• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    It is a really good game…

    People complain about engagement weighted matches, but COD literally puts you in easier lobbies after buying a skin and then slowly winds the advantage down till you buy a new one

    That’s predatory as fuck.

    As far as “free” multiplayer games go, there’s not a lot of overt monetization and plenty of free shit.

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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      15 days ago

      It was the unmarked bots they put into matches to fill slots and give you a free win that made me quit. If I’m going to play a pvp gametype I want to pvp. They’re not in ranked at least as far as I know but I can’t crossplay with my friends in ranked so there’s no point.

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        15 days ago

        I mean, a bot match should be such a steamroll that you don’t even realize it till after. 5, 10 minutes tops.

        I do hate that ranked doesn’t have cross play.

        I hang out in plat on PC easily and I use a PS5 controller (with back buttons), but according to the popup when you rank, that’s in the top 15%. And I’m straight up old at this point, if I can do it so can the kids all hopped up on mountain dew. Sure, it’s not as accurate as a mouse, but movement is way better than with a keyboard.

        It’s a tradeoff either way. So I don’t get why everyone freaks out about mouse/keyboard in competitive and wants to split console from PC.

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          14 days ago

          Yeah I mean once I knew that bot matches were a thing it was obvious and I quit shortly after. I just assumed it was matching me with lower elo players or something. You get so much assistance with controller at least in some games it can be a straight up advantage so yeah idk. I was fine just playing unranked with my console friends but there’s no way to turn off bots then.

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      15 days ago

      That’s an extremely bold claim to make, any evidence whatsoever or just kind of throwing it out there at random?

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Could be if you irritate your kids long enough, they’ll just lie to you so you’ll leave them alone.