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Call of Duty: Warzone Battle Royale leaked
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No... Come on... At least let owners of MW play. Make F2P players wait.
Huh? They got what they deserved for trusting twitter accounts, bugs, and game code. This hasn't even been teased.
In fairness, it was teased starting last Tuesday when they put a fifth pillar on the home screen of MW that said "Classified" and an intro video that clearly shows a Battle Royale mode.
This does explain why Activision has been rapidly striking youtube channels and taking down videos on Twitter though.
The biggest mistake they made was patching the game mode in behind the scenes four weeks ahead of launch on a PC release. Obviously it was going to get datamined to hell and back when you put the Classified banner up, so I'm not sure what they thought would happen. I wonder if they were originally hoping to turn it on sooner but they have to take another couple weeks to get some finishing touches right before they can launch now.
Given the sensitivity of the COD community, I can see a mid-March announcement not going over super well - especially if they are going to let content creators play the game early. This seems like the sort of thing that would have been killer as a stealth release, but I guess there's no good way to do that with dataminers out there. I personally don't care when they decide to release this thing, but with all the leaks out there, I'd love to at least have a trailer, or something official showing the mode off.
Disappointing but expected, it should have arrived with the season 2, otherwise they'll give some time for the newest content pack shine.
But start marketing with creators a month early doesn't seem to be a good idea to be honest.
But start marketing with creators a month early doesn't seem to be a good idea to be honest.
Agreed, they're now at the point where the story is running away from them. A stealth release would've been awesome but now we're looking at potentially three more weeks of speculation and data mining which is only going to muddy public opinion further. I'm guessing Activision is going to stick to the plan and just stealth release when they're ready but at this point I think it would make more sense to put out a quick statement about how MW is getting a BR mode with a few key data points/buzzwords (200 players with a unique CoD twist on the genre) and tell people to come back for more information on a specific date.
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They teased it in game.
How? They teased it in the game and are waiting a while to announce and release it.
Yes, that sort of thing shouldn't have been added if the game/mode will be released only 1 month later. Apex has already set the pace for how these things should be done.
Because the shitty batmeng teasers took months not like half a month to materialize something.
the way it seems positioned seemed to be as a "season 2 surprise" given how it's teased, and the classified thing in the menu. I do kinda wonder if the beta period that was mentioned at some point earlier, will be for people who own MW and the game doesn't go F2P proper until March.
No way they fill up a 200 person mode consistently with "influencers."
Bummer. Was hoping it was tomorrow.
Putting that cinematic and the classified menu option before an announcement was stupid.
Putting that cinematic and the classified menu option before an announcement was stupid.
I don't understand why they even put the menu in they game in the first place if we have to wait a month
Hope renewed for tomorrow stealth release!
Or more setup for disappointment.
I really don't expect anything for tomorrow. They definitely will tease something a day before.
You would think, right? Sad how little faith I have in common sense these days lol.
Wait? Mid march but streamers will be playing that this week? This will be a HUGE missed opportunity.
How are they going to get the numbers for the matches if its just streamers and it actually is 200 players?
IDEK. I just saw something mentioned earlier in the thread that streamers would be playing it this week?
Reddit megathread makes it seem a little too complex for its own good. It sounds like a mix of BR and Tarkov. Your main objective seems to be to gather plunder above all else and then deposit or extract with it. But then there's a radioactive ash cloud that pushes everybody together like a BR game. So does becoming the last one standing matter at all? That's on top of the killstreaks, perks, and gulag system.
I'll still give it a try but I have a feeling there's going to be plenty of confusion with the reveal. Everyone is expecting a BR but this seems to be something else entirely.
I'll still give it a try but I have a feeling there's going to be plenty of confusion with the reveal. Everyone is expecting a BR but this seems to be something else entirely.
pretty sure activision employees will fill in the gaps
I choose to believe it's dropping tomorrow. Mid March release with streamers getting to play it this week would be the stupidest marketing tactic ever.
"Hey guys you know how Apex made such a huge splash by shadow dropping? And remember how Fortnite's sudden Chapter 2 launch generated so much attention?
Yeah well let's not do any of those. Instead we'll hype our new mode by having players watch it but not able to play it for 3 whole weeks."
"Hey guys you know how Apex made such a huge splash by shadow dropping? And remember how Fortnite's sudden Chapter 2 launch generated so much attention?
Yeah well let's not do any of those. Instead we'll hype our new mode by having players watch it but not able to play it for 3 whole weeks."
I don't think streamers are going to play it live this week. They're being invited to get familiar with it and record footage for YouTube videos that I imagine would be embargoed until launch. Apex did this same thing, but no one knew it was happening because EA didn't tease it and put all the game files into a game with a 10+ million user base ahead of time.
They've already been inviting streamers like Dr. Disrespect to play it for some time now. Maybe they're inviting more streamers this week to play it but that seems like a great way for all the info on it to leak.
Mid March would be so so dumb after teasing it with the intro and the extra button, but It's 100% the kind of stupid shit I would expect Activision to pull.
Doc went back to Modern Warfare as well. When it's out who know but the big guys are getting ready for it.
Would love for it to drop this week, but I'm not gonna be mad about missing a launch date that was declared by fucking dataminers, lol.
Yeah I can see YouTubers getting early access to do tutorial videos, map guides and pub stomping vids.
I can't see them organising an early publicly viewed session because it would be too annoying to see, and too hard to sort the logistics (of 100 or 200 players).
But who knows!?
Also imho, knowing how thirsty gamers are, putting in the menu option and the teaser video a whole month before launch was a bit much...with modern attention spans even a week is pushing it...
I can't see them organising an early publicly viewed session because it would be too annoying to see, and too hard to sort the logistics (of 100 or 200 players).
But who knows!?
Also imho, knowing how thirsty gamers are, putting in the menu option and the teaser video a whole month before launch was a bit much...with modern attention spans even a week is pushing it...
Eh maybe they mean 'we were told', like the headline states. No point in endlessly speculating when it's barely been acknowledged officially. Right now everyone's grasping at straws to justify hype. I don't expect it this month and if there's evidence of streamers flying out for it I wouldn't expect it until after that either
Or, devil's advocate, maybe they DO want to compete with that.
I don't think it's coming out today, though. At most I think we'll get a teaser or trailer.