CoD Warzone Season 1: Release and all important changes in the Pacific Update

The Pacific Season for Call of Duty: Warzone is getting ready. We have all the info on the launch time, content and new features of Season One.

On to the Pacific: Call of Duty Warzone kicks off its third Season 1 on 8 December. This time the Battle Royale merges with Call of Duty: Vanguard and brings big changes with it, as also reported by (Charlie Intel). Among other things, this includes a completely new map.

So that you don’t lose the overview, we have summarised all the information about the release, new weapons, Gulag, the new anti-cheat system and much more.

Table of contents

• Start: When will Season 1 be released?

• Download: How big is Season 1?

• Caldera: When will the new map be released?

• Weapons: What’s new in the game?

• Vanguard Royale: New playlist mode

• Loadouts and Perks: What’s changing?

• Gulag: What’s new?

• Anti-Cheat: When’s Ricochet coming?

• What other changes are there?

• Battle Pass: This is what you should know

• What to do before the start of the season

You can also get a taste of Season 1 with the trailer:

All info about Season 1 of CoD Warzone: Pacific

Start: When will Season 1 be released

The release of the update will take place on (8 December 2021). There is no time yet, but presumably the launch will take place in the morning hours, as with previous seasons. We will keep you posted on this.

Download: How big is the Season 1 update?

There is no information about the size at this point. However, we expect the update to be somewhat larger due to the numerous new contents – after all, there is a completely new map and numerous contents from Call of Duty: Vanguard will be included.

Caldera will be released directly on 8 December with the Pacific update for Call of Duty: Warzone – but will not be playable for everyone right from the start. Instead, only Call of Duty: Vanguard owners will be able to try out the new map on the release day.

Players without Call of Duty: Vanguard, on the other hand, can only start playing the new map on 9 December. Before then, only Rebirth Island will be available to them in two special playlists (Resurgences and Mini Royale). After 24 hours, the small Battle Royale map will disappear and will only be added again later.

Weapons: What’s new to the game?

With the merge with Call of Duty: Vanguard comes a huge load of new weapons to the game. More specifically, the breakdown is as follows:

• 38 weapons from Call of Duty: Vanguard

• 2 more yet unknown weapons from the Battle Pass of Season 1

Some of the weapons from CoD Vanguard you can see here:

Call of Duty Vanguard - View first weapon selection from multiplayer

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Vanguard Royale: New Playlist Mode

With the introduction of Caldera, Call of Duty: Warzone also offers the special Vanguard Royale mode in addition to the classic Battle Royale. The following new features await you there:

• Focus on Vanguard: Weapons, loadouts and operators are only available from the Vanguard era – all other content is excluded.
  • Exclusive Vehicles: In Vanguard Royale, you’ll find fighter planes, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft trucks and other vehicles exclusive to this mode.
  • More changes: Adjustments to the radii and times for the deadly zone and additional in-game events for each zone change. There will also be more exclusive items and contract rewards on the map

  

   

  Loadouts and Perks: What’s changing?

  The developers are also intervening in the matter of balance again with Season 1. So far, however, there are no detailed information about the individual changes, only this:

  • Dead Silence will be weakened
  • Stopping Power Rounds will be completely removed from the game
  • Stun Grenades and Heartbeat Sensor will also be toned down
  • Melee weapons are to become stronger, especially the ambidextrous weapons Kali Stick and Sai
  • Loadout drop markers can only be purchased from buy stations after the loadout drop event has started
  • More damage for lethal equipment, including an increased radius of effect for the Snapshot Grenade
  • the Stim Shot now gives an additional slight movement boost
  • the Decoy Grenade now contains rubber bullets that deal just enough damage to disrupt enemies

   

  Gulag: What’s New

  The Gulag famously gives you the ability to return to battle one more time after dying in Call of Duty: Warzone. With the Pacific update, there is now a big change here:

  The player who wins the duel in the Gulag will additionally receive the equipment granted to him in the Gulag when he returns to the battlefield. This also applies to the remaining ammunition and equipment – so efficiency will pay off in the future.

  

   

  Anti-Cheat: When is Ricochet coming?

  For PC gamers, the introduction of Ricochet, the new anti-cheat system of Call of Duty: Warzone, is particularly important. The new kernel driver will become mandatory with the first day of the update. How exactly Ricochet is supposed to prevent cheats, we have summarised for you here:

  CoD Warzone: New anti-cheat will dig deep into your system

  For Call of Duty: Vanguard, Ricochet will only become active with a later update. Activision has not yet announced exactly when this will happen.

  What other changes are there?
  In addition to the big changes, the Pacific Update for Call of Duty: Warzone brings a few more that should definitely not go down. We summarise:

  • Gas Canister: On Caldera, you can now find pick-up canisters that emit a gas similar to the lethal zone when they explode. However, you need both hands to carry the canister and enemies can explode the barrel in your hand
  • Shallow Water: On Caldera, there are places with very shallow water that you can easily walk through. Footprints become harder to see, even for enemies with the Tracker Perk. In addition, you temporarily get the effect of the Cold Blooded Perk if you crawl in the water. However, you cannot lie down. Furthermore, fire effects in the water cause smoke, which can be used as a tactical measure.
  • New Contracts: Supply Drop drops a crate of valuable equipment over the map for everyone to see – but only the team with the order gets the exact location. Big Game Bounty, on the other hand, makes the operator with the most kills the target, while the Top Secret Contract only reveals its task after it has been picked up.
  • New Public Events: Restocks and Resurgences are carried over from Rebirth Island for Caldera, as well as Cash Drops from the Operation: Flashback event. In addition, certain weapon crates will be dropped, including Blueprints from Verdansk.

   

  Battle Pass: What you need to know

  Of course, Season 1 of the Pacific Update for Call of Duty: Warzone will again offer a free and a premium Battle Pass. Through experience points that you collect in matches, you will rise in rank and unlock new rewards.

  Weapons are usually included in the free version, while most cosmetic content is only available in the paid version. The developers have not yet revealed which content will be the focus this time.

  What is clear, however, is that the pass will once again cost 1,000 CoD points (equivalent to about 10 euros). Alternatively, there is a package for 2,400 points (about 20 euros), which directly unlocks the first 20 ranks.

  The Secrets of the Pacific event is a particularly good way of doing this, as it takes you on a matching scavenger hunt for the new map.

  Now it’s up to you: What do you think about Season 1, the Pacific Update, of Call of Duty: Warzone? Will you be jumping back in or does what’s been shown leave you cold so far? Feel free to write us in the comments!