While Call of Duty is almost always a highly-desired game when it comes out with its latest versions, Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 is something even more special. For this year, the series forgoes the usual singleplayer story mode, and instead focuses on the multiplayer mode. And to that end, it goes and adds a brand new Battle Royale-style mode in the form of Blackout. Blackout is very anticipated, and developer Treyarch is determined to make it a hit, hence, the need for it to be beta tested.
The beta for Blackout mode recently wrapped up, and so Treyarch took to Reddit to talk about the experience:
We hope you’ve enjoyed the Blackout Beta as much as we’ve enjoyed playing it along with you. Armed with your incredible feedback, we continued to update the Beta throughout the week and will keep listening as we improve the game in time for launch. That’s what betas are for, after all.
As for some of the changes that they will implement into the game, here are the highlights:
“Level 3 Armor now breaks sooner and passes more damage to the player wearing it, and still offers headshot and other types of damage mitigation. We’ve heard your concerns that Level 3 Armor was still perhaps too powerful by the end of the Beta, and will be evaluating the data to see what other tweaks may be required.”
Audio was another issue players had, and so Treyarch will be including many tweaks to it, including:
Sounds will be properly impacted by walls, floors, ceilings, and other objects in the world. This means enemies directly above or below the player should no longer sound louder than expected.
You can check out all the tweaks that will come via the Reddit thread, Treyarch promises to continue pouring over the data to ensure that Black Ops 4 is ready when it releases on October 12th.
