And one viewer submitted tip is to ask for help in chat. The narrator comments they are of two minds about this, seeing “help” as going against the intended design of the newest Call of Duty Zombies mode. On the other hand, they offer, its understandable that many people may have “jobs” or “be parents” and “not have time” for the MMO degree of grinding in this iteration. So what’s at issue is you may find yourself struggling and might be tempted to ask for that precious round based currency that evaporates into meaningless XP at the end of a match from good samaritans.
What are we doing here?
RECAP: the latest version of Zombies made its Modern Warfare debut with the mode’s creator, Treyarch, stepping in to lighten the load for old Infinity Ward. This version, colloquially called Modern Warfare Zombies or MWZ, adapts CoD Cold War’s Outbreak mode into a cost saving rebranding of the latest DMZ map (this is the CoD extraction mode). The effect is a instanced, public open world that can be tackled in a party or solo to slowly unlock new gear, field equipment (which are spells in all but name), and cosmetic milestones.
But for some fucks the idea of working together is filtered thru their conservative minds as “asking for handouts” and antithetical to the experience. Somehow. Despite the inherit cooperative nature of the game including the ability to revive downed players who are not in your party and the absence of friendly fire. You here what I’m saying, right? MWZ is hands down the most approachable online zombie game since Back 4 Blood and Left 4 Dead before it. The terror and joy of Day Z minus the simulated rape. It’s incredible even in the face of that grind. I enjoy just loading in a party and hitting some contracts (side quests) or progressing together in our missions (story quests, yes there’s a story!). Playing on console I seldom use the chat function but it works well enough and although I’ve never requested currency in a match that hasn’t stopped players with strobing neon avatars from pouring tens of thousands of cash at my feat and pinging it so we can head into the high threat zones. The community, the co-op, is baked in and very real.
I won’t go as far to say it’s my fave Zombies to date simply because years later I still return to the excellent (and deeply revisionist) CoD Cold War, but for those seeking a dense but not impossible MMO-light title that contrary to it’s rep encourages and rewards positive behavior I can confidently say…idk I kinda lost it. But, uh, fuck that tips guy.