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The 48-player match I played on Red Star, a multi-square block chunk of Moscow and the biggest map I saw all day, was a disaster. Though, the Blitz mode may need some tweaking on certain maps. Keep all three pacings on and you'll get a mix of everything. If standard 6v6 is your thing, then turn off Blitz and that's all you'll ever get. After two consecutive years of weekly playlist updates that add and remove mode variants seemingly at random, it's nice that Vanguard's is somewhat democratizing the process by letting you set the size of matches. The smallest Blitz match I played was 12v12, and the largest was a whopping 24v24. The exact number of players can vary based on which of Vanguard's 16 maps you're playing, but we mostly stuck to the standard 6v6 Tactical mode. Each of the three, Tactical, Assault, and Blitz, dictates the max player count of the match. Sledgehammer hopes players will use them more strategically in Tactical mode, one of three combat pacing preferences available on Vanguard's matchmaking screen. It rarely feels like a good idea to stay in the same place for long in Call of Duty's frantic multiplayer, so I wasn't inspired to remodel walls with murder holes like I would in Rainbow Six Siege. You can melee individual planks to open limited sightlines to the other side, make a new door by shooting them to bits, or sprint straight through them to surprise whoever's on the other side.Д«arricades sounded like a neat idea when Activision showed it off in a press briefing last month, but I didn't get much tactical use out of them in my initial multiplayer matches. For one, every map now has wooden barricades pre-placed on certain doors, windows, and walls. Sledgehammer may be hesitating to make sweeping changes to Create A Class, but there are some interesting things going on with Vanguard's maps. It's a shame that also means Vanguard will probably be less weird than its predecessors. You can see how that would be a design constraint-how do you make an M1 Garand that feels good in 6v6 and in a battle royale? Considering how poorly that went for Cold War when its 30+ weapons entered Warzone all at once, it makes sense that Sledgehammer wouldn't want to rock the boat with guns or attachments that can't neatly slot into Warzone's meta. Sledgehammer has already committed to integrating all of Vanguard's guns, attachments, cosmetics, and operators into Warzone sometime after launch. I hope that changes in the final game, but I suspect there's a pretty good reason it won't-Call of Duty: Warzone.

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I certainly haven't found anything as malleable as Modern Warfare's FiNN LMG, an otherwise typical machine gun that could transform into a deadly hipfire-only mingun with a series of specialized attachments. Scrolling through the Vanguard attachments present in my build, I didn't spot many that go beyond incremental tweaks to recoil or magazine size (a complaint I also had with Cold War). Which is kind of a shame, because Gunsmith is at its best when it feels like an experimental gun factory.

Existing Warzone players can slip into Vanguard like a worn glove with guns that behave more or less the same as what they're already shooting in Verdansk-the Thompson feels like your standard MP5, the PPSH shoots the same as the one that's already in Warzone, and the German STG is the flexible M4 analog. The standard multiplayer experience is so similar, actually, that Vanguard's WW2 setting disappears into the background. As someone who thought Modern Warfare reinvigorated multiplayer and thinks Cold War is the Call of Duty equivalent of flat soda, it's a step up from last year.

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