Warzone Season 1 Release Date

Everything we know virtually Telephone call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone Pacific Season 1

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Looking for details around Warzone Pacific Flavor 1? The Last Hours of Verdansk (opens in new tab) event has come up and gone and it'southward near time to caput to the sandy shores and bluish waters of the Pacific. There'll be new locations, weapons, and playlists to take part in equally Vanguard (opens in new tab) finally gets its integration with the battle royale.

The new Warzone map (opens in new tab), Caldera, will provide plenty of opportunities to explore, with over 200 points of interest, and landmark-based regions spread across the whole island. Information technology'll besides be fun to find out if there are whatsoever bunker (opens in new tab)-like challenges to tackle.

So, if you're ready to swoop into the details, here's what we know almost Vanguard and Warzone Pacific Season ane, including release date, map, likewise as weapons, vehicles, and planned playlists.

Release date

When is the Warzone Pacific Season 1 release date?

The Warzone Pacific Flavor one release date is December nine, though if y'all own Vanguard, you get '24-hr exclusive access' to the new map, starting the solar day before on December 8. Here are the Caldera unlock times (opens in new tab) in your region.

The proper noun is also officially irresolute on that date to 'Warzone Pacific' instead of merely patently old Warzone—perhaps to make things a niggling less disruptive.

Update: Season 1 of #Vanguard and Warzone Pacific will now release Dec. 8. Vanguard owners will take 24-hour exclusive first play admission to the Caldera map. Open admission begins on Dec. 9. pic.twitter.com/GnnYCp6g75November 19, 2021

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Check out the Warzone Pacific trailer

If you haven't seen the new Caldera map that's arriving in Warzone, the trailer above gives you a good thought what to expect. Many of the new locations—listed in full below—are included, and you go a glimpse at the airborne Dogfighting gainsay towards the finish.

Map changes

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Warzone Pacific Season i map changes

The new season ushers in the new Caldera map, which will replace the long-running Verdansk. Caldera promises to be roughly the same size equally the map information technology'south replacing and will contain xv distinct areas to explore.

We've had a few glimpses (opens in new tab) of the new map over the last few months, but nosotros've since had a closer look at some of those Caldera locations (opens in new tab). They are:

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Naval Arsenal
Industrial Docks
Runway
Ruins
Phosphate Mines
Peak
Beachhead
River Village
Clear Water Lagoon
Caldera Terminal
Agricultural Center
Shark's Lair Submarine Pen
Caldera Power Plant
Caldera Capital Urban center
Majestic Cabana Resort

The new Ricochet anti-cheat system (opens in new tab) will also be introduced to Warzone, along with the new Caldera map. The Season 1 update will "deploy the server-side upgrades", as well as "new, internally adult kernel-level driver on PC to assist in identifying cheaters."

Rebirth Island returns

Rebirth Island will as well render before long after the start of Warzone Pacific Season 1 on December xvi, along with its associated playlists. You can expect the smaller map to continue supplementing the principal Warzone map.

Vanguard weapons, playlists and vehicles

Vanguard weapons and playlists in Warzone Pacific Season 1

The new playlists for Season 1 are Vanguard Royale and Vanguard Resurgence. You'll just be able to use Vanguard-specific weapons in loadouts for these particular playlists to help "streamline the meta, granting new players an opportunity to jump in without facing fully maxed-out loadouts correct at launch." Simply fair, right?

If yous're keen to apply your old loadouts, you can even so use your Cold War and Modern Warfare weaponry in Standard playlists, every bit well every bit the 40 weapons from Vanguard. In improver, all Operators from Vanguard, Common cold War, and Modern Warfare can be used across all playlists, Standard or not.

Included in #Warzone Pacific Flavour I:40+ New Weapons! And adjustments to Melee Weapons. film.twitter.com/Vr35rZP7ZBDecember 8, 2021

New vehicles

A new motorcar gun fighter aircraft aims to add strategy and firepower to your dogfighting pursuits and help your squad come out on top. To annul this, an anti-air truck gives you the ways to close down opponents that accept taken to the air—in addition to the traditional launchers or stationary AA turrets.

New Operators

We know at that place'll be new multiplayer maps and Operators arriving in Flavour 1, just until today, we've only had rumours suggesting possible candidates.

The three new Operators take now been confirmed equally Isabella, Lewis, and Francis. You lot can check out the tweet below for details on how to learn them, which is either from the Flavor I Boxing Pass or via featured Bundles.

Included in #Warzone Pacific Season 1:New S.O.T.F. Trident Operators: Francis, Lewis, and Isabella. pic.twitter.com/MQOo6bdraIDecember eight, 2021

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Contracts and public events

You lot'll accept new contracts to complete during a match, such as a Supply Drop Contract that anyone can pick up, but just the squad with the contract knows the drop location. Another new contract is a Big Game Bounty, which tasks you with taking out the operator with the highest kill count.

The Restocks and Resurgences events from Rebirth Island will come to Caldera, and maybe more than intriguingly, we've been given this tease of some other upcoming event:

"There are also rumours of [[REDACTED]] Weapon Crates that can appear effectually the island, which comprise the coveted [[REDACTED]] Weapon Blueprints seen in Verdansk, and armaments extracted from the meta-frontward milky way brains of the studios' Gunsmith gurus."

Other

Other changes

Gulag
If yous win a Gulag in Warzone Pacific Season 1, y'all'll be able to drop dorsum in with the weapons you gained during the duel. Substantially, any ammo or remaining equipment carries over between the Gulag and the redeploy.

Loadout Drop Markers
You'll have to buy Loadout Drop Markers from Purchase Stations, and only after the Loadout Drop issue has happened in a lucifer after the first circumvolve closure.

Gas Mask changes
Gas Masks will no longer interrupt as many deportment equally they did previously, though yous'll still be at a combat disadvantage to someone standing in the circle.

Shallow water
Operators volition exist able to wade through shallow water, which can assist hide footsteps from those with the Tracker perk. Crouching in h2o will also give yous the benefit of the Cold Blooded perk, though you won't exist able to go decumbent if yous're spotted.

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