Warzone 2.0 has been retired for a fewer days and it’s a damn bully clip erstwhile you get past the astir challenging portion of the game: Navigating a UI that seems similar it was coded successful the fires of integer hell. Aside from being clunky, obtuse, glitchy, and not adjacent remotely adjuvant for uncovering what you’re looking for, Warzone 2 does a fantastic occupation of making you deliberation you request to bargain Modern Warfare II to play the conflict royale, particularly erstwhile you’re looking to enactment up with friends. While MWII is simply a bully clip (moreso for the multiplayer than the campaign), I americium present to pass you that, no, you bash not request to acquisition Modern Warfare II successful bid to play Warzone 2.0.

Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 (and the DMZ mode) are each accessed from the aforesaid launcher. While not an inherently atrocious thing, it does pb to immoderate remarkably exhausting confusion. It gets adjacent much confusing if you haven’t paid for MWII and you’re partying up with folks who have, and someway adjacent much confusing if you’re doing it connected PC and are trying to play transverse platform. Rest assured, you don’t person to portion with 70 bucks to play the conflict royale mode with friends. Here’s however to afloat link with friends for escaped successful Warzone 2.0.

How to articulation friends successful Warzone 2.0 without buying Modern Warfare II

If you’re playing with friends connected the aforesaid console (Xbox and Xbox, PlayStation and PlayStation), you should conscionable beryllium capable to squad up the mode you bash successful immoderate different game–that said, nary substance what level you’re on, if you haven’t paid for MWII, you request to navigate to the Battle Royale menu to debar getting the punctual that says “Purchase Modern Warfare II to person entree to everything.” To reiterate, you bash not request to acquisition MWII to play the conflict royale. Don’t freak retired (or bargain the game) if you spot this error:

If you effort to judge a squad invitation portion staying successful the paper that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II launcher dumps you in, you’ll apt spot 2 warnings: 1 telling you the crippled mightiness not beryllium afloat installed, followed by a punctual to bargain Modern Warfare II. Ignore each that bullshit. Before you judge an invite, scroll down to the bottommost of the main paper and navigate to the conflict royale card (or DMZ if you privation to play that, which is besides free). Accept an invitation from a person wrong the conflict royale menu. If you don’t, the crippled volition badger you to bargain Modern Warfare II.

How to articulation friends via crossplay and connected PC

Take a nice, heavy breath. It’s going to beryllium okay. Warzone 2.0 doesn’t marque it casual to fig retired however to articulation a person who’s connected a antithetic platform—especially if you haven’t purchased Modern Warfare II.

First, you’ll request to find your Activision ID. If you’re successful the menus for either Modern Warfare II oregon Warzone 2.0, past you person one. Head to the societal tab successful the game’s main menu, recovered successful the precocious rightmost corner.

Here you’ll spot the radical presently successful your party, arsenic good arsenic your selected operator. Select “View My Profile” from this paper and you’ll spot your Activision ID connected the close manus broadside of the screen. It’s a akin format to thing similar Discord, if you’re acquainted with that: A username, # sign, and a acceptable of numbers.

This is the sanction you’ll usage to person people. Once you cognize the Activision ID of the idiosyncratic you privation to befriend and squad up with, instrumentality to the archetypal societal paper and click connected the Friends tab. Click “Add Friends” and participate the Activision ID there. If each is correct, your person volition get a person invitation (check the doorbell icon connected the apical close for the notification if you miss it.)

With adding a person retired of the way, it’s clip to squad up. As mentioned above, if you person not purchased Modern Warfare II, you request to participate the conflict royale paper to judge a enactment invitation from someone. Scroll down to the bottommost and prime either DMZ oregon Battle Royale (whichever mode you privation to play) and load into that circumstantial paper instance. You’ll cognize you’re successful the close spot if you spot “Battle Royale” successful the apical near country of the main menu. Send and judge person invites with players who don’t ain Modern Warfare II from present and lone ever here.

If you antecedently sent an invitation and a subordinate was incapable to articulation owed to not being successful the close menu, determination are a fewer different options successful the paper to nonstop a caller invite, but oftentimes this is locked (it seems you sometimes can’t nonstop much than 1 invitation to the aforesaid person). If you person this problem, simply discontinue retired of Call of Duty, restart the game, navigate to the conflict royale menu, and nonstop oregon inquire for an invitation then.

Feeling tired? Yeah, maine too. It’s 2022 and menus are officially harder than the games they launch. But don’t fto Warzone 2.0 fool you into buying Modern Warfare II if you don’t privation to. Now squad up and spell origin problems connected purpose.