Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dev defends White Phosphorous Killstreak amid controversy Infinity WardUsers across Twitter have been taking issue with one of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare\u2019s killstreaks, because of its use in real life. However, one of the game\u2019s developers is defending the inclusion of White Phosphorous. Speaking with VG247, multiplayer design director Geoff Smith explained that it, \u201c\u2026really kinda came out of the old EMP killstreak.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to convey this electromagnetic pulse that disrupts maybe your HUD. So it wasn\u2019t like a set change or a mood change, the stakes had changed for us.\u201d Players already have a lot to work with in the current build of Modern Warfare. White phosphorous is a chemical weapon that, in the real world, is used to create a white smokescreen, but it\u2019s also extremely hot at 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2760 C). That\u2019s hot enough to melt through human bone. The US military used white phosphorus in the battle for Fallujah in Iraq. An action the Pentagon defended in 2005. In Modern Warfare, it covers parts of the map and \u201cdoes a strip of damage, the smoke plumes come out, and there are just little hotspots of burning embers,\u201d Smith explained. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in it you cough and you\u2019re at half health, so it\u2019s like a softener of things.\u201d The game\u2019s animation director, Mark Griggsby said there isn\u2019t a special burning effect with the killstreak. Regarding the controversy of including white phosphorus, Smith took a neutral route, but stressed that the game, \u201cis more about two sides, that there is no good guy or bad guy, you play on either one. We\u2019re just creating this playground to play on.\u201d \u201cI always felt like in the previous games that multiplayer is like the distant weapon fire that you hear a few blocks away from where the single player is,\u201d the developer stated. Call of Duty players will have the option to select a number of new perks in Modern Warfare. He also made the point that previous games had tactical nukes, but they didn\u2019t generate the same level of controversy. \u201cMaybe people are reacting to the photogrammetry, the more realistic visuals. Maybe if it was more cartoony would that be more acceptable?\u201d Smith pondered. Whatever the case, Modern Warfare has generated a lot of attention as the world braces for its release. Players will be able to try out the game, and the White Phosphorous Killstreak when the exclusive beta hits PS4 September 12-13. The open beta begins on September 14-16. The full game is ready to drop on October 25, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dev defends White Phosphorous Killstreak amid controversy Infinity WardUsers across Twitter have been taking issue with one of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare\u2019s killstreaks, because of its use in real life. However, one of the game\u2019s developers is defending the inclusion of White Phosphorous. Speaking with VG247, multiplayer design director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}