Summary
The festivities arrive inCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3as it lays out all the Holiday-themed maps and modes that have been temporarily added to multiplayer and Zombies as part of the Season 1 Locked and Loaded CODMAS event. Having just begun its first season,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3has already added two new smaller 6v6 maps in Meat and Greece, and has also launched the new Urzikstan battle royale map inCall of Duty: Warzone.
Over the past week there have been many complaints within theModern Warfare 3community of cheaters getting their hands on the MWZ Ray Gun Wonder Weapon and using it in regular multiplayer matches. These reports came ahead of the planned Vortex limited-time multiplayer mode which aims to put the all-powerful Ray Gun in the hands of one player per match. After tweaking these illegal Ray Guns to cause damage to the cheaters when fired,Call of Dutyfurther addressed the issue with its most recent December 14 update.
With the holiday season in full swing,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3has gone ahead and outlined its CODMAS event, which has just gone live and will run until January 3. Headlining the festivities is Santa’s Slayground, a set of eight challenges players can complete to earn a set of holiday-themed rewards, including a weapon blueprint. Players will be able to work toward these challenges across two reskinned CODMAS maps in thereturn ofCall of Duty’s Shipmasand Hangover, the Holiday version of fan-favorite Highrise. Additionally, CODMAS brings a festive twist to some of the more popular multiplayer game modes. The Infected mode will see infected players donning the new undead Santa Gnaws skin, and a spin on the 2v2 Gunfight mode, named Snowfight, has been added, which will have players engage in a snowball fight during the first two rounds with a strange one-hit yellow snowball available to grab in the center of the map.
CODMAS is also coming to MWZ as well, with all zombies, including some of the larger beasts, rocking Santa hats and Christmas lights. Snowballs will also be available all over the map for use in players' Zombie-slaying endeavors.Call of Duty: Warzoneis also getting a piece of the CODMAS pie with Slay Ride Resurgence, which sees a hostile Santa Gnaws take over themoving train onWarzone’s Urzikstan map. Part of the CODMAS blog post highlighted Vortex mode, which will go live on January 3 until January 17, and will add three new hellish map reskins of Rust, Quarry, and Scrapyard.
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Between Santa’s Slayground challenges, multiplayer modes like Snowfight and Infectious Holiday, Slay Ride Resurgence, and Vortex mode, it looks likeCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3players have a lot to enjoy with CODMAS over the next few weeks into mid-January, and Season 1 isn’t even halfway through. It likely won’t be too long after the Vortex event ends on January 17 beforeModern Warfare 3is ready to unveil its plans for Season 2as Spring approaches.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)
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The war has changed. Call of Duty returns with an all-new campaign, modernized versions of classic Multiplayer maps and an open-world PvE Zombies experience. The campaign, a direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, sees Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against ultranationalist war criminal Vladimir Makarov as he extends his grasp across the world. In Multiplayer, the 16 maps that launched with Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 return with upgraded graphics, new modes and innovative gameplay features. In Modern Warfare Zombies, team up with other squads for the first time ever as you work together to survive in the largest Zombies map yet
