MW3 Season 6: Michael Myers, Art the Clown, and Peak Halloween

Season 6 launched September 18, bringing The Haunting back for another round of spooky operator skins and nighttime maps. After Season 5's WWE absurdity, they're closing out MW3 with horror movie villains and zombie chaos before Black Ops 6 takes over next month.

Horror Icons Assemble

Michael Myers returns to stab people in Warzone, because nothing says tactical warfare like a guy in a William Shatner mask. Art the Clown from Terrifier joins the roster for those who find regular clowns insufficiently terrifying. Sam from Trick 'r Treat rounds out the licensed killers, while Ghost gets a three-headed mutation skin that's trying way too hard.

The Walking Dead gets representation with Daryl Dixon, though at this point CoD has more crossover skins than original characters.

Maps Go Full Halloween

Drive Thru transforms a suburban neighborhood into ritual sacrifice central. Fog everywhere, meat hooks dangling, jack-o'-lanterns scattered around. It's like Spirit Halloween designed a multiplayer map.

Mad Cow takes the Meat map and floods it completely. The water adds verticality and underwater flanking routes, turning firefights into aquatic horror sequences. Actually clever map design hidden under the seasonal gimmick.

Vondel returns in nighttime mode for Warzone, while Rebirth Island becomes Hellspawn - complete with tentacles, flesh walls, and bloody water. Subtle as a sledgehammer, but atmospheric.

Zombie Mode's Last Hurrah

MW3 Zombies gets a farewell boost. Dark Aether rifts are free (no Sigil tokens needed), and all schematics cool down twice as fast. Basically "here's everything, go nuts before we shut this down."

Limited-time modes include Zombie Royale's return and a new Purgatory mode described as "anything goes." Hordepoint, Mutation, and Infected round out the Halloween playlist.

Final Season Blues

Two new weapons drop: DTIR 30-06 battle rifle and Kastov LSW LMG. The Weapon Prestige camo animates through a star system's lifecycle, which sounds cooler than it probably looks in-game.

This overlaps with Black Ops 6's October 25 launch, making Season 6 MW3's awkward goodbye. The game that started as a $70 DLC ends with horror movie tie-ins and free zombie content. Fitting, somehow.

The Haunting runs through October 16. After that, it's maintenance mode until everyone jumps ship to BO6.