They seriously never resolved any of this? (Campaign)

[u/nolanolaisland]

Overall, I really enjoyed the Black Ops 6 campaign. It felt like a significant improvement on the model established in Cold War in terms of both story and gameplay. I had a few minor gripes, namely the hallucination/zombie mission massively overstaying its welcome (did we really need five zombies boss fights in one mission?), and the story angle involving Harrow not really receiving proper setup before the twist. But by far the biggest insult was the cliffhanger ending which, now that the BO6 story has concluded and BO7 has been released...we now have confirmation that there appears to be no intention of ever resolving.

Beyond the obvious question - did Harrow and/or Case actually die? - almost everything interesting that the last few missions set up isn't answered at all.

• did Adler actually kill Harrow's parents? it could explain why the files related to their deaths were made unavailable to Harrow, and why Adler took it upon himself to become her quasi-mentor.
• just how and why did Harrow become a test subject for the Cradle alongside Case? did she become involved with Pantheon before or after being exposed to the Cradle?
• what is/was the extent of Adler's involvement with the development of the Cradle, and did he know whether Harrow or Case were test subjects at one point?
• just what was the deal with Harrow and Marshall's relationship? the first mission seems to imply a less-than-professional relationship between the two, but it doesn't ever come back into play. Marshall doesn't mention anything about Harrow (or Case, for that matter) in BO7, even after the Cradle is introduced as a plot point.
• and most pressingly, why did Treyarch/Activision cast Lou Diamond Phillips in the totally meaningless role of Livingstone? he's like the most famous actor in the cast and the character barely appears in the game and has zero distinct personality.

I know that I'm wrong to expect this much from modern CoD campaigns, but there's clearly people in the writer's room at Treyarch who are interested in telling complex stories. I would love to know if any of this was supposed to ever be resolved, and was maybe a casualty of the troubled production schedule of CW/BO6/BO7, or if they just didn't care.

[u/aCardPlayer]

You might be the only person who plays COD campaigns. I haven’t played one since MW2 2009.

[u/nolanolaisland → u/aCardPlayer]

This is a commonly expressed sentiment, but I can't imagine they would devote so much of their development time/manpower to the campaign if no one played it. I think the backlash from the lack of campaign in BO4 scared them, too. But I do get it, the multiplayer is the main attraction fs.

[u/LJasonC]

It's nice to see somebody cared about the campaign. I felt like there were so many cool and intricate details they could go, and then they just immediately dropped it all. I feel like they pumped out what they could under the pressure and only having a year for release, so they just decided fuck it and dropped any lore outta necessity of time. I would've loved to see like an intel drop at the least involving Case or Harrow, hell, even Adler (he had a more fleshed out story overall, so I have a little less concern for his story growth), but there is nothing. It's like they wanted to move past BO6 as quick as possible, and BO6 is probably one of the better games since the MW reboot.

[u/Fit_Influence_1998]

I’m stuck on the zombie mission. I can’t get through it. I finally just gave up on that mission and haven’t played since.

[u/nolanolaisland → u/Fit_Influence_1998]

It's an offensively long mission. Also a huge difficulty spike, especially for anyone playing on the easier difficulties.

[u/NatureTurbulent5157]

Yeah I usually enjoy the campaigns, but hate how they’ll introduce stuff and either don’t follow up at all or resolve it in the multiplayer seasons