Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 doesn't get Roman numerals

The cinematic story bits under the Specialist HQ is confusing. Was this stuff they originally made for a regular CoD story campaign, then just decided to put into the game after they dropped the campaign?

About where to drop and how to play … good armor, sensor darts, 9-bangs et al win games, and after the initial drop it’s difficult to find new places to loot, so your best bet is to scavenge items from other players. And if you cold drop, it’s by definition at a place without a ton of loot.

Obligatory hot drop chicken dinner video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XZ-6cLzIRs

I didn’t even know there were cinematics; is that in the menu somewhere?

It’s under the Specialist HQ area. There’s a list of cinematic bits that kind of string together into a rough story, as well as character cinematic files in the dossiers. It all seems like content from the cut campaign.

There are other bits you get by completing certain achievements as well. I’ve watched all the ones for the bronze stars, but haven’t gone beyond that initial learn how the different specialists work part.

For folks playing on the xbox how well does the mature content (or whatever it is called) filter option work? I will take a look when I get a chance tonight on the pc, but my nephew is begging his parents for the game so he can play blackout (big fortnite fan), and they were wanting to know if it is inappropriate for jr high kid.

Eh my 8 year old was like this sucks, and went back to playing Fortnite.

I actually play with it on because I’ve got enough cussing daily without a game swearing at me. It’s actually pretty good at censoring for junior high level. Now obviously Zombies gets pretty intense, but in Blackout mode I think it’s pretty benign (although there are zombies! In Blackout!)

This is on PS4 but I’m sure it’s fine on Xbox too. It cut a lot of language in the Firebreak bit where some of that solo bot stuff is played. Burning dudes is still rather graphic though

CoD campaign dead forever confirmed.

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 18, 2018-- Activision’s Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 has sold more than $500 million in sell-through (Note: this is sold, not shipped) worldwide in its first three days of release as the total number of players climbed from last year. Through its first three days of release, Black Ops 4 set a new Call of Duty® franchise record for most combined players, average hours per player and total number of hours played, on current generation consoles. The combined number of Black Ops 4 players across its three modes of play during those first three days tops both last year’s Call of Duty: WWII, as well as Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (single player, multiplayer and zombies), respectively, for the same period of time.

Additional bit:

The first Call of Duty release on Blizzard Battle.net®, Black Ops 4 on PC continues to be significantly above last year, as the number of players is more than double year over year through its first three days.

Being on Battle.net is huge. That makes this a whole different release in the series from the ones before it.

So does the standard edition not come with all the modes (zombie and blackout)? And does it not come with all the maps either? I went to the blizzard store website to see what is in the deluxe vs standard and bullet points for deluxe were a bunch of space-buck points and stuff about ‘maps!’ and ‘zombies’ that weren’t in the standard edition. Is this correct?

I got the standard edition, it has the zombies and blackout modes…

its one zombie map that the pass gets and people with that map can host it for people who dont have it

Ok, that makes more sense. Thanks

Pitchforks and torches are being passed out, seems the dev’s messed with network settings since beta to save money.

well that explains a lot… i can’t kill shit in blackout unless I’m spamming an MG, and I’m on fiber. I’m not exactly an FPS nub

Thanks, Ajit Pai!

-Tom

Downgrading from the beta is a pretty shitty thing to do, even for Activision. Talk about bait and switch, sheesh.

Also, looking at the original analysis video, I’m glad I now playing competitive shooters on PC instead of on a console. The difference is fairly big, even with the same (shitty) servers.

One of his best…

Is it really Call of Duty 15? Wow. I didn’t realize there had been this many.

Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4 (MW)
Call of Duty 5 (WaW)
Call of Duty 6 (MW2)
7 (Black Ops)
8 (MW3)
9 (BO 2)
10 (Ghosts)
11 (Advanced Warfare)
12 (BO3)
13 (Infinite Warfare)
14 (WW II)
15 (BO4)

Yeah, Checks out.

Dunkey did his research.