Vonderhaar Believes Black Ops 4 Players Will Be Happy With Blackout Armor Nerfs

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and its highly anticipated battle royale game mode of Blackout is set to release in ten days on Friday, October 12th. A large section of the video game community is eagerly awaiting to get their hands on the full release of Treyarch's latest entry in the popular Call of Duty franchise that has been under the guidance of well respected Call of Duty developer and Treyarch Design Director David Vonderhaar.

Blackout is expected to be one of the most popular features of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, as the Beta test for the battle royale game mode was viewed as a huge success. However, one of the key issues raised during the beta test was how the armor, especially the level 3 version, was considered to be way too powerful and of an unfair nature. These concerns led to the balancing of the armor being a major focus of Treyrch and David Vonderhaar before the title's official release.

Fortunately, David Vonderhaar took to his Twitter account on Tuesday, October 2nd and explained how he believes Call of Duty players will be very pleased with the changes that have been made to the armor in the battle royale game mode of Blackout for Black Ops 4. Responding to a tweet asking him if it would be possible to travel 10 days into the future, David Vonderhaar responded that he has already been to the future and players are very happy with the nerfs that have been applied to the armor in Blackout.

I’ve been to the future. I’ll tell you what happens. You are all very pleased with the nerfs we did to the armor in #Blackout. https://t.co/rIL9YEk1hd

— Lord Vonderhaar (@DavidVonderhaar) October 2, 2018

This statement from Lord David Vonderhaar himself will likely be received very well by players who have been anxiously awaiting to get their hands on the full release version of Blackout but were concerned that the level 3 armor in the battle royale game mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would still be too powerful.

Popular battle royale players, such as Michael "shroud" Grzesiek, have been very vocal about how they believe Treyarch should go about balancing the level 3 armor that was seen as the main complaint among many players during the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout Beta. However, it remains to be seen exactly how David Vonderhaar and the rest of the Treyarch team have gone about nerfing the level 3 armor.

Eager fans will have to wait until Friday, October 12th in order to finally see how the armor nerfs that David Vonderhaar has referenced will affect the battle royale experience of Blackout in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

(cover photo courtesy of GameInformer and Treyarch)