The Infection map has more visual character than its predecessor, and also breaks down in more intriguing ways. It takes place in and under a branch of Burgertown, queen of post-apocalyptic fastfood joints, and is home to a handful of new zombie types, including paunchy elites in Goliath suits. Given a certain amount of covering fire and nerves of steel, ball-carriers are able to whip themselves through or over defensive formations with insulting ease.Ĭhapter two of Advanced Warfare’s zombie career is a marked improvement on the first. But it’s Uplink, I think, that changes the most. It allows for rapid flanking and rearguard actions when assaulting objectives, and makes the tricked-out SMG wielder a true terror in vanilla deathmatch. Rope trickĪll the Ascendance modes feel different for the grapple gun’s inclusion. It’s fiddly at first-you’ll fetch up against plenty of intervening objects-but satisfying to master. The gun can be fired twice in succession and has a quick cooldown, which makes chaining moves a cinch: you might launch yourself down an alley, boost-jump at the corner to reorient, then grapple through a window to catch a sniper on the trot.

It replaces your custom exo ability (though you can still dash, boost jump and slide as normal) and is a joy to wield. The grappling gun is available in one playlist, and confined at the time of writing to the Ascendance maps.

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