Even if it’s only a third of the people who buy Black Ops IIII, that’s still something like seven million players going off historical sales data. It follows then that a lot of people will play Blackout. I’d like to pretend sales take a hit because there’s no singleplayer campaign, but who knows? And even if there’s a small sag, sales will still handily outpace every other shooter released in 2018, if I had to guess. Listen, Call of Duty’s going to sell millions upon millions of copies, as per usual. Some perks are more useful than others, but none seem particularly game-breaking-though the Stimulant perk is probably the most annoying to come up against.īut it really does feel like a refined PUBG, and here’s where I flip and say: I wonder if it’s enough. It’s a neat Call of Duty twist on the genre. “Awareness” makes enemy footsteps louder. “Skulker” lets you sprint while crouched. Another, “Stimulant,” raises your maximum health by 100 points.
“Paranoia,” for instance, alerts you whenever a player’s aiming at you. You drop in as a blank slate, same as any battle royale game, but you’ll soon amass a bunch of green cases with various power-ups inside. Most of my inventory fills up with Blackout’s takes on Perks though. Various grenade types are most often, but there’s also some sort of sonic barricade I’m interested in experimenting with more. You also have an entire slot for gear, with some interesting options. “X” lets you use healing items for instance, and as a result I’ve noticed a lot more instances where people heal up in the middle of a tense firefight, ducking behind cover to apply bandages or pop some pills. Hotkeys also make me more likely to use some of the secondary systems in Blackout. The vacuuming-up-gear part of each match flows a lot better as a result. Best of all, attachments you pick up automatically snap to whatever weapon you have equipped. Blackout simplifies the process, with an oversized interface that’s easier to parse at a glance. Even with a mouse and keyboard, PUBG’s inventory management is a tedious chore. Almost every aspect is refined in some way, though my favorite is by far the inventory. In general it’s a much smoother experience though. Call of Duty is responsive in a way PUBG has never, ever been-and honestly in a way PUBG might find anathema to its ultra-realistic, Arma-based trappings. Aiming feels snappy, sprinting feels snappy, going prone feels snappy. Blackout takes the usual framework and expands it six-fold without losing its technical edge. Whatever else you might say about Call of Duty, its multiplayer is usually rock-solid. It feels like a Call of Duty match on a grand scale, and that’s about the highest compliment I can give. It’s amazing, for instance, to see players leap out of the helicopters at the beginning of a match and streak towards the ground without doing that weird judder-readjust-judder-readjust rubberbanding motion I grew accustomed to in PUBG. But what I’ve played has been perfectly smooth, at least on my end. It’s hard to know for sure without running a more in-depth network test, and I haven’t had the time or inclination to do so yet. I’m pretty sure there are bits of netcode in the Call of Duty backend that date back to the Quake days.īlackout is an 80-person mode, and as far as I can tell it runs flawlessly. Keep in mind Call of Duty’s never strayed much beyond its six-against-six arcade multiplayer. Off the bat, I’m already impressed by the technical side here. I don’t know what I expected from Blackout, but it’s not what we got.
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