Activision confirms Modern Warfare 2 unlocks will carry forward to Modern Warfare 3

thesixthaxis.com:

With the official announcement that this year’s Call of Duty is Modern Warfare 3 (stylised as Modern Warfare III), Activision has now confirmed details on how content will carry forward from Modern Warfare 2 and into Warzone – a first for the Call of Duty series.

In a blog post outlining the carry forward feature, Activision has details how the vast majority of in-game unlocks from Modern Warfare II will be carried over to the direct sequel, including “weapons and cosmetic content, including Bundles, Operators, and other rewards and unlocks from the game”.

However, there’s two important things to note about this: firstly, there’s exceptions where vehicles like the Tactical Amphibious Vehicle will not feature in MW3 and so unlocked skins for that will not carry forward, and secondly, there is no “carry back” from MW3 to MW2 for new weapons and unlocks. That said, weapon progression is cross-game, so you can keep levelling up weapons in either multiplayer suite.

As with the first Call of Duty Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale game Warzone 2.0 will be upgraded with new content from MW3, but previous weapons and unlocks will remain available.

Let’s dig into some more specifics:

You won’t be too significantly disadvantage if you’ve not bought and played MW2 before MW3 – outside of simply not having the same level of progression – as all of the base weapons that are present in both games will be unlockable within MW3 as well by levelling up or completing challenges.

That said, any operators that were unlocked by playing through the MW2 campaign, and any content that was only available for limited times during MW2’s seasonal content will not be available to MW3 players that haven’t unlocked them in the previous game.

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