Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Andybtsn · 18 Dec 2023 at 11:37

GhostDog1981 said:
It’s sad. I wonder if the developers know this is happening?

They will. It’s completely killed party play, my missis used to play a lot, she could hold her own but now the lobbies I get put in she can’t cope so lost interest. As mentioned above, ranked play should be sbmm and disabled for normal playlists.

Ewan154 · 21 Dec 2023 at 19:21

Can't get logged into call of duty multiplayer. it keeps saying logging into online service. Tried resetting router but still getting this message. Tested xbox connection and it says it fine.

it was fine last night, just this morning

ZG002 · 23 Dec 2023 at 00:57

What's up with the spawns? Ultra aggressive, kill or be killed and spawn behind your enemy for round two, rinse and repeat.

Broken

barmyllama · 23 Dec 2023 at 07:45

ZG002 said:
What's up with the spawns? Ultra aggressive, kill or be killed and spawn behind your enemy for round two, rinse and repeat.

Broken

I think they are worse now than in the beta.

Completely broken.

biron_w · 23 Dec 2023 at 08:55

ZG002 said:
What's up with the spawns? Ultra aggressive, kill or be killed and spawn behind your enemy for round two, rinse and repeat.

Broken

Seems that something changed in the last update. Lots of people complaining on Reddit and XclusiveAce did a video recently and he says that something has definitely changed.

biron_w · 23 Dec 2023 at 08:56

barmyllama · 23 Dec 2023 at 10:09

I think the spawn logic went from.

Is there an enemy within 10 meters?

To

Can I spawn you directly in the middle of lane with the enemy already aiming at me.

Or

Can I spawn you directly in front of an enemy that just repawned less than 100ms after me.

Ewan154 · 25 Dec 2023 at 12:11

Has anyone bought the battlepass? Can you use a MS gift voucher to purchase it?

antijoke · 27 Dec 2023 at 09:16

Ewan154 said:
Has anyone bought the battlepass? Can you use a MS gift voucher to purchase it?

Yes you can

antijoke · 31 Dec 2023 at 23:52

Does anyone else feel like SBMM just doesn’t work for them?

I’ve being doing the interstellar grind and my god it’s been rage inducing on some of the challenges, my KD has cratered and I’ve gone on 10+ game streaks of heavily negative KD (I’m talking 0.5 and below) and yet my lobbies, get harder! With players going in even more! I thought there was supposed to be a swing if you’re getting smashed. These French/Dutch/Spanish players do not mess about.

I’m on PS5 with cross play off so I’ve no idea if that’s messing things up

Eddie99 · 1 Jan 2024 at 01:37

antijoke said:
Does anyone else feel like SBMM just doesn’t work for them?

I’ve being doing the interstellar grind and my god it’s been rage inducing on some of the challenges, my KD has cratered and I’ve gone on 10+ game streaks of heavily negative KD (I’m talking 0.5 and below) and yet my lobbies, get harder! With players going in even more! I thought there was supposed to be a swing if you’re getting smashed. These French/Dutch/Spanish players do not mess about.

I’m on PS5 with cross play off so I’ve no idea if that’s messing things up

SBMM doesn't work as effectively when you disable crossplay because there's a much smaller pool of players to match you with. Also the type of player to disable crossplay is likely to be above average.

Mariusz · 1 Jan 2024 at 11:23

antijoke said:
Does anyone else feel like SBMM just doesn’t work for them?

I’ve being doing the interstellar grind and my god it’s been rage inducing on some of the challenges, my KD has cratered and I’ve gone on 10+ game streaks of heavily negative KD (I’m talking 0.5 and below) and yet my lobbies, get harder! With players going in even more! I thought there was supposed to be a swing if you’re getting smashed. These French/Dutch/Spanish players do not mess about.

I’m on PS5 with cross play off so I’ve no idea if that’s messing things up

I'm on Xbox but SBMM just does not like me, sick of getting smashed. Haven't been on for weeks due to it, it's just not enjoyable.

Ewan154 · 1 Jan 2024 at 17:13

Not enjoying the multi player games, there not fun.

Dont think I'll be buy call of duty next year.

smokedog · 2 Jan 2024 at 09:55

I can only play the smaller maps (Shipment, Meat, Rust), anything else is almost unplayable for me. I prefer more run and gun and playing on the larger maps I'm bait. The difficulty is very high, sometimes just trying to stay alive for a few seconds is a challenge... you get shot from everywhere and anywhere. When I do come against someone, there is almost a 99% chance I will die.

barmyllama · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:58

smokedog said:
I can only play the smaller maps (Shipment, Meat, Rust), anything else is almost unplayable for me. I prefer more run and gun and playing on the larger maps I'm bait. The difficulty is very high, sometimes just trying to stay alive for a few seconds is a challenge... you get shot from everywhere and anywhere. When I do come against someone, there is almost a 99% chance I will die.

I'm the same, but the spawn logic in those maps are just plain broken. Especially if the EOMM kicks in if you have a decent start. You then get spawned mid lane directly in front of an enemy already aiming at you five times in a row.

Pinball-Fantasies · 4 Jan 2024 at 21:29

The spawns on MW3 are the worse ive ever seen and on some maps are now unplayable , on level 66 and i am fed up already
Roll on some better maps

barmyllama · 5 Jan 2024 at 07:54

Pinball-Fantasies said:
The spawns on MW3 are the worse ive ever seen and on some maps are now unplayable , on level 66 and i am fed up already
Roll on some better maps

Should get one new map in a week or so for the mid season update. Hopefully it's better than the Greece map.

rchads89 · 5 Jan 2024 at 08:09

Bought this on release day for Xbox series x and just bought it for my ps5 to try out with crossplay off . I was expecting SBMM with crossplay off to be a little bit more forgiving how wrong was I just as bad!!! I'm a average player 1.70s k/d and play the objective but its just as sweaty with crossplay on

barmyllama · 5 Jan 2024 at 10:12

rchads89 said:
Bought this on release day for Xbox series x and just bought it for my ps5 to try out with crossplay off . I was expecting SBMM with crossplay off to be a little bit more forgiving how wrong was I just as bad!!! I'm a average player 1.70s k/d and play the objective but its just as sweaty with crossplay on

I think every game I play is a sweat fest. Part of it is the EOMM or SBMM but the other is the armoury unlock system leans heavily on wins.

BuffetSlayer · 5 Jan 2024 at 11:45

I’ve said since the start that the spawns are a train crash on this game and my view is that this is intentional because the devs want to force run and gun, which is great if that is your bag. But if it isn’t, it just tedious. Having no counter for covert sneakers is another example.

I haven’t played in a few weeks now but when I was playing regularly I was doing OK on PS5 with crossplay off, usually middle of the pack with a KD from just negative to 2+, depending on the map and how serious I was feeling. Some maps I’d come top or 2nd. That’s good for me!

I guess I’ve been lucky with lobbies as I’ve not had too many where I’m getting repeatedly wrecked.