The multiplayer mode in Activision and Infinity Ward’s unannounced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is a “complete copy” of Modern Warfare 2 (2022), based on a new rumor.
Known Call of Duty enthusiast and insider TheGhostOfHope took to Twitter/X to share that, in its current state, the multiplayer mode for the unannounced Modern Warfare 4 is a complete copy of 2022’s Modern Warfare 2 outside of not having a perk charging system and having less ADS/slide penalties.
The insider further claimed that, much like in Modern Warfare 2, there is a lot of visual recoil on weapons in Modern Warfare 4. They reiterated that the game’s multiplayer mode is pretty much a complete copy of the 2022 Call of Duty title outside of a few minor elements.
In a subsequent post, TheGhostOfHope said that they can understand Call of Duty games being different year to year, and they would be totally fine with a change of pace to a faster Time-To-Kill (TTK), slower movement that’s still fluid every few years, but, as per them, copying Modern Warfare 2 (2022) is not the same as doing that. “There was a reason that jumpshotting was meta in that game even with the ADS penalty and it was because the strafing was ABYSMAL and slowest in the franchise. A focus on strafing like older CODs would keep people with BOOTS ON THE GROUND and lead to a gun skill gap rather than just a movement one.”
The Call of Duty enthusiast was critical of developer Infinity Ward, saying, “They thought that adding an ADS penalty would stop the jumpshotting from the beta but it didn’t change anything because guess what? Strafing was SHIT. If they buffed strafing across the board all the run n gun players would’ve kept their asses on the ground and strafed instead.” They believe that rather than wanting to make Call of Duty games, Infinity Ward wants to take the idea of it and twist it into something else like it has done with Modern Warfare (2019) and Modern Warfare 2 (2022), with no attention paid to community feedback.
