Black Ops 6 acts as a “contemporary begin for everybody,” developer Treyarch has confirmed.
2023’s Modern Warfare 3 carried ahead content material from Modern Warfare 2 into the sport. Nonetheless, in Black Ops 6, totally revealed throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase and Call of Duty Direct, solely Black Ops 6 content material will likely be obtainable to make use of throughout Multiplayer and Zombies.
In an interview with IGN, Miles Leslie, affiliate artistic director at Treyarch, stated Black Ops 6 is “a contemporary begin.” Which means that when Black Ops 6 comes out in October, gamers is not going to be enjoying Multiplayer and Zombies modes within the many and diversified skins they’ve already purchased for Modern Warfare 3 and Modern Warfare 2. Sure, meaning you do not have to fret about killer clowns and Warhammer 40,000 troopers ruining that early 90s look and really feel.
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It additionally means you will not see operators from the Modern Warfare sub-brand, which is at the moment set years after the occasions of Black Ops 6, complicated issues.
“So, day one, you will not be working round with any of these skins, in order that it does not break that immersion in that narrative we would like,” Leslie defined. “Now, of course, we will add these issues into post-launch. We all know gamers like these stuff, and then we’ll discover actually cool issues that tie to Black Ops lore and additionally new thrilling stuff as nicely.”
There’s one exception to this rule: the Black Ops 6 Vault Version Woods Operator Pack preorder profit. It’s at the moment obtainable in Modern Warfare 3 and will carry ahead into Black Ops 6, Activision stated.
When Modern Warfare 3 launched final 12 months, some gamers complained that it was cluttered with totally leveled weapons carried ahead from Modern Warfare 2. Then again, some gamers stated they appreciated the actual fact the cash they’d spent on content material for Modern Warfare 2 didn’t go to waste only a 12 months later.
Activision additional defined the choice in a (*2*). This is the assertion:
We need to make it possible for all people begins contemporary, collectively, as we transfer into an all-new expertise with the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Permitting everybody to expertise the Black Ops universe the way in which it’s meant to be performed, studying the era-specific weapons and gear, studying the gameplay improvements like Omnimovement, and conserving that signature Black Ops model is vital.
Due to this fact, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 content material is not going to carry ahead to the Black Ops 6 Premium expertise.
Regardless of this contemporary begin for “premium” Call of Duty gamers, as Activision calls it, Black Ops 6 content material will combine into Warzone and sit alongside all of the Modern Warfare 2 and 3 content material already obtainable within the battle royale. Warzone is a Call of Duty mash-up that seemingly has no restrictions in the case of skins.
Black Ops 6 is ready within the early Nineties, after the occasions of Black Ops Chilly Struggle and tied to the Eighties flashbacks in 2012’s Black Ops 2. Multiplayer launches with 16 new maps, together with 12 core 6v6 maps, and 4 smaller Strike maps that may be performed 2v2 or 6v6.
For extra particulars, take a look at all the pieces we learn about Call of Duty Black Ops 6, together with its model new motion techniques. And for extra of what Microsoft has up its sleeve, take a look at all the pieces introduced on the Xbox Video games Showcase 2024.
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