It made me feel a bit like Principal Skinner from The Simpsons, if justified in his “No, it is the children who are wrong” monologue.
It’s introducing Ricochet, a “multi-faceted” software mechanism designed to combat cheating, including “new server-side tools which monitor analytics to identify cheating, enhanced investigation processes to stamp out cheaters, updates to strengthen account security, and more.” Which left me hopeful at new efforts coming out of the Call of Duty publisher Activision / Blizzard. But getting your arse handed to you time and time again just isn’t that fun. Which is a shame as, for pretty much everyone else, Call of Duty multiplayer is Call of Duty. I’m just not cut out for Call of Duty multiplayer. Put me in the campaign mode and I’ll shoot the AI soldier drones like fish in a barrel – I’ll watch the flashy set-pieces, giggle at the preposterous stakes and question the overall morality of it all (War? Huh? Yeah, what is it good for?).