Mark your calendars, word from FourZeroTwo is the Sept. 13th – 14th weekend, Double XP will be going on. Though not fully guaranteed to be happening during the same weekend, is new playlists being available (if they aren’t ready by that time, they will be coming very very shortly after).

The new playlists being tested include:

Hardcore Headquarters – “standard HQ rules w/ Hardcore Settings. Limited HUD, Increased Bullet Damage, and Friendly Fire Enabled”

Hardcore Ricochet Playlist – “Any damage a teamkiller attempts to do to their team mates is reflected onto themselves only. Therefore, if they attempt to shoot an RPG into the ground at the beginning of the match; the only person who will die, is the Teamkiller” (Also noted on FourZeroTwo: This playlist will include the variant for Hardcore Teamdeathmatch, Hardcore Search and Destroy, and Hardcore HQ)

Sudden Death Sabotage – “Sabotage with no respawns”

Second Chance Search and Destroy – “Search and Destroy with 1 respawn each”

Bare-Bones Team Deathmatch – “Team Deathmatch eliminates the excuses and takes it back to basics with standard Team Deathmatch with no perks, no kill streak rewards”

Multi-Bomb Search and Destroy – “Multi-bomb Search and Destroy starts every member of the attacking team with a bomb”

Free For All with Hardcore Settings – “Standard Free for All rules, with Hardcore mode enabled for extra damage, no HUD, and no health re-gen”

Team Elimination (Last Man Standing) – “3 round Team Deathmatch w/ no respawns. Switch sides each round”

At this point, I think all we need now is another map pack and Call of Duty 4 could easily outlast CoD: World at War.

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