Hello /r/CodAW before I get into the meat of this post I'd like to post a few things so you know where I am coming from.
1) I love CoD (Ghosts not so much but BO2 was amazing) and AW has potential to be one of the better games in the franchise
2) I have primarily been a Console CoD player but switched to PC gaming over the last year because all of my friends did the same
So, here it goes: As any PC player or maybe any CoD player knows, the PC community isn't exactly "Thriving" Peak hours we hit upwards of 12-16k and then at night it's anywhere from 1.5-3k players. This isn't too bad given the fact that the top 2 Steam games are DOTA 2 and CS:GO, however this "player count" leads to games taking a while to find or not finding any at all simply because people aren't playing those game modes (Momentum I'm looking at you). Everyone flocks to TDM, which is fine, It's fun and awesome but with gear drop specifically coming to different playlists and the fact that TDM can get tedious after hours and hours of playing, this can lead to exhaustion and annoyance. Here are some things I'm offering for either future patches/future releases.
1) Cross platform. Whether it be just to Xbox or just to Sony, I don't really care there should be something planned where the game is populated for PC (and the consoles would get a boost of 16k players as well). I think Cross platform would work great. I know this would take a while to get down perfectly but I believe back in 06-08 Shadowrun had cross platform servers so if an old game could have them I can't see why CoD can't. - I know this leads to balancing issues, Aim Assist OP for consoles, Mouse and Keyboard movement and binding keys OP for Computer, but that's a road we can cross later.
2) Servers. Whether there are dedicated servers or not is an entirely diffrent discussion. HOWEVER, if you do have servers please implement a better Banning system. I propose an Overwatch system like CS:GO has. What overwatch is, community watches gameplay of the reported hackers/cheaters/abusers and at the end decides if there was enough physical evidence or not. This does not mean you at SHG/3Arc/IW wouldn't watch the hackussations, it just means you have a better community response to it.
3.) Weapon Buffing and Nerfing. Funny enough I have a perfect example of a weapon Nerf that should NOT have happened for the PC community.
EM1 - The laser gun. Yeah, that one. On consoles the buff could make sense, it wasn't doing what it was supposed to (According to SHG) and truth be told tracking and aiming on a console is harder than on a PC (Aim Assist helps you console players). On PC however, this gun creates quite the OPness monster. For anyplayer that has played Quake, Unreal, any sort of Arena shooter with a hitscan gun you will be very familiar with how this gun works (LG gun in quake, Lightning gun in UT). This gun is as easy as holding the mouse button for .5 seconds over the enemy player and they are dead. Little aiming is required because again, it's a hitscan gun and tracking/tracing/following on PC is easier because of a mouse. Please all future CoD devs be careful and thoughtful on what guns you are nerfing and buffing for all platforms. What may seem right on console doesn't necessarily mean it's right on PC, and that goes BOTH ways.
4) Ranked playlist. I really don't know a solution for this, but something should be done. There are no people playing the Ranked playlist on PC. Which is strange considering CS;GO and DOTA 2 are highly competitive games and are always more populated in the ranking playlist. Maybe it's because this is CoD and people don't find it necessary to play a competitive playlist? (I follow Comp CoD so I'm not one of those people), or maybe there just isn't an incentive. Whether it be fine tuning your ranking structure, or displaying the persons actual ELO (DOTA does MMR same thing, Quake) (SC2, LoL hide their ELO but replace them with ranks)
That's about it for right now, I'll add and edit as I remember, please feel free to jump in. As it stands SHG, I really do think you have a great game, and a huge potential for all platforms. You say you listen to the community so please read this and maybe consider what can be done in the future? It's been a long time since PC CoD has had a sizeable community and full game lobbies, I really do want to see it return.
Submitted December 27, 2014 at 06:02PM by xSaiyan http://www.reddit.com/r/CodAW/comments/2qkhri/reviving_the_pc_community/
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