Blacksite drops worldwide at 10:00 Pacific on launch day, opening with the new Refinery rework, operator Vega, and the Hardcore Tactical playlist you've been asking for since launch. Two weeks of double XP, a free entry tier on the Frostline Pass, and a community contract that unlocks a permanent emblem at one billion combined eliminations.

Your loadouts, attachments, and prestige all carry over. There's no reset. If something feels off in the first 72 hours, hit the in-game feedback button — every report routes to a real human on the live-ops desk for the duration of launch week.

Lockdown ships with Blacksite at 10:00 Pacific on the 18th. Four-versus-four, four rolling objectives per match, and an attacking side that has to plant and hold a node for a hundred seconds before the next one opens. There are no respawns once the plant lands. It is, on paper, the slowest mode we've ever shipped.

It plays faster than that. Built around the new Iron Vault map, the round geometry forces engagements without the long sightlines you've come to expect — Refinery this is not. Expect roles to matter again. Expect the entry-fragger to die more, and the medic to live longer.

Slower TTK, longer rounds, and the breach you couldn't quite hold.

Lockdown joins the core playlist on launch day and the ranked rotation in the week after. We'll be watching the round-length data closely — if matches start running long, expect the plant window to drop to ninety seconds in the first hot-patch.

The weekly objective system has also been redesigned around the new mode: six contracts a week instead of twelve, no more "kill 50 with a melee" rolls, and a re-roll allowance for the three rolling slots.