I’m a little ashamed to admit this but I’ve been playing a fair share of Black Ops 6 multiplayer. The whole “omnimovement” thing does take a bit to get used to but once you do, it’s a ton of fun. Basically it lets you sprint in any direction, and you’re able to do dolphin dives from any angle as well. You can sprint while strafing and go into a dolphin dive for an action movie style stunt, and when you successfully pull one off it’s really satisfying.
For the most part the matchmaking seems to be very good. It needs to be for a game this big I suppose. No matter what other people’s ranks are, I always feel like the matches are fair and everyone is within fairly equal skill levels. In games like this and Battlefield, I go through phases of doing really great one match, then eating dirt the next. Last night I was actually doing very good. I’ve found that I really only like playing Team Deathmatch so that’s what I was focused on playing. I did hop into a match of Zombies but the missions and objectives can be quite confusing if you aren’t paying close enough attention.
My main complain with the game is with how absolutely massive the franchise is and how many millions of players each entry gets, why does it take on average over 5 minutes for me to start the game then matchmake into a server? A game like this should be way snappier with their menus and matchmaking. I can pull up a game like Quake 2 and find a death match server in 30 seconds, or CS2 and find a Free For All match in about 1 minute. COD takes forever to load even on a decently fast SSD, then you need to go through the garbage “hub” menus to get into BO6, then selecting multiplayer adds a slight delay having to boot up a whole new UI, then the actual matchmaking process takes over a minute alone. Then, once you do find a server, it’s at least a full 30 seconds until the game fully begins. My point being, it’s way too slow and sluggish, I should be able to get into a game way faster than it is now. On top of this, the downtime between matches is a solid 2-3 minutes which IMO is way too long if I’m wanting to get multiple matches in a session.
Ive been playing MP a bit too (TDM/Zombies only) and on top of longer wait times for games in which youd think you'd be connected right away, the whole COD hub is annoying with bloated screens, desktop re-launching to get to certain parts of the COD hub, updates that dont start before you wait for the game to load etc.
And then the MP itself...its still buggy net code COD to me where you see and hear the thud thud thud thud of your bullets and dieing and then watching the kill cam shows you not hit him more than 1 time is just annoying to see. There are plenty of tik-toks out there showing this.
But yes, the omnimovment is a nice touch, i love it. Zombies is fun even though its just 2 maps atm and the campaign has been one of the best campaigns so far in the last decade (so idk 5 or 6 call of duties?) outside of Cold War being an ok-one.
As for me, outside of
Black Ops 6:
Been playing a little more of
Dragon Age: Veilguard which still sits at a "mostly positive" on steam with 16k reviews. Its still pretty good to me. Added some of the mods to make the game look "darker" and added some other small stuff so it looks better now to me.
To keep this short, the game is still solid to me, both story and combat, especially combat as a rogue in this game because its snappy, responsive and fun, especially with its finishers. Its a little to linear in terms of walking around, but there are a lot of places to travel to, and the enviornments look good.
Im having fun and moving through but, It'll probably fall to the way-side in terms of completion like most of my SP games do.
As i play more i can see why diehard fans of Dragon Age would be upset it isnt more like the other games, but the lore is there, there are whole side quests dealing with past DA situations and characters but it couldve been more. I personally like the combat, so it being less TB and more action is perfect for me. If the combat wasnt as fun as it is, i probably wouldnt be playing it.
Other than that,
Diablo 4 and
Helldivers 2 still going strong in this household. Son and i play every other day it seems and D4 and my wife play through on the weekends getting nothing special in drops lol.
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