Summary
SomeCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3fans 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 ofModern Warfare 3changes that the fandom has requestedsince the game hit the digital and physical store shelves on November 10.
While the latestCall of Dutyinstallment continues the series' tradition of providing a dedicated mode for mowing down undead hordes, theModern Warfare 3Zombies mode makes so many changesto 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 theMW3Zombies mode takes place in an open-world environment, thus being a bit reminiscent of the Outbreak gameplay from the 2020Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. It also has some overlap withWarzone, not least because it repurposes the battle royale game’s Urzikstan map.
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 inModern Warfare 3more 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 3missions from theModern Warfare 3Zombies Operation Deadboltact, 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 forCall of Duty. After all, that’s precisely how missions worked in DMZ, a popularWarzoneextraction mode that has been effectively abandoned by the developers as of today. TheModern Warfare 3Zombies 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.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)
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The war has changed. Call of Duty returns with an all-new campaign, modernized versions of classic Multiplayer maps and an open-world PvE Zombies experience. The campaign, a direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, sees Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against ultranationalist war criminal Vladimir Makarov as he extends his grasp across the world. In Multiplayer, the 16 maps that launched with Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 return with upgraded graphics, new modes and innovative gameplay features. In Modern Warfare Zombies, team up with other squads for the first time ever as you work together to survive in the largest Zombies map yet
