Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Campaign Does Not Have Difficulty Options, Treyarch Explains Why

For arsenic agelong arsenic Call of Duty campaigns person existed, truthful has the enactment to play them astatine whichever trouble suits you best. Whether recruit, normal, hardened, oregon veteran, semipermanent COD players cognize their level. But this year’s entry, Black Ops 7, won’t fto you pick.

Black Ops 7 has a run that tin beryllium played solo oregon successful co-op for up to 4 players. As portion of that, the trouble scales based connected however galore are playing, and cannot beryllium adjusted successful the settings.

“For the difficulty, it's baked in," subordinate originative manager Miles Leslie told IGN successful a caller interview. “We've built it for solo oregon four-player squads arsenic well. You cannot prime a trouble similar past games. We've baked it successful due to the fact that you person to attack a co-op run differently, and we wanted to marque definite the missions felt close for solo players — we're not forgetting astir you, we emotion you — but besides due to the fact that it is simply a societal acquisition we privation to marque definite it's fun, but the close magnitude of challenging for two, three, and 4 players arsenic well.”

So, nary much veteran-level runs for single-player fans successful this year's Call of Duty. Are you idiosyncratic who enjoys investigating yourself with the toughest challenges COD campaigns person to offer? Are you disappointed by the information that Black Ops 7 won’t person this enactment astatine launch?

For now, you tin cheque retired my afloat preview of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. For much from the devs, cheque retired their thoughts connected Call of Duty being called "lazy," the proliferation of “goofy skins,” and however generative AI is being utilized successful Black Ops.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.