Hardpoint, a Call of Duty staple, is back for Modern Warfare 3 and brings the team-oriented mode to the classic Modern Warfare 2 maps for the first time ever.
Each map has five hardpoints, each open for capture for 60 seconds. Your team must solely enter and hold within the hardpoint zone, scoring a point for every second held. After a minute the point will rotate to a new location—but the order of the spots is always the same. If you know when and where the next hardpoint will spawn, you’ll have a huge leg-up over your opponent.
The Hardpoint game mode is also featured in the Call of Duty League, the game’s top-flight competition for the pros, but not every map is selected as it may lack the proper edge a competitive map needs.
This list is accurate as of MW3 Season Three and the addition of Tanked, Growhouse, Emergency, and Six Star, which went live on April 3, 2024.
Here is the Hardpoint rotation order for each map in MW3, starting with those chosen for the CDL.
All Hardpoint locations and rotation orders in MW3
All Call of Duty League MW3 Hardpoint maps
There are five Hardpoint maps used in the CDL, with Invasion, Karachi, Rio, Skidrow, and Sub Base currently active in the pro map pool according to Competitive Settings V 1.1. Check back over time in case certain maps are rotated in or out of the competitive pool.
Invasion
Karachi
Rio
Skidrow
Sub Base
All Season Three MW3 Hardpoint maps
The remaining maps were not chosen for CDL Hardpoint picks, and for the most part, there’s a good reason. The map needs to be sized well and offer a great mix of combat styles or balanced points across all five capture zones. The maps may also have just recently been added to the game, so it’s not clear whether they are competitively viable yet.
These maps simply don’t cut the mustard, but you can still play them in MW3’s multiplayer. We will continue to update this with more maps as more are added in MW3.
6 Star
Emergency
Growhouse
Tanked
All Season Two MW3 Hardpoint maps
Das Haus
Departures
Dome
Shipment
Stash House
Vista
All Season One MW3 Hardpoint maps
Afghan
Derail
Estate
Favela
Highrise
Quarry
Rundown
Rust
Scrapyard
Terminal
Underpass
Wasteland
Greece
Meat
