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[Tom]

Activision has officially confirmed the name of this year's Call of Duty. This year's game is titled Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Over the past few days, the company has been running a big ARG that involved sending Call of Duty YouTubers slide projectors, which would later point them to spots on maps from Black Ops 4 and others in Warzone. Though casual players may have spotted some teasers, the hardcore were tracking ciphers and participating in a collective attempt to decode the various messages.

All of that has culminated with the unlocking of an unlisted trailer on the official Call of Duty YouTube channel, which confirms Wednesday, August 26 as the date of the official reveal. The trailer features footage from a real, 1984 interview with KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, interspersed with footage of global unrest.

The game's events will seemingly be inspired by real-world events more than earlier Black Ops games. The trailer briefly touches on an embedded Soviet spy codenamed Perseus, another real figure whose identity remains unknown.

 

[David76]

Treyarch and Activision have released a gameplay trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War that shows off Outbreak – the open-world Zombies experience.

 

[Tom]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is hosting another free week very soon.

In celebration of the game's second season – which kicks off on Thursday – Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be making a select assortment of its multiplayer modes free to play for a full week.

A particular focus of this free week, available February 25 to March 4, is the recently revealed Outbreak mode, a Zombies experience on a big scale that takes place in the game's Fireteam maps. In Outbreak, squads of four set out to tackle various sets of objectives and fight off zombies, choosing when to extract and when to keep going for higher rewards.

The free weekend enables access to several multiplayer playlists, including an Apocalypse 24/7 one showcasing the new map. You'll also find a dedicated playlist for Gun Game, 2v2 Gunfight Blueprints, and 3v3 Face Off. More traditional multiplayer modes like Team Deathmatch, and Domination will likewise have their own playlists. The 40-player Fireteam mode is also part of the free weekend.

The free weekend kicks off right alongside Season 2, at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm UK on Thursday, February 25. It's available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

 

[David76]

Season 4 of Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War kicks off next week, and ahead of its initiation, Activision has shared more information about what we can expect from the update.

Treyarch and Raven – developers working on Black Ops Cold War and Warzone, respectively – have shared a roadmap that highlights what new multiplayer content, Zombies updates, and Warzone changes are due to arrive in the various Call of Duty projects with Season 4.

As ever with these big updates, we're going to see Warzone get a fairly sizeable update in the new patch, with a lot of map landmarks getting changed and some new items getting introduced to the game, too.




Ground Fall Event

Kicking off Season Four, the "Ground Fall" will litter the Verdansk map with space junk. The limited-time event will have you find and secure SAT-Links to score exclusive rewards for your global profile across Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. It's interesting to see something like this span both facets of the game.

"For this event, you'll tackle objectives pertaining to the new modes, maps, and weaponry in Black Ops Cold War and to the new Points of Interest in Warzone," says a press release. "Completing these objectives will reward you with items such as Emblems, Calling Cards, and a Satellite Weapon Charm, as well as some XP."

If you complete every challenge, and you'll receive an Epic Secondary Weapon Blueprint that is "truly out of this world". Alien blaster, anyone?

New Operators

Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact are adding reinforcements to their front lines "before mid-season". We're getting:

• Jackal, the metal-masked South African native. (Launch Tier 0 reward with a Tier 100 Ultra-Rarity Operator Skin).
• Salah, a member of the CIA-led squadron that infiltrated the Algerian satellite crash site. (Arriving in-season).
• Weaver; CIA Clandestine Service Officer Grigori Weaver straddles both sides of the Cold War divide. (Arriving in-season).

Following that, "a familiar friend" will join the fray, though no details on who that will be have been shared yet.

New Weapons

There will be two new Battle Pass weapons and three unlockable armaments available to you during the season, as per an update on the Call of Duty site:

• MG 82: LMG (Coming at launch, Tier 15 reward)

Full-auto light machine gun. Highest fire rate in class with improved aiming speed. Moderate recoil and damage with increased ammo capacity.

• C58: Assault Rifle (Coming at launch, Tier 31 reward)

Full-auto assault rifle. High damage at close range with a slower fire rate. Fast bullet velocity and reliable recoil control with less ammo capacity.

• Nail Gun: Special/SMG (Coming to both BOCW/WZ at launch)

This slow-firing, highly mobile power tool uses compressed air to launch fast-moving projectiles that deal high damage at close range.

• OTs 9: SMG (Arriving in-season)

Boasting great stopping power and a phenomenal rate of fire, the OTs 9 is hindered only by its low magazine capacity of 20 rounds.

• Mace: Melee (Arriving in-Season)

Get medieval on your enemies with this in-season melee weapon, bringing the available number of hand-to-hand combat tools in Black Ops Cold War to eight, including the Ballistic Knife.

The latter three weapons can be obtained in Season 4 in one of two ways: complete an in-game challenge to obtain the free base weapon, or pick up a bundle with a unique Blueprint version when it appears in the Store.

Warzone

"Several Satellites have crash-landed in Verdansk, leaving you and your squad to investigate their rubble," says a press release.

Although they won't appear on your Tac Map, the Satellite Crash Sites will be plainly visible in Verdansk, as the debris and impact on the landscape is significant. "Besides offering new opportunities for cover, the satellites themselves can also be secured," apparently.

"Interact with the Sat-Links found in the area to work toward receiving permanent rewards in the Ground Fall event at the beginning of the season. Also, secure helpful items to use during the match, such as powerful Killstreaks, vehicles, and Field Upgrades."

The Dirt Bike, the first brand-new vehicle to drop into the DZ, arrives at launch. "Ramp up your off-road antics with this extremely maneuverable scrambler, scattered across Verdansk and ready to use at the start of a match."

In addition to becoming the new fastest vehicle in Warzone, the Dirt Bike will have some unique handling properties, such as wheel traction, sliding, drifting, and vehicle leaning, allowing you to take epic hairpin turns, dodge oncoming fire, or pull off sick stunts by controlling your orientation in the air.

Red Doors are also coming. But you'll have to figure out what they are on your own because the press release isn't particularly helpful.

Our intel cannot explain the origin of these mysterious red doors around Verdansk, but one thing is certain: They allow you to [[REDACTED]] around the [[REDACTED]]. What's behind them? Explore and enter them to [[REDACTED]] across the [[REDACTED]].
Red Doors won't [[REDACTED]] unless you ping them, and after you step through, there's no telling [[REDACTED]] exiting out the other side… and stepping into a [[REDACTED]].

Black Ops Cold War

Four new maps are coming to the PvP portion of Black Ops Cold War: Collateral (12v12) and Collateral Strike (6v6), Amsterdam (2v2 and 3v3) and Hijacked, a beloved 6v6 map first appearing in Black Ops II, are all coming at launch. Then later, Rush (6v6) arrives in-season.

A new multiplayer mode and two returning favorites are coming, too: Multi-Team: Sat-Link and One in the Chamber arrive at launch, whilst Capture the Flag comes in-season.

A semiautomatic handgun chambered in a ridiculously high-caliber round, the Hand Cannon arrives as a new scorestreak, too.

"Mauer der Toten" – Treyarch's new Zombies experience, arrives mid-season. Says the press release:

Fans of "Die Maschine," "Firebase Z," and other classic round-based Zombies experiences will be welcomed home in "Mauer der Toten," the next chapter in the Black Ops Cold War Zombies coming mid-season.

That's all the headline info, but if you want to read up about what else is coming over the next Season of Call of Duty, head to the dedicated site.