{"id":26188,"date":"2025-01-28T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/evil-geniuses-aches-wants-to-see-a-classic-call-of-duty-mode-return-to-competitive-play-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:04:09","slug":"evil-geniuses-aches-wants-to-see-a-classic-call-of-duty-mode-return-to-competitive-play-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/evil-geniuses-aches-wants-to-see-a-classic-call-of-duty-mode-return-to-competitive-play-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Geniuses\u2019 ACHES wants to see a classic Call of Duty mode return to competitive play &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Geniuses\u2019 ACHES wants to see a classic Call of Duty mode return to competitive play Two-time Call of Duty world champion Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price, who has been competing for over a decade, wants to see one of the series\u2019 classic multiplayer modes back in competitive rotation. For the last few years, Call of Duty esports has featured three-to-four modes: Search and Destroy, Hardpoint and Capture the Flag\/Uplink. However, fans who were around during the Call of Duty: Ghosts season will remember that this wasn\u2019t always the case, as Domination and Blitz were both played in competitive during the game\u2019s run. Blitz wasn\u2019t loved by the community, but ACHES has revealed he would actually like to see Domination make a return in the CWL, saying that it\u2019s \u201cvery simple-to-follow, unique strategies require players to be good at multiple things, clutch situations, hype situations\u201d, and more. But not everyone agrees. Esports veteran and former Call of Duty caster Chris Puckett \u2013 who is now working with the Overwatch League \u2013 thinks that Domination is not best suited to the spectator experience. Puckett argues that having three simultaneous objectives \u2013 all active at one time \u2013 can be chaotic for viewers, while Hardpoint solves this problem by having one, rotating, objective. ACHES replied to Puckett, explaining that despite the ostensible chaos, fans will be most familiar with the mode, as it has been in every Call of Duty multiplayer, and so even casual fans of the series will know domination well. Other pro players were not keen either, though. 2013 world champion Chris \u2018Parasite\u2019 Duarte simply said: \u201cThat game mode sucks\u201d. ACHES was undeterred, however, suggesting that a whole new system could be used, including six game modes, with vetos and seeding deciding what is played in a five map series. More: What time is the Call of Duty Black Ops 4 esports reveal event? Stream and International timings &#8211; With that decision attracting most of the attention, there has been less conversation about potential game mode changes, but it is expected that Hardpoint and SnD will remain, with a third game mode being either Capture the Flag or Uplink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Geniuses\u2019 ACHES wants to see a classic Call of Duty mode return to competitive play Two-time Call of Duty world champion Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price, who has been competing for over a decade, wants to see one of the series\u2019 classic multiplayer modes back in competitive rotation. For the last few years, Call of Duty [&hellip;]<\/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-26188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188","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=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}