A new video has been released for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare featuring the game's new supply drop feature that allows players to advanced their rank and earn new gear, weapons and customization accessories from the supply drops.
The video comes courtesy of The Tech Game. Now one of the big new changes is how players are able to earn rewards for the XP they gain outside of ranked matches. This gives casual players something to look forward to while also unlocking and earning some neat perks and customization goodies while they play, get played, own and get owned in one of the bigger (if not the biggest) first-person shooter coming to the market.
Players will have access to more than 1,000 unlockable items from the supply drops. The drops themselves are trigged as players make kills, go on rampages or complete specific XP challenges throughout the match.
Players are then able to head to their profile and open up the supply drops to earn all sorts of unique items, accessories, customizable gear and even weapons.
Each of the supply drops are categorized in tiers; there are Enlisted drops, Professional drops and Elite drops. Depending on the drop grade determines what level item you'll end up with. The most rare of the drops are the Reinforcements, one-time use items that can help a player drastically change their performance on the battlefield, including but not limited to strikes, mechs, killstreaks and other high-level perks to unbalance the playing field in your favor.
As weapons... players will be able to earn or unlock new weapons and add them to their stash through the drops, similar to loot chests from Borderlands. The various guns are both visually distinctive and functionally varied, giving users the ability to tout dominance on the battlefield with a randomly outfitted weapon from the chests. What's more is that players are also able to customize these weapons with additional attachments (some of which can also be unlocked via the drops).
The game takes a lot of liberties with the advancement of the Call of Duty license, and Activision and Sledgehammer really seem to be aiming to keep the series relevant in the eyes of both casuals and hardcore gamers. Whether or not that pays off in the end is anyone's guess, but it looks like those in the U.K., are really digging it.
They also seem to have a lot riding on their deal with Kevin Spacey headlining the game, mostly and probably in hopes that it will generate some extra buzz around the title, and in some ways it already has.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is due for release this November on the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and for PC. Sorry, no Wii U release this time around.
