Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Beta - 4 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Radial Map & Fog Of War

Into truly contentious territory now: The new radial map that keeps the entire map shrouded in pitch black darkness - save for a 360 zone around your player.

Inside this zone, the game will highlight red blips representing other players, meaning you can get the drop on them at a steady clip. Basically, if you were already put off playing COD online thanks to how many times it feels like players always know where you are before you do them, it's only going to make things worse.

The counterpoint is hanging back and waiting to see who comes your way, though this only encourages camping or not getting involved. Moving as a team means you can canvas large swathes of the map at once, but plunging such a valuable resource into darkness means memorising any location is nigh-on impossible.

And that's before you factor in getting ambushed every five seconds.