News - Warzone 2's Final Content Update Is Here. The Haunting Event Update 1. 29
Well, we're back to the current game of Modern Warfare 2 here for a few more weeks now, following the Modern Warfare 3 beta and today's update 1.29. We're taking a look at the changes across Moder Warfare 2 and War Zone's experiences for The Haunting event, from event items to game play changes and more.
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The new haunting events & rewards in modern warfare 2
For now, let's take a look at Modern Warfare 2's new update for the haunting. So naturally, when you start up, things aesthetically have changed a bit, and foremost in the menus that you should be aware of is the new haunting event tab featuring your home and new rewards for the next few weeks.
Acting just about identically to the trophy hunt event, you can earn captured souls in game modes to bank and then spend on specific reer boards that you want with no order really required for that. You can go at any pace or grab whatever is available to unlock as it's unlocked. A few things are of course still locked until next week's update to prolong the event a little bit, but this week we have the gone baty weapon sticker, the SCALFI calling card, a double weapon XP token, a bit of corny weapon charm, the creature's helicopter skin, the alien deathray handgun, the join me loading screen, another double weapon XP token, the bad luck weapon charm, the carved-up weapon sticker, a tiar skipe, and the violent end weapon blueprint for a total of 800 souls required for all of these that are available today.
Now, just like the trophy hunt event, you can earn mastery rewards as well by redeeming a certain number of those: 10 for Mastery 1 and 15 for Mastery 2, a rose and Koenig skin, respectively. Mastery 1 can be earned this week, but you'll need to wait for week 2 here for Mass 3 since we only have 12 items available at the moment.
I'm also looking forward to week 2, solely because there's a Universal Weapon camo available. As a reward, we don't know what it will be; we don't know how much it will cost, but we do know based on what's already been previewed that we will get a weapon camo next week. But anyway, that's the event tab.
Overall, we also have Operation Nightmare for War Zone, which is a new haunting event. There's only a limited amount of time to task you with investigating anomalies around the map to face a host of monsters that should clear a bounty board for rewards, taking you across places like the Hydroelectric Almaz City Observatory and Cemetery to earn a Bass P blueprint at the end; additionally, we'll also have new daily login rewards.
Following the recent daily login bonuses for the 20 years of cod event, these will include the happy pumpkin weapon charm. Evil Goat emblem eye contact weapon sticker War snake player card triplets, kind of weapon sticker Hell's Army loading screen Halloween's witch weapon sticker, the nightmare sweats weapon blueprint, and XP tokens along the way Now let's talk about some additional updates to things like maps.
The new haunting map updates in modern warfare 2 & warzone
Both Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer and the War Zone experiences saw some adjustments to existing maps, not introducing new ones but existing maps that we see across those experiences.
For multiplayer. Moder Warfare 2 also thematically changed to a diais muos aesthetic with neon skull molds, candles, and altars, and the Embassy on the other side of things has more of a horror theme to it. Here they have Save Us tarped over the embassy, and it's meant to follow a zombie attack, so a bit more blood and debris around the map, so a bit more gory in that aspect.
Again, two kinds of different sides of the coin there with that, but anyway, on the war zone side of things, we have the Amasra altered pois of marshlands. That's become a bit more of a ghost town, and the Seas is an area of the sea that has been now drained to make room for combat amidst the shipping and cargo ships, so you're actually walking on the seabed there at that point, which is kind of cool but interesting.
No less, we have Von Dead, which is a haunted take on Vondo, so you're going to see a bit darker aesthetic here, some changes to different points of interest, and overall, all thematically, it just changed enough to be the haunting version of it, but it's apparently going to be following a zombie outbreak thematically.
Which led to different weather conditions, the market is barricaded, for what they said human survival, but in the process makes it the best loot in Vondal, and the canal near the train station has been drained as well so that you can end up playing again on that sort of riverbed, so interesting adjustments, but overall, still a lot of the same in regards to map builds.
The new & returning modes of the haunting in modern warfare 2 & warzone
Just thematic differences here , we also see with the haunting update new and returning modes. Zombie Royale is the sort of key Marquee one here; this returns available in both Alaza and Von Dead, which I think is a first, if I'm not mistaken, where we see this available on two maps at a time.
Previously, we only saw it in the original Verdansk; we also saw it in Verdansk 84. We didn't see it in Cera, but we did see it in Rebirth at a point that didn't fall during the Halloween season; it was. I want to say. June or something like that, but it's the infamous Halloween season mode back, returning with the same features and new innovations.
Where the core rule set is the same players who die respawn as zombies with a set of abilities to try and get them back into the fight the scorge has to pursue and eliminate all life players that die as a zombie are eliminated from the match unless they wait for an infestation meter to return all Spectators, as zombie kind of like a zombies jailbreak or if a player is bought back by their team the last living players then win, then we also have Von dead lockdown which is lockdown that larger hard point but on Von dead with zombies coming along the way we also see in the regular game modes for multiplayer, we have haunting domination, where all the control points those flags instead of flags are now scarecrows.
As markers for a, b, and c The Haunting kill confirmed and grind event is happening where instead of dog tags, you collect skulls and grind and kill confirmed trick or treat. It is a variation on Drop Zone where you have to earn points for your team, but opening crates may have a few jump scares in them, and then the zombies infected are infected with zombies thematically.
