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Call of Duty Black Ops III is all about “boots to the ground” action

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Advanced Warfare introduced enhanced movement systems last year. Ideas that other games had been making prevalent in the years since Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2. Movement in first-person shooters these days needs to be more than just your standard run ‘n gun action.

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But the option to still have traditional forms of moving from point to point, still plays a key role in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. It’s all about knowing when to use those special moves, as opposed to thrust-jumping everywhere.

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“Yeah, I mean the thrust jump specifically and later the power slide uses an analogue system governed by a resource. You have to manage against it,” studio design director David Vonderhaar said.

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If you’ve never thrust-jumped at all, you could still be successful and you will stay successful when you stay boots on the ground because when you’re thrust-jumping you’re exposed.

 

So we want this to be a movement system, a way to manoeuvre through the world and to set up. But actually, we also have the guns-up philosophy.

We want you to get in and to stay and fight, anywhere you’re at.

 

You’re dangerously exposed when you are wall-running and thrust-jumping.

 

Which is why we don’t take away the gun, it’s already very dangerous to do those things so you can still shoot while you’re swimming, while you’re wall-running, while you’re thrust-jumping.

 

That was a very deliberate design philosophy going into the game.

“What’s interesting is that we’ve watched how these guys play the game because they pick it up very quickly. The movement system that we’ve done, we’ve intentionally tried to make it as accessible as possible to the fans,” multiplayer game director Dan Bunting added, explaining how he watched people on the E3 floor play the game.

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They can pick it up as easily and quickly as possible and they can understand how to do it and they can go out and have fun. As I’ve been watching these guys play, they’ve been staying boots on the ground mostly.

 

They’ve actually found the perfect balance that we’ve been targeting which is that we want people to feel that fluid and that fast movement system experience as they’re traversing the map and getting into position. Because that’s just fun.

 

But once they get into combat, we want them to be focused and have that boots on the ground engagement.

Co-op also makes a return in Black Ops III. Why? Because it’s just plain fun according to Vonderhaar, that’s why:

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It’s part of our blood. With this next generation, this current generation of hardware, it gives us a chance to come back and try that one more time.

The game is just super-fun when you play it with your friends.

 

It’s been true for Zombies and multiplayer, and it’s true for campaign. This is from a personal angle, I really like the sort of sandbox style, you’re a little off the rails here.

 

We don’t give up the cinematic intensity to do it, we still have the story-telling and that really twisted narrative that you’d expect from a Treyarch game.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is out later this year. And it’s got an upcoming beta for anybody who is interested in an early taste of the action.

Last Updated: June 26, 2015

63 Comments

  1. Hammersteyn

    June 26, 2015 at 14:09

    Really glad they bought co-op back.

    Reply

    • Pariah

      June 26, 2015 at 14:10

      When did they sell it? O_o

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        June 26, 2015 at 14:12

        GAAAAAAAAAAH
        *Drinks
        **Kills other three reaming brain cells

        Reply

        • Pariah

          June 26, 2015 at 14:13

          Reaming? Like, a group of 500 brain cells, packaged tightly in a sheet of thicker brain cells?

          Reply

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:13

            Also. Lol. Have another drink. XD

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:14

            *Plays COD

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:15

            NO! DON’T DO IT MAN! DON’T!

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:15

            Ah what the hell, you’ll be done by sun down anyway.

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:16

            If I start now I can finish The Order 1886 on the same day.

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:17

            What’s the plan for Tomorrow? The CoD Anthology?

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:22

            Waiting for the remaster of the COD Anthology

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:24

            It’ll be done in a week, no worries. They have 12 people on it.

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:28

            But I’m gonna play it on PC so 8 days?

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:28

            Best part? When load shedding hits, you won’t even notice. 😀

          • VampyreSquirrel

            June 26, 2015 at 14:30

            Then it’ll only be released in 2016

  2. Admiral Chief's Adventure

    June 26, 2015 at 14:16

    I’ve got something unrelated to say.

    People who organize conference calls on Friday afternoons, especially at 15h00, need to get priorities straightened out.

    Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      June 26, 2015 at 14:16

      They’re sadists!

      Reply

      • Pariah

        June 26, 2015 at 14:17

        Or have awful wives to go home to.

        Reply

      • Admiral Chief's Adventure

        June 26, 2015 at 14:19

        I feel like I need to join a support group or something….I….just cannae get tha power laddie

        Reply

    • RinceThis

      June 26, 2015 at 14:24

      THIS^

      Reply

    • Lord Chaos

      June 26, 2015 at 14:31

      I’m usually at home at 3 on Fridays. What did you do to deserve that?

      Reply

  3. RinceThis

    June 26, 2015 at 14:23

    “Thrust jumping” is that what they are calling it now…

    Reply

  4. Lord Chaos

    June 26, 2015 at 14:29

    Call of Meh

    Reply

    • Pariah

      June 26, 2015 at 14:29

      But we didn’t call you. O_o

      Reply

      • Lord Chaos

        June 26, 2015 at 14:30

        Could have sworn someone said “Bloody Mary” three times to a mirror.

        Reply

        • Pariah

          June 26, 2015 at 14:30

          That imagery is not the most pleasant, I have to admit. :/

          Reply

        • Hammersteyn

          June 26, 2015 at 14:30

          They did in the new Paranormal Activity movie, but backwards. Also no one cares

          Reply

          • RinceThis

            June 26, 2015 at 14:34

            What? Yram Ydoolb. Yram Ydoolb. Yram Ydoolb?

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:35

            I prefer REDRUM

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:35

            I’m more of a Captain Morgan man myself.

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:37

            XD

          • Lord Chaos

            June 26, 2015 at 14:37

            Now I want to play Max Payne again.

          • Lord Chaos

            June 26, 2015 at 14:35

            Seeing as this is a CoD article…
            Your mother cared last night… and again this morning…

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:38

            Yeah, she said you were special, as we watched you climb aboard the short bus.

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:38

            Yeah, she said you were special, as we watched you climb aboard the short bus.

          • Lord Chaos

            June 26, 2015 at 14:39

            Lol. Well, enjoy people, I’m going home.

          • Lord Chaos

            June 26, 2015 at 14:39

            Lol. Well, enjoy people, I’m going home.

        • Admiral Chief's Adventure

          June 26, 2015 at 14:39

          Mehriah cares!

          Reply

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:40

            It’s a good thing I don’t play a carry in DOTA.

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:40

            It’s a good thing I don’t play a carry in DOTA.

        • Admiral Chief's Adventure

          June 26, 2015 at 14:39

          Mehriah cares!

          Reply

    • Hammersteyn

      June 26, 2015 at 14:29

      MEHlk Ops III

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        June 26, 2015 at 14:30

        MEHlk as in melk, milking people XD

        Reply

        • Pariah

          June 26, 2015 at 14:30

          We got it. 😉

          Reply

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:31

            This is a COD article, you never know

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 14:31

            It’s a CoD article on Lagz. The content may be doubtful, but the commenters (generally speaking) aren’t. 😛

        • Lord Chaos

          June 26, 2015 at 14:33

          You talking about milking people and reaming on the same article…

          Reply

          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 14:34

            Seems apt

      • VampyreSquirrel

        June 26, 2015 at 14:45

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    June 27, 2015 at 02:49

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  6. James Patrogoney

    June 29, 2015 at 02:34

    honestly, COD has ran its course. I am about to give up on battlefield too after that atrocious Hardline game. They should just make a new matrix online.

    Reply

  7. Raines

    November 3, 2015 at 17:59

    Vondehaar and Bunting are liars. They said all this crap just to get people who don’t like the crappy jet pack movements to buy the game. After playing the beta, everything they just said is a load of bunk.

    Reply

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