MaroonStain said:

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Research revenue numbers in Warzone's 1st year. $$$ win not catering to nostalgia. If W2 takes a big revenue hit then COD will adjust.

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Warzone balancing and multiplayer are a completely separate thing. COD hasn't been taking a hit the last 3 years because of warzone making money. You forget MW19 multiplayer was pretty much dying by the time warzone finally came out.

Warzone 2 tanking will make IW fix Warzone, to the extent they're actually willing to fix it. I.e., they won't add things back that increase the skill gap (they've already stated they're not interested in doing that in any facet of the game), they'll just fix easily fixable things like looting that are just QOL features. It'll be interesting to see if warzone 2 going so aggressively casual will actually make them course correct away from the direction they've been going.

It won't make them quit making ****ty multiplayer design decisions. And it won't matter, because multiplayer doesn't make them money in this era of gaming. Now that warzone 2 is out, it's easy to see just how lazy the multiplayer development actually was.

It'll require a different dev making a game to get a decent multiplayer, which is what we'll get with Treyarch in 2024. Hopefully they don't get neutered in their design cycle again (for the 3rd straight game) having to bail out IW and Sledgehammer.

Has anyone gotten the M13 yet?

Yes, ran over the chemist in a Bertha and my buddy just dropped it for me next game. Easiest way to do it

What is user name? I'd love to not have to play dmz and just drop in with you quickly so you could drop the gun and then we extract and then I have it also

Let me know

I'll send you a PM. Let me ask my buddies to make sure I do it right. Just gotta make sure it's in my insured spot I believe.

My Activision name is thebigreddog22#1650194 let me know if that works.

I was hunted by someone with the M13. We killed him, took his weapon and extracted. That unlocked it for me. Next game I dropped it and FIDO extracted with it, unlocking it for him. I still have it unlocked and it wasn't in my insured spot.

I need to run DMZ with one of y'all that have it so I can unlock it. It's always a mad dash for that guy that I can never get it in time.

NPH- said:

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I need to run DMZ with one of y'all that have it so I can unlock it. It's always a mad dash for that guy that I can never get it in time.

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I'll be hit or miss this week, but I can help you out whenever I'm on.

Loving DMZ right now. One thing I found out is that the more cash you exfil with, the quicker you can make your insured weapon timer decrease

I'm enjoying the reduced aim assist a lot

Been ranking up weapons playing invasion. Has a bit of battlefield vide.

I swear the buffed bots in DMZ. Finding more players and tougher AI all over out of nowhere. Even looting backpacks and armor is harder.

Desert Power said:

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Loving DMZ right now. One thing I found out is that the more cash you exfil with, the quicker you can make your insured weapon timer decrease

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Can someone explain the "insured weapon" piece to me... I can't for the life of me figure it out. Is this a weapon slot that we get to choose? What happens if we die in DMZ with it?

Also -- how do you carry "3" guns? I've come across a larger backpack that has a weapon slot, but again cannot figure out how to enable that.

DMZ is fun, but awfully confusing.

EDIT: also, I don't understand the contraband weapons or their significance.

I just found a very detailed article about DMZ that helped answer a lot of my questions:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/cod-warzone-dmz-how-to-unlock-more-insured-weapon-slots-and-reduce-cooldown-penalties/1100-6509298/

Not sure what you're seeing, but I had my crosshairs waiting on one player to re peek, and all the sudden they got pulled away by a different player crossing the lane.

El_duderino said:

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Not sure what you're seeing, but I had my crosshairs waiting on one player to re peek, and all the sudden they got pulled away by a different player crossing the lane.

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Lol there's definitely still plenty of aim assist. I just felt like aim assist got lowered when I hopped on after the update, and I saw other people noticed as well in the comp subreddit. Feel like I'm winning more gunfights now. It doesn't feel as sticky as it did prior to the update.

I'm sure if it did change, they'll just call it a bug and revert it back.

Little anecdote of soloing DMZ the other night.

No one was on, so I said screw it, I'll drop in, see what I can find, and exfil with whatever little stuff I could. Popping along, doing my thing, killing AI left and right, then I was notified an enemy team had a weapons case. I immediately look at the map and guess which exfil they are going to take. I book it over there and can see that they have popped smoke and are waiting for the helo to drop in. This particular exfil was just outside a small village and surrounded by brush and palm trees. I crouch and move forward and wait for an opportunity to strike. Coincidently, enemy AI bots moved in to engage the team, so they were pretty distracted and did not see me move in. Helo starts to drop, I take out the one farthest from the exfil and immediately relocate to drop the 2nd team member. The 3rd, realizing **** is going down, hops into the helo and assumes he has found safety. In the meantime, I relocate and drop the 2nd team member from a hidden location in the brush, and then move forward to take out the 3rd. Realizing I don't have much time to strike (as now that his two team members are killed the helo will extract within 5 seconds), I make a tactical decision and sprint to the helo and enter via one of the side doors, as the helo begins its ascent. Bingo -- he was watching the tail section and not the side. I immediately drop him and pick up his weapons case as the helo reaches maximize exfil height. Successful extraction, and weapons case 2 of 7 successfully retrieved.

With all the things to do in DMZ, I am convinced this is the superior gametype in MW2 now over Warzone as it gives a nice balance of AI, real players as well as meaningful objectives that help unlock unique items in game.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClOnr74AHNw/?igshid=MTg0ZDhmNDA=

For NPH

What is your activision ID

htownag10 said:

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What is your activision ID

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I'll have to find it. I am working and now at Dr appointment.

BTW, if you spawn at airport, go in side door up a set of stairs. It's either a glitched licked area or left accessible arbitrarily. There are at least 10 orange/gold boxes with a trove of loot. If I start there, I loot and exfill asap. Got an SPR, UAV and SCAR this morning.

Every multiplayer lobby is just marksman rifles and SPR spam right now.

I know. Trying to get gold lachman is tough being a semi auto. Eventually I get frustrated enough and just break out the 74u

El_duderino said:

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I know. Trying to get gold lachman is tough being a semi auto. Eventually I get frustrated enough and just break out the 74u

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I'm fluctuating between lobbies full of riot shield shotgunners and SPR losers and full CDL skin lobbies with Vaznevs and 74Us.

Regardless, Hardpoint and HQ on shoothouse are very fun. Domination and TDM not so much.

HossAg said:

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El_duderino said:

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I know. Trying to get gold lachman is tough being a semi auto. Eventually I get frustrated enough and just break out the 74u

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I'm fluctuating between lobbies full of riot shield shotgunners and SPR losers and full CDL skin lobbies with Vaznevs and 74Us.

Regardless, Hardpoint and HQ on shoothouse are very fun. Domination and TDM not so much.

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Pick your worst friend and have him join a lobby and then join him. Those lobbies are amazing

It should be on your profile when you are in game. I tried to add the gamer tag you posted and it said player not found

AggieKO said:

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HossAg said:

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El_duderino said:

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I know. Trying to get gold lachman is tough being a semi auto. Eventually I get frustrated enough and just break out the 74u

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I'm fluctuating between lobbies full of riot shield shotgunners and SPR losers and full CDL skin lobbies with Vaznevs and 74Us.

Regardless, Hardpoint and HQ on shoothouse are very fun. Domination and TDM not so much.

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Pick your worst friend and have him join a lobby and then join him. Those lobbies are amazing

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I joined a friend and his buddies one time and it was a whole different game. Those guys were struggling.

htownag10 said:

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It should be on your profile when you are in game. I tried to add the gamer tag you posted and it said player not found

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I think 1815152

XStainX9339#1815152. Down to 14 keys. Started using them due to dupes.

Played some DMZ last night. Not bad. The bots make me feel like a streamer.

Finally fired it up last night. I have not played a console FPS in a while, and man. I stink out loud. Yikes.

Any DMZ gamers? Running solo is pretty tough.

Artorias said:

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Any DMZ gamers? Running solo is pretty tough.

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There are a few of us. Join our Discord server. FIDO and I aren't available right now due to Thanksgiving, but we are regular most if the year.

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Artorias said:

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Any DMZ gamers? Running solo is pretty tough.

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There are a few of us. Join our Discord server. FIDO and I aren't available right now due to Thanksgiving, but we are regular most if the year.

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I'm down for some DMZ. I'm on PC and have played a couple games solo. Yeah it's rough

Can you post the discord link again?

I searched and found one you posted a month or so ago but it says the invite is invalid