Infinity Ward's focus isn't on battle royale, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer design director says

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We've had a go at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's multiplayer, tried out its new corner-mounting mechanic, and seen a more deliberate take on the Call of Duty formula. But the question remains—will this Call of Duty have a battle royale mode, as well as the regular multiplayer?

IGN asked Infinity Ward's multiplayer design director Joe Cecot, whether it would and he replied that though the designers are "big fans of battle royale" that's not what they're working on. "We’re excited for large player counts and things like that, but right now we’re really focused on core multiplayer." Which is not a definitive no, but suggests it might be on the backburner. Interest in the battle royale genre does seem to be slowing.

Black Ops 4 introduced a battle royale mode called Blackout to the series, but Cecot described the latest entry in the series as being quite different. "We really focused on Modern Warfare, authentic and gritty, realistic weapons, and it’s a different experience. It's really...just about pulling back to Modern Warfare and keeping that pure," he said.

Here's everything we know about the Modern Warfare reboot so far.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.