Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare review

[Neon Ignition]

I'm on the controller, just not keen on the keyboard for character movement in FPS's it's too restrictive for me. After some getting used to it I'm pretty much back to the scoring I got on previous CoD's on console in MP, only a couple of instances where I've felt a mouse would have helped me react quicker

Main online issue with the PC version for me seems to be the issue the WiiU entries had whereby there aren't enough players. No trouble getting a game in TDM but stray far out of that and it's empty.

[Finsbury Girl]

Thanks mate - glad to hear the controller is not too big a disadvantage.

[teddymeow]

Finished the SP last night and enjoyed it overall.

The ending feels

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a little undercooked and so obviously set up for a sequel

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I did feel that the game introduced some cool gadgets which were used one and then forgotten about like those harmonic xray things. It would have been nice to have had a bit more freedom to use them at other parts of the game.

[Tobal]

well its got till farcry4/ACU hit to improve the lag or its being traded in, it's just ****ing awful all the time on psn, everyone bouncing up and down between 1 and 5 bars all the time, constant choppy fire fights and killcams showing you a completely different story killing any fun I could be having with the game.

and never, ever use the akimbo mini-guns, to slow to get up close to hip hire and not enough ammo or accuracy in lock mode.

[nonny]

The lag is crippling on XBO as well. I actually played multiplayer for a few hours yesterday and whilst it was up and down like a yo-yo, when it was good you're playing a completely different game.

I really like some of the maps in this, and I'm guessing used to the general exo abilities but without a fair and steady online experience people are going to drop this in a matter of weeks given the competition. On Xbox you of course have Halo dropping now with azure servers ready to go.

Activision want to stop messing around and get dedicated servers running and no more excuses

[BIG EDD]

Completed story mode,really enjoyed it overall
Now onto Halo

[Neon Ignition]

A first for me tonight, just went on for a game or two and found myself magically plonked into a hacked lobby which was doling out 650,000XP per kill. Utterly insane action as one kill meant all killstreaks were a go for everyone. It only lasted for a two or three games and then I'm assuming the lobby host quit as it dropped out and every game since has been normal. In 2-3 games I jumped from Rank 21 to Prestige 1 Rank 41 so curious to see if that is taken away from me soon or if it was brief enough that I'll keep that progress.

[BaronSqwelch]

1hr43mins later I flip/flopped the map in exo survival. Don't think I blinked in that time

Dunno if I can be arsed to put in the 125more waves to unlock the Riot/Bonus Round map though.

Don't suppose anyone here has it unlocked and wants a hand getting the trophy?

[MrKirov]

Is the bonus round the zombie one? I joined a Random game the other day and got plonked into a game just before it started. Free trophy and zombie head for me hahah

[BaronSqwelch]

Ah that's cool...didn't know it pops up in matchmaking!

Problem I have found online is that everyone seems to die on purpose after round one thanks to the 'play 50 matches' trophy.

Hopefully it settles down soon and people play properly.

[Neon Ignition]

Activision needs to stop doing pre-order incentive free maps as well. Free Fall was literally never played in Ghosts because of that scheme as it had to be shuttered off in its own mode due to inconsistent ownership. The map in this is the same, not a single player on it. But this one is a remake of Pipeline and so is one of the best maps in the game... and will never be played. Acti needs this for all players on full map rotation.

[jim g]

hacked leaderboards already, saw one guy who had played 9952 days, average kills, 1, maxed out prestige. Oh dear

Apart that the MP is growing on me, the usual issue of Ping is there, some games people getting 35 kills 2 deaths, and you now it ain't skill. But the I getting better at using the jump and fast weapons, so maybe it is a grower.

Will finish SP this week and post thoughts on that once I have completed it.

[MrKirov]

Ah that's cool...didn't know it pops up in matchmaking!

Problem I have found online is that everyone seems to die on purpose after round one thanks to the 'play 50 matches' trophy.

Hopefully it settles down soon and people play properly.

I think it might have been a friend game actually :/

Anyway, I'm up for Exo survival if you fancy!!

[jim g]

New patch out on PS4 today, played a couple of MP seems a bit better, of course needs everyone to update for the patch to work well, but I am happy

EDIT:

Been playing again today, still lag and host issues, but not unplayable.

Too many iterations of guns, camos etc. these days, even the might Destiny is confusing as hell, bring simplicity!

[Colin]

Started playing this last night, not overly impressed to be honest, it just doesn't feel very good to play. I think I'll do the standard now, play the campaign through if it doesn't irk me too much then get rid.