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By having less clutter and details to focus, it’s a bit easier to pick out player models, which can be useful in competition.About Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - Ultimate Edition Of course, there’s an understated benefit to the slightly higher resolution and less detail on the Xbox Series S: multiplayer.

Sure, the hit to resolution means you end with up a presentation that feels more last gen than next gen, but it might have resulted in slightly less flat jungles and environments. I would have liked to see what details they could have retained if they kept Black Ops Cold War at a dynamic 1080p on the Xbox Series S, the way Ubisoft did with Watch Dogs: Legion. It also masks another reduction Treyarch, Raven, Sledgehammer Games and Activision’s other support studios chose to make: without the extra shadows on the trees, it’s much easier to see how reduced the foliage detail is. In a later helicopter scene, where the camera pans from side to side as you shower a village with machine gun bullets, the loss of ray traced shadows is especially prominent. It’s especially brutal in helicopter scenes or the game’s missions set in Vietnam, where you’re spending a lot of time looking at lower resolution trees or branches. On the Xbox Series S, however, the loss of shadows and foliage detail is impossible not to notice. Those run pretty well, by the way, which is a positive sign for Call of Duty players everywhere. That’s also roughly the same resolution the PS5 and Xbox Series X run at when running the game in their 120Hz/120 FPS modes.

The game targets 1440p dynamically, but it doesn’t drop particularly far - Digital Foundry counted down to 1200p at the lowest. In a new visual breakdown from Digital Foundry, there’s some great comparisons from set pieces showing just how big the tradeoffs were.Īlong with a reduction in foliage density and detail, there’s no ray tracing on the XSX.

It’s a necessity for all Call of Duty games to run at 60 frames per second, and doing so on the less powerful $499 Xbox Series S means taking a hatchet to some pretty noticeable quality settings.