Warzone Season 1: What changes on November 6

Warzone Season 1 goes live at 0000 (midnight) ET on November 6, 2026 — 2100 PT on November 5 — across all platforms. The season also marks the first time Call of Duty: Warzone is playable on a handheld: the start of Season 1 is the launch of Warzone on Nintendo Switch 2.

Activision published the season roadmap in a dedicated Warzone post on November 2, 2026. Everything on this page comes from that post, and the Season 1 modes page and the Elite Perks page cover the two parts of it in depth.

When does Warzone Season 1 go live?

The post gives one launch moment: 0000 (midnight) ET on November 6 (2100 PT on November 5), “across all platforms.” That same moment carries the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. Players on the handheld can drop into Hajin, Zodiac and the other maps and playlists as the free-to-play game arrives on the system for the first time.

What does the Modern Warfare 4 integration change?

Season 1 “fully integrates Modern Warfare 4 into Call of Duty: Warzone,” and the post lists what changes at launch on November 6:

• Player Level reset, letting you level up and optionally Prestige across Multiplayer, DMZ and Warzone.
• All 33 Modern Warfare 4 launch weapons, plus the additional armaments coming to Season 1, each featuring Weapon Prestige and specific Warzone Mastery Camos to unlock.
• Apex Attachments, Season 1 Operators, Daily Challenges, Calling Card Challenges, and Battle Pass and BlackCell progress.

Gameplay adjustments come with it. Tactical Sprint becomes available to all Operators without a Perk, though its duration is slightly shortened. Players can drag their allies while reviving them, pulling them out of harm’s way. Activision also lists additional weapon balance tuning, improved visibility and readability across all maps, and improved footstep audio.

One platform note matters: starting with Season 1, Warzone is no longer playable on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Progression carries over to a supported platform if you log in with the same linked Activision account.

Which maps are in Season 1?

Two maps are new and two come back. The map descriptions below are the post’s own.

Map	Role	What the post says
Hajin	New Battle Royale map	Brings Warzone to South Korea for the first time, in a region narratively linked to the MW4 Campaign. Operators battle in both North and South Korea across 13 major POIs.
Zodiac	New Resurgence map	A compact combat zone built around the DRC Advanced Systems drone assembly and manufacturing headquarters, across ten distinct Points of Interest.
Verdansk	Returning Battle Royale map	Returns later in Season 1 with newer landmarks: the Signal Station, the Grazna-7 Launch Complex, an Overlook skyscraper and the high-tech Drone Labs.
Rebirth Island	Returning Resurgence map	Returns in Season 1, bringing close-quarters fights back across the prison, control center and surrounding industrial compounds.

Hajin and Zodiac have their own pages: the Hajin map guide covers the official DMZ tac map, and the Zodiac page covers the Resurgence layout and its ten Points of Interest.

The new Field Upgrades, Killstreaks, vehicle roster and the Carry Forward and Legacy Weapons rules have their own Warzone Season 1 gear page.

The post gives Verdansk and Rebirth Island one paragraph each, and both sections are headed “In-Season.” It publishes no POI list, tac map, objective count, circle timings, player counts or loot tables for either, and this wiki does not reconstruct them. The new interactive objects below are scattered across Hajin, Zodiac and Verdansk — Rebirth Island is not in that list.

Which modes are in Season 1?

At launch you drop into Battle Royale and Resurgence, including Casual variants for each, alongside Rally Point, Massive Resurgence and Loaded Resurgence. The Mid-Season adds Extreme Resurgence and Rockets and Snipers. The Season 1 modes page has the map assignments, player counts and the published rules for each mode, plus the Grind for Royalty, Weapon Augment and Ground Ops systems.

How do Perks work in Season 1?

Warzone has 18 Perks in Season 1. The first 15 are selectable in your Loadout before a Match and fit into one of three different Slots. The remaining three are Elite Perks acquired during a Match. The Elite Perks page publishes the complete list, the fourth-slot rule and what Activision has not said about acquiring one.

What are the Mastery Camos?

Season 1 introduces Warzone Mastery Camos for Parallax, Damascus Reforged and Empyros, unlocked by finishing the Military, Special and Completionist Weapon Camos for a particular weapon first. The Mastery Camo grind can then be completed with any weapon or combination of weapons.

Camo	How it is reached
Parallax	Complete all Harmonic Break Camo Challenges, acquire the Divergence Completionist Weapon Camo, then get 5 kills in a match 300 times
Damascus Reforged	Complete the Warzone Mastery 1 Camo Challenge, then get 2 kills without plating 200 times
Empyros	Complete the Warzone Mastery 2 Camo Challenge, then place in the top 5 with at least 6 kills 75 times

A separate in-game event, the Return to Call of Duty: Warzone Event, offers the “Renaissance” (Animated), “Violet Striker” and “Neutral Ground” Weapon Camos, with more Events due through Season 1.

What has Activision not published?

The Warzone Season 1 post is a content roadmap, not a balance sheet, and it leaves a lot unsaid. It publishes no damage figures, time-to-kill, recoil patterns or effective-range data for any weapon. It publishes no points of interest, objective counts or tac maps for Verdansk or Rebirth Island, and no circle timings or player counts for either. For Perks it gives no unlock levels, no prices, no magnitudes for reduced effects and no drop rates for Elite Perks. For the new systems it gives no Grind for Royalty challenge structure, no Weapon Augment drop rates and no Ground Ops loot tables. It does not publish Mid-Season dates for Extreme Resurgence or Rockets and Snipers, and it does not publish queue names or map rotations. Where a number is absent here, this wiki does not supply one.

Sources

• Activision: Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1 — Everything You Need to Know, November 2, 2026 — the season roadmap, launch timing, integration, maps, gear and Mastery Camos on this page. Checked November 9, 2026.

Browse this wiki

Weapons · Maps · Operators · DMZ · Game modes · Campaign