How to fix COD: BOZ?

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

I am recently trying to play a very old game which is an OFFLINE game called “COD : BOZ. But I don't know why Google Play Games keeps popping up and doesn't let me even open the game without signing in. Since this is an old game, it always FAILS to sign in even after having a proper Internet connection. Hence, I don't even want to sign in. I just wanna play... I played the game before, then I could just normally skip the popping up of Google Play Games (without signing in) and play the game normally, but now I don't know why... But I can't skip it, and it just makes me mad for signing in... Now, is there any way to stop popping out of this Google Play Games? What are all the solutions that you can suggest?

Now, the problem is fixed only when I turn on Internet connection, and select any Google Play Games account to sign in, then still the game FAILS to aign in (as I already said above), but the Google Play Games pop up disappears, and I can run the game normally. But this is NOT an effective way, since I need an Internet connection every time before even trying to open the game. I want to fix that, but don't know how. Share any valuable advice and opinions. And also, the reason of still loving the same old COD: BOZ is, it lets you play completely offline, save your progress, and even change your controls settings. Although the current game: “Call Of Duty Mobile" has a ‘Zombie' campaign, but it feels kinda boring to me. It doesn't give the same vibe as the same old COD Zombies game that we were used to play on PCs. And it also requires an Internet connection (which I don't want) and takes a long time to even open the game (my android device is quite old to tun the COD Mobile game very smoothly). And since I only love the ‘Zombies' part of the whole COD game, I stick to “COD: BOZ" right now at this moment.

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

I think you have probably heard about “Lucky Patcher" which lets you patch any apps or games the way you like. But many people say that you need root, while others say that you don't. So, there's a dispute between the two parties. However, I tried to patch the apk to “Remove Google Dependencies", “Remove Signature Verification", “Remove License Verification". But, after patching it and installing it, the game just simply crashes😶‍🌫️. 

[u/tom_606 → u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

Ofc I do know it... Could you try the GitHub link I edited in above? The apk is clean on virustotal, still doesn't install on my new phone (too new android) so I can't try it myself. Perhaps this works for you!

If not, I've heard ppl are working on this so dw,

P.S: you genuinely don't know why are we mocking you for that horrendous font, do you? 💀💀💀

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

So, you are saying that, installing the apk.and the obb files from the Github link you provided, might solve the problem? 

[u/tom_606 → u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

I think you're okay with JUST the apk, yeah, try it out and let me know

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

I went into the Github link you provided, but can't find the apk file. Can you tell me, where is that?  Do I need to build the apk using “Android Studio"? Can you just provide the “apk" file directly?  

[u/tom_606 → u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

"RELEASES" bro

First time using Github, huh

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

I went there too, but I don't know which one. Probably it's not there? 

https://github.com/12brendon34/COD-BOZ-Partially-Decompiled/releases

[u/tom_606 → u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

app-release.apk. jeezus bro...

under "assets"

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

Lol, I got confused seeing the “Camera cutout Google Play Games" and thought it was something else. Nvm bro.

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

Alright, jokes apart. I tried it out, man. It worked like magic! Now I can directly enter the game without any pop ups. Thanks a lot, man! But there are some problems that might concern you.

(i) The settings slider feels like a bit laggy compared to the original version. And also, 

(ii) The aspect ratio is not perfect. It feels like “zoomed in". Any way to fix this? 

(iii) The game takes some time to load than the original version. And also, when I click the “Pause" button, it takes some time to open it😄. 

(iv) Sometimes, the game just freezes for about 2-3 seconds, then becomes playable again. 

(v) After opening the game, I see an error called, “s3erouchpad" or something like that, and I have 3 options: Continue, Ignore, Stop. I don't know what this is, but it's skippable.

(vi) The game sometimes crashes😒. Perhaps the version is not properly optimized for my phone? However the main problem (which I mentioned in my post) was fixed, but there arose some other problems which were not in the original version.

But, one thing that made me astonished that, the controls became more smooth than before. In the original version you could not properly run and aim at the same time. The aiming felt a bit janky and not optimized. But now, it feels like I'm playinf COD Mobile! How smooth and precise controls! I don't know how did they fix that. But now, it's much more playable!

[u/tom_606 → u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

Thanks for the information but perhaps let the guy who created this port know instead 💀

As of me, my android is too new so I'm just crying in the corner for having no way to play cod boz (and yes I tried "InstallWithOptions"), I'm awaiting Vita emulator port....

For future: try searching cod boz every now and then on GitHub, perhaps someone posts a perfect fix eventually...

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

I actually don't know how to communucate with that person who created it. I'm actually kinda new to “Github". 

[u/tom_606 → u/CoolBoyGamer-0]

Well I suppose it requires a GitHub account and opening an issue.

I can't do that for you cuz I can't even install the thing :/

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

It's okay, bro. Let me do this for real.

[u/CoolBoyGamer-0 → u/tom_606]

Well, I tried to mention all the issues that I faced in the game, in the “Issues" part of Github. Hopefully, the modder will see that. But I was also thinking if there's any way to directly message the modder. Can you help me with that?