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\u201cOverload started with a real desire to create a new competitive mode,\u201d explains Design Director Matt Scronce. \u201cOf course we\u2019ve got the favorites \u2013 Team Deathmatch, Domination, Hardpoint, Kill Confirmed \u2013 but the team really wanted to push on a Call of Duty competitive mode. Treyarch has a long-standing support and pedigree with the competitive community, and it started with how we can make a new mode work with the competitive players across the community and the Call of Duty League on supporting that. How can we make it the best? That\u2019s where it started.\u201d <\/p>\n
As I learned during our discussion around this new mode, when the team sits down to start working on the creation of a competitive mode like Overload, it starts by establishing a different set of governing rules as opposed to making something that will have a wide-ranging appeal. They\u2019re looking at establishing factors like how it can encourage team play, and how it can utilize new gameplay mechanics like Active Camo or the Overclock system, for example. It also comes down to which community they\u2019re trying to serve \u2013 in this case, it was to give the competitive community something new. <\/p>\n
As Scronce tells me, the initial pitch for Overload was to create a new, objective-based competitive mode, something that could be played 6v6 but scaled down to 4v4 for Call of Duty League. It also needed to have an objective in the map that can be picked up and carried, and this came from inspiration from previous modes that they\u2019ve done like Capture the Flag, Uplink, Search and Destroy, and Sabotage. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked at all of them, ranging back to\u2026 2007? We looked at everything we\u2019ve done, because we\u2019ve done a lot,\u201d adds Scronce. \u201cAnd we can see what worked here, what didn\u2019t work there, and what do we think we can add to make it kind of fresh and work with Black Ops 7<\/em>? Obviously, we\u2019ve got the next-level Omnimovement and wall jumps. And some of our new 2035 era of gear, guns, and gadgets \u2013 we\u2019ve talked a lot about how those can fit and make sense in Overload.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n