The new Season 3 of Call of Duty: Warzone is live. The big 40GB update comes with many map changes on Caldera, lootable perks, tons of balance adjustments, and new weapons. MeinMMO shows you the highlights of the patch notes.
The new Season 3 of Call of Duty: Warzone is called “Classified Arms” and is fully dedicated to giant monsters. Because later in the season an event starts with Godzilla and King Kong.
But right at the start of the season, things are heating up, and with a massive 40GB update, many changes come into play:
- New location on Caldera
- Changes to old locations on Caldera
- 2 new weapons at launch
- Lootable perks from loot boxes
- Iron Trials on Caldera
- New Gulag
- New contract “Sabotage”
- Fresh Battle Pass
We are embedding the trailer for Season 3 here:
CoD Warzone: Update 1.57 – Patch Notes
How big is the update? The update is quite large on all platforms:
- PlayStation 5: 43.2 GB
- PlayStation 4: 43.2 GB
- Xbox Series X/S: 40.9 GB
- Xbox One: 40.9 GB
- PC: 38.3 GB – Warzone only
- PC: 98.3 GB – with CoD MW
The update is so massive to relieve you at the end. After the patch, Warzone should consume less memory than before.
New Gulag and Adjustments to Locations
What does the new content look like? We will briefly list the most important new contents:
- Gulag “Hold”
- Symmetrical map on a ship
- Location “Dig Site”
- In the west, there is a new location between Mines and Ruins – at Dig Site you will find huge skeletons
- Reworked locations
- The POIs Runway, Lagoon, and Peak have been extensively revised
- Contract “Sabotage”
- You need to destroy a specific vehicle on the map to get an armored truck
- Lootable perks
- You can now find a selection of non-meta perks in crates. Only one lootable perk is active at a time, which works together with your loadout perks
- 2 new weapons
- The DMR M1916 and the assault rifle Nikita AVT are available. Here is how you get them and what they can do.
- Iron Trials on Caldera
- The battle royale with tightened rules is online right at the start
Later in the season, the big event “Operation: Monarch” will start, and a new in-match event will come into play: Loot Zones. In these zones, there will be better loot for a short time.
Patch will shake up the meta for snipers
What balancing adjustments have been made? The balance adjustments for Season 3 are extensive. Especially the changes to sniper rifles are exciting.
Smaller and faster sniper rifles like the Kar 98k from CoD MW or the Swiss K31 from Cold War no longer have infinite range for one-shot kills. You will only eliminate enemies with headshots in the first damage range. Here is the list now:
- One-shot headshot in the first damage range
- Kar 98k from CoD MW
- SP-R 208
- Pelington
- Tundra
- Swiss
- Type 99 from Vanguard
- Kar 98k from Vanguard
- One-shot headshot at any distance
- HDR
- AX-50
- ZRG 20mm
- Three-Line Rifle
- Gorenko
- No one-shot headshots
- Rytec
- Dragunov
- M82
In addition, there have been many adjustments to the range and values of the sniper rifles. This will certainly shake up the weapon meta for snipers.
But there is also a lot of movement in the other weapons. We will list the weapons for you and our assessment of whether the rifle has been buffed or nerfed:
- STG (VG) – Buff
- Itra Burst (VG) – Buff
- Volkssturmgewehr (VG) – Buff
- Vargo (CW) – Nerf
- XM4 (CW) – Nerf
- Magnum (VG) – Buff
- Diamatti – Nerf
- Bren (VG) – Nerf
- Whitley (VG) – Buff
- Armaguerra (VG) – Buff
- Type 100 (VG) – Nerf
- Owen Gun (VG) – Nerf
- MP40 (VG) – Nerf
- M1 Garand (VG) – Buff
If you want to get a detailed overview of the balance adjustments yourself, take a look at the English patch notes (via ravensoftware.com).
Godzilla arrives in May
What is this Godzilla event about? It is still not precisely known what this is about. So far, it seems that King Kong and Godzilla will haunt Caldera in a limited-time mode. The event starts on May 11 at 6 PM.
There are supposed to be bunkers with special weapons to fight the giant creatures. In the trailer for the new Battle Pass, it can be briefly seen how the two monsters devastate the island:
CoD Warzone: Playlist for the coming weeks
The playlists for the coming weeks are already known, and we will embed the image with the information here:
Season 3 leaves a strong impression and changes a lot in the game, especially on Caldera. How all this will affect the popularity of the map and the weapon meta remains to be seen.
We will keep an eye on the developments and update our list of the best weapons in Warzone in a timely manner before the weekend.
We would also like to know your first impression of Season 3. Feel free to leave us a comment on the topic.
