Call of Duty Franchise

All Call of Duty Warzone servers will be shut down from 5pm on Wednesday 2nd April for 24 hours to allow for the release of the new Verdansk map. This also coincides with the start of Black Ops 6 Season 3.

It looks like DMZ is unaffected, as I can see that this is running normally as of 7am on Thursday 3rd April.

The good news about the timing means that there shouldn't be any major updates over the BobLAN weekend!

Some more news courtesy of Phixate - reports indicate that DMZ 2.0 will be linked to Ground War rather than Warzone. This could be a good thing, as there were many complaints about DMZ mechanics being present within Warzone. Ground War does seem a better fit - time will tell.

There have been rumours around DMZ 2.0 for a while now, but a Phixate video yesterday hints that the next iteration of Call of Duty from Infinity Ward will include the updated version. If they stick to their usual release calendar, this would likely be Autumn 2026.

Until we hear something concrete from Activision themselves, nobody can know for sure - we can just hope!

Westie has hinted that the launch of Season 1 of Black Ops 6 will be on Thursday 14th November, which coincides with day 1 of BobLAN 2024.2. New seasons invariably bring massive updates, bugs, fixes to bugs, fixes to the fixes for the bugs, more massive updates, etc etc. And the real kicker - you have to wade through all that nonsense even if you just want to play DMZ. ggwp Activision.

Ahead of the launch of Black Ops 6 later this week, Activision have revamped the home screen for CoD HQ. Whereas before, you could see all game modes if you scrolled down and right, you now only see Black Ops 6 and some Modern Warfare III modes.

In order to launch modes from all supported Call of Duty games, you need to click the All Games button at the top, and then select the one you want. For example DMZ is under Modern Warfare II. No more difficult to launch than before, but hidden away that little bit more!

The recent Reloaded update for Modern Warfare 3 had the side-effect of fixing a major glitch in DMZ - the under-barrel grenade launcher issue. This glitch, when exploited, allowed cheaters to fire grenades at the same rate as an AR can fire bullets, meaning that any players who encountered this were unlikely to survive. This does leave the Koschei and Snipers Nest glitches remaining, but they are not as devastating to non-cheaters as the one they fixed.

It is interesting to note that Activision have not announced or even acknowledged this fix, so may be it was by accident relating to another change within Warzone?!

The only other things to affect DMZ are the need to reinstall it, and the moving of the button to launch DMZ to within the MW2 section, hidden off to the right. It's like they don't want you to play it anymore :)

Swagg gives us a preview of some of the features of this year's Call of Duty game - Black Ops 6. It will merge many of the features of the previous Black Ops games with the more recent MW2/MW3 games, including its own flavour of Warzone. Will there be a DMZ tho? That's the big question!

Watch the full video on Swagg's Youtube channel.

Over 6 months after ending updates for DMZ as a game mode in Call of Duty, it actually received a patch yesterday. The change is to disable the disguise, as it has been used as an exploit vector. Not the greatest of changes, but it is interesting that they chose to fix this glitch whilst leaving many worse glitches unpatched.

DMZ is still a very popular game mode, with youtubers such as Phixate, On1c and Sthorm Operator producing regular content. The developers have already said that the MW3 Zombies mode will stop receiving new content, and the general feel for the new Rebirth Island map is lukewarm at best. Of all the game modes, DMZ has the best longevity due to the mix of playing styles and friendliness/toxicity you will meet, and the fact that each game is unique. Long may it continue!

Season 3 of Modern Warfare 3 launched today, along with the usual bugs and patches.

There are way too many changes to list here, so head over to the patch notes for the full details.

Here's an incredible stream from ON1C where he managed to get nearly all the players in a DMZ game to work together and form a single huge squad - definitely watch until the end ... The LARGEST DMZ Platoon Ever Formed