Yesterday, Treyarch Studios teased a new holiday update coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode. As far as what fans should expect, it appears the holiday event will be focusing on the zombies portion of Blackout. Dealing with zombies in Blackout isn’t the same as how zombies have traditionally worked in the past. Zombies in Blackout are located in specific areas around the massive battleground, and their presence isn’t done in the traditional sense of having hordes of them chasing players around the map.
It doesn’t appear the holiday event is any part of the original plans in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s season pass roadmap, which isn’t as consumer-friendly as in past years. The price of the season pass has remained the same of previous Call of Duty games ($50), but this time around, it gives players less content spread out into small updates throughout the year.
What’s more is that instead of the traditional four major expansion packs, and the DLC in the latest Call of Duty no longer be purchased separately. The Blackout portion of the season pass content offers little compared to the other two modes–that is, standard multiplayer and zombies–with just four new unlockable characters coming throughout the year.
As previously implied, should the tease be holiday-related, then it appears to only be affecting the way zombies are used in the battle royale mode, and not the traditional Zombies mode. So, the holiday event could be a way for Treyarch to balance out the amount of new content coming to multiplayer, Blackout, and Zombies, as there are currently 12 new multiplayer maps and a handful of new Zombies experiences coming to standard multiplayer and Zombies mode, respectively.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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