“Forget what you know.” It’s a tagline that helps to back up some of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 rumors that have started flying around. Earlier this week, various sources indicated Black Ops 4 wouldn’t have a traditional single-player campaign. It was reported that the planned campaign mode, called Career, was scrapped as Treyarch got closer to launch and realized there was no way they could have it done. Reports have also emerged about a last-man standing battle royale mode coming to Black Ops 4, popularized by the likes of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
None of these reports have been confirmed or denied by Activision. The publisher will most likely remain on radio silence until the community reveal event next month, but another rumor has surfaced about Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer. The leak, corroborated by Call of Duty info site charlieINTEL, reports that Black Ops 4 took the idea of specialists from Black Ops 3 and cranked the lever even farther to the Overwatch side, meaning we could see something that’s a lot more like a hero shooter than a traditional Call of Duty game. Further information surmises that the story would be handled similarly to Overwatch, by inserting history and background of the characters used in the multiplayer.
Here’s the transcript of the leak:
New Multiplayer information has been confirmed by more than one source so I can now talk about that more publicly. As of two days ago...