You've seen how we're pouring it all
into the Cold War multiplayer experience,
but let's confirm it right here, right now:
Black Ops Cold War will also usher in
the next evolution of Call of Duty: Warzone,
continuing and expanding
the blockbuster battle-royale free-to-play experience.
And it will be a true evolution,
with Warzone not merely picking up
where the Modern Warfare climax left off narratively,
but also interweaving the themes, locations, weapons,
and vehicles of Black Ops Cold War
right into the action.
Cold War and Warzone will also share post-launch content
from a narrative standpoint
across both the Battle Pass system and Item Shop content.
This interlinks Call of Duty
in ways that evolve the Warzone experience
while delivering jaw-dropping moments.
So, yeah, you can expect some surprises along the way.
One surprise we're avoiding is the feeling of starting over.
It's important to us that you can still use your characters
and weapons and progression-related items,
which is why investment and progress in Cold War
is reflected in Warzone.
While these are two very big games, from the beginning,
they've been built to work together.
Your player experience is everything to us,
so we're making sure Black Ops Cold War
and Warzone share progression,
with your previously-earned Modern Warfare content -
from Weapons to Cosmetics -
still available for use in both Warzone and Modern Warfare.
We're collaborating with our studio partners
across Call of Duty to preserve continuity,
while building a new chapter of Warzone
that will immerse you
into all the best elements of Black Ops Cold War.
That's multiple studios totally committed
to continuing this new tradition of insanely fun,
absurdly accessible Warzone action,
and we can't wait for you to see how Verdansk,
and all of Call of Duty, will evolve in the year ahead.
But that sense of interconnectedness?
It extends beyond just Warzone.
That's why I'm excited to confirm that Black Ops Cold War
will not only support cross-platform play
and progression, but will also deliver
cross-generation play to the game.
That's because Black Ops Cold War is, at its heart,
a connected experience,
and playing together on whatever platforms you prefer
only betters that experience.
Cross-play and cross-progression,
across current and next-generation systems,
across all modes.
That won't be easy.
But it's worth it to allow fans
who have never had a chance to play together
to squad up and deploy, no barriers between them.
And with the Battle Pass system delivering a steady stream
of post-launch content,
Black Ops Cold War will be the very first cross-platform,
cross-generation Call of Duty experience,
making it the deepest game in franchise history.
Vahn, where do we go next?
Yeah, Miles.
On the subject of platforms, we've got a very special guest:
Marc from Beenox.
Hey! What's up, Vahn?
On behalf of Beenox, we are extremely excited
and proud to bring Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to Battle.net
as the lead PC developer.
PC continues to be a critically important pillar
of game development for the Call of Duty franchise.
In addition to the major improvements we have made
to Call of Duty PC in the past, including uncapped framerates,
high-refresh-rate support, and customized field of view,
we're always looking for ways to improve features
and customizable settings.
One of the biggest improvements this year
is that the Black Ops engine now runs on DirectX 12.
This has led to a huge improvement
in terms of performance and latency reduction.
For players who prioritize immersive gameplay,
we have a great partnership with Nvidia
to bring ray-traced effects,
performance-accelerating deep learning super sampling,
or DLSS,
and Reflex latency-optimization technology.
We will implement ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion
to improve the quality of light shadow and sunlight shadow.
This improves surface and contact detail,
and fixes problems
associated with traditional shadow-mapping techniques
like aliasing, freckling and disconnected shadows.
Also, we will be implementing AI-powered DLSS
so players will be able to increase their framerate
while maintaining the visual quality of the game.
For players looking for better responsiveness
we have integrated the Reflex low-latency technology
to lower system latency.
This combines both GPU and game optimization
We're also happy to announce
that Reflex will be coming to Call of Duty: Warzone
in the future.
We have so much more to talk about,
but now I would like to hand it back to David Vonderhaar. Vahn.
We've declassified a whole lot today,