You know what, we disagree about how the strategy has left exactly, but I agree that a lot of strategy has left. Not really in fast paced gameplay(going off of Ghosts here, if I ever get Advanced Warfare it'll be a ways down the road) but it's almost impossible to compete unless you have a thermal scope. I literally can't see people almost right in front of me a lot of the time, and I'm paying attention and all that jazz, but with the thermal scope, everybody's lit up like a christmas light AND EVERYBODY HAS THERMALS ATTACHED TO WEAPONS THAT CAN USE IT, which is 99% of them. I personally really like this dlc gun the ripper, I think it has a super fun mechanic to it where it switches between an smg and an assault rifle and I wish CoD would focus more on that sort of stuff. It's really cool but because now CoD's a game of hide'n'seek I'm pretty much stuck with using guns with thermal that are good, but I don't like nearly as much as the ripper, or I just run right past people because they blend in so well or they just blast me as I run unawarely towards them. Then when I watch the killcam, they just watch me for awhile then pick me off from behind.
Shit is hella frustrating.
And don't even get me started on the spawning. Ghosts has the worst spawning I've ever seen in the CoD series. 90% I spawn right in front of an enemy, or with some enemies right behind me, and die instantly.
Also people who only use their mics to make the most annoying sounds in the world? I want to ram a pike up their ass and disembowel them, they are literally some of the most annoying people ever.