Developer Treyarch has announced that Endgame, the new open-world co-op mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, will be available to all players from Friday, Nov. 21. Previously, the mode was limited to players who’d fought their way through the game’s lackluster campaign.
The move comes just one week after Black Ops 7‘s launch. Endgame has been going down pretty well with players; the campaign, much less so, so the decision to lock Endgame behind it caused some frustration. Treyarch’s decision to open it up is very swift — so swift, in fact, that it seems likely it was the plan all along.
Anyone who’s already completed the campaign to unlock Endgame will get a bundle of XP boosters and other consumable buffs as recognition, Treyarch said.
Endgame is a player-versus-environment mode set across the large Avalon map from the campaign, in which solo players or teams push into escalating zones of difficulty to increase their power before escaping safely, extraction-shooter-style, to bank their advancement and rewards. “The allure of a Call of Duty roguelike doesn’t quite stick the landing,” Ford James wrote in Polygon’s Black Ops 7 multiplayer review.
