Name of Obligation followers are speaking about Fashionable Warfare 2 — to not be confused with the sport beneath the identical title from 2009 — following yesterday’s reveal of Fashionable Warfare 3. Final yr’s entry within the long-running annual franchise made quite a lot of modifications that angered followers. In truth, these modifications drew a lot warmth from the group that Sledgehammer is totally strolling lots of them again for Fashionable Warfare 3, which is about to launch on November tenth.
Adjustments included gameplay-level overhauls to the shooter’s motion programs, minimap, participant well being, and perk programs. MW2 additionally eliminated gamers’ means to vote on maps in-between multiplayer matches. Name of Obligation’s success is partially due to its consistency, so evidently, Infinity Ward’s fixing-what’s-not-broken method drew widespread ire from the sport’s participant base.
In tandem with the reveal, Name of Obligation’s official Twitter account launched a thread detailing what followers can count on from the sequence’ nineteenth annual entry. After addressing MW3’s marketing campaign and zombies choices, the account confirmed what followers had been hoping for, saying that it will be strolling again lots of the modifications launched in Fashionable Warfare 2.
#MW3 MP options at launch ?
? Map Voting returns? Traditional Minimap conduct with crimson dots for unsuppressed weapons?♂️ Perks out there initially of every match? Covert Sneakers Perk permits for silent motion? Core Well being is elevated to 150 for an elevated TTK
— Name of Obligation (@CallofDuty) August 17, 2023
Fan reactions to the information that Sledgehammer are excited, if a bit aggravated that the modifications occurred within the first place.
Can somebody over there get @InfinityWard on the identical web page so that they’ll cease eradicating issues the followers need in cod. At all times takes treyarch or sledgehammer to reverse their errors ??♂️
— ????? ??????? (@Jesse_L_Randall) August 17, 2023
Fashionable Warfare III is leaning closely into nostalgia
Fashionable Warfare III can be leaning closely into nostalgia. Remarkably, all of its maps at launch at can be remasters of traditional maps from the unique Fashionable Warfare 2 (new maps can be launched as a part of the post-launch D:C. The trailer additionally clearly leans into large cultural touchstones just like the notorious ‘No Russian’ mission from the unique Fashionable Warfare 2.
Some CoD followers appear skeptical of the drive towards nostalgia, with one Reddit consumer writing, “It is fascinating how every sport within the MW Reboot remixes varied components of the earlier trilogy. However to me this begs the query of: is that this pandering?
“I feel it was cool having some nods within the 2019 MW sport and have it go off and do its personal factor, however between the trailer displaying components of the gulag, No Russian, and No Preventing within the Battle Room(?), it feels a bit creatively constrained. Prefer it desires to be one thing completely different, but it surely’s a unique taste of one thing we all know.”
However lots are additionally shopping for into the nostalgia and fixes that Sledgehammer is providing. In a Twitter House discussing the reveal, a creator from CharlieIntel remarked on the briefing he had acquired with different creators, referring to the multiplayer fixes as “a mic drop second.”
Time will inform whether or not the primary “direct sequel” within the sequence is ready to seize the magic that made followers fall in love with the sequence within the first place. Within the meantime, Fashionable Warfare 3 releases on November tenth and is on the market for pre-order now.
Correction: An earlier model of this text speculated that Fashionable Warfare II help may finish early with the discharge of Fashionable Warfare III. An Activision consultant clarified that Fashionable Warfare II is within the midst of Season 5 and continues to be supported.
Charlie Wacholz is a contract author at IGN.
