CoD Pro ZooMaa calls \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreements\u2019 a \u201cjoke\u201d in Black Ops 4 FaZe Clan pro player Tommy \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto went on an impassioned rant about the recent controversy over \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreements\u2019 in Black Ops 4, saying he is \u201ctired\u201d of it. Gentleman\u2019s agreements (GA) have been used to varying degrees and with varying success over previous seasons in competitive Call of Duty, and it is an issue which has cropped up again in Black Ops 4. Although some in the community are vehemently against GA\u2019s in every aspect, some argue that they are necessary to allow the competitive community, mainly at the professional level, to act quickly when something is problematic \u2013 or at least quicker than the developers\/CWL can. Fans from the Infinite Warfare season will recall the issue with OSA assault rifle, which was used by almost all players at the first event, forcing a gentleman\u2019s agreement until it was finally ruled out of competitive play officially. Black Ops 4 doesn\u2019t have an OSA type situation thankfully, but there has been rumors of a possible GA to Ruin\u2019s Grapple Hook, at least in Search and Destroy, where it can be used at the start of almost every round. However, ZooMaa has made his feelings very clear on the issue. While playing the recent CMG ProDown tournament, the FaZe Clan vet lashed out at fellow pro\u2019s who were trying to enforce the Grapple GA, calling it a \u201cjoke\u201d. ZooMaa\u2019s teammate James \u2018Replays\u2019 Crowder explains that if he does use the Grapple in SnD, effectively breaking the GA, other teams will respond by using the Ajax specialist (also rumored to be GA\u2019d in competitive play due to the shield, which is not officially restricted in the ruleset). The Stage One MVP doesn\u2019t care however, saying \u201cI\u2019m tired of sitting back and letting people run the show. I\u2019m using the grapple every fucking map. Use Ajax, for all I give a fuck\u201d, before pointing out that other powerful specialists are being used. Although amendments to the V1 CWL Ruleset were made to better balance specialists in competitive (like making Torque\u2019s Barricade and Razor Wire deal no damage, for example), there are clearly still issues for some players. The debate around the Grapple Hook would likely be resolved by giving it a longer cooldown, so it cannot be used so frequently in Search and Destroy, or perhaps restricting it so it cannot be used for the first 10 seconds of an SnD round. Whether Treyarch has any plans to implement such changes to the Grapple in competitive play is unknown, and with only a matter of weeks until the first major event, CWL Vegas, there isn\u2019t much time to make changes either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CoD Pro ZooMaa calls \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreements\u2019 a \u201cjoke\u201d in Black Ops 4 FaZe Clan pro player Tommy \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto went on an impassioned rant about the recent controversy over \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreements\u2019 in Black Ops 4, saying he is \u201ctired\u201d of it. Gentleman\u2019s agreements (GA) have been used to varying degrees and with varying success over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}