Worm
slimy ninja
Hint: the elite guys don't want to play against elite guys. The majority of elite players aren't looking for good competition, they're looking for noobs to slay.Well said. They should make game modes where the killstreaks are off and other more customizable areas for the elite guys (I'm assuming they don't already do this even though I know there are hardcore modes with the killcam off, etc.) I don't have the time to play as often as most teenagers or college kids and so will never be a very good player.That's great for the top 1-2% of players, but you have to realize that you're in the extreme minority.I'm a major rusher and not a bad player, but I've gotten tired of the complaining about the developers trying to balance the game. Giving lower skilled players that don't play nearly as much tools to slow down elite players just a bit is perfectly fine by me. I don't understand the fun in running off 80+ kills all the time and constantly crushing your opponents. It's more fun when winning a match is more of a challenge.I can't stand support kill streaks, especially the lethal ones like the stealth bomber and air drop. Recon drone drives me nuts as well. They are an abortion, imo.I would actually prefer they discard killstreaks completely over putting back in support killstreaks or deathstreaks. Personally, I don't get much satisfaction out of putting up KS's. It's the rush I get from, say, killing 5 guys in under 10 seconds, that keeps me playing this game (and its also the main reason why I don't like BF3 outside of the close quarters maps).And keep the system that gave you credit for things other than kills such as capturing an objective in Domination and such. Nice that they finally threw some of us suckier players a bone so we could enjoy the better killstreaks every once in a blue moon.I hope they're moving to a killstreak system like MW3. I have to say I really like having the option of Support or Assault killstreaks. It was a great addition to the series.
Come to think of it, I think the best COD would be where they get rid of all streaks except Specialist, and up the difficultly level for acheiving the Specialist bonus.
COD is becoming more accessible to a wider level of audience and generally making matches more evenly balanced. I think that's a good thing, even if it means I have to slow down and adopt a different playstyle sometimes. The top players have become so enamored with huge killcounts, high killstreaks and k/d ratios that the objectives don't even seem to matter to them. When I watch YT videos by the top players, it's almost always of them playing an objective based game where they don't even try to play the objective. That's lame. That's where COD needs to make some kind of change. Make the objectives matter more somehow. Maybe make it so that after a certain point in your KS you need to capture or defend an objective in some way in order to keep building your KS.
That's one of the things I hated about BlOps as a casual player, I could only very rarely rattle off enough kills to get any of the really cool killstreaks and that's a lot of the fun for most casual folks.