Call of Duty

Cecot – We felt like with the DMZ beta, we got to try a bunch of stuff in live, which was really, really good. For learnings… there’s a lot of learnings. We added the Active Duty slots post-launch, because we didn’t have persistent inventory in DMZ, as a way for us to keep persistence on characters so you keep runs going. And then we added Exfil Streaks that gave you different Perks or Traits. And that was a feature that came out of necessity; we didn’t have a persistent inventory at the time. But in the end, it made us unique to a lot of extraction shooters where you had these different chara

Joe Cecot, Studio Multiplayer Creative Director – We like to think of DMZ as an action extraction shooter. When we made Call of Duty: Warzone, we looked at what’s happening in the genre of battle royales. We always talked about, let’s skate where the puck is going, not where the puck is. And so, Call of Duty: Warzone for us was the kind of action BR with the addition of parachutes and buybacks and gulags. For DMZ, we’ve been paying attention to the genre. We try and play every different extraction shooter that comes out, or even games that are slightly similar, just to see what’s clicking with