CoD Warzone 2 & MW2: Season 3 roadmap revealed – all new weapons, maps, operators and more.

Season 3: The most important information about the release

Release: When does Season 3 start? 

Season 3 will start on 12 April 2023. As for the time, we can again assume a launch at around 6pm. The Battle Pass of Season 2 Reloaded will expire on 11 April 2023.

Download: How big is Season 3?

Likely to be between 15 and 30 GB in size. Activision has not yet given any details on the size of the update. Based on the last seasons, Season 3 should be comparable in size. A preload will be available a few hours before the launch, as expected.

Mid-Season: When does Season 3 Reloaded start?

Probably mid-May: It has become common practice that every CoD season gets a big update with new features in the middle. Season 3 Reloaded doesn’t have a start date yet, but it should be sometime in mid-May.

Roadmap: All new content in Season 3

Meanwhile, the official roadmap of Season 3 has been revealed in the course of a (blogpost). What kind of new maps, weapons, operators and features are coming to Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2, we have summarised for you in the following sections.

More firepower

As usual, Season 3 is once again packed with new maps, weapons, game modes and other content. As already revealed in a leak on 29 March, a total of 13 new weapons await us until Season 5, some of which boast a certain familiarity in Call of Duty.

One of these weapons already awaits us in Season 3 in the form of a new old sniper rifle. The FJX Imperium should look extremely familiar to many CoD fans upon closer inspection, as it is a clone of arguably the most famous sniper in Call of Duty history – the M200 Intervention.

We invited @FaZeDirty for a surprise Season 03 playtest 😯

What he didn’t know was an old friend would be joining him. The FJX Empire Sniper drops with Season 03 on April 12 🎯 pic.twitter.com/bbexo9T9of

– Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) April 3, 2023

CoD professional gamer FaZe Dirty has already been able to play a few test rounds with the new sniper rifle at Infinity Ward Studios and has really scared the trousers off one or two other developers. The CDL pro was thrilled with the weapon and gave it a clear recommendation.

Those who also want to enjoy the classic will have to wait until 12 April and will probably not be able to avoid buying the Battle Pass for the time being.

More classics

The multiplayer of Modern Warfare 2 gets further reinforcement after the new map Himmelmatt Expo added in Season 2 Reloaded. With Pelayos’s Lighthouse the start of Season 3 brings another map to the game that might be familiar to some CoD veterans.

Part of the new map is strongly reminiscent of the classic map Estate from 2009’s Modern Warfare. Whether this is just part old map or the entire map is not yet clear.

After Shoothouse and Shipment it would be the third remake of a former Call of Duty map.

Loot Money & Ranked

While the new multiplayer maps are exclusive to Modern Warfare 2, after a rather weak Season 2 Reloaded update, we can finally look forward to new content in Warzone 2 as well.

With Season 3, both Loot Moneyand Ranked Mode are making their way into the Battle Royale shooter.

The loot money mode (engl. “Plunder”) was with short interruptions one of the most popular modes in Warzone Caldera and has been sorely missed at least since a glitch in early December, which announced its possible return in Warzone 2.

New content for Warzone 2 and MW2

New Battle Pass including update

• Battle Pass BlackCell variant as ultimative version of the Battle Pass
• Automatic Battle Pass paths for undecided players

New Weapons in Season 3

• Sniper Rifle FJX Empire
• Pistol Nova
• Battle Rifle Cronan Squall

New Operator in Season 3

• Alejandro Vargas
• Valeria Garza

New Features

• New Prestige Challenges and Rewards
• Trophy Hunt Event
• Recruit a FriendFeature
• Discord Integration on PC
• Adjustments and bug fixes, update of Ricochet anti-cheat
• New Store Bundle

New content for Modern Warfare 2

Maps

• 6v6: Pelayo’s Lighthouse
• 6v6: Black Gold
• 6v6: Al Boran Hatchery (In-Season)
• Battle-Map: Sattiq Cave Complex
• Battle-Map: Rohan Oil Fields
• Battle map:Blacksite
• Firefight: Alley
• Firefight: Exhibit
• Firefight: Alley
• Firefight: Shipment

New/Recurring Game Modes

• Buzzed Up
• Firefight
• Face Off
• Ground War Infected
• Firefight OSP (In-Season)

Special Forces

• New Mission Hafid Port

Raids

• Episode 3

Features

• New rewards for ranked matches

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New content for Warzone 2

Game Modes

• Resurgence on Al Mazrah for up to 150 players
• Loot Money (In-Season)
• Warzone 2.0 Ranked Play (In-Season)

New Features

• New Gulag
• Redeploy drones (on Al Mazrah): already known from Ashika Island, used for fast travel
• UAV towers: give useful information about the surroundings when activated
• Tempered Vests: protective waistcoats with two instead of three armour plates, which can be replaced more quickly
• Lootable Perks (In-Season)
• Wearable Purchase Stations (In-Season)
• Decontamination Stations (In-Season)
• Perk Package Items
• Gulag Entry Kit (In-Season)

Updates for DMZ

• workbench
• Trading
• Operator Slots
• New Faction
• New missions and remix missions
• New bosses

What are you hoping for from Season 3 in Call of Duty? Are you looking forward to new content or are you waiting for important balancing adjustments? Is the content supply with the seasons fast enough for you or would you like to have more frequent events and updates? Feel free to write us your opinion right below in the comments!