{"id":63407,"date":"2018-04-18T06:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=63407"},"modified":"2018-04-18T06:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:19:50","slug":"sources-next-call-duty-wont-solo-campaign-may-battle-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/sources-next-call-duty-wont-solo-campaign-may-battle-royale.html","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Next Call Of Duty Won&#8217;t Have A Solo Campaign, May Have Battle Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt;color: #000000\">Sources: Next Call Of Duty Won&#8217;t Have A Solo Campaign, May Have Battle Royale<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">This fall\u2019s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will essentially be multiplayer-only, lacking the kind of single-player campaign that has been a key component of the annual series for over a decade, two sources familiar with the game tell Kotaku, corroborating a report published earlier today at Polygon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">One of those sources also echoed a report from top Call of Duty information-broker Charlie Intel saying that the new game will have a battle royale mode. That\u2019s the kind of last-player-standing mode that\u2019s been taking over gaming for the past year, what with the success of Player Unknown\u2019s Battlegrounds, Fortnite: Battle Royale and myriad competitors. So far, no big-budget game studio has added a Battle Royale mode to a big franchise series, but it has seemed like only a matter of time before it hits a Call of Duty or a Battlefield, a Division or a Destiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Details are murky, and Call of Duty publisher Activision isn\u2019t talking. \u201cWe don\u2019t comment on rumor and speculation,\u201d it responded via email to Kotaku today. Recent Call of Duty games have been bursting with modes, including the increasingly the increasingly elaborate Zombies modes pioneered by Black Ops 4&#8217;s lead studio Treyarch. Black Ops 3 already offered two-player co-op in that game\u2019s campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">According to Polygon, as the multi-year development cycle of Black Ops 4 moved toward the game\u2019s October release date, \u201cit became evident that development on the single-player campaign wouldn\u2019t be completed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Activision has shown some recent interest in re-jiggering the content offered for its Call of Duty games. Two years ago, it offered a remaster of the classic Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to PlayStation owners alongside the release of that year\u2019s big CoD, offering it as a standalone purchase many months later. The most recent game in the series, Call of Duty: WWII, saw a drop in the number of multiplayer maps offered at the game\u2019s launch. Given the buzz Call of Duty games get for their multiplayer, it\u2019s been common for gaming pundits to speculate about if or when Activision would drop campaigns from the games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Activision will officially reveal more details about the new Black Ops during an event on May 17. It\u2019s slated for release on October 12 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">UPDATE &#8211; 8:13pm: Added the word \u201cessentially\u201d to the lede in reference to the new game being \u201cmultiplayer-only\u201d, as readers correctly pointed out that past zombie modes, while promoted for co-op have supported solo play. That\u2019s actually how I\u2019ve primarily played them, too and we don\u2019t have any indication that a solo option would be dropped from zombies mode in the new game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sources-next-call-of-duty-wont-have-a-solo-campaign-m-1825338768<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/sources-next-call-duty-wont-solo-campaign-may-battle-royale.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Next Call Of Duty Won&#8217;t Have A Solo Campaign, May Have Battle Royale This fall\u2019s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will essentially be multiplayer-only, lacking the kind of single-player campaign that has been a key component of the annual series for over a decade, two sources familiar with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":63408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[692,132081,14505,12073,14823],"class_list":["post-63407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-latest-technology-news","tag-sources-next-call-of-duty-wont-have-a-solo-campaign-may-have-battle-royale","tag-technology-news-headlines","tag-technology-news-today","tag-technology-news-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}