Friday Update, February 3, 2012

Originally Posted by robtek

As far as i've read in previous communications about DX11 in CoD, i remember, that in the special circumstances of CoD, as there are: huge distances, lots of detail and some more things special in CoD, the actual DX11 code was not usable without quite extensive additional programming.
This programming would be unique for CoD as no other game uses it in this way.
Add to this the actual workload already worn by the devs and you see the possibility of DX11 actual used in CoD is not in the near future.

I believe your right on that Robtek, but Oleg and Luthier have stated that DX11 was only dropped because they didn't quite have the time to get it optimised.

After release Luthier stated that it was now a priority, from that I would imagine that nearly a year later that the new graphic engine could possibly be in DX11 (could this be the surprise Luthier as in store for us). It would make no sense to competely redo the graphics engine and leave out DX11 especially when the next sequel will be using the same engine, and BOM as to be DX11 right?

This could be how Luthier as managed to get a 100% increase in performance that he has more than hinted at. Im not saying for certain but I would not be at all surprised that the new patch will be in DX11, and if thats the case then it will be well worth the wait.