Call of Duty 2020 In Upheaval As Treyarch Takes Over, Plans Black Ops 5 - Sensationalist Headlines

Next year’s Call of Duty has gone through a major upheaval, as publisher Activision informed developers this week that studios Raven and Sledgehammer, which had until now led the project, will no longer be in charge. Instead, according to three people familiar with goings-on at the companies, Treyarch will lead development on a new Black Ops for 2020. It’s a significant shift for Activision’s massive first-person shooter franchise, which is one of the most lucrative video game series on the planet. Every fall for the past 15 years, Activision has put out a new Call of Duty game, supported by a stable of different developers who rotated duties as required. Since 2012, Activision has followed a three-year cycle for its three lead studios: Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer. The results have looked like this: 2012 - Treyarch - Call of Duty: Black Ops II 2013 - Infinity Ward - Call of Duty: Ghosts 2014 - Sledgehammer - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2015 - Treyarch - Call of Duty: Black Ops III 2016 - Infinity Ward - Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare 2017 - Sledgehammer - Call of Duty: WWII 2018 - Treyarch - Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII 2019 - Infinity Ward - Unannounced (but at this point it’s basically an open secret that it’s a new Modern Warfare) For 2020, Activision had originally switched things up, assigning the Wisconsin-based support studio Raven to take a leadership role alongside Sledgehammer to make a Call of Duty game set during the Cold War (likely involving Vietnam). As of very recently, that’s changed. Now Treyarch, based in Santa Monica, California, is in charge of leading Call of Duty: Black Ops 5 for 2020. According to those briefed on the overhaul, Treyarch will take creative leadership on this new Black Ops while Raven and Sledgehammer will serve as support studios for the game, transforming the work they’ve done on their own single-player story mode into a campaign for Black Ops 5, which will also be set during the Cold War. (This may be a welcome return for fans, who criticized the lack of campaign in Black Ops 4.) It will likely be a cross-gen game, to coincide with the launch of the next PlayStation and Xbox, which are also expected in the fall of 2020. What this means is that rather than getting three years to make their next game after Black Ops 4, Treyarch will have just two. Some at the company say they’re not pleased about that, and are already bracing for brutal overtime hours like they faced last year on Black Ops 4. Others have told Kotaku they’re excited about the change, as they have a solid game plan that isn’t likely to change drastically, unlike their last two projects. https://kotaku.com/sources-call-of-duty-2020-in-upheaval-as-treyarch-take-1834858368 It's a shame that a Raven/Sledgehammer-led CoD set in the Cold War/Vietnam seems to have fallen through. The BLOPS campaigns were fine, but I would have liked to see a different take on that setting.

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Seeing this reminded me how sad it is that after classics like Heretic, Hexen, and Soldier of Fortune, Raven is now just a fucking CoD support studio.

Can't wait for another Black Ops ||||| with no campaign!!!!!!

sure, I guess. still beats the AAA dev that hasn't shipped a game for their target audience since 2011.

Honestly imo I always felt that while Raven has a lot of cool ideas, their games have always been doomed to mediocrity. Memorable games yes, but ultimately mediocre.

Read the OP at the very least, man. Apparently they're dialing shit all the way back to the Cold War, with the campaign being an emphasis this time. But given that it's Treyarch i'm sure there's some fuckery to be had.

I remember in 2012 when it was a big deal to hate on Call of Duty and activision was pointed at for doing that kind of thing. Call of duty has been getting worse ever since Modern warfare 3 unfortunately and the only remotely decent call of duty are Treyarch's Black ops but even black ops 3 and 4 pale in comparison to the previous one, and most call of duty zombie are their best part. And even then, they fucked up the lore since black ops 3. The not-treyarch zombie are, of course, not that good compared to treyarch's but they still do have their own niche. Out of the big three company behind Call of Duty, I must say that I really dislike Sledgehammer as they make the most boring, soulless piece of trash Call of duty. Advanced warfare, WWII, like what is up with that company for them to be so bad at making memorable experience? Advanced warfare is kind of saved by Jonathan Iron and an okay zombie but otherwise it's pure trash from beginning to end with awful AI like the other game and world war 2 was so forgettable even thought it was heralded as THE comeback of good ol' "Ground combat" that everyone loved with Modern warfare 1-2-3 and Black ops 1/2. Now everyone is just bored of doing that and let activision do their whole yearly release of call of duty. It really does cheapens the previous game, as people jump from one game to another, the previous being instantly forgotten. Another year, another forgettable call of duty, yet it will still be a success. This serie really will never die, and activision, that trash company, will never die. We keep complaining about EA, but Activision is on par with them.

box art got leaked https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107138/9ab649c1-11ef-4877-a3db-2242e61799c5/blackopsbarcode.png

I guess this means no Modern Warfare 4

I really hope they get their microtransaction shit in order lol bo4 is a disaster when it comes to that, level based shit like fortnite/pubg, buyable things, and lootboxes on top of that where you get camos/charms/effects specific to the individual gun even worse than previous games mtx

I played a bit of BO4 after getting it in Humble Monthly and... good lord it was one of the most bland FPS games I have ever played. There isn't a single interesting weapon, multiplayer was just the same killstrek shitfest, and the maps were terrible

That's a shame, Sledgehammer fixed a lot of WWII and made the multiplayer a blast after launch.

Fucking Christ will come back before that ever happens: https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1129822728234655749 https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1129823190325374977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1129823190325374977&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html%231129823190325374977 Activision is completely fucked if COD ever stops printing cash. Expect the microstransactions to get worse with every installment.

Can't wait for Black Ops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In terms of how they monetize the CoD series, I think Activision is worse than EA. They still have both paid map packs AND lootboxes

AW had terrible perk balancing, and this is coming from someone who played the game for... 160 hours, apparently, with at least 6 prestiges. The exo-movement is initially great in comparison to previous entries but ends up feeling clunky down the road, and of course not being a mainline entry it suffers from the playerbase dropping to only a hundred people on at anyone time faster then anyone would like. Glad that BO5 will go back to the cold war, but jesus a 2 month cycle again? BO4 already feels a bit sloppy in its multiplayer like they had to carve out chunks. Which they did, as leaks suggest the game was going to initially be something akin to a faster paced R6 Siege. But with jet-boosters that you could wear. But had to equip, because the game takes place in 2020 before those became standard issue and could be swapped for something else. Fuck all the testers who either bitched about the gear being too complex, and who DEMANDED "Boots on the ground" as its often called.

Oh yeah, Ghost was a forgettable game all-around but I really liked Extinction.

yea I know it will just get worse lol like a chump I paid for the season pass as well thinking that I'd actually get shit that was worth it but even zombies feels phoned in this time compared to bo3, they're dragging out the main squads story because they know they flubbed the bo3 ending but its the only reason why people really get into the mode nowadays and they monotized that crap with even more single use tokens, betting that will be worse in the next game as well, which is why bo4 was my last cod. Worst part was that they held out on lootboxes and shit, showing off the fortnite-like free pass where you could just play games and get cool stuff (and it is cool stuff) but now 25% of the best shit is locked behind paywalls that you cant get via ingame currency, 50% is through lootboxes that come in extremely slowly, and the rest of the kinda cool stuff is through the pass (but good luck getting through all the fucking useless stickers) damn shame as well, I really enjoy its gameplay, like other cod games, its just their spending that ruins it

COD: Black Ops I II II I_

You know, I was just wondering less than an hour ago what the new CoD this year would be. Though all joking about IIIII aside, they'll probably will go with Black Ops V since the subseries uses roman numerals (and IIII instead of IV is a valid way of writing it in that system, if rare) and it would position them to compete brand-wise against Battlefield V.

Or https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110387/a2f39d6e-ede4-4b5e-b836-070d13cea8c4/5.png

I mean, shit, I enjoyed Black Ops 4 but do we really need Black Ops 5 so soon? It feels like there's still stuff they could totally add to BO4 for fun and I would be totally fine with that. Like c'mon Activision, give this shit some time to iron out.

how can they continue the modern warfare series when everyone except for 1 character died in the previous games?

just like how they continued black ops with 3 and 4, by having basically no connections to previous titles

After the clusterfuck that was WWII, the Modern Warfare Remastered debacle, and Black Ops 4 dropping the campaign to focus on battle royale I think I'm done with Call of Duty as a series. It's a shame because I still think the multiplayer gameplay offers an instant action arcade-style experience that is hard to find elsewhere nowadays but the games really have just become vehicles for microtransactions.

https://imgur.com/jsFIaTN

Ah shit, here we go again.

and also it will probably launch w mw2 remastered as an exclusive bundle just like IW and mwr (which sold like hotcakes on console) and then fill it with lootbox shit just like the mwr later on

im strangely excited for MW4 purely just to see what the hell they'd do. i don't expect it to be any good, but i actually look back on MW1-3 all very fondly. i'd love to see what Price is up to even if its just a cameo