COD: Vanguard Zombies is the WORST Zombies experience ever made 

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today i learnt that the COD zombies economy is currently experiencing inflation

“If it ain’t broke, break it, and then forget how to fix it.” -Activison

“I’m gonna play Halo Infinite, they show some promise” Well that aged poorly

Honestly seeing zombies stand completely still is so weird. In the good games the zombies were constantly coming towards you, like a swarm of heat seeking robots so seeing em being passive is a bit of a trip.

"the only thing Activision is better at then delaying games, is abusing women" oh fuck, I'm almost as dead as Activision after that.

Way worse when you realize Sledgehammer had an extra year to develop Vanguard while Treyarch was forced to push out Cold War a year early. Treyarch was responsible for the zombies for vanguard and I honestly believe Activision burnt out Treyarch

I loved zombies and this looks absolutely garbage!!! I remember playing with my zombies crew and having to hold crawlers for like 30 minutes while someone had to go eat dinner.

22:36 “halo infinite, ran by a company who knows what they are doing” That did not age well

Call Of Duty: Black Ops zombie minigame is still my personal favorite, not everyday can you play as a past President of United States teaming up with Castro to kill zombies

I love watching Vanguard Zombie rants because I feel like we’re all in the same support group. How in the hell did we get here after such amazing maps like shadows of evil, origins, der eisendrache, Mob of the dead, all of black ops 1 and so many more

I remember watching my friend play black ops zombies after trying it myself and seeing the cool tech I didn't know about was mind-blowing. Discovering map secrets, learning how to access certain areas in different ways, what perks are strong, which guns are good even if you might not think so. I remember thinking shotguns were pretty good because they deal a lot of damage and you can interrupt the reload. But seeing my friend ditch shotguns to get weak rapid weapons to farm points was such a great revelation moment. Same for learning how to get pack a punch on the maps where it was more esoteric like tranzit. Now it's just like "No, stop having tech. Stop having interesting things. Here's your damn pack a punch. You don't get points anymore. Now play."

I just miss zombies when you was alone in a bunker or a swamp, creeped out to the max but enjoying it so much. THAT was zombies. Simple and scary, but genius

They really castrated Pack-A-Punch, huh… The sick looking guns with the laser gunshots were the highlight of doing it, the damage and ammo increase was an added benefit.

I didn't even know Vanguard _had_ zombies mode, that's how little I cared for the game.

My favorite thing about cold War zombies was there was always something to spend points on. You didn't get all your perks, open the map, and upgrade weapons and then just sit on 30,000 points until you went down and rebought everything. You could always get something new or some new upgrade.

“Look at this Thompson.” That’s a Thompson?

Just by watching the gameplay, i noticed something. It plays as if this zombies mode is part of the BR. The weapons are color-coded, stuff drops from zombies, there's chests that spit out weapons [not THE random chest, loot chests], safe points, sudden "go do this objective" that you're forced to do it, etc. It all plays like this mode is part of Warzone, but they added it to Vanguard because lolzombiesmode.

It's kind of embarrassing when you can't do better than the first WaW map, which was basically 3 rooms, and the box. No perks, no pack a punch, not even really a huge variety of weapons, but I remember me and my friends staying up all night to see how well we could do. This is just garbage.

17:54 lmfao

19:43 destructive finish

A little insight on the part at 20:15 coming from someone who worked on COD games for almost a decade, Activision always wanted a COD every year, and so the 3 "main" studios (IW, Treyarch, Sledge) would usually switch off, as you indicated. But what was rarely known from the outside was that the studio wouldn't truly get that full 3 years to work on the game as they should have. A lot of the first half of the "3 year cycle" would be still stuck in DLC content work or assisting one of the other studios with a level or two, and so by the end of it, you were really lucky to get a year, or a year and a half tops to completely make/finish a AAA title that was expected to make billions. Add to that that Activision would often step in and veto or demand changes that the studio didn't really want to make, and you just end up with a meat grinder assembly line of COD games getting pumped out and becoming progressively more derivative. And as you mentioned earlier in the video, it's not even one main studio heading the game anymore... they have multiple studios working on separate elements and then frankensteining it together for the final product. TBH I'm glad I left when I did, lol.

The ending rant about Activision is honestly really tragic, when you really take a step back and look at how the company is now.

The Pavlov VR zombies modding scene is absolutely worth checking out. It’s like a mini renaissance over there

When we complained that menus made it hard to buy stuff in a pinch, this is NOT what we fucking wanted.

I bought vanguard, instantly went to zombies, played for 30 minutes, then refunded. The experience is EMBARRASSING. It’s a far cry from anything that made Zombies successful.

I think we owe Black Ops 4 a big apology, that game looks like an 11/10 compared to Vanguard

I played it and mannnn. Believe me i said out loud “ i would rather play extinction on ghost “ and i fucking did

22:27 I love how he shoots down a zero with a frickin 1911. Totally real - miss with the mg, but hit with a pistol.

Why do we need a minimap AND a compass for zombies? The compass seems completely useless as it ALSO shows enemy directions while your minimap is telling you exactly where they are all around you.

If you didn't know, part of the reason Halo Infinite is good right now is that during development they formed a team of feedback experts by gathering a bunch of the biggest Halo content creators so they could tailor the game to actual long time fans and veteran. Every developer should take big ass notes in bold and italics from that.

I love coming back to this video and see bricky shitting on vanguard all over again, jolly great fun

Bricky: "I truly believe this is the worst CoD Zombies ever made." Black Ops Zombies for the DS: "Allow me to introduce myself."

I will say, I loved outbreak and round based maps. I really like how both experiences felt familiar yet different from each other. This game just feels like the worst of both worlds blended together

why is no one talking about how the map is literally just made up of maps from multiplayer and campaign

That halo infinite comment in the end didn't age very well, lol

This is the 4th time I watched this video, watching Bricky freak out about this game is so fun.

"Seige, Fortify, you know I'm all about those words" Me who knows there hasn't been an Imperial Fists adeptus ridiculous episode: *interesting*

As a gun guy and a history nerd this game gave me immense amount of pain. And I didnt even play it.

17:40 every time he talks a vine booms plays with a crying spongebob image

11:08 I laughed way too hard at this reference

Honestly the main problem with vanguard is somehow in a zombie game they made killing zombies completely pointless. In earlier games you could spray into a crowd of zombies and get thousands of points and go hell yeah but now if you spray into a crowd of zombies you wouldn’t even have enough money to spin the mystery box. The entire economy is based on doing the objectives but they’re so mind numbingly bland that two of the objectives are just kill zombies and survive which was already the whole point of the game.

They’re trying too hard in zombies now. It used to be fun just playing with friends trying to see how far you can go or if you wanted you can do the easter egg with a bit of a challenge. Now they’re making it just objective based, and just so boring.

omg you had me cracking up throughout the whole video 😂 subbed 🙏🏼

Man that infinite comment aged like milk

Zombies has just fallen off for me since BO3. I was a fan going into BO3, and BO3 was such a hype period, but it’s just fallen off over the last half decade or so. It’s been half a decade. Half a decade and we haven’t even seen anything close to what we had in 2015 and 2016, hell even 2013. Blundell left Activision is in shambles. It’s safe to say for me, after this game I’m done.

Lets be honest for all the crap that people talk about CoD Ghost we have all got to admit that it's horde mode was really Original and unique.

That halo thing near the end didn’t age well.

Oh now I remember where I’ve seen you! I saw clips of you play Subnautica. I gotta say man this style of commentary is really engaging and funny! I’m subscribing.

Cold War zombies was honestly a breath of fresh air. You can tell Treyarch truly tried to reinvent the wheel and give players a reason to grind zombies with upragadeable everything. For all its minor flaws the zombies wouldve been spectacular if it had the personality of the old VA and we all know it.

Remember when CoD zombies was really scary, makes your heart pounding, shivering when you hear zombies screaming behind you, and jump scares sometimes, makes your adrenaline pumping? Yea, i didn't feel it anymore in this one

@15:53 i agree. I think weapon rarity is a great thing. I always hated that there used to be like only a handful of guns there were viable past round 30. But the rarity system allows the player to be able to use literally any gun they like and actually play with it up to whatever round they want. I always liked shotguns in zombies but they were always shit after 20/25. In CW zombs I just run around with my Hauer and I can't be stopped. Sometimes I'll grab a second gun if I'm feeling sexy but for the most part I'm running through all enemies with just my shotty.

Bro this is the first video I've watched from you but 11:24 had me dying😭😂 im subbed

Would be nice if we could get more 25-40 dollar games that just focus on doing one thing really well. I really don't care for fps multiplayer, but a standalone zombies title might be interesting.

Bro I love this guy. This my first video of him and he explains in detail why this game sucks ass. He put more effort in this video than Activision put into all of vanguard

“Life has many doors ed boy”

MW3- “allow us to introduce ourselves”

I'll play your game Bricky and set for 25 minutes with a bottle of pepsi

The "Modern Warfare with a coat of paint" is too real. I legit thought for way too long that Cold War and Vanguard were expansions or DLC of Modern Warfare, not standalone games

Vanguard: this is the worst zombies! Modern Warfare 3: the worst zombies *so far*

12:49 The mini gun gun basically is only able to be dealt with wolfenstein 3D style, shoot at it, duck in cover till it stops shooting, repeat

13:50 vermintide 2 did ranged enemies pretty well The rat-tlingunner makes clunky sounds letting you know roughly where they are. Then, they are extremely frail and you can have a shield to block all dmg

What’s sad is that they really emphasized one of the “greatest zombies experiences in COD” and it’s literally just barebones, actually not even that it’s worse than barebones!!!

I know this is two years old, but: “There’s a market for horde style shooters with interesting mechanics” **Queue the Democracy Horns**

That halo infinite comment aged like milk because 343 legit doesn't know what the hell they're doing either

I personally liked the early stages of Cold War Zombies. Up until about Mauer der Toten's release, it felt like a somewhat believable sci-fi horror arms race thriller story, where the American government rushed to gain any sort of advantage over Omega group's advanced Dark Aether research.

Cold War Zombies taught me that innovating zombies was a great thing. Vanguard Zombies taught me that you can also completely misunderstand what that innovation was and why it worked.

“Don’t worry young grasshopper” my guy is giving Pam from infinte warfares Shaolin and beast cutscene. Thank you, you brought a tear to my eye for that criminally underrated game

It feels like every attempt Sledgehammer makes on a Zombie mode is just them trying to bake a cake, but they ended up making sugar cookies out of the batter, with cheese and salsa on top for some reason. It barely even nails the basics while bloating it with all this unneeded stuff.

Honestly, if they made a Zombies Mode for Halo Infinite with the Flood, and if they did well with it, I'm sure a lot of people would play the fuck out of it. Given the fact that Halo and CoD have always had that sort of "rivalry" for spot as best FPS, it could be a chance to deal a HUGE blow to Activision and CoD as a whole and hopefully kick them enough to where they finally start to get their shit together

They’re too busy abusing their interns to actually make a good, working game by the absurd deadlines they create for themselves. Legitimately ashamed to admit I bought the game, because the trailer actually looked great.

22:33 hahaha, that comentary of halo infinite didn't age well hahaha

That Halo Infinite comment didn’t age well lol

Bricky going through the stuff he believes sounded like he was running for political office lol

When you said youd rather play the burgertown map instead, i cried a little because I totally agree

Now I just want somebody to make a "life has many doors, Ed boy!" Mod for vanguard for the hell of it where that line plays every time a zombie teleports to you

Bricky loving not just the PPSH but also the MP40 makes him a man of culture

Damn, I didn't think it could get worse after cold war zombies. The team has clearly lost all ambition and drive to create the masterpieces of maps that they used to.

This man even went into depth of the economics of zombies lol someone give this man a award

Can't wait for Bricky to cover the MW3 zombies mode.

Zombie with zero higher order brain function manages to co-ordinate precise muscular function to effectively fire a weapon.

You want a pretty decent endless wave based “zombie” killing game? Try killing floor two’s endless mode

Something to mention is that Jason Blundell, the old director of the zombies mode is working at his own studio now. I hope his team is going to make something similar to CoD zombies, but a full game.

Tbh. When he said those are not rounds but objectives points. That actually blew my mind!

So they looked at outbreak and said "yes, this is the future of zombies", then proceeded to rip a huge line and absolutely demolish the shit out of this game mode by replacing it with a somewhat ok game mode from cold war. This is the peak of their creative genius and I am absolutely blown away that all they could do was make a rehashed zombies that's kid friendly. Wow

DANG. Never thought I'd hear Bricky give something such a total death sentence. If he can't find any redeeming qualities in a product that's a REAL bad sign.

In my opinion the Cold War zombies was okay, it got really good closer to the end. Outbreak was a cool idea and I believe people give Cold War zombies a lot of shit because it's not the classic zombies experience. Having round based maps and Outbreak was a great idea cause there is something for everyone.

the Rolf reference made me subscribe, I see you're a man of culture as well lol

I miss the days of playing the Black Ops 2 Campaign. Literally on a 1:1 size 720x720 screen black ops 2 was better than 16:9 4K screen Vanguard.

I'm just glad the Infinite multiplayer kicks so much ass, it's been a blessing

I feel like the soul of the series is just gone, it has been completly snuffed out and replaced by corporate greed. As a possible future game developer I see inspiration for storys and gameplay from the older zombie titles, from the new ones I've learned what NOT to do so hey that's the first positive thing I have to say about Vanguard.

Starting the video with an ad is a rocky start.

I hate the perk names in this game. Did you like Double Tap Root Beer, now you have DiABoLiCAL DaMAgE! Speed Cola, how about DeMoNIc FrEnZY! Stamin-Up, now you have AEthEriaL HaSTe!!!

You can see and feel the games feel more and more hollow with each game. From a game full of constant. Story’s that makes you feel emotions and have tons of stuff and make you grind and work for stuff. And now it’s just empty. You can feel it get empty over time. Take like modern warfare the original and then Cold War or even the new modern warfare. I think the little bit less polish on the games and the simpler market back then made the games feel more full. There artist that lost there drive to creat and now just do it to get a pay check each month. Truly sad to see this giant of a franchise fall from the inside out

I legitmately SLAMMED my fucking desk when I heard there was no pack-a-punch camo, everything else was already bad, but holy shit how can you desecrate the fundamentals to that degree.

I was not prepared for "Life has many doors, Ed boy"

I accidentally started the video in .25x playback and got to hear Drunk Bricky tell me about a sponsorship. Thoroughly entertained.

"What if we took everything people maybe liked about Cold War zombies and just took all of that out" "Genius"

This actually hurt seeing what they did to the mode

I miss OG zombies that had a mysterious story, multiple things and the girl thats a spirit, and the environments making you ask just what the fuck happened, the illuminati, fucking everything.