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Like clockwork Activision drops a new Call of Duty game each and every year. Theannualized FPS serieshas become a cultural juggernaut as a result, with each new installment selling millions of units without fail.
DespiteMicrosoft’s historic acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company haspledged to continue releasing new CoD games across a wide range of platforms, rather than make them exclusive to Xbox.
Not only that, butMicrosoft has even signed a decade-long deal with Nintendo, a move that’s set to see CoD games appear on their hardware for the first time in just as long.
However, it’s worth noting almost all dev teams under the Activision umbrella serve to support the CoD behemoth in some way. As a result, it’s likely a wide range of teams are all chipping in, including Beenox, High Moon Studios, and plenty more.
While it’s still extremely early and plans can definitely change during development, one early detail claimed CoD’s popular Pick 10 system could be making a comeback.
Rather than selecting all sorts of attachments, perks, equipment, and the like, the Pick 10 system limited you to just that, 10 points. Players would have to spend these 10 points picking pieces of equipment, building out weapons with multiple attachments, selecting perks, or balancing the lot. It added a great degree of strategy to the mix, allowing for more niche builds to thrive.
While recent years have veered from the path, with the likes of Vanguard and Modern Warfare 3 opting for non-traditional Zombies experiences instead, it appears CoD fans might be in store for multiple years of classic Zombies fun once again.
There’s also word of a separate eight-player mode, doubling the lobby size for the traditional Zombies experience.
With Black Ops 6, we’ve seen the debut of Omnimovement, a new system designed to allow for more liberating movement tricks. Sprinting, diving, and sliding in all directions is possible, but apparently that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Brad Norton is Dexerto’s Editor on the Australia team. He is a journalism graduate and Call of Duty expert, covering Warzone, Black Ops, and Modern Warfare. Brad also covers Star Wars, Twitch, YouTube, first-person shooter games, and single-player games. He also has bylines at Gamurs Group. You can contact him at: brad.norton@dexerto.com
