What's up and welcome back to the kind of funny games Casper Wednesday October 30th 2024 it is Halloween Eve Eve everybody How does Eve Eve time finally start celebrating or go out to wait till tomorrow? No this week is accepted. Oh, okay This week is a month the month. You're not just a bit much.
I think it's a bit much, but we were here now Yeah, we're not too late now. We're partying. We're gonna get time fuck. Yeah, no back sees Mike's wearing a sweatshirt I'm wearing my wearing his $250 Wolverine sweatshirt, baby.
Then you say Halloween It's vintage. It's basically everyone course. I'm your host Tim Geddes. I'm joined by the lock Roger Baccornie the face maker I appreciate the correction.
How you guys doing everybody good? We got Mr. Vintage himself so Mike Mike hi Roger. Hey to see you in the office I want you know that I thought about you all week and I'm happy to be next to you I see my best friend has chosen not to come into the office today not really happy about that So I'll see you tomorrow inside the office be ready for that and of course I'm right for Andy Cortez at home.
We're playing fast my phobia after this. We're like it's we've been through this So I get on the microphone and immediately Mike says any rule change you got to come in Miss you we talked about this for weeks like we've typed it out We're both you and he and you Mike are gonna be playing from home because we wanted to have everybody in separate rooms and do the Prox chat and all this stuff like it's been a known factor like Mike your after games caster running home after this I know but there's an energy team There's an energy inside the studio when everyone's here smiling having a good morning And you know we've had a great week and I'm excited to just look at the back half of the week and continue the fun Yeah yesterday when I was asking kind of like just how the flow is gonna go with everybody going home and how that's gonna work So Mike was like oh no I'm gonna go home after games guys I'm gonna go by Andy's like oh well Andy's gonna be at home I think for games guys too and he just looked at me and stuck the sadness and his eyes at his voice Like you know the entire day is without Andy and he's got really sad How does this all make you feel? It's more of my concern for him. It's general I don't know if he's a well-balanced human being.
I know he's not I shouldn't say I know he's not so I I just wish for him to get the healthy and that balance only off by like 1% It's like a 51 49 percent right there It's like one and it's like it's just Andy and more time and you know what's him We're gonna spend a lot more time because call duties out. Yeah, and that means we're gonna come together play a lot of Right. Yeah, you guys fell in love in the war zone. I would say Andy promises that he'll be back I'm back once for dance comes back.
Yeah Receptible here's what we're calling it here's a little thing that I fit you the day Mike whenever for dances back We call it a bird does an hour stream. Yeah, I know in the dance in the dance in the dance time to dance Roger sucks. I'm a last dance. I'm a Everyone this is the kind of funny games guys each every weekday We get together to talk about video games reviews previews impressions predictions all of the different topics We might want to talk about involving video games we do that right here live on twitch YouTube and podcast services around the globe If you love what we do, please get the kind of funny membership It gets you the shows ad for you get to watch live as we record all the different shows that we do And you get to be super cool like our patreon producers to leaning twining adds Carl Jacobs You truly are the best of us a little housekeeping for you.
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I Lord dude To the table you actually Like Marvel snap it's like the quick versions of the games y'all were in for some shit here everybody now officially out on I was an android but that's not the topic of the show that's not the show really We'll take over like the office like Marvel fan did because like everybody was playing Marvel snap I don't think so okay, and I will say I'm not even through the tutorial yet I played for like maybe an hour last night just like Also watching stuff and the tutorial is kind of long there's a lot of like this You know what I mean, but I look at this. I'm like alright alright How close is this to the actual card game? Very dumb down. Okay, very very very dumb down But it kind of teaches you the bare minimum okay rules about a play but the game plays way more just like fast-paced Like a match is always supposed to take like three minutes.
I'm gonna check this out. I'm gonna It's scary time it's a scary time But so far seems like it'll be a lot of fun even without spending money Which is always like the win with these boys course like to this day Gia plays Marvel snap every day has spent ascent For her so having a good time. Anyways, that's the joke topic of the show the real topic of the show Call of Duty Black Ops six first game ever the first six first game with six in title in recorded history But jokes aside the first Call of Duty day and date on Xbox game pass This is a very very big deal for Xbox and I want to hear all about it the campaign the multiplayer the zombie mode What we're thinking about all this stuff, so Mike I want to start with you Yeah, Tim let's like kick this off because we've had a fun one We had our day one impression after last week when it launched on Thursday into Friday We kind of spoke about it just a little bit in our first thoughts and you know I've been lucky enough to experience a lot of the betas I've gone hands-on with some different previews I went to cod next so I've had a lot of time with Call of Duty Black Ops six And now with the full release being able to jump into campaign which I'm really excited to highlight about zombies It's been a lot of fun with me Mike though. This is all around a really great experience I'm excited to kind of score it talk about it with the guys But I don't want to start.
Oh, I want to kick it to the taste maker Oh shit round your corner because I know he's ready to put a score on this thing Oh, yeah break it down for us around to give me your overall thoughts. Let's give it a short sweet Let's go around the table. So with that right. Do you want to give a score to campaign separate from both of them?
I can do I can do campaign I can do multiplayer I can do the entire whole package. Yeah, I feel like I feel like they present these things Like I want to hear specifically about the campaign because I'm getting hyped up from a couple of my my homies out here You being one of them. Yeah, I think this is for you So tell me about the Call of Duty Black Ops six campaign and what score would you give it on the kind of funny? Yeah, I mean I was excited about this one because this feels like a return to form for Call of Duty specifically the black ops franchise is kind of the The single player the campaign that I gravitate most to I enjoyed recently the modern warfare remake all the other campaigns were like fine But like modern warfare's remake was like the closest that I had to getting my hooks in since like I would say black ops 2 Maybe three So this was exciting to get back into it and I can confidently say like after finishing this is really great This is an 8.5 out of 10 moments and a lot of moments that are 9 out of 10 and it gets really close I think there's something that hold it back specifically I do not like the fact that the main character is voiceless does not have personality I think that that is something that we need to move past in Call of Duty's I really believe that having a main character that speaks that is engaging that I care about it just kind of felt awkward right?
Like that's my main critique because there are many moments where I'm talking to or I'm in a conversation or just observing a conversation I'm like why am I in this conversation? Like I should they should be talking to me or like at least acknowledging that I exist right now But they don't but that is a small criticism in comparison to how creative this multi this single player campaign is right? Like that's the thing that I was just blown away with right like it is completely it is always reinventing itself It has a lot of gimmicks throughout it, but it never overstays is welcome It has different gameplay techniques and ideas that it calls back to in really key and cool moments and the set pieces are there Right like there are moments here that already are going viral people are talking about it I just putting up like this is the mission that everyone's talking about and it people should be talking about it But I went just now I finished the campaign actually right before this very podcast maybe an hour ago And there is another mission like oh, I think this is a better mission than that other mission that everyone's talking about That's right at the very ending that kind of does the thing where in in modern warfare if you remember that that 2019 2019 I always wanted the 2019 my warfare where with I believe Farrah was a listen Yeah with her mission and they kind of humanize her and like we do all that we have a similar type thing where we humanize a character That I wasn't expecting that blew me away So yeah, this is a really creative one and one that I recommend to everybody right It's on Game Pass if you are interested in Call of Duty or if you're having them play it a Call of Duty campaign Like you really should play this one because it is approachable It is fun and I think it might get you into the greater package here because it's a really solid one. Well said thank you I said up all night Tim.
I'm really quick. How long to take you watch Oh, I put it down to recruit level because I mean that's the way to play all these games What was that? That's the easiest level? Yeah, yeah, why do you think that's what it's like Mike said it best I think it was during our initial impressions like when you do like the medium or whatever There's always gonna be those those jumps in difficulty even in the easiest difficulty there were moments where I'm dying just because they Introduce a tank they introduced some dumb thing and it's like it is never fun to like the actual gameplay of trying to be that is Never the fun part of this it is about getting to the next step He's it is finding the next game play a technique that they're introducing right so that dropping it down to the easiest is the best experience I know in a way you feel like you're interrupting the movie.
Yeah, yes That's what I told Roger is like I want to skip the frustration because it's a blockbuster movie And I don't want to hit pause and have to go back like Andy said like you put it on easy So we can just go through the movie and experience that wow moment Yeah, so it took me I would say about six and a half hours and I made me seven actually because I yeah Because there was there was a moment where there's like a semi open world thing I did everything there so I liked it all the side stuff and I really kind of took my time with it So yeah about seven hours all right you guys that open world thing Tim It's like is this ghost recon wildlands mixed with fan and pain. What are we doing? Yeah crazy stuff? Yeah, yeah Mike have you beat the campaign how long did you and what's going to get to me?
I did beat the campaign to me about six hours I started last night about 10 a.m. Or 10 p.m. I promised Roger that I would beat it And he kind of looked at me like you know it's gonna be a long night That's like the moment you hit a certain moment in this where it takes you to a place and you're like oh wow They did that this is exciting and Tim This call to be black ops six campaign will go down as one of the best this black ops six package We'll go down as one of the best call of duties today We will look back on this finally and say this is one of the best and this campaign is going to be a big cornerstone of this This campaign takes you places from the mission and possibles to the top guns to all like the wild movies that you love fun James Bond where you go oh wow like they're doing these cool step pieces where you're infiltrating the you know Bill clinton's rally and you're kind of sneaking in and you got to do some cool spy espionage moments to break it into a casino And open it up the vault and try to get out of that to more there's some real freaky stuff in this call to the campaign Which I know black ops has done some weird mind fuckery before but this one they said no We're gonna elevate that to another level and once you get to that I'm so happy that I went in blind I had no I'm really happy that they didn't give anyone early access to this no reviewers Not even to the public I'm happy they drop this and said good luck figure it out because I went into this blind and you get to a certain moment in this And you go oh no way they're doing this and you're gonna get goosebumps I'm playing at 2 a.m. In the morning and I want to turn on all the lights in the house Tim It's like think control Alan Wake freaky.
That's that's the hint I will give you all you should play this campaign It is one of their best and then you build off of that to keep going and they try some things Roger brought up the little mini open world I didn't like that but I do appreciate that Treyarch and call duty as a whole as a franchise is trying new innovative things They have to right we can't keep doing the linear popcorn point a to point B sticking to the map We got to try different things. I appreciate that they were like hey What if we did a larger open sized map and you went from different points and you get to dictate what it's all about? That's great I didn't love that one But what I did love was some other ones where it was more hey Here's a smaller map a zone and you can go and do different tasks in different ways You can go in hot you can coerce people and talk to them and use you're kind of like your focus skill Which will allow you to see different things and then have a conversation and break the guy down or you can go stealth and kind of put bombs in Places and be prepared for that. I loved when they did that I think that one really shine but I'm loving that they're trying different things right There's a lock pick mechanic and Tim you know I love a good lock pick but I hate when they're bad Yeah, this lock pick was bad I was not happy but but I was not happy whenever they did the lock picks But I love when they did the keypad and they did the hacking situations It's where the numbers they had a great keypad They had a great fun one with the hacking where you'd be like stealthin and then you'd have to hack and they would have Numbers that were tied to letters and you'd have to panic try to do that while garnish come down You're like oh my god I gotta quickly do this this campaign is gonna take you places and it will go down as one of their best I'm so happy with this it is a nine out of ten if not a ten out of ten This is one of their best Wow Wow, I know you haven't beat it yet But how much time have you put into the campaign what you think it so far?
I feel like I'm maybe halfway through the campaign. I am really really enjoying it I'm also surprised by that freedom because I just got to that open world section and obviously it opens up and it shows you Here's the three things you need to go, but you will notice a lot of different spots along the way You can stop by find treasure find little pieces of loot But here's a care package whatever that dropped that might give you some more weapons or abilities But um the one of the cool things playing it on stream, especially was having people go Oh shit, I didn't do this this way Yeah, I actually you know flirted with the senator's wife and was able to get to him that way as opposed to the way that you Took this other route right so there is like a decent amount of freedom that I'm really surprised by it When that initial sort of first map opens and you see different objectives I just thought here are three things you need to do when it's really here's one thing you can do to get to your It's really like pick one of these three options. That's gonna interest you the most I'm super into it. I think the action is so it's such a good stupid action movie so far and I'm really really enjoying it So I'd say like I'm about halfway.
I plan on beating it. I'm having a lot of fun with it I think I do also want to drop the difficulty just to get through it and not you know Because there are really awesome moments you experience and then I might get hit by a grenade or I didn't see a dude Who spotted me and then it just kind of like you lose that momentum and I kind of just want to keep going forward, you know? But I'm having a lot of fun with it had a great little snipe session last night on some mountain where you talk You know in that open world session There'll be a dude who's in a tower that you could go seek out or you can just sort of infiltrate this base and blow up these Ballistic missiles or whatever, but you could talk to the dude who's in your tower your squad mate And he's like oh I marked everybody on the map and everybody pops up on the map and it's like oh shit Hell yeah, so and then luckily dude had an extra sniper up there for me really nice You brought an extra for a friend, but Tim is I'm more I'm more excited to find out that like I think this was like one of your best Debutes in a video game Like I'm just really really proud of you and you're right out there Yeah, you did a great job. Thank you.
I'm really really proud of your performance But yeah, I'm having a great time with it. I'm excited to keep on going now I'll say this because I know where any dad he's on chapter 4 and you need to stream everything at this point forward and Tim You need to tune into the stream. I mean I'm just playing it. I was telling Rob's I'm making a lot of headway in a metaphor for me I'm really enjoying it.
I'm really enjoying it. I'm not a point now that I think I'm enjoying the story more than actually enjoying the game itself Yeah, but I don't want to stop it. I want to keep them and I feel like this is a distraction Don't get my way. I've said that seven hour distraction.
Oh, so yeah, you guys always put it on easy I'm like that sounds that sounds great. We'll broke brook boy. Lewis in the chat as super chat said are there spoilers in the Street review? No, there's not spoilers.
We're gonna be trying to do the best possible. This is not gonna be but I will say There's some great one liners wheel. Okay, let me hit you with a quick one liner It's only for one liner. You can't out run them out run them and then you just rip with your homies Tim I'll tell you what I love a good step piece and I love a good market fight Okay, there you are in the center of town you're fighting to the market you're shooting watermelons They're blowing up your shooting fish takes water flying all out do to jumping out from different freaking bar tops God, I love a good bar fight.
They nailed this one in this one. Yeah, so this is one This is one that you need to play in the home theater Oh, get that large visual because these these NPCs are so freakin like just realistic looking every again, I was kind of surprised by the level of You know when we talk about The way animation usually works with animation pipelines where it's the real big expensive cutscenes are gonna have perfect facial motion capture And everything's gonna be pinpoint accurate You're gonna see one of the most lifelike things ever and then you'll get into normal missions where you get the mouthlaps with procedural animation That's where sort of the lifelikeness can kind of drop down. You're like, okay, I understand this You don't have you know, that's game development But like I was so blown away by the amount of just like random It was so freaking cool dude I was just so blown away by the level of detail with these like facial like app animations or whatever people just looking right at you They're talking right at you. It looks so damn good except Bill Clinton doesn't look great, but that's about it Yeah, there's not enough Yeah, like just a little bit fuzzy like I'm maybe the child scared.
Yeah, he'll never look better than he did in cruising USA Oh, he's increasing us. Oh, yeah I did if you beat the game in a certain amount of time it's him in a hot tub with a bunch of girls and McKinney's he's just like But so my best with my bill Clinton impression shit, and I'd like to give it another go But unfortunately it ends up just being a variation of my Dutch impression from Red Dead Redemption 2 So that's like one sort of hurdle and trying to get over it We will take care of this country now, you know Well without your daughter was that your Clinton, you know, you'll never know But yeah, I I have a weird kind of way to I just want to say something and I know this is strange to say about Call of Duty, right? I kind of want to give them their flowers for this one Right like this is something like I had the moment last night where I was talking with lands and I was like this is kind of spectacular Because I want to see the numbers how many people actually play the campaign like how many people don't tell you enough not enough That's actually true, but I don't tell the people that pick up all of you especially with game pass now How like what 10% start the campaign that's just me guessing but I can assume so right like this is such a small amount of people that actually pick up And play this campaign and they put so much budget so much money so much effort into making this fun and engaging like this is something that if it was Outside of Call of Duty and we just said hey, this was a $60 release. It was just this campaign I'd be like this the game of the year contender like just this campaign is fucking incredible And that's not even to talk about the kid the multiplayer the zombies that is in this game Like if this campaign is something special and it's if it's still alone I think we would all be talking about it as a contender for sure It's a rare thing to get nowadays the first-person shooter with the great multiplayer that call duty offers and a good campaign Right, we've seen a lot of games go away from even just doing a campaign Battlefield one that was well known for having a fun campaign They've moved away from that adjusted multiplayer halo I thought it was a good campaign, but it had a mix of like they were trying something different right?
It's like we don't see many prestige titles in the first-person shooter genre even do campaigns And so when you have Call of Duty who has really found a flow since modern warfare 2 back in 2019 They have found it. They've set a standard for themselves like we're gonna deliver a really good campaign They've done that out of the X-9 years this past one So does this one stand above those though like you being like Roger saying like this one deserves its flowers like a full project but do you think that this campaign is That much better than like even the recent campaigns Both must play it's even better than 2019 in my opinion because it took the learnings and the failings of modern warfare 2 3 Cold War And they were able to funnel it into black ops 6 and make it exciting right when modern warfare 2 they had a crafting thing They were trying to open world thing and multiple choices in modern warfare 3 to varying degrees of success right this one They were like oh no we figured it out like or at least we're getting close there like I can see hopefully We're in the territory now where I think like the next black ops could be a legit tenet Like we're at this point now where if they just if they kind of just tighten some of these things in my mind right? I know this is it right here. I know it's the fact that there is no the main character does not speak I think that is a big negative there are negatives when it comes to even the cooler set pieces where I had that mission that we were talking about That everyone loves that you know I don't want to spoil for anybody that yeah They were even moments in that while I was like oof This is not as tight as it needs to be there are moments with the gameplay there are moments with the mission structure I'm like if we just tighten this up a little bit We would have a legit ten-on-a-ten video game here So it's an adds up enough to me where I think by the next game the next black ops specifically we can get there But yeah, I hope that the rest of the call of duty teams are looking at this as the gold standard going forward I think they are and I think they're also nailing the presentation right that's one thing Andy brought up of like the visuals and what you're seeing with the character design But the cutscenes to the presentations of the cutscenes and how they play that out has been elevated so much since that 2019 Modern warfare where it's like you are watching a awesome action It's like you are seeing the very best in what video games have to offer visually There are moments where it looks like we're just watching a film where you're like oh man We got a pause everything like is this real like what's going on here?
That's how good they've gotten at this and the storytelling in this one is fun, right? They're telling a cool compelling story. They mix it in with just great fantastic photo realistic Good seeds and then on top of that they have all the awesome animations of like here's where we're next going You know, and they got dice rolling on a casino table and all looks flashy and cool like every moment presentation wise is Wowing right there sure you'll have the moments which like oh he looks clay it's like yeah because that's cannon fodder We're just gonna blast through these guys. They're not gonna look great But when you're in the mix with the right people they all look fantastic We haven't quite talked about the home HQ They introduced a new mechanic kind of what Roger was talking about Like with the silent protagonist They've also introduced a home HQ where you kind of sit at this home base and it reminds me of you and your friends Roger It looks like it looks like a state where it's like you and your buddies are hanging out and it's like hey We've gone off the grain.
We got to hang out here, but then they introduce this idea of why is that a bunch of Roger? So sorry yeah, he's a Roger did back in the day Yeah, I'm a big KGB house. Well sort of actually well me my friends on monowar for two the original one We didn't see each other in real life much so we would hang out in the map a state And he would just that was like our first ever metaverse We were just hanging out like playing music with the microphone and just talk around Yeah, I don't care into that one So yeah, they have that now where they introduced this safe house and you and the crew will go there and it's very this interesting thing I'm like well, I don't need this but it's very meant to like hey Let's slow this down for just a moment like you catch your breath after certain missions right and you're going to learn about some of this squad It's almost like watching a play because it's right just that you're not really interacting with some of this You're kind of like hey Felix Let me talk to you and then like two of them will have a conversation and you kind of awkwardly stand there and watch it Well, like they're good stuff. It was pretty funny like Felix is like you know, I'm a hacker now I don't kill anymore like Felix you and I would just in a mission you murdered three people Let's not say that I killed people for you It's like but like it's interesting because now you can expand this home base So you go talk to woods and he's like hey, give me money and I'll give you a training area or a weapons bench or supply area And you're like why do I need that but then like you can upgrade your campaign character during that and spend money?
You know, I'm locked stuff for the multiplayer. So if you're a multiplayer guy, you should unlock those special weapon Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, then that adds another wrinkle like now you're out in the world You're like well, I need cash because Frank is telling me I need money I gotta get this money right now for Frank Yeah, and it involves them like you find little Easter eggs and there's like a little thing where you have to basically do like the Arkham City when you're hacking where you have to like the waves and you got to make them right or whatever it is But they have they add a little enough things to get you excited to explore those levels that you're in which is fun This is black ops 6 this is also the whatever 18th Call of Duty with a campaign since modern warfare Which is modern warfare original one which was the campaign I played through back in the day Could I jump into black ops 6's campaign and know what's going on or not really care what's going on because I know enough and just jump In any do you want to take that one? Yeah, I don't I think you can definitely hop in because I am so low on the understanding of what the overall story is like I Black ops Cold War I did not be the campaign for but I'm familiar with who some of the characters are you know I kind of knows what some of the relationships are but they do they do a good enough job of letting you know Oh, hey, I was cool with that dude, and then blah blah blah happened like they give you enough of that background I think this is just one that anybody can hop into there aren't gonna be if there's a big reveal that they want you to feel Shocked by they're gonna really make it sort of known But I don't think there's gonna be a whole lot of moments that where somebody drops a line And if you were if you really really know you'd be like oh shit, that's crazy Like it's just you're gonna you want to experience this for the set pieces you want to experience it more motorcycle over a police car I while you know in a you know chase shoot out or whatever and of course yet has baggage from the other games like there's some characters that Are definitely from the other games and they mention characters from like black ops 1 2 and 3 But a lot of it is just building the team like that's my picture It's just we're building the team we're building the team to do some heights and it's like cool These are new people some of them are old who cares like doesn't matter build the team it's fine Unique technique in the chat said that there's a short story so far video on YouTube. I don't know if that's Those are good Unless it's official I wouldn't watch it because like again There's a lot of shit in black ops lore cost fucking nuts like we are deep deep into the fucking like that It goes crazy so like do not you know how I have official quality?
Okay, well that's fine then but maybe not Cuz I don't want you to have to deal with Mason in the fucking numbers don't worry about it You'll figure numbers there's so many numbers don't worry about it And one of those in the future don't worry about it I since I sent in a clip to assets just when Mike is talking about how these It's always a time stamp just bought or whatever but when Mike is talking about you kind of watching like a play unfold, that's very much how it is. Like you're almost just like a camera in this room. Like these characters are gonna have baggage and they're gonna talk to each other, but you're just watching these amazing performances as they are looking at each other, walking around, kind of like, you know, whether they're, whether they have beef with each other or they're just kind of letting you know what their background is. It is really cool to just see the visual quality on display along with like these full-ass motion captured characters looking really, really damn good.
So how do you, when this happens, right Andy and Mike, how do you guys play this? When I was playing this with Berli Anza, I was just running around. And he was like, I do this, why are you doing this? I'm like, aw, this is how I play.
My mind's broken. Oh, you need to just run in circles around them? You're in that case. And she was like, why are you doing this?
You're ruining this for me. I'm like, ah, you're the camera. I'm trying to soak the bid-rig. You gotta soak the bid-rig.
You gotta let the YouTube audience like see all the good while I'm running around. I don't love the audio in that situation. Like I get what they're going for. It's like, you have the full 3D audio at this moment.
So if you step away, it starts to get quieter. You're listening, this way you hear that. It's like, okay, y'all, like they're both on two step outside the room. So I'm like, just fucking play the sound.
I'm like, I'm a hater. This way, and then that way. This way, and then it's like, just play the sound. I'm in the same fucking room.
It's going to be fun. I did have one where, so this is weird, where I was, a woods, woods, he's in a wheelchair in this game. So he's right in front of me, right? And they spawn you, right?
So he's right in front of me. And then the other character, Adler, comes up behind me. And I didn't realize, so that he reaches out and gives woods a cigarette. And I thought I was giving him a cigarette.
But I was just standing in the middle of them, and I was like, oh, what the fuck is happening? Dude, I had one of the best moments of like, very bug free, but I had one really fun one where you're talking to the hacker, and he's at the computer doing this, and then he puts his hands on the desk, and all of a sudden there's a notepad, and a binder next to him, and he starts opening up, and girls zoom in out, and then what's he's in there? And she's messing with him. And first I was like, oh shit, this place haunted?
What's happening here? It was awesome, man. I want to talk about it. After the, when we come back, I do have another little bug just like that, because I think the hacker does have a couple of moments where there are some weird sort of programming anomalies that are really funny, so I'm gonna set up dude assets, and we'll see that after the break.
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I like talking about how silly that hacker moment was, and I had sort of that exact moment that happened to me, or a similar moment happened to me where, something about this hacker, maybe he's being hacked in real time, but we don't know what his whole vibe is, but there are a couple of funny moments where the hacker just sort of decides to do random stuff and take on the animations of a random folder in it. No. That's amazing, bro. Really weird.
That's what animation is like. Really, really funny looking. It's amazing that they've nailed so much of the animations. Like there's moments where you and your crew are like going through one of the first missions, you have to go, you blow up this road fucking truck thing, and like go through like this, like all covered options.
Like that's so cool. Then all of a sudden me and my homies are running upstairs, and it's like, oh, y'all don't know how to run upstairs. Like we gotta redesign that. Their legs are moving all the time.
Oh, that looks really good. I mean, I feel like it's always by every single Call of Duty campaign, I feel like in the last five years, has had some type of dumb visual, you know, glittery going on, or like I have, just always, like I remember at Marvel for two at one point, I was, there was a swimming mission, and there was just no water, right? So it's just like, that happened, definitely that's kind of such a big game, right? Gun sound incredible, right?
Gun play is incredible. Omni movement, we'll talk about a multiplayer, but like it's just that extra level, like we talked about with Rogers first impressions, right? It's like a lot of people are, I think expecting so much out of Omni movement, but if you play it as much as I do, right? It's like, it's just a little tweak to elevate that game, play just a little bit further where it needs to be now in 2024.
It's not like a massive jump, unless you haven't played Call of Duty in a decade, then you'd be like, holy shit, what's happening here? But if you play Call of Duty regularly, you're not gonna see like, oh, this has changed the game. No, it's just refining it a little bit. Oh, we got a couple super chats on here to Armando.
Mike, you were just playing a little bit of the cloud, multiplayer, how was that? It was awful. But like Tim, like you said, and this is the first Call of Duty on Game Pass, which means you can play it via the cloud. And there I was at work going, man, I wanna play some multiplayer right now, I wanna play infection, and I can't suck up the Wi-Fi and download this 150 gig game.
So what am I gonna do? Click down the cloud, there I am playing multiplayer. And yeah, I say it's awful, because there's a half second delay, right? I'm like, I'm not quite as snappy, and it's checkable boarding whenever it needs a big Wi-Fi dump to keep up with everything it's processing.
But at the same time, there I am playing multiplayer. If I needed to download in the background, if I wanted to just jump in during my lunch break with my friends, I am playing Call of Duty multiplayer with anyone in the world and having a fun time. I was still smiling and enjoying every moment of it. So it is really showing you the power of the cloud, what Xbox is doing.
And now having it with Game Pass, it isn't like, oh man, I own Call of Duty, when will I get to play it on the cloud? It's, oh no, it's there. This is the first one we've ever been able to do that. Yeah, going off of Game Pass and everything, I booted it up on, I had a PC code booted up on Xbox Series S with Game Pass.
Holy shit, that game runs really good on Series S. It looks gorgeous, beautiful, sexy of course, and Xbox property and also, you know, all these games are hella, you know, console optimized, it's still looked amazing on there. Samson El right, is this worth one month of Game Pass just for the campaign? Yeah.
Yeah, I think so, I think you're gonna, I mean, like I said, this is a nine or 10. This will go down as they're one of their best Call of Duty campaigns. And if you would like to splurge and jump into that for a fun seven to nine hour, depending on how fast you're moving, how much you die campaign, you should do that. This is a lot of fun.
Yeah, some zombies of friends too. What's my mom's zombies? Raj? Oh, I'm Mr.
Zombie, man. No, I'm Mr. Not Zombie, man. I do enjoy the zombies here.
I have not been able to play much since Mike and I played. Since then, I played with a few of my friends from high school and they tried to do the fucking thing, which God bless them. I love them to death, but they're like, oh, Roger, you only have an hour to play. Let's do the fucking Easter egg.
Let's go and let's just fucking, Roger, you just, you walk around and you have to, you have to babysit a zombie, just one zombie, and then we'll just, we're gonna do math in the corner. And they're just doing math in the corner, trying to get this fucking Easter egg. I don't even know what the Easter egg is. I'm just sitting there and we get halfway through.
You have to do math in the corner. I'm done with this. I haven't played since. So you played a lot more than that.
I've played a good amount of zombies now from my previews to Cott next to now playing with Kevin Day sex, Man I can't do Brownie boys. Cott zombies have been an absolute blast. Two maps just rounding out this product that is called the Blop six. And it's so much fun from, oh shit.
Check that out, ladies and gentlemen. Greg Miller's gonna be playing Call of Duty Black Ops six on this brand new PlayStation five. Bro, y'all, he just got in. We're gonna run some Call of Duty campaign on this sucker.
Get ready, baby. Thank you. Oh, no! Yeah, that would have been good.
Let's go. I was hoping it was a Call of Duty package to be honest with you. He's ready to call the package to be awesome. No, it was just a PlayStation.
Just a PlayStation. I'm not gonna get into the PlayStation. It's like another fifth moment. No, no, no, no.
We're fucking next box here. Come on. You gotta meet the moment. You gotta meet the moment.
You gotta meet the moment. Thank you, Andy. Zombie's is great. Two maps right off the rip.
Two great maps. You have Liberty Falls, which is a little more beginner style, a little bit wider lanes, a lot of bright colors. It's smaller. So you can kind of get into it with your friends, if your friends are learning.
If they're not big zombie stands, that's a great place to start. It has some easy Easter eggs that you can do. And also, some other harder Easter eggs that you can do. We don't have to be in each other's pockets and zombies.
We all can do our own thing. You can learn about the perks. You can get the pack of punches. But even if you're a veteran, Liberty Falls is still super fun.
I love terminus. Terminus is the big map. Terminus is the showpiece of zombies. It has the tone, the atmosphere in which gonna give you the chills and the spooks and the scares.
And it has the big boy Easter eggs, which is what I know. The big fans want. And then if all this is like, oh man, this is exciting to me, but I'm not that good. Or maybe I don't know the Easter eggs.
Of course, you can watch YouTube videos or later on they have promised that they will be a guided mode coming out soon enough where you will have Call of Duty really holding your hand and showing you what to do, how to do it in this guided mode, which I'm really, really excited for. But zombies has been a plus. I think this is another one. I think if you play the campaign, you'll probably we all hope where we want a cool map to go.
Because all those campaign areas like oh, make these zombie maps multiplayer maps. Let's get wild with it. You know, so yeah, I can only envision what the next zombie map should be where we should be at. But this is one of their best zombies as well.
And they've had a lot of zombies. That's the catch. It's easy to be like, oh, this one of their best when you look back and you're like, man, they've all been great. There's so many good ones.
I've said a lot of fun. And you you was zombie men? No, I am not unfortunate. What about multiplayer?
How you feeling about that, Andy? I have not played any more multiplayer since the last time we played multiplayer. Dragon age, yeah, just kind of that. I was like really, really just main line in Dragon age.
Yes, because you're not spending enough time with me, Andy. So I think the doctors called you out of spend four more hours tonight playing Call of Duty multiplayer. They also called and said you have to come into the studio. I don't know why they knew that you weren't at the studio, but they called them.
Multiplayer is fantastic. They have really figured it out. I think it is a I don't want to call it bare bones. I wish it was a little more game modes, but I do like what they've done.
They have now moved away from the, hey, what if we try to do big team battle, these larger scale maps and we just said, no, let's give the people what they want. They want the core maps and now they want these strike maps, which are the smaller in your face experience. Of course, Call of Duty Veterans will know we all love shipment, right? We just play shipment to grind our guns, mindlessly murder each other and just get that level up.
Well, now they were like, yo, what if we elevated shipments and we made these strike maps, which are just as tight, just as chaotic, but a little more thought out, a little bit different on the layout. And I love what they've done with the strike maps. So strike maps, are those all maps or are those just a few of those? No, they're just a few.
And the other maps that are core and strike because of the size, but they are dedicated strike maps, which are the smaller maps, which is in your face, you're going to be leveling up your guns, you're going to die constantly. It is not about being strategic. It's just, hey, we're here to level, but it's fun. It's going to be and they're definitely built for gunfight, which is the 2v2 mode that they have, which I loved.
And that's my favorite mode around. But I really love that they moved away from trying to chase that big team battle, right? I think Call of Duty, along with Battlefield and Halo, when we look back on the years of it, they've always had this weird push and pull of like, Call of Duty's clearly been the 5v5, 66 team arena. Halo has been team arena, but mixed with big team battle, where you can get lost in that.
Battlefield has made its money on. We are the biggest battlefield map you can get on and you can go crazy with. And each one of them has tried to do certain things. Battlefield has made smaller maps and seen if that word, Halo has done smaller maps, but they also have the big maps.
Then there's Call of Duty, it's like, well, what if we tried the big maps and they didn't really work? I don't think anyone really loved those larger 12v12 maps and I'm really pleased that they put those aside and were like, yo, let's give the people what they want. And that's these strike maps. It's been a blast.
I like all the maps. I think there's some that are shining more than others. There's some game modes that of course are just the core that we all know. There's something I don't like high value target, but they're going to add more.
I think each season you'll see new game modes coming. They'll give you your favorites. Like we already have new town coming tomorrow when you're listening to this and you're watching live, you have infection, which is out now, which is, you know, the zombies that you're used to with Halo where half the team isn't infected, the other team is a zombie, you shoot them and they come after you try to stab you. This is a very well done, another good Call of Duty premium package.
So you're glowing on the campaign, you're glowing on the multiplayer, glowing on the zombies. How are you feeling, Mike, about the follow up to this? You know, Call of Duty kind of lives or dies based on the seasons? Are you looking down the rest of the year being like, oh, they got this and I'm confident?
Yeah, I mean, the big positive for them right now is we move into season one, which will bring in the new war zone map because remember, this is an ecosystem we haven't even talked about war zone because war zones just always presence, right? But like the package is everything and the big one here is with the new season, you will get the new war zone map, which is area 99, the smaller new town building facility, which is a fun, tight map, similar rebirth. And I love that we're moving right into war zone. Let's incorporate that, right?
Let's build off of that season. We already know Verdansk is coming, right? We don't have an official date, but we know that we will return to what brought us all here with that battle royale icon, right? So I think they have a lot of momentum and juice of like right now, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 will go down as one of their best.
It has a lot of juice. It's a great premium package. We already have a new map coming in for war zone, which will bring that free to play aspect into it, which will then tie you into I want to level up the gun. So I should be playing multiplayer and zombies.
Well, I want to check out their campaign now, but I'm going back to war zone with my homies because we love that and you're just stacking and just soaking up all my time just like they want, right? They want your time and attention. And I think they have a good roadmap here to start off the end of the year from October to January, you are in the good graces of fans. And we get to January through March.
That's when you have to be like, yo, for dance needs to hit between February and March and we need to get people hyped up in January and early February of like, Hey, you are number 2021. You are Lynn lockdown. You made friends. You made family members off of her dance.
We're bringing this back and it's got to hit within that February March. We know to keep the hype just so high. And then of course with the new seasons, you'll add new maps, which will then bring us back to do that. They'll add new guns.
So they have the cycle already down. We've seen this past couple of years since 2019 and beyond the cycles in like right now, I think this is poised to be their best if Verdance kids in February. So another interesting point there is, you know, this being the first call of duty. On Xbox Game Pass, I feel like Call of Duty, the last generation has been PlayStation focused in terms of where the main player base is, but in the last couple of years, that's been less and less because of cross play implementation and it working better and better.
My question to all of you as active players of Call of Duty in some sense, whether it's war zone or multiplayer or et cetera, do you think that we are about to get like a very, very the healthiest of the Call of Duty player bases at this point with such a great entry point of Game Pass, but also not necessarily needing it to be in one console or another? Boys, I think they made the right decision kind of wanting to reevaluate and pull back a little bit and give these developers enough time essentially because they, again, we talked about it ad nauseam for the last four years or so. Yeah, since to the beginning of pandemic, when war zone hits, it's such a gigantic success that they then, you could tell they then completely shifted their business strategy and model because before that, they had Blackout, which was their first sort of battle royale video game mode or whatever. And that was like, okay, but it was really war zone that cemented what Call of Duty's legacy would be on from here on out.
And they made the right decision, but they weren't ready for it. And so it's sort of like they made the right decision at the wrong time because all these other developers working on different things and then they had to, they discovered we need everything to funnel into war zone and what that experience is. And you could just tell there was so much indecision, wrong choices being made from the suite of developers they have working on Call of Duty. And now I feel like when we talk about games during the pandemic being delayed because of work from home and now we're finally sort of seeing the fruits of what pandemic development looks like nowadays, I feel like now we are getting the most concise vision of what Call of Duty will be from here on out where I feel like this is the first entry where all of their plans are sort of like straightforward and we now understand what we're doing and this plan now works and we're not taping a bunch of different products together and having, well shit, we're already working on the Black Ops game.
We should have Black Ops funnel into war zone as well, but that doesn't make sense. It's from the 80s. We all get a shit. I don't care if I get figured out and it just seems like now the vision is there and this is like the 1.0 version of what we'll see Call of Duty from here on out.
This to me is the perfect launching for the future of Call of Duty specifically with Game Pass, right? Right now you look at the marketing for Game Pass in Call of Duty, right? It's very light, right? Like in terms of like they're not ending their trailers with get it on Game Pass day one, you got to do it right now.
It's the best place to play. I think in the next two years you will start seeing it. I think right now they're very trepidacious of the FTC and you know rubbing anyone the wrong way, right? So we're going to get an increased player base I think year over year when it comes to Game Pass specifically, but this right now is the perfect way to launch it because I see this as a return to form and I specifically I think it's talk much about the multiplayer on my side of it, but like I'm all in.
Like I am in love with it in a way that I have not felt since I was a literal kid. Like I'm booting it up every night and I'm just playing free for all and I'm having the time of my life and I love this package, right? Like I love the idea that this campaign is extremely solid. I love that I can go to zombies and there's not actually every Call of Duty since the reboot of Modern Warfare.
There's always been a little bit of like, oh I love this game. I don't really care about that mode. I love this thing. I don't really like the new thing they're doing.
I love everything they're doing here. Every even if it's more back to basics and bare bones when it comes to the multiplayer, I'm having a great time putting on my headphone every night and just playing. So I think yeah this is going to be an exponential girl, but we're going to have a very, very healthy Call of Duty going forward and I'm very scared though of the next Call of Duty, right? I don't know what it's going to be.
It's not confirmed of course, but I've seen those rumors of like, is this going to potentially be a Black Ops 7 already? Like is this going to be a Modern Warfare 3 situation, right? Where they didn't know what they were to? And then just rush out Modern Warfare 3 because they didn't really have that much time.
They're like, okay, let's just make this happen. So that's kind of the rumor that I'm seeing. Of course unsubstantiated just people talking on the internet. It could be real, could be fake, but I hope that the next one is a similar situation to this one where we have a solid package that goes back to the roots of that is adding on instead of just relying on, hey, we know people are going to buy this, let's just fucking ship this out, whatever.
Yeah, that's an interesting place because I'm piggybacking off of that, Rogers. You also have Call of Duty Wars on which could carry that year, right? Like you have to remember, it's like if the product isn't quite there from the campaign to the full package that you want, whether the teams rushing with this, like if Warzone can carry that load for a year, which we've seen it do before and sometimes it's failed, right? It could just carry that.
I think that's where they have to shine right now is I would give them at about 80% the healthiest they've ever been. I think the paddles are on your chest and we're about to resuscitate this game that once was, right? We've got a new Warzone 2.0, we lost the plot, we had so many teams working out of like Andy said that we just, we missed steps and we didn't stay as strong as we were supposed to be with the Apexes and the Fortnite. But I think right now with the package into the new map, into Verdance, you have enough strength to carry you to the end of the year, then you have to have a new map for Warzone that will get the players excited.
You have to make sure Warzone is adding new maps constantly to keep people in, right? So that new map has to influence to another new map by the next second half of the year and that keeps the player base going on that freedom place to slide. Then on the other side, it's like, if this campaign and Call of Duty, let's just call it Modern Warfare 4 right now, right? That's not strong enough.
Warzone still carries that. Yeah, but here's the thing. I wish that they actually had the, they looked at this and said, hey, this is a solid, solid call of duty that everyone loves. Everyone in the Call of Duty community for the most part looks at this and says, hey, this is the one we wanted.
We wanted this game. Just make it more, just add to it. Make this actual, like next year should be an off year of like, hey, we're doing Warzone, we're going to add a new map, we're going to really focus on Warzone, and we're going to focus on Black Ops 6 and making this truly the perfect Black Ops 6 it could possibly be. I know they will never do that.
I know they'll never do that. I know they'll never do that. It's not for Modern Warfare 2 going into three, right? They were going to make a Modern Warfare 2 DLC and an expansion to make that game perfect, and they didn't do that.
Because they just rushed out three, and then people did not like three. They wrote the Warzone and that sort of matters. Sure, I understand that but I'm talking in terms of actual, like, just the excitement from the Call of Duty audience, right? I don't want to be excited.
What the fuck are they doing? Excited? Now, like, I don't care about the Warzone personally, right? I know that a lot of people do, but I also know that a lot of people that just play the multiplayer side of Call of Duty, they don't want to touch the Warzone.
So I really do wish that they would just look at this and say, hey, we're going to make just Black Ops 6, the expansion 30, 40, 50 bucks even. And it's, I would rather pay for that than just doing Black Ops 7. I'm like, okay, well, why'd you call it Black Ops 7? It's not the actual Black Ops 7 I want out of this.
Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, unfortunately that's just not the world that they live in right now. It will be a Vanguard situation where team number three is on task and they're gonna choose to do World War II and nobody's gonna like that and we're gonna have to put up with the end with it. But we live in such a world where free to play games of what's carrying the market right now.
War zone and battle royals are carrying the market right now. People are gonna come for that. They're gonna forget about the full package until the year that they want it the next year that happens. Any final thoughts on Call of Duty Black Ops 6?
Andy, sorry to call you off right when you're going through something. I got him sick because he's coming maybe. No. I think I am kind of coming down with something for real for all.
But man, I thought man, that's just really, that non-sneeze really fucking up. No, no final thoughts. I do think, I agree with like this is the best place that it feels like it's been in so far for the last several years. And shout out to Raven for knocking out of the park with that campaign.
Everybody seems to be loving it. I'm excited to get back to it. And yeah, I feel like this will give them a better indication and continued indication of what they need to do from here on out of Treyarch or killing it over there. Infinity Ward, you're gonna work on modern warfare.
What lessons can we learn from what's working here? Raven, hopefully Raven just continues to kick ass with campaigns. Final thoughts, Mike? Yeah, like I said before, I'll say it again, this is their best Call of Duty.
This will go down as one of their best in the top five. We will reminisce about this like we reminisce about the other Call of Duty that everyone attaches themselves to. This is that next generation of Call of Duty. They should be applauded.
Everyone that plays this, you see the package, you should be like, man, they really crushed this. And I'm really pleased with what I'm playing. I'm having so much fun. It's been absolute blast.
I can't wait for the new Warzone map because I can't, I get so much joy out of Warzone that I get the full package now. It's gonna be great. What's your final score now? After thinking it all through, the multiplayer zombies campaign altogether, Call of Duty Black Ops 6.
Man, I don't see much they can improve upon here. I would say it's a, I mean, I don't wanna go crazy, but yeah, it's a 10 out of 10. This is their best. This is their best.
It's an amazing product. This is a full Call of Duty product that we haven't had in years, and they've knocked it out on the presentation-wise, on the multiplayer side, on zombies giving you two maps at launch, giving you a full slate. This is going to go down as one of their masterpieces. So yeah, this is a 10 out of 10 Call of Duty product right now.
Roger Pecorni. Yeah, I would give this the entire package an 8.5 still. I, this is a really, really great product that gets close to amazing in all of its places, but there's always little tweaks. And I'm like, oh, if we just took a little more time, if we had an expansion, whatever, if we did a little bit more time for these games, I would get to that amazing, but all in all, I'm so fucking happy.
Like I am truly so happy with Black Ops 6 in a way that I couldn't have expected, there's less three, four Call of Duty, something like, oh, this is the one. This is the one. Like last year should have been the one. Mount Over 3 should have been the one because it had the maps from Mount Over 2 back in the day, and that was my game.
That was the game that I lived and breathed. And I picked it up, I'm like, doesn't feel right, they're not the one for me. I feel like I didn't put enough TLC into it. This one has the TLC.
And really quick, I just wanna say, I've been using these Corsair headsets, this Corsair headset, the Virtu-Oso Max Wireless that they sent over because they heard my awful microphone that I had on Andy's stream. So thank you so much for that Xbox. I'll be trying them out. It's a really, really nice headphone, very expensive.
I don't think I would recommend it to most people, to be honest, because it is extremely expensive. And it's $330. $330 is very, very expensive. It feels quality and it is quality.
The battery life is great. The microphone is awesome. I've tested it, it sounds really good. And it sounds really good.
It sounds really good, specifically for Call of Duty and on Xbox. Little hit or miss when it comes to PlayStation. It is the support PlayStation. And I've tried it out on multiple games and it's just cutting in and out.
And they're just like, it would sound good. And then it stops sounding good. So I wouldn't recommend it to most people, but for my specific circumstances, for Call of Duty on Xbox, it sounds really good. It's my daily driver right now.
So, oh, no. Do you kind of buying that extra super sound pack or whatever? I'm sure Mike already has. I mean, I'm in the best quality.
Tim, do you know about this? People were tweeting at me, like I think Tim is the audience for the Call of Duty sound upgrade pack. Without knowing about it, the right. What is it, Andy?
Call of Duty has this partnership to be able to, like get the most out of your audio and give you the best, whether it's 3D audio sound effects. I'm still kind of unclear on it. It seems very, very odd. And it feels like it was almost placed there accidentally.
It's a weird portion of the menu, but I just assume that Mike would have purchased it by now or... Yeah, do we not get it with the Vault Edition or Game Pass Ultimate? Do you know what the purchase looks like? I haven't looked at it at all.
Jodakus is the top thing, isn't it just the Dolby Atmos purchase? Which, if it is that, Dolby Atmos is like a, at least when I got it, a $15 thing you buy on Xbox, and then it allows you to access the Atmos. Yeah, should I buy that? Yeah, I mean, a lot of things come with it these days, like they bundle it in, but when the Xbox Series first came out, I had to do that.
It's $20 for five years, so it's not the Atmos. It's specifically for... I mean, look, here's the thing, I don't like this. I feel like this should not be a business practice that they have, like this is the type of thing.
No, there's no way, Call the new activations should give that company X amount of dollars, and then... It should be in it, yeah, exactly. 100%. I agree, this does super suck, because the amount of times that we are playing Warzone and a dude running full sprinted you sliding on the ground and you don't hear him and he kills you from behind or stabs you or whatever, and the amount of times you're like, where the fuck, why can't I hear that?
And them saying, hey, this game will sound better and work better. If you pay extra, that's really, really bad shit crazy. It is fucking crazy. That's the case, that's like extra egregious.
I would imagine that it might be some stuff of like you only notice it with super top-end systems, in which case, I don't like it, but I can understand, hey, this is for such a slim part of the market that like, we are charging you because it is some fucking extra crazy stuff, and like, I can get down with that, because like, I understand that they can't be mixing for people that have freaking like, you know, 14.10.4 systems or whatever. So it's like, that premium makes sense, but if it's what you're saying, and it's like actually affecting people with headphones, bro, come on y'all. Yeah, I think the biggest issue I have with it is that it's built into, it's built into the software. If it were a hardware purchase by whoever, Corsair or fucking Sony or Bose, whatever the hell, then I could see, oh, they're making this headphone that makes the game sound better.
It's like, I mean, there's no different than like, Logitech being like, hey, this mouse is gonna click fast or whatever, like that's marketing, right? But when it's built into your actual, when you go to the settings and see this option and are able to click that on, and I'm assuming it takes you to a webpage or something like that, it's kind of crazy that you are essentially saying pay extra for this game to operate better. Yeah, you know. Yeah, man.
You don't have to put that to the test. No, check this one. I mean, we got the lab, maybe one day we'll try that. Cause yeah, I'm interested in like, what's up with that?
It's right. Is that a bad business practice? What do they do and why are they just giving it for free? Let's find out.
I always hear that. I always hear the footsteps. 10 out of 10. Oh, we see the footsteps.
I don't think you do. Put it on the box, everybody. The situation where this mic is at 100 all the time. He always had a turtle beaches, bro.
He was up. You know, Mike is the call duty general out in the field. Like, there's actually, he's right about that. So maybe he does always hit the footsteps.
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