Warzone wipes the slate clean: Season 1 arrives November 6 with Hajin and Zodiac

Warzone is getting ready to turn the page. According to The Loadout, Season 1 of Call of Duty's battle royale kicks off on November 6 and arrives fully loaded: two maps, Hajin and Zodiac, a full level reset, new field equipment and the integration of the Modern Warfare 4 arsenal. This is not just another patch. It is the usual annual turning point where the game sheds its skin.

Why does it matter? Because a level reset puts everyone, from the ranked player who lives in the lobby to the creator who records every day, on the same starting line. The routines that worked for you until yesterday stop being useful, the meta gets rewritten with new weapons, and the maps force you to learn rotations from scratch. For a competitive community like ours, with people playing on both American and European schedules, this defines how we are going to play for the next few months.

What you need to know

• Date: Warzone Season 1 begins on November 6, according to The Loadout.
• Two maps: Hajin and Zodiac join the new season as playable locations.
• Full level reset: progression goes back to zero for every player.
• New field equipment: new tactical tools are coming that will change how engagements play out.
• Modern Warfare 4 weapons: the arsenal from the new premium title enters Warzone, signaling a deep shift in the meta.

Two maps and an inherited arsenal: what changes

The arrival of Hajin and Zodiac is the most visible part of the package. The source does not go into detail about size, setting or associated modes, so it is best not to get ahead of ourselves: until official patch notes are out, the only certainty is that these are two new locations and that, as always happens with a freshly released map, the first few weeks will be a laboratory. The good rotations, the rooftops that control areas and the end-circle positions are discovered by playing, and whoever learns them first will have a real advantage.

The other big piece is the Modern Warfare 4 integration. It is a familiar pattern in Call of Duty: when the year's premium title launches, its arsenal lands in Warzone and pushes aside the weapons that had been dominating until then. In practice, that means the loadouts you have saved will probably become outdated, and there will be a race to figure out which assault rifle, which SMG and which sniper set the pace in the new season. On top of that comes the new field equipment, which tends to be the element that changes how you play a push or a hold the most, even though nobody pays attention to it during the first few days.

The level reset: who it affects

The phrase full level reset is the one that will make the most noise. What we know from The Loadout is that progression resets; what we do not know is the exact scope beyond that, so we are not going to speculate about camos, attachment unlocks or previous rewards. What is clear is the immediate effect: everyone starts leveling from the beginning again, so the first few weeks will be full of matches where gear level matters less than map reading and aim.

This hits differently depending on your profile. The competitive player gets a cleaner environment to test themselves in, at least at the start. The player returning after months away is not at a disadvantage compared to veterans, which tends to be a good incentive to jump back in. And the content creator has, quite literally, an entire season of material: weapon guides, leveling routes, map comparisons and much more.

Our take

Here at the Underworld Lordz newsroom we see this with more excitement than suspicion, but with some caveats. Level resets are a divisive tool: for those who play every day, they provide a new goal and remove the feeling of being stuck; for those who play two evenings a week, they can land like a blow, because the progression that took months disappears overnight. The fact that it is a full reset, rather than a partial one, strikes us as a risky bet that will need to be justified with a very solid season of content.

What interests us most is the combination of new maps and a new arsenal at the same time. This is exactly the scenario where an organized team gains an edge: whoever splits up the work, with one person testing weapons, another mapping Hajin and another studying Zodiac, will arrive with the meta figured out while everyone else is still guessing. For creators, the message is clear: the first few days after November 6 are the window in which a good guide becomes the go-to reference. After that, the market will be saturated.

Our criticism points elsewhere. Every year the integration of the premium game into Warzone reopens the same debate: will whoever buys Modern Warfare 4 have an advantage because they can unlock its arsenal sooner or more easily? The source does not clarify anything about this, so we are not taking it for granted, but it is the question Activision should answer before the season starts, not after the first complaints roll in.

What do you think?

On November 6 we all go back to level one, with two maps to learn and an arsenal we do not know yet. Some celebrate it as a second chance and others see it as throwing months of progress in the trash. Are you fine with Warzone wiping everyone's progression to kick off Season 1, or would you prefer a partial reset? Tell us in the team chat or on our Discord.