Highlights

  • Sledgehammer Games is planning to release new content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, including the return of the Shipment map, which is a fan favorite.
  • Season 1 of the game will introduce new maps, such as Meat, Greece, and Rio for multiplayer, and a dedicated map called Training Facility for the Gunfight mode.
  • Sledgehammer Games is considering bringing back other popular maps in future seasonal updates, but the studio has no current plans to bring back maps like Carnival, Storm, or Fuel at the moment.

During an Ask Me Anything segment, Sledgehammer Games developers provide updates on upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 content including the return of the fan favorite Shipment map. At launch, multiplayer maps seemed to be a divisive element for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as Sledgehammer Games confirmed that the launch experience would ship with 16 maps, all taken from the 2009 release Modern Warfare 2. However, the maps themselves were touched up and remastered for this new title, though there were plenty of fans disappointed by the fact that there wouldn't be any new maps right away.

However, Sledgehammer is about to correct that with the upcoming arrival of Season 1 in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. A recent tease revealed some of the new content coming to the game, including the return of the 2v2 Gunfight multiplayer mode. The initial update is also getting an influx of brand-new 6v6 maps including Meat, Greece, and Rio for the multiplayer portion of the game while Gunfight is also getting a dedicated map called Training Facility. However, that doesn't appear to be the end of it as Sledgehammer Games also confirmed the return of another fan favorite map.

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Over on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 subReddit, the official Sledgehammer Games account took questions and feedback from the community. One common topic centered on content and what the team planned to add in the coming months including bringing back other popular and old school maps like Carnival, Storm, or Fuel. While the studio doesn't have any plans to return those to the current game, the account did reveal that seasonal updates will likely be made up of all new maps, though it also let slip that Shipment would also be coming back sometime in the near future as well.

The announcement naturally set off calls for a Shipment 24/7 gameplay mode, something that seems highly likely considering the history Shipment has with the Call of Duty franchise as a whole. Others expressed disappointment that popular maps like Storm likely aren;t going to be making their return in a similar way to the current Modern Warfare 3 maps have like Terminal.

Alongside upcoming map reveals, Sledgehammer also provided a bit of insight into upcoming Modern Warfare 3 changes including a new test of non-disbanded lobbies. The ideal behind this test is to see how the game performs as a whole, with a bigger rollout planned if things go well. Fans have been requesting non-disbanding lobbies to help keep players together, removing the need to enter matchmaking again after each match is completed. It's a classic feature that was strangely removed with the 2019 release of Modern Warfare.