While there is still no official date for Season 4, Season 3’s battle pass is ending in just a couple of weeks on June 2nd. Season 4 may be delayed, but for now, it is pretty safe to assume that it will roll out right on time. That still gives players plenty of time to grind out some battle pass tiers, but it is by no means too early to start getting excited for all the new content that is to come.
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Each Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season brings a new cache of guns, operators, battle pass tiers, game modes, and more, all of which are plenty of reason for excitement. However, maps and playlists are arguably the most important additions to any season of Modern Warfare, since they may determine how fun the game is to play more than any other part of the experience.
Back in the beginning of Modern Warfare, there were relatively few small maps, and fans were not happy about it. Throughout multiple seasons, the addition of small maps like Shoot House, Shipment, Rust, and others has made the game much more fun to play, and small map playlists are always hugely popular with those looking to level up weapons and earn skins.
Previous Seasons’ New Maps
There are various changes that could be made to balance Modern Warfare, but typically the best addition to any competitive multiplayer game is maps. With wide array of well-balanced maps, the game can stay fresh for hours at a time, rather than growing stale after tens of matches on the same few tired old landscapes. Meanwhile, even repetitive maps like Shipment are extremely important to Modern Warfare, if only because they provide a place for players to quickly complete challenges needed to unlock skins, weapons, and grind out rewards like battle pass tiers. To predict what sorts of maps players can expect going into Season 4, it’s best to look at the maps that came out for previous seasons and look for patterns.
Originally, the maps that came with each Modern Warfare season seemed to be following a very distinct pattern: maps from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare released with Season 1, and maps from Modern Warfare 2 came out with Season 2. Fans expected Modern Warfare 3 maps to drop with Season 3, but everyone was caught off guard when Talsik Backlot came back from the first Modern Warfare game, and no MW3 maps were in sight. That makes it a lot more difficult to predict what Season 4 will hold, but there are several maps present in the files that are more likely than others.
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Each season of Modern Warfare also saw the addition of brand new maps, and they have been some of the best in the game. Atlas Superstore and Hovec Sawmill may just be the best maps in Modern Warfare because of their fun, unique settings, perfect sizing, and general design quality. Remastered maps are fun for long-time fans, but often maps like Crash and even the iconic Rust aren’t able to live up to their legendary status when the nostalgia that surrounds them is dispelled by the cold, hard light of a remake. If the developer is able to keep putting out new maps with the quality that it has displayed in the past two seasons, the maps to really look forward to will likely be those that have never been seen before.
Predicting Modern Warfare Season 4’s New Maps
The first big map addition to look out for in Season 4 is the leaked new battle royale map, rumored to be set in Urzukstan. Another map for Warzone would be a big hit and would do a lot to keep the already popular battle royale mode growing at an ever-increasing rate. It would be strange not to keep the ball rolling on battle royale. Given the hype behind the Urzukstan map leak, it will surely come sooner or later, but next season is the most likely timeline. It will probably drop later in Season 4 rather than on day one just because of how carefully the developers will need to implement it, but a day one drop or much longer delay are not out of the question either.
There will also surely be some added Gunfight maps, since Gunfight continues to be such a popular mode, unique to Modern Warfare. However, what many players are hoping for is some new Ground War maps. Ground War is the Battlefield-like mode in Modern Warfare, which may have been eclipsed by battle royale. Even so, just a couple new, good maps added to Ground War could breathe new life into a mode that has a lot of interesting potential. The current maps are fairly stagnant, and it is high time for a new addition that has learned from the shortcomings of the original maps.
At least one map will definitely return from a previous Modern Warfare game, but the question is which game and which map(s). Modern Warfare 3 is a safe bet, since it was skipped in Season 3, at first, with just one MW3 map being added near the end of the season. If a Modern Warfare 3 map is going to be included, it will probably be Oasis or Offshore, both of which have been leaked in Modern Warfare’s files. That sort of leak is no guarantee though, seeing as the Vector was leaked since the first few weeks after the game’s launch and is still yet to be added.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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