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.
“We are really precious to our own canon; we have to respect that. So that meant we couldn’t have Thrust Jump, because the tech didn’t exist in 2035,” Leslie said. “Wall-running made sense when we were further in the future but, with our return to the Black Ops 2 era, that world just didn’t have that sort of technology so it made sense not to do it.”
You can wall-jump in Black Ops 7 on certain surfaces to get some additional vertical height. Each subsequent wall jump will reduce momentum, but you can chain three wall jumps together before hitting the ground.
The ability to wall-run first appeared in the Call of Duty franchise in Black Ops 3 and returned in Infinity Ward’s space-faring 2016 game Infinite Warfare. Famously, removing wall-running and Thrust Jumps was one of Treyarch’s selling points for Black Ops 4, which released in 2018 and was set in the year 2045, before Black Ops 3. Though, that implies that soldiers forgot how to wall-jump by the time Black Ops 4 happens.
To try the wall-jump yourself, you can jump into the Black Ops 6 open beta, which has just been extended to end on Thursday, October 9, at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. That’s a full 24 hours after the beta was originally set to conclude, and on the heels of the launch of EA’s Battlefield 6. While you’re playing the beta, check out GameSpot’s recommended weapon loadouts for some extra help.
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