Black Ops 6 Season 2 will air on January 28th, and it looks like it’s going to be Call of Duty’s version of The Empire Strikes Back, with the bad guys coming out on top.
Season 1’s story focused on the Luttazzi crime family, which is still operating after the events of the campaign, with multiplayer maps like Heirloom and Racket simulating battles that strike at the heart of the criminal empire.
In Season 2, the Luttazzi are sending their best assassins after the Black Ops team, which basically just means that the new battle pass will be themed around a new ninja-looking operator.
Players just finished the latest double XP weekend together, so new maps, mods and weapons are a good way to revive the game and keep Black Ops 6 and Warzone fresh. Here’s everything we currently know about the newest Call of Duty season.
When is the release date for Warzone Season 2 and Black Ops 6?
As usual, Warzone Season 2 and Black Ops 6 update will launch simultaneously, going live Tuesday, January 28 at 12:00 PM ET.
Not sure when it’s for you? Here’s when Black Ops 6 Season 2 becomes available in your time zone:
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Eastern Standard Time: January 28 at 12:00
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Central Standard Time: January 28 at 11:00
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Mountain Time: January 28 at 10:00
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Pacific Time: January 28 at 9 am
Seasonal updates are generally quite large, meaning you need to preload the update if you’re on PC. Console players will only have access to the patch a few hours before it goes live, so you should plan accordingly if you don’t want to crash your gaming session.
How big is the Warzone Season 2 update file for Black Ops 6?
While we don’t yet know exactly how big the Season 2 update file will be for Black Ops 6 and Warzone, we do know how big the game’s previous seasonal updates have been.
Since the Season 1 update focused on multiplayer content and the Season 1 Refresh update focused on the zombies experience, they can help us understand how big the Season 2 update could be.
The Black Ops 6 Season 1 update file was 35GB, with Warzone adding an additional 10GB of content. The refreshed Black Ops 6 Season 1 update file added another 20GB. It’s a safe guess that the Season 2 update file size will be in the same range as these numbers.
What’s coming to Black Ops 6 in Season 2?
While Black Ops 6 Season 1 had a multiplayer-centric content drop, followed by a mid-season zombie-centric content drop, the launch of Season 2 is set to release maps for both multiplayer modes.
Multiplayer
One of the new multiplayer maps might be a Black Ops 2 fan favorite.
The new season will kick off with three new multiplayer maps: Bounty, Dealership and Lifeline. Each map has some connection to Luttazzi, with Lifeline possibly being a remake of the hugely popular Black Ops 2 Hijacked map.
Two more maps, Bullet and Grind, will be added in the mid-season update. Sharing a name with a DLC map, it’s possible that players could see two remakes of Black Ops 2 multiplayer maps in Black Ops 6 Season 2.
Season 1 reintroduced the fan-favorite holiday arcade game Prop Hunt and now Season 2 will reintroduce Gun Game. This game mode has players go through the game’s arsenal, with each kill ranking them into a new weapon. Killing with a knife drops a player to the previous weapon.
New weapons, operators, game modes and more are promised for Black Ops 6 Season 2, but we won’t know more until the official blog post is published.
Zombie
One of Origins’ awesome weapons is making a comeback in Black Ops 6 zombies.
The new zombie map, The Tomb, will be released with the start of Season 2. It has also been officially confirmed that Origins’ ice staff is returning. Along with an all-new Easter egg that will push Dark Aether’s story forward, the new map will apparently include variants of the Abomination, Amalgam, and Doppelghast zombies introduced in previous maps.
Developer Treyarch previously teased the return of a fan favorite zombies SMG. Both the PPSh-41 and FAL assault rifles are featured in Season 2 promotional images, indicating that these weapons will likely be coming to Black Ops 6 zombies sometime this season.