Loadouts in Modern Warfare consist of a primary weapon, secondary weapon, tactical grenade, lethal grenade and three different “Perks,” with the combined player decisions offering a customized suite of weapons and abilities that can be equipped for multiplayer combat. Players can create different loadouts for specific objectives or game modes, such as creating a loadout with a suppressed assault rifle, a throwing knife and the heartbeat sensor, all for stealth tracking and elimination. But as it stands, the latest Call of Duty only allows players five custom loadout slots.
On Wednesday, Joel Emslie, Studio Art Director at Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward, revealed that more custom loadout slots will soon be coming to the game, possibly as soon as the next update.
“Its in mainline back at the studio and we’ve been tinkering with it. I’m not sure which update it’s in, but I think its next,” Emslie, posting under the screenname artpeasant, said in response to a reddit post calling for additional custom loadout slots. “Believe it or not, it can cause horrible bugs if not tested properly.”
While Emslie believes the new custom loadout slots will be coming in the next update to Modern Warfare, he cautioned that the new features might take longer to implement.
“I’m not certain about all this,” Emslie wrote, “so don’t get fired up on me if I’m wrong.”
While new custom loadout slots are a likely addition to the game in the near-term, in comments spotted by Charlie Intel, Emslie also discussed some other features Infinity Ward hopes to implement in future updates, most notably potential changes to Modern Warfare’s in-game “blueprints.”
Blueprints in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are custom variants of base weapons, which come pre-equipped with attachments and cosmetic changes. By earning blueprints, players can pick up weapons attachments early, instead of waiting to unlock them through leveling up.
For now, attachments and new color schemes unlocked with weapons blueprints are only available for that specific gun. But future updates may offer the ability to apply those customizations to other guns.
“At some point in the future we are hoping to let you combine different blueprint attachments together to Frankenstein weapons and then apply different camos,” Emslie wrote. “It’s really buggy, though, so I don’t have an answer as to when we would be able to push out an update for it, but we are trying to work the problem.”
Recent upgrades have made a host of improvements and additions to the base Modern Warfare game, with new maps and multiplayer modes added in December. The latest edition is “Grind,” a mode introduced in 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts in which players must retrieve dog tags from fallen enemies or allies, then get them back to a rotating objective location to score points for their team.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is available now on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
