I’ve been watching CDL Champs over the past couple days for the reason most people are: the in-game rewards you get for watching it. As I’ve been watching this event, I’ve noticed that the competitive meta for the game seems very… very stale.
There are only three weapons that I’ve seen used throughout the entirety of CDL Champs: The MCW (ACR), Rival 9 (Scorpion EVO 3), and Renetti (93 Raffica). That’s it. The Rival 9 never has any optics on it, while the MCW almost always has the Mk. 3 Reflector (seemingly based off of the red dot sight from Advanced Warfare like the JAK Glassless Optic). Some players run the Renetti without an optic while others slap the Slate Reflector (a callback to Vanguard) on it.
The individual players may put different attachments on each of their guns, but they never differed enough for me to immediately notice. Whenever I look at the gameplay, I either see an MCW or a Rival 9 paired up with a Renetti, and all that seems different between them are the special camos that are given to each team. And that kinda sucks.
MWIII as a casual game is most notable for having the most amount of base weapons in any Call of Duty game — over 100! And yet only three of them seem to show up in professional play. The pros have either banned or agreed not to use entire categories of weapons such as shotguns and snipers, and no-one seems to pull out alternative weapons in the categories that aren’t banned. It was this way in MWII as well: remember how many people complained about the TAQ-56 (SCAR-L), TAQ-V (SCAR-H), and Vaznev 9K (PP19 Vityaz) being the top meta guns? But here, it seems like the competitive meta hasn’t fully reflected the casual meta. Sure, lots of people still use the MCW and Rival 9, but there are a wide variety of guns being used in casual play. So why aren’t those guns being used in CDL? Why does a game with 100+ weapons only have 3 being featured on the big stage???
It just really infuriates me and just makes me hope even more that Black Ops 6 ends up being a hit. We need to have a more interesting competitive scene please Bobby i beg you
Anyways, House mix pogchamp, house mix pogchamp. opens in a new tab . I need to catch up hard with school stuff so I’ll mostly be focusing on that for now. As such, I don’t know when my next blog post will come out, but hopefully I can get it up by the end of this month. See y’all then!