Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 is nearing its October 25 launch date, and forward of that, Activision has confirmed a key element concerning the shooter’s marketing campaign mode. Like previous entries within the collection and plenty of different video games throughout the board, Black Ops 6’s marketing campaign would require an web connection on all platforms.
A (*6*) noticed by CharlieIntel confirms that gamers will want a “steady web connection” to play any of Black Ops 6’s modes, together with marketing campaign. Activision mentioned this requirement is in place to “ship the highest-quality visuals whereas additionally decreasing the sport’s total space for storing in your laborious drive.”
As introduced beforehand, Black Ops 6 makes use of a brand new streaming expertise for textures that helps cut back the sport’s total file dimension. “With these capabilities, we are able to cycle content material that’s much less ceaselessly utilized by gamers to a streaming cache, avoiding the necessity to obtain it on to your system’s storage. Going ahead, extra content material can be included on this cache,” Activision mentioned in August.
Whereas being at all times on-line is a requirement for Black Ops 6’s marketing campaign, Activision confirmed that gamers don’t want a paid subscription to PlayStation Plus or Game Pass Core to play the story mode.
Black Ops 6’s marketing campaign takes place in 1991 throughout the Gulf Warfare and tells a mind-bending story involving conspiracies. In contrast to with 2023’s Trendy Warfare 3, Black Ops 6 just isn’t providing early entry to the sport’s marketing campaign for individuals who pay further.
“This yr, we made the choice to make sure the neighborhood will get to dig in to any modes that they need on the identical time, so we’re again to 1 large world launch second October twenty fifth,” Activision mentioned.
Gamers who beat the Black Ops 6 marketing campaign will earn quite a lot of rewards for multiplayer, Zombies, and different elements of the sport. Try GameSpot’s full rundown of all of the Black Ops 6 marketing campaign rewards.