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Call of Duty’s mid-season Reloaded update arrives on July 15, dropping a new map and mode themed around paintball for Black Ops Cold War‘s multiplayer, a new round-based map will arrive for Zombies, and Warzone is getting an objective-based mode.

Multiplayer

Season 4 Reloaded brings Call of Duty’s classic Capture the Flag mode, where teams must take their enemy’s flag and return it to their home base, while also defending theirs from the enemy team. The update also brings a remastered version of Rush from Black Ops 2. Rush is a small 6v6 map themed around a paintball course.

And speaking of paintball, Treyarch teases a new paintball experience is coming later in the season with Paintball Moshpit. This is described as a new way to play multiplayer with paintball visual effects and impact sounds.

Also coming at the mid-season launch is a Rush 24/7 playlist for the new map, in addition to new Cranked modes. There will be a Cranked Moshpit with new Cranked Team Deathmatch and Cranked Kill Confirmed, which will be similar to Cranked Hardpoint from the ’80s Action Heroes event.

Two new weapons are scheduled for Season 4 Reloaded. The OTs 9 Submachine gun will arrive at launch, which is a fully-auto submachine gun that can either be unlocked either through an in-game challenge or by purchasing one of its weapon blueprints bundles. And finally, the Mace melee weapon will be available later this season either by unlocking with an in-game challenge, or purchasing one of its weapon blueprints in the store.

Zombies

The wait for a new round-based map is almost over. Season 4 Reloaded will introduce Mauer der Toten, which translates to Wall of The Dead, serving as the third round-based Zombies map for Black Ops Cold War. The map is set in 1985 East Berlin after a zombie invasion devastated the city, and players will be navigating through dark streets and subway tunnels.

Mauer der Toten will introduce a new CRBR-S Wonder Weapon, which starts off as an energy-based pistol, but it can be upgraded to three additional variants. There’s also a new craftable LT53 Kazimir grenade, which is similar to the Gersh Device from Black Ops 1.

The new map will also introduce a robot soldier named Klaus, who can assist players with slaying the undead. It’s quite possible that Klaus and the new Wonder Weapon will all be a part of the map’s new storyline quest. And Mauer der Toten’s questline hunt will begin at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET Thursday, July 15.

The update will also reintroduce the fan-favorite Mule Kick perk, which allows players to carry a third weapon. Players can also expect major changes to enemy health caps, enemy armor durability, sniper rifle critical and max damage buffs, Pack-a-Punched melee weapon damage buffs, as well as damage scaling for equipment, support items, and field upgrades.

Zombies is also getting a new Dynamic Wall Buys feature coming to all round-based Zombies maps in Season 4 Reloaded. This feature will give Wall Buy weapons a chance to increase in rarity at the end of every fifth round, and increase all the way up to Legendary rarity.

Warzone

Activision continues to tease the mysterious Red Doors by saying: All Operators should report to Verdansk to either escort or halt important Payloads crossing the region, taking note of any additional Red Doors they may see after this update…

This could be leading into a new Easter egg quest for Warzone, and it could possibly be tied to an in-game reveal for the upcoming Call of Duty title.

Warzone’s mid-season update will also introduce a new objective-based mode, Payload. Activision says the mode is inspired by previous traditional Call of Duty game modes like Call of Duty: WWII’s War Mode. Payload pits two teams of 20 players against each other in a race that requires the attacking and defending of vehicles carrying vital satellite parts.

If the attacking team escorts all vehicles across all checkpoints within the time limit, they win the match. The defending team can use resources to help them fight off the attackers by buying and building obstacles to stall these vehicles. Players will also have their own custom loadouts, and they will be able to still earn cash and buy killstreaks just like normal matches.

The sentry gun from multiplayer is also being added to Warzone’s arsenal of killstreaks. The Sentry Gun can be found as a rare Legendary item drop within a Red Door room Supply Box.

There’s also a new event coming later in Season 4 Reloaded. Blueprint Blitz will be a new global event where Contraband Contracts automatically spawn after a player completes two regular Contracts. Contraband Contracts will award players with cash and a permanent weapon blueprint reward if they’re able to extract it. Blueprint Blitz will give players the opportunity to earn plenty of blueprints from prior seasons if they missed out or didn’t play Warzone during that time.

The Reloaded update will also add new cosmetic weapon bundles and another Operator for use in both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Grigori Weaver, who currently offers guidance in the Zombies mode, is arriving as a playable Operator. He can be purchased in the Tracer Pack: Weaver Operator Bundle at the start of Season 4 Reloaded. More details can be found on the Call of Duty blog.

In addition to all the new content for the mid-season update, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have a Free Access period from July 22 to July 29. This free access will feature various multiplayer and Zombies experiences, including Rush playlists and the entirety of Mauer Der Toten.

Ubisoft has released a hotfix for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, addressing issues with the scoring in the Trial of the Wolf: Odin Mine Hideout mastery challenge. This is the second hotfix to come after Title Update 1.2.2 added the new mastery challenges to the game, the first of which fixed some lingering crashing issues caused by the update.

The specific change the hotfix makes is to “reduce the scoring associated with each action required to achieve Gold in the Trial of the Wolf: Odin Mine Hideout.” This change makes it easier to achieve gold in the challenge, as players were having issues with some of the guards killing each other, making it extremely difficult to get enough kills to get gold.

Ubisoft said back in April that the team would be extending the development time on each title update in order for them to go through more testing and refinement.

“Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we always strive to provide you with great experiences,” Ubisoft explained in April. “That said, we recognize that some of our recent title updates may not have met your expectations or been up to our standards.”

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s second DLC expansion, The Siege of Paris, will bring back Black Box Missions Assassin’s Creed Unity and Syndicate when it releases later this summer.

Call of Duty: Warzone’s gulag is usually a place for dead players to get a second chance on the battlefield by winning a 1v1 fight against another player, but a new glitch is enabling gulag spectators to crash other players’ matches.

As discovered by YouTuber NTrippy, spectators in Warzone‘s gulag can now parachute down onto the playable area of the 1v1 arena, causing chaos for the two players trying to battle it out for their right to respawn into Verdansk.

In NTrippy’s video, they’re somehow able to parachute from the waiting area above the gulag, joining the arena before their proper turn. Even worse, the players spawning into the gulag for their match can’t even kill them. NTrippy is able to punch and throw rocks, eventually punching one of the players to death. It’s uncertain the fate of the two competitors who were actually competing in the match, as it is possible neither got a chance to respawn back into Verdansk.

NTrippy stole the win, but was then loaded right back into the gulag for their own match. They end their YouTube video by saying, “This is too dangerous. I gotta make sure the devs know about this so they can fix it.”

Season 4’s gulag is inspired by the Hijacked map, but this glitch gives a whole new meaning to the name. Hopefully, this is a rare occurrence and the developers can get a patch out quickly. Otherwise, there’s going to be a whole lot of chaos, especially if multiple spectators start jumping in.

In other news, Call of Duty’s Season 4 Reloaded arrives on July 15, and we’ve highlighted all the details coming to Black Ops Cold War and Warzone this week and beyond.

The new Lost Lair update for Grindstone, the monster-slaying puzzle-fighter, is available now for free. The new Lost Lair update adds 20 new levels with new hazards, like TNT crates and molten-grindstone lava, plus a new mini-boss and boss.

The Lost Lair is an abandoned mine located near the peak of Grindstone Mountain, for players to explore after completing the main game. In addition to the new levels, the update is bringing new weekly community challenges to the game, offering new cosmetics for players to unlock.

The challenges can be accessed from Dottie’s house, where Jorj’s family lives. The community challenges will offer new hats, which can be equipped with any armor set in the game. The cosmetics will be exclusive to that week’s challenges and can only be unlocked by completing the challenge.

The Lost Lair update is available now for free and Grindstone is available on Nintendo Switch and Epic Games Store for $20 USD. Grindstone is also available on Apple Arcade as part of the monthly subscription.

A trio of writers at Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries have announced a partnership with publishing house Dark Horse Comics to release a nearly 500-page Halo Encyclopedia for the most ardent of franchise fans out there.

Franchise and narrative writer Jeff “GrimBrotherOne” Easterling posted the news on the game’s official website. The new Halo Encyclopedia–written by Jeremy Patenaude, Kenneth Peters, and Easterling–is slated to arrive on March 29, 2022 and comes in at around 25% larger than the previous one. Preorder details are said to be “coming very soon,” according to Easterling.

Easterling said the Halo universe continues to expand, especially with the imminent release of Halo Infinite. 343 wanted this new Halo Encyclopedia to compile that massive amount of lore into something every fan can enjoy.

“Whether you’ve been a fan since the turn of the millennium, poring over Marathon connections on the Bungie.org story pages or have only recently found yourself enamored by the big green hero and all of his eclectic friends (and enemies), we wanted to celebrate with something that helps collect a lot of that magic in one spot,” Easterling wrote.

The Halo Encyclopedia serves as a companion of sorts to Halo Infinite. Though it doesn’t have a release date, the newest entry in the series arrives later this year, making the Halo Encyclopedia a perfect diving board to jump back into the franchises’ iconic characters, enemies, vehicles, and weapons.

In addition to the bevy of information, the new Halo Encyclopedia will include various pictures from across the series’ history, ranging from “fresh and newly captured game assets” to well-known classic imagery. Fans can also expect “a few cool things first introduced by this encyclopedia itself.”

Check out the official blog post for a full breakdown of the work that went into the new Halo Encyclopedia, as well as to get a look at the new images.

In other Halo Infinite news, a technical preview for the game’s multiplayer is “creeping closer,” according to community director Brian Jarrard. Signups are available via the Halo Insider program.

A beta for Gran Turismo 7 has reportedly leaked via the PlayStation website. As reported by GTPlanet, the beta appears as part of Experience PlayStation, a promotional aspect of the PlayStation website that engages players with special promotions through quests and videos.

GameSpot was unable to verify this independently, but reports said the beta could be accessed by going to the “Start Quest” and “Related Campaigns,” where the “Italia Quest” could be accessed. The quest no longer appears on the Experience PlayStation page, which currently reads “Sorry! There are no quests available at this time!” There were four quests, one of which was called “Gran Turismo Beta (Test),” where after watching a short video players would receive a code for the beta test, however, it was instead just a placeholder code that didn’t work.

Despite the code not being live, this quest seems to indicate that there is a Gran Turismo 7 beta possibly coming in the future. The reward code specified that it was for “PS5 Only,” however that might just be because that beta code is only for PS5, since Herman Hulst, the head of PlayStation Studios, said Gran Turismo 7 would be releasing on both PS4 and PS5. Gran Turismo 7 is set to release sometime in 2022 and the Experience PlayStation page did not indicate when the beta might go live.

In Fortnite Season 7 Week 6, you’ll need to place cow decoys in farms in order to earn the 30,000 XP associated with this Legendary Quest. It’s one of several challenges that has players once more exploring the region around Farmer Steel’s farm–the same Farmer Steel who, despite his protests and demands to be left alone– has been thrust into a starring role in the Season 7 story. If you’re looking for cow decoy locations, we’ve got a map and written guide to help you right here.

Where To Place Cow Decoys In Fortnite

Cow decoys are likely the latest ploy of Doctor Slone, who is hellbent on sabotaging the alien invasion. For this quest, you’ll need to place three cow decoys in farms, specifically in and around Corny Complex. While the Legendary Quest demands you place three of these cow decoys across the land, we’ll show you the location of 14 that are meant to appear when the challenge is live–you can choose which three work best for you.

You can place cow decoys with Corny Complex:

• Near the western white hay shed
• Among the crops west of the central barn
• Northwest of the central barn in front of the large building
• To the southern limit of Corny Complex nearby the small building
• Slightly west of the southeastern small shed
• Between the house and the crops southeast from the house
• Farther southeast from the previous cow decoy near the southeastern edge of the crops

According to leaks, there will even be seven more cow decoy locations around Steel Farm, which is just northeast across the river from Corny Complex. We’ve also gone and marked those in case you prefer to check there.

Find cow decoys at Steel Farm:

• By the trees north of the house
• By the eastern edge of the corn crops
• Slightly southeast from there before you cross the road
• Another across the road even more south
• At the cliff’s base to the west
• Southeast from there to the nearby intersection of grass and dirt
• Slightly south of the house

What can we expect story-wise from this quest, you might ask? Well, since these appear to be Slone’s orders, we can assume these decoys are more than just the standees they seem to be. Given the Imagined Order’s cutting-edge tech, we speculate these cows, once abducted and brought onto the Mothership, may include some sort of secret sabotage element–a Trojan cow, if you will.

Even with a more story-oriented season, Epic is still playing the long game. After all, we haven’t even seen Superman show up yet. In the meantime, get ready for the Week 6 challenges and Week 6 Alien Artifacts. Otherworldly attractions are also coming by way of the new LeBron James skin too.