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.

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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.

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“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.’

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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.’

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The rest, as they say, is history.

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