Det er lige nu muligt at afprøve Blackout via en stor beta, og indtrykkene lader til at være positive. Dog er der stadig mange der er skuffede over, at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 ikke har nogen kampagne. Rygterne har svirret om manglende tid og ressourcer, og nu udtaler studiet sig om processen.
I et interview med Game Informer afslører studiechef Dan Bunting, at der er sket meget i løbet af udviklingen.
"We've said development is a journey. You try a lot of ideas and things. The game that we are making has evolved over time, and that's just a part of development too. I can't even remember a single game that we've made, that hasn't had a dramatic change in the prototyping stage. We wanted to make a game built entirely around social gameplay experiences, because that's what we feel we're most passionate about."
<em>"There wasn't a campaign as people defer to it anyway. People say; "what happened to the campaign", but there wasn't a campaign in the first place."