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Treyarch and Raven Software have dropped a few details on the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on a podcast, revealing that the looping scorestreaks from Black Ops Cold War won’t be making their return in this year’s iteration of the first-person shooter.  As players participate in a multiplayer match of CoD, they earn points by killing enemies, taking objectives, scoring assists, and so forth. Reaching certain thresholds allows them to call on one of three special abilities or rewards of their choice, which are called scorestreaks.  Traditionally, dying resets your current score, so you need to start from scratch in each life – but Treyarch’s previous CoD entry did away with that restriction and allowed players to continue to earn points towards their next threshold regardless of death. What’s more, after earning all three of their scorestreaks, players simply would be able to begin the loop again, starting with the lowest reward in their kit – in the past, you needed to die to get access to any streak re

This article first appeared on Video Games on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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