Battle royale style games took off in popularity last year thanks to PlayerUnknown`s Battlegrounds and reached new heights with Fortnite. Now, the Call of Duty franchise has hopped onto the fray with Black Ops 4`s new Blackout mode. If you haven`t experienced battle royale for yourself, but plan on hopping into Black Ops 4, this is for you. We`ll run through some of the basics of the mode and cover the ways in which Call of Duty puts its own spin on it.Battle Royale 101First off, you can enter matches either as a lone wolf (solo), with a partner (duos), or a team of four (quads); you`ll be matched with up to 100 players who choose the same group size option. Every player gets flown over the map in the same trajectory--visualized when you pull up the map--and it`s up to you when and where to drop. Exiting the helicopter has you deploying your wingsuit, and you can glide horizontally to go further out or look straight down to drop faster.The overall goal is to be the last player or team standing since everyone has one life, which makes combat encounters much more tense and risky compared to traditional Call of Duty multiplayer. Now more than ever, you should be aware of your surroundings; that or have a teammate watch your back. Also keep in mind that you can revive squadmates if they fall, but be sure to do so before they bleed out or take more damage from enemies.Another basic ingredient of battle royale is the impending pressure of a deadly circle closing in on the battlefield. Every match has the circle contracting on a random area of the map, and it gets smaller as the match goes on to force remaining players into combat. If you get caught outside the circle, you`ll take damage until you can get into the safe zone.A Huge Map To TraverseBlackout`s map is much larger than any previous Call of Duty map since it has to accommodate 100 players. However with size of the map, it also induces a slower pace; so expect plenty of downtime between encounters. This change ...
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