Call of Duty Franchise

Activision have made a significant change to Call of Duty HQ for players of the two older games - Modern Warfare II and III. Both these games have been moved out of HQ and are now standalone games in Steam, meaning you can go straight into MWII without having to make the hop through HQ first. It also means you don't suffer from having to wait for massive Black Ops updates that you don't care about if all you want to do is play DMZ.

Well done Activision for porting settings across - keyboard and mouse settings are preserved, as are system settings such as graphics and audio.

Less well done Activision for leaving 80GB behind under the cod22 and cod23 folders within Call of Duty HQ.

Update: rumours are circulating that the underbarrel grenade launcher glitch is back. If that is right, it could spell the end of DMZ. If you recall, this was fixed by accident via a Warzone patch last year, but the move away from Warzone has regressed DMZ to pre-fix status. Devastating news if true.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 4 Reloaded launched overnight, introducing a bunch of new features, map adjustments and gameplay changes. For all the details, have a read on shacknews

Some more DMZ 2.0 leaks have emerged, and from a credible source. Phixate gives us the details in his latest video

Black Ops 6 Season 4 is here - head over to CallOfDuty.com for the full details of all the new content, gameplay changes etc.

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 :)