Black Ops 7 & Warzone Season 5 Launches July 23; New Info Breakdown

While most Call of Duty players might have their sights already set on Modern Warfare 4 later this year (or on Black Ops’ re-releases on PS4, PS5), last year’s Call of Duty game still has a lot of life left in it.

Today, Activision revealed that Black Ops 7 & Warzone Season 5 will launch on July 23. This brings new maps, modes and a lot more.

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Read on to know what you’ll be receiving come next week.

Black Ops 7 & Warzone Season 5 Info Breakdown

Multiplayer:

• Multiplayer Maps: Crash the party at a rural Japanese festival in the brand-new Jubilee map and deploy to remastered maps Dig and Frequency. In the Mid-Season, invade a Nuketown pinball machine in Turbo Tilt and jump, dive, and traverse a harrowing parkour environment with the arrival of a new Freerun map.
• Multiplayer Modes: Power up your Operator while capturing and defending objectives in Overdrive Domination. In Gauntlet Rush, compete for the top spot across five different game modes, and in the Mid-Season, turn the adrenaline up to eleven in Cranked Moshpit.
• Black Ops 7 Ranked Play: Get wins and climb the Ranks in the next season of Multiplayer Ranked Play, delivering new rewards to those who prove their worth in the rankings.

Zombies:

• New Survival Map: Return to the frozen land of the giants in the Eidskallen Lighthouse Survival map. Push the rounds as far as you can using the resources available in a confined section of Totenreich and earn rewards for reaching round milestones.
• Kowakujō Directed Mode, Starting Room: Benefit from extra guidance on the Main Quest as Directed Mode comes to Kowakujō. In Starting Room, drop into the Outer Ward and survive with whatever’s on hand.
• New Rogue Run Playlists: Astra Malorum arrives in Rogue Run through three new playlists offering increasingly difficult challenges, featuring Calling Card and GobbleGum rewards to help you push further in the match. Survive each wave, choose your power up, then teleport to the next area.
• New Mid-Season Round-Based Map, Features: Make your stand and face the Warden in the final confrontation as the Black Ops 7 Zombies story reaches its epic conclusion in the Mid-Season. Get some much-needed assistance with a familiar Perk-a-Cola, new GobbleGum, and two more Ultra-Rarity legacy weapons.

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Call of Duty: Warzone:

• New Verdansk POI: The skies are alive with drones emerging from the new Drone Labs POI in Verdansk, located south of the Quarry. Explore the area’s Administrative Offices and Research and Development within two large L-shaped buildings, and fine tune your drone piloting skills in the obstacle course out back.
• New Limited-Time Modes: Perfect the layout of Drone Labs in Lockdown Casual, featuring random killstreak rewards like the Juggernaut and War Machine. In Heavy Metal Heroes, push the pedal to the floor as squads engage in explosive vehicular combat.
• New Gameplay Features: In the new Juggernaut Public Event, fight for possession of the infamous suit to annihilate the enemy with overwhelming firepower. Shoot down airborne Loot Drones and Buy Stations for extra gear, drop Hunter Killer Drones on the enemy with the arrival of the HKDs killstreak in Resurgence and Battle Royale, and more arriving in the Mid-Season.
• Resurgence Ranked Play: Rank up and earn rewards in a new season of Ranked Play: Resurgence. Bring your best plays to increase your Skill Rating, earn exclusive rewards, and climb the Skill Divisions on your way to the top.

Across all modes:

• New Weapons, Attachments: Down enemy targets with four new weapons including the FG42 Assault Rifle and the dual wield Gremlin SMG available at launch in the Battle Pass. Participate in events and Weekly Challenges to unlock the Mammoth LMG and Mace Melee weapon. New Attachments include the Jäger 45 Grid-Breaker Kit, M34 Novaline Garand Conversion, M15 Mod 0 .50 Cal Kit, and more.
• New Events and Rewards: Celebrate Treyarch’s 30^th anniversary, face the Machine of War, and compete for top placement in the Eidskallen Lighthouse Zombies Leaderboard to earn rewards like the Mammoth LMG plus new Weapon Blueprints, Camos, and other rewards across events arriving at launch and throughout the season.
• Battle Pass and BlackCell: Unlock new Weapon Blueprints, Operator Skins, Calling Cards, Finishing Moves, Emotes, and more across a mix of free and premium tiers in the Season 05 Battle Pass. Purchase BlackCell to earn additional rewards including the exclusive “Cipher” Operator and a Mastercraft Weapon Blueprint, both featuring additional unlockable variants via in-game challenges.
• Weekly Challenges: Complete Weekly Challenges throughout the season to unlock new Attachments, the Mace Melee Weapon, Camo rewards, and XP. Plus, unlock over 40 Weapon Camos earnable throughout Season 05!
• New Store Offerings: New Store drops include a variety of Bundles delivering premium content including Ultra Skins, Reactive content, and Mastercraft Weapon Blueprints, including the Tracer Pack: Operation Stingray Bundle featuring the “Forced Retreat” Weapon Blueprint for the new Season 05 FG42 Assault Rifle.

Endgame:

• New Assignment: Take to the roads in a bomb-rigged vehicle in the new Burn Run Assignment, challenging Operators to a race against the clock while running over enemies and objects to add valuable seconds to the timer. Stick to the path, seek out bonuses en route, and don’t let up on that gas pedal.
• New Ability Boosts: Further customize your Operator with the addition of Ability Boosts, earnable primarily in Nightmare zones with a chance to drop in Zone IV. Ability Boosts add additional upgrades to your Major and Minor Abilities, from reducing their cooldown time to adding more ammo, inflicting additional damage types, and more.
• Free to Play Ends Soon: Season 05 is your last chance to jump into Endgame for free with your squad. Don’t miss out!

For a deeper breakdown, head on over to the Call of Duty blog.

In other Call of Duty news, the re-release of Black Ops on the PS4 and PS5 last week has brought out the hackers, and one cheat lets players gain “negative XP,” which can prevent them from playing multiplayer.

Once the update for Season 5 is out, we’ll let our readers know.

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