Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War players may have been given a large drop of content for Season 1, but even more could be coming to the game soon. Based on an official screenshot released by Activision, a familiar scorestreak will be coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War soon.
With the H.A.R.P. scorestreak recently added to the game, this would be the second post-launch addition to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s scorestreak lineup. Much like how the H.A.R.P. is essentially an Advanced UAV, this specific streak will be a reward seen in many previous Call of Duty games. Based on the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War gameplay image, Treyarch will allow players to wield a flamethrower scorestreak some time in the near future.
The image in question shows players fighting on the Raid multiplayer map, with an Assault Rifle user watching the area below and a massive explosion covering the map’s mini bar. While attention is likely going to be on the XM4 fan or the napalm covering much of the image, eagle-eyed fans turned their attention to the pool at the front of the image. Sure enough, one player fighting on the remastered Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 map is firing a flamethrower at another player.
While it is easy to doubt certain Call of Duty leaks, this photo evidence is impossible to argue against. It would make no sense for Activision to use an older asset just for a random Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War screenshot, meaning that the flamethrower is likely in the game and ready to go for a future Season of content. Beyond that, a flamethrower scorestreak leaked ahead of the game’s launch, much like the H.A.R.P. which has since been added to the streak lineup.
The flamethrower has an interesting history in the Call of Duty series. A regular loadout weapon in Call of Duty: World at War, it returned as a specialist weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Black Ops 4, with a proper streak version seen in Call of Duty: WW2. With specialists not seen in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, the flamethrower is set to mimic the variant from Call of Duty: WW2, joining the War Machine as a specialist weapon repurposed as a scorestreak.
While it is unclear if this version of the flamethrower will be going by the purifier name, fans should expect it to have a similar damage output to previous Treyarch flamethrowers. The good news of an additional scorestreak is certainly welcome, however, as fans have been upset over nerfed XP in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War as of late.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.