The latest season of Call of Duty: Mobile is live now! Season 8 The Forge is going live now on iOS and Android, and brings a variety of new content for players.

The new content includes High-Rise MP map debuting from MW2, new MP modes, new weapons, and more.

Available at launch is:

New MP Map: Highrise

New MP Mode: Juggernaut

New Perk – Shrapnel

New Weapons: HBRa3 and DRH

Here’s the roadmap:

Call of Duty: Mobile – July 9th Community Update

Greetings Call of Duty: Mobile Community, we are thrilled and delighted to finally share that our brand-new season is called The Forge and it is available right now! Check out the release trailer:

This brand new post-apocalyptic season is filled with characters, items, and events all focused around surviving in the wasteland. We’ll go over all of those specifics below for the new Battle Pass, new events, and the wide variety of new content releasing right now or throughout the season.

Let’s jump into the update below and go over all of those specifics for Season 8: The Forge.

Here is the full look at most events currently running or coming soon in COD Mobile**:**

7/10 – 7/16 ~ One Shot One Kill

One Shot One Kill 7/10 – 7/16 ~ Gun Game Team Fight

Gun Game Team Fight 7/10 – 7/16 ~ Highrise Brawl

Highrise Brawl 7/10 – 7/16 ~ Juggernaut Mania

Juggernaut Mania 7/17 – 7/30 ~ Solstice Awakened

Solstice Awakened 7/10 ~ New Seasonal Challenges

New Seasonal Challenges 7/10 ~ Credit Store Update

Credit Store Update All Month Long ~ Juggernaut Mode

Juggernaut Mode All Month Long ~ Training Mode

Training Mode All Month Long ~ Kill Confirmed

*All Dates UTC

While we aren’t listing those notes here, you find some update notes upon launching the game or on the App Store or Google Play Store under the “What’s new section”. However, outside of smaller details most of that is covered here and if you have any questions about any events or new pieces of content then please feel free to reach out.

Season 8 – Roadmap

We are back with a brand-new season and a brand-new Roadmap! As per usual, this doesn’t contain everything coming out in the season but it is meant to give a general look at some of the major pieces of content coming out alongside an estimation of when they might be releasing. Have a look.

Season 8 – Battle Pass

While there are a large number of items available to acquire in the free and premium versions of this season’s Battle Pass, many of which are themed exclusively around this season’s post-apocalyptic theme, we do have a few standouts in each portion of the pass. Here is a quick summary.

Free Battle Pass

Perk – Shrapnel (tier 14)

New Weapon – DR-H – Common (tier 21)

PDW-57 – Desperate Measures (tier 41)

RUS-79U – Desperate Measures (tier 50)

Paid Battle Pass

Tank Dempsey – Wrecker (tier 1)

KN-44 – Living Rust (tier 1)

Tank – Wrecked (tier 1)

Reaper – The Grinder (tier 12)

Prophet – Dust Bowl (tier 30)

AK117 – Kit Bag (tier 40)

Emote – Rage Quit (tier 49)

Kreuger – Reaper (tier 50)

DR-H – Chained (tier 50)

Legendary Calling Card – Hot Metal (tier 50)

This Battle Pass contains a few firsts, like the first skin for the (love it or hate it) Tank BR vehicle, the newest assault rifle, the DR-H, and the Perk, Shrapnel. We also have multiple characters in the pass, including Tank Dempsey, Reaper, Prophet, and Kreuger. Lastly, due to community feedback we’ve brought emotes back into the Battle Pass with Rage Quit at tier 49.

Lastly, there is the extra benefit to the Premium or Premium+ Battle Pass: a season long BP XP bonus. Purchase either of those versions and receive a 25% bonus to XP earned from matches played.

For more information on that and the whole seasonal release, including the Battle Pass, take a look at our newest Activision Games Blog post: ATVI – S8 Blog

Juggernaut Mode & Challenge

The newest mode to land in Call of Duty: Mobile is the Multiplayer mode – Juggernaut. This classic Call of Duty mode from Modern Warfare 3 is all about 5 vs 1 gameplay with five players attempting to take down the Juggernaut for guts, glory, and of course the highest score.

This old mode has been revamped with a few new mechanics to make it unique to COD: Mobile. First off, the Juggernaut is the X-51 Goliath (the scorestreak) equipped with the death machine and plenty of armor. There are no loadouts and instead you’ll able to find and use armament boxes that provide operator skills or buffs.

Here are the basic details for Juggernaut mode:

Total Players: 6

Any player that takes down the Juggernaut becomes the Juggernaut

No Loadouts, Operator Skills (outside of armament boxes), or scorestreaks are available

The first player to reach the score limit wins

In addition, we have an event running alongside the mode called Juggernaut Mania. Running until July 16th, this event offers you a variety of rewards for playing Juggernaut mode while completing various tasks and earning some sweet victories.

For completing these tasks, you can acquire the M4LMG – Sight Unseen, Gravedigger Frame, J358 – Stream, or other rewards. It is all live now, so check it out in-game.

Highrise Map & Challenge

This fan-favorite map from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 makes its way to Call of Duty: Mobile as a part of this newest release! This mid-size Multiplayer map offers a wide variety of engagements across an open roof-top, close quarter offices, and throughout a multi-tiered layout that challenges you at every turn. Smgs, shotguns, and assault rifles will be at home here and adaptable to most scenarios.

This map is available on a wide variety of permanent and limited modes, including Juggernaut, Attack of the Undead, Kill Confirmed, Team Death Match, Search & Destroy and Domination. Get a tour of Highrise in our latest flyby video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZkCtQpbLFoI

In addition, if you are looking for the real low-down of the map alongside some tips, tricks, and loadout recommendations then look no further than our Highrise Map Snapshot.

Of course, Highrise comes with its own event tied to it as well called Highrise Brawl. As you might expect, this challenge is focused purely around just playing this new map. By doing that you can earn credits, Knife – Stream, and the LK24 – Persisted. Complete that before July 16th to collect all of the rewards.

Seasonal Challenges

Another new season means another new set of seasonal challenges! This time around we have plenty of new gear to grab – not just weapons – and we’ll give some brief information on all three of those seasonal challenges below alongside highlights of some of the rewards available.

Survival of the Fittest

This six-part seasonal challenge is for all of you Battle Royale fans! Complete a wide variety of tasks, like shooting down helicopters, using the tank, or just playing BR matches and you’ll have an array of different gear to earn.

(Uncommon) Motorcycle – Arctic Digital

(Uncommon) ORV – Wasteland Red

(Uncommon) RUS-79U – Arctic Digital

(Rare) Calling Card – Reclaimed

(Rare) Pharo – Sight Unseen

Master Operator

This four-part seasonal challenge has you completing tasks focused entirely around Operator Skills and in particular showing your dominance with Gravity Spikes, the H.I.V.E., the Sparrow, and the Purifier. Complete these tasks and you’ll earn Battle Pass XP and credits, but also the following:

(Uncommon) DL Q33 – Arctic Digital

(Rare) Calling Card – Take Off

Maximum Efficiency

This eight-part seasonal challenge has the toughest tasks of these initial three challenges, but it also has the most rewards. These tasks require you to use a variety of different weapons to get kills in specific circumstances or scenarios, like by using specific attachments only. However, this is also the first way, outside of Ranked, to earn the long sought after HBRa3.

This one has a huge number of rewards to earn, like more Battle Pass XP, but here are the main rewards:

(Uncommon) AK-47 Arctic Digital

(Rare) Calling Card – Inferno

(Rare) ICR-1 – Persisted

(Common) HBRa3

(Rare) HBRa3 – Persisted

We’ll have more seasonal challenges starting later on in the season, like usual, and with more weapons, items, and general gear to earn. Keep an eye out for those details in future updates.

Credit Store Update

What’s another seasonal release with another credit store update 😉? Well, this one is nearly entirely weapon focused so if you’ve been missing out any of these specific weapon types now is a good time to jump in and start trying it out. Here are all of the items releasing today.

(Epic) RUS-79U – Moonstone

BK57 – Strapped

Striker – Riveted Green

AK-47 – Dark Fiber

Backpack – Ashen Viper

Operator Skill – Katana

While this operator skill isn’t releasing alongside the season release (it is actually releasing late in the season) we still would like to highlight it and show the specifics of how you can slice through your enemies with this new skill.

This Operator Skill is straight-forward: activate it, lock onto nearby enemies (even through smoke), and slice away with lethal one-shot melee attacks. You’ll go into third person while this skill is activated, which will help you stay alert, but you’ll still be just as vulnerable as normal to enemy gunfire. Check it out in action. 0:000:15

This will be available to be earned through an event called Katana Kill towards the end of July/beginning of August. Keep an eye out for that exact date in future community updates.

Solstice Awakened Event

This post-apocalyptic event will have you collecting items while playing various maps. All of these items are based around resources that have to be gathered using featured playlists and each playlist will offer different resources. You’ll just need to get kills in these playlists and you’ll automatically acquire resources, which you can then exchange for rewards.

This mode comes out on July 17th so we’ll have more specific details then on how it will work, but get ready for some more earnable weapons, like a S8 themed epic Man-O-War assault rifle

Days of Summer Event

While Solstice Awakened is coming rather soon Days of Summer will be hitting the beaches in the later part of the season. This wet and wild event will offer a variety of unique Summer themed rewards alongside a variety of general tasks. Most importantly, what is in for you? Well, just some entirely new and unique items that have never been released before 😉.

We’ll have our very first skin for an Operator Skill releasing in this event for the Purifier and a brand-new character. Some of those items will be coming in the form of grindable challenges while other items may be paid content. We will be sure to share plenty more about that as we get closer to that event!

Public Test Build

Shortly after the release of this season we’ll have another public test build coming and with some early content for our next update. We’ll have a unique post up just for that release and just a reminder that this build will be only for Android devices, and it is a separate app that will not interfere the current version of Call of Duty: Mobile.

It will feature some unique content from that future update and it is something we are eager to get your feedback on as early as possible. That feedback will go towards shaping how this feature releases in August. In addition, we may have more public test builds release after the first with more S9 content.

Please check back early next week for a separate post all about that and thanks to everyone in advance who jumps in to help us test this content.

Newest Weapon – DR-H

The most recently added weapon to the game is an assault rifle, the DR-H. This short to mid-range weapon has unique attachments and a strong damage output, but you’ll have to contend with a high recoil.

The OTM is a new attachment for this weapon and it increases any shots that hit an enemy player’s body. Additionally, the damage drop off is unique to assault rifles in regard to how long it takes for damage to decrease over range. Check that all out in our newest video highlighting this weapon.

You can find this new weapon specifically in the S8 Battle Pass and with free and premium options.

Final Notes

While there is so much releasing today, like that jam-packed character driven Battle Pass, there is also so much more coming throughout the season, like two unique seasonal events (Days of Summer and Solstice Awakened), seasonal challenges, limited time modes, more World Championship events, and a wide variety of giveaways and events going through our social media or community channels.

Keep an eye out for all of that releasing through the season and please keep on sharing your feedback, any bug reports, and your wonderful creative designs for weapons, character art, and everything else. Let the memes roll!

See you all next early next week for another post about the Public Test Build and enjoy the new Season!

SOURCE: The Call of Duty: Mobile Team