Rumor: Black Ops 4 Battle Royale Mode Will Support Up To 60 Players

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's battle-royale mode 'Blackout' might be the series' new, big feature, but at the moment, we don't know a great deal about it.

Activision and Treyarch have been quiet on the mode, indicating that it is still being ironed out. That said, while Activision and co. have continued their trend of quietness, a new screenshot of the game has been making the rounds that seems to shed light on one of the most important details on Blackout: its player count.

Said screenshot making the rounds suggests that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will support up to 60 players, which is presumably only going to be for Blackout.

If you've ever dabbled in the battle-royale genre, you will know 60 players is far from the high-end of player count. In fact, the two juggernauts of the genre -- Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds -- both support up to 100 players. Meanwhile, other battle-royale games currently in development are said to support even more.

While 60 may not seem like a lot, for series standards it's quite the increase. If a 60 player count is what will ship with the game, then you have to assume the map(s) will be smaller in size compared to some other maps in other battle-royal games.

Call of Duty has always been about instant action fueled by quick, twitch-based shooting. It's gameplay foundation will presumably be carried over for Blackout, which means the map(s) could be even smaller than a 60 player count even indicates.

Map size and how it feels in relation to the action is so important to a battle-royale game. But unlike most in the sub-genre, Call of Duty already has a gameplay foundation that needs to be taken into consideration. There's less room for freedom of design, which could be turn out to be beneficial or hampering. Only time will tell.

As always, take everything of the unofficial capacity with a grain of a salt. For all we know, Blackout has 300 players, or maybe only 30.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is in development for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It is scheduled to release on October 12th.

Posted: Jul 08, 2018 9:46 am
Related Forum: Call of Duty Forum

Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/07/06/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-battle-royale-mode-60-players/

Comments

Miko537Posted: Mon. Jul 09, 2018

Hmm, I still wanna know how this will work out. Like cod or like fortnite? Dmg and everything needs to be balanced. I doubt this will be as successful.

YatiPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

Mooned Honestly, this could be a good thing. Depending on how they make the map, this might not be boring.

I personally think it isn't going to be good, not with the way the combat works in the CoD's

ChatPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

It all comes down to the map server, Fortnite has way to little players for the size of it's Map, although Call of Duty is 100% different, this could legit be inaccurate or could be related to just multiplayer in general, we don't know. could be updated like they did with everything else, regardless I'm sure they've through this through before hand regardless it'll be perfected in their eyes and that's what matters the most.

RuiPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

This is understandable, due to the size and graphics, i believe the graphics which treyarch are known for may be to much for 100players on a server at once as well as everyone going to be playing.

XeCookiePosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

For the people saying they hope the map is not too small they have already said this is the largest map created in COD history so I dont think that should be much of a worry and honestly I think they should do 100 like fortnite but who knows.

OPPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

60 people should be enough if the map is big enough for them.

SilkyPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

Interesting to see it's less players than the bigger well known BRs have gone for, can't wait.

DeadLizardPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

I hope the maps aren't too small.

FibrilPosted: Sun. Jul 08, 2018

I'm sensing this will be garbage. Guess I'll wait and see.