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[Mr.ODST]

Not sure why ive not seen this yet on the forum but Activision randomly fixed all of the 360 Call of Duty titles on Xbox 360, One and Series X.

Thousands of Call of Duty fans are playing classic Xbox 360 titles thanks to a server fix

Call of Duty: Black Ops has the player count at more than 100,000.

www.theverge.com

Instant matchmaking, seems cheaters is quite limited from what I've played and back to playing old-school fun cod, here are some videos.

(showcases all titles)

Looks like it could be prepping to be launched on Gamepass.

All Call of Duty titles on Xbox have now received a 50 - 70% discount for the next 13 days

 

[diffusionx]

(showcases all titles)

 

[Nvzman]

Kind of crazy that this is what got me to dust off my Series X and play it. MWII is so shit it made me want to play MW2 lol

 

[Mr.ODST]

Obviously Faze is big into their Call of Dutys so tried finding some that showcased matchmaking times and most of the titles running.

 

[havoc00]

Yea been playing mw2 09 and bo1 for the last few days

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Still full of hackers though.

 

[Drew1440]

Appears its only the Xbox 360 versions, the PS3 and PC versions are still unpatched

 

[havoc00]

Still full of hackers though.

Bo2 is the worst in that regard

 

[ManaByte]

Appears its only the Xbox 360 versions, the PS3 and PC versions are still unpatched

Makes sense as you can play the 360 versions on a modern console.

 

[Mephisto40]

First game of Black Op's I drop into and people are flying around with wall hacks and nuke launchers

Yeh, it's not 'fixed'

 

[GHG]

Makes sense as you can play the 360 versions on a modern console.

And you can't play the PC versions on a modern PC because...?

 

[EverydayBeast]

Being loyal to an old cod is strange, I mean of course they were popular shooters.

 

[ManaByte]

And you can't play the PC versions on a modern PC because...?

PC versions are hacked to hell.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Being loyal to an old cod is strange, I mean of course they were popular shooters.

i get being loyal to CoD4:M4 (2007). classic game

 

[GHG]

PC versions are hacked to hell.

That's not an issue exclusive to the PC versions.

 

[Drew1440]

And you can't play the PC versions on a modern PC because...?

Remote code execution is a problem for the PC versions, not very safe to play. Though Windows 10/11 should be a lot more secure.

 

[tmlDan]

man, people really have bad taste if they're still playing old CODs....its wild that they some people only play one game

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Almost bought World at War last night because of the sale but then I remembered it has a lot of DLC.

 

[Bry0]

Played a little mw2 the other day. After one game it all came back. Still a fun game but honestly the formula is basically the same as it is now so I tapped out after 3 matches.

 

[havoc00]

Almost bought World at War last night because of the sale but then I remembered it has a lot of DLC.

Don’t buy the dlc for any of these it kills matchmaking

 

[Drizzlehell]

I never actually played any of those older CoDs back in the day. Which one is the best to jump into if I just want some simple deathmatch multiplayer?

 

[RagnarokIV]

Not clicking that stupid fucken soy boy thumbnail video. FUCK OFF.

edit: a little harsh but I hate this youtube nonsense.

 

[havoc00]

I never actually played any of those older CoDs back in the day. Which one is the best to jump into if I just want some simple deathmatch multiplayer?

Mw2 and bo1.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Rykan]

Wait, I'm confused: Were older titles straight up not working before this? I thought older CoD's were still being played by a small group of people.

 

[Adam_802]

Xbox back compat stays winning

 

[havoc00]

Wait, I'm confused: Were older titles straight up not working before this? I thought older CoD's were still being played by a small group of people.

The matchmaking was screwed up

 

[Danknugz]

wonder if I still have my 1000 stealth bomber kills banner

 

[Gaiff]

I'll let you guess what she's looking at.

 

[Games of Today]

man, people really have bad taste if they're still playing old CODs....its wild that they some people only play one game

As opposed to... what exactly? The new CoD's? The old CoD's have actual soldiers and factions and the maps are worlds better that what they make now.

What multiplayer FPS games have come out in the past 10 years that have any kind of actual enjoyable gameplay other than Hell Let Loose, Insurgency or the Verdun series?

Battlefield 4 is the top of the list I would say. BF1 looks incredible but isn't fun to play in my opinion. BFV is very competitive and fun to play but doesn't looks worse and has worse theming than BF1. 2042 is dogshit.

MW 2019 was decent but of course went down hill with Jason masks and clown faces.

Great FPS games are in a serious drought.

 

[M.W.]

Tried Blops TDM. Full lobby but my god the input lag, nearly unplayable.

 

[Games of Today]

I never actually played any of those older CoDs back in the day. Which one is the best to jump into if I just want some simple deathmatch multiplayer?

If you're looking for the simplest team death match with the least amount of random spam I'd say either CoD 4 or World at War.

MW2 or Black Ops if you want to get a little more fancy with gun set-ups and killstreaks.

 

[Holammer]

PC versions are hacked to hell.

They used to be pretty sweet when they had VAC and TAC running. Dedicated servers on PC also killed most of the basic Listen server hacks consoles suffered with.

 

[adamsapple]

Over 120k people playing Black Ops 1 on 360.

These are Steam top-5 concurrent player numbers.

 

[rob0tman5]

Feels great to be able to play MW2 & BO1 online again.

 

[Sleepwalker]

I thought about it but I don't own these on xbox and I cba buying them, I'll let memories stay memories.

 

[Apocryphon]

I’d rather just play Titanfall 2 tbh

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Well, those games were good.

 

[tmlDan]

As opposed to... what exactly? The new CoD's? The old CoD's have actual soldiers and factions and the maps are worlds better that what they make now.

What multiplayer FPS games have come out in the past 10 years that have any kind of actual enjoyable gameplay other than Hell Let Loose, Insurgency or the Verdun series?

Battlefield 4 is the top of the list I would say. BF1 looks incredible but isn't fun to play in my opinion. BFV is very competitive and fun to play but doesn't looks worse and has worse theming than BF1. 2042 is dogshit.

MW 2019 was decent but of course went down hill with Jason masks and clown faces.

Great FPS games are in a serious drought.

The old cods also play like shit, i used to think they were good as well until i went back and played them, the shooting is not up to par with modern standards.

MW2019 is the best COD in over a decade, the new ones are just bad. I did not even mention the BF games so im not sure why you're even talking about them, they all play really well in comparison to older COD's.

 

[64bitmodels]

Well, guess its time to dust off series S. Unless the fix the PC versions then i'd be happy to double dip.

 

[MikeM]

Still dangerous to play some of these on PC.

Would be cool if MS gave these games legit Series patches.

 

[Holammer]

Still dangerous to play some of these on PC.

Would be cool if MS gave these games legit Series patches.

Tried COD4 on PC back in 2015. Joined a server and it started installing all sorts of strange scripts and I think it automatically directed me with a proxy to a Russian server.
*ALT+F4*

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

As opposed to... what exactly? The new CoD's? The old CoD's have actual soldiers and factions and the maps are worlds better that what they make now.

What multiplayer FPS games have come out in the past 10 years that have any kind of actual enjoyable gameplay other than Hell Let Loose, Insurgency or the Verdun series?

Battlefield 4 is the top of the list I would say. BF1 looks incredible but isn't fun to play in my opinion. BFV is very competitive and fun to play but doesn't looks worse and has worse theming than BF1. 2042 is dogshit.

MW 2019 was decent but of course went down hill with Jason masks and clown faces.

Great FPS games are in a serious drought.

You answered your own question lol.

People just don’t care about FPS games in general now. That’s why a lot of the top MP games today are 3rd person.

This is all being fueled by nostalgia and the ABK/Call of duty stuff constantly being in the news but those player numbers will drop before the week is over.

 

[Games of Today]

You answered your own question lol.

People just don’t care about FPS games in general now. That’s why a lot of the top MP games today are 3rd person.

This is all being fueled by nostalgia and the ABK/Call of duty stuff constantly being in the news but those player numbers will drop before the week is over.

Well no, I would say that major studios don't care about FPS games now. They basically look at CoD and say, "why bother".

People still care, we're just not getting what we would prefer in many cases.

It seems like most modern FPS players along with indie studios are leaning into the tactical shooter/realism hybrid style of gameplay. So what I hope is that some AAA studios try their hand at that.

I could see Battlefield attempting to make their game closer to something like Hell Let Loose rather than 2042's style of gameplay. It needs to be lowed down, but not to the point of simulation. BF3 absolutely nailed what I'm talking about. You could still bunny hop but if that sort of maneuver was mitigated and a new game was made closer to BF2's style of movement it would be incredible.

 

[adamsapple]

Appears its only the Xbox 360 versions, the PS3 and PC versions are still unpatched

FYI this is because it's supposedly Microsoft footing the effort here, not Activision.

Easy to guess they're doing it it preparation to put these games on game pass

 

[SoullessApples]

I'll let you guess what she's looking at.

My vinyl collection?
>this sonic adventure battle 2 vinyl is worth over 100 dollars. Trying to get the adventure battle 1 next
>yes we can listen to it

 

[Games of Today]

The old cods also play like shit, i used to think they were good as well until i went back and played them, the shooting is not up to par with modern standards.

MW2019 is the best COD in over a decade, the new ones are just bad. I did not even mention the BF games so im not sure why you're even talking about them, they all play really well in comparison to older COD's.

I mean of course they aren't going to feel like new shooters lol.

I threw BF in because I'm trying to make a point to say that of course people are still going to go back and play them because the multiplayer FPS market is currently shit.

Especially on console you have,

2042 which is shit, new CoD which is shit

or Hell Let Loose, Insurgency and Isonzo (current Verdun series game) which are all outstanding.

PC you have some more options like Rising Storm 2 Vietnam and Squad.

I think the pre-Black Ops 2 CoD games are worlds more enjoyable than the post-Ghost games. They are just so much more fun.

Killstreaks are obtainable to the average player, no SBMM, slower movement with stamina, better maps and most importantly, soldiers and factions (NO HERO BULLSHIT).

 

[Drizzlehell]

bo1

 

[Mr.ODST]

3 of my friends went and got a Series S and some Series X to play the old school CODs, its a pretty big deal considering how well COD before Ghosts is percieved.

 

[ComputerBlue]

Over 120k people playing Black Ops 1 on 360.

These are Steam top-5 concurrent player numbers.

This is wrong, it’s been glitched and broken for years, those aren’t real numbers.