Wish to know every little thing coming in MW2 Season 1 replace? Right here’s a full breakdown of what’s to come back within the title’s first main growth:
Fashionable Warfare 2 is presently in its pre-season, a 20-day interval that enables gamers to get their fingers on the sport and put together themselves for Season 1.
On Wednesday, November 16, MW2 Season 01 will formally kick off, bringing a major content material drop to the brand new launch. We’ve compiled every little thing Activision has informed us is coming into one helpful breakdown:
Plus, don’t miss MW2 Season 1’s launch time and easy methods to pre-load on all platforms right here!
Every part Coming in Fashionable Warfare Season 01
New Weapons
First, and maybe most clearly, Fashionable Warfare will likely be getting 4 new weapons in its Season 1 replace. And as ordinary, two of them will likely be free unlocks within the Season 1 Battle Move.
- Victus XMR – This Sniper Rifle already made an look within the MW2 Marketing campaign. It’s a hard-hitting long-distance bolt motion weapon, able to unimaginable accuracy in the proper fingers. Unlocked within the Battle Move.
- BAS-P – A gas-operated SMG identified for its low recoil and excessive reliability. The BAS-P is customizable in quite a lot of methods, permitting gamers the liberty to decide on easy methods to run it. Unlocked within the Battle Move.
- Chimera – An Assault Rifle with an built-in silencer and high-energy subsonic rounds, the Chimera excels at close-quarters fight. Unlocked through Retailer Bundle or Weapon Problem.
- M13B – A Carbine semi-automatic rifle that can also be produced in a selective fireplace mannequin, the M13B affords a excessive fee of fireplace and low recoil. Unlocked through Retailer Bundle or Weapon Problem.
Basic Maps
MW2 Season 1 may even deliver a ‘returning fan-favorite multiplayer map’ to the sport, which has now been confirmed to be Shoot Home!
Followers of smaller, extra hectic maps will likely be happy to see its return, and it has additionally been confirmed that Cargo will likely be our Season 1 Reloaded map addition.
Since a number of basic maps seem in Al Mazrah, the brand new Warzone 2 map, we anticipated the brand new map to be one of many following:
- Terminal
- Highrise
- Rust
- Quarry
Nonetheless, it’s solely doable that Activision might be saving the largest favorites for its leaked Paid DLC MW2 map pack.
We additionally hope that Valderas Museum, the map that was current within the MW2 Beta however absent from launch, will make a triumphant return in Season 1. However there’s been no phrase from Activision relating to that risk as of but.
New Modes
Hardcore modes (AKA Tier 1) will likely be arriving in MW2 Season 1, a lot to the delight of its passionate fan base.
Plenty of gamers have been very sad to see the extra punishing mode unavailable on launch day, in any case.
As well as CDL Moshpit, a playlist containing aggressive maps, modes and rulesets will likely be going stay. This may give followers an opportunity to observe earlier than Ranked Mode debuts in an upcoming season.
Activision can also be lastly dropping the Fight Report in MW2 this season, permitting gamers to lastly test their in-game stats. That mentioned, the writer’s wording appears to suggest that the characteristic gained’t be current on the replace’s launch date.
Raids & Spec Ops
Raids gained’t be accessible firstly of Season 1 however will as an alternative drop alongside the sport’s mid-season replace. These 3-player cooperative missions will characteristic further story content material that follows on from the occasions of the MW2 Marketing campaign.
You’ll want to degree up your Spec Ops kits successfully as you’ll be utilizing them to tackle these difficult experiences.
Talking of Spec Ops, it’s been confirmed that we’re getting a brand-new Spec Ops mission in Season 1 that has gamers assaulting the enemy ‘on land and within the air’.
First Battle Move
In fact, the brand new season means we’ll be getting our very first Battle Move for MW2 dropping too. And the system appears to be like quite totally different in Fashionable Warfare 2.
As a substitute of grinding your manner via 100 tiers, MW2 gamers will now have extra decisions to find out their rewards than ever earlier than.
The Battle Move now resembles a multi-Sector map, permitting gamers to unlock gadgets utilizing Battle Token Tier Skips. Every map will comprise not less than 20 Sectors with 5 gadgets apiece.
These Tokens can be utilized to both unlock adjoining Sectors or declare rewards inside an unlocked Sector. Subsequently gamers could make the selection between unlocking the Battle Move weapons, new Operator Skins, or no matter else they’ve their eye on!
Vault Version homeowners will get entry to the Battle Move without cost, in addition to 50 free tier skips to assist them full it quick. However one of many new PlayStation unique MW2 advantages signifies that PS4/PS5 customers will get their fingers on a further 5 tier skips.
New Operators
Additionally coming alongside Season 1 will likely be a number of new Operators, usable in each Fashionable Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0.
Lately, Activision confirmed the discharge date of soccer gamers Messi, Pogba, and Neymar Jr in MW2. And it’s not simply these soccer icons which might be coming to the sport.
Zeus (Zosar Kalu), a member of the Nigerian Military Particular Forces Battalion, will likely be mechanically unlocked by buying the Season 01 Battle Move.
Klaus Fisker, a legend of the Denmark Elite Particular Forces identified for having pure night time imaginative and prescient is mysteriously redacted from his personal reveal picture. The upcoming Operator will drop in a paid bundle within the mid-season replace.
And at last Gaz, Value’s right-hand man and a member of Activity Pressure 141 may even be arriving in Season 1. The upcoming Operator will drop in a paid bundle within the mid-season replace.
DMZ
The mysterious DMZ mode additionally lastly arrives alongside Fashionable Warfare Season 1, bringing some Escape From Tarkov-esque motion to Activision’s shooter.
Gamers will likely be tasked with infiltrating Al Mazrah, finishing missions across the map, and efficiently extracting with out dropping every little thing they collect.
Lately quite a lot of high-profile content material creators obtained the prospect to take a look at DMZ for themselves and see what the sport has to supply.
Because it seems, DMZ is much more easy than we anticipated, with gamers capable of roam the Warzone 2.0 map, battle AI, and full a set of aims. When it’s time to extract, gamers should get to the extract choppers fastidiously or threat dying and dropping every little thing they’ve labored for.
Take a look at our first ever take a look at DMZ, courtesy of streamer DrLupo, beneath:
And right here’s a brand new leak that teases precisely what we’ll be doing in all DMZ missions…
Warzone 2.0
Whereas not technically Fashionable Warfare 2 content material, Warzone 2.0 can also be coming alongside the Season 01 replace. This will likely be a brand-new Battle Royale expertise, containing solely MW2 content material, in addition to some quite controversial new mechanics.
Right here’s every little thing you might want to find out about Warzone 2, together with easy methods to pre-load and extra!
And we’ve obtained a number of new guides that can assist you familiarize yourself with the brand new Battle Royale expertise:
