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The Call of Duty Next event has now confirmed that the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will come with a comprehensive cross-progression system, allowing a shared Battle Pass and a variety of other essential features. The official announcement cites a unified technology stack that lets developers effectively combine certain aspects of the broad COD gaming experience into one package.
Though the previous mobile versions of Call of Duty weren't necessarily marketed to the same player base as the mainline COD titles were, this doesn't seem to be the case with Warzone Mobile. Official sources have mentioned sharing social features alongside the Battle Pass as well, like friend lists and chat channels, but Mobile is otherwise still going to have its own clearly defined and separate identity.
The upcoming COD: Warzone Mobile is being co-developed by four different mobile game developers — Activision Shangai, Beenox, Digital Legends, and Solid State Studios — which is what may have caused Activision Blizzard to push for advanced cross-progression functionality this time around. The reveals also confirmed that Verdansk is coming back in COD: Mobile, and it's supposed to be "Verdansk just like [players] remember," suggesting that it's a direct copy of the map's original layout.
Perhaps even more notable is the fact that Warzone 2's new Al Mazrah map will also make its way into Warzone Mobile in the future, underlining the games' connected nature. It remains to be seen just how well assets from, say, Modern Warfare 2 transfer over to a mobile game, of course. However, Activision has outright stated that unlocking new Modern Warfare 2 Operators and/or weapons will allow players to use them in Warzone Mobile, for example, suggesting a substantial level of parity between all three aforementioned titles.
Not everything is transferring over to Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile though. It's highly unlikely that Warzone Mobile will receive its own version of Warzone 2's new DMZ game mode, for example. Similarly, the official blog has already clarified that the game will receive its own suite of mobile-specific events, playlist offerings, and unique content that won't be available on other Call of Duty platforms.
Now that it's clear that Activision Blizzard is looking to offer way more interconnectedness between its ongoing Call of Duty titles, Warzone 2's integration of Modern Warfare 2 content is going to be interesting to see, and doubly so as future Call of Duty games continue coming out. An overabundance of content was, perhaps, one of the original Warzone's big problems, leading to the game's huge installation size and other assorted issues, which are hopefully going to be avoided this time around.
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is coming out on Android and iOS in 2023.
Source: Call of Duty