Infinity Ward working on 'next-gen' Call of Duty?

[mankind]

Job ad calls for animator to work on 'next-generation technologies'

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward seems to be searching for staff to work on a next-generation sequel.
The studio has put out a job ad for a senior animator, who it says should have "an interest in working with next-generation technologies". The listing drops no other hints as to what it's working on, but PS3 and 360 approach their seventh birthdays, any mention of 'next-gen' conjures up tantalising thoughts.
Wii U is, of course, just around the corner and could be considered 'next-gen', if not the big technical leap we'll be expecting with the next PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
It's also not the first time a next-generation Call of Duty has been teased: Black Ops developer Treyarch also put out a job ad last year specifically calling for a senior platform engineer to help bring the game "to a new console".
Again, Wii U or Vita would seem like the most likely consoles in question, but could preparations for the next Sony and MS powerhouses have begun?

[ Source: Via GameSpot ]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS

[TekkenLord]

is anyone surprise by this. just like madden, they really milking this game to death.

[keefy]

Maybe it means they are going to utilise a newer engine as the base for the new game.

[$Greatness$]

Fuck Activision, Infinity Ward and Gheyarch. They need to be working on common sense. But I digress...

[nextgen3]

its good news for COD fans in genral i think, but Jason West and Vince Zampella, former co-founders of Infinity Ward are not there anymore i think they should really change the IW name because J&V where the leaders of the MW & IW franchise an COD it nothing but the same old same old these days, if MW4 is coming to next-gen consoles its got to change. cod4 was bloody awesome mw2 was meh alrite an mw3 is just aload of bollox online from MP side of things.

[Metfanant]

makes complete sense...the next game will be a Treyarch title...then it depends on when Sony/MS decide to pull the trigger on their next consoles...we might get one more IW game this gen...and then its on to the next gen consoles...it makes perfect sense that they would be readying their next gen CoD engine now...

[Inzane2050]

It would be nice if they could update the engine without it having to be on next generation consoles.

[Metfanant]

It would be nice if they could update the engine without it having to be on next generation consoles.

that doesn't make any sense though...its a waste of time and money to do so...why create a new engine that will only be used for a couple more years? And then have to create a THIRD engine for the next generation to take advantage of the new hardware?....no way..

[Inzane2050]

that doesn't make any sense though...its a waste of time and money to do so...why create a new engine that will only be used for a couple more years? And then have to create a THIRD engine for the next generation to take advantage of the new hardware?....no way..

I said "update." Not "create." They haven't touched the engine once in the past several years. With all the money they make, they are the only studio that doesn't update their engine regularly if at all.

[Metfanant]

I said "update." Not "create." They haven't touched the engine once in the past several years. With all the money they make, they are the only studio that doesn't update their engine regularly if at all.

thats actually completely untrue...

CoD4: IW 3.0
W@W: modified version of 3.0 (then it was modified again and used in James Bond games)
MW2: IW 4.0 (included texture streaming which 3.0 did not have)
BLIPS: modified 3.0
MW3: MW3 Engine (renamed to MW3 engine instead of IW 5.0 because the game was co-developed by other studios and not just Infinity Ward)

No, this runs on the MW3 engine, which would typically be named IW5 but out of respect of our co-development partners at Sledgehammer games we are simply referring to it as the MW3 engine. It is upgraded from the engine we used in Modern Warfare 2. There have been a lot of advances, mostly in streaming tech to allow us to get the scale of levels we're doing in Modern Warfare 3 and maintain gameplay consistency with the framerate and smoothness. We've got a lot of audio stuff mostly adding situational awareness like bullet wizzbys and other subtle upgrades. A lot of lighting stuff updates as well.

[Inzane2050]

I mean update it visually. IW and Vavle are both stuck on that.

[Metfanant]

I mean update it visually. IW and Vavle are both stuck on that.

so improving the streaming tech to allow for larger scale environments, and lighting improvements are not visual updates now?...

come on man...

I hate defending IW, but they took a stance early on with their games this gen that they would not sacrifice performance for sheer visual fidelity and they have stuck to it...being dead set on 60fps keeps them quite handicapped with what they are able to do in regard to other areas of the visuals...there is a reason that KZ and Uncharted only run at 30fps...

[Inzane2050]

The lighting improvements were very minor. Also I am not talking about technical fidelity. They can improve the visuals without adding new rendering effects. And 60fps games can be improved visually no different than 30fps games.

[Metfanant]

The lighting improvements were very minor. Also I am not talking about technical fidelity. They can improve the visuals without adding new rendering effects. And 60fps is no more a handicap than 30fps when it comes to updating visuals.

I'm sorry...you're just lost...this is pointless, you're just hating...

/discussion

[Inzane2050]

Whatever you say.... Blame yourself for being ignorant.

[Metfanant]

Whatever you say.... Blame yourself for being ignorant.

ignorant? lol...come on dude...you've been running in circles this entire thread...your claims have all been completely false, and you're still going...you're simply hating...its sad lol...

you said

They haven't touched the engine once in the past several years.

so i showed you evidence that they did...so then you said...

I mean update it visually. IW and Vavle are both stuck on that.

so i pointed out the visual improvements they made...and then you said...

The lighting improvements were very minor. Also I am not talking about technical fidelity. They can improve the visuals without adding new rendering effects. And 60fps games can be improved visually no different than 30fps games.

i mean its just plain COMICAL how you structure your arguments...you keep sidestepping your own arguments in order to continue your hate of the games...sad really...its a video game, just enjoy it for what it is...

[Inzane2050]

I'm not talking in circles. All of the Call of Duty games are identical in visuals just like Valve's games. Am I wrong? It sounds like you just want to attack me.

[Metfanant]

I'm not talking in circles. All of the Call of Duty games are identical in visuals just like Valve's games. Am I wrong?

yes...you are 100% wrong

[Cuguy]

yes...you are 100% wrong

Couldn't agree more. It is categorically false to proclaim CoD games haven't advanced in visuals.

[Inzane2050]

Then how is it then that the only added thing is bloom? And the bloom was only just added recently. What exactly has improved visually over the course of the current generation CoD games if you don't mind elaborating?

[Metfanant]

Then how is it then that the only added thing is bloom? And the bloom was only just added recently. What exactly has improved visually over the course of the current generation CoD games if you don't mind elaborating?

can you read!? there are examples in this thread already...christ....lol

lets look around the net a little bit...

Well I’ll tell you one thing, I’ve worked on a lot of engines over my lifetime and spent a lot of time putting graphics in to them and this thing is Porsche. And what I mean by that is that it is stream-lined, everything in it is perfectly freaking clean. You can tell it’s been worked on for years. It’s easy to upgrade.

We worked with engines before that are like f***ing spaghetti. You can’t work on a part and put it back in without messing with everything else. Modern Warfare 3′s levels now are so much bigger than the old ones because they go more vertically, they have a bigger footprint and on top of that, higher fidelity, more textures and a lot more detail.

and some more...

If you put Modern Warfare 2 next to Modern Warfare 3 you would see a huge difference. Look at all the character models, look at all the gun models, look at the reflections, look at the water. There is so much that we’ve added, so when someone says ‘cut and paste’, I don’t even want to talk to them because they don’t know. They just don’t know. They have no idea.

[TEJ2025]

MW2 and MW3 are identical visually. Just as World at War looks just like Black Ops. Their might be technical things that that are not seen while playing but for the most part the games do "Look" the same.

I hate defending IW, but they took a stance early on with their games this gen that they would not sacrifice performance for sheer visual fidelity and they have stuck to it...being dead set on 60fps keeps them quite handicapped with what they are able to do in regard to other areas of the visuals...there is a reason that KZ and Uncharted only run at 30fps...

Ironically COD is probably the worst performing game of all shooters out. It has the most frame rate problems in any FPS I've ever played.

[Bigdoggy]

you have to pay attention from when this all started going mainstream. MW1 aka COD4 if you look at it now it's pretty meh in terms of how it looks, after that look at MW2, then look at MW3, you can visually see the difference man. lol

Really though, I don't like the COD series, I think it started getting stale right after Black Ops. Visually there is a difference, like I said before, but it's not much of a difference to make me want to play it for a few months or even a week. I bought MW2 and traded it in after a week, I borrowed black ops and gave it back after a week or so, I never bought or played MW3, honestly, it's just not different enough and they keep on scaling that game down to cater to a lesser crowd, it's quite a turn off.

[Metfanant]

MW2 and MW3 are identical visually.

no, just no...

Just as World at War looks just like Black Ops. Their might be technical things that that are not seen while playing but for the most part the games do "Look" the same.

they LOOK similar because they are based on the same engine...its not my fault that you can't look past that...

Ironically COD is probably the worst performing game of all shooters out. It has the most frame rate problems in any FPS I've ever played.

thats really funny...because...

MW3:

Average Frame Rate
PS3: 58.58
360: 59.48

Percentage of torn Frames
PS3: 0.0%
360: 0.0%

[Inzane2050]

There is so much that we’ve added, so when someone says ‘cut and paste’, I don’t even want to talk to them because they don’t know. They just don’t know. They have no idea

And there is a reason for that. It's not something you really see.

But I agree with Metfantan. MW2 is not identical to MW3. MW3 has the new bloom effects. And I don't see how someone could claim a 60fps game has frame rate issues of all things.