It feels like we have all been sat here watching the update timer for ages, and then suddenly Black Ops 7 Season 1 just drops in our lap and everything goes a bit mad. The new weapons, the balance tweaks, all the fresh toys to try out in multiplayer… it is a lot to take in, especially when you are already juggling stuff like Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders on the side, and maybe even squeezing in a CoD BO7 Bot Lobby session when the lobbies get sweaty. You jump in “for a few matches” and before you know it, the night has gone, you are staring at your Battle Pass progress, and that grind bug has bitten again.

The Pull Of A New Season

Once the season goes live, the whole pace of the game changes. Everyone is trying out new guns, messing with class setups, figuring out what still beams and what got hit by a stealth nerf. You load into a match and half the lobby is clearly testing something, spraying at walls or pre-aiming weird angles. Zombies fans are torn too. There are new maps and systems begging for attention, but you keep getting dragged back into multiplayer because the meta feels like it is shifting every single night. It is that “I might miss out if I log off now” feeling that keeps you queueing one more time.

The Return Of The Maddox

The big talking point for a lot of players is the Maddox RFB coming back. If you used it in Black Ops 4 or messed around with it in COD Mobile, you probably remember how it played. It sat right in that sweet spot between an assault rifle and an SMG, perfect for players who like to push but do not want to lose all their range. Seeing it in BO7 again hits a weird nostalgia nerve. You pick it up and instantly start thinking about old loadouts and routes you used to run, then you realise the movement and time-to-kill feel faster now, so it might slot into the meta in a slightly different way.

How To Unlock The Maddox

If you want the Maddox, you are not getting it handed over on day one unless you go in pretty hard. It sits on Page 6 of the Season 1 Battle Pass, which is actually not that deep, but still far enough that you cannot just hop on for twenty minutes and expect it to pop up. You need those tokens, and you need them steady. The easiest way for most people is pretty simple: log in most days, clear your daily challenges, and lean into modes where you are constantly in the action. Objective modes usually pay out well because you are grabbing caps, planting, defending, all the stuff that stacks XP without you really thinking about it.

Making The Grind Feel Worth It

If you stop staring at the Battle Pass screen and just play, the levels creep up faster than you think. You will hit Page 3, then Page 4, and suddenly Page 6 does not look that far away. It is when you obsess over the exact token count that it starts feeling like work. Mix up your modes a bit, jump into a few games with friends, do a couple of matches of Zombies when you are burnt out from sweating in multiplayer, and you will get there without it feeling like a second job. When you finally unlock the Maddox and start building a proper setup, you will see pretty quickly if it is going to be your go-to mid-range gun this season, especially once you have tuned it in pubs or even tested it in a cheap CoD BO7 Bot Lobby to get a feel for recoil and time-to-kill before you dive back into the chaos.