Cold War - mid season patch changed everything for the better.

[Sal]

Just like the cods of the past a random patch changed everything for the better! I’ve struggled with this game since release in terms of bad hit detection and lag. However this year I drew it up to sbmm (either the competition was better so I couldn’t go off like before or sbmm would cause an increased lag due to how the matchmaking now works) but everything changed with last weeks mid season patch! Hit detection since the patch feels amazing, I no longer get melted and the guns seem to work as intended matching their damage profiles. KD, SPM and average time alive has sky rocketed compared to games prior to last weeks update as well as my playtime! 
I am now looking over my shoulder for the next patch which messes everything and I go back to zombies. 
Anyone else experienced this phenomenon last week or with previous cod titles?

I waited a week before posting this because I wanted to make sure it’s not a placebo which it proved out not to be. Even my accuracy went up?! How can my accuracy improve so drastically overnight to cause my average game accuracy to increase by almost 3%? I use the same gun and set up as before. 

I will add prior to the patch I tried changing things myself (play wireless, play with strict nat, throttle bandwidth, play in a different region ect ect nothing worked in the long term or in some cases my experience felt worse). I’d be happy for 3arc to not release another patch and just get working on their new game at this point as at least now the game feels fair and dare I say “fun”! I will update when the inevitable happens and a random future patch takes me back to square one 😭

 

[demonchine]

Yes I agree. Right now for me, I’m on the flip side and am getting the short end of the stick. I’ve been noticing that the game flips for me every update since COD Infinite Warfare. 
i believe this is intentional. I think the good games keep you coming back, but if you won or did really good every match we’d get bored, like “this is too easy for me now.” For a while I thought it was tied to the end of my Internet monthly cycle so I just figured it was happening because my internet was being throttled but found that not to be the case.

But it’s just a game.... so enjoy killing me over and over again as I tend to spawn right in front of you, I get no aim assist when ADSing and you hear my thundering footsteps (I do believe audio is manipulated more when your having good matches because I notice everyone sounds like elephants in my good matches   & like mice in my bad ones) It will be my turn again in about 2-3 weeks. 

[BL4CK OPS V3TRN]

2 hours ago, demonchine said:

Yes I agree. Right now for me, I’m on the flip side and am getting the short end of the stick. I’ve been noticing that the game flips for me every update since COD Infinite Warfare. 
i believe this is intentional. I think the good games keep you coming back, but if you won or did really good every match we’d get bored, like “this is too easy for me now.” For a while I thought it was tied to the end of my Internet monthly cycle so I just figured it was happening because my internet was being throttled but found that not to be the case.

But it’s just a game.... so enjoy killing me over and over again as I tend to spawn right in front of you, I get no aim assist when ADSing and you hear my thundering footsteps (I do believe audio is manipulated more when your having good matches because I notice everyone sounds like elephants in my good matches   & like mice in my bad ones) It will be my turn again in about 2-3 weeks. 

Lol - that’s exactly right .... i just laugh now especially when aim RESIST does its own thing with my weapon every now and again ... the old windscreen wiper jiggle  

[Sal]

So an the dreaded update came on Wednesday and since then Cold War runs like shit again... Fuck this trash game...