Call of Duty: Future Warfare

Call of Duty: Future Warfare
Also known as: NX1 Developer: Neversoft Platform: Xbox 360 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material.

This game was never completed and/or given a public release. As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

  This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

Call of Duty: Future Warfare was Neversoft's first go at a Call of Duty title after years of non-stop Guitar Hero, and judging by the fact it was canned, Activision probably didn't like how it turned out.

With multiple builds dated from November 30, 2011 to January 8, 2012, we get to explore an incredibly rare glimpse into a potential future direction for the franchise that was ultimately shelved. The game features a mix of traditional warfare and futuristic elements, with missions ranging from Earth-based operations to battles on the Moon. Some of the content from this title seems to have influenced later titles such as Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, and Infinite Warfare.

This cancelled game used Modern Warfare 2 as a base, and as such, used many assets from it as placeholders, down to the HUD.

To do: Document what we know of the game's story from the missions and leftover dialogue. Characters, plots, etc. We've documented all of the previously inaccessible missions except for Winter Anvil (nx_rocket), which still needs to be documented. Voicelines from cut MW2 missions are present (RESCUE, TULSA) and need to be documented. Fastfiles are finally being datamined, which means that any oddities should be documented in their relevant subpages or here. Escort mode maps.

Sub-Pages

Singleplayer Missions All of the missions planned to be part of the campaign. And lots of work-in-progress missions and test maps.

Multiplayer Maps A lot of unfinished, cut, and missing multiplayer maps. Some even have Easter eggs.

Story An attempt to make heads and tails of the game's plot beats.

MW2 Leftovers A metric fuck-ton of MW2 assets are left over, including entirely new, never-before-seen missions and dialogue that was cut from the final release.

Executables

Future Warfare's first "release" contains several executables, including one that was pre-patched presumably to work with emulators. If using Xenia Canary, most of these executables require "protect_zero" to be set to false in config for them to run.

Build dates are taken directly from the executable .map files, with dates re-ordered for readability.

Executable	Modes	Build Date	Debug	Emulatable
0-Convoy Test 1_5.mp.xex	Multiplayer.	Jan 05 2012 11:44:44	X	✓*
0-Nightly MP Maps.mp.xex	Multiplayer.	Jan 08 2012 22:04:50	X	✓*
0-Nightly SP Maps.sp.xex	Campaign and Special-Ops.	Dec 16 2011 00:14:08	X	✓
1-nx1sp.exe	Campaign and Special-Ops.	Dec 18 2011 21:02:54	✓	✓*
2-nx1mp.exe	Multiplayer.	Dec 18 2011 21:03:12	✓	✓*
3-nx1sp_fast_server.exe	Campaign and Special-Ops.	Dec 18 2011 21:04:05	✓	X
4-nx1sp_demo.exe	Campaign and Special-Ops.	Nov 30 2011 10:47:36	X	X
5-nx1mp_demo.exe	Multiplayer.	Jan 05 2012 11:44:44	X	✓
6-nx1mp_fast_server.exe	Multiplayer.	Jan 08 2012 22:04:50	✓	X

✓* indicates emulatable with patches.

Unused Videos

Several .bik files can be found within the root folder, which go unused in the build.

cod_intro.bik
title.bik