Looks like Call of Duty: WWII is ditching regenerating health

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As more details about Call of Duty: WWII emerge in the wake of its official reveal, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Activision and Sledgehammer Games aren’t shying away from mixing up the series’ formula, even if it means abandoning features and gameplay that have become trademarks of the brand.

Talking with Polygon, Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield hinted that the series’ trademark health-regeneration would not be returning in Call of Duty: WWII—at least not in the single-player campaign.


“You have to worry about every bullet,” Schofield said. “You’re not the superhero. You can’t just stand there taking seven bullets, ducking, shooting again. It’s refreshing for us to deal with recruits who aren’t tier-one warriors, to show that vulnerability. They’re naive. It’s been a really cool challenge creating this different kind of gameplay.”


Exact details are still scarce, but this new health system will likely depend either on randomly scattered health-packs, dedicated medic characters, who can provide healing, or some combination of the two. No matter the approach, the change will require players to use deeper tactics than just tanking damage and then dropping behind cover.

To restate an important point, however, there’s absolutely no word on whether or not multiplayer will take a similar approach. Regenerating health is such a crucial component of the pace of the game online that it’s difficult to imagine Call of Duty: WWII moving away from it, but perhaps Sledgehammer does indeed have a big surprise in store.

Additionally, the developer emphasized that the main character—Private Ronald “Red” Daniels—won’t have any special abilities, with only his wits getting him through each fight. The absence of any special abilities or futuristic technology from previous installments will have the player running through more conventional shooter combat, supplemented by the grittier tools of the time like knives, grenades, and smoke bombs.

The Polygon interview also revealed that players would take on the role of more than one soldier throughout the campaign. This is common practice in Call of Duty campaigns, and while Sledgehammer has yet to elaborate on the device, shots from the trailer showing vehicle driving and other unconnected set-pieces could suggest a similar pattern to the periodic character swapping of older installments. It is confirmed, however, that the Axis forces will never be playable within the campaign.

GameSpot also got a look at the recent behind-closed-doors demo, during which animation director Chris Stone discussed another classic gameplay mechanic that would be set aside in Call of Duty: WWII.

“There is no stacking up on a door, and breaching a door, and flash-banging 12 guys and killing them with one shot,” Stone explained. “It’s just, what would you do if you were a kid with no training? Maybe you’d peek around the corner, maybe you’d take a shot, and maybe you’d kind of move somewhere… In terms of trying to recreate a visual experience of World War II, it’s all those little things that add up.”


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TOXICPosted:

I kind of prefer this to be completely honest

plebPosted:

if this comes carries into multiplayer you can say good bye to kill streaks. Probably would encourage sniping.

IlcamorristaPosted:

Im glad they done this. More realistic in the terms of the real war.

DusknoirPosted:

Yoke Hmm seems more realistic, but its going to be hard to adapt too.


well more of a reason to camp in the spawns now.

YokePosted:

Hmm seems more realistic, but its going to be hard to adapt too.

lolohnoeszszPosted:

Oh please no this gives me conniptions of the COD1 days where playing on Veteran in the campaign was super hard. Don't make me relive that experience :(.

TendercrispPosted:

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Two_Faced
Dismiss It better not go online. If it will, good players get punished while the casual kids get rewarded. CoD is always pushing the " sit in a corner " aspect of this game.

Basically if you run around you're at a disadvantage to casual kids with 1kdrs that camp in corner/window all game.



Lol. Rage quit then. I would love to just lay around a corner with a ak74u and silencer with you around.


The whole mentality of buying a game just to sit in a corner and be a mediocre player has always made me curious. Never understood the fun/joy of getting home from school/work then spending 3 hours sitting in corners. A 10 minute game and people go like 5 - 2 and just hide. People that do that must be the worst players and have the most boring lives.


lmaooo you must be so bad

DismissPosted:

Two_Faced
Dismiss It better not go online. If it will, good players get punished while the casual kids get rewarded. CoD is always pushing the " sit in a corner " aspect of this game.

Basically if you run around you're at a disadvantage to casual kids with 1kdrs that camp in corner/window all game.



Lol. Rage quit then. I would love to just lay around a corner with a ak74u and silencer with you around.


The whole mentality of buying a game just to sit in a corner and be a mediocre player has always made me curious. Never understood the fun/joy of getting home from school/work then spending 3 hours sitting in corners. A 10 minute game and people go like 5 - 2 and just hide. People that do that must be the worst players and have the most boring lives.

PCPosted:

Everyone just needs to shut the hell up and wait for the game to come out and then be the judge. Let's all just prey that this is a good call of duty.

SkatesPosted:

They should just do this for the campaign, as we have hardcore playlists for a reason and this is just a video game. It doesn't need to be exactly like real life.