While there are plenty of people on both sides when it comes to excitement for Sledgehammer Studio’s Modern Warfare 3, Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag is feeling good.

In a recent episode of Nadeshot Knows, a podcast under the 100 Thieves brand, the former professional player and now organization owner discusses his thoughts on the upcoming title.

Nadeshot thinks Modern Warfare 3 is going in the right direction

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The game has been officially revealed to launch on November 10, and there’s been plenty of leaks regarding what big changes the game will bring.

Of those leaks, a return of the massively popular red dots on the minimap, along with dead silence/ninja returned as a perk, among others. This is a huge step in the right direction according to Haag.

“They’re basically taking all the things that people loved from the original Warzone and the core sweaty mechanics from core Call of Duty and they’re bringing it back,” he said. “This is the best thing they could ever do.”

When it comes to the more hardcore and competitive players, he believes they’re giving them “everything we’ve been asking for.”

Nadeshot believes that at one point, Infinity Ward and other developers decided that the competitive players were the ones “making the game worse.” This, he says, was part of the reason the game started to become more casual.

There has long been a debate about whether or not game developers for titles that fall into the esports category should cater to their competitive base. People on both sides can make solid cases, but in recent years, the casual audience has certainly received the majority of attention in their favor.

These decisions by Sledgehammer could be a major move in the other direction, and potentially help to ease the rough seas that Call of Duty has been experiencing in terms of community sentiment in recent years.

Only time will tell, but we’re definitely feeling the hopium.

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