Everything we know about 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is going hard on multiplayer.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 was officially revealed Thursday at a live community event with details around what the latest installment will entail, including new multiplayer gameplay details, a new battle royale-style mode, and fresh takes on the beloved Zombies mode. Although there is no traditional single player campaign, there's still a lot to experience.

The nearly hour-long reveal included a ton of information and we've boiled it down to some of the most important things to know and what cool things to look out for when the game launches Oct. 12.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer has always been the biggest focus of the Call of Duty series and that doesn't seem to be changing in the slightest.

Black Ops 4's standard multiplayer mode, revealed with an action-packed trailer, is all about the classes. Five different classes of characters were revealed that each have different abilities to help your squad take down enemies.

Each playable class has its own set of strengths that cater to different style of playing. There's the Crash class that can heal teammates, the Recon class that can improve team visibility, the Seraph class that can deploy a spawn beacon, the Torque class that can lay down razor wire and barricades, and the Firebreak class that carries a reactor core to set people on fire with.

Aside from that, the developers at Treyarch really went deep into the weapon customization options with tons of different attachments and upgrades for each gun. Additionally, guns will now have predictable spray patterns that players can adjust with and master, similar to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Fans of boots-on-the-ground gameplay will be happy to hear that there is no boost jumping or wall running in the game, but there will be a new grappling hook.

Oh and there's also a new battle royale-style mode, because of course there is.

Blackout

Blackout is a new mode coming in Black Ops 4 that piggy-backs off the recent success of of battle-royale game like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite, placing a bunch of players into one giant map to battle it out to the last person standing.

Described as more than 1,500-times bigger than Nuke Town, the map will bring together tons of weapons and characters from past Black Ops games for what will probably be a very chaotic experience.

Blackout will include land, sea, and air vehicles as well, which makes it slightly more unique than other popular battle royale games, but aside from that it seems very similar to several other games we've seen pop up over the past few years.

Zombies

The new take on the infamous Zombies game mode in Black Ops 4 is a whole new storyline within the Zombies universe that kicked off with Call of Duty: World at War in 2008. Here's a look at one of the trailers for a map called IX:

This is truly the most bizarre take yet on Zombies, as the player characters seem to be going on a spiritual journey to what appears to be ancient Rome where they must ditch their trusty guns to slice and bash zombies and other new enemies with swords, axes, and maces.

But that's not the only way to play in Black Ops 4's Zombies. Here's another trailer featuring the same playable characters but in a zombie situation in their own timeline, this time on a cruise ship map called Voyage of Despair:

A third map called Blood of the Dead that features some classic Zombies characters will also be available to play.

New to Zombies aside from the radical setting changes is customizability that allows players and the developers to come up with different kinds of game modes within Zombies to keep things fresh or just mess around with. There will also be mission-type challenges called Callings to give players different objectives and keep things exciting.

In addition to all the multiplayer action, Black Ops 4 is the first Call of Duty game to be released on Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net platform, which means you can connect socially with players who are playing Blizzard games or Destiny 2.