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CultureSome Call Of Duty Players Find Themselves Spawning In Mid-Air
Call of Duty matches can be fast-paced slaughterhouses, which is why the game usually respawns you away from other players and, uh, on the ground. Recently, players have been noticing that’s not always the case. “Incredible, just incredible,” Reddit user McNugg2710 said in a November 22 post of a video showing them respawning out in…
By Ethan Gach Published November 26, 2019 -
CultureCall of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Camera Angles And Hitboxes Are Still Pretty Broken
Post-launch updates are slowly improving Modern Warfare, but there are still major issues that need to be addressed to make it a less frustrating Call of Duty Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s multiplayer plays much more slowly than other recent entries in the franchise. Unless you’re playing the tiny “Shoot House” map, which has become…
By S.E. Doster Published November 15, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Can’t Stop Playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Even Though I Hate It
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is not a game I can claim is good. It’s got big-money polish, cinematic orchestral music, and the quote-unquote “gunfeel” of a AAA banger, but a large portion of the series’ fanbase and I agree that it’s also rife with issues that make it irredeemably frustrating to play: camping players,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 13, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsModern Warfare‘s New Maps Are A Lot Less Campy
Today’s big Modern Warfare update brings two new maps, and the free content feels like a small step forward for the heavily criticized multiplayer aspect of the new Call of Duty As promised with the new Modern Warfare, all maps are going to be free for everyone, and released across all platforms simultaneously. But after…
By S.E. Doster Published November 8, 2019 -
CultureNow’s the Best Time to Get Loot in Last Year’s Call of Duty
A major overhaul is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Black Market. While loot boxes aren’t going away, players will finally have a better way of earning cosmetics. Yesterday, Treyarch announced changes that are coming on November 12 to Black Ops 4’s highly-criticized Black Market—you know, that cosmetic marketplace that wanted to sell…
By S.E. Doster Published November 5, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformCall of Duty: Modern Warfare: The Kotaku Review
Across thousands of years of existence, we as a people have come to regard war as pretty bad. Senseless violence and the loss of irreplaceable lives, usually in the service of petty men who wield the power of nations indiscriminately, is just fucking stupid. Yet it still happens, and in America, the necessity of the…
By Joshua Rivera Published November 4, 2019 -
OpinionFive Years Of ‘F’ To Pay Respects
“F” in a moment of internet tragedy, when a YouTuber confesses they were mercilessly dumped. In a flash of live, online embarrassment, when an Overwatch player misclicks their ult, “F.” The internet is a graveyard of “FFFFFFFF,” with some uncountable number tossed off every hour, everywhere, to pay respects. Five years ago today, the Call…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 4, 2019 -
The Footsteps In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Are So Damn Loud
At first, I was sure my opponent was aimbotting. We were in a close game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s team deathmatch and I was ever so slowly crawling along a wall. The slower, the more quiet, I thought. Something suddenly rustled just ahead. I peeked around the corner and was instantly downed by…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 1, 2019 -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Giant, Chaotic Maps Are Frustrating
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched on October 25, bringing changes to the multiplayer that the community once only dreamed about, like free maps for all. But the design of those maps isn’t playing out very well. For the first time ever, this year’s Call of Duty features cross-play functionality to bring players together across…
By S.E. Doster Published October 29, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsDownloading Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Was An Absolute Nightmare
It’s easy to feel nostalgic for the time when playing a new release meant cracking open a plastic box and slotting a cartridge into your console. It’s even easier when you’ve been watching the “download” bar crawl upwards for three hours. By hour four, you’re pulling your hair out. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 28, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsModern Warfare Demands Your Attention, But It Might Not Deserve It
It opens with a suicide bombing. You are in a van full of terrorists, nervous, silent, about to do something awful. The van arrives, and a man with a bomb strapped to his chest strides out into a crowded urban space, detonator in hand. He moves to pull the trigger, and we smash cut to…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 25, 2019 -
Migos’ Offset Mourns The Loss Of Call Of Duty Player Who Got Him Into Esports
Up-and-coming Call of Duty competitor Eric Pedro Cruz, who played under the names “Philosophy” and “Losophy,” passed away on August 18. Though he was just 18 years old, he left behind a legacy in the world of esports, which included forming connections with superstars like Migos rapper Offset. “I used to play the game and…
By Ian Walker Published October 22, 2019 -
CultureCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare Will Have Free Maps, No Loot Boxes
Activision is changing the way it does Call of Duty DLC with Modern Warfare. In a blog posttoday, it detailed the game-changing overhaul that upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has undergone to make the game and its economy more equitable and fair. New maps and game modes introduced after the launch of Modern…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 17, 2019 -
Call of Duty Mobile Is Fun Even For Hardcore Players
Call of Duty: Mobile is an addictive multiplayer game that even the most casual mobile player can enjoy, but also one that even hardcore console players like myself might find to be surprisingly compelling. Developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios, Call of Duty: Mobile launched worldwide on October 1 as a free-to-play game for Android and…
By S.E. Doster Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureHow Modern Warfare’s All Ghillied Up Was Made
For all the game’s explosive bombast, some of Modern Warfare’s most enduring moments come from its quietest level, the stealth stage All Ghillied Up that’s set in the decaying city of Pripyat, scene of the Chernobyl disaster. While we’ve previously taken a deep look at the level from a critical standpoint, this excellent video by…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 7, 2019 -
The Best Way To Play Call Of Duty Mobile Is On A PC
Call Of Duty: Mobile was released worldwide earlier this week for Android and iOS devices. It’s a strange mix of different maps, guns, and mechanics from various Call Of Duty games from the past. It also is developed by a company that is owned by Tencent. So I decided to load up CoD: Mobile on…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 6, 2019 -
CultureCall Of Duty: Mobile Is Live
After being in rigorous beta testing across multiple countries since July, Activision and Tencent’s Call of Duty: Mobile is go for iOS and Android devices everywhere but mainland China, Vietnam, and Belgium. Battle across recognizable maps, fight as iconic heroes like Ghost and Soap, and participate in a battle royale the likes of which you’ve probably…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureModern Warfare‘s 64-Player Mode Feels Like Call Of Duty, Just Bigger
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s recent cross-play beta brought platforms together for large-scale, 64-player multiplayer matches. While it feels quite different from Battlefield, the new style of gameplay worked quite well. The “Ground War” mode itself is not new, but in previous Call of Duty games it just meant a slightly increased player count of…
By S.E. Doster Published September 27, 2019 -
CultureA Modern Warfare Game Option Is PS4 Exclusive Until October 2020
The practice of platform holders securing console exclusives took a new and weird turn yesterday, when Sony and Activision announced that Modern Warfare’s Survival Mode—a mode within a mode, as it’s part of Spec Ops—is appearing exclusively on the PS4 until October 1, 2020. Spec Ops, first introduced in the original Modern Warfare 2, is…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2019 -
Modern Warfare Makes Night Vision Goggles Mandatory (And Fun)
Night vision goggles in first-person shooters often felt like a gimmick, so I was surprised to find myself actually enjoying them in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare beta over the weekend. The PlayStation 4 beta featured two maps, “Azhir Cave” and “Hackney Yard,” in a nighttime setting with night vision goggles that you toggle…
By S.E. Doster Published September 19, 2019