Call of Duty WWII: The Headquarters

It seems like Call of Duty is heading towards the right direction for the series. Now as we head towards the future, we go back to the past for its multiplayer and it's pretty good. Let's start with the hubworld. With your class customized to your liking with your favorite outfit, which you can earn through ingame loot crates. We'll get to that later. The hubworld is a little socializing headquarters, similar to Destiny. You can walk around, accept contracts to earn lootcrates, 1v1's which are hilarious, play old Activision Classic games, and buy prestige items. It's actually pretty neat.

There's something for me to personally say that this hubworld is probably one of the better ones in 2017 that makes the game feel close to an MMO. Here's what's great: the shooting range. You can test out weapons you unlock by shooting at targets, and you can just hop into it without loading into a different session. This is probably something that GTA V's multiplayer tried to do as you always had to load into a different session and would basically hinder your online experience. The better part about COD WWII's shooting range is that you can shoot targets with other players, making for some humorous interactions where players would harmlessly shoot each-other simply for fun.

You can do a series of emotes in the headquarters at any time, similar to Destiny. Though the high-five emote doesn't exactly work as intended. You can also use emotes if you are one of the top three players in an online match.

Players can also test out various scorestreaks, where they go into a raven's nest, and use various scorestreaks on misc. npcs just so you know how to use them in an online match, and that is awesome. 

Players can go into 1v1 matches in the headquarters live in a dedicated area. That way, players can actually gather around and watch people get heated in their 1v1 battles. "What is going on?" one player said as he saw two people arguing while fighting each-other in a 1v1.

Also the lootboxes are opened in-game in the headquarters themselves, making for some simple entertainment by watching players open their rare lootboxes they saved up. The boxes are mostly cosmetic as all of the weapons must be earned through ranking up through online matches. Players can earn emotes, new outfits for their classes, and some cool grips for certain weapons.

This is all just in the headquarters and multiplayer has so much more to offer than just heated arguments and frustrations for ranking up.