Update: Activision has now confirmed the existence of Call of Duty: Vanguard with a teaser trailer that gathers together the short videos sent to community members this past weekend. The full reveal will take place inside Battle Royale game Call of Duty: Warzone this Thursday at 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST.
"Be the first to the fight and be rewarded — report to Call of Duty: Warzone and play in any playlist between 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET and 10:29 a.m. PT / 1:29 p.m. ET and prepare to participate in a limited-time Double XP, Double Weapon XP, and Double Battle Pass XP event before the battle begins."
Original story: Call of Duty: Vanguard will be revealed as part of a live event in Call of Duty: Warzone this Thursday, the PlayStation Store has confirmed. A new tab has been added to the digital marketplace (first spotted by CharlieIntel), confirming the announcement is scheduled for 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST. Hints handed to community members this past weekend all but confirmed the World War II setting for Vanguard, which will release on both PS5 and PS4.
Strong rumours of a reveal later this week have been swirling for a few days now after a leak confirmed an open beta is planned for the latest title from Sledgehammer Games. At launch, there will be a cross-gen bundle and Ultimate Edition available for purchase alongside the usual versions.
This confirmation means that Vanguard follows in the footsteps of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which was also revealed inside the Battle Royale game towards the end of August. In that particular event, players had to complete a specific set of objectives before rushing to the Stadium point of interest. From there, the reveal trailer played.
The announcement will be the publisher's first big media beat since Activision Blizzard was accused of workplace harassment and sued by the state of California. Since then, figures such as former president J. Allen Brack have left the company.
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The real question. What's the install size gonna Be? 500+ GBs it could hit
can't wait for it to take up 100tb
Rumors point to a State Of Play this Thursday....hopefully this means it is true since the PS5's release calendar is looking a little sad ATM.
I mean, we all expect Horizon to be delayed at this point.....so, what's coming this year?
Oh, I’m so very excited…
I am hoping the game fails, to be honest. Cold War was a paltry package and definitely wasn’t worth $70 at launch. I’m hoping that Activision has the big misstep, so they can finally get started on quality control.
YAAAAWWWNNNN
inside Warzone, isn't that what the employees call their office
@4kgk2 ok, fair enough, you got me. I will watch the reveal regardless. Won’t do it in Warzone though and have doubts about purchasing the game ever, simply due to the quality assurance issues Activision has had. Unless they can convince me that they’ll repair that, I’m skeptical of the game, regardless of the high sheen gloss of paint they use to make it look pretty.
@Cyxn1d3 Sledgehammer has just not improved at all so this will be another title I'm skipping like Cold War.
WW2... you will loose with that setting anyway.
Edit: And that f***** zombies... facepalm³
Activision Blizzard can go kick rocks.
I hope it fails too , who's really asking for world-war settings ?? i think they're still traumatized from infinite warfare & everyone downvoting the trailer and hating the futuristic setting - but that doesn't mean they had to tone it way back to the stone-age though , smh . and its being made by sledgehammer , and all of their games were always mediocre .
My predictions are that it will be poorly optimized , have a 3-4 hour campaign & be bundled with warzone which will be mandatory
@Cyxn1d3 While I agree about Raven's continued incompetence, I'm not so quick to dump on them and them alone. We don't know the inner workings of the company(s) and it could be that they have to go through Activision to get anything and everything approved. Perhaps if this was a Raven only thing, they'd be far more frequent and open in their communication with the players.
Remember Raven used to be a stellar developer before getting sucked into the CoD machine.
Big yawn, not the right developer, not the right era. Definite pass unless the Trophies are okay, in which case I will play it via PS Plus in a few years.
Easy skip. Like every year.
Just watched the teaser trailer for Vanguard and didn't feel anything tbh. Most likely a skip from me.
I just want:
The game not being massively tied to warzone
More fronts/factions than simply Americans fighting on the Western Front
Weapons to feel good
Characters to fit the context
Them to somewhat try for historical authenticity (please make soldiers wear helmets)
I doubt all of these will happen, but if they do I will be excited.
They've figured it out too it seems. Why spend so much making a new game year after year when one can just pile on more things to an aging engine and throw in more incentives for people to burn money on. It's the inevitable future for AAA games nowadays I'll bet.
Sorry, I'm not giving money to... them
@nomither6 I'm assuming they want to balance it out.... 1 studio doing modern/semi-futuristic era ( Infinity Ward ), 2nd studio doing Cold War/Vietnam Era ( Treyarch ), and a 3rd studio doing WW Era ( Sledgehammer ).
EDIT: If they didn't do a WW era games then we may end up with settings way too similar back to back with next year title most liking being Modern Warfare 2 (2022) an Infinity Ward developed game.
@Floki the most popular cods are - mw2 , mw1 , bo1 , and black ops 2 though. aside from world at war , people don't really talk about world war CODs . modernwarfare 2019 is the most popular COD they've had in years , i don't think anyone wants a world war game simply because its just outdated . and i think the further and further we get from that time-period , the less and less appealing its going to be.
i dont think anyone would be bothered if they made back to back modern games , except a handful of people. id say the cold war setting is the furthest back they should go and that most people are ok with . but further back than that is just so boring.
@nomither6 A lot of people will complain. We got nothing but complaining when we got nothing but modern era when we had Battlefield, Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty all doing the same Era shooters. That what lead to us to getting futuristic shooter, but people got bored of that, and wanted 'Boots on the ground' WW2, BF1, and BF5 style games. Now they got bored of that and we're now back to Modern/Futuristic shooter like MW2019 and BF 2042.
The only reason why you don't hear no one talking about world war CODs cause most of the CoD fan base wasn't old enough to play them or was not born at the time.
Most of the people who have played those games and have enjoyed them have probably been done with the franchise 5 games ago, or more or less keep quiet.
It better to break it up instead of the doing the same stuff back to back especially when you have 3 different studios developing the games from the same franchise.
@Floki that makes sense , you're right about that.
it's mostly just my personal opinion and speculation ; i hate world war games , but on the flip-side , its no loss , since its made by sledgehammer anyway , lol .
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