Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Season 6 battle pass has come to an end – and there’s no sign of a Season 7.
Infinity Ward’s first-person shooter launched on 25th October 2019. Since then, it’s seen the launch of free-to-play battle royale Warzone, Treyarch and Raven’s Black Ops Cold War, and six seasons’ worth of new content and battle passes.
But it looks like the focus from Activision’s point of view is now squarely on Warzone and Black Ops Cold War. Modern Warfare players noticed this morning that the game’s current battle pass had expired with no replacement or playlist update from Infinity Ward.
Season 6 of #ModernWarfare and #Warzone is officially over.
The battle pass has been taken off of the menu screen. We still have no official word on a Season 7 or future content for Modern Warfare. pic.twitter.com/5RM067Yv1b
— ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) December 8, 2020
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This has come as a surprise to some who had hoped for more time to complete the battle pass ahead of the launch of Season One of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone on 16th December.
“I don’t understand why they couldn’t let people complete it until the 16th update,” redditor nilxnoir said in a post on the Modern Warfare sub.
“Feels like they’ve just been trying to gut this game since Cold War came out. I understand old games lose support but killing it purposely is frustrating.”
Rather than a Season 7 and a new battle pass, Modern Warfare is syncing up with Black Ops Cold War and Warzone for a new cross-game prestige system.
Prestige, a long-standing and popular method of keeping Call of Duty players interested for months on end by letting them restart progression and re-lock functional items over and over, was ditched for Modern Warfare in favour of an Officer Ranks system. This preserved your Enlisted Ranks of 1-55 so they were never reset, and functional items were never re-locked. Only your Officer Rank was reset, at the end of a season.
From 16th December, with the launch of Season One, Modern Warfare’s Enlisted Ranks will become known as Military Levels. As with Enlisted Ranks, Military Levels take you from level one to 55, and unlock functional gameplay items.
This progression is synced between all three games. The idea is you can level up and get XP no matter which game you play. Progress is obtained in the usual manner (playing multiplayer, completing challenges and Warzone matches, etc). Black Ops Cold War Zombies also shares this progression.