Sledgehammer Video games promised Name of Responsibility followers that they’d take a look at out persistent multiplayer lobbies in Trendy Warfare 3, and 4 months after making that assertion, the sport’s season three patch has lastly added the choice.

Following the discharge of the most important April 3 replace, gamers can now select to stay with each the teammates and opponents that they performed their earlier match with, with a toggle showing on the post-game scoreboard. Those that choose it’ll head into one other recreation with the identical group, whereas those that decline will likely be despatched again to the foyer.

For those who’re an old-school CoD fan, you’ll keep in mind the times of leaping into matches on the unique Trendy Warfare 2, moving into arguments along with your opponents, and enjoying in opposition to all of them night time lengthy. That every one led to 2019 with the launch of Infinite Warfare’s Trendy Warfare, which dropped the system completely. Lastly, after 5 lengthy years, Sledgehammer are testing it out as soon as once more, and the response from the group has been overwhelmingly constructive.

CoD followers delighted to see persistent lobbies again

Regardless of not showing within the season three patch notes, followers of the sport began to note the addition after enjoying matches. It wasn’t till CharlieIntel posted about it that it exploded into the broader group. After ready for nearly half a decade to get persistent lobbies again, it shouldn’t be a shock that gamers are delighted.

“I find it irresistible, particularly for [Free-For-All] lobbies,” wrote one participant on X, previously Twitter. “When [I] discover that chill foyer, I’m going to reside in it for some time just like the outdated days.” One other agreed, claiming that “Few issues had been higher than making a short lived finest good friend for [a couple of] hours in a CoD foyer.”

Whereas the vast majority of gamers are delighted by the addition, not all people is happy simply but. That’s as a result of persistent lobbies must be toggled on, as it’s off by default. Many recommended that Sledgehammer ought to set it on because the default, that means that lobbies would proceed on and gamers who wished to go away might, fairly than sending everybody to the primary menu routinely.

As a long-time Name of Responsibility participant myself, I’m joyful to see MW3 carry again persistent lobbies. They had been such a enjoyable approach to meet new gamers, and I nonetheless have pals on my Xbox Dwell account that I made randomly in an MW2 foyer approach again in 2009. A few of my fondest gaming recollections come from persistent lobbies too, particularly when my buddies and I might get into battles in opposition to one other squad, and we’d spend hours going from map to map, trash-talking and competing.

Name of Responsibility has come a great distance since these days, however typically it feels prefer it has forgotten its roots. This addition brings just a little little bit of that old-school really feel again to the sport although, and for me, that may solely be a very good factor.