How to Get the Nuke in Warzone - Season 4 Reloaded

How to Get the Nuke in Warzone - Season 4 TL;DR

• You get a nuke in Warzone by completing the Champion’s Quest contract.

• In Season 4 Reloaded, Champion’s Quest is available in Core Battle Royale.

• To qualify normally, you need either 5 consecutive Core Battle Royale wins or 30 total wins in one season.

• After qualifying, your squad must secure the Champion’s Contract briefcase in the next match.

• The quest sends your squad across the map with randomized objectives, including isotope transport, hard drive recovery, and missile transport escort.

• Enemy teams can contest your objectives, steal quest items, and use the Golden Ticket system to earn progress toward their own Champion’s Quest token.

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What Is the Nuke in Warzone?

The Warzone nuke is the final reward for completing Champion’s Quest. To use it, you earn access first, grab the contract briefcase, finish the in-match objective chain, and execute the final step while the lobby tries to stop you. That is the whole point of the challenge. It’s a chase objective that makes you play the game more, getting eligible for it first and then trying to get that perfect game where you can literally nuke the lobby down.

How to Unlock Champion’s Quest in Warzone Season 4 Reloaded

This time around, our quest for Nuke is both familiar and a bit revamped to make things fresh. As it already was the case previously in Warzone’s lifecycle, the nuke run culminates with Champion’s Quest. But first, at least one member of your squad has to earn access to the quest itself. As stated in the official post, you have to either:

1. Win 5 consecutive Core Battle Royale matches

2. or Win 30 total matches in one season

The 5-win streak is the fast route, but let’s be real - it’s pretty hard to actually land it. The 30-win path is how most players get to the Nuke. Once you hit either requirement, your next eligible Core Battle Royale match gives your squad access to the Champion’s Quest briefcase. Grab that briefcase, and the actual nuke attempt begins.

How to Start the Champion’s Contract

After qualifying, load into a Core Battle Royale match and look for the designated Champion’s Quest briefcase. Your squad needs to secure that briefcase to activate the contract. Once you have it, you need to complete the chain of objectives across the map, and enemy teams can interrupt you at any point throughout the run. Here is the basic flow:

1. Qualify by getting 5 straight Core BR wins or 30 seasonal wins.

2. Enter your next eligible Core Battle Royale match.

3. Find and secure the Champion’s Contract briefcase (make sure to stock armor plates and buy back tokens beforehand).

4. Activate the Champion’s Quest.

5. Complete each randomized objective.

6. Reach the final nuke step - defend the bomb site for 2 minutes.

That sounds easy on paper. In an actual match, things can go sideways at any point, and you can lose your entire progress easily. 

Champion’s Quest Objectives in Season 4 Reloaded

Season 4 Reloaded changes the Champion’s Quest into a more active map-wide mission. The contract now sends you across randomized locations while you handle several different objectives:

Basically, all of these are screaming to other squads, “come shoot us please”. You’ll constantly be attacked during those - and there’s a new incentive to do so - a Golden Ticket.

What Is the Golden Ticket System?

Season 4 also adds the Golden Ticket, which is basically bad news for squads doing the quest and good news for everyone hunting them:

• Enemy squads can steal quest items and extract them themselves. If they pull that off, they earn progress toward their own Champion’s Quest token. 

• You can interrupt them and reclaim your progress, though, if you buy back and kill them yourself. 

So now teams have a real reason to chase your squad instead of just doing it to interrupt you. So yes, people will be even more annoying and driven to hunt you down than before. 

Element Airdrop Public Event Explained

There is also another way to earn a Champion’s Quest Contract in Season 4 Reloaded. During some matches, a special Public Event can trigger and drop an element airdrop into the map. The first player to interact with the dropped goods starts a special mission for their squad. Complete the steps before the match ends, and your squad earns a Champion’s Quest Contract. So naturally, it’s another way of the game’s design to force teams to take more objective-based fights.

Warzone Nuke Rewards in Season 4 Reloaded

Season 4 Reloaded has a reward track tied to Champion’s Quest wins. The first completion gives you the first set of cosmetic rewards, and additional completions unlock even more cosmetics on top of that.

I’d presume that the first-win rewards are the ones most players will care about, and most players won’t be grinding away for the later rewards, even though they are pretty cool and desirable. The animated Grimm skin and weapon camo are the proof that you actually completed the nuke. The 10-win rewards are for absolute grinders or squads that live in Warzone like rent is due inside Verdansk.

There is also a reward for players who defuse an armed nuke - an animated calling card. That means even if you are not doing Champion’s Quest yourself, hunting a nuke squad can still pay off in a pretty special reward.

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