Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Update

Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare 2019

Everything We Know

Hello there ladies and gentleman, gamers and geeks, nerds and nerdettes, it’s time for an update on the new installment for the Call of Duty franchise. Now back in June, I did my introduction with some of the nitty gritty and new features being brought the franchise so I will skip straight through all of that this time and just bring you the current information we have. Now last time the development team were keeping a lot under wraps and didn’t even give us a glimpse of any of the game-play for the upcoming release but since then they have invited several youtubers to come try out the game on their test servers and released a fair amount of information for us to get our teeth in so let’s get stuck right in.

Now, as we know the release date for the new Call of Duty is set for October 25th but we do now have the beta dates for those of us who wish to reorder but there is also the open beta’s to slog through in September. The betas hit PlayStation first as the pre order beta kicks off on the 12th and 13th of September with the open beta going live on the 14th for 2 days. The Xbox one Pre order beta also kicks off a second open beta for PS4 starting on the 19th till the 20th of September with PC joining the consoles. PC Xbox and PS4 Open betas are set to run together during the weekend of the 21st until the 23rd with an interesting twist.

The second weekend of betas will be implementing cross platform matching were PC players can be matched with console players but you may not notice when that happens. Modern Warfare will implement “input matchmaking” so unless a console player is using a keyboard and mouse or a PC gamer is using a controller its unlikely you will get matched together unless already grouped with a friend on a different platform. Obviously with the cross play testing going on that does mean that cross play is very much in Activsion’s priorities and with an official statement sent to PC Gamer "with the launch of Modern Warfare, the team is taking steps to unite the community. First, the team plans for Modern Warfare to be played together across PC and console through cross-play support."

More to follow on that as soon as information becomes available, now an interesting addition to the game is the gunsmith, a mechanic that may seem familiar to those who played ghost recon future soldier. Now perhaps not as elaborate as Ghost recons take on it the gunsmith in call of duty will allow you to edit and change your primary and secondary weapon with a wide variety of attachments and force you to create your own personal weapon of brutality for specific, or general engagements.

Now in what I think is a personal brand of brilliance from the development team the gunsmith mechanic is fairly balanced. For example with information to date as of writing this there are 5 upgrades allowed per weapon…..but that doesn’t mean there are only five things you can upgrade. To show there example which is in the following link and teaser trailer, with an assault rifle there is usually around 9 areas you can upgrade.

As well as the weapon’s stock there is also the rear grip, magazine, under barrel modification, the magazine muzzle and barrel itself. On top of that is the optic, lasers and maybe even a perk. Fort example I usually prefer weapons like the M4 or an SMG like a p90 but for an M4 I would be looking at a decent stock, something like a RDS for the optic, a silencer, extended mag and possibly a front grip for that extra stability at range. However I would be at a disadvantage during night missions, maybe opting to remove the front grip and add a laser or remove the silencer for added range in larger maps. It appears that activsion’s plan with gunsmith is for players to create their own personal arsenal and play style for each and every situation, game mode and map type. Hopefully this way there will be now overpowered single class that gets dominated over and over like previous games and gives players more opportunity to show their own personal preferences based on their own play styles.

Now moving on Call of duty is set to have its usual game modes but a few new ones have been revealed. The first one is called gunfight and is a 2v2 game mode. Random players with random load-outs are pitted against each other with the healing and revive mechanics removed and a time limit to take out the other side. If the shortened time limit does not force the confrontation the game mode changes adding in a domination or capture the flag element to force that first firefight that can take the win. It is essentially looking to be an anti-camper, quick fire 2v2 game mode which am personally not sure on but how it plays out is yet to be seen.

Now the second one is a new game mode called cyber-attack, in this game mode it is rather similar to the traditional search and destroy game-play with one bomb and 2 bombsites to choose from. The other part of this game mode I got a chance to see was that you only have one life per round but once you are out you can be revived, so when you are down 4 vs 1 you can get your team back but it’s the danger call as when you revive a player the enemy are made aware of it.

Now my reviews, pre-views and stories do tend to go on for a bit so I will leave it here for now and hopefully be back with you for some new information as soon as possible. But so far if you get a chance to see any of the videos online you should because the game is shaping up to look and feel brilliant.

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