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Happy Holidays Call of Duty: Mobile Community!! This may be the last community update of 2020, but we are thrilled to have such a hefty and content filled post to share with you before the Holidays.
First and foremost, Season 13: Winter War is officially here and released as of this moment! Ghost, Adler, Helen Park, and others are here to take you into a Winter themed wonderland of snowboards, Prop Hunt, snow covered maps, and brand-new weapons. Check out the new trailer:
https://reddit.com/link/khtmby/video/ojnae9vjom661/player
You may have seen a variety of Holiday themed content already released over the last week, like Raid Holiday, the Holiday Redux Draw, and the Holiday Bonanza event, but so much more are on the way and releasing throughout the next several weeks. Before we dive into all of that content below and the schedule of events, let’s momentarily talk about the Public Test Build.
This was a bit of an unusual Public Test Build with 4+ versions releasing over the last week. We know it isn’t an easy or enjoyable task to uninstall, download, and reinstall the build so many times, but just a massive and heartfelt thank you to every single person out there who helped with these vital tests. You truly made a difference and helped make this release a more stable one. Thank you!!
Lastly, if you are seeing any issues from this season release today or from the update we released over the weekend, please do keep reporting them! We may not have another community updates this month, but our teams are still checking for bugs, working on issues, and already working towards the next release in January. For now, let’s jump into the update and go over all of the new content!
Here is a quick look at all of the new events starting today and a few other new ones already running:
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12/20 – 12/29 ~ Raid Holiday (MP)
- Jump into the Holiday Bonanza event to grab some new gear while playing Raid
- 12/20 – 12/29 ~ Winter Prop Hunt (MP)
- 12/20 – 12/27 ~ Rapid Fire Mode (MP)
- 12/20 ~ Holiday Draw Redux
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12/21 – 12/29 ~ 10v10 Cookie Confirmed (MP)
- Kill Confirmed scaled up and filled with cookies!
- 12/24 – 12/30 ~ Sugar Rush Event
- 12/24 ~ Fireside Draw
- 12/28 – 01/07 ~ Nuketown Russia Playlist (MP)
- 12/28 – 01/07 ~ Core Town
- 12/31 – 01/07 ~ New Year Salute
- 12/22, 12/24, 12/30 ~ Three Seasonal Challenges Releasing
*All Dates UTC
Before we dive into many of those specifics, like Grind Mode, the new functional weapons, or the Battle Pass, let’s take a quick glance at some of the major events dropping this season with this snow frosted and lovingly crafted Season 13 Roadmap!
We’ll have details on much of that below, but the easiest way to think about that roadmap is everything on the left is out right now and everything on the right is coming out some-time later in the season. The most notable of which would be On The Brink (our featured event for this season). We’ll have more on that once we return to our regular cadence of community updates in 2021!
Season 13 - Battle Pass
This new Battle Pass is unique in a variety of ways, whether it is weapons, characters, or a brand-new scorestreak! First, you have the CIA operatives Adler – Mountain Drab and Helen Park – Safehouse coming over to COD: Mobile from Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War. Then you have the brand-new automatic assault rifle, the Peacekeeper MK2.
We also heard many months ago that you all didn’t think Ghost was available enough, so we have yet another iteration dropping in this Battle Pass 😉. Check out all of the usual information below to get a glimpse at some of the main items from this new Battle Pass:
Free Battle Pass
- Chopper - Permafrost (tier 4)
- Helicopter – Tracker (tier 8)
- New Scorestreak – EMP Systems (tier 14)
- New Weapon – Peacekeeper MK2 (tier 21)
- HS0405 - Permafrost (tier 31)
- Charm – Mister Ginger (tier 38)
- Calling Card – Aftershock (tier 46)
- QQ9 - Permafrost (tier 50)
https://reddit.com/link/khtmby/video/2z33dff7pm661/player
Paid Battle Pass
- Ghost – Dark Vision (tier 1)
- Man-O-War – Pack Leader (tier 1)
- Calling Card – Loose Ends (tier 1)
- RUS-79U - Troika (tier 10)
- Park - Safehouse (tier 12)
- HBRa3 - Snowstream (tier 20)
- Golem - Siberia (tier 30)
- BY15 – Top Dog (tier 35)
- GKS – Pack Warrior (tier 40)
- Adler - Mountain Drab (tier 50)
- Peacekeeper MK2 – Blast Off (tier 50)
That is just a quick highlight of the items in this Season 13: Winter War Battle Pass. There is a wide variety of other weapons, camos, emotes, customization items, and more! Also, if you choose to go the Battle Pass Advantage route there are also four more items, including Ice Axe – Nocturnal, that you can pick up there. Lastly, just a reminder that every Battle Pass contains enough CP to make the next one free. Grab one, complete it all, and then you’ll be able to snag the next one for free!
Multiplayer Maps
You’ve seen us talking about teasing these maps for the last several weeks, but as you know we have two maps dropping this season! We have the return of Raid Holiday (from December 2019) and a snow covered and eastern variant of the fan favorite Nuketown map – Nuketown Russia.
Raid Holiday
This festive and beloved Holiday themed map is live now! It first made its way into Call of Duty: Mobile alongside the first iteration of Prop Hunt, so it is only fitting now that we’ve launched it once again with Winter Prop Hunt. Turn yourself into presents, festive items, and some of the more usual Raid décor as you attempt to play an epic game of hide and seek! That’s all live now. Get on it!
Nuketown Russia
This brand-new map from Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has made its way over to Call of Duty: Mobile! Nuketown Russia isn’t just a cosmetic change of this beloved close-quarters map, but also features some different sight lines, tactical options, and changes that will make it feel both nostalgic and new. It has its own playlist, as noted in the schedule above, coming later! Keep an eye out for that.
https://reddit.com/link/khtmby/video/yvndqtllpm661/player
Winter Comes to Battle Royale
We’ve jumped back into Battle Royale for this release and decided it could use some Winter themed updates! Ski Town has been enhanced and not only with some nice new buildings, changes, and a ski course, but also with a new vehicle – the Snowboard! You can find this vehicle in that area and thanks to its rocket fueled design you can use it to do some flashy tricks on top being able to ride around any area of the map (not just the snow). See it in action:
On top of that, our friends at the Garena version of CODM have made a mini game focused around this new vehicle and update! Feel free to head over to Facebook or Instagram to try that out. This is all available in Battle Royale now, so be sure to jump in and check it out.
Grind Mode
Another new season means another new Multiplayer mode to try out (well almost always 😉)! This time around, we have a mixture of Kill Confirmed and Hardpoint coming in the form of Grind Mode. You’ll be tasked with collecting dog tags, just like in KC, but you have to drop them off at a deposit point.
Simple right? Yes and no! The more dogs tags you hold onto before depositing the better, but of course that also means more risk of enemies taking you out and collecting them all themselves. You’ll be able to jump into this mode alongside an event tied to it in early January! Keep an eye out for it.
Seasonal Challenges
This time around our Seasonal Challenges are breaking the mold a bit and not releasing with 2-3 at time each week or every other week. Until the end of the year we have one releasing per week and with a variety of worthwhile rewards to snag! Let’s check out those three below:
Blowout (12/22 UTC)
This six-part seasonal challenge is focused entirely around Search & Destroy mode. Play matches, plant bombs, defuse bombs, take out enemies, use sniper rifles, and win! If you complete all of those tasks earn a few NA-45 camos, plenty of Battle Pass XP, some Weapon XP, and a unique calling card:
- (Uncommon) NA-45 – Pinecone
- (Rare) NA – 45 Snowframe
- (Epic) Calling Card – Price’s Holiday
Run & Gun (12/24 UTC)
This hefty eight-part seasonal challenge lives up to its names by asking you to show your mastery of using SMGs in Multiplayer matches. Take out dozens of enemies, use SMGs with various numbers of attachments, and in particular use the PDW-57 and Cordite. Complete all of this to get your hands on the brand-new SMG, the QXR! Check out all of the main rewards:
- (Uncommon) Knife – Pine Cone
- (Uncommon) MW11 – Pine Cone
- (Rare) Frame – Siberia Frame
- (Rare) Cordite – Snowframe
- (Common) QXR
Get Crafty (12/30 UTC)
This eight-part seasonal challenge is all about using weapons and in Battle Royale! All of these tasks are focused around using rare, epic, legendary, or customized weapons in BR and getting kills with them. Relatively simple, but you’ll have to do a few matches to switch back and forth between rarity types (while crushing your opponents) to quickly complete all of these tasks. More Winter themed items are available to grab from this challenge alongside the usual hefty helping of Battle Pass XP. Take a look:
- (Uncommon) Scout – Pine Cone
- (Uncommon) PDW-57 – Pine Cone
- (Rare) Spray – Killing Floor
- (Rare) Helicopter – Snowblind
- (Rare) DR-H – Snowframe
These are all rolling out throughout the next couple of weeks and before we are back with our next community update. However, there are still four more dropping in January and with some great rewards, like the Epic weapon blueprint Echo – Cold Air.
Ranked Series 8
By now you’ve likely seen that Ranked Series 7 is ending and that means rank resets are coming! This new Ranked Series will come with a variety of Winterwood weapon and item camos to acquire, like Reznov - Winterwood and also Fennec - Midnight.
As per usual, this will drop you down a few ranks at most (not a complete reset) in order to help balance everything for the start of the new season. You may also see increased wait times in Ranked modes for the first couple of days of the new season, which is also fairly common as players climb back up the ranks. Best of luck to all competitors!
New Functional Weapons
We have two new weapons coming in Season 13, the Peacekeeper MK2 assault rifle and the QXR SMG! We’ve talked a lot about these two already so we won’t spend too much time on this, especially since there is just so much in this community update, but as you may know if you read the previous sections of this update the Peacekeeper MK2 is available on launch through the Battle Pass, both a common and Epic Blueprint version.
The QXR on the other hand is coming in just a few days through the Fireside Draw or through a Seasonal Challenge dropping at the same time. Many months ago, back in Spring of 2020, we committed to always releasing new weapons with a grind and paid path at the same time.
Want the fancy blueprint version with extra visual flare and some attachments already equipped? We got you! But we also always have a way to earn the base weapon itself just through playing, whether that is the Battle Pass, a normal event, or a Seasonal Challenge. Make sure to grab these great new weapons and we’ll be keeping an eye out for any balance issues.
Holiday Content Drops
We have two main store releases focused on the holidays, the Fireside Draw and the Holiday Draw Redux. There is also the Siege Crate, which sure isn’t holiday themed but unique and dropping on the 21st (PT). We’ll go over some basics for those three below, but there are also a wide variety of deals dropping throughout this holiday season. Here is a glimpse:
Holiday Draw Redux
As you have already seen in-game, our original Holiday Draw from 2019 has returned but with an updated AK 117 – Holidays, a brand-new AGR 556 – Tree Topper, and Grinch – Wreath Havoc. For this one we didn’t create traditional Draw video, but instead wanted to celebrate the festivity, silliness, and Holiday cheer that many of these items and characters emanate.
https://reddit.com/link/khtmby/video/vmpmmyx8qm661/player
Siege Crate
It is rare for us to have any crates or offers focused purely on Battle Royale, but this is one of the most unique ones yet! Turn your tank into a piece of Cold War era heavy metal machinery! supe up your wingsuit with some brand-new visuals, and completely change the special effects of your main healing skill with the Medic BR class. Grab this one now and check out all of these new Gulag Tech items.
Fireside Draw
If you have ever had the very specific desire to gear up like Mrs. Clause, spec out your QXR to look delightfully festive, and to have your enemies turn into elves when you kill them then the Fireside Draw is perfect for you! This upcoming lucky draw is full of holiday cheer with Scylla – Sleigher, QXR – Secret Santa, the J358 – Merrymaker, and much more! Check it out on December 23rd (PT) to see what makes this one a unique among everything else coming out this Holiday season.
Credit Store Update
Every new season release also (usually) means a new a credit store update! The one highlighted in the Roadmap, with that glamorous DR – Gold Glitter, will be coming in early January, but for this update we’ll have some perks returning alongside a variety of other items. Check it out:
- (Uncommon) MW-11 – Heliotrope
- (Uncommon) Cordite – Heliotrope
- (Common) Operator Skill - Equalizer
- (Common) Perk – High Alert
- (Rare) Outrider - Cyberline
- (Rare) Locus – Cyberline
Mythic Weapon
We have a brand-new Mythic weapon coming later season, similar to the Fennec – Ascended back in Season 11, and this one is uniquely designed with its own story and lore. As per usual, the Mythic is all about making something as stylish and high quality as possible, with a wide array of customization options for everything from death effects to charms.
This weapon of extraterrestrial origin is forged from a meteorite fallen from space and dropped into the cold reaches of Antarctica. MAEVWAY, one of the world’s largest weapons manufactures, got to the scene first and their scientists found that the meteorite had merged with Antarctica ice, becoming something curiously both frozen and burning.
Of course, as an ambitious weapon manufacturer MAEVWAY sought a way to utilize this unique element and for their first attempt they’ve merged a meteorite fragment with a Peacekeeper MK2. They’ve created something that is somehow alive, frozen, and burning with magma; they’ve created The Peacekeeper MK2 – Artifact. This brand-new Mythic weapon is coming your way soon.
General Notes
We’ve already seen a variety of discussions and comments over the weekend, since the update released, so we’ll do our best to quickly address those here. While we may not have a bug reports or feedback section this week, we’ll be checking over all of that throughout the Holidays and we’ll be back with presumably quite a lot on both of those in early January when we return to our normal cadence.
- Activision Account Linking - Ghost Stealth – We’ve put out a few messages about this over the weekend, but currently anyone who links their Activision account for the first time will receive Ghost – Stealth as a consolation prize for doing that. However, we also plan to send out Ghost – Stealth to the many players who already have their ATVI accounts linked. This is a bit more manual and will likely be coming via your in-game mailbox. Keep an eye out for it!
- Updated or New Voice Overs – Yes, we can confirm that there are more voice overs coming for pre-existing and new characters (like Ghost 😉)! Our talented VO team has been hard at work on this and you’ll start to see something around that in the near future, but those updates are not part of this S13 release.
- Bug Reports – We are already checking into quite a few different bugs reported by the community, whether it is audio changing on weapons, textures breaking on weapons, iron sights no longer being useable, or various other issues. Keep reporting them and we’ll keep checking for them!
Support Options
Lastly, we’ve mentioned multiple times how important it is to report any bugs or issues you are seeing with new updates so please make sure to reach out through any of support channels. While we do see and report bugs through community channels, it is generally only large and clearly identified issues while our player support teams can go through all kinds of reports and in a much more detailed way. Here are those main channels:
- In-game support chat
- ATVI Assist Twitter: Activision Support (@ATVIAssist) / Twitter
- ATVI Assist Facebook: Activision Assist - Facebook
- Player Support Website: Contact Us
Final Notes
When we come back from the Holiday break we’ll have plenty to discuss, whether it is new events coming, some of the first teasers for S14 (maybe haha), or of course bugs or feedback. There is so much more coming in 2021 and we are extremely lucky and honored to be able to have a massive number of players with us throughout all of 2020.
As you may or may not, for free to play games it is extremely unusual to have such a massive and supportive community stick around for such a long period of time. While we owe a lot of that to all of our hardworking teams continuously pumping out new content at an extraordinary rate while also always pushing to do more and more, we also owe that to all of you.
Everyone reading this update is part of this massive online interconnected CODM community from all over the world, whether that is on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, VK, or other social media areas. We appreciate all of you immensely and we will always strive to find ways to show it, like the many Holiday themed giveaways going on right now in several of the larger CODM communities.
Take care everyone, enjoy the new season, and have a wonderful end of 2020!
-Happy Holidays from the Call of Duty: Mobile Team
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. What free draw you are referring to? We have had some "one draw free" options in the past, like on the Dark Side Draw (for Dark Nikto), but we can't think of anything recent or anything specific to the beta.
. Hopefully someday we'll get to consider that again though. We thankfully have many different offices to choose from this haha, whether it is Timi Studios in China or the multiple ATVI studios that support the game. Thanks for the interest by the way, that isn't a comment/request we see often.
