If you similar shot and PvE shooter experiences, the latest Call of Duty Season 01 Reloaded has a treble whammy for you. Modern Warfare II gets the first-ever CoD raid, portion Warzone has a limited-time lawsuit for each of you foosball fans. My idiosyncratic favourite mode, DMZ, got immoderate emotion too!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and its free-to-play conflict royale mode Warzone 2.0 conscionable received a important contented update. Serving up accepted team-based multiplayer crippled types, conflict royales, and PvE modes similar DMZ, CoD has a ton of antithetic modes these days. As such, updates similar today’s Season 01 Reloaded are jam-packed with a ton of caller worldly for the game’s galore modes. The accustomed tweaks, some subtle and obvious—shotgun harm definite feels weaker—are present arsenic well. Let’s get into it.

Call of Duty’s First Raid

Yep, contiguous CoD got its archetypal raid. CoD is noDestiny oregon World of Warcraft, truthful it’s casual to ideate dozens of jokers moving astir successful League skins hop-skipping astir corners. But fearfulness not: The all-new Raid mode is simply a three-person ngo (no matchmaking) disposable wrong Modern Warfare II.

This means you’ll request to bargain the afloat 70-dollar mentation of the crippled to play it. But that’s not all. CoD besides requires you bash 1 of the pursuing to unlock the raid:

• Complete a circumstantial Daily Challenge successful either Multiplayer oregon Special Ops
• Place wrong the apical 20 successful immoderate Warzone 2.0 Battle Royale Playlist
• Exfiltrate DMZ with $30,000 successful cash

Doing either of these volition springiness you a Raid Assignment, which lasts for a week. You request a Raid Assignment to play the raid.

These tasks aren’t excessively onerous, truthful astir folks should beryllium capable to get into the raid quickly. But what bash you bash then? Well, the Season 01 Reloaded update describes the raid arsenic an “exciting premix of combat and puzzles for three-person teams to explore.” But it’s besides tied into MWII’s run narrative. As this is the archetypal raid, billed arsenic “Episode 1,” we apt person immoderate much to look guardant to.

The communicative picks up from the extremity of Modern Warfare II’s campaign. And if you inquire me, that’s not a atrocious thing. The first fractional of Modern Warfare II had maine truthful bored I wanted to play Haze arsenic a palate cleanser, but honestly, the second fractional got truly fun. Maybe we’ll adjacent beryllium treated to more sexy whispers from our lad Ghost.

While the raid homework and matchmaking requirements are a drag, I deliberation the wide conception of raiding conception has potential, and it’s surely amusive successful games similar Destiny. CoD definite arsenic hellhole has the crunchy mechanics to marque it satisfying, truthful let’s spot however it goes.

Warzone 2.0 World Cup

While I surely person ne'er thought “I privation determination were much sports successful my video games,” I cognize immoderate radical are into that large shot happening that’s going connected close now. CoD is present to fulfill your sportsball emotion with a limited-time mode that features a big-ass shot ball, a regular-sized field, ATVs, and daze sticks. First squad to 5 goals wins.

If I’m being honest, you mightiness beryllium amended disconnected spending your clip with Rocket League oregon immoderate kinda weird Halo customized game. The sentiment is appreciated, but this mode feels a small excessively wonky successful my archetypal playtesting.

The Warzone World Cup goes from December 14 to the 23.

DMZ Changes and Updates

If you’re into DMZ, Santa came early. There’s a caller area, “Building 21” and brand-new keys scattered passim Al Mazrah. They assistance entree to a mysterious caller determination “outside of Al Mazrah and into a hyper-dangerous caller country of DMZ.” While I’m much than utilized to hyper-dangerous BS successful DMZ, different additions should hopefully assistance marque the game’s astir awesome mode a small much survivable.

While there’s zero notation of fixing the telepathic AI’s quality to sprout you done fucking walls, DMZ volition present spot accrued aforesaid revives, state masks, tract upgrades, plat carriers, backpacks, and acold little of the things you don’t need, namely physics components and toothpaste. RIP your dental hygiene.

One caller enactment allows eliminated players to articulation an force squad by pleading for help. I haven’t yet tried this out, but to maine it sounds much similar offering to help. Regardless, sometimes it’s truly frustrating erstwhile different relation squad takes you retired erstwhile you weren’t adjacent funny successful screwing them over. Now astatine slightest you’ll person a accidental to hop backmost successful much quickly.

Successfully exfiltrating volition besides reward a random perk present arsenic well; perks similar Scavenger, for example. You’ll get much for each consequent palmy exfil, making a palmy exit adjacent much valuable.

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Kotaku has reached retired to Activision to inquire for clarity astir the changes to backpacks, which seemingly assistance a 3rd limb slot if you person a mean oregon ample battalion equipped. This seems to beryllium however backpacks operated already, but possibly there’s a good item I’m missing.

Season 01 New Map and Weapon Balance Changes

Sit down, due to the fact that you’re either astir to consciousness existent blessed oregon existent angry: Shotguns nary longer one-shot a afloat armored opponent. That means chuckleheads similar maine who tally astir with silenced shotguns to present quiescent one-hit blasts arsenic if we’re Anton Chigurh oregon thing are retired of luck. But that’s okay, due to the fact that goofs who strap a riot shield to their backs volition present endure nerfed question velocity and melee damage. Serves them right.

You’ll privation to check the spot notes for specifics if you usage the MX9, M13B, Kastov-74u, VEL 47, Basilisk, .50 GS, Expedite 12, oregon JOKR.

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Modern Warfare II’s halfway multiplayer modes are besides getting a acquainted location. Shipment, a classical CoD map, volition see a fewer changes arsenic per a tweet from the authoritative CoD relationship a fewer days ago:

And portion I’m definite galore whitethorn person fond memories of Shipment, I americium present to pass you astir this thing. Folks, I played 2 rounds connected this representation and it was my astir nonsensical, frustrating shooter acquisition successful caller memory. MWII already has a quick-as-hell TTK, truthful a representation of constrictive corridors acceptable astatine night, clouded with tons of fume from explosions and fume grenades, means that this is thing but a pre-fire fest of virtually three-seconds-till-your-dead bullshit. But your mileage whitethorn vary.

Season 01 Reloaded Quality of Life Changes

Don’t you hatred it erstwhile you activate an XP bonus token and person nary mode of seeing however overmuch clip is left? That changes today. Time near connected a bonus token volition present amusement successful the lobby, and you tin adjacent activate them mid-game successful the intermission menu. I cognize I hide to activate those each the time, truthful that’s a immense plus.

But possibly 1 of my idiosyncratic favourite changes present is that joining a crippled already successful advancement won’t number arsenic a nonaccomplishment if you lose. I get mid-game joining. Ya gotta support the servers moving I suppose. But nothing’s worse than getting into a lucifer that’s intelligibly destined for nonaccomplishment and is excessively acold gone to save. If win/loss stats are important to you, interest nary more.

A fig of different tiny changes see tweaks to UI, the summation of a toggle enactment for the ping wheel, and UI elements that clarify weapon-tuning capabilities and stat indicators. Call of Duty’s weapon loadout and upgrade strategy tin beryllium a small bewildering, truthful it’s bully to spot immoderate attraction there.

All told, there’s a batch of chill worldly to cheque out. The DMZ features are by acold the astir absorbing to me, but I’d beryllium lying if I said that raid wasn’t a tempting siren song, particularly if there’s much of it connected the way. Once I negociate to wrangle unneurotic 2 different players, I’ll beryllium definite to study backmost connected however this unusual caller summation is shaping up.