The launch of Modern Warfare 3 is firmly behind us now, so Activision and Sledgehammer Games have shifted the main focus to hyping up a few of what to anticipate when the primary season drops. We nonetheless haven’t got a agency date for it, however we do have new details about a number of the new content material.
For Modern Warfare 3, that arrives within the type of three fully new, unique multiplayer maps – all of that are for core multiplayer 6v6.
You could already be properly conscious {that a} huge cause why Modern Warfare 3 felt previous on day one is that its complete roster of launch maps are remakes from the unique 2009 Modern Warfare 2. Remakes are frequent within the collection, however no different Call of Duty has ever launched with zero unique maps.
Developer Sledgehammer Games has all the time been eager to remind everybody that unique maps are within the works, and the primary few will arrive with the primary season. In a brand new weblog submit, the developer supplied our first look.
When the brand new season kicks off, you may discover two unique 6v6 maps, with the third arriving mid-way by means of it with the mid-season replace. Meat is described as a “compact” map, with the East Bay Meats slaughterhouse on the centre.
Greece is a lighter, and extra medium-sized map set in a coast city on the Mediterranean – presumably within the nation of Greece. Rio is the third and closing one, arriving with Season 1 Reloaded. This is one other one with vibrant colors, providing close-quarters fight in a buying centre.
On the topic of maps, the return of Gunfight mode brings with it its personal 2v2 maps. Expect some favourites to return, alongside the brand new Training Facility map, arriving on the launch of the season.
Season 1, after all, additionally marks the return/refresh of Warzone, with its new Urzikstan map. You can consider the brand new Warzone as an evolution (or devolution, relying in your perspective) of all the pieces that got here earlier than.
This goes to be a way more streamlined expertise akin to the early days of the battle royale mode, albeit with the a lot quicker motion of Modern Warfare 3, and the return of a number of of the mechanics which have been making their strategy to Warzone during the last a number of years.
Outside of that, you possibly can anticipate an enormous replace to Zombies, which introduces Dark Aether Rifts. Those sound like those you would encounter in Black Ops Cold War’s Outbreak, although they’re positioned right here as “end-game” content material obtainable after finishing seasonal missions.
Zombies additionally will get a brand new Wonder Weapon, and several other acquisition schematics so as to add to the present ones. Season 1 arrives someday in early December.
