We are rapidly reaching the end of Call of Duty BO7’s year of live-service updates, with the final two Seasons worth of content set to arrive ahead of Modern Warfare 4’s launch in late October. With that, the team at Treyarch have now unveiled and detailed everything coming with the launch of Black Ops 7 Season 5 next week.

Taking to their blog to make the announcement, the teams at Treyarch / Activision officially confirmed that Black Ops 7 Season 5 will be arriving next week on the 23rd of July.

As with all prior Seasons, S05 will be split up into two major content drops, with Season 5 Reloaded expected sometime in mid August. The full list of additions is lengthy, but some of the most notable include:

Multiplayer

• 5 new / remastered maps
  • Jubilee
  • Frequency (originally from Black Ops 4)
  • Dig (originally from Black Ops 2)
  • Turbo Tilt
  • Freerun: Descent
• 3 new modes
  • Overdrive Domination
  • Gauntlet Rush
  • Cranked Moshpit

Endgame

• New assignment ‘Burn Run’
• You can upgrade your Major and Minor abilities with Exotic Boosts

Zombies

• Eidskallen Lighthouse Survival map
• Kowakujō Directed Mode and Starting Room challenge
• 3 new Rogue Run playlists
• Final major map: Rex Infernus (S05 Reloaded)

General

• 4 new weapons
  • FG42 (AR)
  • Gremlin (Dual-Wield SMGs)
  • Mammoth (LMG)
  • Mace (Melee)
• 6 new weapon attachments
• 3 Limited-Time Events (including a 30th anniversary Treyarch celebration)

Of course, as with all of Black Ops 7’s post-launch support, Season 5 brings with it a ton of other ancillary additions, including earnable camos; a brand new Battle Pass; cosmetics and other rewards. Full details on everything coming throughout Season 5 / Reloaded can be found HERE.

KitGuru says: What do you think of BO7’s post-launch support? Will history look more kindly upon the game? Are you just waiting for MW4 at this point? Let us know down below.

Despite the wider sentiment surrounding Call of Duty being far from its peak, Treyarch’s Black Ops 7 has been keeping fans engaged with a ton of post-launch support being released on a consistent basis. With BO7 Season 3 Reloaded set to go live in just under a week’s time, Treyarch have now detailed all of the many additions arriving come the 30th of April.

Taking to their blog, the Call of Duty team revealed everything planned to go live with the launch of Black Ops 7 Season 3. Covering multiplayer, Warzone, Zombies and even Endgame, S03 Reloaded is set to add the following:

Endgame

• Act II: Operation Broken Mirror missions
  • Features new missions, a boss and completion rewards
• New activity: Mega Abomination
• New Major Ability: Thermal Spike

Multiplayer

• 3 new maps
  • Onsen
  • Summit
  • Hacienda
• New ‘Freerun’ Parkour mode
• New ‘Heat Wave Havoc’ LTM
• New ‘Freeze Tag’ mode

Zombies

• New major map: Totenreich
  • Includes a new Elite enemy, wonder weapon; trap; gameplay mechanics and more
• New ‘Wild Fire’ field upgrade
• Totenreich Cursed mode

General Additions

• Siren special weapon
• Katana melee weapon
• 4 new conversion kits / attachments
• RoboCop crossover event

The full list of changes and additions can be found HERE, including details on the new modes coming to Warzone.

Between the initial Season 3 and this upcoming Reloaded update, Treyarch are  continuing to hold true to their promise that Black Ops 7 will be their most supported game to date. BO7 S03 Reloaded officially goes live on the 30th of april.

KitGuru says: What do you think of Black Ops 7’s post-launch support so far? Have they won you over? What are your expectations for Totenreich? Let us know down below.

Ever since he left Treyarch Jason Blundell has struggled to get a game out the door, with the Call of Duty Zombies icon having his project under Deviation Games cancelled – followed shortly by the cancellation and closure of his newly-founded PlayStation Studio Dark Outlaw Games. Not to be deterred, Blundell has now revealed that he is going the indie route, officially announcing the brand new ‘Magic Fractal Studios’.

Making the official announcement during a livestream alongside ex-Dark Outlaw Games developer / YouTuber JCbackfire, Jason Blundell confirmed that he is setting up a brand new studio called Magic Fractal.

As of right now, next-to-nothing is known regarding the studio aside from its name and logo. That said, based on Blundell’s past work, whatever the team works on will likely appeal to those who enjoyed Call of Duty Zombies back during the Black Ops 1-3 days.

Speaking of Black Ops 3, Blundell also took the time during the stream to offer a tease for the long-standing ‘impossible Easter Egg’ from BO3 which has yet to be solved over a decade later.

With so many cancelled projects and closed studios in a row, here’s to hoping that Jason Blundell is finally able to achieve his goals as part of Magic Fractal Studios.

KitGuru says: Are you excited for the announcement? Were you disappointed in the closure of Deviation Games and Dark Outlaw Games? What would you want from a COD Zombies spiritual successor (if that’s the direction they choose to go in?) Let us know down below.

For pretty much its entire existence, Call of Duty has operated using a familiar model, with the FPS franchise seeing a brand new title released on an annual basis from one of the 3 core COD studios. While this has worked in the past, Black Ops 7 seems to have been a breaking point for some. According to known insiders, Microsoft is now considering a major shake-up, including a standalone Zombies game.

As reported by known Call of Duty leaker TheGhostofHope, an internal delay of the next-gen Xbox console from Microsoft has “hurt a lot of CODs marketing plans as they wanted Modern Warfare 4 to be a launch title and draw a lot of hype to compete with people's attention alongside GTA VI.”

According to Hope, this has led to “the idea of two Call Of Duty games launching with the next Xbox” being considered – namely “a traditional Call of Duty multiplayer and a standalone Zombies title presumably developed by Treyarch.”

Alongside this, Microsoft is reportedly wanting “Activision to be more agile and less attached to annualized releases in the future,” with one example of its failings being the lack of evolution in MW2’s DMZ extraction mode due to it being attached to an annual COD entry.

Of course, Microsoft and Xbox are in a weird spot at the moment, so these plans could be altered or changed at any point.

Still, considering just how rigidly the franchise has stuck to its annual releases up until now, it would be interesting to see what Treyarch, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games could achieve if given enough time and freedom. Hopefully we find out.

KitGuru says: What do you think of this leak? Would you welcome a shift in strategy? Between a standalone DMZ and Zombies game, which would you prefer? Let us know down below.