Warzone 2 Ranked and Plunder confirmed for Season 3 at the earliest

Call of Duty looks to the future

Marco Wutz | Feb 15, 2023

Warzone 2 Ranked and Plunder confirmed for Season 3 at the earliest /

Season 2 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) and Warzone 2 is almost here – you can find all the launch times in our guide. While most players are looking forward to jumping back into the returning Resurgence mode and toying around with all the other new content, Activision is already looking towards the future.

The Call of Duty UK account on Twitter posted and quickly deleted a tweet detailing some plans for Season 2 Reloaded, Season 3, and beyond:

Season 02 is almost live, and there’s more on the way. Here’s a taste of what’s next:

Season 02 Reloaded:

🗻 New Core 6v6 Multiplayer Map

🚨 New RAID episode

🔥 New Multiplayer Modes

Season 3 and beyond:

🔫 Gunfight

💰 Plunder

🪂 Warzone Ranked

It’s unclear why exactly this post was deleted, though perhaps the announcement of some of these items was a bit premature, destroying a few long-laid marketing plans.

In any case, Warzone 2 players can cautiously look forward to the future addition of a Ranked mode as well as the return of Plunder for the battle royale game. Plunder is a popular mode featured in the original Warzone, whereas Ranked has never been part of the spin-off – many players with a more competitive mindset have been asking for it, though.

Since the tweet mentioned “Season 3 and beyond” it’s difficult to put an exact date on when the two game modes will join the fray, of course.

While players will be happy about more options, this announcement continues the trend of content present in previous Call of Duty games simply being recycled and repackaged to be released as "new content" with some marketing fanfare.

Published Feb 15, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg