Muz

I'd love to join as well if poss

I thought MGS5 was on gamepass recently? Might have just imagined that though

I've bought this game every year for the last 5 or 6 years mainly because I grew up on ISS on the the Snes and can't bear to go to Fifa. Unfortunately every year I hope they get their menu/loading/update/roster/notification screens sorted to make getting into a game with mates online easier...and every year within a few weeks we all sell our copies. Sincerely hope they can sort their UI over anything else - I don't know if I'm the only one here who feels this but I find it so frustrating to play with mates online

Yeah I do mate, whats your gamertag?

I gave up unfortunately - I got to Chapter 9 and perhaps 16 hours in but I guess I just thought it wasn't a very good game up to that point. I might pick it up again to see the story through

I play pretty regularly and would love to team up - I enjoy BR solos but much prefer team stuff. I'm on xbox - I'll add you Swallow

Do microsoft tend to offer decent deals with games/accessories or everything is just rrp? (though with an immediate £80 saving it turns into an amazing deal already)

Did you complete it? Really debating whether to continue or not

I'm on chapter 9 and about 15 hours in. Apart from a few nostalgia hits i did stop yesterday and wonder if I'm actually enjoying any of it... Clearly if I'm wondering the answer is no. It has felt really padded so far and i get so little time to game that I'm considering stopping even though ff7 is one of my favourite ever games... I'm compelled to carry on but am finding it a real slog, especially when I'm aware I'm probably not even half way through. Might stick it on classic and just get through it to see the story out

Modern warfare single player campaign. 8/10 I've had the disc for a while and never bothered with the campaign. It was brilliant! Linear but didn't outstay its welcome and had some clever set pieces. We'll worth going through given it only took me 6 odd hours

Will you get charged for an exchange rate fee? Think that happened to me when I bought a game off the Russian store and the hit made it almost the same cost as UK eshop so I haven't bothered since

I agree that there is a lot of fiddling. Was there map voting on previous COD's? I have no idea why they don't have this as an option - I initially thought it was because they were concerned about everyone voting for small maps and therefore getting ahead of the intended xp gain curve but they've had shipment and shoothouse on there for last couple of weeks. I also agree that this new solos mode is great - for someone who is average at the game, I'm getting into more engagements and learning more about how to win battles. I know there were reports of 50 million players but when trying to play trios/quads with my mate, the majority of the time we don't get a third/fourth member so I wonder if they restrict warzone playlists to safeguard from fragmenting player bases and empty lobbies - doesn't make sense though given most people are playing with crossplay.

Plunder (if you don't mind it) - is great for xp. Even if you're solo, just run around doing contracts and you'll also level guns at the same time. I got bored with it but was surprised at the amount of xp you can get. It seems like matchmaking and lag are a bit better but I haven't played much last couple of days to know for sure. My mates are sadly against trying again because their first experience was so awful and rarely does everyone get a hall pass at the same time

Got three old mates together for the first time in years to play this last night...absolute mess which ruined an evening. Laggy, audio would die (we were using crossplay chat) and matchmaking sometimes took 10 mins. We had one game where we were in the last 3 squads and one guy came into a house solo and then disappeared - when he reappeared 3 of us were suddenly dead and my mate panicked and lost the 1v1. I'm completely naive about programming but given how few issues there were prior to the patch (for me at least) and that it's a patch, by nature you would assume most of the code would remain the same so I wonder how it's gone from excellent to a mess within a one week update. Also none of my challenges are tracking which is annoying as I'd spent some time trying to get the new LMG and then it just resets to 0 everytime I log in. Rant over - great game, hope they fix it before it becomes too frustrating to go back to.

Yep - been awful for me and it was great before I updated