AncientUnknown1 wrote:We're going inside baseball here. This is going to be long.
Some innovations and other good ideas Treyarch has brought to the COD series:
1) Nazi zombie mode.
2) Extended mag attachments for guns. Used by IW.
3) Reduction of the broken "3x frag" perk down to "2x frag".
4) "Second Chance" revive mechanic.
5) Tossing back grenades. Used by IW.
6) Online website with in-depth stat tracking.
7) Scaling "assist exp" by how much damage you did.
Vs. Nemesi k/d ratio tracking.
9) Lobby leaderboards. Handy for finding out the guy on first prestige has played twice as long as the guy on 10th prestige.
10) Sticky grenades. Used by IW.
11) Additional custom classes for doing prestige. Used by IW.
12) Banking killstreaks. You don't lose one if you don't use it before earning the next one. Used by IW.
13) Prevented the cheap practice of chaining one killstreak from a previous life towards earning new killstreaks on the current life. (Cod4 had a major problem with people doing this with airstrikes). Used by IW.
14) Bootcamp playlist. Although proper matchmaking should make this redundant.
15) Local Only match preference option for matchmaking.
16) Free map DLC. (Makin' Day).
17) Deployable LMG stands in console versions.
18) Tracking performance in leaderboards by match type.
19) Scoring points for killing opponents killstreaks. (+3 exp for each dog killed). Which actually counted towards match score. I've won numerous TDM's by killing an opponents attack dog.
20) Option to turn off Aim Assist in online matches.
21) Semi-auto firerate limiter that only kicks in after noticing too many shots too quickly after some amount of time. Better than IW's solution of flatly lowering the firerate because it allows people with quick trigger fingers to enjoy their gift while still rendering modded controllers useless.
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Areas Treyarch needs to work on for their next game:
1) Swapping to a pistol should be faster than swapping to a non-pistol. That's the pistol key advantage.
2) More diversity between guns in the same category. The M1911, Nambu, Walther, and the Tokerev pistols were nearly identical to each other functionally. As were the Springfield, Arisaka, Kar, and Mosin Nagant snipers. As well as the rifles SVT and the Gewehr being almost the same except the skins.
3) Shorter killstreaks. Artiliary shellings lasted too long.
4) Better balancing. The MP40+Juggernaut combo was too powerful and never got fully fixed.
5) Mines that could be hidden too well without any giveaway sign and tripped too quickly making them horribly overpowered.
6) Guns unlocked at later levels shouldn't be categorically superior to guns unlocked earlier; which in many ways was the case with the M1A1 in regards to the SVT and the Gewehr by functioning nearly identically except for a larger magazine; and to some degree a problem with the PTRS sniper being superior in every category except the amount of additional rounds carried in your pocket.
