Call of Duty Warzone Won't Have an Engine Shift for Black Ops Cold War Integration

There will be no game engine shift for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty Warzone when it integrates into Treyarch's Black Ops Cold War.

[RedDeadLB]

I would hope so because the new engine is the best thing that has happened to CoD in quite some time.

[boing1]

Came here to post exactly that. That would be a major, major step back. Main reason I didn't like Cold War beta was because it's clearly made on this old, inferior tech. Infinity Ward knocked it out of the park with the upgrades. Should be other way around.

[BenRC01]

Its this gens ghosts. Will be forgotten and barely played online. Will skip it

[onemanwolfp4kv2]

i played the open beta bc i did not pre-order the game and im glad i didnt. yes there were some aspects of the game i liked but the cons, for me, outweighed the pros. i dont understand why treyarch went backwards. i imagine both companies would want to one up the other unless they are both content.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Probably because Treyarch picked up development when Sledgehammer fell so it started before the new engine was finalised.

[Rude-ro]

Modified engine.
The word new does not mean what you think it means.
At its core, it is still the original cod engine.
That is why the memory/file size is so huge.

[porkChop]

No shit. They aren't going to switch back to the older, inferior COD engine. It's pathetic that Treyarch is going into next gen and still using their old engine.

[excaliburps]

I kinda wonder. Like, can't Treyarch "borrow" Infinity Ward's tech? I know there's internal competion but the graphiical downgrade from MW to Cold War is kinda big. I mean, maybe it's not as easy as lending your tools etc., but it does seem weird.

That said, I prefer Black Ops Cold War's gameplay over MW 2019. Visuals, it's MW hands-down, but gameplay? I can't stand the camping meta.

[porkChop]

They used IW's engine for World at War, and then built on it to make it their own. They can do the same thing with IW's new engine.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Activision said that all Call of Duty future titles will utilise the IW 8.0 engine.

[EazyC]

Apparently it actually runs on some frankenstein version of BO 4 and MW's engine, which is interesting as it's very outdated movement/graphics wise.

Also, re the camping issue, game modes like hardpoint and kill confirmed are a good way to mitigate this as they're objective-focused. Fundamentally, I don't see the camping situation changing all that much in the new game.

[Nitrowolf2]

its def showing its age in a lot of area's. I'm surprised they didn't have a new one

[KyRo]

Cut them some slack. They've had less than two years to make a game instead for the usual three year cycle because of how much Sledgehammer messed up and it shows.

I'm not defending Cold War because it is a step back but there's also reason for a inferior product. That being said Acti could have taken the year out considering MW is still riding high and the most successful game in the series but of course they wouldn't do that. It's Activision.

[porkChop]

The thing is, that sledgehammer stuff happened last year. This game was already a year into development by that point. That means that even if this game had released next year as planned, it still would have been using Treyarch's last gen engine.

[Rude-ro]

There is no new engine.
Modified.
Where do people get their info..., oh... sales pitches.

Still the old engine... just modified.
Why do you think these games are huge in file size? That’s make up on the old engine.
But it was also proven after release... so.. just so that you all know.

[zero_jp]

Wasn’t this not even Treyarchs game? I believe it was Sledge Hammers and Activsion handed it to David Vonderhaar a year ago to make it passable. Don’t hold me to that but I could have sworn I read something to that affect.

So that may be why the engine is old. Either that or like someone else said this is just going to be this new generations Ghosts. Which if that’s the case it’s a hard pass.

Although I admit I wanted to get it since it’s the usual yearly purchase. However there are far too many negatives going on with it at this point from folks who’ve shared their beta experiences.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Yeah, there was a lot of tension between Sledgehammer and Raven studios so Activision appointed Treyarch to help development (Raven is the main developer this time and they are responsible for the campaign, so as I understand it, Sledgehammer didn't like being the supporting developer).

[EazyC]

Well in any case I'm very doubtful that it will be a landmark CoD game given that MW was a monumental return for the series (the first-year sales figures released last week are greatest of all time), and this is cross-gen on the dawn of next gen (much like Ghosts).

[ubers]

This is the single best piece of Warzone news possible. I mean, what were they doing to do... visually downgrade all of verdansk, scrap all of the doors on buildings?

[OMNlPOTENT]

While I like the newer engine in MW, and the animations are great; I hate how the game plays. The TTK is awful. The game is campy as all hell, and there's no time to react to getting shot. It is by far the lowest skill BR on the market, even blackout took more skill. Cold War animations look like garbage, but it is significantly more fun to play.

[SubtilizZer]

Completely agree.... I don’t see how so many people don’t see this.

[ActualWhiteMan]

I’m more excited to play Modern Warfare on PS5 than Cold War

[Thatgrammar]

My speculation was right haha! I was pretty sure they wouldn’t switch engines for warzone.