Zombies mode is so damn PERFECT

[Ace]

I know it's the "cool" thing to just always treat CoD like it never does anything right, and I absolutely have my gripes with activision....but the new take on zombies, mixing the open-world nature of Cold war's zombies with the looting system of DMZ? I think it's one of the best directions they could have taken it, and I have to give credit where credit is due. If you like zombies, and always wished you could get away from the stagnant grime of being stuck in a tiny box running in circles for an hour defending against waves, this is a GREAT change of pace.

Again, I know I'll probably get dumped on because "HE SAID SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT COD, KILL HIM BEFORE HE TALKS MORE!" but I just had to throw it out there for people on the fence. YES, servers are a bit crammed at the moment and there's some occasional lag spikes, but in the hours I've been playing today, I haven't seen anything that broke that deal for me. I was waiting on MW3 with trepidation, fear even. I thought "if they mess up zombies...that's it. I'm not going to go into any more Call of duty games. MW3 will be it."

This change gave me hope, and I can't wait to see what comes next. So yeah, let the hate-shanking commence I guess.

[Larry]

It's Urzikstan from WarZone but they put zombies in and have a stingy story progression system.

The schematics which you quickly realise you need to unlock to seriously progress are time gated. They say they're "rare drops" but you get one every 4-5 hours playing zombies. You can also get duplicate schematics and if you do and you extract with a schematic you already have: You get nothing for it. It doesn't even refresh the cooldown of the schematic you would have just used or even give you the item straight up that it's supposed to unlock for you to craft. It also doesn't give extra XP. It's some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You get 1 hour in total to do what you need to do and extract. That's 45minutes of normal play followed by 15 minutes of DMZ's nuke field extending out except the radius turns all zombies feral and buffs them significantly(They run, they do extra damage, they're faster, you basically die).

So far in that 45minutes of gameplay per round I've found it's impossible to get to Tier 3 Pack A Punch in-game and the zombies around the T3 area are so insane and endless that you need to get PAP2 in Tier 2, then farm 15,000 points and B-Line it to the PAP3 machine while praying you don't get killed while you run or drive toward it as you're swarmed by special zombies, hellhounds and everything in between.

Also, because you absolutely have to have your weapon upgraded to "epic" attack power and have PAP3 to do much of anything in the center zone you don't stand a chance of ever seeing or completing that unless you spend MASSIVE resources beforehand b-lining it to that area at the start of the map. By spending "Massive resources" I mean you use schematics you already have unlocked which allows you to make one of each every 3 hours and go in fully loaded with equipment, weapon mods, PAP2 shortcuts(There are VERY rare drops in-game where you can bring in an item to instantly upgrade your weapon to T1 or T2 which cuts down 30minutes of grind - in a 45minute match), T3 armour, T3 backpack, fully unlocked weapons and special weapons(If you've been lucky enough to find the schematics).

Schematics are so bare and so limited to find with no way for your to increase the odds of finding one that you may as well be given a countdown timer as to when the next one is given to you. You can also get duplicate schematics(Yep...) which is some BS. If you do T1 or T2 missions the rewards don't increase the chance for a schematic by doing harder tiers. Infact doing harder tiers really has ZERO impact on the game at all. you don't get more XP, you don't get more cash for doing them and it doesn't increase the chance of you getting a schematic.

Oh, and selling stuff? DMZ you could sell a GPU for 5 or 8k. Hard drives were like 500 currently. In MW3's zombies a hard drive is 80 - yes, eight. zero. - per drive. Forget about getting expensive goods to sell because everything is worth peanuts unless you find a comic book that nets you a "whopping" 100 or a legendary comic that nets you 780... You'd be better off running in a circle killing zombies at an exfil point to get XP, level your weapon and cash to upgrade your weapons. It's literally that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid how they've made things.

Also, there's P2W skins in Zombies. The same P2W ♥♥♥♥ that's in DMZ is also in Zombies.

It's super low effort and everything is either "borrowed" from other parts of MW2 or just flat out ripped from the previous game.

[Rabidnid]

İlk olarak BigDog tarafından gönderildi:

can you confirm whether it is a 4 players group or 6 players? some ppl said it's 6 players but in youtube live streams i see only 4 players in zombie mode, also how hard is it to find random to team with if i don't have friends?

Teams are 3 and you can play solo or with randoms.

[Larry]

Also: You cannot solo this unless you stay in T1 and maybe T2 with decent upgrades because you'll get swamped doing missions in T2 without anyone to help. Forget about T3 zone altogether.

The biggest FU is the fact you cannot seriously progress in this as a solo player joining randomers because, much like a computer, you're only as powerful as your weakest team member. If you have T2 PAP and the other two players don't have T2 pap you have to stay in T1. If you have T2 or T3 armour and one other person in your group doesn't; guess what! You gotta stay in T1 and wait for them to get armour(a drop or buy). So when you get a headstart and get T2 you're still waiting for your teammates to catch up.

This was by design so that people would be artificially gated in progress unless seriously dedicated to the grind and even at that if they're with a group of two other friends you have to all be equally dedicated to the grind - because it is a grind to progress with how they've implemented this system. DMZ was less grindy than this.

[Kaz Miller]

İlk olarak CHEEZ3 tarafından gönderildi:

u can play solo, but u will get overwhelmed very quickly, unless u deploy with a LVL2 refined crystal, blue rare upgrade tool and a ammo mod like explosive or cryo, also with some perk a colas and a self revive.

It's not really solo, you get put on a map where other people are playing.

[Munchies]

Its great. I got to the first story missions solo and got few gold camos. All I want is for the timer to be gone or to be like 2 hours or something like that.

The best would be to play solo with no timer. I hope they put it like that.

[Ministry Of Wrath]

I hate COD. I only ever got it because my friends who aren't really in to gaming played "multiplyer"

then I saw zombies, and I had to play that... Ioved the concept.

so far I've enjoyed it more than I've enjoyed any game mode for a long time.

I hope they add new maps... new objectives or "stories" and monsters.

I think adding a pvp version if it, where you play as zombies, or some kind of merc vs merc for objectives mode would add a lot to it, but I doubt they'll go that rout

[Vandreal_Wolf]

Okay, this is my favorite mode, but I have only one major gripe about it. WTF were they thinking with the final exfil being unknown until you can't get there if you're on the wrong side of the map?!?! I just lost the streak when I was at 95, about to get to 100 (meaning 50% off P-a-P). Now I've ♥♥♥♥♥♥ knocked down to 50 because I literally couldn't get to the place the final exfil was at. It literally, has always been in the area that would be the last to get hit by the storm. But, this time it wasn't. Of course, that crap PISSES people off when they break the habit/pattern/conditions they have always used. If they are going to do something like that, give a heads up where the last exfil will be before it gets to a PNR!! Blizzard-Activision can go F$#% themselves over this one.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

İlk olarak nOOne tarafından gönderildi:

Said Scrumpy level 0 Steam User with private lock hahaha. Nice try Activision :D

All friends only and private profiles show up as level 0 to non-friends and everyone respectively. The privacy setting basically hides the level as well.

Their profile is friends only, like mine.