All Articles: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

With the beta test for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s Blackout Mode set to begin next week, Activision has reached out to Game Informer to share a few details about their take on the battle royale genre.

According to the magazine, Blackout Mode will support 80 players during the beta and at launch, though developers from Treyarch said that number could change in the future: “So we’re starting with 80 players, but we’ve gone higher than that. Whenever we launch a game as a beta or whatever, that’s the beginning of something. We’re going to actively be participating in the community and taking feedback, making changes and adapting, evolving the game as feedback rolls in. So there’s a lot that can go on that can happen beyond that first impact of the game going out there.”

The publisher and developer also shared a brief glimpse at the first set of vehicles that players will be able to commandeer in Blackout. A Cargo Truck (which holds five players) and an ATV (which holds two) will be the ground options, but four players will also be able to travel by sea in a Zodiac Inflatable Boat, while five can take to the air in a Little Bird Helicopter.

Finally, Activision confirmed that zombies will play a big role in Blackout, though we won’t know exactly how they work until the beta begins.

But speaking of the Blackout Mode beta, the publisher revealed the schedule for the upcoming online test on the game’s official website:

PlayStation 4 (Private Beta)
START: Monday, September 10 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)
END: Monday, September 17 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Xbox One (Private Beta)
START: Friday, September 14 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)
END: Monday, September 17 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)

PC (Private Beta)
START: Friday, September 14 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)
END: Saturday, September 15 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)

PC (Open Beta)
START: Saturday, September 15 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)
END: Monday, September 17 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 12.

Activision and Treyarch hosted their “Community Reveal” for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 earlier today, and they delivered a massive amount of information during the livestream.

The big brains at Treyarch have announced they’ll bring three Zombies experiences to Black Ops 4 at launch. And because they’re always mixing things up, this time around, fans will be able to fight zombies on the Titanic (“Voyage of Despair”) and in a gladiator arena (“IX”). A third map (“Blood of the Dead”) will be familiar to fans as a remake of the Alcatraz-set “Mob of the Dead” scenario. Multiple difficulty levels and a streamlined “Zombie Rush” mode will also be available:

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the original Call of Duty Zombies, Black Ops 4 also debuts an entirely new and unprecedented Zombies experience that’s the biggest Day One offering in franchise history… with three fully-featured Zombies experiences at launch… IX, Voyage of Despair, and Blood of the Dead.

With immersive new adventures, a brand new cast of characters and a nefarious new enemy, Black Ops 4 Zombies will feature the deep gameplay and easter eggs that the rabid community of fans devours. It also includes the most customizable action to date, new systems for creating and completing community challenges, and social systems designed to connect players. Black Ops 4 also reintroduces difficulty levels and an in-game tutorial to onboard new players to the Zombies universe, while giving hardcore players the option of ratcheting up the challenge.

Additionally, Zombie Rush is a brand new mode that streamlines the gameplay experience, introducing enticing new challenges to grizzled veterans, while creating a whole new tempo of gameplay for newcomers.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 12. You can view a trio of new trailers for the game’s Zombies offerings after the break. (more…)

Activision and Treyarch hosted their “Community Reveal” for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 earlier today, and they delivered a massive amount of information during the livestream.

As expected, Call of Duty is diving headfirst into the “Battle Royale” genre with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout Mode. We don’t know how many players will be able to compete in Blackout Mode, but we do know it’ll feature “the largest map ever built in Call of Duty,” as well as the ability to play as classic characters from the entire Black Ops series:

[In] today’s world premiere, the team also introduced Blackout… the new battle royale-style experience that combines Black Ops’ signature fast, fluid, guns-up combat, with fierce new levels of survival competition across iconic Black Ops settings re-imagined at a colossal scale. Blackout is an experience unlike any other game or mode in Call of Duty history, where players will have to scavenge, strategize, compete and survive to win.

Featuring the largest map ever built in Call of Duty… 1,500 times bigger than Nuketown… Blackout thrusts players into a collision course as they play as classic characters spanning the history of the Black Ops series including the original Call of Duty Zombies Origins cast.

Battling solo or in teams, players will engage in diverse combat complete with ground, air, and sea vehicles across a gamespace unlike anything ever in Call of Duty. Players will encounter fan-favorite Black Ops map locations and call upon a massive arsenal of Black Ops weaponry and equipment as the winner-takes-all action creates a new way to play Call of Duty.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 12. And the first trailer for Blackout Mode has been embedded above.