Details concerning the 2026 Call Of Duty recreation have already leaked and it appears it’ll be one other combine of latest and remastered content material.
Just a few months in the past, alleged particulars for the 2025 Call Of Duty recreation leaked on-line, claiming it to be one other Black Ops recreation and a direct sequel to the 2012 entry – which got here as a shock.
With that recreation anticipated to be in improvement at Sledgehammer Games (which final labored on 2023’s Modern Warfare 3), meaning Infinity Ward needs to be dealing with the 2026 title.
As is conventional for the sequence at this level, early data for that recreation has apparently additionally leaked and it’s reportedly set to tread acquainted floor by bringing again wall working and a number of maps from Modern Warfare 3… not final 12 months’s reboot, however the authentic 2011 recreation.
The leak comes courtesy of outstanding Call Of Duty insider TheGhostOfHope, whose declare that Infinity Ward is dealing with the 2026 Call Of Duty recreation strains up with latest experiences on the sequence’ future.
The concept of previous Modern Warfare 3 maps getting remastered sounds completely believable contemplating the Modern Warfare 3 reboot featured remastered maps from the unique Modern Warfare 2 from 2009.
In reality, whereas the Modern Warfare 3 reboot consisted fully of remastered maps, none of which have been from the unique Modern Warfare 3. It sounded unusual on the time, however the determination makes extra sense whenever you keep in mind final 12 months’s recreation clearly started life as DLC (regardless of Activision’s denials) and reportedly solely had 16 months of improvement time.
TheGhostOfHope provides that whereas a majority of the unique Modern Warfare 3 maps will see remasters, the 2026 recreation will characteristic fully new maps as effectively. No doubt as a result of, in contrast to Sledgehammer final 12 months, Infinity Ward really has the time to make them.
TheGhostOfHope’s different declare is maybe extra shocking, since wall working hasn’t been a mechanic for years. Introduced in 2015’s Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3, it solely ever reappeared in Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare the next 12 months. It was introduced again for Call Of Duty: Mobile, however it’s in any other case been absent from the mainline video games for nearly a decade.
Apparently, the sequence’ new omnimovement mechanic from Black Ops 6 may even be carried over, each for the 2025 and 2026 video games. Given the optimistic reception to the mechanic, that’s a lot much less of a shock.
More concrete particulars concerning the subsequent couple of Call Of Duty video games will doubtless leak over the approaching months, though there are already considerations about Activision’s use of AI for the sequence.
Fans are already outraged about AI generated art work being current in Black Ops 6, and it’s additionally rumoured many of the recreation’s voice actors have stop because of a scarcity of AI protections of their contracts.
It’s absolutely solely a matter of time earlier than Activision has AI designing its multiplayer maps…
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