All Ghillied Up is beloved now, but that wasn’t always the case.
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“Nobody thought it was cool, including myself,” Alavi said.
“I always like the more bombastic missions and this was the opposite of that.”
And that’s all he said.
And I was like, ‘I’m in.'"
Crafting All Ghillied Up wasn’t easy, however.
Alavi said that making the mission essentially meant reworking how Call of Duty’s code worked.
“It was war all the time,” Alavi said.
“The AI was never designed to not see you.
So I was like, ‘We can fake this.’
But I don’t like doing that because you could see through it instantly, right?
I was like ‘Or, I can make this Metal Gear Solid style.
I can make this the best stealth mission in a Call of Duty game.’
The rest, as they say, is history.
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