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CultureCall Of Duty Players Are Getting Quick Nukes Thanks To Spawn Camping On New Map
Tactical nuke kill streaks are supposed to be hard to get in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but some players have been getting them incredibly fast thanks to bad spawn points on the game’s Shipment map. Over the weekend the TapXNation YouTube channel put up a video showing a player by the name of Streaking…
By Ethan Gach Published December 23, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsGet Kills Or Go Kaboom In Modern Warfare’s New ‘Cranked’ Mode
Modern Warfare’s newest mode is a return to the fast-paced, addictive multiplayer we expect from Call of Duty. It forces players to move around for kills, or else go kaboom. This week’s update for Modern Warfare added new Special Operation missions and more multiplayer maps, but the new mode, called Cranked, was by far the…
By S.E. Doster Published December 20, 2019 -
CultureModern Warfare Will Show You Your Kill-Death Ratio For $20
Modern Warfare finally offers players the ability to see their death count during matches, but what was once a staple Call of Duty feature now comes at a price. In past Call of Duty games, the in-game scoreboard for a standard multiplayer mode like Team Deathmatch would show each player’s kills, deaths, and assists. At…
By S.E. Doster Published December 13, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsModern Warfare‘s Battle Pass Is Surprisingly Good
Modern Warfare’s new Battle Pass gives Call of Duty the reward system it needed, while the new cosmetic store leaves room for improvement. Modern Warfare received its first major content drop on December 3, including new maps and modes for the “Season One” event that runs from now until January 28. This first season also…
By S.E. Doster Published December 6, 2019 -
CultureModern Warfare Is Denying Players The Time-Honored Tradition Of Stomping Noobs
Some Call of Duty players are deliberately tanking their stats to try and place themselves in better lobbies, testing for any exploits they can find in Modern Warfare’s strict matchmaking. One of the Call of Duty community’s greatest debates since the launch of Modern Warfare in October is about its skill-based matchmaking. The game looks…
By S.E. Doster Published November 27, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanPro And Amateur FPS Players See Differently, According To Comparison
Have you ever wondered why some people are better at first-person shooters than others? One important difference might be how people see while playing. Nikkei recently posted a clip tracking a professional FPS player’s vision while playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and compared the data to the vision of an amateur player. Both players…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 27, 2019 -
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
