I have another idea.

HIRE HANS ZIMMER and/or STEVE JABLONSKY AS THE COMPOSER(S).

That is all.

~RUGGED SAVIOR

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Perk Setup: This idea with the perk setup is to make every perk attractive. Competition is key, no one perk should shine above all others and no perks should be useless.

TIER 1:

-Marathon: Sprint for longer distances.

                -Pro: Increased movement speed +Climb obstacles faster

(Unlimited sprinting speed can be unbalanced in game modes like CTF or HQ)

-Blind Eye: Undetectable by enemy Air support kill-streaks.

                -Pro: Lock onto vehicles quicker + Extra damage VS air support + Air support glows bright red.

(Air support glowing red would make it easier to find UAV’s on maps like Hanoi)

-Sabotage: Set back enemy point-streaks.

                -Pro: Bullets, explosives and tactical grenades paint enemy on mini map for team to see.

(Counter to the support package. If you kill somebody that has the support package equipped you knock him back a point. Pro version is also great tool to flush out campers)

-Hardline: 1 less kill required for point/kill streak.

                -Pro: Extra kill/point streak slot.

(2 Assist = 1 kill is great idea but in order to balance that you have to nerf scavenger to not allow replenishing of tactical grenades)

-Warlord: You can have 2 attachments on your primary weapon + extra lethal and tactical grenades.

                -Pro: Two primary weapons.

(It’s a mix between Overkill which is useless because of great secondary MP’s and Black Ops Warlord which was good but needed more appeal)

TIER 2:

-Sleight of hand: Faster reload + Faster equipment usage + Faster weapon switching

                -Pro: Faster ADS.

(Combination of Quick draw and Sleight of hand)

-Stopping Power: Increased bullet penetration

                -Pro: Increased weapon range.

(Works like Hardened. Pro version increases the range drop off of your weapon. Instead of your gun dropping from 40 damage to 30 damage at 35 feet, the Pro version would have the damage drop happen at 50 feet)

-Ghost: Undetectable by UAV.

                -Pro: Undetectable by SR71 + No red name when targeted.

(I’ll cover this hot topic later)

-Flack Jacket: Increased explosive resistance + Not affected by tactical grenades

                -Pro: Reset fuse on grenades + Not affected by knife.

(Combination of Flack Jacket and Tactical Mask and a great counter to panic knifing)

-Scavenger: Replenish ammo, tactical and lethal grenades from fallen enemies.

                -Pro: Extra ammunition + Equipment x2

(Scavenger becomes more useful with the refill of grenades and ability to carry two claymores or Jammers that can’t be replenished)

TIER 3:

-Stalker: Faster movement while Aiming down sights.

                -Pro: Enemy footsteps are louder

(This would not cancel out the Ninja perk)

-Blackout: No kill-cam for enemies.

                -Pro: Hold breath for longer duration + reduced idle sway.

(This is designed for snipers. It’s difficult being an effective  sniper with the kill cam always giving away your position forcing you to move to a new spot . When I snipe I want to find an area that conceals me and stay hidden. The perk is named Blackout because when you kill somebody there screen goes black not even giving a sense of direction of where the kill came from)

-Steady Aim: Increased hip fire accuracy.

                -Pro: Gun is ready faster after sprinting + Reduced flinch.

(I think reduced flinch goes well with the concept of steady aim)

-Ninja: Your footsteps are completely silent + no fall damage

                -Pro: Immune to Counter UAV and EMP + Enemies don’t get audio notifications.

(Disabled notifications means that the enemy is not made aware that his TI or claymore was destroyed or that you are capping their A flag)

-Hacker: See enemy equipment and ground based kill streaks.

                -Pro: Invisible to enemy equipment + hack enemy equipment.

(Blind eye makes Aerial kill streaks glow bright red so Hacker makes all ground based kill streaks visible. So you can see where the RC car is traveling to avoid it or where the enemies sentry guns are located)

Now I want to talk about the real problem with Ghost; the ease of getting UAV’s.  The constant Spy plane/UAV in the air has made players dependent on the mini map. The more time the UAV is in the air the more powerful Ghost becomes. If the UAV is rarely in the air then Ghost becomes a wasted perk. The balance comes in making UAV’s harder to get which is why I can’t stress this enough:

-ADOPT IW’S SUPPORT, ASSAULT, AND SPECIALIST STREAKS (Kill streaks shouldn’t stack)

The Assault package should focus solely on offensive streaks and should only be earned by getting kills. No UAV’s.

The Support package should focus solely on support streaks and be earned by kills, shooting down air support and playing the objective. No stealth bomber or remote sentry. Where Infinity Ward went wrong is with the point requirements for the corresponding streaks. Considering point streaks do not reset they should require more kills to achieve. For example:

-UAV: 7 point streak

-CUAV: 8 point streak

-Recon Drone: 16 point streak

-SR71: 18 point streak

-EMP: 24 point streak

-Emergency Air drop: 28 point streak

By truly separating support and assault streaks you create a marriage between the two where strategy takes place. The assault players depend on the supporters to get them UAV’s  and shoot down air support and support players depend on the assaulters to rack up offensive kill streaks to push the enemy back.

This next suggestion is a long shot but I think it will benefit the gaming community.  A ranked and social playlist to separate two different types of players. The only difference in playlist is that the ranked playlist would not allow guest and require you to have a ‘good’ internet connection. I don’t know the logistics behind an in game internet requirement but it would be great to weed out the laggers.

I'll just get my main point out of the way right off the bat... Don't do things the same way just because that's the way it's always been.  The core gameplay is not going to change and it shouldn't.  It's overhauling the various things that compliment the core gameplay that will give us a new and (hopefully) improved COD experience.

I'm thinking about perks and killstreaks in particular.

I'll start with perks.  Having x number of perks randomly applied to 3 tiers in an attempt to balance them just seems old and kind of bush league now.  The perk layouts in COD4 and WAW actually made more sense than they do now.  While there was some randomness in the second and third tiers, tier one used to be exclusively equipment related.

I'd just like to see the perk system actually make sense.  Maybe have a movement related tier, a gun related tier, an equipment related tier, and a killstreak related tier.  Or maybe just have an offensive tier and a defensive tier.  Or maybe not have tiers at all and just have a massive list and only allow players to use two at a time.

I'm not saying anyone one of those ideas is necessarily the way to go.  They could all end up being horribly flawed - those were just the first basic ideas that came to me.

Now for killstreaks.  IW made some changes and for that I give them credit.  I wasn't necessarily a fan of the new system as it has it's flaws, but it is progress.  First idea, maybe allow each player one support reward and one assault reward.  Again, a basic idea off the top of my head that could potentially work or potentially suck.

Again, I am not saying "Treyarch make perks this way or killstreaks that way."  I'm saying ideas don't have to be limited to "put this perk in the same tier as that perk" and "this killstreak should be that number of kills".

These are just suggestions to already existing game mechanics.

Please note these are individual points.

Second Chance:

-Remove the ability to make other players flinch while in second chance

-Reduce the rate of fire while in second chance

-Players using second chance are only able to be revived once (after all, the perk is called Second Chance)

-Slower switch time

-Remove invincibility frames

-In my experience, players in second chance are able to survive concussion grenade explosions (and perhaps other special grenades as well) when being revived by another player.

-Something has to be done about primary weapon kills while in second chance.

Snipers:

-Severely cap the fire rate of the semi-auto snipers when unscoped

-Reduce the damage of the snipers when unscoped

Matchmaking:

-In Ground War, please have two different game modes to vote for every time, not just TDM twice or domination twice.

Other Suggestions:

-Please re-add snipers that reload each round individually (COD4 and CODWAW, possibly others before them). This is not so much an issue as nostalgia.

To counter campers:

-When a player gets a certain amount of kills in the same area, notify the opposing team of an enemy within a radius of said area (this could appear as a circle on the mini-map). If the camper continues to get kills without leaving the circle, have the circle gradually get smaller with each kill (until a set minimum) that the camper gets as well as change the position of the circle after every kill to match the camper's position. To prevent campers from abusing this system by moving outside the circle temporarily and killing the people entering the circle, notify the other team whenever the camper leaves the circle (perhaps by having it change colour on the mini-map). The circle will only disappear permanently when the camper leaves for a set amount of time. This would be similar to Homefront's Wanted Level system but would not punish rushers.