Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 2 Start Time and New Details

Black Ops 6 Season 2 is going live Jan. 28, and it’s looking like it’s going to be Call of Duty’s version of The Empire Strikes Back, with the bad guys coming out on top.

Season 1’s story focused on the Luttazzi crime family, which is still operating after the events of the campaign, with multiplayer maps like Heirloom and Racket simulating battles striking at the heart of the criminal empire.

In Season 2, the Luttazzis are sending their best assassins after the Black Ops team, which basically just means the new battle pass is going to be themed around a new ninja-looking operator.

Players just finished grinding out the latest double XP weekend, so the new maps, modes, and weapons are a good way to revitalize the game and keep Black Ops 6 and Warzone feeling fresh. Here’s everything we currently know about the newest Call of Duty season.

When is the release date for Warzone Season 2 and Black Ops 6?

As per usual, the Warzone and Black Ops 6 Season 2 update will launch simultaneously, going live on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Not sure when that is for you? Here’s when Black Ops 6 Season 2 becomes available in your time zone:

• Eastern Standard Time: Jan. 28 at 12 p.m.

• Central Standard Time: Jan. 28 at 11 a.m.

• Mountain Time: Jan. 28 at 10 a.m.

• Pacific Time: Jan. 28 at 9 a.m.

Seasonal updates are generally pretty big, which means that you should preload the update ahead of time if you’re on PC. Console players will only have access to the patch a couple hours before it goes live, so you should plan accordingly if you don’t want to jam up your gaming session.

How big is the Warzone Season 2 update file for Black Ops 6?

While we don’t yet know exactly how big the Season 2 update file will be for Black Ops 6 and Warzone, we know how big previous seasonal updates to the game have been.

Since the Season 1 update was focused on multiplayer content and the Season 1 Reloaded update was focused on the zombies experience, they can help us understand how big the Season 2 update might be.

The Black Ops 6 Season 1 update file was 35GB, with Warzone adding an additional 10GB of content. The Black Ops 6 Season 1 Reloaded update file added another 20GB. It’s a safe assumption that the Season 2 update’s file size will be in the same ballpark as these numbers.

What will be coming to Black Ops 6 in Season 2?

Whereas Black Ops 6 Season 1 had a multiplayer-focused content drop followed by a zombies-focused content drop midseason, the Season 2 launch is set to release maps for both multiplayer modes.

Multiplayer

The new season will launch with three new multiplayer maps: Bounty, Dealership and Lifeline. Each map has some connection to the Luttazzis, with Lifeline potentially being a remake of the wildly popular Black Ops 2 map Hijacked.

Another two maps, Bullet and Grind, will be added in the midseason update. Sharing a name with a DLC map, it’s possible that players might see two Black Ops 2 multiplayer map remakes in Black Ops 6 Season 2.

Season 1 reintroduced the fan-favorite Prop Hunt party game playlist, and now Season 2 will reintroduce Gun Game. This game mode has players work their way through the game’s arsenal, with each kill ranking them up to a new weapon. Getting killed with a knife demotes a player to the previous gun.

New weapons, operators, game modes and more have been promised for Black Ops 6 Season 2, but we won’t know more until the official blog post is released.

Zombies

The new zombies map, The Tomb, will release with the start of Season 2. It’s also officially confirmed that the Origins ice staff is making a return. Alongside a completely new easter egg that will push the Dark Aether storyline forward, the new map will seemingly include the Abomination, Amalgam and Doppelghast zombie variants introduced in previous maps.

Developer Treyarch previously teased the return of a fan favorite zombies SMG. Both the PPSh-41 and the FAL assault rifle have been featured in Season 2 promotional imagery, indicating that these weapons will likely be coming to Black Ops 6 zombies sometime during this season.