What would Call of Duty: Modern Warfare look like as a third-person shooter? The answer: surprisingly good! This is exactly what this video shows, which is currently celebrating on Reddit:
Accidental 3rd person gameplay from survival mode from r / modern warfare
Modern Warfare also works in 3rd person
User Tkade14 plays Operator Mara in Spec Ops Survival mode, which is currently still PS4 exclusive, but will also be available for PC players from October 1, 2020.
As he explained in the comments below the post, the Glitch triggered by a resuscitation
As can be seen in the video, running, jumping and fighting works quite smoothly from a view that is normally not available. Although the operator's movements seem quite flat and weightless, it looks astonishingly good that CoD: Modern Warfare is purely based on the first person perspective.
Highlight: the knife fight
Most of the kills in the video are achieved by Tkade14 in close combat. The knife fights even look so good that some comments require that Official mode perspective close.
Tkade14 himself writes: To be honest I would play a lot more survival if I could run around like this all the time haha
I want all knife fights in third person now.
Some have hopes that an option for changing perspectives might actually be implemented in the future, for example MaxCrazybread: Yes, it is clearly pretty well worked out. We may get it sometime
. In particular, the properly functioning camera is cited by some as an argument that the feature might be planned.
In any case, the developers want to ensure sufficient playlist variety:
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After all, such a mode would allow you to see your operator skins in action. It would also not be the first time that there was one Third-person perspective in Call of Duty There is: As a separate mode, the view was already in the multiplayer of Modern Warfare 2.
However, there are currently no clear indications or even an official confirmation that something like this would also be planned for the multiplayer of Modern Warfare, especially since the changed perspective could also cause balancing problems.
Currently there is instead Trouble with multiplayer: XP has not been counted correctly since the last major update, lobbies are slow and suffer from bugs.