"Booting up Safeguard in the new season of COD: BLOPS7 was like returning to an old friend's house after years away to hang out. Something I've always appreciated about the mode was how it gave the defense a way to fight back that wasn't just "Kill the other team." You can instead focus your damage on the robot, and if you do enough, it will stop moving and have to reboot."
"The bots were previously bipedal humanoids, which was fine, but I'm far more into guarding a robo dog than a random mechanical man. But it felt to me as if this robot dog might be moving faster than the past bots had in Safeguard. So I talked to the devs behind the mode, and they confirmed that, no, the bot is moving at a "pace consistent with previous" versions of Safeguard."
Safeguard, a team-based escort mode introduced in Black Ops III over a decade ago, has returned in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's second season. The mode pits teams against each other as attackers escort a robot to checkpoints while defenders can damage the robot to halt and reboot it, providing less skilled players meaningful contributions beyond kills. The current version features a four-legged, Boston Dynamics-like robot dog instead of previous bipedal humanoid bots. The bot can feel faster due to BO7's tighter map layouts, updated pathing, and new animations, though developers say underlying speed remains consistent and are reviewing data for adjustments.
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