Summary
Yesterday, Activision and Treyarch outlined their plans forCall of Duty: Black Ops 6’ssecond season. It included four new weapons, two new operators, perks, weapon mods, and five new maps. In the wake ofplayer discontentandwaning player numbers, it was the perfect opportunity for the company to get fans back on side. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have done that.
Since its announcement, multiple threads have popped up on the ever-vocal Black Ops 6subreddit, with players lamenting the state and size ofSeason 2’smaps.
Black Ops 6 Players Really Aren’t Keen On The New Lifeline Or Bullet Maps
Over the course of Season 2, it was confirmed that there would be five total maps coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6— three at launch and two that would likely appear in Season 2 Reloaded. Of these, four are brand new maps, Bounty, Dealership, Lifeline, and Bullet, and one returning, the popular skate park map, Grind. Following their announcements, two are already being slated for being too small and appeasing the “brainrot crowd”.
Lifeline was the first map tocome under firefrom the Black Ops 6 community. Based on a yacht, Lifeline was compared to Black Ops 2’s Highjacked map, except “absolutely claustrophobic/small asf”, which one player said “has unfortunately been the trend lately.”
“Brainrot” was a common theme in the Lifeline complaint thread, with multiple commenters using the word to articulate how they feel Black Ops 6’s maps are compared to previous Call of Duty entries.
One user summed up the thoughts of the community best when they said, “It’s gotten out of hand. We seriously do not need anymore [small maps]. There are more than enough of them in the launch maps and there’s the whole Faceoff playlist if you want the brainrot.”
It’s gotten out of hand. We seriously do not need anymore [small maps].
Shortly after the Lifeline thread went live, a similarone was postedabout the mid-season map, Bullet.
Seemingly set on a Japanese Shinkansen, it seems Treyarch is trying to evoke the feelings seen in the movie Bullet Train. The map is described as “small-sized” on the Call of Duty blog, and, as you may guess, players aren’t happy with that.
TheParadiseBirdsaid, “How the fk are they meaning to put 12 players on a f*ing train. This is gonna be a mess; I can already feel the stress and stupid deaths.”
Once again, brainrot was the order of business, with Fabulous_Commentsaying, “Bro, just make a bigger map than these TikTok brainrot maps.”
This is gonna be a mess; I can already feel the stress and stupid deaths.
While only two of the five new maps are classified by Activision as “small-sized”, it seems the fans are yearning for larger, more tactical maps, and until the company adds them, these complaints will continue to arise.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
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Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.
