Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone have launched Season Six, and with it has come a vampire bat pet called Edward.
Really.
Edward is a new finishing move for the game – creep up behind your opponent and let your bat loose. Edward will tear your opponent’s head clean off and disappear in a puff of smoke. Savage. Here’s how it looks:
NEW VAMPIRE BAT EXECUTION MOVE in Modern Warfare! (MW Edward Finishing Move) Watch on YouTube
Modern Warfare and Warzone has a thing for pet-based finishing moves. There’s a bird one, a dog one and even a hyena one. With Halloween waiting in the wings, Activision also released the Undead Forces bundle, which brings “a faithful, undead companion” with a new finishing move. This is a dog called Hellhound who chews up his unlucky foe. Undead Colin? Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
*NEW* UNDEAD FORCES BUNDLE in MODERN WARFARE! HELLHOUND FINISHING MOVE in COD MW (Red Menace SYD) Watch on YouTube
Meanwhile, the new battle pass adds two free weapons and two new operators (Farah and Nikolai), four multiplayer maps. Let’s start with the weapons. The SP-R208 marksman rifle (Tier 15) and the AS-VAL assault rifle (Tier 31) are available to all for free. The SP-R208 is described as one of the most accurate weapons in its class. The AS-VAL has a high rate of fire, accuracy and high penetration.
As for the maps, the highlight is perhaps Broadcast, a 6v6 map first seen in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and more recently in Verdansk within the BCH TV Station zone.
One of the new modes, dubbed Killstreak Confirmed, sounds pretty interesting. In this Kill Confirmed variant, killstreaks can only be earned by collecting enemy dog tags. However, your streak doesn’t reset on death, so expect everyone to rush for tags as fast as possible. And this is pretty cool – in Killstreak Confirmed you can “wrap” killstreaks, which means you can earn the same killstreak multiple times in one life. Just sounds like carnage to me!
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® & Warzone™ – Official Season Six Trailer Watch on YouTube
Onto Warzone, and we already knew about the new fast-travel via Metro system. There’s a new Armoured Royale mode that gives every squad an armoured cargo truck with a turret and plenty of armour plating. You can respawn if your truck is still alive, but once it’s gone, so does your ability to return to the fight. Last squad standing wins.