The beta will run until Monday on both weekends, giving players ample time to get quite a few matches in.Ĭold War, which is being developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, will also feature a single-player campaign and a co-op Zombies mode. The campaign continues the story of the first Black Ops game and brings Frank Woods, Jason Hudson, and Alex Mason back into the fold as they try to stop a mysterious Russian spy known as Perseus from winning the Cold War for the Soviet Union. If you’re wondering what the actual start time for the Cold War open beta is, servers will go live at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on Thursday, according to Activision.

PlayStation 4 players will have exclusive access to the first weekend of the Cold War open beta, which runs from Oct 8-12, before Xbox and PC owners jump in on Oct. 8-19, the open beta will allow players to try out a few classic 6v6 multiplayer modes, including Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Kill Confirmed, as well as three new modes coming to Cold War: the 12v12 Combined Arms, the 6v6 objective-based VIP Escort, and the 40-player Fireteam: Dirty Bomb Set to be held across two weekends from Oct. VIP Escort, where one team is attacking and one defending, is actually a part of Deniable Operations in the full game and it’s not clear whether it’s going to be a separate mode by the time the game’s released.Activision will give first-person shooter fans one last chance to try Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War before the game launches next month. The mode still offers a larger scale of battle than is the norm for Call Of Duty though, as your team battles to hold multiple areas at once. In terms of modes, the new ones include the self-explanatory VIP Escort and Deniable Operations, which is similar to Modern Warfare’s Ground War but with slightly smaller maps. At the same time mounting (leaning) is no long part of the game, which is perhaps an attempt to keep the pace up. Although the complaints about the lack of recoil still stands, as not even the biggest weapons seem to register when you fire them – which feels very odd.

The alpha had a lot of problems with weapon balancing, especially sniper rifles, but that’s all largely been fixed for the beta. You still wouldn’t call it realistic but it also has a more streamlined loadout system that’s also similar to Modern Warfare, except with a more complex take on Gunsmith that gets into even more detail with attachments.

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