Next Call Of Duty Teaser Lands August 14: Here's What We Know So Far
An official Call of Duty 2020 announcement has eluded fans for months, as usually the next instalment for a COD game comes in April/May. Heading into mid-August, we're still without a full reveal for the game, although we came one step closer last night (August 9).
Treyarch and Activision sent out various Care Packages to some of the biggest Call of Duty streamers, however the packages were locked by a pass-code that could only be received via text at 5pm BST. Once sent the text message, players jumped on stream to unlock the crates and embarked on a huge scavenger hunt in search of what could have been the Black Ops Cold War reveal.
The crates were sent out to streamers such as Vikkstar123, MrDalekJD, Chaosxsilencer, and most notably NoahJ456, who had over 2 million views on his YouTube stream.
The first section of the scavenger hunt consisted of the care packages containing old projector screens and some old slides, of which they had to set up and project the images on a wall. These consisted of codes, images of cities, and images of a Call of Duty mini-map, later to be discovered as Summit from the Black Ops series. After the initial drop, the streamers collected their codes and all gathered on Noah's stream to collectively decipher the secret messages from Activision.
Using the Black Ops Four version of Summit, the streamers had to decipher the codes given to them with the numbers on the walls and clocks based within the mainframe. After strenuous efforts, the code revealed was 'bish you were here'. Surely a mistake, right? Wrong.
Bish you were here was found to be a direct reference of the Chess match in 1972 between American, Bobby Fischer, and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Rife within the Cold War, the game has been dubbed as 'the Match of the Century'.
Also within the codes, Noah and company deciphered the phrase 'Turn Eleven White', which led them to watch the chess match between the two, representing both sides of the Cold War. Turn eleven, coincidentally on one minute fifteen (element 115 - Zombies fans will know), turned out to be one of the most famous blunders in chess history, as a pawn was sacrificed and both queens were traded. Pawn takes Pawn.
Heading back into Call of Duty, players dived into the infamous Warzone bunker eleven to try and unlock the pass-code there by using coordinates of the crucial moves, however, they were unsuccessful.
After four hours, Treyarch took to Instagram to drop a final clue. They posted the following image on their story:
Click to enlargeAfter much deliberation, the code was cracked as 'pawntakespawn', after the famous chess blunder, which coincidentally revealed a website which will host the next stage of the scavenger hunt to be released 12pm (EST) August 14. You can find the website here.
What's to be revealed is yet to be known, however, it is likely to embark us upon another scavenger hunt to reveal the Black Ops Cold War trailer. Nothing was confirmed from the scavenger hunt, despite hints at both a Summit semester and Zombies returning, but this could all be confirmed on August 14.
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Image via Activision | Pawntakespawn.com
