For so long as Name of Responsibility campaigns have existed, so has the choice to play them at whichever issue fits you finest. Whether or not recruit, regular, hardened, or veteran, long-term COD gamers know their degree. However this yr’s entry, Black Ops 7, received’t allow you to decide.
Black Ops 7 has a marketing campaign that may be performed solo or in co-op for as much as 4 gamers. As a part of that, the issue scales based mostly on what number of are taking part in, and can’t be adjusted within the settings.
“For the issue, it is baked in,” affiliate inventive director Miles Leslie instructed IGN in a latest interview. “We have constructed it for solo or four-player squads as properly. You can not decide an issue like previous video games. We have baked it in as a result of it’s important to strategy a co-op marketing campaign in another way, and we needed to ensure the missions felt proper for solo gamers — we’re not forgetting about you, we love you — but in addition as a result of it’s a social expertise we need to make sure that it is enjoyable, however the correct amount of difficult for 2, three, and 4 gamers as properly.”
So, no extra veteran-level runs for single-player followers on this yr’s Name of Responsibility. Are you somebody who enjoys testing your self with the hardest challenges COD campaigns have to supply? Are you upset by the truth that Black Ops 7 received’t have this selection at launch?
For now, you possibly can take a look at my full preview of Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7. For extra from the devs, take a look at their ideas on Name of Responsibility being known as “lazy,” the proliferation of “goofy skins,” and how generative AI is being utilized in Black Ops.
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing on the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Comply with him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.
