Season 5 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone is live. With it comes the reveal event for CoD 2023, an event celebrating 50 years of hip-hop and fresh content like weapons and maps. An overview of the content and when it will be released can be found here on MeinMMO.
What’s happening with Call of Duty? The current Modern Warfare 2 is nearing the end of its life cycle. It is now clear: A direct successor is coming this year with Modern Warfare 3.
Season 5 is likely the penultimate live season for CoD MW2, bringing free new content to the game.
- If you are just looking for a quick overview of Season 5, check it out here
- Here you can find the patch notes for Season 5
We will explain in detail here what content was added to the game and what the Season 5 update looks like.
You can watch the Season 5 trailer here:
CoD MW2 / Warzone: Season 5 – Release & Update
When is the update coming? The update is live.
How big will the update be? Just over 10 GB; on PlayStation, it is 12 GB.
What’s in the update? Here’s a brief summary:
- CoD MW2
- 4 maps at launch
- Another 6vs6 map in-season
- New features for large game modes
- New arena mode
- Warzone
- Champion Quest for Vondel
- New vehicles & features DMZ/BR
- In-season: Parts of Al-Mazrah come as a revival mode
- Armored Royale returns in-season
- Reveal event CoD 2023 in Warzone
- Additional content
- 6 new weapons throughout the season
- New battle pass
- Event “50 Years of Hip-Hop”
- Event for the Shadow Company
Further down, there are a few details about the content of Season 5. You can find the roadmap here:
CoD MW2: Season 5 – Content
- Maps in Season 5
With the start of the season, 4 new maps go live – two 6vs6 maps and two for the gunfight mode:
- 6vs6
- Punta Mar – smaller map in Las Almas
- Strike – remaster of CoD MW 2007
- Gunfight
- Lounge – visit to a club
- Canal – greetings from the Netherlands
- Mid-season
- DRC – part of Building 21 (DMZ)
- New features and modes
In Season 5, a mode called “Havoc” is coming at launch, which is supposed to remind players of arena shooters from the past. You collect power-ups that reload your ammunition, reduce gravity, or hit like a grenade when you jump from somewhere.
For the large ground wars, a “Capture the Flag” mode for 2 teams with 20 players will be introduced. Additionally, three different variants for the gunfight mode will come throughout the season:
- Gunfight Custom – with loadouts
- Gunfight Snipers – with snipers
- Armored Gunfight – with armor
The whole thing is rounded off with the “Faceoff” mode. Here, two teams of 4 compete on the small gunfight maps in the 6vs6 modes – either team deathmatch or confirmed kills. Killstreaks are disabled.
CoD Warzone: Season 5 – Content
What’s coming for Warzone? On the map Vondel, the champions’ quests will be introduced at launch. This is a nuke that ends the game and immediately decides the winner of the match. At the same time, three new elements for champions’ quests will be introduced:
- Gallium: When you carry the element, you become revealed like with a snapshot grenade
- Deuterium: Coughing while sprinting
- Neptunium: Has periodic effects like the shock stick on the environment
Two new vehicles will also be introduced: The MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) is said to appear rarely, withstand a lot, but be slow. The dirt bike brings more action. However, the vehicles will only come in-season.
For the DMZ, around the release, four new items will come into the game:
- Disguise Field Upgrade
- Certain AI factions will not attack you
- Battle Revive
- Self-revive and battle rage in one
- Self-Revive Box
- Similar to armor box but with self-revive for all
- Scuba Gas Mask
- Mask against gas, radioactive winds, allows you to breathe underwater
As new modes, Armored Royale will come together with the new truck MRAP and “Fort Resurgence” throughout the season. In the fort mode, small parts of Al-Mazrah will be played in the revival mode.
Additionally, in Warzone we will witness the reveal of the new Modern Warfare 3 through an event. More information will come later. Here is the first official image from the event:
CoD MW2 & Warzone: Battle Pass and More Content
What else is coming in Season 5? Many new operator skins have been announced along with a few events. Call of Duty is celebrating 50 years of hip-hop with an event where you can earn free cosmetics. There are also matching purchasable operator bundles, like from Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj.
A small event shortly after the season launch will provide you with more cosmetics: In the “Faction Showdown”, the return of Graves and the Shadow Company will be thematized – this is likely part of the reveal event for CoD MW3.
What new weapons are coming? A total of six weapons have been announced for Season 5:
- FR Avancer / assault rifle – battle pass
- Carrack .300 / sniper – battle pass
- M13C / assault rifle – in-season
- MP / pistol / melee weapon – in-season
What does the Battle Pass look like? For 1,100 CoD points, you can get the Battle Pass, which exchanges items for playtime. Here’s a general overview of what a CoD Battle Pass includes:
- 2 new weapons for Warzone
- New operator
- Legendary rewards upon completion of the pass
- Many operator skins with missions for even more skins
- Cosmetics like calling cards, emblems, sprays, and talismans
- Vehicle items like battle songs or skins
- XP tokens for an experience points boost
- 10% experience boost on the Battle Pass
- 1,400 CoD points
Which operator is at the center? Graves comes with the Battle Pass. The character was one of the driving forces in the CoD MW2 campaign and returns to the story with Season 5.
This was our overview of Season 5 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone. If you have any questions, leave a comment.
Now that the first official information about the new Call of Duty is slowly but surely coming, you can also look into some leaks beforehand: Call of Duty 2023 will be presented in a few weeks – 11 leaks you should know now
