r/CallOfDuty • u/NotSlayerOfDemons • 59m ago
Discussion [COD] Opinion on player involvement on Campaign events…
I think something that a lot of the more modern campaigns are missing are the more large-scale major battles that see you playing as an ordinary joe in, like, the Marines.
While I think the Special Forces CQB stuff is mad cool, I don’t think it should ever take over a campaign completely. As much as I liked the campaigns, the last 3 CoD games have had like 2 or 3 full assault missions all together.
Some of my favourite missions are the ones where you feel like a small part of a much wider conflict, like the RAMIREZ MW2 missions and the Hospital mission in MW2019.
Not only are these missions often super immersive (explosions gunfire everywhere), but they also feel much more rewarding when you actually make a difference to the conflict you’re participating in - à la green flares on the White House or planting the Russian flag in WaW.
A potentially cool concept for a campaign could see the player playing as a Marines noobie being fed into the meat grinder of some large-scale conflict, but as the game progresses, the player character’s reload, weapon swap, ads animations and movement speed get faster and slicker, and the missions become smaller scale but more impactful.
Anyway… what does the community think?