There’s a wild new rumor for Call of Duty 2023, that might be too detailed to be true, but it all sounds worth reading up on once.
We only have one source on Reddit who has no proof of what they’re talking about, or any way to vouch their identity. You have been warned.
The game will be called Call of Duty 2050, and it seems to be a sequel of sorts to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Call of Duty 2050 will have a full narrative campaign, classic multiplayer, and Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 integration. Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 will have the exosuits and verticality for this one year, but it will go back to earth when Call of Duty 2024 releases. According to this source, that game is Treyarchs’ game, the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 expansion turned standalone game.
Call of Duty 2050 will bring back cosmetics, but implemented differently so that there will be considerably less clones. Skins are sold as bundles, but each individual cosmetic can be separated from its bundle, and they can be mixed and matched.
The narrative campaign pits human soldiers vs androids. This campaign also brings it back to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, with another Hollywood production level storyline, which makes it feel like you are playing a movie. Activision would have already have their big-name actors long cast and their lines recorded, if this rumor is true.
On the technical side, field upgrades will function like Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s specialist abilities. Tactical equipment are also getting a change, so instead of the usual smoke and stun grenades, they will be more like secondary abilities. Our source believes this change can be controversial, but it’s an essential change. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s verticality based gameplay makes grenades not as useful. Lastly, Call of Duty 2050 will not have a zombies mode.
This rumor is drastically different from the last one we covered, which posited that 2023’s release would be essentially Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Given that that rumor was vetted by Jason Schreier, that is likely to be a real game, but it might not necessarily be the Call of Duty game coming out for 2023. There seems to be disagreement here on what Sledgehammer Games has been working on, but it seems more credible that this year’s game is a break from both the Black Ops and Modern Warfare series.
