Blackout's Revive Timer Has Been Extended, Other Changes Revealed

Just days away from the full launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and the battle royale mode Blackout, new changes have been revealed thanks to Swedish YouTuber Tobias “tejbz” Öjerfalk. In a video posted earlier this week, tejbz revealed that he had spoken to Treyarch’s studio design director David Vonderhaar and had confirmed several changes made to the game since the open beta last month.

The biggest changes seem to be that the time to revive someone will be extended, emotes will be making their way to the game at some point, and that level three armor will be weaker on release than in the beta. It seems there is a little discrepancy on the exact amount to time reviving someone will take, with some sources, such as tejbz’s video, pointing to double the time from beta, which would be around six seconds, while other sources seem to indicate it will only be increased to about five seconds.

Emotes have already proven to be a popular resource in games such as Fortnite, so it’s no surprise that they’ll be making an appearance in Blackout as well. Additionally, a nerf to level three armor is unsurprising, being something that was highly criticized during the beta as being just a bit too strong. Again, we’re not quite sure exactly how much of a nerf it will receive, however anything is better than nothing.

For more information on the game, check out our list of the multiplayer maps revealed so far, here.