Black Ops 7 dev explains why Pick 10 system hasn’t returned yet

Black Ops 7 developer Matt Scronce has explained why Pick 10 has yet to make a return to Call of Duty despite fans calling for it. 

Over the last few years, Call of Duty has experimented with new changes to Create-A-Class and weapon attachments. Weapon Tuning was around for just one game, while Treyarch has kept up five attachments, or eight if you’re using a Wildcard, on weapons.

These loadout changes are the first big updates in a while, but one system that has yet to return is Pick 10. The popular system debuted back in Black Ops 2 and, as the name suggests, allowed you to pick 10 choices across your whole class – be it attachments, perks, and everything else. 

There had been some claims over the years that it would make a return, including in Black Ops 7. However, that won’t be the case.

Timing hasn’t “felt right” for Pick 10 return in CoD

Treyarch’s Matt Scronce, who is the Design Director on Black Ops 7, said the timing hasn’t “felt right” to bring Pick 10 back, but they also would want to change things.

“It just hasn’t felt like the right time. Anytime we think about it, if we do it, I wanna make sure we do it right and not just because people think it’s the best system ever,” Scronce told CharlieIntel. 

“And right now, like, I know competitive players are like, oh, I wanna make trade-offs. I don’t want everybody taking grenades. But as we’ve talked about, like, Call of Duty is massive. There’s a ton of players, and it’s very easy to pick up and just go play and just go shoot pixels. 

“Once you start having to think about trade-offs, and now I can’t make the same class I just made last year, you’ve taken s*it away from me, you’re being more restrictive. Why? So that’s kind of the thinking.”

Scronce clarified that he had been “misquoted” when he previously said that he wasn’t “convinced” about Pick 10 being “better” than what Treyarch had cooked up.

“So it’s not that we’ll never do it. We talk about it every game. We just haven’t found the right way to do it,” he added.

“And I don’t think the right way to do it is how old we did it 13 years ago. Yeah. I forgot what the misquote was, but it was basically like, Matt Scronce thinks you’re dumb.”