Season 3's replace hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone immediately and there’s a lot of new content material. There are new game modes, the return of Rebirth Island, new Perks, new weapons, and a lot more! Here’s all the things you need to know that’s new in Season 3.

Multiplayer Updates

New Game Modes

Modern Warfare 3 dropped 4 new game modes in Multiplayer: Capture the Flag, One in the Chamber, Minefield, and Escort. CTF and One in the Chamber can be found at launch with Minefield and Escort dropping mid-season. Minefield will probably be a variation obtainable in Kill Confirmed, Domination, and Hardpoint.

In Minefield, useless gamers will drop a Proximity Mine that will probably be lethal solely in direction of their own teammates. Escort is a fairly self-explanatory game mode the place one workforce has to escort a MAW throughout a map whereas the opposite defends and tries to stop the attackers. The match will embrace a facet swap after the primary game and the workforce who delivers the payload the quickest, wins.

New Maps

There are six new Core 6v6 maps in Season 3 with 4 obtainable instantly: 6 Star, Emergency, Growhouse, Tanked. The different two maps, Checkpoint and Grime, will probably be coming later in the mid-season replace. These final two maps are tailored from Warzone POIs and have been adjusted for smaller 6v6 play.

New Perks and Equipment

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Season 3 brings in three new Perk Vests, a new pair of Boots, and new Gear. One of the brand new Gear objects is a High-Gain Antenna which zooms out your minimap for you and close by allies and enemies stay on the radar longer for you. It additionally lets you see close by ally radar pings from their gear.

The different new Gear merchandise is a new Tactical known as the EMD Mine coming later in the midseason refresh. It’s a proximity mine that shoots out trackers that persist with enemies and divulges them till the tracker is eliminated.

The Gunslinger Vest makes you a Secondary Weapon specialist with no Primary Weapon slot and solely two Secondary Weapons in your loadout. This Perk Vest refreshes stamina on kill, improves reload velocity, reload whereas sprinting, will increase weapon swap velocity, and allows you to spawn with most Reserve Ammo. The solely caveat is you must be utilizing your Secondary Weapons to get all these advantages.

The Modular Assault Rig Vest lets you resupply Lethals and Tacticals from useless gamers and also you begin with most Reserve Ammo. The Compression Carrier Vest is help targeted with further therapeutic advantages. You can instantly regenerate well being after a kill or goal seize and also you expertise much less unwanted effects from fuel grenades.

The new boots, Reinforced Boots, grant you immunity to motion lowering results (like stun grenade results).

Zombies

There’s a new Dark Aether story replace in the shape of a rescue mission for Dr. Jansen. A brand new gate has opened and also you’ll must enterprise into a new half of the Dark Aether to progress the story.

You can enter a third Dark Aether Rift by discovering and attuning completely different relics throughout the map. Once you enter the rift, you possibly can loot some labeled schematics and secrets and techniques.

The new Schematics embrace Dead Wire Detonators (a mod integrating electrical injury to explosive weaponry), Golden Mask Filter (a self-regenerating fuel masks), and the Sergeant’s Beret (a perk that disguises you as a Merc and provides you a Merc Bodyguard).

On high of these new Schematics, there are new Prestige Calling Card Challenges, and new Camo Challenges.

New Weapons

There are 4 new weapons in Season 3 obtainable throughout Warzone and Multiplayer: FJX Horus, MORS, Gladiator, and the BAL-27.

• FJX Horus is a Submachine Gun that may be unlocked in sector 8 of the battle go
• MORS is a Sniper Rifle that may be unlocked in Sector 4 of the battle go
• Gladiator is a Melee weapon that may be unlocked in Sector 15 of the battle go
• Bal-27 is an Assaul Rifle that will probably be arriving mid-season

Warzone Update

Squads that play collectively in Warzone correct or Rebirth will probably be granted more XP and match rewards like Cash bonus, and Supply UAVs.

Return to Rebirth Island

Rebirth Island is back and this time is occupied by the Konni Group. The POIs are acquainted to returning gamers however the buildings have been up to date to convey them up to par with trendy requirements. Along with a small makeover, Rebirth Island options the power to permit gamers to swim in the map (one thing not obtainable in the unique island).

Rebirth Island additionally options new Biometric Scanners in the communications amenities. When the Scanners are energetic, you possibly can activate one to obtain a Keycard based mostly in your participant identification. The Keycard lists your Operator identify, clan tag, and Access Level and takes up a slot in your Backpack.

The benefit to a Keycard is that it will probably unlock a particular menu in the Rebirth Island Buy Station. The proportion of you getting a increased rarity of the Keycard is raised when you might have a squadmate close by during the activation of the Scanner and when you repeat the scanning course of over a few days.

The Biometric Scanners can even grant gamers further rewards like camo in your weapons or different secret communication objects.

Rebirth Modes

Rebirth Resurgence is accessible now and solely options a max of 44 gamers per match. This mode plays by the identical guidelines as regular Resurgence however on a a lot smaller map.

Rebirth Resurgence Loaded will drop in the Mid-Season replace and can drop gamers into Rebirth Island with their most popular Loadouts and customized gear. So everybody begins out totally kitted with out having to search for ground loot.

Rebirth Lockdown may also drop Mid-Season and options even much less gamers in matches with solely 28. Multiple squads must seize and control zones throughout Rebirth Island after dropping in with their Custom Loadouts or most popular weapons of selection. Think of it as Hardpoint in Battle Royale.

New Public Events

During matches on Rebirth Island, airstrikes could take out numerous places by way of an Infil Strike. The POIs that may be hit are the Lighthouse, Prison, and Water Tower. So watch out touchdown or looting in these places.

In the Gulag, throughout Battle Royale maps Urzikstan and Vondel, you and your enemy can select to not fight to the loss of life and as an alternative climb ladders to the roof to each obtain redeployment.

New Equipment for Rebirth Island

There’s a new model of Battle Rage known as Squad Rage. You can purchase this Field Upgrade at a Buy Station or discover it across the map and use it to clear any fuel in the radius of impact from the consumer. It additionally offers your whole squad the results of Battle Rage as long as they’re standing close to you.

A brand new Killstreak can also be obtainable known as Foresight. You could keep in mind this from the unique Warzone. Now Foresight is a Killstreak that may be looted or bought in the Buy Station and it reveals to you the situation of each future fuel circle.

Another returning Perk from the unique Warzone is the bundle: Specialist. This is extraordinarily uncommon and may solely be discovered in particular places. If you handle to search out this bundle, you’ll be granted each Perk in the game until the top of the match.

Rebirth Island additionally options a new Weapon Trade System during Season 3. These stations are being constructed throughout the Island that let you commerce in a weapon to get one other of lesser rarity however with some additional loot. This is one of the stations that may probably grant you the Specialist Perk when you commerce in an particularly high tier weapon.

Season 3 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone is accessible now on all platforms together with cell.

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