Sledgehammer Games has since joined a leading trio for Call of Duty titles - developing Advanced Warfare in 2014, and WWII in 2017. Originally tapped to develop a third-person Call of Duty title set during the Vietnam War, the studio was pulled to help with Modern Warfare 3 back in 2010. In the February 2021 investor call, Activision confirmed that Sledgehammer Games would be the studio leading development on Vanguard. Call of Duty: Vanguard developer: Sledgehammer Games is at the helm These clips feature quick flashes of battle-torn landscapes, crashed aircraft on beaches, and - most notably - distressed military patches for Task Force Vanguard. 15, there had been four of these short video teasers released into the wild, each named after significant WW2 battle theaters: Pacific Front, Eastern Front, Western Front, and North Africa.
Source: Activision via charlieINTEL on Twitter (Image credit: Source: Activision via charlieINTEL on Twitter)īy Aug. Following a barrage of takedowns from Activision aimed at leakers who had shared datamined images with Call of Duty: Vanguard branding, the marketing department has seemingly leaned into the leaks with a steady release of teaser trailers among content creators in the community.
12, both the official Call of Duty and Sledgehammer Games' Twitter accounts acknowledged the flood of leaks with various memes. There's plenty of room for a healthy dose of skepticism here, especially as official details for Vanguard have begun to roll out with no further mention of Slipstream.ĭata miners and backend trackers had a new rabbit hole to fall down with the potential codename, nonetheless, which may have been what lead to a tweet from CharlieIntel on July 1 indicating that Slipstream was also showing up on the PlayStation store's backend as an internal alpha with a 35GB file size.Īs of Aug. However, the person behind BlizzTrack is the only individual who has seen this code. Helba has stated in additional tweets that Slipstream is also referred to as forea, which could be an indication of an upcoming alpha, and that "fore"/"forea" is specifically listed as COD2021.exe. It's important to note that this supposed title card for Slipstream didn't feature the typical Call of Duty labeling. The site's owner, Helba, tweeted that in addition to the new assets there was also a new logo featuring the title Slipstream. The end of June brought a surprise as an independent site known as BlizzTrack reported new assets had been uncovered via its tracker. Players will be able to affect small areas of the map such as destroying doors, upending furniture in a room with a grenade, and shooting through floors to open up sightlines to change the course of battle. Not only are there plenty of maps at kick-off, but the multiplayer mode will feature some new destruction physics, as well. Unlike Cold War, which launched with just a handful of maps, Vanguard is expected to have 16 multiplayer maps on release, with four additional maps for its new Champion Hill mode. While the story for the campaign is entirely fictitious, although the characters are inspired by real-life WW2 heroes.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard will launch with a dedicated multiplayer for the fast past small team action that we all know and love. These operators are tasked with stopping the Nazis from carrying out a secret worldwide plot during the end of World War 2 that spans across four separate battle theaters. Call of Duty: Vanguard will tell the story of Task Force Vanguard, a special forces unit composed of a ragtag team unaccustomed to working together. A press preview of Call of Duty: Vanguard offered quite a few insights into what players can expect from the game at launch.
Once the Battle of Verdansk reveal took place in Warzone, the floodgates were opened and an onslaught of official details rained down. Source: Activision (Image credit: Source: Activision)
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