Spratt column: SBMM could ruin CoD 2020 but Warzone can save it Spratt[jwplayer UQSrvz25]In his first Dexerto column, Call of Duty sniping legend James \u2018Spratt\u2019 Spratt takes a look at Modern Warfare, Warzone, and how to make the next CoD \u2014 heavily rumored to be named Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War \u2014 the best yet. Within Call of Duty, they\u2019ve mastered battle royale. It fits incredibly in the Call of Duty world, and it\u2019s so successful because it\u2019s so familiar. The looting aspect is so simple and knuckled-down, and it\u2019s a new area of gaming that people love to both watch and play. It was hard for me to transition from regular Modern Warfare multiplayer to Warzone. I\u2019ve built such a huge audience on multiplayer over the years; that\u2019s kind of my bread and butter. But I\u2019ve been trying to break into that world, because the audience for Warzone is way bigger than it is for multiplayer. It\u2019s magical. I\u2019ve been having a blast. Now, Warzone has changed how we see things and what we expect from a Call of Duty game. We\u2019ve got the battle pass, seasons, it\u2019s free-to-play\u2026 It\u2019s added an extra layer to the game, that we never had before. Warzone can help multiplayer, especially in CoD 2020 One area they\u2019re not really pushing enough, though, is the idea of ranking up weapons and attachments and getting to that higher level so you can succeed more in Warzone. If they did that and made multiplayer free-to-play, they would have an incredible amount of growth on both sides because people are itching to rank up new guns or their favorite weapons. Moving into the new game, I have this vision of them just nuking the whole map. In an incredible world they blow up the whole map with a nuke and you end up on the new game, whatever it\u2019s called, and you\u2019ve got similar mechanics, same format, Warzone\u2019s still there, you\u2019ve got a brand new map and a brand new multiplayer. I always recall back to Black Ops 2. When I look back at that game it had literally everything, for everybody: If you enjoyed sniping, the game was good for sniping; If you enjoyed running around with a knife, it was good for that; trickshots, it was good for that; using regular guns and pubstomping, it was good for that. Whatever it was that you liked about Call of Duty, that game had. I think ever since then, every game has had certain aspects of that, but they\u2019ve never had the whole thing. As long as #COD2020 allows me to hit some magic like this\u2026 I’ll be happy \ud83e\udd13 Which weapon do you miss the most? \ud83d\udc40 pic.twitter.com\/CszcBiZwk2 \u2014 James Spratt (@Spratt) August 10, 2020 I think with the new game, they need to figure out a way to have all of those creators, all of those different types of players, succeed. With Modern Warfare, they\u2019ve kind of missed out the middleman. People that are really aggressive can succeed in that game, people who are slower-paced can succeed at that game, but I think the average, running-around-casually players are punished. For me, it comes down to the skill gap. I see it in esports now. I\u2019m not really a big follower of the competitive scene as much as I used to be, but I just see at the moment it\u2019s a different team winning every time, and it kind of showcases that the skill gap isn\u2019t really as high as it used to be. I think that also works within multiplayer. You can see that if you\u2019re at the top, you\u2019re still not thriving as much as you would be on different games because of that smaller skill gap. I think in the next game you need the opportunity, a platform, a game in general, that allows the really good players to thrive and, if you\u2019re on that level, you can\u2019t be touched. If you put time in, if you put the hours in, and you\u2019re a lot better than someone else, you should be rewarded for that skill. It\u2019s happening in Warzone right now. You see players coming out of nowhere, who are absolutely ridiculous, and I just think \u201cThey\u2019ve only just started doing it and they\u2019re way better than me!\u201d That\u2019s amazing to see. I love to see that. That\u2019s what the new CoD needs to do within multiplayer as well. SBMM and making CoD 2020 more fun The thing that I hope, and my fingers are crossed for, is that they remove skill-based matchmaking from CoD 2020. When it comes down to it, the actual execution, it just doesn\u2019t allow for much creativity. It doesn\u2019t allow for any unique gameplay because, at the end of the day, if you\u2019re playing against people who are just as good as you, you have to use the best guns in the game to compete. Seriously.. how unreal is this?! Such a crazy opportunity.. so of course, I had to show ’em how it’s done \ud83d\ude08 pic.twitter.com\/YC378wcyc8 \u2014 James Spratt (@Spratt) August 8, 2020 It\u2019s the same with Warzone, too. SBMM is there as well, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s as harsh, but I still struggle. You\u2019ve got to use the meta weapons, especially in all these different tournaments. Moving forward, they need to remove SBMM and allow more creativity and unique gameplay from both creators and just people trying to have fun, whether you make videos or not. If you want to run around with something that\u2019s a bit weird, then you can. That\u2019s what I hope for. I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve ever had SBMM within the Black Ops series, so I\u2019m definitely looking forward to that side of things. As long as it plays like a Black Ops game, like a Treyarch game, then I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spratt column: SBMM could ruin CoD 2020 but Warzone can save it Spratt[jwplayer UQSrvz25]In his first Dexerto column, Call of Duty sniping legend James \u2018Spratt\u2019 Spratt takes a look at Modern Warfare, Warzone, and how to make the next CoD \u2014 heavily rumored to be named Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War \u2014 the […]<\/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-31427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31427","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=31427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}