Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Will Reward Players for Finishing Campaign; Details About Postpaid SMS Verification Out, and More

Players who finish the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign will receive in-game rewards and more, according to an announcement on the game’s site.

The campaign will offer “a multitude of rewards” that can be used in the multiplayer and special ops modes. These can even be used in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 when it launches. If you digitally pre-order Modern Warfare 2, you can earn all the rewards through Campaign Early Access, before the game is released. The pre-order is listed for Rs. 4,999, and the Vault Edition for Rs. 6,699 across all platforms in India. The game is set to release on October 28.

Here are all the rewards that you can earn from finishing the Modern Warfare 2 campaign:

• Calling Card: “Soap’s Determination”
• Emblem: “What’s Done Is Done”
• 30 Minute Double XP Token
• 30 Minute Double Weapon XP Token
• Calling Card: “Chainlinked”
• Base Operator: Chuy
• 30 Minute Double XP Token
• 30 Minute Double Weapon XP Token
• Calling Card: “Gaz”
• Base Operator: Nova
• 1 Hour Double XP Token
• 1 Hour Double Weapon XP Token
• Calling Card: “Shadow Company Ops”
• Base Operator: Reyes
• 1 Hour Double XP Token
• 1 Hour Double Weapon XP Token
• Base Operator: Hutch

Completing the full Campaign also rewards players with the Union Guard Weapon Blueprint. It’s Captain Price’s assault rifle that comes equipped with four pre-equipped attachments: the Aim OP-V4 Reflex Optic, the SZ 1MW PEQ Laser, the FSS Covert V Silencer on the Muzzle, and the Lockgrip Precision-40 Underbarrel Vertical Grip. The game describes it as an “excellent starting point for players of all skill levels across all game modes.”

Accounts Verified for Call of Duty: Warzone Exempted from Modern Warfare 2 SMS Verification

To play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, PC players will have to verify their accounts using a phone number. We have already seen this become an issue with the recently launched AAA title, Overwatch 2. However, players who have already registered their accounts with Call of Duty: Warzone wouldn’t have to bother with this process all over again.

The game developers talked about several things such as in-game mitigations, server vs. client communication, and more in the latest Ricochet Anti-Cheat progress report. Modern Warfare 2 will also come with kernel-level driver updates and the SMS security policy to further offer a fair gaming experience.

The report stated, “A text-enabled mobile phone number is required to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on PC. Existing Call of Duty: Warzone players that have previously verified their account will not be required to provide any additional information to access Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0.”

Modern Warfare 2 team also noted, “SMS verification is critical to our anti-cheat enforcement efforts, tackling illicit account creation at its source. This helps our security team to maintain account and game security in order to provide a safe, fair, and fun gaming experience for all our players.”

20,000 Cheaters Already Banned in Modern Warfare 2 Open Beta

The report also touches on bans and cheat detections during Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s open beta. The devs said that some accounts were removed before accessing the beta and some were detected and removed during it.

For the former, 60,000 illicit accounts were denied access, and for the latter, over 20,000 bans were issued. The report states that 70% of players that were detected as cheaters were caught before they could even play a single match. “For those that were able to play normally (assuming every match they played included the use of cheats),” the devs explained, “our systems were able to detect and remove them from our ecosystem – on average – within five matches played.”