Call of Duty Cold War Season 1 and Warzone start date DELAYED just days before launch
THE first major multiplayer update for Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War has been pushed back by game developer Treyarch. The worldwide launch of Season One will now take place on December 16, almost a week after the previously planned date of December 10. In a blog post announcing the delay, Treyarch said developers […]
THE first major multiplayer update for Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War has been pushed back by game developer Treyarch.
The worldwide launch of Season One will now take place on December 16, almost a week after the previously planned date of December 10.
In a blog post announcing the delay, Treyarch said developers needed more time to prepare the “unprecedented amount of free content” on the way.
“We’re taking a few more days to finalise everything before unleashing this massive drop of new, free content to the community,” the firm wrote.
Season One will merge Black Ops Cold War – which hit shelves last month – with Call of Duty’s free-to-play battle royale game mode, Warzone.
Once the download drops, players’ progression and stats will synchronise across both titles.
In the blog post, Treyarch excitedly talked Season One up as the “largest free content drop in Black Ops history”.
Warzone is getting a new map and mode, while Black Ops Cold War will receive a fresh suite of multiplayer maps – including Raid from Black Ops 2.
Treyarch’s battle royal game will also benefit from the addition of more than 30 Black Ops Cold War weapons.
On top of all that, the California developer is adding new Zombies modes.
“It’s an unprecedented amount of free content,” Treyarch said.
“The teams are currently prepping for the biggest Season One launch week ever seen.”
When Season One drops, players can expect a hefty file to hit their consoles that will likely take a fair chunk of time to download.
The most recent update to 2019’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare took up a whopping 50GB of gamers’ hard drive space.
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War – what is it?
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War is the latest game in the hugely popular war sim series.
It hits shelves in November and plays out at the height of nuclear tensions between the US and Soviet Russia.
The storyline follows the real-world events of the Cold War – such as the Vietnam War – but will dramatise some elements.
An early teaser trailer revealed has that the game will include a hunt for Perseus – a spy working against the US for Russia.
The Cold War was a period of major tension between the USA and Soviet Union, but wasn’t an outright war in the conventional sense.
Instead, both nations supported “proxy wars” – regional conflicts used to gain global influence.
And the fact that both nations controlled nuclear weaponry meant that neither side was willing to risk a war proper.
The period is generally said to have run from 1947 through to 1991 – when the Soviet Union was dissolved.
Out November 13, Black Ops Cold War starts at £59.99 for a standard copy rising all the way to £89.99 for the Ultimate Edition.
That means the game now demands a total of 250GB of free drive space, rendering it unplayable on some PCs.
On social media, some fans speculated that the delay to Season One was to avoid a clash with the hotly-anticipated release of Cyberpunk 2077.
Set in a dystopian future and starring Keanu Reeves, the game launching December 10 is set to be one of the year’s biggest releases.
One Twitter user speculated that Treyarch pushed Season One back “because the biggest game of the year releases on that day and nobody will be playing [Call of Duty]”.
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