Daily COD struggels
I am so sick of this crap. I've sunk 1600 hours in WZ2 on Steam alone, and many more in WZ, and all I have to show for is frustration and regret. Most of the negative reviews here are memes, and some that I can sympathize with. Here's my daily experience with this god awful multi million dollar video game:
Start a 100 GB game, loads up and if you are lucky does not restart because the homepage needs to update like a web-page, but instead of just refreshing the menu, IT STUPIDLY RELAUNCHES THE GAME EVERY TIME to change what the main menu looks like.
Fine, at least wont have to deal with that for a few days. Navigate the horrible UI which was so bad that they already tried to fix, but failed because they want to stubbornly keep the same design philosophy.
Scrolling down block by block, slowly, to get to what I want to play. This can take me shifting down 3-4 times before I can barely make sense of the 2x4 tiny blocks showing me the indecipherable game mode I actually want to click on. Why slow the UI down like a Hulu browsing page? Why do I have to make such an effort just to read similarly looking UI elements to make a lick of sense of them? Why are there no recognizable colours, icons or shapes that guide the eye and offer visual queues as to what I'm looking at? Why is there SO MUCH clutter on one screen and simultaneously barley any information on the 6 similarly looking unique boxes I'm staring dead on, on my 2k 27 inch screen, and still take a full 5 seconds for me to register what I'm actually looking at, in a game, by the way, I spend most of my free time in? Why What Where When is this WASTE OF DIGITAL SPACE?? A menu with pain text would be better.
The locations of the various game modes, shown as a small 2x4 box, can also change depending on what day of the month it is so you can't even commit things to muscle memory.
And If you so happen to be unlucky enough to want to play MW2 or 1, well too bad, time to relaunch the game into another game again. THERE IS NO SHORTCUTS TO MW2, A GAME I PURCHASED WITH MONEY, WITHOUT RELOADING THE ENTIRE GAME TWICE IS INFINITY WARD AND RAVEN SOFTWARE STUPID GOO GOO BRAINS?
Finally, I'm in the lobby, searching for a game. Game found, oh whats this, I'm level 600 and I get two level 1 players who just installed the game with an open mic and one hacker as team mates. I keep a positive attitude and still help new players.
Despite the certainty that I will be crushed by controller players, in a coin flip engagement where a 25 tick server tries to decides whether someone from japan who auto locked onto me pumped me with 23 bullets out in the open and not 22 bullet with me standing around the corner behind cover, I queue up for another match and repeat.
Now I'm in a new game and its getting good, but whats this... "Your Profile has been Signed Out" and the game literally just closes because Steam disconnected for a second. May I remind you NO OTHER GAME ON STEAM DOES THIS.
Game: uninstalled
Time: not recoverable
Regret: maximum