Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Spec Ops Survival Mode is a timed Playstation 4 exclusive, Activision has revealed.
The mode, teased tonight in the PlayStation version of Modern Warfare’s new campaign trailer, is exclusive to PS4 until 1st October 2020. Confirmation comes in the small print of the video at the 2:17 mark.
Last week Activision said “most” Call of Duty: Modern Warfare post-launch content would release simultaneously across all platforms, but PS4 players would get “an exciting Day 1 advantage”. Is this Special Ops mode it?
As you’d expect, the news PS4 owners get more Call of Duty than PC and Xbox One owners for an entire year isn’t going down well. The thread on the Modern Warfare subreddit about it is packed with complaints – and the language used is not family-friendly.
Modern Warfare is the first crossplay Call of Duty game, and it also ditches the userbase-splitting season pass. Infinity Ward had said post-launch gameplay content set to release simultaneously across all platforms includes new multiplayer maps, new multiplayer modes and Spec Ops missions, among other things.
Publisher Activision’s deal with Sony has in recent years secured timed-exclusivity on content for Call of Duty, much to the annoyance of PC and Xbox One players. With 2018’s Black Ops 4 the timed-exclusivity was for seven days. For Modern Warfare’s Spec Ops Survival mode, it’s an entire year. And the exclusivity ends just as 2020’s Call of Duty game, rumoured to be Black Ops 5, will likely come out and most fans will be ready to move on.
