Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Call of Duty: Warzone Review 2024 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

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What's up everybody? Welcome to the kind of funny games cast for Friday, July 26, 2024. I'm one of your hosts Greg Miller alongside the Hispanic heartthrob, Texas tree, Latino heat, clicking heads and ripping them to shreds, the globe trotting, headshotting, rootin, tutin, three point shooting. Nitro rifle from Twitch.tv. Andy Cortez. Do I look tired now, person from the super chats? yesterday? Put them on your TV? Because I'm more tired. So probably. Damn, I thought it was going the opposite way. Like you used eye patches or you slept or whatever. No, no, probably. You stay playing games? No, man. I'm doing some legal stuff.

Illegal or doing legal? Do some illegal stuff. Oh shit, fuck. I'm trying to get blood-borne 60 frames per second on this PS5. Model launch day PS5, Greg. Factory sealed. In new inbox. Hasn't been touched. Pretty, you. You know, not cheap, not cheap, right? And man, this is, I was like, it'll be like mod in a video game. I've modded video games, Greg. You never modded hardware.

Did you have to get the soldering iron out? No, but like, I might as well, I feel like by the end of this, I may be able to, like, find, and we can go get Osama bin Laden or something. We got him. I'm sorry. We got them already, Andy.

Oh, nice. We got them. That's one down. Don't need that one on you. It's a lot, man. It's a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, like setbacks and then I'd have a break to and be like oh shit here we go let's do this and then another big setback and be like so let's just take a few steps back because I know

it's like February 16th, 1988 but the mics went live during games daily and they heard you guys in the other room talking about a PlayStation 5 I didn't understand that yeah so I've definitely missed a few conversations around here probably then you had to go buy a launch PS5 But from eBay, yeah. Because that version has something that the others don't. Craig, yeah. Model number CFI 1015A. Those are like the launch day PS5s.

You have to have that. That's CFI 1015A, Greg, is the one that's going to have the oldest sort of firmware because you can't dial back firmware. Yeah. If I have a launch day PS5, Michael's like, I have a launch day PS5. I was like, right, but you can't go backwards. You can't have seen the internet. Yes. It needs to think it's 2020. Exactly.

Exactly, Greg. It's way more involved than I thought it'd be. What all are you doing? Are you under the hood or they're like USBs you're putting in? I mean like, you know, I had to download Python, you know, like that's where we're at. Python. Python, I'm typing in command prompts. I'm putting stuff on flash drives and, you know, booting into safe mode on the PS5.

It's a, it is the most stressful thing I've tried doing. And then of course, because this thing isn't perfect, you know, you're going to run into issues. and every one of these YouTubers is like, and if it crashes, no worries, it crashes a lot. So make sure you just go back into the PS5. I'm like, oh, man, like, that's something you also have to worry about. It's a whole thing, Greg, but...

So you don't have it running? I have it jailbroken. Okay. I have a jail broken, allegedly. And I have a new inbox copy of Bloodborn on the way. That's a late-night purchase I made last night because I was like, well, I got it on my old PlayStation. I was like, oh, but that doesn't count.

I can't. You can't download it. You can't do it with the internet. So it's, it's, you know, we're, I'm in the whole financial. I was just say, yeah. I understand that you have this second job where you stream a lot. Like, they're giving you too many subs. Michael's like, what did you?

How did it go, man? I was like, well, I ended up paying for a month of faster download speeds from some side to get, like, because, you know, because I'll be like, hey, we're going to live at you to try to get these PKG. It's a whole thing, man. It's just, it's a lot. He's going to play Bloodborne again, though. Are you, when you're done, when it's actually running, will you please give us the grand total of how much it costs to play blood worn at 60 for a second?

Sure. Yeah, right now I'm probably sitting around like, yeah, a little over 30, close to 13, 1400 maybe. That's nothing. That's easy. That's easy money right there. That's a couple vintage sweatshirts of my own. That's a week. Like agreeing with you, Andy.

A couple of vintage sweatshers. That should be the sign something's wrong, Andy. Mike's agreeing with your financial decisions. Yeah, that's number one. and just as like your roommate, as Andy's roommate, I please implore everybody to go to nitro Rifle.com to buy his verse to make up for that money.

Remaster, remastered everybody. I wouldn't have to do any of this if they just remastered it, right? You know as soon as you're done, they probably will. Well, I'd like to think on the catalyst.

I think I'm starting, if that ever happens, I'm going to take full credit for it and be like, wow, they're really listening out there. Look at that. Yeah, they saw your pain to get there.

It wasn't Maximilian dude streaming getting 60 frames per second, continue ADP. It was definitely me. For sure. It's a big deal. 60 frames. He's the master of hype and the master of the souls like. It's snow bike, Mike. Yeah, that is true. I'm the best souls like player in the office.

Everyone knows it. Of course, I want to give a shout out to all of our athletes out there. Kicking off the Olympics, shout to the goat. LeBron James, Lamerica. Thank you, Captain Lamerica, for holding the flag today. This is the torch. That's no. I got it. I got the visuals. Man, how cool would it be if they called you? And they're like, Andy, you know, Salt Lake City, L.A., we're hosting the Olympics.

We want you to carry the torch. We heard that you made 86 out of 103 points one night in Austin, Texas when you were just out there shooting, like, sounds good. I'm in. Come on out. How long do you think you could run with that torch? About 16 minutes, maybe. Because it's like a four-hour thing, right?

It's a whole country, I think. They run across the whole country, right? Well, yeah, but you say, I mean, like, you know. Oh, yeah, he takes, like, a part of it. Yeah, yeah. No, I need you to give me, like, two hours, minimum. They don't run for two hours You think, really?

If I'm giving him They're on a boat I remember being a kid We went to some breakfast stop And there was some like old townie in there Who had the cat and he's like I ran it and he was like old as hell He didn't run two hours

But me hold it I was a little kid Oh that's so cool But you understand that I confessed out there And as a little kid I agreed as well I really hurt me I fucking hate the Olympics What a waste of our time

What I said A waste of the world's time That's crazy Money a waste of that Sports nobody gives a shit about Suddenly I'm supposed to care about volleyball, bobsledding?

I know it's, you know, I'm combining, I know. I'm kind of tight, though, yeah. Get out of here. My hatred for the Olympics

runs so deep, I never watch Cool Running. I was like, I don't know. What? I'm not going to support this. What? I'm not going to support this.

Jamaica we have a bobsled team? They put it on a fox all the time. Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme. I'll read a book. That's how poor. That's what I was like, I'll read a book rather than this.

Cool running! I don't want this Olympics Indoctrination in my house. Greg, I feel like you're just resentful because you know your son's going to grow up as a jock. I know that for sure. But, no, this is, I mean, maybe that's the long game. You know, it's encoded in my DNA that way.

But again, little Greggie, not even having it. How about Olympic video games? None of that either? I mean, I'm sure I taught, you know, I rented them or whatever. I mean, I probably had them. But again, like, you know, Mario Sonica at the Olympics, not Greg Miller. And rounding out our trio of Call of Duty Warzone Devotease. It's the one, the only the weapons arbiter.

Chris, ain't. Hello, Chris. You know, I agree with you, Greg. I also hate the Olympics. That's crazy. I've just, I've never understood it. I just, I understand it in a way of like, oh, well, it's a cool idea of these things competing, I guess. You just don't care.

It goes on too long. Make it a night. Make one night of the Olympics. What was on the Olympics? We stopped the Soviets. I mean, we didn't. I mean, we beat them in the game. Miracle on ice.

It's a great moment. That's what's what caused world peace. Well, again, Osama bin Laden is dead. Osama bin Laden's dead. And you do need to check in on World Peace. It isn't doing so. right now. I know you're behind on the times. Chris, thank you so much

for joining us. In case people don't know you, who are you? In general? Do you want to be credited as co-lead character design across Spider-verse? Sure. Yeah, you know, may as well. He's better that than like, better that than like the stressed out guy who plays with

Mike and Nick. Yeah, I would go with more like the weapons arbiter, the man who keeps up with the meta, the dude that leads Mike and Nick into the war zone each and every weeknight, to go out and get dubs and rise the ranks. It's the one, the only, Chris Anka. I understand.

That stressed me out so much. I loved when we were playing, we were all playing wars on the other day, and it was all four of us without Chris. Chris was in the chat watching, and I pointed out like, man, Nick, there's still so much you don't know, and you play this game every night.

And, like, basic stuff. But, yeah, and Chris is like, thank you, Andy. Like, because I, The stress and the stories that I hear from Chris and also from everybody else when Chris is not there, I'm going to be like, oh man, Chris is real mad at us.

We really frustrated him. I took a three-week break from speaking to Nick and Mike. They're not through that window, right? Yeah, I had to alt-I-for that game. I alt-a-for call of duty and Discord. We really love Call-Duty and more. It brings us together.

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we don't need that shit Well, it obviously It's scripted Because there's a whole Runner's show Where he asks To like prepare questions And then

Why is he picking certain questions for Tim? Maybe Where's the Greg Smallville episode? Maybe there's a game called Round Robin Where you know, We regularly have pointed questions Barrett's superfluous I don't know of here

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Call of Duty War Zone is finally upon us. J.K., it's been here since March 10th, 2020. Oh, man, it has been a time. More importantly, season five dropped this week. That's interesting. Mommy's in it. I got to come in and play with you guys because of the WWE connection. It was my...

I said in my first match, I must have played once before or something with that. I'm just not a Call of Duty Head. We definitely played with... It was on a stream for... a GameSpot fundraiser with Lucy James. Remember that? It was their pandemic.

Wow. Really? You got Greg Miller in the war zone. Yeah, it was me, Greg, Nick, and I think maybe just Luce or maybe just us three and Luce is just there. A little Pandy stream. I love a good Pandy stream.

Didn't love the Pandy. You know, I love the Pandy. I'm already getting in the hole. I'm already getting the hole. I get out of it. Instead, what I want to do is talk about what exactly is going down here right now.

You know it's one of those things. I'm sorry, this is a quick aside as I pull the car over. I'm going to pull out my phone. Actually, my phone is exploding. I think it's just Lucy and Jen talking about something unbelievable, but I'll still put it on to leave me alone mode. It's not directly about us.

I can see names going through. Something is happening in my realm of life, but it's definitely the Olympics. That's what Lucy James. Captain of America. Next time Lucy's on Game Showdown, give her a football, a soccer ball, and a tennis ball. See if she can name them.

Okay. Anyways, I digress. I want to know what is going on with Warzone for you three both as individuals and then as the team? Because it's been one of those. It launches in March. It's 2020.

I know you guys like Call of Duty. You're playing Call of Duty. But to jump ahead four years, the fact that you've made Nick obsessed with Call of Duty. I do remember the first time you guys brought him on the stream to play it and it was going to be like, oh, this will be fun. Let's see if you like. He's playing on his PS5 with a mouse and keyboard.

He's in the same. person. Inverted. He's an insane. We don't need to get into how crazy this man is, right? But it's one of those like, Andy, have you been playing war zones since March 10, 2020? Way more often on in the last, I'd say maybe two and a half years or so. The first year was an obsession.

The first year was a lifestyle. The first year was we're all cooped up in our bedrooms and this is our hangout place. This is where we're streaming. this is where I'm just playing offstream as well, just because we're so addicted to that grind. And I'm playing keyboard mouse now. It's my first time playing keyboard mouse games. Like, I'd never done that really in the past.

And this is like the first time I'm playing a keyboard mouse video game shooter. And I feel like I'm pretty proficient at it. And this is exciting. And then eventually enthusiasm definitely dies off later on. There's times that Nick and Mike are constantly shaming me for not joining them. Like any good friend would do. In the late nights. But the, I'd say in the last year or so, I have gotten back into it in some ways.

Usually whenever there's a larger update. And it's like, you know what? We play that today on stream. I had fun. Let's play more tonight. Let's play more tomorrow. Or whenever Nick doesn't have a comedy night or whatever. So it's been pretty off and on for me recently, especially the nature of our business.

It's constantly stuff I'd rather be playing or stuff that I need to. kind of play so I can, you know, have something to talk about. Otherwise, it's just war zone all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, which is kind of what Nick's reality became. We created a monster. It's an amazing. Yeah, you definitely created a monster.

That's the best way to put it way. Yeah. This man went from occasionally playing a game, often playing story based off to just playing war zone now. Yeah. Mike, do you regret making Nick into this? No, now I have a friend for life in Nick's carpino. And I have a friend in life in Andy and Chris Sanka and Maddoch and Kevin and J.D.

and Washburn and Tagato and both. I mean, I'm lucky. I loved Call of Duty Warzone, and I still love it to this day. It is my comfort game. It is my go home and spend countless hours with friends game, right? I think we talk about these new games as a service trying to take all of your time and be that ecosystem

where they want you to just live and breathe in. And Call of Duty and Call of Duty Warzone has been that for me. I am truly into this game. I love this game. It is my top third. battle royale and it's not two or three right and so i think they've really they've nailed it on a gameplay front and the ecosystem front of call of duty but for me as a player like it is everything that i want i love everything that you want yeah it's i mean the shared progression between now

what you see with war zone into call of duty mobile and call of duty proper with multiplayer and zombies it has enough for you to be like hey you can do anything any night and it's feeding in to that overall call of duty umbrella that you are holding. And I really, really enjoy that. I think the war zone gameplay moment to moment is fantastic. It has everything

that I'm looking for from a fluid movement and traversal mechanic to gunplay, to map design, to the options of like what is happening. Are we going to the big maps to play traditional battle royale? Or are we doing a smaller map that has resurgence

where it feels like the pressure is kind of tanked just a little bit down, which I really, really enjoy. It reminds me of like whenever games are trying to break in and trying to have that new, here's this new Battle Royale. We are trying to take the mindshare of some of these gamers and get them away from Warzone or whatever.

And it reminds me of trying to get an iPhone user to switch to Android or vice versa. Because like they are into their platforms. Their whole lives are on that platforms. And it's gotten to that point where it's not just, well, I like Call of Duty. it's also like, well, I bought skins on call duty, but all my battle pass stuff is over there on call of duty.

I kind of rather exist on that platform. Sure, of course. And so then Chris Anka, talk to me. Have you always been there since 2020? This is exactly what you want and you were obsessed with it? Yeah, I mean, this was like everyone else had like Animal Crossing. Like this was like, and I think the point is like I tried like Fortnite a little bit beforehand. And I think that's the only other best.

Battle Royale, but like, I didn't call of duty worked because I understood the mechanics already. And so it just, it felt good to play. And then, like, I could, like, then learn battle royale on top of that. And so it pretty much has been a consistent thing. I think since then,

I think there was a little bit of a downtime there because Mike would refuse to play the big maps. And then so we just couldn't have... Why do you play the big maps? I loved all the games that Mike, that, like, Mike listed off of his friends forever. Most of them refused to play this game now. so I couldn't get three people for two years to play this

and so thankfully with like because they keep changing and they're adding back old favorites we're now in a good kind of healthy spot with the game but like it's pretty much been a consistent part of my own so then I want to start then in March 2020 when IG gave it a 7 out of 10 I want to read the verdict from James Duggan over there

in spite of the serious concept to depth made in the name of instant gratification. Call of Duty Warzone's beta, because it launched that way, yes? That's how it initially launched. Yeah, I believe so, yeah. That's what this review referred to it as, but it was dated. And it's wild that this was like a year or two after, what was there, Black Ops Battle Royale?

A Blackout. Blackout. Blackout, yeah. Remains thoroughly enjoyable. The Battle Royale formula is intact, albeit some of the aspects that usually make it so exciting and replayable are muted here. I'd love to see a reason to try something other than my modern warfare multiplayer load out in the future, given how easy it is to acquire, and think the armor plate system

and the gulog are in need of revision. But my time spent in Verdansk, Verdesk, Verdance? Verdance. Why is he spelled like that? Did he spell it wrong? Because that's not how you say dance. Verdance? Yeah, right?

Oh, well, it was still supremely fun, even if the how and the why of it didn't matter all that much. Chris Anka, is that a fair review for how it launched? then how it is now? I'd say so a little bit. I also feel like a lot of it was different compared to. I know a lot of people, like, the change from blackout to war zone

was kind of like a hard thing for a lot of people because they played so differently. One was really, really fast, one was really slow. And I think kind of what messed everything was because COVID hit right at the beginning of war zone. I mean, their plan was to do a different battle real every year. So whatever the 2021 game would have been,

would have been a new, I think it was going to be blackout too. But because it would hit, when Warzone dropped, it became so big and derailed everything. And we kind of felt it for years, of them kind of like retroactively changing Warzone to try to update it. And it kind of kept breaking more and more

because it wasn't built for that. So it's like, I think the bones of Warzone, I think the reason why I liked it was that it was kind of simple. And it was easy to kind of just understand what it was. and I think where it's succeeding now is that it's kind of going back to that a little bit to like sort of the thing that you know

because they tried for like three years there of like adding a bunch of other shit and it just sort of broke the like simple foundation it had. Yeah, this game for so long felt like it was held together by fucking scotch tape. Like it was you could tell this was a huge surprise for them because everything slowed down during COVID

like Chris was just mentioning and everybody found in the same way Nintendo never thought that Animal Crossy was going to do those numbers called duty never thought that Warson was going to do these numbers especially after Blackout was somewhat successful but nothing that like you know anybody looked at Fortnite and was like oh this is going to take out Fortnite war zone became way larger than they thought and became this monster that they're like oh shit everybody's here now everybody loves this let's just keep on iterating on this and like man, I think back to those first several days, like, I can't get 60 frames in this server

for whatever reason. This lobby is just so fucked. Like, shit, or that, you know, launch PS5. You're so right, $1,200. But, like, it's wild to think of how poor the game ran and I still played it. And I would still play. Why? What about it? Grabbed you and made you go, okay, this is clearly broken or not

working the way it should, and I need to come back and play it all time. It's, it's the, I mean, it's just the address. and the blood rushing of those close matches. It's where I wanted to be. I wanted to level up these weapons. And then once the game started becoming more and more obvious of going to multiplayer to level up your stuff, and now go back into the war zone with your leveled up weapons, some people love that workflow.

To me, I'm just like, oh, man, that just seems like a job in and of itself. And I don't want to, I like playing it now, but I don't want to play that badly. Luckily now there's, you know, if you're able to navigate their battle pass in any way, which probably as hard as me trying to mod the PlayStation 4 last night. If you're able to navigate the battle pass, the double XP and all that stuff, and they'll often have double XP weekends. But initially on the game just got way too large,

and it was a nightmare for it to run, and it was constantly crashing, booting us from games. I'll never forget we did a custom, when they released custom matches, custom battle royal matches. I think we streamed for, for five hours, four hours, and we played six matches. Because it was just,

lobbies were breaking. All right, we're finally in. Oh, shit. Mike and J.D. aren't here. God damn it. Okay. All right, everybody back out. Like, it was a nightmare.

And the game, I think, has, like, always tried to struggle to kind of catch up with that success. Yeah. I think now it's in a spot where, sure, you're still going to restart four or five times because your shaders are installing. And then the game will just be like,

all right, we're restarting you again or whatever. but I think the game is in a much more stable spot now my heart's just not in it like it used to be. Oh, wow. Mike? Yeah, it was the familiarity. It felt like being at home, being a 90s kid growing up through all of the Call of Duties, it's like you instantly understand the game

and it feels good, right? The Call of Duty gunplay and movement, you understand it, you see it. The just look of the game, the movement and the flow, the icons on the map and on the screen, just understood it better than jumping into a Fortnite or an apex. And me and Chris Sankin, the boys, have played all these different battle royale games.

And it always felt good to be in the Call of Duty world for me. And I think that's what was so special. It was the pandemic. We were in lockdown. Also on the side of Call of Duty, like, Call of Duty is an annual release. Warzone becomes this massive thing with Modern Warfare. Now they're coming to Vanguard and Black Ops.

And I think they're probably inside the studio going, well, this new game is coming and we need to make sure that's justified with this. How do we tie it in? And that's how Chris Sankan, Andy talked about like, now all of a sudden they're smashing systems of these guns got to be implemented in here. This movement's got to be in here. And that's where we got kind of into the dark ages of called duty war zone, where it's like, I mean, that first year was fantastic. Then we started adding pieces and just didn't feel right.

We shut down war zone 1.0. We went to war zone 2.0. even the beginning of that wasn't perfect. But now, like Chris said, I think right now it's probably in one of its better places that it's been in a long, long time, which is nice. And Chris doubling back to you then, that means you say it's in the better place because of simplicity, back to basics?

Yeah, so like between, I think like year three to four, they basically wiped the game and launched, they launched Warzone 2. And they made a lot of changes to kind of like reacting towards like other battle, Royals and like bringing in other systems. They tried to do like an extraction mode and they're looking at not not PubG escape from Tarkoff.

And like they overthought it and it broke a different way and it didn't feel right. And it took them I think until about a year ago to like regress all those changes. Interesting. And just be like we had it. We had it at the beginning. Just get back there but like make it like and they're doing a different thing now whereas they react they were reacting for years and they were. like changing engines for years

and now they're like just make one engine and go forward with that rebuild the game and now going forward like the Blackout Blackop 6 is the first tray art game to be using a different

company's engine they're using Infinity Word's engine so that because now they're thinking with the words in mind everything is now going to integrate theoretically better it's you don't still call it duty that like this is the first time they're like we're not you don't play with different toys just use our toys your way

and we can see how this can gel so like in theory hopefully it works better you know in November or whatever the game comes up it's they're yelling at everything about everything all the time I don't know I can't keep track but like I think they've like learned enough that we're five years in the game hasn't died which is

I think a good thing right like no I don't know anyone who plays Apex anymore you know you guys always refuse to do it I was good on console, I swear, and then I tried playing a PC and they're like, oh man, look how good you were on console. Look at all your wins. Cross console or a cross-play account or whatever.

So, like, we'll put you in those lobbies because you won so much. And I'm like, but I'm not like that good on PC. I'm not that guy. Man, I get, anytime we've played Apex, if we were better at Apex, we'd play it more. But I'm terrible at it. I'd play a lot more of these battle royals

if I was good. Like, Fortnite, I feel really. good at, but like I just don't enjoy it. Apex I like, but I'm very bad at and I immediately want to turn it off. And if it's like, yeah, if I was just a little bit better at Apex, maybe I'd spend more time there. But I think that's the call of duty success in the formula is it speaks to so many gamers. You, no matter what your age is, where you've been from, if you've played one call of duty,

guess what? You're going to understand this, see it, and jump right in and feel at home. Like that's the win. And it's shocking for me as an outsider who doesn't pay attention, literally to anything when it comes around to the call of duty, like ecosystem and what's going on in it. I was expecting this to have been to be, it is great and it's been great. And obviously there's bumps and stuff in the road. But it seemed like, you know, the reaction we talk about with college football, Mike,

and like all these people coming back and doing all these different things. For me, I remember during pandemic, me, Jen and Lucy would joke that our neighbor across the street every night was over there playing call of duty. And it must have been war zone. It was war zone time, right? Again, I couldn't tell you the difference. But then it's the amount of times I've seen casual friends. I know through the more entertainment angle than I know from games that are, oh, you know, my husband's playing.

And I'm like, what are they playing? And I'm like, oh, it would be a call of duty. And it's like, oh, call of duty is so synonymous in the same way I feel NCAA or maddening. Yeah. Right, in terms of like, it's that game for those people that I would have thought that this, they had crushed this and had continued to crush it. Yeah, it's been a journey. It's that sort of video game for.

for people that, you know, if they grew up playing Call of Duty as a kid, they likely will still enjoy it nowadays or likely do still enjoy it. But it is one of those things where you see people on Twitch and YouTube, and that person is a 2K streamer, and that's all they play, and that person is a Call of Duty streamer, and all they play is like shooters or whatever, and they're usually the ones going like, gaming's dead or whatever. But there are definitely the massive casual audience that go to their 9 to 5,

come home, put a little Timmy to sleep, and then they're like, all right, let me play a couple of matches. And it's the, it's Jerry O'Connell. Yeah, Jerry O'Connell being on our kind of funny podcast. I got pee, I got B!

You know, if you grew up kind of playing it, it just becomes one of those mainstays if you're still the type to, like, want to buy a console again. Because you're either your friends still play it or whatever, even if you're not super into just video games at all, there's a great chance that a lot of people just have call of duty on their machine you know yeah another wild one the big kudos is like not many of

these games games of services or battle aisles have stuck around this long right there's only a handful that we can bring up and be like well that one's still succeeding and up that one's still alive this one's still going like call of duty to be in that after bumpy spots is pretty amazing that we're still here just like fortnight and apex everybody's had their roller coaster chris kis you talked about being super into battle royals and you know you love this and apex can't get people play with you blah-ba-ba-if you had your way and you could get everyone to come play any game you wanted would it be this one that you're playing or would you be playing something else it would be this one i think you know i think i think i was like i think the beauty of war zone was because a lot of people

grew up on call of duty that i didn't have to learn the fundamentals of the game to jump in even when i play fortnight now it takes me like two to three matches to like remember what this game is. And then I'm like, oh, and then have to worry about the battle royalties of it as well. Whereas like a college duty, I think why it took off so well is that everyone could just, oh, like, oh, I remember this. I know how to instinctively play this because I've always had to. Then I just have to worry about the battle reall part. And so I think it just, it's a lot easier for, I think, maybe to just like a generation of fans. Sure. Or gamers that like, you kind of just muscle memory this game. Um, and I, you know, you know, not to like be regressive or like not

any other game down, but it's like, aesthetically, I also like Warzone better. Sure. I feel like Fortnite and Ipex skew a little younger. And every time, like, there's an animated camo in Warzone, I'm like, I'm just cool. Like, I like how it felt like kind of like battlefield-esque of like it was a bit more grounded. And I just enjoy being in that better than like flashing colors popping in my face all the time. And I'm like, I can't tell what I'm looking at right now. And now it's super not that.

yeah it's like they keep like trying to shift it over and I think it's a little bit better now than it wasn't like the Caldera era where it was getting crazy yeah that was one of the big frustrating things you bringing up Caldera and other maps that it was at it was like everybody's favorite right it's like that's the Verdance that's the one that you look back at with Rose Sydney Glass go ahead and for the record I know it's always of trouble to ask Mike to look at anything and is do anything I do want to point out they did misspell Verdansk I know I know Verdance the review did in fact spell it wrong okay but but They drop the end. And so Mike leans over and goes, no, that's how to spell. Like, where's the, and you know what?

He's not wearing his glasses. It's too far away. He's got a million excuses. All I look for is the end, the dancek. That's all. Mike, there is no end in the word.

There's no end. That's why I was like Verdask. I thought it was Verdask. He got the gist. He got the gist. God, I fucking knew you so much. I don't know how you guys hang out with him every night. He got to the point.

He got, he got you to the point. I got blessing to the point that one night. Yeah. The, The frustrating thing I was thinking about was Verdansk is something that we all enjoyed. And then when Black Ops comes out,

it's like, we're going to introduce this new map to you. It's like, oh, that's really, really awesome. And then it dropped and nobody liked it. And then you could feel the back pedal immediately of like, oh, man, I actually don't want this. I thought I wanted a newer map, but not like this. I want something better than this sort of like jungle vibe

that they had released, right? Yeah, that was Vanguard. That was called DARE. when we went to the island and it was very bright. Oh, Van Gar, right, right. It was very open. It just was not what Verdant was. And that's the tough part, right?

They're not all going to be hits. And it's when we were riding the high of Warzone, 1.0 day one with Verdant. And it's like, hey, now we're kind of getting burnt out on this map. What's next? That's a big critical moment and they just didn't hit it. I mean, Rebirth Island, though, that clicked very well with the audience. But the next big map didn't hit.

Or, I mean, I would say a whole lot of the beach. big maps didn't hit. In terms of when you talk about how... When you say big, you mean size? Because again, I did... Yeah. I don't remember this loosey business, but I dropped in on the Alcatraz Island and it was tight, quarter smaller, right? They're usually

giant or they have been. Yeah, the giant maps are the ones that are reserved for the larger player count and that is the normal battle royal mode, the normal war zone mode, where when you die, you go to the gulag and you have a chance to do a 1v1 against somebody else who died, and if you beat them,

then you come back into the game. Rebirth and Rebirth Island are the smaller ones that are meant to be faster. If you die, you'll respawn as long as your team's still alive. And that's something that I think we just gravitated towards more because it felt a little bit less punishing because you could just come back and sometimes totally swing the tide of battle if you're able to land on a different spot, get your load out, you know, have your whole team come back and everybody fall back to me.

I'm way the heck over here, you know. The big maps I feel like have. been the larger issue with us. I just don't know how everybody else feels about the big maps in the grander scheme of things because I used to follow a lot of call duty creators and then I just eventually kind of fell off once I stopped

really consuming the content a whole lot. Chris, how is everybody else feeling about these larger maps? Because I couldn't even put a name to what these larger maps are anymore. And more importantly, Super Chats, how are you feeling about it? Super Chats. I think for most players I think still prefer. It's now we've had this good split

between like the big map. and then the resurgence people and even then like everyone's really divisive on like which man they prefer um i don't know it's also one of those things of like call a duty you know it's the call of duty thing that's been around for fibers no one's happy with anything right right everyone's mad at everything out there so it's just a little tough to kind of know like you can give us everyone's clamoring like we want for dance back but like it comes back and is everyone going to be like oh this actually sucks you know like i don't know like it's hard to know so So it's always good grass is always greener,

but then they give you all of the grass. You cannot. All this grass sucks. You can't, but the grass is so good right there next to hospital. You cannot bring. It was great. You can't convince me that if they were to bring back Verdaenza, I wouldn't be 100% in because we would,

the Gibbonia boys would always drop hospital, Greg. Big tower. We would drop hospital, three people on the top. If I saw three people up there and there's one person near the helicopter, I'll land near heli, take out the heli guy. We'd go to the cafeteria, get to, like that loop. was it's like some of the best feelings

playing video games for us some of the most laughs we've had the laughs of me jump I see a guy down there boom I didn't get my shootout fast enough I hit the ground what happened any what happened

I got snapped out of the air man like like so many laughs and so many great times during the Verdansk days that the larger maps I just never found a rhythm with any of those spots and I feel like rebirth has always been

the go-to for us and the disappointment that you hear from us when we go, oh shit, re-brother's only trios right now or it's only quads depending on how many people we have that want to play right now.

Like sometimes that happens and good luck navigating the menus because that's like a whole battle into itself. I was going to have Greg, when we jumped into his lobby yesterday, Chris, I was like, we'll jump in, we'll make him the party leader and he'll get one win in war zone

if you could just find where to go in the menus. That'll be a win. A lot of menus. It's all one package. Oh, yeah. I have done my notes. It's all one package.

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If we probably look at my, I don't know, if we can pull up a Steam profile because we also played on Blizzard and on Xbox. So if I had to guess, I'd be in the 400 range. Okay. Okay, not too shabby. After 400 hours, I'd like you to tell me what your review is of Call of Duty Warzone in 2024. Call of Duty Warzone in 2024 to me would be an 8. out of 10. Great experience. I think it is in the top three

battle royals that you can currently play with your friends right now on the market. It is a competent battle royale. It has fantastic shooting mechanics, movement, and it has a lot of offerings when it comes down to different ways to play. I think the maps

are very well done. Each game can be its own. It has great offerings in those maps from the large map, which is your normal traditional battle royale with Erzikstan, which I think is a pretty good map. Then you also have the Resurgence Game mode, which I think is more beginner friendly that allows you to re-

deploy after you die until a certain amount of time is left on the game. So I think that's really well done. That has Rebirth Island which is a fan classic. It also has a rotation of different maps in that. So you have a lot of variety on the maps. The maps are also very, very well

designed. I could draw them with my eyes closed and talk about them for days. I think that's the big positive there. At one point you did have on your computer I look to be a BMP of drawing. I just started drawing rebirth on my computer because I can just close my eyes and think about a lot of these maps.

Which is always a sign of a great experience and a great time, if you know the game that well. Going off of that as well, they have great offerings of the normal traditional battle royale. You have ranked gameplay, which is great. You also have fun modes like World Series of Warzone where if you think you could be a Call of Duty Pro, you can jump into those tournaments and play that.

They have rebirth and resurgence where you can come back and be able to play and have a little less kind of frantic intention-filled game. You also have custom games. You have a boot camp where you can learn how to play with your friends against real players and bots. So I think the offering there

is really robust and well done. I think the moment-to-moment gameplay is fantastic, right? You have contracts around the map that can help you and your team succeed and be better in the war zone. You have loadouts, which encourage you to dive deep into the call-of-duty gun library and be able to find the guns that you like.

or keep up with the meta, be able to play zombies, multiplayer in war zone, level these guns up in different ways instead of just picking up the same purple battle rifle from Fortnite or, hey, Apex has the same seven guns, but different attachments that you can put on. I love that I can pick the guns that I like, dive deep with them. I think a lot of the big negatives that I feel with Call of Duty are more this staleness of, hey, we've learned from after three years of really banging and trying to add new things in. Sometimes it feels like we're not getting new stuff fast enough that I wish we would see.

And then also it is really has a big cheater problem. And that is also a problem as well. So those are my downs are cheaters and just kind of lack of like keeping it fresh all the time. But they've done a good job. Not to be a Paris Lily about it. But do you feel like if we are. to go out another four years from here. Could this go up in score,

or do you think eight is the ceiling for Call of Duty Warzone? No, I think you can go up and score. I think you get into the nine's and ten. What do you think pushes that? I think it's a killer map. I think it's the new movement that we're going to see this omnidirectional movement coming from Blackop six.

I think it's just kind of like the tone and the setting would do a lot for me there. Chris Anga is Mike crazy? What would you review this game at? I yeah 8.5 I put it somewhere in there also Mike you have well over you had 700 hours in war zone one you had 30 days I remember you and Kevin

it's like I had like 30 days and dogs so many doves dude but yeah probably like in an eight I think like it does have a lot of like structural problems like servers are very bad right now which is crazy call of duty says bad problems. Yeah.

Like, I think they keep having these weird regression problems about, like, every time, you know, even like, my thing, like, you know, adding, every time they add new content, everyone hates it, though. And then, like, they always have to regress it. And then it becomes this thing of, like, we play on rebirth, which is a four-year-old map. You know, it's like, every time they, I think they tried to do something,

I don't know where they're, if they're getting lost in the weeds of, like, they try it in the wrong direction or they're chasing something. Yeah. And then it, like, puts them behind. So it's like they kind of keep getting in their own way And I think if they just sort of stop Butzing it would probably settle and like find out what actually works Or what people like about their game

But they kind of just keep getting They keep changing too much and getting in their own way I think to make it a nine Has this been successful enough You know this return to back to basics That you think that they get it now And they'll from here on out it should be all golden path Be great

A little bit like you know Everyone's been clamoring for the card 98 to come back which is a sniper rival to come back for like three years and like andy even came back for it and then ditched it after two weeks like you know and then and then and then the gun got and then everyone and then everyone complains and you know it's it's always like I don't think there's ever a thing they could do that will win everyone overall of course of course of course you know and so it's always going to be something and I think because it's it's it is such a fluid kind of gameplay you know it's compared to like just like destiny like giving up their fun

their final expansion, but because it's a finite thing and it's a narrative thing, it landed at everyone universally loved it. Whereas I think with this, because there is no narrative, there's no framing structure that it's always just kind of adapting that you can't just get everyone to like. And it's just going to always be chasing people in different ways and it's never really going to like become amazing. I just don't think by nature can be. Interesting.

Yeah, I, I've always told people that like never. take me falling off of a game as an as a indictment on the game. Especially because like I mean, call duty or Eldon Ring. Like that's where we were at when the car 98 was coming out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I want you all to know like how big the car 98 coming back was for me personally because like I finally hopped down. I was like, oh my God, this is just how it felt and I feel right again. And I'm getting kills. And I feel

so much more confident. Because back in those days, Back in those days, I was a stone cold killer. People would be telling their kids about the war zone one day. So the foul car was soaring high in the sky. Cucka! The car 90 coming back was so huge. It got Nick Scarpino to tweet. Wow.

It was like, wow. Nick doesn't tweet for anybody. He tweeted on June 18th. I just need everyone, I just need everyone using the car 98 in Warzone. I know that you're all terrible human beings. This guy, like, he never just opens up Twitter to just say a thought. No.

And that's like, wow. Wow, this is big news, you know. I would say that if, if Elder Ring wasn't out, I definitely probably would still be playing a lot more war zone. What was that, Chris? Andy, I got to tell you, Nick was so fucking mad. Like, a day in, he's raging. He's like, they're hitting me in one, like, one shot.

And it's just like, maybe stay behind cover? Yeah. He's like, how I don't always just to get anywhere. I'm like, well, don't run in the middle of the street. Real quick, again, for how awkward it is for Nick just to tweet a thought. you have to love that the audience he's cultivated that the second response on this tweet is just come.

I having that stream where we had Greg join us was a blast. We got so close to like three different victories. A lot of second places. But I immediately just like last night I was thinking about how much I laughed at when I had

to publicly call Nick out. But he didn't know I was calling him out. He thought I was calling out Greg or Mike. And just this moment I immediately thought to the Jesse Pinkman in between Walt and Skyler with the drink like specifically you know

looking at both of them during this argument of me going yeah you know we had such a great rhythm and then somebody decided they wanted to go to the helipad and then they got taken out and then it just sort of snowballed from there and Nick is like drinking is drinking

he kind of just looks at me he's like oh he's like I'm the guy I'm the guy who did this Nick is so so notorious for all right everybody we chill in here don't show shoot, don't shoot. Okay, he, all right, Nick just shot, Nick just shot, Nick's down. And like,

the amount of times that that happens in a match, it's unbelievable the times that we just go, Nick, you just had to fucking stay there. Why did you shoot? Why did you let people know about us? And that's what drives Chris crazy. And that's, you know, you talk about my lowered numbers. You could place a lot of that on Nick, most likely. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I love that we're just getting it out. Get it out. So we have PTSD with shooters got to shoot. I have PTSD. I pull on. Like just watching you guys stream and then Mike and Nick and Nick are on top of the water tower and Nick's aiming at a dude who's like way out of Nick's range. Just like, should we shoot? Like Mike's like, no, don't shoot. And Nick immediately pops,

misses. Get shot, broken. He jumps, leaves Mike alone up there and Mike just gets shredded. And then it just snowball. Like one wrong decision like that could just snowball. And I'd say Nick is like a Hall of Famer in terms of making the wrong decision. So the question then doubles back to in Chris Anka, I'll give it to you, the floor. Like, these are these, like, moments you all love and you jacobah. Will you stop talking to Nick up until you guys buried the beef, as Nick says, at Tim's wedding? Like, why was that what happened and why was that the one that pushed you over the edge to not talk to me? All right. All right. I'm going to clear the air. This is cathartic. Get it out. It is because Nick has told the story wrong every single time.

Thank you. No, not him. At least he's involved in this story, unlike where he usually has no, he wasn't part of the story, but then made himself. So I got to rewind to a week before that night. And we were playing, it was, it was, Nick gets into this thing of like, we all got to be matching skins. We all have to, like, look together.

We've got to be a squad because he was getting confused by every other matching skin. Um, and it's like a valid, uh, like decision to make of like, no one knows what teammate they're shooting or no one knows who they're fighting because everybody keeps swapping on.

They all look the same. Yeah. It's, it's good for confusion. You think that they're like, you think, you broke somebody's armor, but you see the same duplicate skin. It's like, oh, shit, this person isn't the one that I broke their armor.

Damn it. I got you got. I fucked up here, you know? It's like, oh, Snoop's broken. And then another stoops are shooting. I was like, that guy's not broken. What are you talking about? And like, no one knows.

It's about. A lot of, a lot of 21 savages out there. 21. Can you do something for me? So that night, and we're playing ranked as well. So we're playing ranked and we're trying to get Nick up. And I think we're, Mike and I are like plat three and Nick is still in gold. And so part of the thing with ranked, Greg,

is that when you start a match, you put in points. So you're basically like upfront cost to try and you have to earn that back and then get higher. Okay. So this night for some fucking reason, whenever I'm weak,

it always fails us. I'm like, all right, Nick, you want to try everyone matching the same skins? Okay. But the skin we all had were Snoop skins. And three games in a row,

Mike and Nick are so confused by who's who. We lose 200 points in D-rank. And I was furious. So that's night one. So we cut to, like, have to climb that back up over the next four days. And then it's now the following week. We're playing off stream, which is good to know because Washburn's in the Discord with us. And we're running again.

And we're having kind of a rough night, I think. I think we'd get a little bit of points that night. and this one game, it's always the same rotation, then it showed you the rotation, you land on the patio at Kemp, and I land in the exact same spot for a year.

I land behind the furthest left AC thing. I'm always there. You land patio, then you can glue it up, have space if you need to adjust. Mike will sometimes go rogue and land at the bottom and not tell anybody so you can grab a contract. The whole lot of,

it's like little kids with like dangling keys, but they're, you know, in their 40s. And it just keeps like, oh, thing. And then Mike will grab a contract and Nick will run to go do the contract. And I'm like, cool. There's four teams in this building. Where the fuck are you?

And they're like, ah, well, you know, Mike to the things. Like, well, we need money. I'm like, I need to live more than 30 seconds to use the money, Mike. So we're having a thing. So we land the patio and I landed in my exact same spot to grab my guns. And Nick and Mike always kind of land a little bit weird. They never, they don't have, they don't have good. discipline about landing.

Yeah. And they're close to the door to go into Kemp and Nick sees someone run in. And I'm like, hey, there's three teams here. I can see three teams land. Nick goes, oh, I see a guy in the door. Let's push it. Mike and Nick just like rush the door.

And I'm like trying to grab a gun to like give them cover. And as they run in, they don't see the guy fly above them that then lands behind me, shreds me, and then Mike and Nick, Mike and Nick get down immediately because there's four guys looking at them, and then go, Chris, what happened? It's a great question, what happened?

I was so angry. And then they were like, watch was like, shooters got to shoot, Chris. And I was so furious. I'm pretty sure I yelled, fuck you so loud. I think three neighbors heard me.

And then progressively after that, we run three more games in which we lose 300 more SR because they just lose it at that point and it gets to the point that after that third match Mike's like should we run another? And I'm like, nope, Alt F4, Old F4

and I just, I didn't talk to them for weeks. To the point that Mike's like, I think we got to send them flowers. I'll fucking live it. And then, I mean, part of the bit, like Nick did get busy with Tim's wedding so like we just didn't have time actually play anymore.

And, you know, I don't think they've learned for many of that. No, not at all. Of course not. I still have to like, where the fuck are these kids running? And I think Mike, you're a little bit better about grabbing a contract right off the rip with no guns. That's happened often where I, we were streaming something one day here at the studio. And Mike was just on my last fucking nerve. and like I

I remember him asking me what he's doing tonight you want to shoot you something I was like I don't know man you really like you got me so exhausted today

like you wore me out he was like okay and the next day he was like if you want to shoot something let me know I'm sorry

yeah I know I know I pissed you out but like I think it may have been one of the hell divers trees or he was just going road trying to make his own fun

because he was like not having fun with the game anymore and like well you don't have to make my experience worse and then the, you know, but I'm sorry that that Wash also jumped in in that moment, Chris,

because a lot of times I'll jump in and also be the guy like, Chris, you got to shoot. You got, you know, and I know it's the worst. I was just so fucking mad. I know it's worse. I sent through a clip that we could kind of ran out the show with. This is a great one that I sent to Assets Barrett. And it's a moment from one of our sponsor streams.

And I just want you to understand that Nick is near the final circle. And he's about to be running into the smoke. He reses me. I forget what happens. But he somehow survives his situation and also just has zero awareness at all times. Of course. Let's chill. Let's chill.

One team might be here. Right here, right here. Real close. Danger close. Danger close. Just broke. I'm up to hill. We won.

We won. Oh, this isn't the play. I can't believe. I live. I'm the boy who lived. Oh, damn, the club, the clip cut out there? No, I paused. You said it wasn't the clip.

Oh, sorry, yeah, no, it definitely was the one. My bad, it kept going. Evan Yon edited his way. He said, I'm the boy who lived and then ran into the smoke. Rewinded, yeah, rewind a little bit. I'm up to hill. We won. Let's go!

Yeah! I can't believe I lived. I'm the boy who lived. Oh, I went right in the fucking. Oh, no. So he got a firefight and then ran into the smoke? And it was me, like, for the next 30 minutes was me just going like, are you, like, how do you have negative awareness in that way? He's just so special.

He's a special guy. I love Nick. I thought this was going to be the full clip, but Evan did a lot of editing to it. So that's all it was. Great job, Evan on that clip. Evan, who always, like, sort of tips out of moments. But, yeah. Keep in mind, he's been playing for three years.

It's, it's like. He knows how the gas works. I always feel so bad about. my terrible like ADHD and like zero awareness and one moment that I will always laugh about as Mike being like, dude, we were playing quads and it's just me and Nick at the end of a circle and the smoke is coming in

and there's another sort of team here and there it's the final seconds. This match could end in five seconds and I hear ching ching chich and I look and Nick is looting a cast register and I'm like Nick what the fuck are you gonna buy right now? Why are you looting? Look at like check the door, make sure that we're not getting pushed

there's nothing to buy. Why are you looting right now? And he sort of had that moment of self-realization. Like, oh, yeah, you're right. But he's just like, he, like, he is the most undiagnosed adult ADHD person I've ever met playing a video game. And he needs help.

I love you, Nick. I love this turned into a Nick Rose. I figured it would eventually. Well, that's the whole thing, right, where it's like, you know, if we're talking about Warzone in 2024, in the review of it, so much of it is tied,

especially for this panel with you guys playing together and what those, It's the war zone stories, right? Of how the size is. Yeah. We got a lot of great stories, too, and so many more. It's been an absolute blast. It's been a lot of fun.

And the game is a really good time to play still to this day. I enjoy every minute I get to play with the guys. It's a great time. Andy, you didn't score it. What would you have scored College of the war zone? In the year of our Lord's time. Like an eight when we win, but like a four when we lose. Like when people are slide cancelling around me and breaking my ankles in the game

and like doing their TikTok. like movement god type shit it's so annoying and that's where I just want to alt have four when it's just a person running in jumping shooting it's like you I hate this I hate what the internet has turned this game into

if there weren't streamers and like degenerates like myself streaming this game and and the pros out there that all the kids want to be like I would have so much more fun with this game but I'm aware of it and I know that I know who they're watching and who they're emulating and it's just I hate all of

every second of it. There was that great moment where you'd get the little kill voice thing after you kill somebody in the game that you hear the last seconds of their mic, of their live mic.

And like a great moment of mine that I clipped out, put out way back. I was like, oh, I see you, and I'm sniping it, pap out, you're using like my car,

but I killed them and I just heard, ay! Like this game has been been so much about the moments that I think back in those and like, I smile a lot more

than I think about the frustrations with the games crashing or just being like, why am I in the, why is this dude in this lobby? You don't belong here with us, you know? But yeah, it's a great time. And from the vibe I get, obviously, you guys, you lose more than you win, yeah? Oh, yeah. Oh, I mean, yeah, you don't, it's hard to win a battle royale match, but every night

you call it a win if you win at least once in a game night session. You know, if you get one win, it's like, and we got a win. Like, fuck yeah, good shit. Now, I don't play ranked like Nick and Chris and Mike. I did it a couple times and was like bronze. and I kind of fell off and also ranked has only ever been trios so I can't jump in with them. Because no, Mike, I'd do anything to be in that lobby with you, man. I love gaming with you so much.

He would. And I'd be there day one, but they don't allow me to. Like, what am I going to do, right? But the, like, if you could walk away one night and go, we got a dub and we got second place in another one, like, as long as you're not getting taken out immediately within the first 10 minutes and you know you had a good name. Good night. Okay. Chris, I can any final thoughts for this review? I always think about that one time.

I think it was Andy, Mike, and Nick playing Warzone on stream for kind of funny. And I think it's like when the car came back. So it was like Andy's reintroduction back into Warzone. And Mike goes, all right, everyone, we're going to push up. And then it's here, Nick go, oops, I pushed down. Oh, I'm dead. Oh, my God. All of us are pushing up.

we're all on the roof of this thing Nick is not with us he dies we're like why the fuck were you down there I told you all in like it's it becomes like a pull the clip up who's lying who's like man that was a recent one that was like I just got back in and I made me back out again I love you Nick

Mike any final thoughts we lost Dandy after two days no not many final thoughts I think we really got a good one out there I think people know what war zone is nowadays it is the moment you share with friends it's the laughter there's so much more I look forward to the next cod release and, you know, the update of Warzone to really get into, like, the nitty-gritty.

But for this, it was all about the moments and the fun. And I'll always love that. Andy? No, I'm good, man. I'm just looking for this clip so I can post it for the chat. No, okay, sure. Do you want me to hold on? I can install.

I mean, I still get an outro and stuff, but you can install and you can dig it out. Oh, no, we're good. I mean, if they were to bring back something with hospital, I'd be back 100% into this game. If we could have our hospital jobs back, you know. I would love to design. I'd like to learn how they design the maps because, like, I'm really, I love maps in general, open world maps.

I still think of Grand Theft Auto. Three all the way to five of like, I could draw those maps with my eyes close. I love Call of Duty and how in depth they get with the map structure, the verticality, inside and outside. There's a lot of these games that we play where like, you look at the buildings, you're like, I can't even

go inside that building and Call of Duty like, we're inside, we're outside, there's upstairs, there's downstairs, there's windows we're jumping out of like. You're hanging, dry wall. I would love to design a map and see the team who makes these maps. It's so cool to me.

I'm all about that. Well, I mean, you're going to get a good glimpse at the next one. Do you see? Yesterday we announced it. Got a big press package. Oh,

we announced it yesterday. What did we announce yesterday? What did we announce, Mike? At the end? Do you want to tell them with me? Yeah, I mean,

they sent him a big old, like, press package, and we, it was like some Nicholas Cage National Treasure type shit. Spraying it down? We had to, like, we had to put water into a bottle and spray the thing

and a message review. And it was like the truth lie. and what was inside Mike, a little invite card for what? We'll see you in Washington, D.C. for Call of Duty Next. Snowbike, Mike, will represent kind of funny

at the big Call of Duty next event where I will be playing the next Warzone, zombies, Call of Duty multiplayer, and more later on. You'll get to see it live. We've got to break that clip out. I haven't seen that clip.

I didn't know that happened. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, we should. It's really cool. We'll get Roger. We'll get Roger. Slack Rock. This was,

the call duty next was one of things Mike was like, dude, like let's go. I declined because I legitimately didn't know what next was. I thought it was like an e-sports thing or something. I was like, oh, damn, I probably should have said yes because I would have been a lot of fun, but Mike's going to be there. Mike doesn't need me

holding them back. I wanted all three of us to go. I wanted someone to meet Nick. Because like, you know, they go play some random spots. I wanted Nick to meet with other teams and them to experience Nick. It was really important. It would be like the time I was first playing Valerant with Fredo and all of his like Rainbow Six Seeds like pros. And one of his,

his teammate, she kept on being like, what are you doing? I'm like, I don't know. I don't have a game. I don't play keyboard mouse. A couple superchasts to get out here. Many of them are jokes. Abdea says, if Tony built it in a cave, Andy can do it too. Of course, is funny of your $1,400.

PlayStation 5. Then John came in and said, though not directly related to Warzone, do you think, do you think, call of duty would be popular if it didn't have well-known popular protagonist? to Soap McTavish. I dare you to,

I dare anybody to go look in that player like skins and characters you could choose from. Try to pick them out of the lineup. You can't. I can't then super chats with a really heartwarming message. He says,

just wanted to say thanks to Mike and Chris for welcoming me in for some games when they need a third. I usually lurk, but it's encouraged me to engage more. Yeah. Hell yeah. I'm really blessed with

the job here at kind of funny streaming with Andy and Chris and all of you out there of like we've met so many people through all of these games that we play together from Fortnite with of course Jim Tasty out there slaying all of us Caminelli jumping in in Warzone like

I have been really blessed in life to get to play with all of you so thanks for joining up on those and I want anybody in the subredits to know who's ever like been like man can we get anything else other than war zone if Nick had it his way that would not be it would be every day what they're doing right now is holding Nick back as much as possible

no legit the amount of like not even you know know, because it was always a joke when the pandemic would have, you know, when we were like out of the pandemic, but Nick would walk up to me in the studio and be like, ready to fly or what? Should we fly today or whatever? And that was always the joke of like, do you want to play war zone tonight? It's time to fly. Are you going to fly? But it's so become not a joke to the point where I just like try not to laugh where it's always like, what should we do on Thursday? He's like, uh, maybe we could do war zone. And it's like, he wants it so bad, Mike. He wants it to be a thing. He wants it so bad. It's like me with Diablo or falls. 76. Yes. You guys have a gap in my whoa. Yes, exactly. You guys can go playing and do it. Final one is popped into the sorry. No, please please please.

The discord one night and like I think we're all playing hell divers. He's like, so what are you guys doing? You know, like, oh, we're playing hell divers, you know, it's a new game. He's like, oh, fuck you then. He left immediately. Yeah, I mean Nick never gets more angry and is more bent out of shape when there is a new game that's multiplayer and we're all into it and he's not. When we were playing

Destiny 2, Chris. He was God, he told shit about it. No, that was it. No, that was it. He walked in, like, he came into the to the Discord kind of sat there for a bit as we were playing Destiny and just had to hear us listening to like all right, all right, I got the dude, all right, it's the shape of the,

it's the witness, it's the witness. And he just had to listen to that for five minutes and then just kind of left without saying anything. He was so mad. Your final super chat is an actual question, well, not a question, it's a comment, but I saw people talking about it and I'd love real quick, final opinion,

clear your minds. Nigel Martin says, time to kill has always been too short for a very long time. I totally agree. Yeah. Really? Yeah, I totally. Because you're talking about like time till you get killed or time till you kill someone? Time to kill in general.

Because I was just fucking shot out of the air yesterday when I was playing with you. Yeah, like I just think of, I think the sort of social media push to put out, here's the new best building college duty. You know, like all that. Like I know Chris is our weapons arbiter. He watches all that stuff to tell me about it. And there's a whole ecosystem and there's a whole like, you know, play. platform for people to just kind of make their money and do content on what the builds on call duty yeah god bless them i hate that that's what the game has become because it just it's it's gotcha it's it's two min maxi for me and i wish it was just pick up that gun on the ground and kind of do your thing and i i agree that like there's times you blink and you're dead because it's

just a do with the smg's and it's over and i i agree i think the time to kill has been a little bit too low for call of duty. I personally love it. I play games like Apex and I think it's taking two clips and it's too long for me. Yeah. And so like for me I think the call of duty is like right there at the perfect, that's where I wanted to be. Yes, granted, there's moments where it's like

that was too fast, but most of the time it feels good on the also other side where you're the one shooting and it's like nice. That took 75% of my bullets right there. I like where that's at. Chris, time to kill. How do you feel? I'm okay with it I think if you add another like plate

which I think 50 health that'd be fine I think a little bit longer it's fine because then it'd be a bit more of engaging it's actually be tactical about how you're fighting but then as opposed to I saw you first you're dead Gotcha gotcha got you know yeah I was gonna say like Andy Have you ever thought about hitting your shots maybe like that might help you Shooter gonna shoot maybe the car 98th back I heard I was on Belmont still a lot of breaking news

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