Mid-Season 1 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is on the starting block and brings the popular small map Shipment. The developers have announced a change that distinguishes the new Shipment from the versions in CoD MW 2019 and Vanguard – a curse, a blessing, or something in between?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 received the Shoot House map at the start of Season 1 – one of the smallest and most popular maps from its direct predecessor CoD MW 2019. It was only beaten by a second small map: Shipment.
Shipment stands for chaos, action, and the complete failure of the spawn system in the game. Nevertheless, many players love the map because it brings a completely different pace than the many larger maps of Modern Warfare.
In CoD MW2 we are already experiencing the 7th incarnation of the Shipment map. Compared to the two versions of CoD MW 2019 and CoD Vanguard (2021), the developers are changing the map layout and players do not know exactly if it’s the worst or the best possible change.
Along with Shipment, the first PvE raid in Call of Duty’s history will start. We have embedded the trailer for the raid here:
CoD MW2: No more verticality on Shipment
What will change on Shipment? As with every rebirth of Shipment, the responsible parties are changing small things in the general layout. Here a few covers are being rebuilt, there is an extra pallet, the container is moved a meter to the side – just like this year.
However, they are also changing one thing that opened up new combat levels in Vanguard and CoD MW 2019. In CoD MW2, you cannot climb on containers. All battles take place on only one level, as CoD reports on Twitter:
While there was some verticality in Shipment in recent years, that is completely gone in CoD MW2. An exciting development, as the community also finds.
What do players say about it? On the Modern Warfare 2 subreddit, Shipment is currently the topic of the day. Out of the five top threads, four revolve around a Shipment topic.
In the largest thread, players are already discussing their toxic loadouts with which they want to drive their enemies crazy. Within 18 hours, 5,900 upvotes were gathered here, as the thread creator hints that he wants to envelop the entire map in smoke (as of: 14.12.22 / 1:00 PM).
It’s a bit paradoxical. There is palpable joy in the thread while players exchange how they want to make each other’s lives hell with flash grenades, tactical shields, smoke equipment, and drill grenades.
Similar things are happening in the other threads. One topic focuses on the removal of verticality.
Here they are talking about the grenade or flash grenade simulator. One user comments that you will constantly hear the intrusive sound of drill grenades. The next one recommends everyone to use the DDoS field upgrade to disable enemy trophy systems for even more chaos.
Everyone seems to love Shipment but at the same time hate it. The change in verticality only makes it worse. It seems players do not know whether to cheer or cry. However, the double XP event for the mid-season start might help keep emotions in check.
After the start of Mid-Season 1, we can all get a picture of the new Shipment ourselves. By the way, Call of Duty will decorate the map for Christmas. From December 21 to January 4, Shipment will be a Christmas map with lots of tinsel and fairy lights.
If you are looking for more details now, we recommend taking a look at the English blog about the Shipment map on callofduty.com.
In which CoD games has Shipment appeared before? In the fan wiki of Call of Duty (via callofduty.fandom.com) there is a list of all games that have included Shipment so far:
- CoD: Modern Warfare
- CoD: Modern Warfare 2
- Call of Duty: Online
- CoD MW 2019
- Call of Duty: Mobile
- CoD: Vanguard
- CoD MW2 2022
Although they are not the standard, smaller maps are often very well received because they stand for a unique gaming experience in CoD. They increase the pace, provide lots of experience points, and help with many challenges in the game. The counterpart of the Black Ops series is just as legendary as Shipment: Nuketown.
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