Activision – which remains mired in a messy legal battle following the state of California’s lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination, harassment and a “frat boy” culture at Blizzard – has shared a handful of new Call of Duty: Vanguard details ahead of the WW2 shooter’s launch next week.
All the new information comes via the PlayStation Blog, in which Vanguard developer Sledgehammer offers details on the game’s PS5 DualSense wireless controller support alongside a look at four Operators, complete with introductory trailers for each.
Two of the Operators – Cameroonian-British paratrooper Sgt. Arthur Kingsley and Soviet sniper Lt. Polina Petrova, both playable in Vanguard’s single-player and multiplayer modes – have been seen before, but Sledgehammer has also now revealed two new multiplayer-only Operators, Daniel Take Yatsu and Padmavati Balan, explaining how each fits into the narrative world.
The more practical information comes in Sledgehammer’s second PlayStation Blog post, which details how Call of Duty: Vanguard will make use of the PlayStation 5 DualSense wireless controller’s haptic feedback and adaptive triggers.
Sledgehammer says its goal when utilising DualSense was to “simulate the trigger weight of real-world weapons”, and, to that end, there are several stages to each trigger pull in Vanguard. The “take-up” is the distance a trigger travels once a player starts to press it; the “break” is the point at which a shot is fired once a correct amount of pressure is applied; “over-travel” is how far the trigger pulls after the break point, and lastly there’s the “trigger reset”, which stops automatic firing and resets the break.