Ignore sandman, He's asserting dominace

Manual Armor Plating has been a contentious topic in BO6, with their being lots of discussion around it's functionality or how it visually looks. While it works for something more tactical in MWZ, it leaves a lot to be desired in RBZ. I think this is something Treyarch should address before BO7 launch, because the prospect of a third year of Manual Armor Plating is bleak. I think there's a really simple solution for it too, but I'll list a few of my personal issues with the mechanic and how it could be fixed.

Issues:

• Plating Animation is repetitive, tedious, and aesthetically unpleasing.
• Plate Stock feels wasted when used on Damaged Plates, rather than fully Broken Plates.
• Dread, not from absorbing damage but from having to repeat that Replating Animation yet again.

Potential Solution:

• Automatic Plating on Default. BOCW pretty much got this right the first time, where you just have to walk over Armor Plate drops to refill your Plate Carrier rather than applying them yourself. I think Treyarch tried to reinvent the wheel here, but what we've ended up with is worse.
• Vulture Aid is getting an Augment called "Armor-Matic" that reverts to Automatic Armor Plating, so Treyarch are well aware we want it back and that their are issues with Plating in general. However, this isn't a perfect solution and will cause frustration because you're having to buy a Perk to remove something that shouldn't be there in the first place.
• If Automatic Plating was Default, then Armor-Matic could switch to being a way to choose Manual Plating to at least keep the choice in the game for those who do like it, similarly to how Tactical Sprint has been treated in Stamin-Up.

For context, I’m a legendary top 5k player, current ranking around ~100 to 150 and play SnD mainly(because I honestly can’t compete with hardpoint warriors and also SnD is the most played mode in my server, Garena Thailand). I’ve only started playing roughly 3-4 months ago, and overall I’ve enjoyed playing this game and spent a lot of my free time grinding.

But every now and then I get extremely frustrated and sincerely puzzled upon seeing the direction this game is heading. For example, the recent buffs/nerfs to the wildcards: perk greed red nerfed, overkill and bomber buffed(why exactly??). Now in SnD there are people running restock with bomber and spam lineups the entire game, Dauntless on the second slot doesn’t help reduce MOW thermite TTK anymore, double shotguns are insane, and much more. But I’ve honestly gotten used to that. Now today, I hopped on hardpoint ranked using my alt which is in PRO I and got completely obliterated by bots for an entire hour. It’s a different vibe from playing hardpoint against people using my main account. They might run persistence, double operators+overclock(OP af), they use their scorestreaks, they abuse head glitches, they use their nades and tacticals, they got insane movements. But this ain’t it. We got bots idiotically walking around the map and sitting at weird corners, never using their tacticals, like usual.. but as soon as an enemy is slightly visible on their FOV, they LOCKED TF IN. I’m talking about PERFECT recoil control - fucking PP-Bizoned across the fucking map with all shots hitting, sometimes it feels like a one shot. Crosshair instantly gets pulled onto the enemy like some sort of blackhole. I also notice they stop shooting immediately after clearing all enemies in their fov and reload, never wasting a single bullet.

Honestly what the actual crap is the point of having these bots in ranked, apart from psychological torture. I’ve been sober for ages but won’t mind trying what the devs are smoking, ffs. What are your thoughts on these issues?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3587198896

I pasted the steam link above if anyone wants to try it out. I have just started learning radiant and bo3 mod tools and this map is a product of 2-weeks of learning the ropes. I think I spent most of my time on lighting and it’s not something that is going to rival the best out there, but I hope it’s a refreshing option for single room players looking for a challenge and something that doesn’t look like a YouTube sticker slap party.

Would love any and all feedback. I know there’s some issue with a weapon in the box not having SFX, there’s a small glitch where a zombie might be moved outside of the map and other than that it’s pretty smooth gameplay. At least that’s what I can gather from when I play and what others have already highlighted for me.

Happy Gaming to all and I hope you enjoy the first of many maps created by RastaGypsy. :)