Name of Obligation is about to get its greatest replace for the reason that launch of Trendy Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 final yr. Activision spilled the entire beans on subsequent week’s Season 3 replace in a voluminous weblog publish (opens in new tab) detailing new maps, weapons, modes, and options coming to the 6v6 and battle royale corners of CoD.
That is “maps” plural for conventional multiplayer—a complete of three 6v6 maps and two bigger “battle maps” tailored from the Warzone map, which is a pleasant change of tempo from what has been a considerably sluggish begin to Trendy Warfare 2’s post-launch assist (opens in new tab).
Each halves of the neighborhood appear fairly effectively served this time round, which makes me assume it could possibly be the primary CoD replace shortly that makes everybody glad (or a minimum of much less offended than ordinary). Listed here are essentially the most pertinent particulars from the Season 3 replace coming April 12:
Trendy Warfare 2
- 5 new weapons, together with the famed Intervention sniper rifle (opens in new tab) from Trendy Warfare 2 (2009)
- 3 new 6v6 maps (two at launch and one mid-season)
- 2 battle maps
- 3 2v2 Gunfight maps
- Co-op raid episode 3
Battle royale
- 5 new weapons (identical as MW2)
- 2 new modes, together with Plunder and ranked
- New gulag map
- Tempered plate vests
- Redeploy drones
- UAV towers
DMZ
- Workbenches
- Barter system
- Character slots
- New faction missions
There’s additionally a brand new battle cross, in fact, however Activison is making an attempt one thing a bit completely different this time: what if there was a model of the battle cross that was triple the worth and got here with further tremendous premium unique skins? Referred to as Blackcell, this new $30 model of the battle cross contains the Blackcell operator, a black/gold swimsuit and masks combo that has turn into an more and more standard shooter aesthetic lately.
The bundle claims to have a roughly $70 worth, however higher to think about it as a daily $20 beauty bundle that additionally comes with the premium battle cross. It isn’t a nasty deal for those who’re tremendous into the John Wick/edgelord aesthetic and already plan on getting the cross. Hilarious that just a few digital cosmetics half the worth of a brand new videogame could be thought-about a very good deal in 2023, however that is the place we’re at.
Apparently, Season 3 may even introduce official Discord integration to MW2 and Warzone 2 on PC. It is unclear precisely what that can entail, however my prediction for this function is an easy in-game menu that lets me entry my Discord servers so I haven’t got to alt-tab or depend on hotkeys. Extra information on this will likely be coming in subsequent week’s patch notes.
I hope Name of Obligation steers away from how 2017’s Lawbreakers (RIP) used Discord. That recreation partnered with the chat app as its official voice chat resolution, which means it will consistently kick me out of the server I used to be already in to hitch the match voice chat. It wasn’t nice.
