Cod Changes by Hunter Stoy

I have been playing video games all of my life and one game was a game that I was always close to and that is Call of Duty. There is a lot of Call of Duty games that have been made in the last 10 years. I have actually played for a pro league team when I was 16 years old but fell off after not taking the game as serious as I once did. Mike came to ask if I would like to write a submission on some sort of game and I said I will actually talk about how Call of Duty has ruined there games and lost a lot of people interest in the past years simply by how overpowered some weapons are and the way they are designing the maps.

Call of Duty has shown to bring in all different type of weapons into the game but they recently been having problems with certain guns being over powered. Once the producers do realize how overpowered some of guns are, they start to buff them a bit but then another gun will be overpowered. When I played serious it was based on more skill than anything else. Now people will use the same weapon over and over. For example, the M4 Cod has not really buffed it at all and made it the most used gun in the game which ruins a lot of the gameplay to be enjoyable because you will have to simply use that gun just to compete with everyone else. I am a person who likes to try out news weapons and even I find a weapon that is my favorite, it simply cannot keep up with the M4, which is unfair. Also, shotguns have been way overpowered in this past Call of Duty that came out and it actually drove me off the game after about month because I wasn’t even having fun playing it anymore.

The way they designed the maps in the new Call of Duty was probably the biggest thing that made me quit the game. First, they made the maps in any game mode way to big which caused a lot people to camp in one spot. Call of Duty used to be a fast paced game and you would rarely have campers anywhere on the map. Having the maps at this design of size, made me have to change the way up I play the game and by doing that, I have got much worse and frustrated with the game. The second problem I have with the map design is all the cluster that is in a map. The map has brought in a lot of objects in the middle of the map. For example like cars and I mean big cars, buses, trains, trucks, and half of an airplane. It causes a lot of running into stuff or getting stuck on stuff and not being to move at all. This has also brought in a lot of campers to the game as they are hiding behind a bunch of objects. The way they use to have much better map designs to have a quicker paced game and with the new map designs, it just has overall slowed things down and made the gameplay much worse.

I believe Call of Duty could make a new game that would bring in a lot of past players. If they fixed just some of the little things it could change their franchise around into a positive way. I feel that I could get enjoyment out of the game again if these changes were made and maybe even start to play competitive again.