Former Call of Duty dev slams Modern Warfare map designs A former Infinity Ward employee who worked on the production of Call of Duty games between 2006 and 2012 has slammed the developer for the map designs in Modern Warfare. Robert Bowling, also known as \u2018fourzerotwo\u2019, was a Creative Strategist and Community Manager at Infinity Ward who oversaw the releases of each of the original Modern Warfare trilogy in his time with the company. Since then, he has worked with a variety of renowned gaming and esports companies, including NRG Esports and Electronic Arts, but has not distanced himself from the Call of Duty franchise completely, as evidenced in a tweet on November 5. Modern Warfare released on October 25, and since then players, streamers and pros alike have come out to complain about certain issues with the game and seek out more balance where possible. Posting on Twitter, Bowling shared screenshots of the \u201cMessage of the Day\u201d that was on the Modern Warfare main menu on November 5 \u2013 and he wasn\u2019t impressed. He said: \u201cSeemingly. Endless. Places. To hide. IS NOT A SELLING POINT\u201d Seemingly. Endless. Places. To hide.IS NOT A SELLING POINT pic.twitter.com\/ncHNrOTpSL \u2014 Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) November 5, 2019 The message in question was advertising the map Euphrates Bridge, a large map that features an assortment of destroyed buildings, blown up vehicles and a decrepit bridge that offer \u201cseemingly endless places to hide.\u201d In a later tweet, Bowling confirmed that whilst he was enjoying the game, he believes that \u201cwords matter and I don\u2019t think we need to promote hiding.\u201d To be clear I am loving this game. Don\u2019t let my \u201cold man yells at cloud\u201d tweets make you think otherwise. It\u2019s just that words matter and I don\u2019t think we need to promote hiding. Get out and fight. Post up and snipe, rush and gun, PLAY. Move tactically, but move. https:\/\/t.co\/HUSqzaH1j3 \u2014 Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) November 5, 2019 Numerous high-profile individuals have come out to speak about the issues they\u2019re having with the game, including Dr. Disrespect raging about shotguns and claymores and shroud addressing what he believes needs to be changed. On the other hand, a number of people are really enjoying the game \u2013 as exemplified by Tom \u2018ProSyndicate\u2019 Cassell when he ranted at numerous pro players and even Dr. Disrespect on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Call of Duty dev slams Modern Warfare map designs A former Infinity Ward employee who worked on the production of Call of Duty games between 2006 and 2012 has slammed the developer for the map designs in Modern Warfare. Robert Bowling, also known as \u2018fourzerotwo\u2019, was a Creative Strategist and Community Manager at Infinity […]<\/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-26551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26551","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=26551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}