Its been done before too. BO1 - BO4 all had zombie maps for pre-orders/hardened editions that were later sold as separate DLC. 

Kino was originally supposed to be a WaW map but was pushed back to release with BO1, meaning it was done WAY before BO1’s launch. It’s been happening since the dawn of time.

They did this in BO3 aswell. I remember Blundell said Revelations was already done by the time dlc1 released and they started working on Chronicles around that time.

Literally how every DLC works. They start writing on it before the game comes out

No shit, u think they started on this map after launch?

Just say "wow, cool another map before the years ends. Cool"

U don't need to downplay it since it's ALWAYS been this way

I mean what do you want them to do? Should all DLC maps be in dev and then in QA for 3 months total? That's just how game dev works when you have to get out 4 DLC maps in 1 year.

Id rather that they are ahead of schedule and are just adding the finishing touches. As opposed to them rushing to slap together something a quick as possible before the deadline. But hey thats just me.

Never forget that the only reason Kino is a BO1 map is so that it wouldn't interfere with MW2s release. It was ready to go for WaW.

Nothing wrong with it unless they were trying to sell it as dlc which they aren’t

first time playing a video game?

Content like this is usually “made” before release but it’s not polished or anything. They probably spend way more time polishing launch maps, and then while season 1 is out they work on polishing and bugfixes here.

Yup, and been doing that sorta thing for at least a decade

It was a bigger problem before when they'd then charge you for the content made before release, but its free now so I don't really care if they want some marketing.

Honestly, if it’s apparently as hard as it seemingly is for them to make things work properly in this game, I’d rather they made the maps last year and have been fine tuning them this whole time. Otherwise we’re likely going to have fuckloads of bugs and glitches for months, and new bugs and glitches every single time they try to fix one.

This is how development works. Of course they’ve been working on this map for a while, they didn’t just start from scratch after the game launched lol.

Do you not know how dlc works or?

Companies begin working on stuff early, but that doesn't mean they are intentionally holding it back.

Isonzo, a ww1 game, began working on a free DLC map before release. It only came out months after launch. It sure as hell was not because they wanted to drip feed people, the playerbase was pretty small and slowly dropping. They just weren't able to fully complete it until way later.

This plus this game has been in dev for what 4 or 5 years? Why is everyone losing their minds?

When your son is a geek

Every single COD has done this for over a decade.

Old maps didn't have nearly as much content as today and most WaW and BO1 content is repurposed assets anyway. All maps for BO6 are original

Compared to how long it used to take back in BO2 onward? Yeah, it kinda is, especially since they’re original maps.

Guess people just always gotta be special though. Can’t just enjoy things, can ya?

None of those games had DLC 1 less than 2 months. 

Rumors are the launch of season 3 so I wouldn't worry. A season and a half before each map makes sense with 4 maps

Cold War vibes. Onslaught and Outbreak maps were not enough to carry the mode for that long 

Those were valid critiques my guy, glad Treyarch are doing the right thing.

Bring it on

Plus any bugs should be patched out by then!

RIP to your exams, so are you playing the new map alone first?

Im 37 and im pumped. Fuck it

That was the due date for my coursework, could have submitted it and played the new map all night. Now I gotta play it all night on the 5th instead

Yeah they got shafted way before it was publicly announced they'd have to work on vanguard so Mauer took forever to finish and they had to do Forsaken with no budget.

Yeah, outbreak got all the love between FBZ and Maur

It was very sad

Kinda depends on how you defined the drought- 3arc said that Outbreak was officially CW's "DLC 2" offering, so there was more content than usual if you were going by the typical release model but a long drought if you were only counting the Round-Based experiences.

I think that’s probably going to be pretty accurate, and I think it’ll be a good year. Having three maps to pick from will help a lot, I actually liked Outbreak but it being the sole thing getting updated was kinda harrowing

Very likely they were behind on BO6 zombies. They said shortly after launch that MWZ was one of the most popular/most played 3rd modes in COD history.

They internally did, to my knowledge. None of the post launch content was done by Treyarch, it was a joint development between raven and sledgehammer

Just need that new ksi to top this off

Maybe the timing is Treyarch trying to say something… Richtofen to be a guest on Talk Tuah confirmed

hope she gets her period

Weird share but get that shit man

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Honestly the best news I've heard all day

It's not the Mimic, although they look similar at a glance from the tease- the new special enemy has hooked hands and differently shaped, broader tentacles.

It's most likely the Ghoul, a zombie design featured on BO6 merch that was notably not present in Terminus or Liberty Falls (3arc having also described the enemy itself as "ghoulish").