Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3marked a new low point for the franchise, with its extremely short campaign, its lack of any original 6v6 multiplayer maps on launch, and its lackluster open-world Zombies mode. A lot of pressure was onCall of Duty: Black Ops 6to raisetheCall of Dutyfranchiseback to the critical heights it once knew, and against all odds, it managed to do just that.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6was packed with content on launch, coming with a full-length campaign, 16 original 6v6 multiplayer maps, and two round-based Zombies maps. What’s more impressive is thatCall of Duty: Black Ops 6has managed to keep that ball rolling, with Season 1 of its post-launch content adding a handful of new multiplayer maps, one new Zombies map, and a plethora of quality-of-life improvements. While the last fewCall of Dutyentries have quickly stumbled on the first step of their post-launch journey,Black Ops 6is thriving, and that’s set to continue with Season 2’s launch on January 28, which seems to finally be breaking one pattern that’s been a growing point of worry for some years.
Call of Duty: Warzone Is Not a Major Part of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2
Warzone Has Often Taken Up a Large Portion of The Seasonal Roadmap
Over the last few years, there’s been a point of contention amongCall of Dutyfans that’s been slowly growing with the release of each new season of post-launch content. Since its debut in 2020,Call of Duty: Warzonehas had a prominent spot on each season’s roadmap, often equaling the size of the multiplayer section, and frequently dwarfing the size of the Zombies section.
Call of Duty: Warzoneis an incredibly popular game, and it’s great to see it receive so much new content over the years. But whenWarzone’s portion of the seasonal roadmap is consistently greater than any other component of the franchise, it’s hard for fans to not feel as though the annual entry they’ve just purchased is nota priority for Activision.
This trend was particularly prominent withCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s post-launch cycle, with theWarzoneportion of the seasonal roadmap often being around three times the size of its Zombies section.MW3’s Zombies modealready felt like a bit of an afterthought on release, and its post-launch roadmaps continued to cement this feeling every few months.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Has Broken This Controversial Pattern
But with the release ofCall of Duty: Black Ops 6’s Season 2 roadmap, it seems as though this controversial trend has come to an end, at least temporarily.Black Ops 6’s Season 2 roadmap gives its Zombies and multiplayer modes equal billing, whileWarzoneis relegated to just a tiny three-panel portion at the top of the roadmap.
Why Warzone Has Taken a Step Back in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2
But there’s a reason forCall of Duty: Warzone’s much smaller stake inBlack Ops 6’s Season 2 roadmap. On January 17, Activision confirmed in an official blog post that it had “made the decision to prioritize focus on gameplay tuning, adding more quality of life, and addressing ongoing bugs,” and that any “new [Warzone] content originally planned for Season 02 has been shifted to create bandwidth to address foundational issues.”
Some of theWarzoneimprovementsreleasing throughoutCall of Duty: Black Ops 6Season 2 will be:
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Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.
