The floodgates are officially open, as it appears Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be one of the first blockbuster multiplayer games to feature full cross-play. While the specifics regarding the PlayStation 4 still need to be nailed down, Activision’s press release claims that Infinity Ward “plans for Modern Warfare to be played together across PC and console through cross-play support”. Perhaps the keyword there is “plans”.
The developer is also hoping to unify the title’s community by ditching the series’ controversial Season Pass, meaning that everyone will unlock access to post-release content. Presumably this means that the reboot will be monetised in other ways, though there are no specific details on that just yet.
As for the actual multiplayer suite, it’ll be revealed at a later date. The publisher’s promising a “classic multiplayer” experience and an all-new co-operative mode which sounds distinctly like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s popular Spec-Ops option. There’s no word on Battle Royale just yet, which proved to be a very popular part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. In the meantime, we’ll reach out to Activision and see if we can get confirmation of whether cross-play will apply to the PS4 version.
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GOOD!!!
Its gotta be better to have a 'unified' community of gamers who all bought and enjoy games like CoD instead of segregating them because of the platform they own. Its gotta be better to have players in your own area, better ping, bigger pool of players to find games (even those less popular modes) so better online gaming and playing with all other gamers that also liked the same game as you....
I can't wait to see what scummy tactics Activision will use to make up for free DLC.
@RBMango paid DLC hurt them more than it helped. Just my theory.
Hyped for this game not gonna lie.
I been saying it for a bit. If CrossPlay stayed on garbage F2P games nobody cared about playing - SONY was fine. Once it went to big titles, They would open the gates.
There was no way SONY could say no to Activision and COD. Just like they bought time caving to EPIC and FortNite.
Not sure how I feel about play against Pc players with a keyboard and mouse!
@Cutmastavictory It may have hurt them from a fantastic perspective, but definitely not financial.
Console players will be slaughtered, because PC has 240Hz refresh rate and Mouse, Keyboard.
As long as it has the option to turn it off then it should be fine.
I have to play with PC players? That doesn't sound good.
I'll be pleased if Spec-ops makes a return, I always preferred it to zombies.
Blackout should always have been a separate (and F2P) product from the annual games.
That's where Crossplay is an absolute c**k up! Putting console players against pc players is a major no-no! Between consoles yeah sure but pc, nope! They'll learn the hard way I guess.
Looking forward to mouse and keyboard players absolutely punking me on my controller...
Hopefully they have keyboard and mouse support, so if you are on controller it matches you against other controller players, but if you plug in kbm it pairs you against pc and other kbm players
Surely they will have thought about the issue of keyboard and mouse vs pad? There will have to be options to switch off pc players.
@IronHammersFC Thats how i think it will work
As long as there's option to turn off crossplay it's okay I guess.
Ooh might have a reason to stick with the ol COD. We shall see...
@wiiware
That's exactly what I want, the ability to turn it off. I certainly won't be playing if I have to compete with pc players on keyboard and mouse
In fighting games or games like Monster Hunter and such I see no problem. But shooters? Pc players are gonna dominate.
If they are smart they will have where you can toggle who you cross play with like Xbox only, PC only or mixed that way I don't have to worry about getting pawned by PC players.
Well damn, this is exciting! We’ll just have to see how badly Activision monetizes this first before I give em my money.
In the end im sure they will make more money without the seasonpass by letting you pay for everything. Im sure we will get some extra scummy lootboxes, seasonalpasses, dots for €1 got too go for those whales.
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