Warzone devs tease work on new \u201cevolution\u201d of the Battle Royale genre ActivisionWhile Warzone 2 is in the pipeline, Activision\u2019s many development teams currently appear to be scheming on other major projects as well, all in hopes of \u2018evolving\u2019 the Battle Royale genre. The Call of Duty franchise has had multiple stints in the Battle Royale genre. From Blackout to Warzone, devs have spent years working within the \u2018last-person standing\u2019 framework. With its immense success, don\u2019t expect Activision to abandon this slice of the gaming industry anytime soon. Warzone 2 is in the works for a reported 2023 launch. But some new innovations could be right around the corner to push things in a new direction. Speaking with CoD veteran TeeP during a March 23 livestream, Warzone Creative Lead Josh Bridge suggested that multiple dev teams have already been toiling away for quite some time on something \u201cexciting\u201d to evolve the BR genre. \u201cLooking to the future, Battle Royale is awesome, we love it, but I think all of us love the idea of exploring what else we can do with a large player count in a huge map,\u201d Bridge said. So while the commitment is still there for the BR community, Warzone\u2019s developers are also eyeing new concepts altogether. \u201cWhat other sort of evolutions can we find there? That\u2019s been pretty exciting for all the teams,\u201d he added. Exactly what these new experiments may look like, remains unclear for now. Though earlier leaks may from industry insiders may have outlined exactly what Bridge was teasing. Rumblings of something brand new for CoD have existed since November 2021. Prominent leaker Tom Henderson claimed an Escape From Tarkov-style mode was in development at Infinity Ward. This report was backed up by other sources, outlining how the standalone mode features a large player count with playlists for multiple team sizes. No doubt this description ticks many of the similar boxes outlined by Bridge in regards to \u2018evolving\u2019 the Battle Royale genre. Further details have since indicated this particular mode, now labeled as \u2018DMZ,\u2019 has been in the works for multiple years already. \u201cI can\u2019t speak for everyone at [Infinity Ward], but those who I\u2019ve spoken to are actually very positive about the game itself,\u201d Henderson added in December. Obviously, it\u2019s worth taking this connection with a grain of salt for now. Bridge could have been discussing a completely different project that\u2019s yet to slip through the cracks. Read More: When is CoD Warzone Mobile coming out? – With no clear release date in mind for this potential BR evolution, we\u2019ll have to wait and see how things pan out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone devs tease work on new \u201cevolution\u201d of the Battle Royale genre ActivisionWhile Warzone 2 is in the pipeline, Activision\u2019s many development teams currently appear to be scheming on other major projects as well, all in hopes of \u2018evolving\u2019 the Battle Royale genre. The Call of Duty franchise has had multiple stints in the Battle […]<\/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-33214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214","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=33214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}