Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Ascendance hits PS4 on April 30

If you’re a series fan, you know exactly what you’re in for with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s slate of upcoming DLC. That’s not really a bad thing, mind – the heavyweight shooter series knows how to make a map pack sing, with oodles of new score streaks and timed events to keep players guessing. Not to mention the indispensable Exo Zombies mode, which expands on CoD’s fine tradition of cheesy undead survival with super-powered exoskeletons for everybody.

As per usual, each pack will hit Xbox One and Xbox 360 first, with release on all the other platforms expected about a month later. Each of the four packs is available on its own for $14.99/£11.59 or as part of the $49.99/£34.99 season pass – which includes a few other bonuses such as the Atlas Gorge map and early access to DLC weapons. Click on for more details on the Ascendance and Havoc map packs, and check back in for more as the season rolls on!

Advanced Warfare’s Ascendance DLC map pack will release on April 30 on PC, PS3, and PS4, Activision has confirmed, about a month after it hit Xbox 360 and Xbox One. If you haven’t already seen, Ascendance is all about getting vertical – kind of like those old Mountain Dew commercials, but with a high-tech grappling hook instead of a sailboard. Players can use the new gadget to zoom around Perplex, Site 244, Climate, and Chop Shop, but only in the Exo Grapple playlist.

Ascendance also adds the new OHM directed energy LMG/shotgun hybrid for use in competitive matches and its customized variant. Meanwhile, the second episode of the four-player co-op Exo Zombies campaign takes John Malkovich and company to the outskirts of an Atlas facility, where they’ll (hopefully) overcome new zombie hordes with a unique selection of traps and weapons. Click on for screens of all the maps and details on previous DLC.

Don’t get lost when construction bots start moving Perplex’s modular apartment units around in the middle of a match.

In Site 244, an alien ship has crashed just shy of Mt. Rushmore, and everyone’s fighting to call down its perk-and-ability-enhancing spore pods as a scorestreak.

Battle through the labs and corridors of Chop Shop’s black market exo facility, and try to lock down that EMP-blasting turret with a scorestreak.

Climate’s artificial oasis is an intimate setting for firefights through land and water, but watch out for that swelling river.

Exo Zombies’ second episode, Infected, makes a quick pit stop for some Burgertown just outside an Atlas Facility.

You want more competitive maps? Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Havoc DLC has more competitive maps. Four more, to be exact: Core, Urban, Drift, and Sideshow, and you can click on to see screenshots and brief synopses for each one. But what good is a bunch of new stages without some new guns to carve them up? Thankfully, Havoc also drops in the AE4 directed energy assault rifle and its customized variant, the AE4 Widowmaker.

Advanced Warfare’s first DLC pack also includes the first episode of the Exo Zombies campaign, which sees four civilian employees of the Atlas corporation struggling to survive against an outbreak among the company’s elite soldiers. And yes, it amps up the now-standard camp factor, complete with face-captured performances from John Malkovich, Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan, and Jon Bernthal to give Kevin Spacey a run for his PMC money.

Core drops you in the ruins of a nuclear fusion plant deep in the Gobi desert. At least it’s a dry heat.

Urban turns a futuristic Dallas living space into a super-vertical shooting gallery.

Drift takes you on vacation to a lovely ski resort, only problem is the intermittent avalanches.

Sideshow takes place at a terrifying clown-themed tourist trap – complete with rainbow cannonball scorestreak.

Outbreak introduces Exo Zombies’ star studded cast, letting you be John Malkovich as you mow down exoskeleton-clad zombies.

We’re already halfway through Advanced Warfare’s Season Pass, but we’ll still be sure to give you all the details on the Supremacy and Reckoning map packs as we get them. Until then, what’s your favorite map so far? Let us know in the comments!

Looking for more Advanced Warfare? Make sure not to miss our review and 8 tips to help you dominate in multiplayer.

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