#call-of-duty

#call-of-duty

Recreations of classic maps and modes from other games are nothing new in shooters. Lately, however, publishers have started getting prickly over users remaking maps from their game in someone else's, and it seems this may be especially true when those games are as competitive with each other as Battlefield and Call of Duty. Battlefield 6 players remaking CoD maps via the game's new portal mode are finding this out the hard way, with their recreations of modes and maps from Activision's popular shooter getting taken down over intellectual property violations.

I worry about it immensely, I really do. Because what's happening here is a war.

"The only reason that Call of Duty exists is because EA were dicks,"

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is holding an online beta test until October 8, so fans can play the online modes before the full game launches on November 14. Some players are having matchmaking issues, but I suppose identifying such issues is the whole point of betas, so that's not too surprising. What is surprising, however, is that players were reporting earlier that 's in-game text chat was censoring the name of another shooter launching soon. No, it's not direct competitor Battlefield 6 . It's Arc Raiders , the upcoming extraction shooter from Embark Studios.

Last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the first entry in the hit multiplayer military shooter to launch day-one on Game Pass in what reportedly turned out to be an expensive experiment for Microsoft. According to Bloomberg, making the game available for free to paid subscribers on console and PC cost the tech giant $300 million in lost sales of the 2024 best-seller. That data point adds some interesting context to Microsoft's controversial decision to hike the price of Game Pass Ultimate by 50 percent this week.

With our partnership with Call of Duty, we're expanding that narrative into a new frontier: interactive storytelling. Gaming is now one of the most immersive mediums, and by becoming 'the watchmaker of game makers,' we're not just placing watches in virtual worlds--we're helping shape the aesthetic and emotional experience of gameplay,

CharlieIntel confirmed in an Twitter post on September 30 that Nuketown will arrive in Black Ops 7 "before Season 1." While this means it isn't one of the game's 18 multiplayer maps, Black Ops 6's first season kicked off on November 14, 2024--just 20 days after its October 25, 2024 launch. If Black Ops 7's first season follows a similar trajectory, Nuketown could drop in early December.

"They then promptly tell on themselves across social media, asking 'Why did this happen?'" "These are our mitigations at work, ramped up and powered by new detection systems that have been extremely effective at disrupting bad actors in real-time," continued the developer. "We don't hit every cheater with these mitigations; most are banned upon detection. But in August alone, over 55,000 cheaters were disrupted by Call of Duty's mitigations."

Call of Duty is adding a new weapon camo today, September 4, alongside the Season 5 Reloaded update--and this camo is unique. The new Guild Override Camo dynamically changes when firing, and it's available for Black Ops 6 and Warzone. You can see this in action in the video below. Call of Duty is no stranger to impressive-looking guns and camos, and this is just the latest example.

The midseason update includes a DLC weapon, more multiplayer maps, a new scorestreak, and two seasonal events. Call of Duty Season 5 Reloaded start times Activision confirmed that Call of Duty Season 5 Reloaded arrives on September 4. The update will go live at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM BST across all platforms.

Additionally, Activision is giving everyone who downloads the upcoming Season 5 Reloaded update a pack of double XP tokens for player XP, weapon XP, and battle pass XP. Everyone who downloads the Season 5 Reloaded update and logs in to the Call of Duty HQ app through October 1 will get: Five 1-Hour Double Player XP Tokens (5 hours total) Five 1-Hour Double Weapon XP Tokens (5 hours total) Five 1-Hour Double Battle Pass XP Tokens (5 hours total)

So what happened with the festive zombie? "And then you're going to say, 'Yeah, but it has,'" Miles continued. "I'll say it has by accident. And that was never the intention. We've come out and been very clear that we use these as tools to help the team, but they do not replace any of the fantastic team members we have that are doing the final touches and building that content to put it in the game."

Everything that goes into the game is touched by the team a hundred percent. We have generative AI tools to help us, but none of that goes in-game. If content created at least in part by generative AI tools has made its way into past Call of Duty games, that was "by accident," Leslie said. He may be referring to the multiple instances of AI-generated content in Call of Duty that fans have spotted over the years. For what it's worth, Activision has acknowledged that its development teams do in fact use "generative AI tools" as a means to "help develop some in-game assets."