Activision has revealed the Season 5 roadmap for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone. After the last season left many players unimpressed, CoD had a tall order ahead of it in winning back favor to generate excitement ahead of the next entry’s release. It’s now clear just how Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 plans to do that when Season 5 kicks off in early August.

Call of Duty announced that Black Ops 6 Season 5 would start on August 7 in a July 28 tweet. While the post didn’t give away much, it revealed Sims would return as an operator and showed what looked suspiciously like an M249 LMG in his hands. Now that the full roadmap is available, fans can get a better idea of what to expect from Call of Duty over the coming months.

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According to the official roadmap, Season 5 will begin at 9 AM PST on August 7, bringing three new multiplayer maps with it, including a new iteration of the ever-popular WMD map. Midway through the season, another multiplayer arena called Jackpot, inspired by Black Ops 4‘s Casino, will make its way to the game. The final Black Ops 6 Zombies map Treyarch teased earlier will also be available once Season 5 begins, and fans now have a name: Reckoning. On top of the new map, Zombies players will also get a new sci-fi weapon called the Gorgofex and take on the Uber Klaus, an elite zombie enemy inside a massive exoskeleton.

Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 5 Brings New Maps, Weapons and Game Modes

Previous teasers led fans to believe that Black Ops 6 was bringing back the M249 LMG, but the roadmap reveals that the weapon is actually a different LMG called the PML 5.56. The ABR A1 assault rifle and Gravemark .357 revolver will also be available, with the former dropping at launch and the latter coming midway through the season. Black Ops 6 is also introducing boxing gloves as a melee weapon.

Season 5 is also bringing some new and returning game modes. These include the modifier Aim High, where headshots are one-hit kills and everything else does minimal damage, and the returns of Snipers Only and Cranked Moshpit. Beyond Black Ops 6 and Warzone, the roadmap reveal confirmed that two older titles will be available as standalone titles starting on July 29. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as Call of Duty previously removed Modern Warfare 3 and Modern Warfare 2 from the HQ app, and any MW2 and MW3 content in Warzone will remain unaffected.