Current Events > is the CoD4 remaster really that bad

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good times playing that video game back in 11th grade, those were simpler times
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No it's the same game. What sucks is the loot drops
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It's pretty good honestly
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Mark_DeRosa posted...

No it's the same game. What sucks is the loot drops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvL4O3uomg
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It's the same game with tons of new content added. All-new weapons and camos, more game modes like Kill Confirmed and Prop Hunt, plus lots of convenient features from later games like permanent unlock tokens, a firing range for practice, and special event versions of maps.

Yes, supply drops are in the game. But every single thing that you can get from supply drops can also be crafted with "parts" that you earn from getting a duplicate of an item you already have. So there's absolutely nothing that can't be acquired without having to depend on the RNG.

Now that MWR is available as a standalone purchase, there is absolutely no reason to go back and play the original game instead of the re-master besides doing so out of spite for Activision. And with how great MWR is, that spite doesn't even have any merit anymore.
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Oh sure you can earn all the new weapons without paying. If you play through multiple prestiges maybe you'll get one.
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lol this game is cool
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DarthAragorn posted...

Oh sure you can earn all the new weapons without paying. If you play through multiple prestiges maybe you'll get one.

This is what I'm afraid of. Also, do loot guns have different stats? Like can I win a gun fight because I got a SUPER EPIC drop? Because that's absolutely asinine bull shit scumbag tier type crap.
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HaVeNII7 posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Oh sure you can earn all the new weapons without paying. If you play through multiple prestiges maybe you'll get one.

This is what I'm afraid of. Also, do loot guns have different stats? Like can I win a gun fight because I got a SUPER EPIC drop? Because that's absolutely asinine bull shit scumbag tier type crap.

Yes, they're not just skins.
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HaVeNII7 posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

Oh sure you can earn all the new weapons without paying. If you play through multiple prestiges maybe you'll get one.

This is what I'm afraid of. Also, do loot guns have different stats? Like can I win a gun fight because I got a SUPER EPIC drop? Because that's absolutely asinine bull shit scumbag tier type crap.

The drop rates aren't that low, and if you pull one of the items in the weapon's "collection" in a drop, that means you have to spend less parts to unlock it. As for the weapon stats, yes, the weapons have unique stats. But absolutely none of them are statistically the best in their class, and the majority of them (like the full-auto shotgun and the burst-fire pistol) are actually just crappy gimmicks. So if you're afraid about the supply drops being pay-to-win, they're far from it.

The XM-LAR (based off the FAL) and BOS-14 (based off the FAMAS) are both solid weapons, but are similar stat-wise to the AK-47 and are statistically inferior to the M16A4. The Bered MK8 (based on the MK46 from MW3 and the MK48 from BO2) is inferior to the RPD, and the MAC-10 is inferior to the MP5 and P90. Even the Magnum is just the Desert Eagle with 1 less bullet but the ability to use a suppressor. None of them are gamebreaking at all, and most of them are just gimmicks.
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The weapons I'm pretty sure are different. That's what I liked about the original so much better. The m16 felt so much better in the original
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The m16 is the most overpowered piece of shit ever invented


But hey at least they fixed the tick rate
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Mark_DeRosa posted...

The weapons I'm pretty sure are different.

Incorrect. Every single weapon that was in the original game is completely unchanged statistically, right down to the minor quirks like the ACOG sight turning the M40A3 into a 1-shot kill anywhere to the body with Stopping Power. Even unintended bad quirks like how knifing with a silenced G3 doesn't work are faithfully represented.

Mark_DeRosa posted...

The m16 felt so much better in the original

Not only it is statistically identical to the original game, it's actually (in a roundabout way) even more dominant in the remaster because the better hit detection means the hits will register more reliably. Some of the 1-burst kills that you may have been screwed out of by the bad hit detection of the original will happen correctly in the remaster. So you're incorrect about this too. The M16 is still by far the best gun in the game.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

But hey at least they fixed the tick rate

Yeah, the tick rate problem only made the M16 even more stupidly overpowered. The low tick rate made it so that the 2 hits (with Stopping Power) needed to kill could both land on the same tick, meaning you would quite literally go from full health to zero in one instant, without them even being registered as separate hits. But this problem was fixed a few months in, so the M16 isn't as stupidly overpowered as it was at launch.
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Yeah it's fucking stupid that they're adding new weapons and supposedly maps but not rebalancing guns for the improved online tech
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did they keep in stupid shit like having 3 frag grenades and martyrdom
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Romulox28 posted...

did they keep in stupid shit like having 3 frag grenades and martyrdom

Of course
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DarthAragorn posted...

Romulox28 posted...

did they keep in stupid shit like having 3 frag grenades and martyrdom

Of course

i can dig it
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The pot sprint thing got patched
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On a side note: I just realized the irony of me, while using this specific alt account, bitching about the M16A4 being overpowered.

Romulox28 posted...

did they keep in stupid shit like having 3 frag grenades and martyrdom

Every single thing that was in the original games is in the remaster and is statistically identical to how it was in the original. All the guns, all the equipment, all the perks. Yes, even Eavesdrop was kept in, despite 95% of players either not using a mic or being in party chat.
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God, I hate the term nostalgia glasses but that's the only thing I can say about people's love for MW4.
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Idk about any stats about the game. But I would.whoop anyone's ass here.

Played at a ton of mlg and umg events

One of the two winners for the cod4 history channel ffa
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Webmaster4531 posted...

God, I hate the term nostalgia glasses but that's the only thing I can say about people's love for MW4.

The original was a flawed game in some places, and there are definitely some things (like nerfing the M16A4) that I wish the remaster would have changed from the original CoD4. But despite being a bit dated, the original had some of the most balanced and enjoyable gameplay in the whole series, and for people that hated the advanced movement of the recent COD games (I'm actually not one of them, I'm loving Infinite Warfare) the remaster was their chance to play with boots on the ground again.

I honestly saw the "blind nostalgia" make more people hate the remaster than like it, because they didn't want new content added and wanted the game to stay EXACTLY how it was before. But MWR without any of the new content would have gotten old and stale really fast.
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