Forum:MW4 needs

Okay so due to the inevitability of a Modern Warfare 4, I just wanted to share my thoughts on what I believe IW could improve on to make the next MW game the best yet. Here are my ideas to improve MW...

 Maps 

With every new Call of Duty game, the maps seem to be getting smaller and smaller. The biggest map in BOps2 is Turbine, which don't get me wrong is a good sized map. But if you were to put that map in any of the previous COD's, it would be considered medium sized. The maps in BOps2 all seem very crammed and I just don't feel comfortable on hardly any of them.

In my mind, a great map contains buildings and pathways for SMG and shotgun users, wide open ranges for assault rifle and LMG users, and of course long distance ranges for snipers. Maps like Afghan, Derail, Seelow, Outskirts and Cliffside catered to all types of players. Regardless of what you were using on the battlefield you had a chance to do well. In the newest COD's, everyone uses either an SMG or an assault rifle. Every few games i'll see a shotgunner, and rarely i'll see an LMGer, and I can probably count the number of snipers i've seen in BOps2 on one hand. The maps need to cater to all types of players. I'm not saying every map should be so big that you have to run a mile just to get back in the action, but every map should at least give every playing style a chance.

Usually I snipe regardless of the map, but even I like to just switch to my SMG class sometimes and get in that fast paced action. I just feel the developers of COD are pushing the snipers and LMG guys to the side.

Oh, and i'd also like to see more maps with precipitation. One idea that I always thought was cool was if everytime you play a map, the game randomizes something about the map, maybe sometimes it will be raining, sometimes it will be night, etc. I think that would be cool and make the map feel a little bit diffferent everytime.

 More Customization 

I am a person that loves to use my imagination. I think adding a little bit more "me" to my gameplay would be cool. I've always thought being able to customize the way my character looks would be awesome. Even if it was as simple as the same thing EA Sports did with "Game Face" I think a little bit more diversity in the way characters look would be cool. And not just facial appearance, but if you could customize your outfit and things like that.Of course, there would have to be some restrictions but I still like the idea of a lot of customization.

 Storylines Need to Change Up 

Personally I love the MW campaigns. I think they've got a great story and are overall interesting. But I gotta say I'm kind of sick of seeing somebody get "killed" and then have them show up in the next game. It was awesome when it first happened with Price, but then characters that are supposed to be dead keep coming back and it just feels like it's a very overused tactic. I also find some of the stuff in the story weird, like a General in the US Army betraying an elite squad and then unveiling his big army of mercenaries... it just seems weird to me. And don't get me started on BOps' whole story about the numbers and Reznov being a figure of Mason's imagination. Still to this day I'm scratching my head about that story.

In addition, the missions all feel the same. They're all about highly intense firefights with a few stealth missions in between where you follow your friend around until the shit hits the fan and it all of a sudden turns into another firefight. What happened to the great originality of missions like 'All Ghillied Up' and 'Vendetta'? Those were missions that were a lot of fun and made you actually get nervous. I'm not saying bring copied versions of those missions back but I am saying bring back the originality that went into them. However, I would definitely like to see another assassination mission that involves the player stalking the target and using a sniper rifle to hit a long ass shot. My only request to IW is get out of your comfort zone again and come up with some new material.

 More Weapons 

This isn't a very important subject so I won't spend much time on it but I would like to see more variety in weapons. I don't think it would be too hard for IW to just copy all the guns from the past MW's and put them all in a new one. That way we all get our favorite gun. Of course they would need to be balanced and the graphics would need to be updated for the guns from the older MW. Like I said though, it's not something thats eating me alive I just would like a little bit more variety.

 Killstreaks and Deathstreaks 

I loved the great variety MW3 had with killstreaks. I loved having so many options. But if I had to change something, I would like to be able to use my Support killstreaks with my Assault killstreaks. By that I mean get rid of Support altogether. And I never really cared about Specialist so I guess that ones up to the rest of you. And as for the Deathstreaks... GET RID OF THEM. I can't tell you how many times someone else's deathstreak resulted in costing me a killstreak or in a few cases, 30-0's on FFA. Just because someoe else is doing poorly, doesn't mean I should pay for it.

Thanks for reading and please feel free to add your own thoughts!!!