CALL OF DUTY: WARZONE Tops 6 Million Players In Just 24 Hours

Call of Duty: Warzone has been out for only a day and already six million people have jumped into the battle royale spinoff. Activision touted the figure on social media while promising fans "we're just getting started."

Call of Duty: Warzone launched on Tuesday as a free-to-play standalone offering, which no doubt contributed to the impressive number. While the mode is built into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — and provides owners of the game with extra cosmetic perks — anyone is able to download and play it for free.

What a day! 24 hours in and over 6 million of you have dropped into #Warzone.

Thank you – we’re just getting started.#FreeCallofDuty pic.twitter.com/GpDKJw5QD4

— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) March 11, 2020

Warzone technically features two distinct modes: a traditional battle royale mode (with some slight tweaks) and a new mode called Plunder in which players must collect as much as as possible by completing contracts, killing enemies and looting across the map. While the rules of battle royale are pretty much standard for the genre, Warzone does up the total number of players in a match to 150 and features a unique respawn system referred to as the "Gulag."

Upon your first elimination, you will be taken as a “Prisoner of Warzone” and thrown into the Gulag. There you will await your fate and watch other prisoners fight to the death. When your turn is up, you’ll enter the Gulag and face-off against a single opponent in a 1v1 to earn the ultimate reward - redeployment. Win in the Gulag and earn redeployment back into Verdansk. Lose and hope that your squad completes Contracts and earns enough in-match Cash to redeploy you.

Players who lose in the Gulag can still be brought back into a match if their teammates have enough in-match Cash to purchase a revive at a Buy Station. Cash is earned by completing contracts or scavenging.



Call of Duty: Warzone is now available for free on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It takes up an additional 20GB of space for those who own Modern Warfare. For those downloading it on its own, it will require between 80-100GB.