While Fortnite's Battle Pass is a buy-in pass due to being free-to-play (with a more expensive version that automatically nets you the first 25 tiers), Contraband allows a similar service, but the problem is that grinding upwards is ridiculously slow. With Contraband, the more someone plays, the more goodies they unlock in special tiers (with 200 in total) just like in Fortnite's popular Battle Pass system. The microtransactions balance out the slow grind that is the Contraband stream in the Black Market. Even Call of Duty's direct predecessor, last year's Call of Duty: WW2, followed the same post-launch formula as Black Ops 4. Star Wars: Battlefront 2, after having microtransactions at launch and then having them stripped away, re-implemented them later but reeled it to cosmetic only.
Battlefield 5 has microtransactions in the pipeline. Rainbow Six Siege threw in loot boxes at the beginning of this year, nearly three years after its launch to the chagrin of fans. Post-launch microtransactions aren't anything super new.
With COD Points, players can buy plasma for Zombies, speed through the battle pass-like Contraband stream's tiers that unlock goodies, or-thanks to the November-added Blackjack's Shop-go shopping for specific items in the Black Market with a weekly rotating selection of items.
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In a sneaky addition at the end of October, PS4 players got access to its "COD Points" first, with other platforms following in the week after. In that time, it's seen patches, a new Nuketown map for multiplayer, and most notably, microtransactions. Black Ops 4 had the best-selling digital launch day sales in Activision's history too. Since its release a little over a month ago on October 12, it's become the best-selling game of the year so far-even overcoming Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2. Call of Duty will always be Call of Duty, and Call of Duty always sells.Īnd sold it did. So when Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 arrived sans-campaign, judging from its sales it was hardly missed. While we get the occasional memorable moment ("Press X to Pay Respects"), the shocking, groundbreaking sequences that helped propel Call of Duty to glory don't come as often anymore. The fact is: the campaign hasn't really mattered in Call of Duty in a long while, sadly. I'm always alternating between Recon, Nomad and his trusty dog, and others. Rounds can still be smooth and quick in the ideal Call of Duty way, but the addition of class-based characters with unique abilities adds a bonus strategic quality. While it does have its annoyances-like, c'mon, why aren't frag grenades a default essential-the specialists add a spice of variety into matches. As a person who used to play Overwatch on a daily basis, the quasi-hero shooter structure was immediately recognizable to me. Like its predecessor Black Ops 3, Black Ops 4 has a specialist system too. In lieu of its campaign, it has the new battle royale mode Blackout. It brings a lot of changes to the core formula that I once knew.
You can find and use RC cars in Blackout. Black Ops 4 is my introduction to the subseries.
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Strangely though, Treyarch's Black Ops series always eluded me. I can't even remember the intricacies of other entries in the series I've played. I wasn't into the Titanfall impersonator Infinite Warfare, even with as smooth as it felt. Admittedly, I've only dabbled in some of the entries since Modern Warfare 2. Call of Duty: WW2's Band of Brothers imitation last year had Transformers star Josh Duhamel at its center Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's villain was a, well, now-actual Hollywood villain.Įven as one of the people who was disappointed at the news of a lack of a campaign, Black Ops 4 is the most I've clicked with a Call of Duty in years. Maybe that's because for some time now, the campaign was really just a shiny thing with a celebrity face at its center. The diehard fans, though, seemed unbothered by the update. When Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 unceremoniously dropped the series mainstay of having a campaign following rumors that it wouldn't be completed in time, some were loudly upset.
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