CoD Vanguard starts tonight with Season 2. There are new maps, more explosions, and better field equipment. Zombies also get a lot of content. However, weapon balancing is completely missing. MeinMMO tells you more.
On February 14 at 6 PM, Season 2 of CoD Vanguard starts after a delay of weeks. Developer Sledgehammer Games is skipping weapon balancing this time; instead, the focus is clearly on new content.
In multiplayer, there are new maps, more explosive toys, and perks that enhance your field equipment. Fans of the zombie mode can particularly look forward to: the highlights are a completely new map and 2 new wonder weapons.
Multiplayer gets more explosions, no weapon balancing
What new content is coming? The multiplayer of CoD Vanguard is getting several new contents. This includes a new top killstreak for the best players, sticky grenades and 2 perks that improve operational equipment. There are also 2 new medium-sized maps.
What improvements are there? What’s missing in the patch notes is weapon balancing in any form. Instead, there are numerous smaller bug fixes that address issues with camouflage challenges, among other things. You can read about these bug fixes on the website of developer Sledgehammer Games (via sledgehammergames.com).
Here are all new contents in the game with Season 2:
2 new maps – Casablanca and Gondola
Casablanca: Casablanca is a medium-sized map. It has the typical 3 paths through the map, which lead through a busy marketplace. The map also emphasizes vertical combat as several buildings require close and long-range tactics.
Gondola: Gondola is also a medium-sized map with 3 paths. However, the special feature here is the namesake gondola that can take you slowly across a large gorge to a lookout tower. Players can also use the long sightline provided by this gondola route or go through the power plant and caves to engage in close combat.
Casablanca 
Gondola
New game modes: Ranked and Arms Race
- Ranked Mode: Players can now battle through the ranks with the rules of the Professional League of Call of Duty.
- Arms Race: This mode is meant to appear later in the season. It’s more than just infantry combat. Armored war machines such as motorcycles, transport vehicles, and tanks are in focus here. The goal is to destroy enemy strongholds.
New content in the Battle Pass: Explosive killstreak, sticky grenade, 2 perks
New killstreak: Hull-mounted Gunner
Players who have played CoD WW2 already know this new killstreak. The Hull-mounted Gunner can be activated after 12 kills in a row. For 30 seconds, you can rain explosions on the map.
This is what this killstreak looked like in CoD WW2:
New grenade: Sticky grenade
New perks: With Season 2, you gain access to 2 new perks, one for Slot 1 (Blue) and one for Slot 3 (Yellow). Both perks help your field equipment.
- Armory (Blue):
- Deploy equipment faster. Your equipment is immune to the Technician perk and cannot be hacked or seen through walls.
- Mechanic (Yellow):
- Field equipment reloads 20% faster.
Zombies: New Egypt map, Easter eggs, and wonder weapons
Terra Maledicta is the new hub map in Zombies after “The Beginning”. It takes place in Egypt and contains gates to three new arenas: Corrupted Lands, Eastern Desert, and the Hall of Truth.
You will complete a new story quest and fight new enemies with friends. Wonder weapons and Easter eggs also return.
The Ray Gun returns 
The map Terra Maledicta and the new enemies 
The wonder weapons Ray Gun and Decimator Shield
Here’s what’s new in CoD Vanguard Zombies:
- New hub map: “Terra Maledicta”
- 3 new locations: Corrupted Lands, Eastern Desert, Hall of Truth
- 2 wonder weapons: Decimator Shield and Ray Gun
- New ally: Vercanna, the Last
- New enemy: Zaballa, the Deceiver
- New artifact: Staff of the Wild (Healing Aura)
- New mission: Sacrifice
- New covenant: Artifact Watch
- New story quest
- New weapon support: KG M40, Whitley
- 3 new Pack-a-Punch camouflages
- 20 new season challenges
Also included are many small stability improvements and bug fixes for Zombies that you can read about on the website of Sledgehammer Games (via sledgehammergames.com).
What do you think of these patch notes? Are you satisfied with the new contents of Season 2? Or would you have liked more adjustments to old content? What do you generally think of the current state of CoD Vanguard? Let us know in the comments.
If you want to know what new features and changes are coming to Warzone with the release of Season 2, you should check out this article:
Packed Season 2 of CoD Warzone starts tonight – Bombers, NPC tanks, and gas ammunition
