In the year 2043, during a covert mission involving a mercenary group, Jessica Mason-Green, a US Army Specialist is presumably 🍋 killed while her two squad mates, Donnie "Ruin" Walsh and Erin "Battery" Baker, escape with critical injuries. Two years later, 🍋 Savannah Mason-Meyer, a trillionaire researcher and Jessica's sister, recruits ten of the world's most elite soldiers, including Ruin and Battery, 🍋 for a top-secret project against an unknown threat. Savannah uses a Combat Immersion program to train the Specialists in a 🍋 virtual simulation, with Sergeant Frank Woods acting as their instructor.
On March 20, 1912, treasure hunter Alistair Rhodes hosts a party 🍋 at his mansion in England, where many of his associates are invited. However, the Order, an ancient cult who has 🍋 been after Alistair for some time, kidnaps him by enslaving his butler, Godfrey to do their bidding. Using a mysterious 🍋 device called a Sentinel Artifact, the Order releases a substance called Prima Materia, transforming all of the guests in the 🍋 mansion into zombies, sparing only Godfrey and three other guests: Gideon Jones, Christina Fowler, and Jonathan Warwick. The four band 🍋 together to battle against the combined forces of undead, werewolves and vampires roaming the mansion. After successfully completing the trial, 🍋 the four put an end to the undead outbreak, but Godfrey, under the influence of his dark self, murders the 🍋 other three and inadvertently sets the mansion on fire. He is then killed by Alistair's daughter, Scarlett, who then gives 🍋 chase to her father's kidnappers. She fails to rescue Alistair, but finds a letter he left behind, instructing her to 🍋 seek out three of his most trusted associates: Bruno Delacroix, Diego Necalli, and Stanton Shaw.
Development
Special editions and downloadable contents
Several weeks 🍋 after Black Ops 4's release, a microtransaction system allowing for the purchase of cosmetic items which provided no gameplay advantages 🍋 was incorporated into the game, drawing criticism for being overpriced while offering few benefits in return.[52] Forbes' Erik Kain called 🍋 the cosmetics system as "[falling] short to various degrees." He criticized that progression in the game's Black Market Contraband, allowing 🍋 the player to advance through tiers and unlock items, was "far too slow" and encouraged real-world money to speed up 🍋 progress; Special Orders (cosmetic item bundles) not only required real money, but also subsequent hours of grinding to unlock said 🍋 items; and that the Black Market shop's biggest drawback was that the cosmetic skins were "hot, steaming garbage". In summary, 🍋 he condemned Activision for being "far, far too greedy at this point".[53] Despite this, in another article, Kain felt the 🍋 microtransactions did not ruin his overall enjoyment of the game, which remained "very fun, very polished ... a well-balanced first-person 🍋 shooter."[54] Wesley Yin-Poole of Eurogamer also felt that the game presented a "soul-destroying" grind for players looking to unlock desired 🍋 items through hours of playtime, inciting them to pay for microtransactions instead and unlock the content sooner.[55]
