Highlights

  • Some Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 fans want the game's Zombies mode to become more cooperative by allowing teammates to work toward shared objectives.
  • Right now, each player needs to complete Zombies missions on their own, which some feel is antithetical to the mode's cooperative nature and makes for a needlessly grindy experience.
  • According to those opinions, Zombies would benefit from shared mission objectives similar to DMZ. Many other elements from the now-abandoned DMZ mode have already ended up being incorporated into MW3's rendition of Zombies.

Some Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 fans are calling for Sledgehammer to make the game's Zombies mode more cooperative by allowing players to complete their teammates' mission objectives. Their pleas add to the list of Modern Warfare 3 changes that the fandom has requested since the game hit the digital and physical store shelves on November 10.

While the latest Call of Duty installment continues the series' tradition of providing a dedicated mode for mowing down undead hordes, the Modern Warfare 3 Zombies mode makes so many changes to that popular formula that it ends up delivering a radically different experience. The biggest novelty compared to the previous entry in the franchise is that the MW3 Zombies mode takes place in an open-world environment, thus being a bit reminiscent of the Outbreak gameplay from the 2020 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. It also has some overlap with Warzone, not least because it repurposes the battle royale game's Urzikstan map.

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Some MW3 Zombies Players Want to Work Toward Shared Mission Objectives With Their Teammates

The end result of this radical reimagining appears to be somewhat polarizing, as suggested by the newly emerged calls for the developers to make Zombies missions in Modern Warfare 3 more cooperative by allowing teammates to work toward the same shared objectives. The proposal was originally put forward by Reddit user AuroraUnit117, who argued that the fact MWZ objectives currently need to be completed by each teammate makes for an "extremely frustrating" experience. Instead of promoting teamwork that's supposed to be at the core of the Zombies mode, this design choice effectively pits players against one another in a race to loot and kill things as fast as possible, the fan concluded.

Expanding on that perspective, some other players argued that the lack of shared objectives makes MWZ extremely grindy. That point of criticism is best underlined by Freezer Burn, one of the Tier 3 missions from the Modern Warfare 3 Zombies Operation Deadbolt act, which requires players to slow down 10 Hellhounds and 50 Zombies with the Cry Freeze Ammo Mod; without the ability to work toward the same goal with their teammates, that single objective can take literal hours to complete, depending on one's luck with randomly generated loot.

Implementing shared team objectives into the new Zombies mode would hardly be an unprecedented move for Call of Duty. After all, that's precisely how missions worked in DMZ, a popular Warzone extraction mode that has been effectively abandoned by the developers as of today. The Modern Warfare 3 Zombies mode has already absorbed many elements from DMZ, which is why some fans are now asking for Sledgehammer to incorporate just one more by making MWZ missions more cooperative.