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Call of Duty Season 02 Reloaded arrives on March 11, 2026, bringing a large mid-season update across multiplayer, Zombies, Warzone, and the Endgame experience in Black Ops 7. The update introduces several new maps, gameplay modes, weapons, and a brand new Zombies experience set in a time-looping prison.
Players can also expect major additions to the Endgame loop, including Glitch Fractures, Nightmare Skills, and the Exotic Fabricator system. Meanwhile, Warzone receives the Black Ops Royale mode, while multiplayer expands with five maps, two returning modes, and the new Lockshot Scorestreak.
Patch Notes
Endgame
- Glitch Fractures introduced as a new Endgame activity
- Defeat a Strike Boss in a Nightmare Zone to unlock a permanent off-map arena
- Survive escalating enemy waves followed by a final Glitch Boss encounter
- Completing the arena rewards a Nightmare Skill
- Nightmare Skills added as powerful abilities earned from Glitch Bosses
- Each Operator can equip and upgrade one skill
- Nova Strike creates electrical melee fields
- Phoenix Burst triggers an explosion and self-heal when health becomes low
- Hellwing drops fire while wingsuiting
- Chaos Rounds apply random elemental weapon effects
- Frost Vortex creates bullet snowstorms that pull enemies inward
- Exotic Fabricator added as a new weapon upgrade system
- Dropped by Strike Bosses during Endgame activities
- Allows weapons from Loadouts or Field Acquisitions to be upgraded to Exotic rarity
- Upgrade stages include Exotic damage, Utility Bonus, and a random Exotic Effect
- Players can re-roll bonuses or effects on repeat visits
Multiplayer
New Maps
- Torque
- New small 6v6 map inspired by the Battle of Los Angeles
- Features Wall Jumps and freeway wreckage combat areas
- Cliff Town
- Medium 6v6 map and remaster of Black Ops II’s Yemen
- Reimagined setting within Avalon
- Mission: Peak
- New 20v20 Skirmish map set in a medieval coastal town
- Introduces Tactical Rafts and amphibious combat routes
- Grind
- Returning medium 6v6 skatepark map from Black Ops 6
- Includes additional Wall Jump traversal routes
- Firing Range
- Classic small map returning from Black Ops 6
- Wall Jumps added for the first time
New Modes
- Gauntlet
- Two teams compete across five consecutive two minute modes
- Modes include Domination, Kill Confirmed, Hardpoint, Team Deathmatch, and Roulette
- Roulette features the Akimbo Hand Cannon
- Highest total score across all modes wins
- Infected
- One infected player spreads infection across the lobby
- Survivors attempt to eliminate infected players
- Infected players can deploy Mangler or Disciple Mutant Injection Scorestreaks
New Scorestreak
- Lockshot Scorestreak added
- Requires 650 score points
- Smart pistol capable of locking onto multiple targets simultaneously
- Eliminates all locked targets with a single trigger pull
- Cannot be countered by Perks
Zombies
New Map
- Paradox Junction
- Set within a prison controlled by The Warden
- The map alternates between past intact and future destroyed versions of the location
- Map states shift through round progression or a golden portal
New Enemy
- Rad-Hound
- Fast irradiated canine enemies
- Explode into radioactive clouds upon death
New Wonder Weapon
- Blundergat
- Quad-barreled shotgun with horizontal pellet spread
- Delivers extremely high damage
- Sundergat upgrade
- Extracts souls from enemies
- Sunder Purge creates a conical blast that knocks enemies down
- Sunder Exile fires a long focused beam that destroys enemies in its path
Additional Zombies Features
- Electro Shock Trap returns
- Tesla coil trap that stuns and burns zombies
- Loot Cysts added
- Pulsating sacs that burst and drop helpful items
- Randomized Perk Machines
- Perk machine locations change each match except Quick Revive
- Der Wunderfizz always contains the full perk selection
- Turncoat GobbleGum added
- Rare GobbleGum that charms up to five nearby zombies
- Charmed zombies temporarily fight alongside the player
- Lockshot Scorestreak available in Zombies
- Costs 1,250 Salvage
Main Quest Rewards
- Blundergat Wonder Weapon skin
- Calling Cards
- Up to 25,000 XP
- Exclusive Calling Card variant for players who complete the quest before Directed Mode launches
Warzone
New Mode
- Black Ops Royale
- Battle Royale mode inspired by Blackout
- Supports up to 100 players
- No starting Loadouts
- No Gulag system
- No Buy Stations
- Players drop into Avalon and gather gear from the environment
New and Updated Perks
- Momentum
- Slot 2 perk replacing Alertness
- Improves close-quarters weapon handling
- Reduces jump penalties
- Increases crouch and prone movement speed
- Improves ADS movement
- Berserker
- Slot 2 perk replacing Bomb Squad
- Eliminations grant faster equipment usage
- Improves weapon swap and reload speed
- Accelerates armor plating
- Reduces flinch and improves low-health visual clarity
- Hunter
- Slot 3 perk replacing Tracker
- Shows footprints of enemies recently damaged by the player
- Detects nearby enemies within 30 meters
- Alerts players when they are being aimed at
- Ghost Perk adjustment
- Grace period extended from 1.5 seconds to 5 seconds before Ghost activates
Limited Time Mode
- Extreme Resurgence
- Available during weekend rotations
- Takes place on Haven’s Hollow
- Nearly double the standard player count
Weapons and Attachments
- Voyak KT-3 Assault Rifle
- Event reward weapon
- Full automatic with high damage output and slower fire rate
- Includes digital distance readout
- Eliminates unarmored enemies in four to five shots
- Fastest reload speed within its class
- Swordfish A1 Marksman Rifle
- Event reward weapon
- Four round burst with high cyclic rate and minimal recoil
- Prestige attachment adds a fifth bullet to each burst
- Echo 12 Backlash Launcher Kit
- Converts Echo 12 shotgun to fire bouncing explosive projectiles
- Explosives deal increased damage after bouncing
- MXR-17 ANVL Conversion
- Barrel attachment for the MXR-17
- Provides a very fast initial fire rate
- Recoil increases as sustained fire continues
Events
- Altitude Tactics Event
- Rewards include Voyak KT-3 Assault Rifle, weapon camos, and emblems
- Counter Skies Event Pass
- Rewards include Swordfish A1, Echo 12 Launcher Kit, and operator skins
- Premium pass includes weapon blueprints
- Paradox Junction Event
- Rewards include GobbleGums, animated camos, a weapon charm, and a blueprint
- Multiplayer Ranked Series
- Rewards include emblems and weapon camos
- Weapon charm awarded after ten wins
- Warzone Ranked Series
- Rewards include emblems and weapon camos
- Large decal awarded after five wins
- Weapon charm awarded after ten wins
- Weekly Challenges
- Rewards include MXR-17 ANVL Conversion attachment
- Lockshot Scorestreak unlock
- Necroblight weapon blueprint
Store Bundles
- Containment Protocol Reactive bundle
- Corroded T.E.D.D. Ultra skin
- Reactive tracer weapon blueprints with meltdown theme
- Ragged Ronin bundle
- Takeo operator skin inspired by a wandering samurai
- Includes tracer weapon blueprints
- Cosmic Front Mastercraft bundle
- Karma operator skin
- Mastercraft MXR-17 weapon blueprint with orbital theme
Free Bonus
- Players who verify their Call of Duty account email receive
- Five 2XP tokens
- Five weapon 2XP tokens
- Five Battle Pass 2XP tokens
- Veiled Aurora universal weapon camo
- Previously verified accounts receive these rewards automatically
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was developed primarily by Treyarch and Raven Software and published by Activision. The game released globally on November 14, 2025, and is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. It also launched as a day one title for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
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