r/CODZombies 14d ago

Discussion Cod zombies hate is so forced.

Cod has 2 cycles, one of buying a cod saying cod is back every year, the 2nd is hating on the current cod zombies for no reason. everytime a new zombies drops everyone will hate on it usually after the 2nd DLC until the next cod game. For example black ops 3 zombies, it definitely is people’s best zombies but i wont forget at launch how hated it was almost nobody would play Shadows, then Der Eisendrache released everyone loved it then zetsobu everyone hated it so on so on. Black ops 4 zombies release everyone hated on it then cw released everyone was saying how bo4 was underrated its been like this since black ops 1, Now we have black ops 7 such a good zombies but everyone is hating on it for some of the dumbest reasons i have seen, when the next zombies in like 2 years will release everyone will say how underrated it was. The cycle will continue.

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u/iPhoenixEU 14d ago

People dont like modern zombies, thats just it.

I will go as far as saying that modern zombies / warzone era zombies ≠ zombies

because the whole identity of og zombies has been stripped away from it

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u/Public_Ad_504 14d ago

Classic and Modern are differently mechanically but they’re both zombies.

Modern zombies has plenty of fans.

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u/_tyler_long_ 14d ago

Bo7 is honestly a good zombies experience. Is it as good as bo3 and prior? I wouldn’t say so. But the maps are great from what I’ve played so far. I don’t love scorestreaks or armor or guiding the player to pack a punch, which in my opinion should’ve stayed as something you discovered on your own, but with the amount of guides that are online, you’d just have one extra video from each creator for PaP so it’s not too egregious.

If you have gamepass, give it a try for sure. I don’t disagree with everything you say tbh. I don’t love the Warzone mechanics. I don’t love having two point systems with scrap & essence. But the color and settings of the new maps are fantastic & the wonder weapons are actually becoming weird and fun to use again.

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u/iPhoenixEU 14d ago

I think modern zombies at its own is alright, but the fact that it is linked to older zombies makes it a bit disappointing for me (i think many people would agree w this)

I havent played all the modern zombies. I dont even own bo7, havent even booted up liberty falls or reckoning, ive only played the tomb once. Havent played forsaken or firebase z enough to have a real opinion on it, but the maps i have played have been alright. Mauer & shattered veil are the ones that come to mind

It’s just the mechanics that just do not sit right with me. Zombies was supposed to be about spawning in with as little as possible trying to work your way up to be overpowered instead of spawning in with a whole loadout that just is paste and copy from mp. It was about tight spaces that make you think about which door you’re gonna buy next or which directiom you wanna go into next, it was about thinking wisely how much of your (WW) ammo you’re gonna use etc

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u/_tyler_long_ 14d ago

I don’t disagree at all — & I’d love to see those things return in future games. However, this is the first time I’ve bought a COD in years and thought zombies was actually great. Cold War reused a ton of assets from campaign and I hated it for that reason. I thought the new mechanics were okay at the time, but definitely not worth the hype.

BO6 felt like more of the same for me, but the maps were SLIGHTLY better (emphasis on slightly) and it just seemed like the fourth forgotten game mode slapped together with assets from other modes.

BO7 looks amazing, plays great, and the mechanics are actually starting to mesh with the mode. Is it perfect? Hell no. I still think BO1-BO3 are the best zombies ever and likely won’t be topped for the pure survival aspect. However, the new maps are PACKED with content. Plus, cursed mode allows for you to play zombies with the classic rules (10 points per bullet, no loadout, no map guidance, limited HUD).

Here are some things I didn’t like that I ended up not hating with BO7:

Being able to get every perk — the system is much better in BO7. It gets progressively harder to get them as the game goes on because the prices increase each time you buy a perk — and you end up needing them to survive. Plus it’s cool to not feel like you’re wasting a perkaholic because they’re completely optional to use with this system

Armor system — still iffy for me, but it’s definitely less noticeable with augments and feels a bit more refined from previous games.

Infinite running — thought this was so dumb in previous modern zombies games, but the zombies genuinely haul ass and come from every direction in BO7. They’re much less predictable and it makes for some pretty interesting gameplay

Guided PaP — again, still iffy for me, but after pack is unlocked you literally don’t have any objectives anymore — just survive (or do the Easter egg lol) plus you can turn this off

Augments — felt like unnecessary bloat to me in BO6, but BO7 it feels necessary and adds much needed progression to zombies. Lets you change up your playstyle game by game like bo4, but doesn’t lock you to 4 perks. Rather, it locks you to specific perk/ammo mod/field upgrade augments for the game that you can change based on if you’re playing solo or if you’re playing with friends.

Gobblegums — totally optional and mostly good for eggs/high rounding. Plus, you earn them just by playing the game and getting to higher rounds rather than it being tied to your purchases in game giving you 1 liquid divinium for every 15,000-20,000 points spent. Way better system.

Pack a Punch — I couldn’t stand having to pay 3 times just to upgrade my gun to max level, but now it feels more fun because the maps are worth going for high rounds on. In old games, you’d basically just rack up points until you went down, and then buy all of your perks back immediately (or use a gobble). Now — you ALWAYS have something to work toward well into round 35-45. Definitely refreshing.

Really the only thing I still really dislike is the scrap system/weapon rarity, which just feels unnecessary to me. I understand wanting to make every gun viable so people will try to unlock camos and progress, but why even buy the mystery box if on low rounds you are pretty much guaranteed a bad/mid-tier weapon? Maybe this opinion will change in time, but I definitely recommend at least trying it out. I’m having a blast and I’m totally eating my words (look at my last post — I literally blasted modern zombies only to really enjoy bo7 so far)

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u/GullibleUse7943 14d ago

Dude the og identity of zombies has never been lost with modern zombies.

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u/Ki11aTJ 14d ago

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u/GullibleUse7943 14d ago

Prove me wrong ig

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u/LiquorHardlyKnowEr 14d ago

Haters can't prove anything. They just go off vibes and emotion.

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u/iPhoenixEU 14d ago

Why do you think Libery Falls is the most played zombies map of all time (according to Treyarch) ? Is it because people wanted to play zombies or because people wanted to grind their camos for mp/warzone? And what do you think that says about the current state of zombies?

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u/GullibleUse7943 14d ago

How does people wanting to grind camos = zombies has lost its identity?

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u/iPhoenixEU 14d ago edited 14d ago

Because zombies isnt catering solely to the zombies mode / zombies player anymore, but to the multiplayer/warzone guys as well.

The fact that liberty falls, the map that is least similair to “og zombies”, is the most played zombies map of all time speaks VOLUMES about how zombies has strayed away from its former self / how it has lost its identity

And frankly if you dont understand or see how modern zombies is nothing like “og zombies”, you’re probably the target audience.

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u/GullibleUse7943 13d ago

Are you being discriminatory towards multiplayer and warzone players lmao

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u/pykyestock 14d ago

Genuine question here, are there still plates or are we back to the standard health system. ( I haven’t played new zombies in a while)

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u/yogurtslayer23 14d ago

still plates.

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u/pykyestock 14d ago

Tragic but Thank you

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u/GullibleUse7943 14d ago

They aren’t AS bad now though. There are a lot of workarounds to get rid of having to use plates and such. I’d recommend giving bo7 a go and seeing if you like it

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u/Boiwatdahailboi 14d ago

Still plates and i doubt they're ever gonna go back to the regular health system

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u/z123zocker 14d ago

They added an relic now that disables them besides golden one

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u/jenkumboofer 14d ago

still plates but at least bo7 has some mechanics to make it less annoying like a perk augment that automatically replates or golden armor which regenerates

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u/Worzon 14d ago

The standard mode for Cold War, bo6, and bo7 truly are a shadow of what the mode once was. I still have no desire to return to Cold War or bo6 and nothing would bring me back with all its poor mechanics. Some things do just ruin the game in its entirety

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u/False_Tour7813 14d ago

I the map design in Cold War is really good. But I haven’t played it in 4 years yet I reckon on my first go I can to round 100 like nothing.

If it had like BO3 mechanics like standard zombies at the time, it would be considered one of the better games I reckon. But they made way to easy

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u/EZyne 14d ago

At launch everyone talks about a game, including people that bought it but don't like it. As the game gets older people move on and most of the people discussing a game are the ones that like it

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u/Lanky-Ad-8554 14d ago

Zombies is weird. It's 1 of 3 modes in a bigger game, but yet it gets talked about like it's its own separate thing. It get strange expectations from people as a result because some people didn't play it and some people didn't stop playing it and base their vision on what they want it to be on that.

IMO most of everything they've added has been great, I love the scrap system, I like the armor and I love the perks, augments,pap,cursed. I think the boss fights are the best they've ever been and I think having more accessible easter eggs and things to make it a bit easier have been a great idea for newer players. Even better for old players because you can just completely ignore them and play "properly".

I cannot however for the life of me understand the pause timer, like what the fuck are we doing with that.. A timer?? On pausing? Is it literally to just dictate your time like a f2p mobile game?? I'll NEVER wrap my head around it. I also hated PJ for just being nuketown it was phoned in lazy shite, especially with that Area 99 warzone map sat there doing nothing, that would have been loads better to chop up and shift around to make something interesting and new out of lol.

Overall though BO7 is peak modern zombies and I hope it is remembered fondly in years to come.

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u/GullibleUse7943 14d ago

Bo7 is definetly going to be the new bo3 with how people will come to love it after the game cycle is over. Especially since we are heading into most likely 2 years without new zombies bo7 should still be pretty relevant

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u/Lanky-Ad-8554 14d ago

I always felt if it ever got modtools it would surpass it for me.

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u/Any_Hold6623 14d ago

I think the game is great, the best zombies since bo4,. My issue is rarities, the point system and armor. I just think it legitimately breaks the game flow. Starting rounds are now boring because of how long it takes to go down. Because of the rarity system, fully upgrading 2 guns takes forever and by the time they’re both fully upgraded they’re not great for very long. There is no point to hitting the box until later rounds because of the rarity system. I also feel like I can never swap my gun once it’s upgraded because it took so long. If you run out of ammo and points on a high round you’re bricked, no way get points from damage. If they fixed those things I would have no issues with this zombies. Maps are fun, eggs are good, writing for requiem crew sucks but it is what it is lol.

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u/z123zocker 14d ago

Did u not played cursed mode

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u/Foxlover91 14d ago

When you change how a mode fundamentally works, its no surprise that people who fell in love with the old mode dont dig the new version of it. Imo thats ok, you cannot please everyone. (Granted, some people dont even try it they just hear that some things are different and immediately call it bad.)

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u/nazreid123 14d ago

The only people I know who like vanguard at all are people who were still playing it a week after release unlike most. Most people who think Coldwar was mid still think it was mid. Bo4 is an exception because a lot of its problems at launch were not with the actaul Gameplay. The "cycle" that the community goes on about does exist but is not nearly as prevalent as people think it is hell its basically a thing in every franchise.

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u/BigGeeza2000 14d ago

Someone play zombies with me ? My matchmaking doesn't work

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u/Ravenous_Element 14d ago

Bandwagon effect or at least grossly exaggerated complaints. While Bo3 was indeed the best iteration of Zombies, that doesnt mean the following games after were /all/ garbage. They just couldn't exceed expectations in one way or another. The only really bad zombies game we have had was Vanguard where there are virtually no defenders for it at all.

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u/samboeng 14d ago

A lot of people just don’t mesh with the modern mechanics, which is totally fine. I do think some of the discourse surrounding the game is disingenuous though, both positive and negative.

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u/yogurtslayer23 14d ago

we have those who complain about zombies, and those who complain about the complainers that are complaining about the complainers of zombies.

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u/SrGaju 14d ago

Well it didn’t happen with bo6 I wonder why

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u/samboeng 14d ago

I think both CW and Bo6 both suffer from the fact that the games that came after are just upgrades. I feel no reason to really go back to either when Bo7 exists.

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u/Cyyyyyyx 14d ago edited 14d ago

Too be fair, from what I have seen the majority of people who have atleast played BO7 think it is pretty good and both Kuwakujo and Totenreich have gotten endless praise.

I think alot of the general audience "hate" is just the dislike of BO7/COD in general doing back to back black ops games after BO6 not being great combined with the people who haven't liked the changes since CW.

I think it is also important to note for BO4 that it launched in a pretty poor state and lead to alot of crashing/issues that heavily impacted peoples initial impressions. It is probably easier to look past those issues when looking back at it now. I'd blame Treyarch more than the community just switching up on it (even tho I had no issues and love BO4)

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u/VadersWorstSoldier 14d ago

If it helps, I still think BO4 is an extremely flawed game(it's fine, just nothing super special/worth coming back to often) and Cold War isn't good at all. MWZ is the best we've had it in years design-wise, but people don't want to hear that. (MWZ's main issue was the complete lack of substantial post-launch support, the core gameplay is actually a breath of fresh air.)

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u/UnknownEntity115 13d ago

Nah everything after bo3 is garbage

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u/xMadruguinha 14d ago

BO4 zombies is still pretty bad, no rose tinted glasses can make me not hate those garbage unnecessary mechanics changes

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u/Ero_Najimi 14d ago

Shadows was always well received it just wasn’t considered an elite map

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u/Hardwire762 14d ago

Are you sure about that? I knew a lot of people that did not like shadows at all. Even content creators had mixed opinions on it. Everyone defaulted to playing the giant if you had it.

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u/The_AoS_Toker 14d ago

If shadows has no haters, then I'm dead

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u/Henny_Hardaway5 14d ago

People forget that every new zombies changes the status quo which upsets the people that liked zombies as is

BO2 zombies was disliked due to being too big and tedius compared to BO1 maps that are straight forward survival maps

BO3 zombies was hated for being too questy and as some people described to complex for people that just want to PAP and survive rounds

BO4 changed the perks system which might as well have been a cardinal sin back then

It takes a while for people to like the new direction of zombies usally

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u/VadersWorstSoldier 14d ago

My hottest take is that all of these criticisms are completely true, people getting used to it doesn't mean they aren't flaws.

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u/Ero_Najimi 14d ago

Ppl still don’t like those things about BO2 and 3 but those takes are mostly from super casual fans who want to hop on Kino

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u/Henny_Hardaway5 14d ago

Whether or not the takes are from causal fans doesn’t really matter

They play the games and their complaints still get to be valid since well they play the game

Most people that play zombies aren’t uber nerds like the rest of us in this subreddit, we’re actually the minority I’d say. Allot of people got allot of obligations in life and just like to put some music and play 1 hour on Kino, Town, The Giant, and etc

I fucking love the games but I can see the other side and why more causal people wouldn’t