Recent reviews by Artifice_Fox

I sat here in silence for about 15 minutes before shedding a single tear of heartbreak, and then uninstalled this game for the first and the last time. Goodbye to one of my favorite games. I hope they get it together, but I'm not holding my breath. It was a fun ride, and I'll miss the community, but we as gamers and as consumers have a choice. A choice to stop the flow of funding and make the changes we want with our wallets. I loved this community. From the players in chat to the youtubers that provide endless help to us all. Goodbye everyone.

TLDR: Multiplayer is 5/10 frustrating

This is a review for the multiplayer. Being a long time fan of the series there have been good and bad games. Honestly treyarch wins the prize from me each time. Black Ops 3, despite the goofy outfits and dancing, is the best so far. Infinite Warfare is abysmal from the first match i played. Here's a list of all the things that got me so tilted that i had to write this review. Keep in mind i spend the majority of time in FFA.

-The spawns... holy god, the spawn points are so bad. Easily predictable to the point of them being overly exploited. I'm finding that on smaller maps 80% of the spawns are in view of other players or very near. Sometimes i actually spawned in front of enemy fire. And I found a spot where you can literally stand and aim at the spawn to farm kills.

-The hit recognition is unbelievable at times. Especially the beginning of the map. The game starts and it isnt finished loading even on my SSD. So any players you see just drop the frames and your shots seem to always miss or you die immediately with no feedback from the game.

-The movement. You have boosters and sliding like BO3 but you cant slide off of ledges which imo is a terrible flaw. Half the time i just crouch in the open and get mutilated anyway. The boost jump is useless bc many ledges you need a fi=ull charge to reach so you get stuck when trying to make fast plays. Lastly is the wallrunning... idk how many times i just fell because the game didnt stick me to a wall. The movementis not fluid at all. No smooth transitions from sliding etc. and it just feels clumsy. The gameplay relies heavily on harscoping corners and using faulty spawns to your advantage. Also it seems that controller users are at a huge disadvantage as well. The aiming seems so sloppy and the aim assist with controllers just pushes the sights away from targets at times.

-The community is a barren wasteland. I heard there were 3k players on launch... And why no cross-platform? I can barely find a match in any game mode but TDM, FFA, and DOM. Another huge peeve of mine is why in the world there is no lobby chat?? Seriously. I cant understand it. Even in the COD4 remaster there isnt lobby chat. The menus are clumsy, and hard to look at. There are no leaderboards atm and personalization is so bad. There are so many little things that make navigating the menues so annoying. Its not pretty, it seems like the UI is 6 years old. I hate that the playable characters are all robots, they have absolutely no personality whatsoever. They arent fun at all.

To wrap it up, its pay to win. I played a guy who had the quartermaster epic smg on day one and he was unstoppable. Not to mention there's no anticheat either so there were hackers already. The crates take like 4 hours to even get one. I hate activisions marketing strategy. They're the EA games of shooters and should be ashamed. I'm tired of that. So basically dont get this if you want to keep from having an aneurysm and smashing your controller bc you got spawn killed 13 times in a row. Just ...dont. UGH!!

P.s. I have a 3.0 K/D in Black Ops 3 FFA so dont give me that BS about im a scrub. I'm just so disappointed in this one guys.. Its just so flawed.

Oh the campaign.. yeah winter is coming. It's another hold your hand, bad characters, door to door boring AF story. Im sure theres a twist at the end and one of the people die but I'll never get that far.