Massive Report Reveals Details About Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Canceled Campaign Mode

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Famously known for being the only numbered entry in the franchise without a campaign, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has always had an air of mystery regarding its missing single-player component. Although Treyarch has always stated that a “traditional” campaign was never in the works, reports have come out since the game’s 2018 release that state a co-op mode was planned for the game, but it has never been fully detailed. A massive independent report has dived deep into the planned co-op campaign for Black Ops 4, including details about the gameplay and story featuring scrapped concept art and design schematics.

The report comes from Reddit user Purpletoaster20, who claims to have compiled this information through research and discussion with those involved with the project. As also reported by Jason Schreier, the user states that Black Ops 4’s co-op campaign was originally titled Career, a 2v2 “race to the finish” mode that was scrapped in early 2018. Allegedly, Treyarch’s main goal with the campaign was to have a live-service model where the game incentivized players to play the co-op mode and the multiplayer mode, tied together through the game’s specialists. Black Ops 4 was planned to follow the same narrative framework as previous titles, where player decisions heavily impacted the overarching story.

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Narratively, Black Ops 4 would be set in 2070, following the story of two factions: the Free People’s Army and the World United Nations. Both factions would compete in a post-pandemic, climate disaster-stricken world, structured around 15-20 minute long missions including PvP and PvE sections. Purpletoaster20 detailed four early missions titled Air Assault