Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout beta extends to noon Pacific, increases to 100 players

Treyarch announced today that it is extending the beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s Blackout mode on all platforms to noon Pacific today. The studio is also increasing the player count for the mode to 100. Black Ops 4 comes out on October 12 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Blackout is Call of Duty’s first take on a battle royale mode, which has a large group of players drop into a large map and fight to be the last person standing. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite have popularized battle royale, and now the kind of shooters is capitalizing. Blackout could shake up the market and make Call of Duty even more popular. Call of Duty is already routinely the top-selling game in the U.S. each year.