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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone are about to start Season 3 Reloaded: The new content will go live on May 20th at 7 p.m. While the necessary update for Black Ops Cold War is already available as a download, Warzone players have to be patient - the patch is expected to be released on Thursday morning. In the meantime, more details about the changes and innovations that are pending for Warzone are known. The highlights include the two film heroes Rambo and John McClane, who are involved on the battlefields to unlock Season 3 Reloaded - both in Cold War and Warzone.This is what awaits you at the start of Season 3 Reloaded on Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Source: Activision In the Rambo bundle you get two finishing moves, three legendary weapon blueprints and legendary calling cards as well as emblems in addition to the operator. In addition to John McClane as operator, the Die Hard Bundle also includes three weapon blueprints, calling cards and emblems. With the start of the heroes from the 80s, Verdansk also gets a map update with new points of interest. One of them is Nakatomi Plaza, which film fans should know from the Die Hard-flicks. From the Rambo films, in turn, the developers bring individual survival camps into the battle royale shooter. A new CIA outpost can also be found on Verdansk for the launch.
With the activation of Season 3 Reloaded, the time-limited game mode Power Grab goes live, which puts the action heroes in the foreground. The game mode sends more than 100 operators in different squad sizes onto the playing field, in which the playing field circles react differently than in traditional battle royale. There is no gulag in this mode, in which you can fight your way back to the field after a screen death. Fallen team members can be resuscitated - for example by collecting dog tags. The update is rounded off by the battle arc, which also introduces a new killstreak. You can find Rambo's famous bow on Verdansk and Rebirth Island. Later in the season, the ballistic knife will also come to the BR shooter.
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'Call of Duty: Warzone' is adding Rambo and John McClane
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‘We went to the dark side’: horror film shows reality of Mexico’s migrant trailMystical realism conveys real-life stories of brutal cartel violence in Fernanda Valadez’s chilling directorial debut A scene from Identifying Features, which highlights the dangers facing those fleeing to the US. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy Two teenage boys wave goodbye to their mothers across a field in rural Mexico, leaving home in search of the American dream. The opening moments of the Mexican film-maker Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features, available to stream from this week, reflects scenes played out every day across Mexico and Central America, as men, women and children journey north in search of safety and job opportunities. Valadez, 39, starts her directorial debut film in her home state of Guanajuato – a picturesque, once tranquil state in the centre of the country. In recent years Guanajuato has fallen victim to the evolving geography and relentless nature of Mexico’s humanitarian crisis; it is now one of the most dangerous places in the country for those who live there and for people travelling through on the migrant trail. The inspiration for the film’s central story is based on a real-life account published in the Blog del Narco – an anonymous blog detailing crimes of kidnappings or gun battles that local newspapers were warned off reporting. The film starts by accompanying two teenage boys as they travel towards the border. The bus they are on is intercepted by armed men who kill most of the passengers. One of the boys, Jesús, is spared after agreeing to work for the cartel. First he must kill his friend and burn the bus. Throughout the film Valadez combines mystical realism with unflinching reality. The red fire that engulfs the bus and its passengers evokes hellfire, a fantastical force of evil. Valadez says she wanted to do something different with Identifying Features, creating “not just another Latin American film about concepts and social interest”. Instead of adopting the narrative documentary style chosen by many other film-makers to depict the perils of the migrant journey through Mexico, she has crafted a horror film. By using more metaphoric figures like the devil we felt able to take the audience very close emotionally Fernanda Valadez “By using more metaphoric figures like the devil to express the violence we felt able to take the audience very close emotionally,” says Valadez, in an interview. Yet, the scenarios that Valadez shows us are real. Scores of buses carrying migrants are believed to have been ambushed in this way in recent years, arriving at their final destination with no passengers, only their luggage. In 2010, 72 migrants from Central and South America who had been abducted from several buses were massacred in the northern state of Tamaulipas by members of the Los Zetas cartel after refusing to pay a ransom or take jobs as hitmen. Only three people survived. Another character, Jesús’s mother, Magdalena, embarks on a journey of her own, following in the footsteps of her son from their village in Guanajuato to find out what happened to him. Magdalena’s grief and steely determination are counterpoints to the cartel violence that lurks behind every corner. “The key word is empathy,” says Valadez. “Empathy is the bridge from which art in general begins, it’s so important to storytelling in films. It’s what has taken this film to audiences we never expected. Empathy is the key to igniting conversations.” Director Fernanda Valadez (r) and co-producer Astrid Rondero. ‘Empathy is the key to igniting conversations,’ says Valadez. Photograph: Courtesy of Leonardo Manzo for Quién Magazine People on the migrant trail are not the only ones at risk of disappearing in Mexico. The film includes the story of a surgeon whose son had disappeared four years earlier while driving to see friends in Monterrey in Nuevo León, a state where forced disappearances were once so widespread that billboards instructed residents to call the armed forces in case of an emergency as the police were in cahoots with the criminal gangs. “At first kidnappings were something you read about happening to migrants, but within a couple of years [of the launch of the war against drugs] it started happening closer to home, closer to cities and to the middle classes,” says Astrid Rondero, who co-wrote and produced Identifying Features. “When we were teenagers [in Mexico City] you could no longer take a trip on the highway to the beach in case the bus was kidnapped. Anyone could be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” she says. At least 73,000 people have gone missing since the start of the militarised war on drugs in 2006, while at least 39,000 unidentified bodies are unclaimed in morgues. This war without an end has so far cost the lives of at least 300,000 Mexicans. Identifying Features offers up no hope of resolution or an end to the desperate search of families for their loved ones. “[With this film] we went to the dark side because we are still in this crisis, there is no closure. There was hope of change with the new government of [Andrés Manuel] López Obrador but now it’s out of control, the stories may be even more gruesome,” says Rondero. “The ending is dark because we’re still in that place, it feels like a complete betrayal.” The current administration agreed to Donald Trump’s demands to place thousands of asylum seekers on the Mexican side of the border, where they have been subjected to violence, extortion, kidnap and inhumane living conditions, according to Human Rights Watch. Now, at the behest of the Biden government, more troops are being deployed to Mexico’s southern border to stop migrants and refugees crossing. Amid daily reports of atrocities which only seem to get worse, the film-makers believe that art plays a crucial role in evoking empathy and political consciousness among those numbed by the pain. “When we show the film here in Mexico, the emotional information helps people to finally start understanding what we’ve been living since 2000,” says Rondero. “We cannot allow this to happen, and we have to do something to change it because it’s not normal for so many people to be travelling on dirt roads looking for their loved ones.” • Identifying Features is available to stream on BFI Player.