Black Ops 3 Beta Final Thoughts

Call Of Duty Black Ops 3 has made some pretty big gameplay mechanics changes. Movement system has been changed again. Advanced warfare took movement system allowed a huge amount of freedom impacting the metagame. Combat along with travelling the map faced with massive changes. Movement freedom is scaled back in favour of a much more controlled pace. That said movement still plays a role but is far more tactical in use. Map is designed to use the movement system with certain routes being options. Movement allows for sliding once more with wall running added. Mechanical the movement has been redone from the ground up with physics changed and new limits put in place.
Advanced warfare worked on PC but movement did not work on console black ops 3 Treyarch has reached a happy median.

Lets take a look at the movement system.

Wall running – One button wall running with you able to fire when running.  Based on map design so far let’s players travel around choke points and avoid lines of sight.

Boost jumps –   players to boost in whatever direction even when moving.   Black ops 3 stops players from being able to move apart from a limited number of directions.

Slide – Returns pretty much unchanged

Forward momentum is another change from Advanced warfare which did not have any forward momentum at all.  Of course could be wrong given how I did not play that game.

Changes to the movement system means the game feels much closer to older call of duties and more natural. Movement system is easier to learn but hard to master. Rest of the game is rather much the same as past titles from a design point of view and gameplay mechanics. Call of duty also has dedicated servers along with listen servers.  Weapon balance wise is better however does have some issues but Treyarch appear to know what they are doing.

Weapon balance assault rifles are king however SMGs still have a place along with LMGs and other snipers.  Shotguns have quite good spread which are balanced with lower range/damage feels better compared to BO2.

Hope Treyarch can find the best balance between weapon classes right now assault rifles are too strong.

Metagame appears camping is best option and could see E sports being quite good.

Can see this title being frustrating but that standard for call of duty.  Watching out to see how the xbox version beta goes and PC version.  Do have some complaints about the title but looking forward to the single player along with zombies.

Game can be random at times but is rather fun.  Was going to avoid this Call of duty game however this beta has changed my mind.