Why Is Call of Duty Vanguard SO BAD?!

[@TheActMan]

So you will do nothing, Sledgehammer? Apathy is death, worse than death. Because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects. Act Man Plushie's on SALE ➤ www.makeship.com/products/the-act-man-plush Follow me on Twitch ➤ www.twitch.tv/theactingmale

[@lukestowe7052]

Do a BioShock Infinite review🔥

[@Mishikali]

I lov u

[@Lucky_9705]

It’s time for me to play something else or get my homework done. These are far more valueable things than sitting through another bare bones, microtransaction-infected COD game.

[@mtf5405]

Uncharted 4 review

[@Gliw0306]

tf

[@CriticalNobody]

Call of a Duty has finally broken the Act Man

[@big_sea]

yes

[@bpeel]

“They can’t keep getting away with thisssssss”

[@dredgendorchadas6770]

It was done doing that since after mw 2019

[@afrdzul9811]

Pretty much lol

[@thundageon5962]

Including gamers as a whole

[@thegrandwizard1700]

The worst part about the campaign is that I didn’t even see the enemy build at least one bridge.

[@SifsBestFriend]

THEY’RE BUILDING A BRIDGE

[@emile7083]

Ok now its definitely not worth buying

[@TheActMan]

Bruh what a fucking scam, right?

[@Skyrim_Elder]

@@TheActMan I know bro

[@destructionduo1168]

@@TheActMan Would you have enjoyed it if the enemy had built that bridge?

[@edvard8449]

COD World at War: "This place once echoed with conversations of friends and lovers. No longer. Mark my words comrade, one day things will change. We will take the fight to their land, to their people, to their blood." COD Vanguard: "I shoot Nazis. They die. That's the plan."

[@creamery299]

The CHAD Call of duty world at war: Has memorable lines and quotes "TAKE OUT THOSE FUCKING PT BOATS" Good gameplay Honors the vets who died fight the unforgiving war The VIRGIN COD Vanguard: "I shoot Nazis. They die. That's the plan".

[@yesfiraswa]

@@creamery299 cod vanguard: "dO yOu sPeAk jApAneSe?"

[@shawklan27]

@@yesfiraswa "oui"

[@fokka6010]

Theres more to this character, some details that you can see from her flashback, but its so bad - it would've been better if she didn't have it at all.

[@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898]

Call of duty have seen better days

[@darthidiot3861]

"No call of duty will be released in 2023" that aged like milk

[@andresperez7582]

truly

[@shadowofdread7018]

And it’s basically a $70 DLC with a shitty campaign according to reviews

[@zackince8803]

Can’t believe I wasted 70 bucks on a warzone ripoff and a story more soulless and confusing than vanguard’s.

[@babycarrotz32]

And y'know what? Vanguard was somehow better.

[@Minority119]

technically it's still true cause lol lmao MW3 aint no game

[@metalmaster1224]

One of my closest friends is actually a curator at the museum the Vanguard devs went to for their "research". He told me he had prepped an entire lineup of different variations of weapons and such, but the devs told him word for word "we just want what looks cool". They blew off almost an entire tour, took a handful of pictures, and left. The lack of respect for history really shows in the game.

[@zachcanter3279]

They could have just used google. But, SHG is the dumbest studio that acts as deadweight like a mother views their baby before throwing it in a dumpster because it was too late for abortion. That is SHG. Axe the studio microsoft

[@xephronzz9585]

unless there is any proof other than your word, this comment is baseless.

[@Frozen_Death_Knight]

Explains a lot as to why the game looks the way it does. Man, we were so darn spoiled back in the 90s and 2000s with all those World War shooters that made honest attempts at capturing the authenticity of the time period.

[@hamburgerfatso]

Sounds made up lmao

[@albertsmyk8685]

Up. The lack of respect. This is so sad and unbelievable.

[@kaizermierkrazy6886]

honestly, with how powerful modern consoles are and the large budget these companies have, there's no reason we can't large scale, multi-front campaigns and multiplayer like WaW. Show us events gaming rarely does like the Chinese front or Soviet invasion of Finland. People aren't necessarily over ww2, they're over the low effort and generic depiction of it.

[@dougz201]

100% true. We're sick of seeing this cookie cutter type shit everytime there's a ww2 game released. Give us something unique and something unforgetable, something not taught in schools. More then anything, give us the fun that we've deprived for in the last couple years in the Call Of Duty franchise.

[@connorosullivan3500]

It’s out of laziness 100%, nothing to do with technical limitations of consoles/PC lol

[@ancientmachine9070]

Just look at fifa mate. Could have graphics like Ride 2 but they dont bother

[@sims2mw]

I would kill a man or 100 for a game set in the sino-japanese war

[@Mikeyski4]

Just play Hell Let Loose for your WW2 experience. Stop with this Call of Duty bullshit

[@soulstalker4624]

Honestly, Actman is right, if they went out of their ways and made an Alternate Universe where everything is steampunkish and had weapon modification aesthetics like in Bioshock, it would totally fit in Edit: Holy shit I didn't expect this to blow up, nice to see so many agree with me, you too Actman, nice to see a good homie.

[@quiviknotpotato6806]

It would be a MASTERPIECE!!!

[@TheActMan]

They played it too safe. Would've been cool to see a WWII game where the fighting just like... never ended

[@ChandranPrema123]

@@TheActMan how about a WW2 game where Steiner attack actually happened and the war continued or WW2 ended with Japan only.And there would have been something like Korean War were Me262 and F86 Sabre would dogfight? Sounds Awesome despite being not steampunkish

[@ToothpikcOriginal]

Or go even crazier and do a whole game based on the Cod Zombies Origin map. That world was so coo, but only appears in the one instance

[@soulstalker4624]

@@TheActMan Just imagine The germans still pushing and starting to make ghastly experiments, the Japanese not giving up and trying to build something better than a Nuke Weapon modification with valves and tubes like in Bioshock, futuristic like Stukas and juggernauts with stalhelms and armored suits. Would've been a banger, hell it would even make a kickass zombies too, I loved the robot thing and the Panzersoldat in WaW.

[@zakkbrown9522]

“No new CoD in 2023” Well, fuck. That didn’t age well.

[@BorrelTheBarrel]

aged like milk

[@MysticalHaloV2]

and its worse than vanguard

[@brendansage6876]

@@MysticalHaloV2 Imagine telling a Call of Duty fan who's currently in the year 2011 that the undisputed worst game in the franchise will be a Modern Warfare game. He wouldn't believe you. I went in thinking that MWIII was going to be pretty good, on par with MWII, and then I got kicked in the teeth by this shoddy excuse for a _DLC_ that cost 70 clams. How far has CoD fallen that a Modern Warfare title is currently being lampooned as the worst game yet?

[@LadyOfTheEdits]

​@@brendansage6876I am loving Cold War :)

[@Muhammad-lq7fu]

That's dlc

[@morqus8169]

One thing people always forget about is that vanguard zombies doesn’t give you a reason to use certain attachments. Also, it will not let you use others

[@generalsavage4103]

Are you shroud

[@eval_is_evil]

W-what?? Holy Jesus on a bycicle trip... I didnt know honestly because I didnt buy this. Be honest this game was bought for you as a form of punishment

[@jdunn5128]

@@tobyconoley5511 i mean yes but for 26USD not the worst purchase, but never worth more than 30USD.

[@morqus8169]

@@tobyconoley5511 refunded

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

This was more fun than playing the actual game. Thanks for the amount of effort you put into this.

[@B_Mollhausen]

Ripping your toenails out and dipping them in salt would be more fun than playing this game.

[@killre-kr5pj]

I agree to this . Luckily I get rid of this piece of s*** .

[@ratchet2505]

I absolutely agree

[@pathfinder8360]

Yes daddy your right

[@Dynamic0NE]

Man you guys are pathetic

[@quackster8295]

I'm so glad that they got the historical accuracy on point for this COD game. I remember reading in history textbooks that the guy from Attack on Titan was witnessed t-bagging soldiers on the beaches of Normondy.

[@johnsoapmactavish9921]

@@Mr_Bunk I found the joke to be funny, so you're entire comment is debunked you bozo.. You're so triggered and mad lmaoo

[@grigss3027]

@@Mr_Bunk found the guy who makes college history textbooks

[@coloneldoggo]

@@Mr_Bunk Seething so hard right now

[@GiygasStarman]

@@Mr_Bunk Okay, oh great speaker of truth.

[@SCP--fj2jr]

@@Mr_Bunk *r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh*

[@yeetman3685]

The "I would rather play ghosts part" was actually censored for me by a low battery message on my headphones 💀

[@Lilnwise_CrispyTheScientistYT]

Ain't no way 💀💀💀

[@lightninggreninja4676]

Even your headphones couldn't believe their ears that's even possible to hear lol! "Vanguard worse than Ghost?! That's impossible!"😭😂

[@deskeater46]

g o o d

[@UNALLOYEDSLOP]

“There can be no greater heresy!”

[@gotohyoshihisa3971]

My great grandfather was one of the few veteran Japanese soldiers who survived the Pacific war. Only reason how he was able to live was because he had to be decommissioned and sent to a physiatric ward due to PTSD when he saw his commander issuing his squad STG44s, MG42s and antique shotguns. His last words were: *Not the reflex sights...* Edit:I could say that my grandfather fought on My team, the enemy of the enemy team, but that would be too confusing

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

Must be those freight ships that turn out to have guns on them

[@MemeControlyt]

I thought you were being legit for a second lol

[@MA78yt]

I can't tell if this is true or not. Cuz, the last words seems way too ridiculous to be true. Like, if this is true, your great grandfather had a good point.

[@usalty6010]

@@MA78yt ofc it's a joke

[@acrobatstar]

Can't believe bombers were bombing in the game

[@hydrophilicchristopher9874]

The biggest turn off for me was when they brought out the “historically accurate” claim. That’s when I knew I had to bring out the popcorn and watch the shitstorm

[@George.did9.11]

Yeah , WITH ANIME SKINS 🤣

[@retonman7492]

The worst idea you can have is to have an sjw as a writer on a historical game.

[@brok56]

@@darthconquerus But were The germans Red, or soviets?

[@simplydawson1061]

Reminds me of Battlefield V

[@fredster594]

Hello Liquid Chris.

[@JaCrispy3060]

The "not having iconic characters" thing shows just how detached the company really is from their franchise. Expect failure.

[@clownbaby3877]

Yea because when you make a new game every year, it’s easy to make iconic characters in each franchise. They can’t use task force 141 in every game homie

[@georgewhitworth9742]

@@clownbaby3877 The point was that they said COD has *NO* iconic characters. Who cares if they weren't in this COD.

[@Rawnblade13]

They are very detached BUT to be fair, Given the context that statement was said and they were comparing it to Master Chief, they're right. CoD has no one that even remotely compares to Master Chief when it comes to iconic. Every gamer on the planet, whether they've actually played Halo or not, knows who Master Chief is and what franchise he's from. CoD doesn't have anyone like that. You could show a non-CoD fan say...Captain Price and they'd have no idea who he is. He's just generic rugged soldier man number 1052.

[@mikegate6764]

@@Rawnblade13 Im not saying your wrong but I feel like captain price and his bravo six going dark is extremely iconic, same with mason and the numbers. The thing is going from older periods of war to advanced warfare then modern warfare, an just going back and forth with decades of war it’s hard to bring those iconic characters to every battle, that defeats the realism of the weapon mechanics and the storylines and all that. Master chief is known throughout each halo because it’s more fictional based. Also I think a lot of people are forgetting that when vanguard came out, they had those worker strikes right after, they were upset because the lower people were being let go, and they’re wages were being used to give the more critical workers higher revenue. But people got upset and said that’s not right, then we were left with more workers that weren’t willing to put maximum effort into it because they’re not getting paid enough. The problem with vanguard is that they actually did try to use the community feedback to help create the game and make it a better experience for everyone.

[@Rawnblade13]

@@mikegate6764 Iconic to a CoD fan, none of that reaches Master Chief levels of iconic though. Unfortunately for CoD, due to the realistic military setting, you can't really make a character with an iconic design and it's all just generic soldier stuff. Not to mention how due to constantly switching settings, CoD can't really establish someone as iconic as Master Chief. Which is probably why the devs on Vanguard went for some pseudo Avengers-style characters, even if it doesn't really work for WW2. Master Chief works and has become iconic because he's in almost every Halo, has a unique, distinct, and easily recognizable design, and it probably doesn't hurt that Halo games don't come out every year, so they don't all blur together.

[@fridaythedeerfox2982]

There's a pretty anachronistic oversight in dialogue in one mission, during the Australian mission when an soldier yells "RPG!" Which wouldn't make sense because the term RPG wouldn't have been coined until the 60's when RPG's were actually invented, and Bazooka's in WW2 weren't even considered RPG's they were recoiless rifles.

[@D1gg3rX]

I mean a flashbang appeared in the beginning so……

[@rikoaries]

They didn't give a shit about anything when making Vanguard, did they?

[@trionically]

I remember when my grandpa told me about the horrors of World War 2, people getting stabbed with sledgehammers, the conflict between My Team, and Enemy Team, fighting against Attack on Titan characters, drum mag Garands, and other horrifying things.

[@howtohow8686]

And not forget about the red dots

[@thegermangal9120]

Mine told me about the demons he worked with to stop an angry German guy and another demon

[@officialprincelouie]

@@howtohow8686 and don’t forget about the guys who were *BUILDING THE BRIDGE!!!*

[@Dog-999i]

At least he was led by the great General Snoop Dogg.

[@jameswolf3302]

@@howtohow8686 wait wait wait, wait a moment, no, that can't be right, there are no red dots in this game, there are only............. Y E L L O W D O T S

[@Kianmacca1]

the “My Team” and “Enemy Team” thing genuinely makes me laugh. the more i think about how stupid it is, the more it makes me laugh. it’s comedically awful

[@Oreca2005]

When cod mobile at least have squad names

[@bobby45825]

They literally threw out Historical context and just went with generic tribalism.

[@acethemain7776]

@@bobby45825 sounds like real life right now

[@MistahJay7]

I don't get it thought. They have the Nazis in the main campaign already but can't in multiplayer? Kind of sense does that make lol

[@AuroraAce.]

@@MistahJay7 I think its because you can play as Nazis, which somebody somewhere at some point got upset about

[@SealandGI]

“This game will teach an entire generation that grandpa stormed Normandy with a f-cking EOTech.” -Brandon Herrera Pretty much everything I hate about this game is summed up by this quote.

[@megami215]

You got other issues at hand if you get your facts from an Xbox game. Dumbest thing I ever heard

[@Eggboi3000]

Ayyy. Nice

[@S3SSioN_Solaris]

@@megami215 Most people don't even know what makes a fact, *a fact.*

[@jeffferguson69]

You forgot swastikas didn’t exist and there was black female nazis lol

[@incoherentrambling3139]

@@megami215 good thing misconceptions have never been spread through fictional books or movies, especially about ww2!

[@ThatPurpleGirl81]

Full disclosure I don't play FPS games. My only experience is with RPGs. But I watched this entire video. I didn't understand all the terminology 100% of the time but I honestly found this fascinating and very entertaining. Apparently more entertaining than the actual game lol. Thank you for all your hard work Act man, you are so passionate and I appreciate your dedication to gaming! Newbie sub!

[@AbsoluteSwordZekken]

Late question but do you play JRPGs like Final Fantasy or Western RPGs like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout? I like both JRPGs and Western RPGs, hell Fallout 3 is my favorite game of all time IMO

[@fireflythe7]

A good starting FPS game is Call of Duty World at War, The Half Life series or maybe Team Fortress 2.

[@CrossfeetGaming]

The moment the writers said COD had no "iconic" characters yet. I was ACTIVELY rooting for this game to fail. I want it to fail just to spite the writers.

[@camarokidbb4347]

CoD has iconic characters, just not ✨iconic✨ characters.

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

@@camarokidbb4347 Soap trusted you, and Price thought he could too.

[@JOESMITH-qs8ue]

@@camarokidbb4347 They don't represent. They don't exist.

[@camarokidbb4347]

@@anonymousapproximation8549 Sarcasm is a bitch to portray in an online comment. >_

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

@@camarokidbb4347 Is that why Makarov knows you?

[@JBrotsis1]

I don’t even play Vanguard. I’m just here because I love Act Man’s humor when he critiques a game’s quality. Edit: wow…1k+ likes and a heart from Acting Male himself…I can die a happy man at this point. Edit: heart got removed. I can’t die happily.

[@JefflezZz]

I played 20 mins of it and I thought "Oh Act Mans gonna have alot to say"

[@arandomcommenter8395]

I would assume most of us are doing the same

[@megarhombus7532]

I watched this to see what the hell Activision fucked up this time

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

Same

[@jaedengarrett9246]

Same

[@Aquatic-Male]

I can just imagine a grandfather talking to his grandson like “We were pinned down by the enemy, we didn’t know what they looked like why they were fighting or even who they were, but none of that mattered because we were pretty sure they might possibly have been the enemy AND THAT’S ALL WE NEEDED TO KNOW

[@Mr_Bunk]

This idea that video games are a direct substitute for historical education is a fucking stupid one, and I just wish people would cut it out. This game will never harm historical education, no matter how shitty it is.

[@Jasonhoods]

@@Mr_Bunk I agree with you. It's a fucking game

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

So basically every war but especially this one? Everyone gets called a nazi

[@Aquatic-Male]

Oh I’m Sowwy for hurting your freewings by twying to be funny here I’ll give you a special snowflake award, I’m not sure if you understand the concept of humour I’m literally pointing out the fact that a game set in the Second World War lacked enough confidence to even have countries fighting each other, It was never stated that this would be harmful to historical education nor was it implied So next time think before you type you inept Troglodyte

[@boxingmaster2663]

@@Aquatic-Male man this looks like a big cringe post hahahahaha bro take your adderall

[@clicky101]

Forget building a bridge. They didn't even build a FUCKING GAME

[@RickColeman_M3]

Don’t hate on ww2

[@Purev-qb2zg]

@@RickColeman_M3terrible game good campaign

[@Someusrr]

In the campaign, when you were in the train, looking at the box and they threw a flash bang at you. Flash bangs weren’t invented until the 1960s by the British

[@Esitaro3670]

Activisiom/Sledgehammer/Treyarch: "Yes, you see, everytime you see details like that, a wizard did it"

[@penguinpal1793]

neither did red dots that didn't stop them

[@johnnyg4mer764]

And, thanks to MGS3, I know that the Flashbang was made to be a "training grenade". Once the S.A.S. realized the uses of "Stun Grenades", they started to spam the fuck out of it. And they still do it! And so does every other country's special forces.

[@pyromancer1109]

yeah that would probably be a grenade and everyone would have been dead by then

[@funnimonkibdog]

@@johnnyg4mer764 god I love that game

[@JB00GIE22]

I mean this as a dig at Activision and not The Act Man: It was genuinely hard to finish this video because at certain points I couldn't stand to listen and see some things that aren't/are in my once beloved Call of Duty

[@sadmcguire3481]

I had to come back 3 different times just cause the zombies and multi-player were so mind numbing

[@JB00GIE22]

@Gabriel Contreras definitely not. Dead means you literally can’t find a lobby.

[@Hazzard91]

Not to be a picky player but when I played the campaign, I noticed in the Pacific airfield portion the Japanese were using StG 44s and Lugers? Around 1943?? It baffles me because the Japanese weapons are available in multiplayer…game was rushed af. World at War was and always will be the best Pacific campaign I’ve played.

[@kayas7574]

There was a historian watching the gameplay and commenting on it and a LOT of the weapons were either in the wrong time, at the completely wrong place or both. You could find a german hunting shotgun in the japanese mission. You could find STG 44s before it even was 44, you could reload panzerfausts which were one time use ... You could even find the Volkssturmgewehr, which was in service about 2-3 months before the end of the war. WaW did the weapons right, you could find respective weapons only when they made sense. The FG42 in seelow heights e.g. was correctly placed, because the seelow height battle actually featured a german paratrooper unit.

[@NavalBearbomb]

I'm playing world at war right now and damn it, they could just remaster It and never touch anything that don't need to be fixed,.except the mp40 damage

[@kayas7574]

@@NavalBearbomb and FG42 damage, 4 shots to kill with what is an instakill in SP??

[@NavalBearbomb]

@@kayas7574 I never noticed the FG 42 ,I never got to try in MP, only zombies and campaign, it seems good

[@kayas7574]

@@NavalBearbomb it is probably the worst weapon for mp, sure firerate and very managable recoil but damage sucks and damage dropoff is even worse :/

[@mistermittens3533]

So for those who are wondering initially Vanguard was not going to feature a zombies bonus mode at all as Treyarch was thrown into development only 6 months before release, however due to Treyarchs reputation and Activision threatening higher ups they conceded only 10 weeks prior to release and developed a very shoddy zombies game mode. The kicker is due to Vanguards (for once) unique take on the engine Cold War could NOT be used as a basis and Zombies had to be made from the ground up in just 10 weeks. This is the reason for so many features missing in the mode.

[@fafanir82]

Source

[@mistermittens3533]

@@fafanir82 I am an employee at Treyarch :p

[@UNALLOYEDSLOP]

@@mistermittens3533real

[@starsjosephfrost]

CoD Devs: "there are no Remembered / good characters" Reznov: "we've been forgotten, abandoned in Vorkuta (CoD studio's desk that nobody has touch since CoD BO2) but we will be remember, by those who know us."

[@Jules279]

"Though the flags may be different, the methods are still the same."

[@starsjosephfrost]

@@Jules279 lol respect +

[@Jules279]

@@starsjosephfrost Who knew he would predict every cod after BO2 and even AW?

[@starsjosephfrost]

@@Jules279 I have no idea (maybe he's from the future, the twist)

[@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s]

[Petrenko, Reznov, Soap, Price, Ghost, Shepherd, Makarov, Menendez, Woods, and Mason hated that.]

[@rindykins8360]

"how did these get passed quality assurance?" Simple Activision fired them asking for raises so the playerbase have become the testers 😂

[@Blackhawks19_xx]

I sincerely believe that they haven’t had a quality assurance department for at least a decade.

[@calahoon22]

As someone who works in QA I bet any money they were logged by QA but was considered "not blocking release" or put as "will fix after launch".

[@kyotheman69]

plus they know game will sell regardless because there is stupid people out there, i tapped out of COD ages ago because games are same thing over and over again, they get lazy each time

[@Ifrumnoj]

They have no QA department

[@erodrioits1234]

I had a friend who did QA for the game, he told them about the issue and they ignored it.

[@lord_razur]

I'd like to add something onto this, Vanguard's "new" KotH-type mode was already done in DOOM 2016's multiplayer and there it was called Warpath, they legitimately just pulled it out of a better game.

[@jmccann6735]

Halo 5 had Roaming King as well by 2016

[@poeskey]

gears of war has had koth, and its been one of its most popular game modes, since its inception back in 2005.

[@jmccann6735]

@@poeskey but did the hill move? Combat Evolved had KoTH in 2001 👀

[@broadside1713]

Ha! I was wondering if anyone else thought of that!

[@inertia_dagger]

man doom's multiplayer is fun, I've enjoyed it alot. unless of course you come across some script kiddie who spams their rocket launcher at 600 RPM

[@crazyguy5115]

It's funny that Wolfenstein the new collossus is more historically accurate than this and they don't censor swastika for no reason

[@usadroopymeat1099]

Just don’t mention the game okay for everyone’s sake including mine

[@luisprado7107]

This is a crazy take bro

[@hamishmay7122]

The being offended gag was hilarious "the nazis should be called the enemy team" - A+

[@mozan33r71]

Didn't think we will defend Nazis but here we are in this day of age. I guess we can't call them enemies of the free world.

[@lukelinenberger6353]

This guy is so spot on with cod it’s scary… the scarier part is, the devs won’t listen to him and continue to make the same crap over and over again.

[@Nero-tz9jh]

the real scary part is, stupid clients are going to buy all of it! over and over again...

[@MrGanjie]

@@Nero-tz9jh Apathy is death - Devs The definition of insanity - the consumers

[@TrillBill]

@@Nero-tz9jh The scariest fact of them all.

[@nate88888]

yeah and the only new gd mode is just payload without the payload its just a flag

[@mauricewitter1652]

@@nate88888 war mode in ww2 was awesome storming the beach was fun if had the waw look and feel it would've been a winner

[@heitorkrammel2783]

Definitely one of the worst regimes in history, the enemy team, is really well portrayed in this game by showing the atrocities committed against the my team

[@MangoMayhem1785]

It really shows great respect to the victims of the war crimes of Enemy Leader and Enemy Team

[@hewhobattles8869]

Yeah. Those guys make Team Evil look like a joke

[@itshappyhyrda3970]

Luckily we have my leader who can lead us to my team’s victory.

[@inspecthergadget4503]

Anyone who got a problem with my team is a racist bigot.

[@jcrofficial4309]

It's weird, I need answers. In multiplayer, it's my team versus enemy team, but in single player, I'm playing as enemy team. So... is it supposed to be symbolic that we are all the same? That war... War never changes?

[@kristinarp526]

I hate cod vanguard as a historian. The STG44 firing mechanism is located in its stock, so how can you remove the stock and still fire the gun?! Gay German soldiers, heavy racism in the British army, and cursed weapons modification. It just insults history.

[@ashen9381]

Don't ask Activision what the Nazis did to the one LGBT progressive clinic in Germany.

[@MamaMia145]

Dont forget guns in the wrong theatres, like Japanese guns on german trains or German guns in the Pacific

[@NeedForSpeed.2004]

Not to mention the fact that you can just entirely remove the stock off of the MG42 and somehow the recoil spring doesn’t fall out of the gun.

[@r7ahtesham885]

Racism in the. British army.. Or any other.. Makes actual sense it's the 20th century.. But them making the British army... The German one.. Yeah agreed.. Wtf

[@nukclear2741]

If it was the US Marines, the cursed weapon modifications would've at least made sense, given what the Marines did in ww2. Literally made a machine gun using parts from 3 separate guns.

[@michaelmarlow6610]

The fact that ghosts is getting brought up is proof how badly this series has fallen yet again.

[@sjescone]

And still every year people seem to be hyped as fuck for the next one. That is until day 1 after launch, then it's shit again and you find urself playing a older cod instead of the one you were hyped about.

[@Sacciuiguai]

Yet again? Never recovered after ghosts to be honest

[@MrSp3ctre]

@@Sacciuiguai never recovered after mw3

[@SuperDarkHalo]

@@MrSp3ctre The disrespect to BO2.

[@ghostlegit]

@@MrSp3ctre modern warfare 3 was dogshit compared to black ops 1 2 and modern warfare 2

[@AirsoftAlfonse]

F in chat for good zombie experience 😞

[@Crimson06]

F It hasn’t been really good since bo3

[@younglord161]

@@Crimson06 cold war zombies was fun imo

[@ezzahhh]

F But hopefully with the Microsoft acquisition they can restructure the company and may bring out a half decent COD for once. Either that or they will end up pulling a Rareware and self destruct. Could really go either way as far as I see it.

[@clockwerk35]

F

[@nightmare5510]

@@younglord161 I agree although it was my first zombie experience.

[@D00Mll]

That interview with the lady saying CoD has no memorable characters is just a sad reminder that the people who make important design decisions in games don't actually play them... which more often than not just translates to a game that is just out of touch with what made the series great originally, trend/profit chasing, and just disappoints existing fans entirely

[@thesimpledude186]

Not only that, they don't care about the history, the entire story isn't even accurate, the "bloodiest war" isn't even shown to be bloody, the characters too are bland, no historical figures also shown.

[@D3M0MAN912]

Even as someone whose experience with CoD is only with WaW and BO3, I can say that she's just wrong. Price and Reznov come to mind.

[@flammenwaffle7976]

*frank woods crying in a corner for "not being memorable"*

[@lewis5794]

I haven't played a CoD campaign since BLOPS 1 and I can still remember at least 4-5 standout characters from MW1, MW2 and Black Ops 1. My cheeks are there no memorable characters lmao

[@EmenussGOamazing]

Man even ghosts had Roarke

[@lowlife1368]

Fun fact: the recoil spring in the STG 44 continues into the butt stock removing the butt stock in anyway will make the STG 44 unable to fire

[@jackcausey1449]

Hugo Schmeisser: look how they massacred my boy

[@janbornowski1267]

Wouldn't it be have to be manually cocked?

[@brian636]

I can truly say that the game has only gone down hill since we lost Verdansk... They have atleast cut down on some of the hackers in the Warzone lobbies... Well said brother.

[@mozan33r71]

1. It's been downhill since ghosts. 2. Hackers feel better than ever. You have even soft cheaters like Zlaner making a living. It's messed up. They made cheat makers and cheat players, millionaires...

[@xzero6850]

@@mozan33r71 they sure did.

[@masao2922]

since the cold war intergration

[@rvolmed74]

Source? "I made it up, bro"

[@mozan33r71]

@@rvolmed74 What's your agenda?

[@LateNightHalo]

Cod Vanguard is the gaming equivalent of sleeping pills

[@fernandomartin661]

That and eating a pufferfish.

[@dazzaMusic]

But with Sleeping pills you get your moneys worth…

[@Carlisho]

Melatonin about to go bankrupt

[@Akunai_]

@@Carlisho melatonin about to skyrocket

[@kushweiser]

The games quite fun, lol but you believe whatever this whiner says

[@Cfreezy12]

Props to you for sitting through a game that doesn’t deserve anyones time

[@TheJoviLovi]

Honestly I enjoy cold war more lol I take no shame in putting so many hours into it

[@arandomcommenter8395]

Hopefully the revenue from this video can heal the pain he went through

[@anthonyfuentes1836]

@@TheJoviLovi it’s fun compared to the newer cods but sometimes sweats can ruin the game

[@Elend002]

I’d rather watch the Dragonball live action than play through this game.

[@ElTigre12024]

If the Act Man didn't make a review on this game, I honestly wouldn't be mad. I haven't played it but the footage I've seen convinces me I made the right call.

[@HelpIdkAGoodUser301]

As a British, I can confirm that it was not just us in WW2

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

As a American, I can confirm that it was not just us in WW2

[@NitroVortex]

As a Japanese, I can confirm that it was not just us in WW2

[@daveywaveypavey]

As a Polish, I can confirm it was not just us in WW2

[@Anonymous-j5f]

​@@daveywaveypaveyas a finnish I can confirm it was just us and USSR in winter war

[@spakentruth]

It was Our team

[@TundraDude37]

I like how the zombies portal isn't even unique, it's straight up just a re-colored version of the one from Cold War

[@B2washere]

Thats not sledge hammers fault. Thats treyarches.

[@eclipsegst9419]

Wanna know something cool? There are still assets from COD2 in Black Ops 3, and probably Vanguard as well. Every COD game they share the new stuff with the other studios their library is insanely huge at this point. COD1 used some Return to Castle Wolfenstein assets but then with COD2 they forked the idtech 3 engine and put all their own assets. Oh here's another one- You know when you go to a door in Zombies and it says "This door is opened elsewhere..."? That script is leftover in the engine all the way back from Quake 1 circa 1996

[@bozo6018]

its true

[@BoxOfCurryos]

Yeah and that animation is actually from BO3. They really need to chill with the teleporting shit in zombies, it was cool when it was only between two related locations, not two random areas like a german city and shi no numa??

[@Mr.Phoreskin]

B2 , he never said shg was to blame or that. He just made an observation. Pretty simple.

[@ken.7019]

I like how the campaign's death quotes are from the in game characters, making said quotes meaningless

[@shamoonmarwat9840]

I think I'll just play [PROTOTYPE] . It's another Activision franchise which I think you should to try.

[@qasimishtiaq8930]

What you on about? Polina saying "ppl die" is the most inspirational shit in COD history

[@forrandomsites3336]

@@shamoonmarwat9840 best part of prototype, you don't even need a pc from heaven to run it.

[@totallydivine4997]

Activision should bring back Prototype and make Prototype 3

[@Sgt.Peanut16]

"We are out of Nazis" Wow when I saw this quote, I laugh so hard. It is hilariously so bad like bruh this woman is trying to act like Blazkowicz

[@slimey630]

"I'm surprised treyarch managed to even include a scoreboard" *Meanwhile in 2042....*

[@rerecycled7507]

You got the joke. Good job.

[@JinnYoungKim]

The only Treyarch games I play are World at War and Black Ops 1 and 2. And Battlefield 1943 is the best game.

[@stormcast056]

One cashgrabby method they used is weapon blueprints. Like Act Man said, the attachments give you a severe advantage against other players. So blueprints basically say: “would you rather grind 10 hours for good attachments or spend your hard earned money” it also takes away the feeling that you at least earned that attachment you wanted and grinned for.

[@Lucky_9705]

Activision needs to give this franchise a break. They can’t milk their cash cow any drier than this.

[@arttulindroos6686]

Imo they should just remaster cods from waw to bo2

[@joshhollands7504]

Apparently there is no cod coming out next year. Hopefully that means we get a finished game the year after.

[@Lucky_9705]

@@joshhollands7504 Hopefully

[@Gliw0306]

what

[@Kurama420]

Title: Why is Vanguard so bad Me: hmm yes.... the floor is made of floor

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

Ah yes, I remember my grandpa telling me about a guy who used 10000% aim assist to take down an entire Japanese battalion. History is so crazy like that.

[@anonymusmysterious5401]

That sucks. Frickin autoaim in the 40's. Hey, was your grandpa in my team of the enemy team?

[@connorhudock1950]

You can't tell me that the dentist who killed 90 Japanese soldiers so his friends could retreat, who was found dead Borimir style in a pile of corpses, wasn't using hacks

[@martmine4618]

And the dude was shot and stabbed by bayonets up to 26 times while still being alive.

[@rizonza5060]

This is not real "Aim assist" Is not a real thing. In real life you would have to aim weapon like with your eyes, not "aim assist"

[@DonaldDuck-s8v]

@@connorhudock1950 I remember it like it was yesterday. D-day.. Storming the beach was insane. The anime, the green blue and red bullets flying around that sand? Damn it was crazy. I was also the only white guy on my boat, rest were indian, russian and british women with these Japanese weapons. It was a day that I will never forget.

[@Hexamath]

At least the “Zombies” name fits. No functioning organs; just skin.

[@TheActMan]

fucking gottem

[@CoderJohnny]

“No new Call Of Duty for 2023!” Yeah… about that, here’s a little project we been doing in our spare time: MW3

[@spacewizard9092]

The flash bang they got hit by shouldn’t have existed in WW2. It didn’t get developed until the 60’s and wasn’t officially used until the 70’s so the technological inaccuracies go beyond intentional. Either that or they were too lazy to think of an alternate scenario.

[@andrewgallegos290]

I don't play games for historical accuracy but either way this game is boring ahahaha

[@LaggingDuck-]

I didn’t play the campaign but that seemed like a very one way area Just cover that area, or kill them with a frag

[@hd5783]

There’s also holographic sights LMAO

[@SERROT598]

@@andrewgallegos290 i agree that a game does'nt have to be 100% historical accurate , but at leaste they need to be beliavable ,and vanguard isnt beliavable.

[@SERROT598]

@@hd5783 a revolver shotgun with detachable mags lmao.

[@_paczki]

The vanguard grenade emote where the guy has his hands on his head is the exact same emote from Junkrat. They are not only recycling shit from older cods but they are also recycling from their other games.

[@mojo_joju]

i wish they'd at least draw inspiration from their GOOD games

[@knrz2562]

😆 🤣 😂 😹 🤣

[@bluesapphire6446]

Spend 40 min. watching The Act Man talking about this game is far more enjoyable than playing an actual game.

[@Jay410S]

This video honestly has more replay value than the actual game 😂😂 and that’s facts

[@doctorbusiness8771]

fuck man, at least I feel something by watching the video

[@sengiko]

Same here, The Last Jedi and The Last of Us Part 2 have given me more entertainment value from video essays about how bad they are than they have by themselves

[@devinsethna1287]

Same with blame truth’s videos

[@yesfiraswa]

the thumbnail is also funny and more enjoyable than the actual game lmao

[@davestudios9271]

“Let’s go no game in 2023! Modern warfare 3 is behind me isn’t it.”

[@howdoichangemyusername9802]

It’s hilarious that people want Activision to stop making CoD an annual release when it’s clear that it makes them more money not to do that. CoD isn’t the cash cow, the customers are.

[@justcallmpeter]

People are just so goddamn stupid sometimes. It's the same thing over and over again Dumbass: gets excited about the new cod Buys cod on release date Gets angry because it's trash Gets excited about to cod again Buys cod again on release date Gets angry because its trash Gets excited about cod again Like WHY DO YOU KEEP BUYING IT THEN!!!

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

That’s the funny thing, NONE OF THESE MODERN GREEDY BUSINESS PRACTICES WERE EVER NEEDED!! They became legends because they put TIME and CARE into the classics, and guess what? THEY STILL MADE BIG BUCKS!! It’s almost like these greedy pigs don’t need every penny on the planet or something! Heck I’ll double down and say that they could pay their employees…and get ready for this crazy idea…a living wage :0!!!

[@organicleaf]

@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 a living wage?! do you want the ceo's to sell their yachts you monster?!

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

@@organicleaf Oh yeah, and I’ll make them have to buy million dollar mansions instead of billion dollar mansions too! Muahahahahahaaaaa!!

[@joseantoniovargas6548]

@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 You monster! what next??? Are you gonna build a bridge to their houses?! You are a devil

[@half-trackproductions]

One of the less talked about evils of CoD Vanguard is having an American storyline in the campaign, but only allowing the player to use two US weapons (the M1911 and M1 Flamethrower) even though the US firearms were arguably some of the coolest in WWII. Also, I like how Sledgehammer included Jackson on the team because he was a master fighter pilot, but then made him do missions on the ground as a grunt (because apparently the most skilled commando the US had at the time also just so happens to be the most skilled pilot as well). Not to mention the ludicrous notion that the US and Soviet Russia would agree to send their best soldier to fight on a team behind enemy lines rather than keeping them to use on their own fronts. And one last thing. Sledgehammer had the 93rd Infantry Division rescue the pilot once his plane was shot down by the Japanese to score brownie points from people who only care about whether or not the game is inclusive. The problem is the 93rd really only did construction work and occasionally played a defensive role during the war, yet they’re portrayed as being part of like a tank battalion. I get the feeling Sledgehammer just Googled, “all black unit wwii,” and picked the first result that came up without doing any actual research. Not to mention that the 93rd weren’t even at Bougainville during the time the story was set (nor were StG-44s for that matter). If they gave a shit, they could’ve done a storyline about the 761st Tank Battalion “the Black Panthers,” who fought with General Patton during the Battle of the Bulge rather than a construction unit to give the illusion of inclusiveness. But then they couldn’t boast about the campaign including all fronts of the war in their marketing I guess.

[@half-trackproductions]

@Samuellee Ogboko Jr Yeah, my bad. Thank God for the troops on “My Team” who fought and died to protect the free world from the “Enemy Team.”

[@half-trackproductions]

@@spaceman624 That wouldn’t happen to be Big Red One would it? I vaguely remember that game and believe there was a mission set during the Battle of the Bulge.

[@half-trackproductions]

@Samuellee Ogboko Jr “We’re not sure why we were fighting men on Enemy Team. We knew nothing of their culture or their motivations. All we knew was that they stood for everything that we didn’t marching under the banner of a plus sign.” -An unnamed soldier of the Second “My Team” Expeditionary Force

[@m.i.t5543]

@Samuellee Ogboko Jr my team...

[@beeman4266]

Everything woke always turns to shit.

[@Sweetface01]

It's really astounding to me that the same studio that made Black Ops 2 worked on Vanguard

[@sczpemytzi4783]

Same studio but not the same people sadly

[@kevinpatino6318]

Bo1>bo2

[@jaydennoodles4682]

Sledgehammer made vanguard not treyarch

[@jimmyscars1337]

@@jaydennoodles4682 treyarch did the zombies

[@stetsonharlan7288]

Well the developers of those games were fired

[@YeffRamos]

I watched this after your 2023 "MW3" expansion pack video... and oh man I wish I could travel into the past and talk to you

[@Kalina47]

You know, the saddest thing about Vanguard is that, according to early leaks, they were _originally_ going for a Wolfenstein-esque aesthetic of an alternate history where the Axis won WWII, but changed their minds at some point. And do you know why that would be? Could it have been to be more accurate to WWII? Could it have been because they believed it to be somewhat disrespectful to history? Nope. It’s because they need the game to tie in narratively to World at War, Black Ops and Modern Warfare for Warzone. You can’t have an alternate history where the Axis won because you can’t do that without the MW and BO timelines being broken. They’re trying to do, like, a fucking Call of Duty cinematic universe with all their games now by connecting it together, and it just limits their options and dilutes the story.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Ironically, even with Vanguard at launch, there was no connection to any of the previous games including Cold War and MW 2019, so then it begs the question: What was even the point of going for a big connected universe if your own game doesn't connect to that universe?

[@GearHead36]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 *These people are fucking dumb* Like, shouldn't they have started WITH the WW2 scenario first _BEFORE_ going into Cold War times, and THEN a Modern Warfare time!?

[@enterpassword3313]

​@@dragonbornexpress5650and then mwii has an alternate timeline

[@cymikgaming1266]

wolfenstien was better

[@GearHead36]

@@cymikgaming1266 I... I think that's a given.

[@Dan-qy6zv]

What I really want, is a vietnam vod game with a campaign that doesn't have an uplifting ending. The shit we have all heard about Vietnam is GRIM. I wanna see that on display. And for it to basically have a similar message to WaW ending with the 60M people dead. That war is bad, horrific, and even if it's over, the horror doesn't leave you.

[@bigbargemarge7675]

I think that'd be pretty fun

[@airplanemaniacgaming7877]

@@bigbargemarge7675 "But where can we get all the microtransactions and bullshit skins to fit in and the whole niche weapon meta to exist?!?!/!1?1/?!/1?!?!1/!??!??!!??"-Retarded Executives in Activision, probably.

[@bananaonion8617]

I’ve always wanted a cod Vietnam game that wasn’t like cod ww2

[@Wiggles762]

That would be amazing a more bitter story line would probably hit the feels.

[@Deathmare235]

And maybe Korean as well

[@jonaswhitt4322]

It always astounds me how AAA titles have like zero scope when it comes to WWII, even after over 20 years of the genre being around. Like literally have a conflict that spanned for 6 years on almost every continent of the world, but if you ask a activision employee the conflict took place from 1942 to 1944 in France and Russia. Activision had the balls to let you play as a mass shooter almost 15 years ago, but they still don't have the balls to let you play as the Germans in a cod campaign.

[@internetuser8371]

same with not having a swastika any more and only having the iron cross, because that's apparently "offensive." So if you're able to play a game rated M for "mature", why is some logo on a flag going to offend you? COD used to be so good, the last good COD game was black ops, which came out in 2010, and actually had swastikas in zombies. Everything now is a bunch of woke garbage. They're definitely was black women enlisted as US Marines storming an island in the south pacific killing Japanese soldiers... totally.

[@jonaswhitt4322]

@@internetuser8371 Yah, the irony of the entire thing is really palpable, ever since "the nuke" in cod 4, cods thing has been being edgy and going for shock value. 5 you got to see serious war crimes committed by all sides, MWII you had the airport massacre, black ops you had the reznov twist, etc, somewhere along the way though they became a lot more politically conscious but at the same time tried to keep the edginess and gritiness of the past games, so the entire thing just becomes a convoluted cringy mess as a result. I would love if they just went back to the basics of like the first 3 COD games and just dropped the plot and even characters for that matter, and just had you play through set pieces that actually happened during the war and that we have never got to see, like playing as the finnish during the winter war, or the poles trying desperately to fend off the german blitzkrieg (and then later playing as free polish forces in italy) or how about you follow a group of german soldiers from barborrosa and show everything gradually go to shit for them. The possibilities are literally endless, but we only see the same recycled stuff again and again. EA was "slightly" better with battlefield I guess, featured norway and a tiny section where you were able to play as a tiger tank crew.

[@Molotov_Milkshake]

@@internetuser8371 it's just bullshit. The swastika was everywhere in Wolfenstein and nobody cared.

[@robertszordykowski4919]

It's even more baffling how they keep portaying the red scum as "the good guys".

[@williamtruett3421]

I've always wanted to have the German perspective

[@Cobalt_Hero]

The thing about Cold War was they found a perfect operator system: there were operators, but they were exclusive to a specific side. They still had skins, but there wasn’t an operator on your team and an enemy operator with the same skin on the other.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

MW 2019 actually did the same thing; Even had multiple sub-factions between the main mega-factions.

[@cosmicbilly]

Man i feel so bad. One of my good childhood friends worked on vanguard. And it was their first major gaming company they worked for. They did the artwork for the game and designed graphics like gun plumes and technical stuff like that and was even in contact with snoopdogs management. She was really excited and proud. It's a shame the game got so much hate. But frankly its deserved. Hopefully she will get more opportunities to work on other big games in the future that are actually good games.

[@mayonnaise3959]

It’s not her fault at all. It’s activisions and yearly releases

[@delix8869]

I hope not.

[@angelo8304]

I like the technical stuff for sure

[@Breakaway-ic5gj]

Well atleast she got paid right

[@Suigeneris999]

@@Breakaway-ic5gj she has to get paid. This isn’t an internship.

[@gigamoe1287]

The fact that the man the myth the legend himself MrRoflWaffles, is literally begging people not to buy a game because of how bad zombies is truly shows off how terrible modern gaming has destroyed the entire gaming genre

[@Sprunkzz]

@T-Army Multiplayer is solid and the campaign is really good you should get it if you get it cheap or just wait for mw2

[@Sprunkzz]

@T-Army I missed bo1 so much I just had to buy it again for my old ps3 man that game is so good

[@iluvhotpockets]

@@Sprunkzz yeah as well as bo2 multiplayer is modded asf but zombies is still fun to play

[@HummusThunder]

i played this game for a week and decided i’m just going to stick with modern warfare for the 3rd year in a row 😂

[@BeamedAgain]

yeah modern warfare is better than vanguard by faaaar

[@FoxxSandwich3975]

I can't play MW campaign because Warzone is a thicc bitch

[@demicus]

Shit, OG COD4 had more to offer than the entire lineup of modern COD. Take me back to 2007 please.

[@WhiskyWombat556]

When I want to play a WW2 game I either go back to CoD2, which had way more useful content, or WaW or just play Enlisted if I want a more recent game

[@krizula1117]

@@demicus cod 4 is freaking cancer. Full of campers and boring same killstreaks also the maps sucked

[@nazzer_xlon]

We need a cod game set in vietnam with multiple characters, kinda like vanguard, like 1 person who is a marine FORECON, another person who is a MACV-SOG operator, a Green Beret, and an Army Ranger. The story would basically be set in 4 different areas, one in Tay Ninh, one in Khe Sanh, one in Hue City, and one in Da Nang. The MACV-SOG operator will be in Khe Sanh and Da Nang, the FORECON will be in Khe Sanh and Da Nang, The Green Beret will be in Tay Ninh and Khe Sanh, and the army ranger will be at Tay Ninh and Hue City.

[@ISAShadowStlkr]

The one thing I love about The Act Man's Reviews there is NO HOLDING BACK. Just the Detail of Information he goes into every aspect I respect the Grind.

[@TheActMan]

I take no prisoners, comrades

[@davisbaumberger6887]

@@TheActMan good man

[@YodielandInhabitant710]

Unless the game is made by Amazon...

[@American_That_Knows_Geography]

@@TheActMan Yo what are you’re thoughts on Rdr2 online

[@AntiJewluminatiDwarf]

Except when it came to Infinite not only did he barely point out flaws but he knowingly lied through his teeth and his "follow-up" was a joke as well. Dude got paid to hype infinite plain and simple and if he didn't he's a fanboy of the worst kind

[@CyonisCyberFox]

A friend of mine made his own COD Zombies in Gmod. That somehow had even more content and replay value than what was in Vanguard

[@c0aty]

Drop the name

[@drunkencowboi7934]

Fr drop that name, not of your friend but of the game he made

[@chrisupton6190]

Drop the name of the game mode please

[@CyonisCyberFox]

Need to get in touch w/ my friend about dropping the name. Can't remember it. Will drop it if he's cool with it

[@WhiteWolfYT964]

@@CyonisCyberFox bet

[@salvatori9852]

There’s been more effort put into this video than vanguard

[@TrainedArcTrooper]

I put more effort into typing this comment than in vanguard

[@maki_zenin-z7t]

There's been more effort put into me breathing than Vanguard.

[@unknowngamedev909]

@@maki_zenin-z7t There's been more effort put into anyone existing than shitguard

[@Karimftw0.0]

There’s been more effort being put into vanguard than MWIII

[@DrUnfunny]

Me taking a sip of water is more complicated than the entire CoD franchise.

[@mkittheinker112]

"Heres a sentence that i will never be saying again: i'd rather play Ghosts" MW3 2023: say it again

[@tankerscrub5811]

25:47 This scene has a higher chance of happening irl than anything in vanguard

[@elenbowman7116]

LMAO

[@ion_power1238]

This is one of the best comments I've seen.

[@pjplayz5448]

This scene has a higher chance of happening than me ever playing a full match of fucking anything in vanguard

[@rifath8152]

38:44 "I just want Call of Duty to shock me again." There's only one way a WW2 Call of Duty game could do that. Full. Blown. Unadulterated. German campaign. Or maybe have a World at War remake, but instead of doing Pacific/Eastern front, they do a side-by-side story of Reznov's unit and a new German unit from Stalingrad all the way to fall of Berlin. But they don't have the balls to do that.

[@ECODKyleskymast]

And if they'd be worried that "ThIS GaMe PrOMOtEs NaZiS!!1!!" the protagonist could be horrified at the atrocities commited by the Germans and become a informant to the allied powers.

[@cdru515]

If they do a german campaign, they would just find a way to go all wehraboo and downplay the atrocities

[@doot7730]

I'd make a campaign for all factions. Including Poland.

[@Itsshaunbewarned]

Something like the last tiger from BFV would be amazing

[@exterminii5655]

Agreed. I've been wishing they'd do a campaign with German soldiers. If you look at history, there were quite a few who actually did the right thing at the end, like Josef Gangl who died fighting off SS forces alongside American forces to protect French Prisoners, or Walther Wenck who ignored orders from high command to try and retake Berlin, choosing instead to create a route that would allow civilians to escape from the oncoming Russians, then surrender to the American forces to the West. Heck, even a made-up campaign of a German soldier getting swept up in the speeches and promises becoming disillusioned and ultimately hating the Nazis after seeing the camps and helping the allies advance would be cool. Just something that isn't what we've seen a thousand times before.

[@davidadu8559]

I love that act man has come to appreciate and enjoy the complex zombies maps, especially considering the amount of content they could really add, and seeing how vanguard just never captured what made zombies so fun

[@jordangreen7191]

I stopped playing when during the Japanese missions you could pick up STGs and MG-42s off Japanese soldiers. How unbelievably stupid do you have to be to put the wrong guns in the wrong theater

[@Ohmygodstfu2045]

I stopped when I saw the modern tacticool reload animations in a ww2 game, oh and that bullshit you mentioned.

[@jinxysaberk]

It's crazy how something that was supposed to be cool for us and the devs by making us able to get more content just turned into "let's see the worst thing we can put out that people will still buy"

[@classicsteakZ096]

Activision 🤝 Game Freak

[@Sonichero151]

@@classicsteakZ096 Game Freak at least puts care into their games.... you might not notice cause you're too bust on your high fucking horse over Techinical issues that can always be fixed

[@theoneandonlyjim902]

@@Sonichero151 I mean, as of recent this is true. The story is always good, but it's everything else that feels bad to play.

[@SheerDruid81]

@@theoneandonlyjim902I played Pokémon violet and I can tell you that the main problem with the game is the performance. the gameplay is fun, the new Pokémons are good, and there’s a lot you can do in the game.

[@Random_Fanatic]

@@SheerDruid81 Performance? The voice acting or like the Switch not being able to handle the game play?

[@adioamigo22]

Vanguard could have done a storyline where the war didn't end in 1945, and is pushing into the mid '50s, and so the arms technology race progressed even faster than in reality. This would been a probably universally accepted reason for all the weapons attachments, and the spec ops squads being akin to Cold War-era units.

[@asiberiantiger188]

Sadly that takes foresight

[@Deadsea_1993]

Interesting that Fallout kind of went this route in the 50's after WW2 and is what led to the entire nuclear warfare that decimated the world.

[@Nopal11-v5m]

@@Deadsea_1993 hey you right! If the CoD want going to Fallout Route is not hard

[@NexusKin]

That reminds me of "Wolfenstein The New Order" and "Turning Point Fall Of Liberty," both of which were alternative history WW2 games.

[@adioamigo22]

@Christopher Regan I enjoyed "Turning Point". I do wish it would get a rework; it was blatant how much of a low budget PS3 release game it was.

[@dastemplar9681]

This game was like WWII given the “Avengers” treatment. Yeah a conflict that witnessed unthinkable horrific acts of pure inhumanity on a global scale accompanied by the 70+ million dead totally deserves the light-hearted team-up Avengers tone adaptation. By far Call of Duty at its laziest and most pathetic. I’m so happy people are not being kind to the title.

[@fajararsy_saiga9567]

If this "Avengers" wannabe trying to beat the WW2, they should make another using "Justice League" in Korean War, Vietnam or even WW1... If they maked one in the future.

[@grubskies4221]

After two matches of vanguard zombies I closed and deleted the application, and hopped on some der eisendrache

[@itstroy4145]

“Call of Duty’s base design is based on addiction, not enjoyment.” Bro, You couldn’t have said that any better

[@wisdumcube]

Literally a perfect summary of the situation.

[@whenshekeepssucking6916]

Yeah… And honestly most AAA games nowadays. With the loot boxes of old being replaced with something else…

[@samuelault4723]

This is so true, I remember going back to MW19 after a 5month break and I felt dirty. It felt like a relapse

[@MidniteMeatBus]

@@samuelault4723 lmfao

[@jam5287]

Well yes but addicting things are usually fun.. call of duty has been neither addicting nor fun since black ops 3. That was the last decent cod spite the futuristic stuff.

[@SeanBodine]

Two things I learned after watching this video. 1: Apathy is death. 2: THE ENEMY IS BUILDING A BRIDGE!!!1!1!

[@Xbxbbxbdbdxbxbbx]

sToP tHe eNemy FROM BUILDING THAT BRIDGEEEEE

[@SeanBodine]

Haha 😆

[@nathandei1674]

@@Xbxbbxbdbdxbxbbx THEY’RE BUILDING A BRIDGE!!!!!111!1!!!1!1!!1

[@RicardoHernandez-do6ns]

Worse than death

[@lukakamberovic6486]

And War

[@nfjkshfjwgeiwuy]

Whats more Ironic is the fact that more recently there was a news article that said that Vanguard failed because “No one likes WW2” The fact that activision needs to blame fans instead of making an actually good game is laughable at best

[@ananastudio]

Honestly they should just stop making WW2 games if it is to disrespect it

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Correct. WW2 based games aren't the problem; It's the fact that 80-90% of all WW2 games almost exclusively focus on the Western Front loaded with cliches, cardboard characters, and Hollywood style action sequences. In other words, WW2 games aren't the problem; It's how generic and cliche most of them are.

[@jabronisauce6833]

Ain't nothing wrong with WW2, Purposely making a bad game to make a crappy none point is tho.

[@jabronisauce6833]

@@ananastudio No, don't be a clown you realise real vets worked alongside MOH which the OG cod devs came from? You realise this genre started because they wanted to teach a whole new generation about this conflict hence so many movie scenes being in these games aswell. It isn't disrespectful at all quite the opposite. Unless movies and shows are also disrespectful?

[@jabronisauce6833]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 I mean this genre took off and really started with Spielberg hence the movie clichés even with cod but guess what those games where successful the current lot aren't what does that tell ya? This I think rubbish ain't it chief.

[@KellsKats]

Why hasn’t he done a video on COD4? Out of all the ones he’s made videos for, that one is certainly the most important in the entire franchise.

[@beertlont776]

If I could like a comment 2 times for one time I would choose this one.

[@TheRealArtimusKnight]

Here’s a cool idea for a game mode: Air Raid, one team plays as planes like fighters/bombers, the other plays as the airbase defences, like flak cannons and AA guns, the goal is to capture the airbase by getting C47 style paratroopers for the plane team, and wait for air support for the defence team

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

Treyach: No cause that would be fun, and we hate FUN

[@ryannhoops]

That’s a good idea

[@xCOBRAxVENOMx]

💯💯

[@garbearfar1394]

COD could never. Battlefield does need this tho that'd be a cool mode

[@Lucky-sh1dm]

@@garbearfar1394 you really think Dice with battlefield is gonna try to put something fun in their game? Got some water to sell you in the Sahara pal

[@yeeyourlasthaw2803]

I played cold war, and absolutely loved the experience of zombies. You can tell the developers put some love into it. Hell, outbreak was game changing for me. Rotating maps, objectives, free zombies content, gun levels being cross progressed between it and multi-player. I bought vanguard and was beyond disappointed with what I saw with zombies from the get go.

[@uknlogic2924]

I personally think WaW and Black Ops had the best zombie experiences and MW2 had the best multiplayer experience, but cold war (after the patches) was a good blend of both. Vanguard is just a giant stain of feces that was left on the franchise. In ghosts' defense, it had a lot of unique concepts that could have been really good in another franchise but was a victim of its map design and pacing. Vanguard has absolutely nothing going for it and I strongly encourage that players spend their money on another game.

[@benitoswagolini3410]

@@dimension-121 hey that's just my opinion dude

[@AreJay5721]

@@benitoswagolini3410 it didnt deserve the hate it got, i grinded that game for DM and was having a blast in that game, im enjoying all the new cods except for vanguard

[@Bigblade297]

@@uknlogic2924 from ur first comment, yes cold war is one of the best. Sure it didn't seem like too many wonder weapons compared to bo3 zombies, but it was still fun. Even though people didn't like forsaken and mauer too much (mauer is my second most grinded map), I still feel like it's a good game worth buying. Outbreak was the icing on the cake and is also a personal favorite. I really love to scout, hide and sneek like I'm a Ninja assassin, and pick on krasny soldats. But vanguard? I never even brought the game, but I can definitely see why people hate it. To the inferno with vanguard

[@uknlogic2924]

@Bigblade297 2.0t.g I can tell you as someone who got the game through game share-the game is awful and is as clear as day that the game was intended to print money and do nothing else

[@SplendidCoffee0]

What a fall from grace. This and BF2042 really did break my heart.

[@arandomcommenter8395]

@Melanie🦋 Shut tf up bot

[@SplendidCoffee0]

@@arandomcommenter8395 I wish a Hank Hill out there could kick every bot’s ass

[@qu1253]

This, Battlefield 2042, and Halo Infinite pretty much sapped all of my enthusiasm for gaming and had me on the verge of selling my PC and my consoles, but thankfully Elden Ring brought me back.

[@thekiller7994]

@@qu1253 don’t sell you’re PC and gaming consoles, just play older games like I do

[@SplendidCoffee0]

@@qu1253 I agree with The Killer. There are so many incredible older games on the PC. The first Deus Ex is $7, and it’s one of my all time favorites.

[@CeeHoff]

1:32 Well, that was a big fucking lie.

[@thestranger5911]

Understatement of the year

[@Healthandwealth9422]

Activison CEO: looks like they like it Fans: we hate it CEO: they like it

[@naenaemister5048]

explains the sexual assault

[@spectroelectro3772]

@@naenaemister5048 r/cursedcomments

[@mq-r3apz291]

The fact that of all things they recycle they dont recycle wonder weapons LOL

[@randomperson6004]

@@spectroelectro3772 this ain't reddit

[@spectroelectro3772]

@@randomperson6004 r/yes

[@milney]

Best one is the operator they put in the game who supposedly fought in WW1 when he was -2 years old (Bio says he was born in 1920 and is a WW1 veteran, WW1 ended in 1918 for those who don't know)

[@andreadebernardis4390]

wait you're not serious r right?

[@CalvinNoire]

💀💀💀💀💀

[@notKyoshi]

3 days too late Nah u gotta be joking Right

[@theintrovertoddball7463]

Wow they actually did not care at all did they.

[@milney]

@@andreadebernardis4390 yeah, the operator in question is Thomas Bolt, they had to update his bio so it now says he was born in 1900

[@VanLupen]

The long awaited sequel to “Why is COD WW2 so BAD?!”

[@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898]

At least cod ww2 is playable and fun. Yeah it’s so bad but it’s nowhere near vanguard standards. Cod ww2 is better than vanguard.

[@Nebulasecura]

@@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898 yeah at least that game was somewhat playable. This is fucking boring af

[@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898]

@@Nebulasecura literally. Nazi Zombies in cod ww2 is ten times better than vanguard zombies.

[@VanLupen]

@@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898 We thought we had it bad back then 🤣

[@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898]

@@VanLupen for real lmao

[@g.mendes0482]

“Call of duty’s game design is based on addiction, not enjoyment”… I couldn’t agree more, which is why I kicked the habit a couple years ago.

[@hellhounds04]

I remember a quote Act Man brought up from his World at War review: "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggests models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of recititude has been salvaged from the larger wastes, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie." - Time O'Brien, The Things They Carried.

[@sarunotaslt]

@@pootisengage6672 tell em king

[@WarbossR0kt00fSant0s]

You finished half of the quote but good one.

[@roberine7241]

@@pootisengage6672 yeah germany was bad in it's history. not all people though. keep that in mind. tere were those that actively were against the Nazis and those that were against them, but scared because even just saying something against the governemt could get you killed. and then you had those that were completely on board with the ideology.

[@jlag96]

@@pootisengage6672 idk man you wanting an entire race of people wiped out sounds kinda nazi to me…

[@pootisengage6672]

@@jlag96 after what they did? Oh no my friend. It would have been reckoning

[@TheSoulGage]

The moment that she said COD had no noteworthy or iconic characters is the moment I knew this campaign was doomed. Though with how ambitious they were going with it (In concept) I kinda adore it, but the execution was not exactly the best.

[@staticaleel5068]

I to this day still love the fact that act man pulled up the clips of “Johnathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal arms museum in the uk” just to iterate how cursed and fucked the modded guns of vanguard are

[@deltacommand8053]

Brandon Herrera’s “cursed guns of COD Vanguard” is sooo damn accurate. You can legit turn a weapon into a completely different weapon…just by using the attachments…

[@dragonace119]

When Jonathan Ferguson of the British Royal Armories did a video on the weapons, I think the poor guy nearly had an aneurysm.

[@NotKameron]

@@dragonace119 please give me a link to that vid

[@dragonace119]

@@NotKameron Look up Gamespot : "Firearms Expert Reacts To Call Of Duty: Vanguard’s Guns" he's a very frequent guest on that channel but he also part of the channel "Royal Armories" where he and other meusem staff show off and go over the history of certain weapons.

[@NotKameron]

@@dragonace119 thanks

[@dragonace119]

@@NotKameron No problemo.

[@skipdiner9972]

this sounds like the kind of game I'd play as a super young kid and my older brother would show me the safe zone and we'd feel smart for "outsmarting" the evil zombies

[@montmurillo8291]

Reminds me of that one room in left 4 dead at the end of mercy hospital campaign

[@pootis_the_mans8007]

@@montmurillo8291 what room

[@pootis_the_mans8007]

@randomprecision oh ok thanks

[@WhatsJamesName]

Meanwhile everyone else who’s mastered training, Easter eggs n shit: *laughs in pro*

[@strudel7776]

I’m so checked out of Call of Duty I haven’t played it in over a year. Here’s a list of all the games I have been plying since: Titanfall 2 Insurgency: Sandstorm Train Sim World 2 War Thunder Formula 1 2021 Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Battlefield 1 SimplePlanes I’ve found more enjoyment in operating freight trains than playing CoD.

[@MidniteMeatBus]

Those games are all so old man, what happened to new games from new IPs releasing? It like never happens anymore. Last fresh game for me I bought at full price was Prey from 2017

[@bavarianbanshee]

I've been playing regular Train Simulator again lately, and I've been enjoying it a lot. It's oddly more of a management game than I realized when I used to play it all the time. I also picked up TSW2 on sale the other day. I haven't tried it yet (will soon), and I probably won't play it too much until the Spirit of Steam update/expansion drops, but it seems pretty cool.

[@MaticTheProto]

A nice list of games

[@____Carnage____]

@@MidniteMeatBus for me it’s Elden Ring and Ghost of Tsushima

[@Hazardxv]

@@MidniteMeatBus The last decade of gaming, with exceptions, have been a wasteland. The entire last generation is a disappointment as a whole.

[@dtworeselling6104]

My Grandfather barely made it out of Okinawa alive. He was in the middle of building a bridge under heavy Enemy Team fire, when a member of the Enemy Team ran up and stabbed him with a sledgehammer. He barely survived and now has a crippling fear of sledgehammers to this day.