Scump claims Warzone\u2019s slide-canceling made CoD \u201cless skillful\u201d Activision \/ Twitter, @OpTicTexasProfessional Call of Duty\u2019s biggest name, OpTic Scump, isn\u2019t sold on the slide-canceling era brought about by Warzone and Modern Warfare. Instead, he thinks the movement mechanic lowered CoD\u2019s skill gap. A skill gap is a relatively simple concept. In a game, the difficulty of mastering certain mechanics creates a window that can separate low- and high-skill players. RNG elements, for example, are considered to lower a skill gap \u2013 as their randomness can give low-skill players an advantage against those who have honed their talents. This is one of the reasons why many consider battle royales to be inherently non-competitive. A common sentiment is that CoD\u2019s movement mechanics, whether in jetpack or slide-canceling titles, increases the skill gap by giving players new skills to practice. Conversely, OpTic Gaming\u2019s Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner believes it\u2019s the opposite. Scump argues that Warzone slide canceling is \u201cless skillful\u201d (For mobile users, segment begins at 32:24) While discussing fast- and slow-paced CoD titles on the OpTic Podcast, Scump revealed his issue with the current movement era: \u201cThe more variables, I feel like lessens the skill gap.\u201d Teammate Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell wasn\u2019t quite convinced, so Scump elaborated: \u201cSlide canceling and jump mechanics, it creates unpredictability\u2026 He could slide cancel you and you could not expect it because he has so many things in his arsenal that he can use. It\u2019s unpredictability, which makes it less skillful.\u201d Scump was very aware that this might not be the most popular opinion, especially with co-podcasters Dashy and Nick \u2018MaNiaC\u2019 Kershner not being necessarily persuaded. It does raise an interesting debate, though. Inherently, difficult mechanics should theoretically mean a higher skill gap because there\u2019s even more skills to practice. Scump, on the contrary, believes that \u201cthe more vanilla it gets, the more skillful it becomes.\u201d POV: trying to kill @Shotzzy on the MW19 engine \ud83d\ude30pic.twitter.com\/m5bVwBy2KQ \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) October 8, 2021 With CoD\u2019s longstanding emphasis on \u201cbreaking cameras\u201d (as explained by Tommy \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto back in June 2020), Scump\u2019s right that there is some randomness due to movement mechanics. You can see just how chaotic slide cancels appear in the clip of someone facing Anthony \u2018Shotzzy\u2019 Cuevas-Castro in the clip above. If someone is able to do a movement that the game struggles to balance out visually on an enemy\u2019s screen, then there is some randomness which could harm the skill gap. Still, one has to wonder if that\u2019s an issue with complex mechanics or simply an issue with the game (and servers) keeping up. Regardless, it seems that Scump wants CoD to be more about thinking and shooting straight than breaking ankles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump claims Warzone\u2019s slide-canceling made CoD \u201cless skillful\u201d Activision \/ Twitter, @OpTicTexasProfessional Call of Duty\u2019s biggest name, OpTic Scump, isn\u2019t sold on the slide-canceling era brought about by Warzone and Modern Warfare. Instead, he thinks the movement mechanic lowered CoD\u2019s skill gap. A skill gap is a relatively simple concept. In a game, the difficulty […]<\/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-30947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947","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=30947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}