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The end of modern warfare 2 explained
With the haunting now live, we are officially in the end game. Yes, that's right—the end of MW2. It's approaching, although it's not really the full end; it's just more of a transition period.
When is the ␜end␝ of mw2?
As well, but yes, we are in the final few days of Modern Warfare 2's main year of support, and this is basically lasting up until the launch of MW3. At least as far as the multiplayer side of things goes, obviously, Call of Duty for the past two decades has basically been a one-year title. The game launches in, you know, October or November; it lasts until the next October or November.
Then there's a brand new Call of Duty game—the same deal this year. MW2 is multiplayer and is kind of going to be phased out once MW3 launches on November 10th. All the focus there is going to be on MW3. Now that's not to say that the Modern Warfare 2 campaign, Spec Ops, and multiplayer are just going to be deleted from existence and Thanos snapped into a black hole, right?
It's still going to be there. You can still play it whenever you want, and it actually might be useful to play it here and there given a few certain circumstances.
Is there any year 2 updates for modern warfare 2
I'll talk more on that here in just a bit, but really the only thing in Modern Warfare 2 that we can expect to quote and unquote live on beyond the end of it on November 10th when W3 launches is DMZ.
You may recall that Call of Duty did put out a post saying that DMZ support is going to stay on MW2 specifically, going into the MW3 year; however, DMZ is not going to be continuing in MW3. And War Zone, it's basically discontinued for the future but will stay on MW2. With all the standard content it's got now, as to how many updates we're going to see for that, we have no idea.
They say they have some announcements coming but I am imagine that this is likely going to be a similar scenario to that of Caldera, obviously when war zone 2 dropped caldera's support was still there they didn't delete it entirely until obviously much later but the game didn't get any updates and frankly Infinity Ward is going to be working on their next title for COD 2025 or Cod 2026 whenever their next game's coming out I'd be very surprised if they supported DMZ much in terms of content or updates after a year where they barely supported it with content and updates but regardless the quote unquote end of MW 2 starts with the transition of multiplayer in the main focus to MW3, but DMZ will still be the only actual MW2 based mode that is going to be relevant in its own way beyond the launch of mw3.
This means no future updates for Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer and no future updates for Modern Warfare 2 spec ops. Obviously, the campaign for MW3 is a continuation and the sequel, I guess, to the MW2 campaign, so if you want to call that an update, I guess you can, but it's the next iteration in the story.
DMZ is the only potential mode that will be changed now, presumably MW2. Obviously, right now is in the stage of The Haunting; we've got all that stuff going on for this event, and once MW3 does launch, like I said, it's not like MW2, which is just straight up being deleted. You'll still be able to access the game as normal.
It just won't be the main character with all the focus, so it's going to return to normal MW2. After the haunting, we're not going to have the Halloween theme obviously going on forever; we will be back to standard MW2, just like it was before the update, with all the basic core components available for access to anyone who owns the game—nothing out of the ordinary in regards to that.
Will mw2 have any final updates?
Now that we are in the, you know, window period of Modern Warfare 2, this likely means that in these final few weeks we're not going to really see any more major updates. The Haunting was sort of that final sendoff in terms of content and major gameplay alterations like that. We might see some bug fixes here and there, but ultimately.
MWW's year of getting a bunch of support, if you want to refer to it, is pretty much done at this point, with maybe a few surprises leading into MW3. We do know that the battle will pass, you know. MW2 in war zone right now, the season 6 pass is going to be live all the way until season 1 of MW3, in December, so you'll still be able to earn progress on that in Modern Warfare 2 in war zone in DMZ or even in Modern Warfare 3, which is really cool, and then potentially we might end up seeing some double XP events and some double weapon XP.
Double battle pass XP stuff because with MW3, obviously we're all going back to the start to level up the new guns and grind out the new ranks there, so we might see that in the final few weeks as well, outside of the specifics with the changes and updates and whatnot of the end of MW2.
Looking back at modern warfare 2␙s content year
Also, now that we're in this period of the game, it gives us a good chance to go back and sort of see what this year was, which I feel like the best way to put it bluntly is Messi, obviously MW2, launched with the most hype ever; its first couple of days of launch were the most successful for any Cod title, then, as we know, it kind of just stumbled off a cliff and the player base dwindled severely.
Over the following months, just because the game did not function well, it had so many bugs, glitches, and errors, and obviously, gameplay really, you know, changed up from what was working well within War Zone 1 and MW 2019, in the past in terms of movement and different standard things in COD, whether it be the mini map or anything like that, obviously MW2, really straight away from the basics and the core mechanics.
Whatever the reason, you know, their own direction with that was a little bit different, and it definitely didn't pan out. I would say that in the way that they had hoped, it kind of just felt like the game was sort of going against the grain. All year, okay, this is standard for COD, but what if we try this and then most players don't like it, but they never really revert?
It just felt like a very awkward year. Also, support this year was kind of strange; you heard me mention it, but DMZ, it was kind of like a main focus going into this year. Rumors had said that it was like the most developed mode even though it's still technically a beta, which is kind of ironic there, but DMZ had a lot of support throughout the year in certain areas, but it didn't feel like it was really optimized in many ways.
You know, over the past couple of seasons, they made some quality of life changes to it in terms of limiting the assimilation and whatnot, fixing some stuff for missions, and adding in a few new ones, but they never really felt like it reached its peak; there was so much potential with the mode going into it; there was a lot of hype around it; and they just didn't end up updating it all that much.
