Call of Duty’s next season might actually make everyone happy

Call of Duty is about to get its biggest update since the release of Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 last year. Activision spilled the whole beans on next week’s Season 3 update in a voluminous blog post (opens in new tab) detailing new maps, guns, modes, and features coming to the 6v6 and battle royale corners of CoD.

That’s “maps” plural for traditional multiplayer—a total of three 6v6 maps and two larger “battle maps” adapted from the Warzone map, which is a nice change of pace from what has been a somewhat slow start to Modern Warfare 2’s post-launch support (opens in new tab).

Both halves of the community seem pretty well served this time around, which makes me think it could be the first CoD update in a while that makes everyone happy (or at least less angry than usual). Here are the most pertinent details from the Season 3 update coming April 12:

Modern Warfare 2

• 5 new guns, including the famed Intervention sniper rifle (opens in new tab) from Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
• 3 new 6v6 maps (two at launch and one mid-season)
• 2 battle maps
• 3 2v2 Gunfight maps
• Co-op raid episode 3