbo smgs that wreck everything in close range.
Ive said it elsewhere already- the COD is going in a direction, that if you have 2 brain cells, you can pick up this game and do good in it more or less. Get a couple of free kills here, get a couple of free kills there, buy some supply drops, get a stronger weapon that compensates for the lack of skill- and feel like youre a bad @#$%.
Thats it, these devs try to create the game in the way that makes every bad player feel like a bad @#$%, so that they feel good about themselves and drop more money on supply drops.
And yeah dont get me started on graphics, sounds and movement mechanics. Compared to BO3 it feels like they we went 2 years backwards with the advancement of the game.
Its as you guys said- the game has no soul, no identity. Its a boring mess of a cluster-F, that is designed to play and feel like every map is either Nuketown or Solar in IW- you get shot from 500 different angles and directions. Its a butchered version of BO3, IW and Ghosts.
The perks hardly make any difference, it really doesnt matter what perks you use- theres barely a situation they will really make a difference for you, given that most of the time you get killed from a direction you are not even facing or by some OP bullsheet, that you cant possibly avoid no matter what perks or skill you have.
I actually went back and played BO3 after the IW session. And wow- the difference is huge. It makes you appreciate BO3 way more and as I said before- when the connection is good, BO3 is a good COD thats fun to play. SIMPLY everything in BO3 is better- the UI, the movement mechanics actually work and make sense, the sounds are better, the specialists are better, the maps are better- just EVERYTHING.
Ppl made fun that IW is going to be the next DLC for BO3, in reality BO3 is like 5x more advanced than IW, its the other way around.
I could write another 2/3 pages about how bad IW is, esp. compared to BO3, but I think anyone who played BO3 and has a little common sense, can see it themselves.
