total review - 3.5/10 had potential but squandered it

its like they seen what made MW2019 good and did the opposite in as many ways as possible, i only play hardcore and "tried to play" zombies so idk what the experience is like on core or the campaign, but most of my complaints are pretty much universal.

- first and foremost, ONLINE ONLY including campaign and zombies, and in zombies you aren't the host, you join a lobby (even when playing solo), which has a pause timer that if expired will exit the game (i do like the save system, but not being able to host and not being able to pause the game for more than 15 min is just stupid). i didn't realize that is was online only till after i went over 2 hours so i cant refund :(

- Buggy af, constant menu issues and graphical errors, this is a EA not a full 70$ AAA game

- re-spawn game modes are a slog due to bad spawns, constant spawn killing, largely due to bad spawn mechanics, but also cause the maps are too small with too many Penetrable walls (ex. nuketown, (how do you mess up nuketown?) will be killed in spawn by players in opposite spawn by pin) or too open/too many corridors will little to no cover (that isn't pin-able)

- latency so atrocious, most matches are at 70+ ping, i have no ping issues in any other game. it also only searches for matches for reasonable pings for a few seconds at most before upping the search range, let me set a limit so i dont get 70-80 ping matches, im fine waiting on that (vs emotes and play of the games, but ill talk about that in the next part) so i actually enjoy the game. also PACKET BURST, WHY IS THE REASON ITS ONLINE ONLY SOMETHING AS DUMB AS TEXTURES, MAKE IT OPTIONAL AND LET ME PLAY OFFLINE/ WITHOUT CONNECTION ISSUES

-1.5 min of "BEST PLAY"/"Watch 3 people emote at the screen" at the end of a round instead of starting the next. i only have so much time, id rather not spend 10 min just watching terribly clipped kill-feeds. and the emotes at the end of the match is pointless and dumb, just do emotes like in MW2019.

-AI art in calling cards, is a Billion dollar company, you can afford to pay artist...

- the load-out system while i can see what they were trying to do, it def is a miss, the gunsmith stuff is fine(ish) but it overall feels less customize-able than previous games
(edit) messing with it some more, you can do more things vanity wise but less practically. what i mean is skins and camos are more customize-able but you cant run akimbo with scopes/stocks and there isnt many gun mods that greatly affect how the weapon handles, both positive and negatively. the progression is mid, to unlock sights one must rank up multiple guns (which i kinda get but it would be better as a "X kill/headshots or what ever OR Y kills/headshot with x weapon" with Y being a smaller number.

(edit 1) zombies is mid at best, armored zombies make it a slog, too many "elite" zombies make it more frustrating than interesting, and quick revive only works once, as in it stay a equipped perk once you use it and cant go get it again
(edit 2) i do like the new movement system, i just wish everything else about the game was better than it is :(
(edit 3) why when you switch zones do all the zombies respawn... thats just dumb...
(edit 4) i would rather just play BO3 zombies, this zombies is a 4/10 AT BEST

i will update this if the game fixes these issues before i quit or if i find more ways to articulate my frustrations.

total review - 3.5/10 had potential but squandered it its like they seen what made MW2019 good and did the opposite in as many ways as possible, i only play hardcore and "tried to play" zombies so idk what the experience is like on core or the campaign, but most of my complaints are pretty much universal. - first and foremost, ONLINE ONLY including campaign and zombies, and in zombies you aren't the host, you join a lobby (even when playing solo), which has a pause timer that if expired will exit the game (i do like the save system, but not being able to host and not being able to pause the game for more than 15 min is just stupid). i didn't realize that is was online only till after i went over 2 hours so i cant refund :( - Buggy af, constant menu issues and graphical errors, this is a EA not a full 70$ AAA game - re-spawn game modes are a slog due to bad spawns, constant spawn killing, largely due to bad spawn mechanics, but also cause the maps are too small with too many Penetrable walls (ex. nuketown, (how do you mess up nuketown?) will be killed in spawn by players in opposite spawn by pin) or too open/too many corridors will little to no cover (that isn't pin-able) - latency so atrocious, most matches are at 70+ ping, i have no ping issues in any other game. it also only searches for matches for reasonable pings for a few seconds at most before upping the search range, let me set a limit so i dont get 70-80 ping matches, im fine waiting on that (vs emotes and play of the games, but ill talk about that in the next part) so i actually enjoy the game. also PACKET BURST, WHY IS THE REASON ITS ONLINE ONLY SOMETHING AS DUMB AS TEXTURES, MAKE IT OPTIONAL AND LET ME PLAY OFFLINE/ WITHOUT CONNECTION ISSUES -1.5 min of "BEST PLAY"/"Watch 3 people emote at the screen" at the end of a round instead of starting the next. i only have so much time, id rather not spend 10 min just watching terribly clipped kill-feeds. and the emotes at the end of the match is pointless and dumb, just do emotes like in MW2019. -AI art in calling cards, is a Billion dollar company, you can afford to pay artist... - the load-out system while i can see what they were trying to do, it def is a miss, the gunsmith stuff is fine(ish) but it overall feels less customize-able than previous games (edit) messing with it some more, you can do more things vanity wise but less practically. what i mean is skins and camos are more customize-able but you cant run akimbo with scopes/stocks and there isnt many gun mods that greatly affect how the weapon handles, both positive and negatively. the progression is mid, to unlock sights one must rank up multiple guns (which i kinda get but it would be better as a "X kill/headshots or what ever OR Y kills/headshot with x weapon" with Y being a smaller number. (edit 1) zombies is mid at best, armored zombies make it a slog, too many "elite" zombies make it more frustrating than interesting, and quick revive only works once, as in it stay a equipped perk once you use it and cant go get it again (edit 2) i do like the new movement system, i just wish everything else about the game was better than it is :( (edit 3) why when you switch zones do all the zombies respawn... thats just dumb... (edit 4) i would rather just play BO3 zombies, this zombies is a 4/10 AT BEST i will update this if the game fixes these issues before i quit or if i find more ways to articulate my frustrations.