Insiders: Call of Duty: Vanguard may be canceled in favor of Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer remaster

Publisher Activision Blizzard may revise their plans to release a new part Call of duty, leaving players without a new portion of traditional multiplayer battles. Several insiders report this at once.

The problem lies in the development of the game Call of Duty: Vanguard, for which the studio is responsible Sledgehammer Games… Due to the departure of key employees, the team actually fell apart, as a result of which its previous project was transferred to the studio. Treyarch, hastily remade it Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War

Now Sledgehammer Games operates in a renewed lineup, but Vanguard is being developed under time pressure conditions. According to the blogger Thomas Henderson, developers are also hindered by the decision of Activision to release a shooter on the previous generation consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

According to preliminary data, events Call of Duty 2023 will unfold within the framework of World War II or an alternative setting, in which the global conflict did not end in 1945.

The publisher officially announced that the release of the new part of the franchise will take place in 2023, and the shooter is being created taking into account the new generation consoles. But insiders are signaling that Vanguard may be left without a multiplayer part (excluding the integration of the mode Warzone). It is planned to compensate for the deficiency allegedly at the expense of the release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Remastered.

In the spring of 2023, the release of the remaster of the single player campaign took place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2the studio was responsible for Beenox… Even then, there were persistent rumors that the multiplayer part was completed, but the publisher allegedly decided not to release it, so as not to interfere with the sales of Warzone, Modern Warfare 2019 and Cold War.

According to the editor VentureBeat Jeff Grubb, multiplayer remaster Modern warfare 2 could be the only multiplayer release in 2023. An insider MW2 OG confirms Hendersson’s information that Sledgehammer Games’ brainchild is in a terrible state.

He also does not rule out that the release of Vanguard will eventually be canceled. And the MW2 multiplayer remaster and the single player campaign remaster will have to take the rap Modern Warfare 3, which supposedly will become a temporary exclusive Playstation

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