Call of Duty: WarzoneThe Season 2 Reloaded update has arrived Black Ops Royalea new Battle Royale experience inspired by the original Blackout mode released during the Black Ops 4 era. Player feedback on Black Ops Royale has been mostly positive, but one segment of the community was dissatisfied with the release: solo queues.
As of today, individual queues have returned to Call of Duty: Warzone and are available for the first time in Black Ops Royale mode. Additionally, the update also brought Verdansk back online for players who prefer the standard Battle Royale experience over the Blackout-inspired mode. Battle Royale Casual Quads – A mode that introduces bots into the player mix. Mundane – has also returned.
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The Call of Duty development teams at Treyarch and Raven Software made the call to launch the Black Ops Royale mode with 4-player teams, requiring everyone to enter the new mode at launch with a quad squad. Those who were unable to group together enough friends had the option of entering their matches at a disadvantage due to a smaller team size or allowing the team to fill up to match them with random players to complete the team.
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The Call of Duty team also made the decision to remove other modes from Call of Duty: Warzone during the initial launch period, including the Standard Battle Royale experience in Verdansk, the casual Battle Royale and Resurgence modes in Rebirth Island and Haven’s Hollow.
The development team was adamant that the decision to limit available modes and team sizes for Black Ops Royale was necessary to gather valuable insights into gameplay and player behavior. Data from the initial release will be used along with player feedback to further tune and shape the Black Ops Royale experience in the future.
Raven Software also warned solo players that because Black Ops Royale was designed with quads in mind, some adjustments to the mode may need to be made to make it more compatible with solo play.
Solos is coming to Black Ops Royale tomorrow! As a reminder, this mode was originally designed and balanced to be released as a Quads experience. While we recognize the strong interest in a Solos option, please note that the game is not yet fully ported to single player… https://t.co/0qzEd0pyv4March 18, 2026
Along with the introduction of solo queues for Black Ops Royale, the Standard Battle Royale mode set in Verdansk has returned to Warzone after being disabled during the Black Ops Royale launch window.
Warzone is traditionally limited to just one active “big map” at a time to avoid fracturing the player base and maintain a healthy player count for faster matchmaking. Players can now visit Verdansk in Standard Battle Royale or Avalon in Black Ops Royale.
Players also have a wide variety of game modes and maps to choose from with this latest update. The Resurgence playlist will rotate on a timer between Rebirth Island and Haven’s Hollow with queues for solos, duos, and quads.
Resurgence Casual Quads are also available on a timer between Rebirth and Haven’s Hollow. A limited-time Extreme Resurgence mode is also active with 100 players on a small map for quick 11-minute matches, but it’s quad-only in Haven’s Hollow.
Battle Royale playlists are limited to Casual Quads or Standard Quads in Verdansk. 3-person squads who don’t want to pick a random one only have Ranked Resurgence as an option for this week.
Raven Software also has published a blog post with patch notes to fix bugs in Call of Duty: Warzone. Among those fixes are:
- Increased audio radius for tower redeployment in Black Ops Royale.
- Spot Turret health reduced from 60 to 45.
- Stim Shot movement bonus reduced from 8 to 6%, duration increased from 3 seconds to 4.
- Concussion Grenade stun duration increased from 1.15 seconds to 1.2 seconds.
- The EMP effect of reactive armor was removed in Resurgence due to the removal of the Cold Blood buff.
- Death Machine has been adjusted to deal 2% to 5% vehicle health damage per bullet, depending on vehicle class.
- The Smoke Screen has been adjusted in Resurgence so that it now deploys in a line parallel to the player’s direction, the initial hit now occurs at the target location and then continues forward for 5 hits. Deployment delay reduced from 5.25 to 2.5 seconds.
- Excess trauma kit health is now visible to teammates in Black Ops Royale.
- Armor damage rarity color has been adjusted in BOR.
- An indicator is now displayed for players who fire at an enemy vehicle occupied by a player using Engineer.
- Event rewards are now displayed correctly in the menu.
- Operator challenges are now tracked correctly.
- Fixed map geometry to stop player exploits.
- Deadeye Drone now displays enemy markers on the HUD.
- Black Ops Royale matches now count towards the Ranked Play unlock requirement.
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