* Vondel, Ashika Island, and Plunder will be available with WZ Integration
* Fortune’s Keep returns to console and pc early 2024 followed by rebirth in late 2024
# Equipment Changes
* One shot sniping returns
* You will always have a pistol while swimming and on every ladder, no matter what your loadout is
* Stim boosts movement speed
* Gas mask now blocks tear gas grenade
* Manual gas mask equipping
* New throwable drone that flies and explodes
* New tactical grenade sticks to enemies and puts their location on minimap until they rip it off
* Aftermarket parts let you change guns into other types (ex: LMG to SMG)
* **New warzone perks** (seems like WZ2 perks remain/ no new gloves or boots for WZ)
* 1 automatically drops a smoke when you are downed
* 1 increases your running speed when you take damage or are shot
* 1 is related to how you interact with the gas (?)
# Gameplay Changes
* Slide and reload cancel returns
* Faster mantling
* Longer tac sprint + tac sprint recharges while sprinting
* Downed enemies have more health (not sure how much)
* Damage is more equalized across the body to help fights feel more consistent (less difference between headshot vs chest for example)
* Tac stance is between hip fire and ADS
* Finishing a bounty awards a free UAV sweep
* Horizontal ziplines between buildings for the first time
* Can stop/control the train
* Big Game Bounty contract returns
* 2 gulags on launch- 1 normal 3 lane and 1 night vision (chance to get this one)
* Champion’s quest contract can be stolen by other teams, who can then finish it for themselves
# Quality of Life
* Killcam shows attachments the enemy used to kill you
* Red dots return to the minimap for Warzone (unsuppressed guns)
* Backpack will have 5 dedicated ammo slots (less inventory management)
Let me know if I missed anything and let me know what you think!
Edit
-Gulag has a zip line instead of a flag. Successfully zip up the line to win the gulag.
-aim assist seems nerfed at medium to long ranges https://x.com/modernwarzone/status/1710293617888100372?s=46&t=fxCRZCvbTuxpZC-wjcE_cQ
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Equalized damage just removes the skillgap
>Downed enemies have more health (not sure how much)
They already have too much, the fuck
Any word of contract multipliers are back? One of the biggest changes for the worse from WZ1
>1 increases your running speed when you take damage or are shot
Oh jeez
Slide and reload cancel returns / doesn’t automatically reset tac sprint.
Which is a great way to balance it.
What about loadouts? Is it back to WZ1 style with 2 free loadouts and loadouts at 10k or same as WZ2?
Will rotational aim assist for controllers still be as strong as it is currently?
Tactical stance is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen hahahaha will it have different animations too?
I like most of the changes except for red dot on map when shooting unsuppressed gun and reload cancel.
I’m a big fan of staged reload. It makes lmg infinitely more usable. It also allows for more movement like dive, slide and jumps during reload even with smgs and ars(even smgs and ars have at least 2 reload stages). It’s gonna suck with LMGs without staged reload.
No red dot on unsuppressed guns also really promoted muzzle attachment diversity. Giving ppl precise location from shooting ur gun is stupid.
Are they gonna do something about the rampant cheating?
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I’m not a fan of red dots returning for unsuppressed weapons in Warzone. This will just decrease meta diversity by forcing everyone to run suppressors again.
As a melee player I think I’m gonna enjoy enemies giving me free cover when I down them lol, squad wipes gonna go crazy
Back to BS, maybe cross play can turn off for resurgence?
Gulag has a zip line instead of a flag. Successfully zip up the line to win the gulag.
>Horizontal ziplines between buildings for the first time
Great addition but the dismount needs to be sped up. I was watching Swagg use one and it took forever for him to get off of it.
Does update to warzone release the same day at MW3?
Thank you so much for this!
Oh great….stim boost movement speed.
Like that shit wasn’t fucking busted in 1
[There will be “4 different Gulags”](https://youtu.be/9o2bxsRvvEE?t=9346) building off of the Public Event system in Warzone. We’ve seen one alternate gulag is the NVG gulag. I imagine the other two variants will be on the same gulag map but with tweaked rules.
Later in the VOD Tim says that “Locked and Loaded” will be another Gulag variant. Where you enter the gulag with a max ammo AR and SMG and full plates.
Solid work putting together this list for everyone! I had an entire list of notes, but didn’t have time to make a post so I’m stoked to see someone else did.
To add to everything you mentioned:
• Visual markers when you plate or fully crack someone are changing back to blue like in WZ1.
• Cash will be available to pick up in the gulag that you will drop back into the match with. *(Edit: this is already currently in WZ2, but wasn’t originally a feature at a launch, so I figured I’d add that it was confirmed to be staying)*
• Fortune’s Keep will be returning in early 2024, but Rebirth Island will be returning later in 2024.
• Rebirth is also being released on Warzone Mobile, in addition to Verdansk.
• Rebirth and Fortune’s Keep are confirmed to be on map rotation once released.
Side note: although I’m sure a lot of people won’t care, it was stated that contrary to popular belief, devs do actively pay attention to player and community feedback. Although they may not make all changes requested, they are watching and listening and it did play a part in why they are bringing back Fortunes/Rebirth, as well as bringing back QOL features that we loved in WZ1. I think it’s important for people to remember that game devs often will make changes to games in order to try new things and see what sticks. It’s part of the creative process and trying to do new things. They gave WZ2 and all of its changes a shot for a solid year, processed all of the feedback, and are now implementing things back in that they see are important to the community, while making tweaks to try and make the overall feel and playability better than before.
I know we’ve been let down before, but if everything goes the way it’s looking, this is shaping up to be a really solid next chapter of Warzone. A lot of new, but a lot of excellent old. Can’t wait to drop in! 🫡
u/mikerichh thanks for putting this list together! Small correction on this bullet point:
* Rebirth Island and Fortune’s Keep return early 2024
Only Fortune’s Keep is returning in “early 2024”. Rebirth Island is returning “later in 2024”.
– what about fixing FOOTSTEPS?
stillllll waiting for the Audio balancing to be addressed.
As a M&K player, the biggest improvements are reduced visual recoil and muzzle smoke!
Downed enemies have more health (not sure how much)
Damage is more equalized across the body to help fights feel more consistent (less difference between headshot vs chest for example)
Everything is very promising for me except those two points I feel are going to generate a lot of frustration
The engine is really using Vanguard tech this time. Unlike the lie that was told when Vanguard and Caldera were released LOL.
This is everything that i wanted.
Movement is back, Stim Boosts are back, Rebirth and Fortune’s Keep are back. Warzone is back.
“increases your running speed when you take damage or are shot”
Hmm will have to see how it plays out, but reminding me of Serpentine (yes, I know it’s not the same).
What jumped to my face was how bad the weapons sound and that they just reused the ugly sights of vanguard. I expect this game to be awfully close to vanguard. which i hated.
I hope they dont fumble that. lots of good things comming but they should not overdo it.
Oh sweet nothing to improve all the hacks and walls . Great
Do we know if flash bangs are still as bullshit as they are in MWII?
Does Battle Hardened actually reduce their effect rather than just the duration? Do they still effect you if your back is turned to them? Can you turn them black in the settings?
Generally positive improvements but we’ll see how it plays out. Buying MW3 is a complete waste of money though.
Remove rotational aim assist or else I’m out.
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that they are copying and pasting optics from vanguard ? They look godawful ugly.
Do we have a date for when the new map hits?
I’m guessing it’ll be a few weeks after MW3 launches?
Without substantial reduction in visual noise (gun smoke, blood, vignetting) I’m not coming back. Gun smoke needs 100% removed.
nerf aim assist.
Man I wish they’d bring back Operator Mods from BO4