New Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone Story Cinematic Sets Up Season 4

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The season 3 content afforded to players of Activision and Sledgehammer Games’ Call of Duty: Vanguard was relatively sparse; most of the season’s most interesting new additions were introduced to the popular battle royale spin-off Call of Duty: Warzone, while the most current mainline title received little more than two new multiplayer maps and a wildly controversial Godzilla-themed operator skin. This trend may change in Call of Duty: Vanguard’s upcoming season 4, the intro cinematic for which just debuted.

The brief cutscene features a skirmish between forces led by Arthur Kingsley, who was featured in theCall of Duty: Vanguard campaign, and Carver Butcher, a character made more recognizable through the game’s post-launch content. While few players are likely to keep up with the story elements of Call of Duty: Vanguard’s seasonal updates, fans were quick to spot issues with the trailer. Most notably, Kingsley and Butcher engage in a firefight in a clearing, yet, despite the fact that they can’t be more than two dozen yards away from one another, nobody on either squad manages to land a single shot.

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Of course, the opening cinematic isn’t something for which Call of Duty: Vanguard fans play the game. While the season 4 cutscene offers very little in the way of information regarding new content—save perhaps for the fact that Carver Butcher may serve as a playable operator—a second trailer uploaded to the official Call of Duty YouTube channel offers a preview of Fortune’s Keep, a new island to be added to Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map.

However, the most significant news concerning Call of Duty: Vanguard’s forthcoming fourth major update has