That’s it, it’s over. It has been confirmed by Infinity Ward that DMZ – Call of Duty’s stab at an extraction shooter – has died after just one year online. It was released alongside Warzone 2.0 in November 2022, and a year later, it’s being kept on life support. Going forward, no more updates will be applied to DMZ, and while it’ll remain accessible through Warzone, it won’t offer players anything new.
RIP DMZ
In a blog post talking about the future of DMZ, it was confirmed that the mode will remain playable on old maps only, and it won’t be ported into Urzikstan. That’s because this year’s COD Zombies offering is effectively a DMZ mode in itself – but instead of surviving against other players, you’re tasked with slaying hordes of bloodthirsty, undead freaks.
Here’s what was said in the blog post:
The mode will not be available or interact directly within Modern Warfare III or Call of Duty: Warzone which means that progression and any new Modern Warfare III or Warzone content, including Battle Pass or store bundles, will not sync or carry back into this DMZ mode. Also, DMZ progress will not apply to new Battle Passes beginning with Season 1.
Following this move, we can expect DMZ to be slowly wound down until, a few months into the lifecycle of Modern Warfare 3, it’s inevitably shut down forever, marking the end of Infinity Ward’s little experiment. It’s a shame because the mode was quite entertaining, but it tried unsuccessfully to capitalise on the growing popularity of the extraction shooter genre, which has long since been popularised by Escape From Tarkov.
Will you miss DMZ?
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