Modern Warfare dev explains why they give up the "symmetrical" 3-way cards

Jeffrey Smith, director of multiplayer design at Infinity Ward, gave a more detailed explanation of the design of the card for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, explaining why they abandon the "symmetrical" three-way design.

Since 2012, Treyarch's Black of Ops 2, Call of Duty uses a proven card design philosophy based primarily on three-way, almost always symmetrical cards.

Fan favorites like Raid and Standoff have made the design popular, but more and more CoD players are beginning to tire of symmetrical designs, and Modern Warfare is looking to upset it.

A key element of Modern Warfare, which developers have frequently repeated, is the focus on realism, a radical change from the very futuristic style of Black Ops 4, or even the latest Infinity Ward game, Infinite Warfare.

Developer Jeffrey Smith told GameInformer: "Many of the recently designed CoD plans have been more symmetrical and give the cards an arena-based shooter look.

"But going to Modern Warfare, we wanted to keep that realism, and every time you start making symmetrical layouts, it really starts to throw people's brains in. Humans can easily understand the patterns, to hide those three ways. "

Maps always have three paths, but they are much more complicated and complicated, making their structure more obscure.

Smith also explains the use by the team of "hero buildings" – structures that are the main features of the map, usually because they host a target like a hard spot or a bomb site. .

Showing the map of the Grazna raid, Smith says it fits his mind because it looks like the type of map made for Call of Duty 2.

"I think a lot of games are going to cut a lot of stuff, and not let you climb on it," Smith said, claiming that IW had "taken the plastic packaging from grandmother's furniture" with the new game, with more movement without restriction.

That the risk of giving up the paid three-lane design style remains to be seen remains, but for Call of Duty players tired of the symmetrical maps of previous games, it will be a welcome change.

Modern Warfare is available Oct. 25 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.