Call of Duty: Warzone has started. What’s in Activision’s free battle royale?

The fact that Activision Blizzard publisher and Infinity Ward developer are preparing a competitor to PUBG, Fornit e and Apex Legends, was informally reported in February. The official announcement took place yesterday. Almost all the details of the leak have been confirmed, including:

Call of Duty: Warzone is divided into two clients

The game is presented as a mode inside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and as a separately downloadable free-to-play game. The last one will be released at 22:00 Moscow time.

The game has two modes

The first is the “Battle Royale” for 150 players. They will be divided into squads of three. The mode is a classic battle to the last survivor (person or squad).

The second is “Prey”. Practically the same battle royale, only with rebirth after death. Here, the main goal of the squad is to earn $1 million through robbery, murder or contract fulfillment.

GULAG and Rebirth Tokens

The following is known about the mechanics of the GULAG (as it was nicknamed by Western users): the player who died in the “Battle Royale” mode can fight in the arena with another deceased. The winner returns to the match. Fights in the arena take turns. The rest of the dead make money bets on the fighters and throw stones at them to stun them.

Rebirth tokens, like many other useful items, can also be purchased in the “Royal Battle” at special stations.

Among other confirmed mechanics:

• contracts for cash. These are in-game missions, including killing a certain player on the map. Some missions will allow you to find out in which direction the game territory is narrowing in the “Royal Battle”;
• combined progression for Modern Warfare players. The entire progression of the player in Warzone will be counted in Modern Warfare. All content received by the player in Modern Warfare will be transferred to Warzone. The latter even applies to items from the battle pass;
• the ability to move around the map on five types of transport;
• ping system, as in Apex Legends (for communicating with the squad without voice chat);
• saving in-game currency for the following matches;
• the ability to protect part of the funds in the “Mining” mode with a special item.

The game is available on PC (via the client Battle.net ), PlayStation 4 (but not in Russia) and Xbox One. Note that PS4 owners do not need a PS Plus subscription.

The situation with the announcement of Call of Duty: Warzone resembles last year’s launch of Apex Legends from EA. But then the title was launched immediately after the announcement. There is a chance that Warzone will be much more successful: it has a strong brand behind it, as well as the huge success of Call of Duty: Mobile.

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