I just want to play the ******* game!!!

wunkley · 5 Mar 2021 at 17:03

Rant incoming....

Got Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War free with my GPU. I just want to play the single player campaign.

After taking almost a day to download the biggest file size game ever, you then have to set up a Blizzard account, then download and set up a Battlenet account, then it prompts you for some other account, then it makes you sign into or create an Activision account, then it says connecting to a server which then doesn't connect and it just keeps going on and on and on and on.

Arrrrrrrrrrg. I just want to try out the ******* game.

Why do they do this? Why? It does not need to be like this, so why do they do it?

If I had a physical copy of this **** I would have taken it out, snapped it in half and binned it.

As I don't have this option, can anyone tell me how to get to, and just play the single player game please.
When it loads it puts me to a screen saying connecting to call of duty online, then says I'm in a server queue. The only option is to Quit to desktop, nothing else. I don't want to be in a server queue, I just want to get to the single player campaign.

....Rant over. For now.

wunkley · 5 Mar 2021 at 19:53

Still can’t play the ******* game. Endlessly trying to connect to server

wunkley · 5 Mar 2021 at 19:58

Gray2233 said:
Have you given it access through your firewall?

I think so, got the usual pop up...

wunkley · 5 Mar 2021 at 20:14

You may think I’m being hyperbolic but my experience with this game today is an allegory for everything that’s wrong in the world today.

it’s a microcosm example. Seriously. I have had some wine though.

wunkley · 6 Mar 2021 at 12:08

Well then, the game has decided to work today i.e. gets to the menu. No idea why.

What a load of ****, can't even bring myself to play it after all that!

And I've been playing games since gaming began by the way. I'm all too familiar with just holding down all the keys randomly on a ZX Spectrum to make a game load, or slightly changing the volume(!?) on the tape recorder to make it work. WTF was all that about.

Great days though and gaming peaked for me with the N64.

wunkley · 6 Mar 2021 at 16:27

JohnG7 said:
The first time you run the game or update your GPU driver (every time) you are going to have a long wait to let it do it things to textures or ignore and go in and play (it claims it is for MP but it effects the SP FPS as it runs like poop anyhow).

I have had some very big patches din few weeks I have had it installed.

This is caching shaders you're on about there. It's done that and that wasn't the problem. It would not get past the "joining a server" screen to get to the main menu. Just endlessly looped saying wait 1 minute, wait 2 minutes, wait, 1 minute, and on and on.

Anyway, it's working today and I don't know why. Just played the first few mins of the single player campaign. Despite my earlier moodiness it looks like it might be fun. And a good workout for the 3090FE (which is how I got the game free).