Mikey wrote COD has been shit since BO2 lol, and look another flop MW oh god

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Mike wrote The game low key caters to campers

I do agree completely, but I feel like it caters to them in a very odd way.

The maps in my opinion suck, there are way to many lines of sight in any given location, too many doorways/windows/alleys/obstructions and it makes the maps feel crowded. Moving makes you constantly turn blind corners where enemies can be waiting in any number of locations.

This is why I think the game has pushed a weird camping meta, because normally in a balanced map there are expected bottlenecks where players are forced through that one would expect a camper. Since we all play(ed) Modern Warfare 2, I always think of the tunnel on Sub Base, the plane tunnel on Terminal, the bridges on Rundown or the bunker in Wasteland (among many others) where players were forced to travel through these areas in order to easily move to different parts of the map. It was then expected running through those areas to be cautious of campers/claymores and play it extremely safe. No one was casually running through the Wasteland bunker not expecting to get lit up from a camper waiting just outside on the other side. Aside from these one or two bottlenecks, you could pretty much run around and expect head-to-head engagements with other players who were also just running around.

Modern Warfare though has so many places to move through, and so many lines of sight, that it's impossible to expect where or when someone is going to be camping. There are no real bottlenecks to camp in, so instead players are just arbitrarily laying down or crouching in a random window and waiting for players they hope are going to come. This in turn creates paranoia and then everyone only feels safe when they camp. Combine this with the extremely fast time to kill and you have a really weird meta of players too nervous to freely run around and instead need to camp or place claymores in random locations in order to get kills.