Today Activision and Sledgehammer Games, alongside Treyarch and Raven Software, hosted a large livestream focusing on the multiplayer modes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
As we learned a few days ago, MW3 will include all the 16 launch maps from MW2, but they have been "revitalized" with new audio, visuals, and gameplay mechanics.
In the recording of the livestream below you can take a look at gameplay on five of the maps mentioned above, Favela, Estate, Skidrow, Rust, and Highrise.
Incidentally, all five will be available to play in the beta that starts tomorrow.
We also learn that new Ground War maps and a War Mode map will be available at release, but further information will come at a later date,.
After release, Sledgehammer promises at least 12 more maps distributed, among the seasons of which three will come in Season 1 and three more in Season 2.
A few elements return to the game including map voting, the classic minimap, the ability to equip boots that let you move quietly, and a higher time-to-kill via health increased to 150 points.
Movement has been overhauled with the following criteria:
- Cancel slide and reload animations to quickly adjust your tactics on the fly.
- Mantle objects more quickly and while sprinting.
- Fire immediately while sliding, including a Perk that allows aiming down sights (ADS) while sliding.
- Increased Tactical Sprint duration. Tactical Sprint recharges while sprinting.
- Increased base strafe speeds while ADS.
A new addition is the Tac-Stance (which stands for Tactical Stance), which is a middle ground between hip fire and ADS. Basically, you can move faster while aiming down sight but your bullet spread is increased.
We also get to see the Aftermarket Parts announced a few days ago. They can be obtained by maxing a weapon's level and completing a challenge.
Besides Ground War and War Mode, we also have Cutthroatm which is a 3v3v3 mode on the core multiplayer maps. You win by either killing the enemy teams or capturing the overtime flag.
Moving on to zombies, we get a new trailer and the map (which is the same used for Warzone), which lets player pick their haunt depending on the level of challenge they prefer.
There are three levels of difficulty. You infil at the edge of the map, and inexperienced players may want to just hang around there for the duration of the match, while veterans will want to delve deep toward the middle where things are riskiest.
Tne mode is basically an open-world extraction-based mode in which you need to escape the expanding Aether Storm while slaughtering zombies and discovering the story.
The Aether Storm will also represent the time limit of the match, which will be one hour.
You can check out the trailer below.
Moving on to Warzone, below you can find the map, Urzikstan, which includes 11 points of interest.
Movement has been overhauled similarly to the core multiplayer, according to the following criteria.
- Cancel a slide by jumping or crouching again. This does not reset the Tactical Sprint. Operators begin sliding more quickly, slide farther, and can shoot in Tac-Stance while sliding. You can also ADS while sliding. The speed penalty for successive slides has also been decreased.
- Jump higher, faster, and ADS while jumping more quickly. Reduced slowdown when landing from a jump and reduced sprint-out delay after jumping.
- Toggle on Tac-Stance for a hybrid of hip-firing and ADS, granting faster strafe and movement speed with a penalty to accuracy.
- Use the ‘Stim’ Tactical item to give yourself a short movement speed increase to help evade an encounter.
Some interesting new features are horizontal ziplines, an actual drivable train, a new Champion Quest (which will come within the season), the returning "Big Game Bounty” Contract, and exclusive perks as follows.
- Shrouded: Drops a Smoke Grenade automatically when downed.
- Combat Scout: Pings an enemy when they are hit with a bullet.
- Irradiated: Move faster and take less damage when in the Gas.
- Resolute: Increases movement speed when damaged.
Urziksstan won't be the only available map, as you can see in the playlists below.
- Battle Royale (Urzikstan, Vondel)
- Resurgence (Vondel, Ashika Island)
- Plunder (Urzikstan)
Fortune’s Keep and Rebirth Island will also come post-release in 2024.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launches on November 10 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.
