For those who pre-ordered Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, the upcoming multiplayer beta begins next Wednesday for PlayStation 4 and the following Wednesday for Xbox One and PC. The five-day long beta will provide Treyarch with some valuable feedback ahead of the game’s November launch, but little has been known about what will be included until now.
Activision has released a trailer which details the contents of the beta. It will include 7+ modes, 3+ maps, and 8 Specialists, one of which has today been revealed for the first time (more on that later today!). On top of that, Call of Duty’s typical extensive customisation options such as Scorestreak and Weapon unlocks will feature, including the all-new Paintshop. Check out the trailer!
UPDATE: Here’s two screenshots for two new Specialists, who appear to be called Battery and Spectre.
UPDATE 2: Treyarch have just uploaded a new blog post with the full beta details. Check out the full post here or keep reading for some of the new important information. The eSports Arena won’t be available and to ensure as much of the game is stress tested as much as possible, gated progression caps will be prevalent.
MP Maps
- Hunted – This big game hunting lodge is situated beneath a waterfall in the lush mountains of Ethiopia, where rugged terrain opens up to long sightlines and a stealthy underwater pathway.
- Combine – Set in the remote Egyptian Sahara, this vertical farming and sustainability research facility plays fast and frenetic with tight interiors, an open middle and a dangerous flank path.
- Evac – An abandoned emergency evacuation zone atop an overgrown rooftop in the middle of Singapore’s flooded quarantine zone.
Game Modes
- Team Deathmatch
- Domination
- Demolition
- Kill Confirmed
- Hardpoint
- Capture the Flag
- Search & Destroy
2 New Specialists Revealed (Available after first few days of progression)
Callsign: Battery
- Real Name: Erin Baker
- Bio: The only daughter and youngest child of five siblings, Erin Baker always had to fight to get her way. Following in a family tradition of over 100 years of military service, and watching her brothers enter the US Army one-by-one, she finally graduated high school and enrolled herself. Driven to excel by her ongoing rivalry with her brothers, she volunteered for Airborne School, before crushing the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program. Heavily armored, she fearlessly operates ahead of the front lines, nimbly traversing urban environments, as she destroys HVTs with salvoes of advanced high-explosive munitions.
- Weapon: War Machine – Grenade launcher that fires bouncing grenades which detonate after a shot time or by hitting an enemy directly
- Ability: Kinetic Armor – Reactive armor that deflects enemy bullets away from the body. Still vulnerable to headshots and non-bullet damage while active.
Callsign: Spectre
- Real Name: CLASSIFIED
- Bio: Next to nothing is known about the presumed wet-works Specialist, Spectre. The designation itself is a codename agreed upon by the various agencies that have pooled their intelligence on unsolved assassinations, inferring his or her existence based on either evidence found at the scene or from fragmentary reports given by shaken bystanders. Despite heavy redaction, all accounts suggest an individual capable of extraordinary stealth, able to evade or neutralize the most sophisticated of manned or automated security set-ups. In every case, Spectre’s victims have been ‘handled’ with surgically precise mid-line wounds with rarely any signs of struggle.
- Weapon: Ripper – Spectre deploys mono-edged twin blades before gracefully dissecting victims with lethal, surgical precision.
- Ability: Active Camo: Advanced meta-materials rapidly change their properties, guiding photons over their surfaces instead of reflecting them, rendering Spectre temporarily invisible.
