While Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is adding wall-jumping to players’ repertoire of advanced movement options, developer Treyarch isn’t taking a page from its 2015 futuristic title Black Ops 3 by incorporating wall-running or Thrust Jumps for one simple reason: It’s too early for that.
Speaking to GamesRadar, Treyarch associate creative director Miles Leslie reiterated that Black Ops 7, which takes place in the year 2035, is more of a direct follow-up to 2012’s Black Ops 2, which took place in the then-far-fetched future of 2025.
“Since we knew we were going back into that timeline, Black Ops 2 really gave us a foundation for the technology available,” Leslie said. Meanwhile, Black Ops 3 takes place further into the future in the year 2065, giving Treyarch some canonical limitations on where to take its Omnimovement systems. In other words, wall-running just isn’t possible in the time Black Ops 7 takes place in.
