New Modern Warfare 3 playlist update helps combat badly designed skins and adds four returning maps
Maps from Modern Warfare 2 are now in the game
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The first multiplayer playlist update forModern Warfare 3has arrived, bringing some interesting new additions to the latestCall of Duty.
Revealed in arecent Tweet by Sledgehammer Games, the most significant of these is the new Experimental Playlist which seems intended as a way for the developer to test potential upcoming features. Currently, it contains an assortment of regular maps and modes in which your enemies now have a glowing red outline when in view.
This, Sledgehammer Games says, will help “distinguish them from the environment” and, although this mechanic seems a little bizarre at first, it could be a way to try and mitigate some rather unbalanced skins that are currently in the game. This includes the infamous Halloween-themed Gaia skin which turns the Nova operator into a magical evil tree.
Despite looking fairly cool, some players have been vocal in calling for the skin to be banned or re-balanced as its muted colors and waifish thin profile make you considerably harder to see in most environments.
The update also includes four returning maps from last year’sCall of Duty,Modern Warfare 2(2022), as part of theModern Warfare 2Mosh Pit playlist. The four returning maps are as follows:
Referred to in-game as a “curated selection of maps and modes” fromModern Warfare 2, it seems reasonable to expect this selection to be subject to change in the coming months with more maps added or removed on a semi-regular basis.
In addition to this, the highly-requested Terminal 24/7 playlist has arrived which, as the name would suggest, offers players the chance to play matches exclusively on the hugely popular Terminal map. As a big fan of the map myself, thanks largely to its intelligently designed sightlines and fantastic vantage points, I’m particularly looking forward to taking this one for a whirl myself.
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Dash is a technology journalist who covers gaming hardware at TechRadar. Before joining the TechRadar team, he was writing gaming articles for some of the UK’s biggest magazines including PLAY, Edge, PC Gamer, and SFX. Now, when he’s not getting his greasy little mitts on the newest hardware or gaming gadget, he can be found listening to J-pop or feverishly devouring the latest Nintendo Switch otome.
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