Drop Zone

Drop Zone is a new private match and core game mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

It became a ranked online gamemode on the 16th of December 2011, and the first gamemode in the Community Playlist.

Gameplay
In Drop Zone, two teams must fight over a moving location on the map (marked with Care Package Marker smoke) to gain points. It differentiates itself from an ordinary King of the Hill gametype, however, with the gimmick of Care Packages as a reward for successfully holding on to the point. Approximately every 15 seconds a team holds a zone, a Care Package, an Airdrop Trap, an Emergency Airdrop (notably NOT normally available under other circumstances), or a Juggernaut/Juggernaut Recon delivered via C-130 will be called automatically on the drop zone. To win, either one team must reach the score limit, or else the victor is determined by who has the most points when time is up.

Each team member within the drop zone area adds 20 points per second to his team's score; this is cumulative with other team members for a possible maximum of 120 points/second. The first team to 7500 points is the winner.

Each drop zone is marked by thick red smoke, making it somewhat difficult to distinguish targets inside or outside of the area without using the Marksman perk. Usage of grenades/explosives is quite heavy among players.

Trivia

 * A M.O.A.B is still possible to obtain in this gamemode, making it the only pointstreak that can be earned by normal means on Drop Zone.
 * It is still possible to shoot down opposing care package choppers (although extremely unlikely to affect where the package lands, unlike in Call of Duty: Black Ops).
 * It is not possible to shoot down or even get a hit marker on the Emergency Airdrop plane.
 * The starting location of the drop zone is always set (roughly halfway between opposing spawns), but the remaining drop zones are randomized in order between several pre-determined positions.
 * Other than the M.O.A.B, Hardline and its Pro version are useless in this gamemode due to the pointstreak chain being disabled.

Reference

 * 2. The sequence of the locations of drop zone