With the Season 1 refresh on December 18, a new mode was added to the playlist in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. In “Cranked” you are under constant stress and need to make kills to survive!
Why are there new modes in the current CoD? Players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare regularly receive new content over time, and the current Season 1 brings CoD soldiers new maps along with changing modes.
With the major Season 1 refresh on December 18, the new “Cranked” mode was introduced, which some players may know from CoD: Ghosts.
The rules also remind a bit of the action movie “Crank”: Go full throttle or you’re done for! There is no place for campers, as anyone who does nothing for too long will blow up. That is one of the rules of the new mode.
A video from YouTuber KRNG Hero humorously shows what happens to campers in this mode and how it plays:
New Modern Warfare mode makes you sweat
What kind of crazy mode is this? This anti-camper mode comes with a new gameplay element and ruthlessly blows you up after 30 seconds without a kill.
These are the rules of “Cranked”
- Gameplay rules like team deathmatch.
- The team with 150 kills wins the round.
- Match duration is 10 minutes.
- If you get a kill, you are Cranked.
- A bonus to your speed stats for 30 seconds.
- You run faster, your weapon mobility stats are increased.
- The buff resets to 30 seconds with each additional kill.
- If the buff expires, your killstreak ends with an explosion.
The mode forces you to keep going after the first kill. Campers cannot simply guard a particular spot for long periods, as without enemy fire, the game is over quickly.
How can I survive this? Adapt to the fast-paced gameplay and choose your loadout accordingly.
The mode demands high speed and improves your speed in the cranked state. If your setup is already optimized for ZV speed and mobility, you’ll have good chances in 1v1 situations.
A really good run and gun weapon can give you an advantage here, but choose your weapons based on the maps. Skipping a target sight could also help.
Take a submachine gun for the small maps and an assault rifle for the large maps. Besides the M4, the Battle Pass weapon RAM-7 is also suitable here.
Dream start for Cranked, but will the mode stay?
What do the players say? The mode is really well received. The principle makes camping significantly more difficult, and that pleases the CoD soldiers. Here are some voices from the community:
- SNFN: “Cranked makes the game so much more enjoyable. Definitely my favorite game mode.”
- krohn7master: “Cranked is the game mode that saved MW for me.”
- JeffCrisco: “Cranked is the best mode in the entire game.”
A lot of players agree that this mode is among the best you can currently play in CoD.
For krohn7master, the Cranked mode even saves the entire game. Perhaps he was also asked, when Modern Warfare wanted to know what they need to do to get you to play again.
Will the mode stay in the game? The mode was introduced into the playlist during Season 1, and the developers frequently rotate here.
Players are now worried that the mode might disappear quickly and are already posting requests for “Cranked” to become a permanent part of public games.
Even in the “24/7 Shoot House” mode, the developers listened to the community’s wishes, even if the mono-map conflict had to be removed again by now.
Have you tried the new mode yet? What do you think of the high-speed battles?
