Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 Patch Notes Are Here

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 spot notes are here, revealing each the biggest changes coming to Multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone arsenic Verdansk makes its triumphant return.

Activision published the afloat breakdown for everything coming to players connected PC, PlayStation, and Xbox connected its website today. It’s an tremendous question of tweaks and additions crossed each of Black Ops 6’s modes, giving players everything they could ever anticipation to cognize astir however Call of Duty volition alteration erstwhile Season 3 launches connected Wednesday, April 2, astatine 9am PT.

Headlines from the Black Ops 6 Season 3 spot notes see crossplay tweaks that let console players to individually set the subordinate excavation enactment successful some ranked and non-ranked modes. It’s a alteration that, arsenic Activision admits, could negatively interaction matchmaking queue times for those who crook crossplay off, but it’s astatine slightest different enactment for those looking to tailor their acquisition to see – oregon exclude – players connected each platforms, each consoles, oregon lone their preferred console of choice.

Shotguns, meanwhile, are coming retired of the Black Ops 6 update arsenic large winners, arsenic the limb people is receiving a tiny broad buff for astir each weapons’ damage, range, and complaint of fire. This is each successful summation to brand-new content, including the instrumentality of classical Multiplayer representation Firing Range, the reintroduction of the Kilo 141 battle rifle, and a acquainted Scorestreak successful the Death Machine.

Zombies players person plentifulness to chomp down on, too, starting with the biggest item with its caller map, Shattered Veil. The Raygun Mark II is besides present with 3 caller variants to detonate zombies with, with fan-favorite Perk-A-Cola Double Tap besides backmost from erstwhile games. Both Multiplayer and Zombies person besides been stuffed with a assortment of bug fixes and adjustments to guarantee the acquisition stays creaseless erstwhile motorboat arrives.

Warzone spot notes get peculiar attraction this clip around, arsenic Season 3 volition soon usher successful the instrumentality of 1 of the astir important maps successful Call of Duty history: Verdansk. Set to motorboat 1 time later, April 3, the Warzone Season 3 update mostly focuses connected giving longtime fans a classical overgarment of overgarment that reverts immoderate features backmost to their motorboat authorities from 2020. You tin spot our roundup of immoderate of the biggest differences betwixt modern and classical Verdansk here.

It means that Warzone volition consciousness nostalgic successful bully and atrocious ways portion inactive incorporating modern Call of Duty features similar Omnimovement. Buy Stations, for example, present diagnostic that OG, vertical UI plan for a much streamlined purchasing process successful the vigor of conflict but besides travel with added features, including a Redeploy All option. Veteran players volition besides announcement that the Precision Airstrike volition beryllium overmuch harder to dodge, arsenic its mini-map notification has been removed.

“We person removed the Precision Airstrike’s approximate way indicator connected the mini-map successful bid to instrumentality backmost to however it worked successful 2020, wherever portion of its intent was to astonishment your enemies,” the spot notes explain. “We volition show feedback, information and sentiment connected this arsenic we look to the weeks ahead.”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 launches successful conscionable a fewer days. In the meantime, you tin work up connected Activision’s latest anti-cheat update here. You tin besides cheque retired however Call of Duty is welcoming players backmost to Verdansk with a limited-time mode and a postulation of exclusive rewards. Finally, you tin cheque retired the afloat Season 3 spot notes below.

WELCOME TO SEASON 03

“Did Hudson fig retired the Pantheon metallic slug each the mode backmost successful 89?” - Frank Woods

In a video recorded earlier his death, Special Agent Jason Hudson warns of the Pantheon moles who person been moving successful the shadows for decades ever since Vietnam. They’ve managed to debar detection passim the years, utilizing struggle and chaos to screen their tracks. With immoderate caller leads successful play, however, their secrecy is nary longer certain. Time to prime up the way time with the motorboat of Season 03.

Like always, enactment up to day with what’s to travel with our Season 03 launch, including details of caller Multiplayer and Zombies Content and the latest equilibrium adjustments, gameplay improvements, bug fixes, and much arriving tomorrow.

New Multiplayer Maps

• Firing Range (6v6)
  • Firing Range makes its glorious instrumentality successful Black Ops 6 successful a faithful remaster of the fan-favorite map. Watch for crossfire down the agelong halfway Road arsenic Operators combat for power of the vantage points successful the Tower and the precocious levels of the Shoot House and Garage. Shooting targets determination backmost and distant connected their tracks down the Office and respective different spots adding a utile diversion portion preparing for the adjacent fight. Avoid the halfway chaos by branching disconnected to the Dirt Road, keeping your defender up against ambush arsenic you walk the Storage portion on the way.
• Barrage (6v6)
  • Revisit 1968 Vietnam arsenic you travel Hudson’s clues surrounding 1 Summit Watch astatine the beforehand lines of battle. The trees person been cleared and the scenery flattened to marque country for this basal lodging an artillery artillery successful progressive combat. The country has taken hits with ample chunks blown disconnected buildings including the Command Center and Barracks, the harm opening caller pathways done the map.
• Nomad (6v6, 2v2)
  • The Pantheon moles were successful Afghanistan, too, erstwhile Woods fought determination successful 1986. Fight successful the ruins of a fortified colony commandeered for the ensuing battle, a parked rocket bearer facing retired implicit the vale wherever a convoy lies successful ruins connected the constrictive roadworthy starring up to the map.

New Multiplayer Modes

Sharpshooter

• Flex your skills successful this classical Black Ops escaped for each enactment mode wherever each Operator is assigned the aforesaid Loadout which changes each 45 seconds. Each rhythm introduces a caller Primary and Secondary Weapon from scoped Sniper Rifles to akimbo Pistols, positive a caller Dedicated Melee limb and Tactical and Lethal Equipment.
• Use everything astatine your disposal to destruct enemies portion unlocking bonus abilities for going connected a streak:
  • 1st Elimination: Increased question speed.
  • 2nd Elimination: Increased reload speed.
  • 3rd Elimination: Increased sprint betterment speed.
  • 4th Elimination: Increased ADS speed.
  • 5th Elimination: Earn treble people for eliminating enemies.
• Keep the streak going to unlock treble people and marque a tally for the apical three. When you’re taken out, respawn and physique up those bonuses again. A abbreviated countdown precedes each limb swap. Adapt and win.

Demolition

• Alternate betwixt attacking and defending 2 weaponry sites. The attacking squad indispensable destruct some weaponry sites to triumph the round, gaining a clip bonus aft detonating the archetypal site. All attacking Operators spawn with a weaponry and respawns are progressive for some teams passim the match.
• Defense is each astir moving down the clock. Defuse planted bombs close away, arsenic the lucifer timer pauses whenever a weaponry tract is successful progressive countdown. If 1 of the sites is destroyed, regroup and propulsion everything you person into defending the past one.

New Weapons (Multiplayer & Zombies)

• Kilo 141 - Assault Rifle (Call of Duty: Warzone Login Reward)
  • Fully automatic battle firearm with an ergonomic plan that improves handling, and a dependable occurrence complaint helps enactment connected target.
  • The Kilo 141 is backmost and acceptable to teardrop it up crossed Multiplayer and Call of Duty: Warzone. The weapon’s creaseless handling, manageable recoil, and dependable occurrence complaint springiness it country to radiance successful a assortment of combat situations, leaving nary uncertainty arsenic to wherefore the Kilo 141 was a favourite successful Verdansk. Now that the determination is back, it’s clip to relive the glory days with this hard-hitting Primary Weapon.
  • Players volition automatically unlock the Kilo 141 for usage successful Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone aft logging successful to Call of Duty: Warzone astatine the motorboat of Season 03.
• CR-56 - Assault Rifle (Battle Pass)
  • This lightweight 7.62 x 39mm full-auto battle firearm is compact and powerful. Built exclusively for subject use, the modular contented firearm is deadly astatine mid-range combat and easy configured for a assortment of battle tactics.
  • Combining high-damage hits with a accelerated occurrence complaint and bully handling, the CR-56 AMAX is the cleanable mid-range limb for downing targets fast. Eliminate enemies successful 3 to 4 shots up to 25 meters out, leaving plentifulness near implicit to chew done equipped armor. Quick reloads get you backmost into the enactment fast, a adjuvant trait nary substance however you take to customize the limb via Gunsmith.
• HDR - Sniper Rifle (Battle Pass)
  • Anti-material bolt enactment sniper firearm chambered successful 12.7 x 108mm ammunition. Bullets person a little muzzle velocity but stay devastating adjacent astatine precise agelong ranges.
  • Veterans of Verdansk cognize the powerfulness of the HDR and the havoc a sniper tin inflict with it erstwhile stationed successful precocious vantage points similar the infamous Airport Control Tower. The weapon’s agelong scope and dense harm marque it a favourite of sharpshooters, its distinctive firing dependable sending squads running. Add the Reinforced Barrel attachment to further widen your harm scope and slug velocity, and don’t hide to clasp your enactment for hard shots.
• Kali Sticks - Melee (Event Reward)
  • Two-hit kill. Extremely accelerated onslaught speed. Short range.
  • The infamous Kali Sticks return, dealing retired harm with accelerated swings that’ll instrumentality down your people successful a flash. Smack them with accelerated follow-up hits utilizing the weapon’s airy onslaught oregon instrumentality them retired successful a much melodramatic manner by unleashing the dense attack. Use Kali Sticks successful Multiplayer with the caller Close Shave Perk to deploy a speedy whack against enemies without having to manually swap to your Dedicated Melee slot first.
• Nail Gun - Special (In-Season)
  • Full-auto Nail Gun. High harm astatine adjacent scope with accelerated handling speeds and precise debased muzzle velocity.
  • Stick it to them with this useful instrumentality configured with a mag of 15 nails that fires astatine afloat auto. The harm drops disconnected rapidly aft 25 meters and performs champion up close. The Nail Gun’s debased muzzle velocity tin marque it hard to onshore shots against accelerated moving targets, truthful get them successful your sights and unload earlier they cognize what deed them. This armament is simply a reward earned during the Black Ops Tribute Event.

New Attachments

• Monolithic Suppressor (Battle Pass)
  • Monolithic Core provides superior dependable suppression and accrued range. Moderate value summation affects agility.
  • Available for Assault Rifles (except AS VAL), SMGs, Shotguns, LMGs, Marksman Rifles, Sniper Rifles, and Pistols.
• SWAT 5.56 Grau Conversion (Battle Pass)
  • Convert the SWAT 5.56 into a afloat automatic limb with little harm and scope but improved accuracy, mobility, and handling. Equips a caller default Barrel and Magazine and unlocks an exclusive 50-round extended Magazine. Blocks Barrel attachments.
• C9 10mm Auto 30-Round Mags (In-Season)
  • Conversion kit to usage higher caliber 10mm Auto ammunition for accrued stopping power. Though the conversion results successful immoderate accrued recoil and a somewhat little occurrence rate, the other damage, range, and velocity marque this attachment a worthy information erstwhile approaching enemies connected bigger maps.

New Multiplayer Perks

Close Shave - Enforcer (Event Reward)

• Automatically usage your Dedicated Melee onslaught erstwhile you execute a limb butt attack. Simply pat the Melee fastener to attack. Like the aged days!

New Scorestreak (Multiplayer & Zombies)

• Death Machine (In-Season)
  • Heavy minigun with a accelerated occurrence rate, precocious penetration, and a ample ammunition capacity.
  • Wield the infamous Death Machine, a almighty limb with a azygous ample mag that fires precocious interaction rounds astatine a blistering complaint of fire. Score earned portion utilizing the Death Machine contributes to your existent Scorestreak progress, making this a large instrumentality for bumping up to the adjacent streak.

New Zombies Map: Shattered Veil

With the Sentinel Artifact successful hand, the unit heads to the distant wooded hills supra Liberty Falls to conscionable with S.A.M. astatine an aged mansion successful the wood which has been retrofitted to [[REDACTED]]. Only with the assistance of S.A.M.’s synthetic caput tin the squad anticipation to unlock the past artifact’s mysteries and bring backmost Agent Maxis. What could perchance spell wrong?

New Zombies Perk-A-Cola

• Double Tap
  • The classical rapid-fire Perk returns for the archetypal clip successful astir a decade, dramatically expanding your weapon’s occurrence complaint to chew done force hordes successful grounds time. Research the iconic Perk for almighty enhancements similar an adjacent faster occurrence complaint and the accidental to inflict treble damage.
  • Double Tap is disposable successful Shattered Veil on with the different antecedently accessible Zombies Perks. Note that immoderate of these Perk-a-Colas are lone disposable via the Der Wunderfizz machine.
  • Double Tap is disposable connected The Tomb, Citadelle des Morts, Liberty Falls and Terminus maps via the Der Wunderfizz machine.
• Double Tap Augments
  • Major
    • Double Jeopardy
      • Normal zombies astatine debased wellness person a accidental to dice instantly erstwhile shot.
    • Double Impact
      • Double hits connected the aforesaid people successful speedy succession woody much damage.
    • Double Standard
      • All non-critical shots bash treble damage. Only applies to mean slug weapons.
  • Minor
    • Double Time
      • Increases occurrence complaint bonus.
    • Double oregon Nothing
      • Weapons person a accidental to bash treble harm but besides person a accidental to bash zero damage.
    • Double Play
      • Killing 2 enemies successful speedy succession has a accidental to instrumentality 2 rounds to your magazine. Only applies to mean slug weapons.

New Zombies Wonder Weapons

• Ray Gun Mark II (+ 3 Variants)
  • Drop aggregate zombies astatine erstwhile with the upgraded and modestly unstable Ray Gun Mark II. Recovered from the Dark Aether by Project Janus, this almighty laser armament delivers three-round bursts of energy, tin beryllium Pack-a-Punched, and doubles arsenic a bludgeoning instrumentality if you’re moving debased connected ammunition.
  • Then there’s the 3 caller variants.
    • Provided you’ve [[REDACTED]], you tin experimentation with an further 3 variants of the Ray Gun Mark II:
      • Ray Gun Mark II-W: Offering akin slug patterns to a submachine gun, this besides has a random accidental to ignite enemies.
      • Ray Gun Mark II-P: Shooting ammunition similar a shotgun, with a accidental to spawn a sigil with the quality to assistance invulnerability to the subordinate lasting connected it for a constricted time.
      • Ray Gun Mark II-R: Dropping zombies with a Marksman Rifle-like discharge, expect a accidental to dispersed a plague corruption that tin inflict area-of-effect damage.
• Wunderwaffe DG-2
  • Capable of striking down hordes with chain-lightning blasts, this has the bonus effect of stunning crowds of zombies, usually resulting successful additional, and yet terminal damage.

New Zombies Enemies

• Elder Disciple
  • Strange, floating apparitions person been seen flitting astir the sprawling gardens and rambling mansion estate. Known to immoderate arsenic Elder Disciples, these almighty enemies apt spell occupation for the crew.
  • Elder Disciples summation spot arsenic they empower the zombies astir them portion summoning much undead to articulation the battle. Using their acheronian magic, these fetid, floating carcasses tin unit their allies to germinate much quickly, allowing a lowly zombie to much rapidly alteration into a Doppelghast oregon immoderate different sinister form.
  • Eliminate the Elder Disciple earlier their forces turn excessively powerful, keeping it astatine a region to debar the shriek it lets escaped against players who gully excessively close. The deadly force grows much agitated arsenic it takes damage, truthful effort to get the occupation done fast.
• Toxic Zombies
  • As a sickly yellowish fog descends crossed the mansion, expect the inhabitants to instrumentality connected an even-more revolting pallor. Easily identifiable owed to their greenish hue and much skeletal exterior, Toxic Zombies look to person mislaid each but their basal perambulatory functions and look intent connected sprinting toward their prey earlier exploding, leaving a damaging excavation of acerb successful their wake. Listen for their telltale shriek and get the leap connected them earlier they tin adjacent the distance.

New GobbleGums

• Tactical Diffusion (Rare)
  • Disables the adjacent Nuke Power-Up detonation you activate and gives everyone 2,000 Essence instead.
• Support Group (Legendary)
  • Gobble up this tasty GobbleGum to get the ARC-XD, Mangler Cannon, Sentry Gun and Mutant Injection Support items.
• Die Pitched (Whimsical)
  • Zombies person high-pitched voices. Lasts 3 minutes.

New Features

• Camo Hub
  • The Camo HUB is planned to beryllium added soon aft motorboat to supply players with a wealthiness of Camo accusation and assistance each successful their quest for Dark Matter and Nebula. Available via the Barracks > Challenges Menu, the Camo HUB gives players each the Camo accusation they request successful a azygous location:
    • View each disposable Weapons by Weapon Class, with each Weapon sorted by furthest Camo progress
    • View the Next Camo Challenge for each Weapon
    • View the 2 disposable Special Camos for each Weapon
    • View the adjacent unearned Camo Mastery Calling Card reward
    • Track/Untrack a Weapon’s Next Camo
    • Select a Weapon to spell to that Weapon’s afloat Camo screen
    • “Tracked & Near Complete” tab present serves arsenic the caller location for the player’s manually tracked oregon automatically surfaced adjacent implicit Camo Challenges

New Operators

• R0-Z3 (BlackCell, Crimson One, Launch)
  • R0-Z3 returns to assertion her presumption arsenic a apical BlackCell operative moving successful Verdansk. You cognize the drill. No witnesses.
• Hudson (Battle Pass, Rogue Black Ops, Launch)
  • Special Agent Jason Hudson, CIA operative, handler to Alex Mason, and KIA during Operation False Profit.
• Mace (Battle Pass, Crimson One, Launch)
  • The Special Forces Army Ranger turned PMC returns, acceptable to inflict superior harm connected anyone who thinks they tin champion him successful Verdansk.
• John Black Ops (Event Reward for Black Ops 6 owners, In-Season)
  • A mysterious Operator clad successful a grey leap suit, sporting tactical goggles and helmet. Anonymous. Unassuming. Deadly.

New Events

• Black Ops Tribute (In-Season)
  • Don’t miss retired connected this legendary tribute to Black Ops successful an lawsuit stuffed with rewards that grant the past of the series.
  • Earn XP successful immoderate mode to advancement the Event and gain Black Ops themed rewards. Black Ops 6 owners volition person further rewards lone disposable to usage successful Black Ops 6.
  • Earn cosmetic contented and functional equipment, including the Nail Gun (Special Weapon), C9 10mm Auto 30-Round Mags (Attachment), Thermite (Lethal successful Call of Duty: Warzone), Death Machine (Scorestreak successful MP/Support successful Zombies), Close Shave (MP Perk), an Emote, GobbleGums, and the fan-requested Operator, “John Black Ops”.

GLOBAL

RICOCHET Anti-Cheat

This season, the absorption remains connected our committedness to taking down cheat makers, banning atrocious actors, and ensuring a large subordinate experience. Our roadmap for anti-cheat extends beyond this season, but successful the latest Progress Report we’ll absorption connected caller results and security-focused updates coming successful Season 03.

Check retired the Season 03 RICOCHET Anti-Cheat Update here.

Console Cross-Play Settings

In Season 03, we're giving console players much granular options by separating the MP Ranked Play and Call of Duty: Warzone Ranked Play settings and adding a caller Multiplayer-only mounting for Quickplay, Featured, and Party Games matches.

Each of these 3 settings (Multiplayer Ranked Play, Call of Duty: Warzone Ranked Play, and Multiplayer Unranked) volition see the pursuing options:

• On: Enables matchmaking with each gaming platforms erstwhile playing successful the selected playlists.
• On (Consoles Only): Enables matchmaking lone with different consoles erstwhile playing successful selected playlists.
  • May negatively interaction matchmaking queue times.
• Off: Restricts matchmaking to your existent gaming level lone successful selected playlists.
  • Will negatively interaction matchmaking queue times.

Additional details connected however these settings interact with enactment members who are connected antithetic platforms.

• Players successful a enactment who each beryllium to the aforesaid console level volition matchmake with the enactment leader’s preferred cross-play settings.
• Players who person selected "Cross-Play Off" and make a mixed level enactment that includes a antithetic console level volition person their cross-play settings temporarily adjusted to "Cross-Play On (Consoles Only)" to alteration matchmaking. This impermanent accommodation enables matchmaking for the duration of the mixed level party, and disbanding this enactment volition effect successful preferred matchmaking settings being restored.
• Players who person selected "Cross-Play Off" and make a mixed level enactment with a PC subordinate volition person their cross-play settings temporarily adjusted to "Cross-Play On." This enables matchmaking for the duration of the mixed level party, and disbanding this enactment volition effect successful preferred matchmaking settings being restored.
• Reminder: Adjusting Cross-Play settings whitethorn negatively interaction matchmaking queue times.

UI/UX

Pre-Loading Shaders Improvements

• Improved paper framerate stableness portion compiling shaders.
  • The Pre-Loading Shaders informing has been divided per crippled mode.
  • Significantly reduced the clip required to compile shaders earlier launching a match.
• A caller paper widget was added successful the lobby to bespeak the advancement of Pre-Loading Shaders to fto you cognize erstwhile you are acceptable to play!

PC Benchmark

• ICYMI: The PC Benchmark remains a utile instrumentality to optimize your gaming experience. Located successful the Graphics Settings paper of Black Ops 6 Multiplayer, it simulates a multiplayer lucifer to assistance you fine-tune your graphics for optimal show and higher framerates.

Global

• Entering Prestige volition nary longer reset Operator, Calling Card, Emote, Spray, oregon Gobblegum customization.
• Addressed an contented wherever Finishing Move audio would proceed to play aft scrolling to a caller tier successful the Battle Pass.

Challenges

• BlackCell
  • BlackCell Daily Challenge
    • BlackCell owners tin present implicit an further Daily Challenge successful Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone for an added 7,500 XP each. The BlackCell Daily Challenge counts toward the 3 challenges needed to gain the Daily Challenge Bonus XP.

Weapons

Multiplayer & Zombies

A large absorption of our limb equilibrium changes successful Season 3 is to alteration much gameplay variety. Almost each attachment that modifies the halfway behaviour of a limb is receiving an betterment to assistance with its viability successful the meta. It is our extremity to guarantee that each existing and aboriginal limb mods consciousness amusive and almighty to use.

Semi-auto weapons are different wide people for buffs this patch. The changes purpose to marque these weapons much accessible and competitive, arsenic good arsenic make much chiseled gameplay consciousness betwixt the faster semi-auto primaries.

As a past top-level note, the Season 3 spot includes adjustments to the Jackal PDW. More details connected the reasoning down the alteration tin beryllium recovered below. Our limb equilibrium doctrine is to beryllium blimpish with nerfs, and to ever see whether determination is an accidental to elevate different weapons instead. In this case, we consciousness powerfully that tuning down the Jackal PDW volition beryllium bully for the wellness of the limb meta going forward.

Shotguns

All 3 shotguns person improvements to their alternate ammo types: Dragon’s Breath and Slug Rounds. Dragon’s Breath present has a somewhat higher harm implicit time, arsenic good arsenic longer range. Pellet harm is besides being improved astatine assorted ranges. The extremity is to marque Dragon’s Breath a longer scope alternate that inactive retains a classical shotgun feel.

Slug Rounds are getting important buffs, with the extremity of giving each shotgun a unsocial alternate playstyle. The Marine SP Slugs person a monolithic scope improvement, which paired with amended headshot harm crook it into a precocious risk, precocious reward precision weapon. The ASG-89 Slugs person overmuch higher damage, converting it into a mid-range semi-auto slugger. Finally, the Maelstrom Slugs person higher harm and ranges that marque it akin to a slow-fire rifle.

Shotgun Attachment Adjustments

• Dragon’s Breath
  • Burn harm accrued from 25 to 30.

Marksman Rifles

As noted successful the wide section, semi-auto Marksman Rifles are getting buffs to assistance them contend with the different limb classes. Rate of Fire is the main instrumentality here, arsenic that improves TTK and makes missed shots much forgiving.

Movement Updates

• Increased crouch to basal speeds by 15%.
• Increased crouch to basal speeds portion ADS by 39%.
• Increased directional sprint animation blend speeds for improved fluidity.

Multiplayer

Maps

• Barrage (NEW)
  • New 6v6 representation acceptable successful 1968 Vietnam.
• Nomad (NEW)
  • New 6v6/2v2 Strike representation acceptable successful 1986 Afghanistan.
• Firing Range (Remaster)
  • Remastered 6v6 map, besides disposable via Firing Range 24/7 playlist.

Modes

• Sharpshooter
  • Classic Black Ops free-for-all Party Game wherever each Operator is assigned the aforesaid Loadout, which changes each 45 seconds.
  • Each rhythm introduces a caller Primary and Secondary Weapon, positive a caller Dedicated Melee limb and Tactical and Lethal Equipment.
  • Eliminate enemies portion unlocking bonus abilities for going connected a streak:
    • 1st Elimination: Increased question speed.
    • 2nd Elimination: Increased reload speed.
    • 3rd Elimination: Increased sprint betterment speed.
    • 4th Elimination: Increased ADS speed.
    • 5th Elimination: Earn treble people for eliminating enemies.
  • Keep the streak going to unlock treble score.
  • NOTE: Sharpshooter volition beryllium added to the caller Party Games paper aboriginal successful the play aft it leaves the Featured Playlist selection.
• Demolition (Launch Window)
  • Alternate betwixt attacking and defending 2 weaponry sites. The attacking squad indispensable destruct some weaponry sites to triumph the round, gaining a clip bonus aft detonating the archetypal site.
  • All attacking Operators spawn with a weaponry and respawns are progressive for some teams passim the match. The lucifer timer pauses whenever a weaponry tract is successful progressive countdown.
  • The archetypal squad to triumph 2 rounds wins the match. If the people reaches 1-1, players participate a tie-breaking last circular wherever some teams contention to detonate a azygous neutral weaponry site.

General Playlist Updates

• Season 03 Moshpit
  • Play respawn modes connected the newest Season 03 maps: Barrage, Nomad, and Firing Range.
• Firing Range 24/7
  • Moshpit of respawn modes connected Firing Range.

• Party Games
  • Added Party Games enactment successful Featured Playlists with options to play Infected, Gun Game, Prop Hunt, oregon Gunfight.
  • Any further Party Games volition beryllium added to this paper successful the future.
• Gunfight
  • Moved to the Party Games paper going forward.

Spawns

• Addressed an contented wherever players could spawn astatine progressive Shock Charge placements.

Perks

• Close Shave (Launch Window)
  • Automatically usage your Dedicated Melee onslaught erstwhile you execute a limb butt attack. Simply pat the Melee fastener to attack. Like the aged days!
• Dispatcher
  • Increased the people bonus for Interceptors from 100 to 125.

Scorestreaks

• Death Machine (Launch Window)
  • Heavy minigun with a accelerated occurrence rate, precocious penetration, and a ample ammunition capacity.
• Interceptors
  • Reduced people outgo from 1150 to 1025.
• War Machine
  • Reduced people outgo from 1300 to 1150.

Movement Updates

• Reduced descent successful max velocity standard from from 1.6 to 1.55.
• Reduced descent max clip from .7 to .65.

Ranked Play

Ranked Play continues successful Season 03 with caller rewards to assertion and caller Competitive Integrity systems to support Ranked Play just for each competitors.

New Ranked Play Systems

• Retroactive SR Adjustments
  • To assistance reverse the interaction cheaters person connected the Ranked Play SR system, retroactive SR adjustments volition beryllium made starting successful Season 03.
    • When a Ranked Play cheater is banned, anyone they've precocious beaten volition person a SR refund for those matches.
    • Players who we observe playing with cheaters whitethorn person SR for those wins taken away.
• Rejoin Matches successful Progress
  • Starting with Season 03, players volition beryllium capable to rejoin Ranked matches if they disconnect.
  • Players volition person 5 minutes to rejoin the lucifer successful advancement and debar discontinue penalties and suspensions. Teammates volition person a reduced SR Loss if a matchmade teammate rejoins and they suffer the match.

Season 03 Rank Setback

• Competitors who are continuing their conquest successful Ranked Play from Season 02 volition announcement that their accounts whitethorn person been acceptable backmost arsenic outlined successful erstwhile notes.
  • Every caller Season, your Rank whitethorn beryllium rolled backmost based connected wherever you ended the erstwhile season, arsenic follows:
    • Bronze oregon Silver Rank players are not impacted by the Seasonal setback and volition beryllium capable to prime up wherever they ended Season 02 with nary SR deduction.
    • Gold oregon Platinum Rank players volition commencement Season 03 successful Tier I of Gold oregon Platinum respectively.
    • Diamond Rank and supra players volition commencement the Season 03 astatine Diamond I.

Demotion Protection

• Demotion Protection volition beryllium progressive for everyone’s archetypal 3 Ranked Play losses successful Season 03, and players tin expect 1 escaped nonaccomplishment per time via Daily Loss Forgiveness similar successful Season 02.

Ranked Play Season 03 Rewards

• Ranked Play Season 03 Rewards
  • Rank Weapon Blueprints: Jackal PDW SMG
    • Each Rank Gold and supra has a unsocial Rank-themed Weapon Blueprint that you tin gain to amusement disconnected your rank.
      • Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Crimson & Iridescent: Start successful (or above) oregon scope the applicable Rank anytime successful Season 03 to instantly gain the corresponding Jackal PDW Blueprint.
      • Top 250: Finish Season 03 successful the Top 250 to gain the “Top 250 Issue Jackal PDW” Blueprint.
  • Rank Calling Cards
    • Each Rank Silver and supra has a unsocial Calling Card reward:
      • Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Crimson, Iridescent: Start successful (or above) oregon scope the applicable Rank anytime successful Season 03 to instantly gain the corresponding Season 03 Rank Calling Card..
      • Top 250: Finish Season 03 successful the Top 250.
      • Top 250 Champion: One-of-a-kind Calling Card awarded to the azygous subordinate who finishes Season 03 successful the #1 presumption connected the Top 250.
  • Pro Issue AMES 85 Weapon Blueprint: Unlocked by winning 10 Ranked Play matches successful Season 03.
  • 100 Season 03 Wins Large Decal: Unlocked by winning 100 Ranked Play matches successful Season 03.

Challenges

• “Hard and Fast” Prestige Master Challenge: the statement present mentions the Fast Hands Perk, which besides needs to beryllium equipped to advancement the Challenge.

UI

• Updated the Quartermaster, Hunter's Instinct, and Slipstream Perk descriptions to beryllium clearer.
• Addressed an contented wherever the Scoreboard would beryllium blank erstwhile opening it astatine the extremity of a circular oregon match.
• Addressed an contented wherever Forward Intel Perk would nutrient inconsistent minimap zoom functionality.
• Added a timer to the Winner's Circle that counts down the hold earlier Emotes tin beryllium performed. An Emote triggered during the countdown volition automatically play arsenic soon arsenic the timer ends.
• Addressed a Private Match contented wherever Game Setup was unresponsive aft queuing for Gun Game.
• Addressed an contented wherever the winning representation would beryllium displayed arsenic vetoed aft the Veto Vote concludes successful Ranked Play.
• Updated the SR Protection drawstring successful the Ranked Play lobby to beryllium much descriptive.

Stability

• Addressed assorted stableness issues.

Zombies

Maps

• Shattered Veil (NEW)
  • New representation disposable successful Season 03. Main Quest goes unrecorded astatine 9AM PT connected April 2.
• Liberty Falls
  • Directed Mode
    • Addressed an contented that prevented the Round Cap from updating decently during the Liberty Falls Pack-a-Punch quest.
• The Tomb
  • Addressed an contented wherever seldom the monocle wouldn't spawn astatine the Shock Mimic’s determination erstwhile killed for the Wonder Weapon Quest.
  • Addressed an contented wherever zombies could harm Staff of Ice from down the Plinth.
  • Addressed an contented wherever immoderate zombies could look jittery erstwhile attacking the Staff of Ice.
  • Addressed an contented that caused achromatic fume to travel retired of a playable quality connected death.
  • Addressed an contented wherever the Max Ammo aft a peculiar circular would spawn acold distant from the subordinate if they were successful the Roma Mausoleum.
  • Addressed an contented wherever sections of the obstruction denoting the Vermin Trial portion were not ever present.

Modes

• Team Cranked (Launch Window)
  • Rules
    • The Cranked Timer starts erstwhile the archetypal force is eliminated. The timer is shared crossed the full squad and immoderate termination from immoderate squad subordinate fills it.
      • The timer starts astatine 30 seconds. Each force eliminated replenishes the timer to its existent maximum, and each circular survived causes the maximum timer to beryllium reduced by 1 second.
        • Essence earned by eliminating zombies is accrued compared to Standard/Directed Mode
        • The Time Stopper Field Upgrade replaces your loadout’s Field Upgrade.
        • Main Quests and Easter Eggs are enabled.
  • Abilities
    • Time Stopper: Temporarily intermission the Cranked timer for each teammates. All Operators statesman the lucifer with the Time Stopper Field Upgrade equipped.
      • Time Extended: Grab this uncommon power-up to capable the Cranked timer and adhd a tiny magnitude to the maximum clip allowed.
  • Rewards (Survive past Round 50)
    • A customized enactment of six GobbleGums per map.
      • Each contains 1 high-rarity GobbleGum and 5 GobbleGums of different rarities.
        • 15,000 XP per map, for a full of 75,000 XP crossed each maps.

Wonder Weapons

• Raygun Mark II (and Variants)
  • Drop aggregate zombies astatine erstwhile with the upgraded and modestly unstable Ray Gun Mark II. Recovered from the Dark Aether by Project Janus, this almighty laser armament delivers three-round bursts of energy, tin beryllium Pack-a-Punched, and doubles arsenic a bludgeoning instrumentality if you’re moving debased connected ammunition.
  • Then there’s the 3 caller variants.
    • Provided you’ve [[REDACTED]], you tin experimentation with an further 3 variants of the Ray Gun Mark II:
      • Ray Gun Mark II-W: Offering akin slug patterns to a submachine gun, this besides has a random accidental to ignite enemies.
      • Ray Gun Mark II-P: Shooting ammunition similar a shotgun, with a accidental to spawn a sigil with the quality to assistance invulnerability to the subordinate lasting connected it for a constricted time.
      • Ray Gun Mark II-R: Dropping zombies with a Marksman Rifle-like discharge, expect a accidental to dispersed a plague corruption that tin inflict area-of-effect damage.
• Wunderwaffe DG-2
  • Capable of striking down hordes with chain-lightning blasts, this has the bonus effect of stunning crowds of zombies, usually resulting successful additional, and yet terminal damage.
• Ray Gun
  • Addressed an contented wherever the Ray Gun would not automatically reload erstwhile emptying mag ammo.

Perk-A-Colas

• Double Tap (New)
  • The classical rapid-fire Perk returns for the archetypal clip successful astir a decade, dramatically expanding your weapon’s occurrence complaint to chew done force hordes successful grounds time. Research the iconic Perk for almighty enhancements similar an adjacent faster occurrence complaint and the accidental to inflict treble damage.
  • Double Tap is disposable successful Shattered Veil on with the different antecedently accessible Zombies Perks. Note that immoderate of these Perk-a-Colas are lone disposable via the Der Wunderfizz machine.
  • Double Tap is disposable connected The Tomb, Citadelle des Morts, Liberty Falls and Terminus maps via the Der Wunderfizz machine.
• Double Tap Augments
  • Major
    • Double Jeopardy
      • Normal zombies astatine debased wellness person a accidental to dice instantly erstwhile shot.
    • Double Impact
      • Double hits connected the aforesaid people successful speedy succession woody much damage.
    • Double Standard
      • All non-critical shots bash treble damage. Only applies to mean slug weapons.
  • Minor
    • Double Time
      • Increases occurrence complaint bonus.
    • Double oregon Nothing
      • Weapons person a accidental to bash treble harm but besides person a accidental to bash zero damage.
    • Double Play
      • Killing 2 enemies successful speedy succession has a accidental to instrumentality 2 rounds to your magazine. Only applies to mean slug weapons.

Ammo Mods

• Light Mend
  • Dual Action
    • Addressed an contented wherever consuming a healing glyph would not temporarily let the subordinate to heal faster.
  • Antibiotic
    • Addressed an contented wherever healing glyphs would not harm enemies that interaction it.

Field Upgrades

• Tesla Storm
  • Overclocked
    • Addressed an contented wherever activating Tesla Storm would not summation the player's question speed.
  • Lithium Charged
    • Addressed an contented wherever the extended duration would use to each players activating Tesla Storm if astatine slightest 1 subordinate had it equipped.

GobbleGums

• Addressed an contented wherever players weren't capable to usage their GobbleGums successful their battalion aft entering a Prestige.

Power-Ups

• Max Ammo
  • Addressed an contented that prevented the Max Ammo powerup from refilling ammo for players that are utilizing a Mutant Injection.

Enemies

• Mangler
  • Addressed an contented wherever Manglers could onslaught the subordinate with their cannon from extracurricular playable space.

Challenges

• GS45 Military Camos
  • Changed request to Eliminations alternatively of Critical kills owed to these weapons becoming explosive aft being Pack-a-Punched.
• LR 7.62 Military Camos
  • Changed request to Eliminations alternatively of Critical kills owed to these weapons becoming explosive aft being Pack-a-Punched.
• Titan Felling (Get Elite Kills with Shotguns)
  • Now allows Special Zombie kills to advancement the challenge.
• Perfectly Charred (Kill Special Zombies with Molotovs)
  • Now allows Thermobaric Grenades to advancement the challenge.
• Stalking Prey (While wrong fume from a Smoke Grenade, termination Zombies with Melee Weapons)
  • Removed melee limb request truthful each weapons tin advancement the challenge.

UI

• Addressed an contented wherever the earned reward was missing from the notification aft completing a Main Quest.
• Addressed an contented wherever the ballot punctual could enactment connected surface aft taking a accelerated travel.
• Addressed an contented wherever the Deadliest Weapon was incorrect successful the After Action Report.
• Addressed an contented wherever reward notifications would overlap with the Round Cap callout successful Directed Mode.
• Addressed an contented wherever the equipped Ammo Mod was hidden down your Support erstwhile utilizing akimbo weapons.
• Addressed an contented wherever Blueprint icons would beryllium misaligned erstwhile viewing crushed loot.
• Addressed an contented wherever players are capable to interact with definite machines portion spectating.
• Addressed an contented wherever the Calling Card awarded for completing a Main Quest would not beryllium shown successful the After Action Report.
• Addressed an contented wherever Mutant Injection HUD was displayed during a cutscene.
• Addressed an contented wherever a ping connected the Mystery Box would enactment aft it changes location.
• Corrected immoderate typos.

Graphics

• Addressed an contented erstwhile utilizing the Time Out GobbleGum portion a achromatic flash occurs could permission the surface white.
• Addressed an contented with visuals during the Gold Armor Side Quest connected The Tomb.
• Addressed an contented wherever the Ray Gun would beryllium misaligned with players manus erstwhile successful 3rd-person prone supine.
• Addressed an contented wherever the Pack-a-Punch camo for the “Donatello’s Bo Staff” Blueprint would not screen the full weapon.
• Addressed an contented that caused the “Fire Eater” Beamsmasher Blueprint to not beryllium disposable astatine abbreviated distances.
• Addressed an contented wherever immoderate achromatic flashes could beryllium seen during the Terminus Boat Race Side Quest.

Audio

• Addressed an contented wherever nary dependable effects played erstwhile interacting with the bottommost enactment of keys connected the Keypad successful Terminus.

Stability

• Addressed assorted stableness issues.

Warzone

GLOBAL

RICOCHET ANTI-CHEAT

BATTLE PASS

CONSOLE CROSS-PLAY

In Season 03, we're giving console players much granular options by separating the MP Ranked Play and Call of Duty: Warzone Ranked Play settings and adding a caller Multiplayer-only mounting for Quickplay, Featured, and Party Games matches.

Each of these 3 settings (Multiplayer Ranked Play, Call of Duty: Warzone Ranked Play, and Multiplayer Unranked) volition see the pursuing options:

• On: Enables matchmaking with each gaming platforms erstwhile playing successful the selected playlists.
• On (Consoles Only): Enables matchmaking lone with different consoles erstwhile playing successful selected playlists.
  • May negatively interaction matchmaking queue times.
• Off: Restricts matchmaking to your existent gaming level lone successful selected playlists.
  • Will negatively interaction matchmaking queue times.

Additional details connected however these settings interact with enactment members who are connected antithetic platforms.

• Players successful a enactment who each beryllium to the aforesaid console level volition matchmake with the enactment leader’s preferred cross-play settings.
• Players who person selected "Cross-Play Off" and make a mixed level enactment that includes a antithetic console level volition person their cross-play settings temporarily adjusted to "Cross-Play On (Consoles Only)" to alteration matchmaking. This impermanent accommodation enables matchmaking for the duration of the mixed level party, and disbanding this enactment volition effect successful preferred matchmaking settings being restored.
• Players who person selected "Cross-Play Off" and make a mixed level enactment with a PC subordinate volition person their cross-play settings temporarily adjusted to "Cross-Play On." This enables matchmaking for the duration of the mixed level party, and disbanding this enactment volition effect successful preferred matchmaking settings being restored.
• Reminder: Adjusting Cross-Play settings whitethorn negatively interaction matchmaking queue times.

UI/UX/TECH

• Pre-Loading Shaders
  • Improved paper framerate stableness portion compiling shaders.
    • The Pre-Loading Shaders informing has been divided per crippled mode.
      • Significantly reduced the clip required to compile shaders earlier launching a match.
  • A caller paper widget was added successful the lobby to bespeak the advancement of Pre-Loading Shaders to fto you cognize erstwhile you are acceptable to play!
• PC Benchmark
  • ICYMI: The PC Benchmark remains a utile instrumentality to optimize your gaming experience.
  • Located successful the Graphics Settings paper of Black Ops 6 Multiplayer, it simulates a multiplayer lucifer to assistance you fine-tune your graphics for optimal show and higher framerates.

CUSTOMIZATION

• Weapon & Blueprint Customization
  • You’re present capable to customize immoderate Black Ops 6 basal limb oregon Weapon Blueprint with a tegument you’ve unlocked oregon purchased, crossed Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone.
    • For Base Weapons, you tin lone alteration the tegument of the Base Weapon, not immoderate Attachments.
    • For Blueprints, you tin customize the skins with different existing Attachments.

CHALLENGES

• BlackCell Daily Challenge
  • BlackCell owners tin present implicit an further Daily Challenge successful Multiplayer, Zombies, and Call of Duty: Warzone for an added 7,500 XP each. The BlackCell Daily Challenge counts toward the 3 challenges needed to gain the Daily Challenge Bonus XP.

WARZONE

EVENTS

Return to Verdansk

Welcome backmost to Verdansk!

Celebrate Verdansk's instrumentality by logging into Call of Duty: Warzone from April 3rd to 15th to gain up to 20 rewards including six instant unlocks and the Kali Sticks Melee Weapon.

Open safes successful assorted locations to unafraid rewards, specified arsenic the exclusive "Trail Blazer" Operator Skin for Caine. You whitethorn adjacent get particularly fortunate during your search!

Be definite to log successful to instantly unlock the Kilo 141 and 2 Operator Skins. Original Verdansk veterans besides get bonus items: the "Blue Legacy" Contrails, "Coming Home" Parachute, and "Like We Never Left" Gun Screen.

Visit the Return to Verdansk Blog for afloat details.

MAPS

Classic

• Verdansk
  • Welcome Home: Verdansk has returned! The representation that started it each successful Call of Duty: Warzone - including a breadth of classical and memorable features that people travel with it.
  • Below is simply a recap of immoderate of the improvements made to Verdansk that players tin expect to spot - arsenic outlined successful the Return to Verdansk blog:
    • Trees somewhat repositioned from the archetypal map.
    • Non-drivable vehicles intelligibly marked arsenic smoldering wreckage.
    • Swimming present imaginable - confederate coastline expanded into Kastovian Sea (not captious to gameplay).
    • Improved traversal successful steep areas - caller "goat trails" added.
    • Shorter telephone/electrical poles for easier parachute landings.
    • Additional ladders and adjusted paths to rooftops for amended accessibility.
    • Doors present double-hinged, allowing barging, shooting, oregon blowing open/closed.
    • Ascenders returning mid-season, already disposable successful Plunder mode; updated to faster "L" signifier plan for accrued fluidity and velocity erstwhile getting connected and off
    • Enhanced exterior lighting, improved visibility, and reduced glare.
    • Interior lighting adjusted to trim hiding spots, particularly against acheronian corners.
    • Added item enhancements, specified arsenic other debris and scenery astir Fire Stations and riverbanks.
    • And for console players, the quality to presumption Verdansk successful up to 120 FOV for the archetypal time.
  • For a afloat breakdown of the representation details, cheque retired the Tac-Atlas usher here.
• Gulag Showers
  • The archetypal Gulag from 2020 is back, with each 3 variants included.

• Gulag Overtime: Capture the Flag (CTF)
  • When Gulag match-ups don’t resoluteness accelerated enough, a emblem volition spawn successful the mediate of the arena. The winning subordinate is the 1 that either dispatches their rival arsenic mean oregon captures the emblem wrong the clip limit.

Returning

• Rebirth Island
  • Rebirth Island, which is presently live, volition stay portion of our Season 03 offering. Resurgence Quads volition beryllium added to the playlist soon aft the motorboat of Season 03, with the remaining squad sizes coming aboriginal into the season.

MODES

New

• Battle Royale Casual At Launch
  • The Battle Royale acquisition is branching retired with the instauration of a caller mode featuring bot players. This is designed arsenic a stepping chromatic for players to spell from the Warzone Bootcamp tutorial mode to an acquisition person to our traditional, player-only, experience. Players tin larn the crippled and hone their skills successful a lower-stress situation portion inactive embracing the halfway endurance situation of being the past squad lasting among 148 players.
  • Map:
    • Verdansk
  • Player Count:
    • 28 Players
    • 120 Bots
• High Trip In-Season
  • Players tin look guardant to a caller limited-time lawsuit highly inspired by this clip of year. Join your squad successful a associated effort to airy up your enemies and blaze the way to victory. Details volition beryllium rolled retired arsenic we gully person to the lawsuit date.

Returning

• Battle Royale At Launch
  • Our halfway experience, Battle Royale challenges players to scavenge, survive, and outlast their opponents arsenic the representation shrinks, with the eventual extremity of being the past squad standing.
  • Map:
    • Verdansk
  • Player Count:
    • Solos, Duos, Trios → 150
    • Quads → 152
• Plunder At Launch
  • Plunder returns to Verdansk, challenging players to loot, implicit contracts, and conflict to gain $2 million, with respawn enabled and loadouts intact—ideal for leveling weapons, exploring the map, and experimenting with strategies.
  • Map:
    • Verdansk
  • Player Count:
    • 100
• Warzone Bootcamp At Launch
  • Call of Duty: Warzone Bootcamp is simply a grooming mode with up to 20 players and 24 bots, offering mode-specific matchmaking to assistance players signifier skills, larn basal strategies without affecting their stats.
  • Map:
    • Verdansk
  • Player Count:
    • 20 Players
    • 24 Bots
• Resurgence Launch Window
  • This mode offers a faster-paced, assertive instrumentality connected Battle Royale, with respawn timers allowing eliminated players to redeploy arsenic agelong arsenic teammates survive, encouraging riskier play and predominant engagements.
  • The playlist volition beryllium updated to see Resurgence Quads soon aft the motorboat of Season 03. Other squad sizes for Resurgence volition beryllium included aboriginal into the season.
  • Map:
    • Rebirth Island
  • Player Count:
    • 44

PLAYLIST

For accusation astir upcoming Playlists, delight cheque retired the dedicated Call of Duty: Warzone Trello Board.

RANKED PLAY

Now that Season 02 has officially wrapped up, Ranked Play volition beryllium temporarily offline during the archetypal fractional of Season 03. This downtime volition springiness players a overmuch awaited accidental to rediscover and relearn Verdansk earlier diving backmost into the competition.

We program to bring Ranked Play backmost online with the Season 03 Reloaded update. Upon its return, each subordinate ranks volition acquisition a afloat reset to Bronze, offering everyone adjacent footing and the excitement to ascent backmost up done the ranks. When Season 04 arrives, we'll resume the modular brushed reset, pulling players backmost by lone a fewer ranks.

Thank you for your patience during this modulation play - present spell driblet into Verdansk and person fun!

GENERAL

Classic

• 150 Players
  • The fig of players successful a Battle Royale lucifer has been accrued to 150 players, up from 120.
  • There are 152 players successful the Quads playlist.

We tipped our chapeau astatine this by moving it successful Season 02 Reloaded, nevertheless it was each to service a greater purpose. We’re officially coming location with a premix of 150 of your friends and enemies.

• Freefall Shooting
  • Players tin sprout portion freefalling (also known arsenic skydiving) utilizing their secondary weapon. If nary secondary limb is equipped, they volition default to their backup pistol.

We’re restoring immoderate of the aboriginal crippled strength that keeps you connected your toes instantly leaving the infil plane, and enables much of a effect during a freefall.

• 360-Degree Revive Rotation
  • Players tin present rotate their presumption 360 degrees portion reviving a squadmate, alternatively of being fixed connected their squadmate's downed position, giving the cleanable accidental to telephone retired if your squadmate is being pushed by an force arsenic they revive you
• End-Game Circle Pacing
  • The state ellipse pacing is faithful to the archetypal timings of the state closing arsenic good arsenic the ellipse size and movement.This means that Battle Royale matches volition tally longer to make a much well-defined archetypal looting phase.

We’ve immoderate bully memories of games ending successful the woods supra Quarry, oregon successful the heavy forests connected the East oregon West of Verdansk, and this alteration to ellipse logic brings backmost those imaginable extremity games. Be warned! This does mean that the ellipse tin determination precise rapidly if you are caught heavy extracurricular erstwhile the state starts to move. Respect the circle, and you’ll enactment alive.

• Map Assets
  • Many models and textures recovered crossed Verdansk present diagnostic classical aesthetics including but not constricted to Armor Plates, Armor Satchels, Buy Stations, and Contracts.

GAMEPLAY

Classic

• Ascenders connected Verdansk Battle Royale
  • To bring backmost the classical consciousness of Verdansk, outer ascenders person been disabled astatine motorboat but are scheduled to instrumentality successful the mid-season.
  • Internal ascenders wrong elevator shafts stay operational.

Adjustments

• Gulag Loadouts
  • Loadouts wrong the Gulag has been reworked to amended assortment and balancing.
  • These loadouts volition alteration arsenic the crippled progresses, allowing players that instrumentality to the tract victorious to bash truthful with a competitory limb successful manus for a amended accidental astatine recovery.
• Infil & Backup Pistol
  • Players volition present infil and spawn with the 9mm PM, replacing the GS45.

• Late-Game Redeploy
  • Late-game redeployments volition present spawn players person to the ground, reducing the request to hover portion positioning during last circles. This strategy has not been turned connected since BO6 launched.

• Player Respawn Angles Quality of Life
  • Players volition present respawn looking astir 30 degrees downward alternatively of straight astatine the horizon, providing a clearer presumption of imaginable landing areas.
  • This accommodation aligns with earthy subordinate behaviour erstwhile scouting landing spots.

• Unsuppressed Red Dot Distance
  • The region astatine which unsuppressed weapons show a reddish dot has been reduced successful Resurgence to amended align to the representation size:
    • Reduced to 112.5 meters connected Rebirth Island, down from 250

Unsuppressed Red Dots are halfway to the Call of Duty: Warzone experience, and portion processing Verdansk we took large attraction successful evaluating the spot of reddish dots connected each representation - which antecedently was a static worth careless of play-space. While reviewing these values, we felt that fixed the vastly smaller representation size of Rebirth Island, the Red Dots should beryllium amended aligned to the small-map experience. These adjustments are based connected some subordinate feedback and our plan goals, ensuring that visibility of unsuppressed gunfire matches the intended combat dynamics for each map.

LOOT & ECONOMY

Classic

• Floating Loot
  • Loot recovered connected the crushed volition erstwhile again interval successful the aerial for amended visibility and interactability.

The instrumentality of floating loot is the instauration of galore improvements we’re making to loot enactment this season. Floating loot by itself volition amended your quality to prime up, oregon simply announcement important items erstwhile astatine a distance.

Adjustments

• Ground Loot Refresh
  • Common to Epic weapons present athletics a enactment of random attachments that align with the weapon’s earthy strengths.
  • Legendary weapons travel with a assortment of fixed builds tailored to circumstantial roles, that are randomly selected lucifer implicit match.
  • This alteration aims to support the excitement of random loot portion preserving the reliability of limb performance.

Looting successful caller years has go a small excessively static- a bluish (rare) tier limb often providing the astir invaluable attachments and devaluing an epic oregon legendary find. This alteration aims to bring immoderate antithetic outcomes successful the much commonly recovered weapons, and makes legendary weapons (or loadouts) highly sought after.

• High Value Loot Zones
  • This season, HVLZs stay accordant each match, allowing players to reliably place Hospital, Military Base, and Superstore arsenic Points of Interest (POIs) with enhanced crushed loot and an accrued fig of Supply Boxes.
  • Further enhancements to this diagnostic volition beryllium added successful aboriginal updates.

• Supply Boxes
  • Basic
    • These boxes supply accordant currency rewards and mean to high-quality weapons, occasionally offering premium instrumentality specified arsenic legendary weapons, killstreaks, and state masks.
  • Legendary
    • Legendary Supply Boxes person received important upgrades for a much rewarding experience. These boxes warrant top-tier weapons and immoderate of the champion loot available, with accrued chances of obtaining important cash.
  • Reusable
    • These boxes replenish each 90 seconds, serving arsenic an perfect means for players to regain spot successful the mid-to-late stages of a match, peculiarly aft returning from the Gulag oregon redeployment. They proviso players with a viable weapon, an armor plate, and immoderate currency to rapidly instrumentality to combat readiness.

• Duffel Bags, Medical Cabinets, & Weapon Lockers
  • These sources of loot person been removed to amended work the classical feeling of Verdansk.

• Second Chance Mechanics
  • The pursuing items person been removed from loot:
    • Gulag Tokens
    • Reinforcement Flares
    • Redeploy Tokens
  • The lone disposable methods to instrumentality aft decease are:
    • Gulag Victories
    • Buy Station Buybacks
    • Jail Break Public Events

• Self-Revive Kit
  • Self-revives tin lone beryllium acquired via the pursuing sources:
    • Legendary Supply Boxes → Random drop
    • Scavenger Contract → Random drop
    • Buy Station → $4,000
    • Fire Sale → Free

Your beingness matters. In returning backmost to the classical feeling of Verdansk, we are going backmost to a simpler acceptable of Second Chance Mechanics that are faithful to the archetypal Battle Royale experience.

• Death Tax
  • Cash dropped upon decease has been adjusted to assistance players returning from the Gulag, providing them with a larger information of their erstwhile currency equilibrium for mid-to-late crippled recovery:
    • 50% of the currency equilibrium volition driblet connected the ground
    • 50% volition stay with the eliminated player, up from 20%
    • Previously, 50% of the currency equilibrium dropped connected the ground, with players keeping 20% and 30% being wholly removed from the economy.

After months of playtesting we noted that regain successful the mid-to-late crippled was astir impossible, truthful the plan intent of this is to amended let players to redeploy with a small much currency to springiness them a flimsy leg-up erstwhile it comes to getting backmost into the travel of the game.

• Loot Angle Quality of Life
  • Interactions present necessitate much precise aiming to trim accidental point pickups, resolving astir unintended looting situations, specified arsenic inadvertently picking up items during reloads.

• Rarity Outlines
  • Rarity outlines present gradually slice into presumption lone erstwhile players are wrong a logical proximity, alternatively than remaining disposable astatine each distances.

• Loot Card Positioning
  • Loot cards are present centered implicit items to amended readability, peculiarly erstwhile combined with floating loot.
  • Loot cards stay astatine a fixed tallness alternatively than moving with the player's view.
  • Loot cards are hidden erstwhile players sprint, dive, slide, oregon usage lethals, tacticals, and tract upgrades.

Loot cards present person contextual prompts. For illustration if the subordinate has an bare limb slot, a limb loot paper punctual volition show “Equip”, but if the subordinate has 2 weapons equipped, the punctual volition show “Swap”.

BUY STATIONS

Classic

• Vertical Redesign
  • The vertical database is back! The Buy Station interface has been streamlined, returning to a vertical database layout to much intelligibly show purchasable items and teammates eligible for redeployment.
  • The near broadside of the Buy Station present intelligibly shows each cogwheel disposable for purchase, including equipment, killstreaks, and tract upgrades.
  • The close broadside of the interface volition show teammates who person been eliminated and are eligible for buyback, provided they are not presently awaiting a Gulag battle.
  • Importantly, controller players tin inactive property ‘Up’ to entree the ‘Loadout Drop Marker’ successful 1 fastener property arsenic we wanted to clasp the carousel interface to let for speedy entree to items further down the list.
  • To heighten navigation ratio and stress loadout acquisition, idiosyncratic limb purchases person been removed.

Our purpose is to recapture the classical Battle Royale consciousness reminiscent of playing connected Verdansk 5 years ago. Adjustments to the Buy Station bespeak this vision, featuring a reduced enactment of purchasable items and updated prices aligned with the game's caller economical balance. We mean for players to acquisition an system much akin to Call of Duty: Warzone successful 2020, wherever strategical currency absorption becomes indispensable to gameplay decisions.

New

• Redeploy All Button Quality of Life
  • We person introduced a single-button shortcut astatine Buy Stations, allowing players to redeploy each teammates simultaneously.
  • Although the Redeploy All fastener is executed with 1 fastener press, idiosyncratic flares and dependable effects volition trigger for each teammate redeployed, alerting adjacent enemies to the full fig of returning players.
  • In scenarios wherever insufficient funds forestall buying backmost the full squad, the Redeploy All diagnostic volition prioritize teammates carrying the highest currency amounts.

We admit the urgency of rapidly redeploying teammates nether pressure, particularly erstwhile attempting leader plays amidst dense combat. After cautious consideration, we determined that prioritizing teammates with the highest currency aligns astir intimately with the astir salient behaviour that we’ve observed.

• Item Icons Quality of Life
  • Each introduction successful the vertical bargain presumption present shows the icon of its respective item, arsenic we recovered that this vastly sped up the at-a-glance navigation successful playtesting.

• Item Count Quality of Life
  • Players tin easy spot however galore of an point they already ain portion successful the Buy Station earlier making a determination connected what to purchase.

• Category Subheaders Quality of Life
  • We admit that for caller players, being capable to spot the instrumentality class similar “Killstreak” oregon “Field Upgrade” is adjuvant to cognize what point slot volition beryllium equipped oregon swapped erstwhile an point is purchased.

Adjustments

• Spawn Locations
  • Buy Stations volition spawn successful the aforesaid nonstop 30 static locations crossed each match.

• Inventory Pricing
  • We person updated the prices of the assorted items successful the bargain presumption arsenic follows:
    • Armor Plate: $300
    • Cluster Strike: $3,000
    • Precision Airstrike: $5,000
    • UAV: $6,000
    • Gas Mask: $3,000
    • Self Revive: $4,000
    • Munitions Box: $2,500
    • Armor Box: $4,000
    • Loadout Marker:
      • Solos: $6,000
      • Duos, Trios, Quads: $10,000
    • Squadmate Redeploy: $4,000

• Interact Angle
  • The Buy Station tin present beryllium accessed from immoderate angle, including down it, providing accrued flexibility during tense engagements.

MOVEMENT

Adjustments

• Movement Speed
  • Crouch Movement Speed reduced by 10%
  • Crouch-to-Stand Speed accrued by 15%
  • Crouch-to-Stand Speed While ADS accrued by 39%
  • Prone Movement Speed reduced by 5%
  • Sprint Movement Speed reduced by 4.9%
  • Directional Sprint Animation Blend Speeds accrued for improved fluidity

These values bring Call of Duty: Warzone's question speeds person to the tone of the archetypal acquisition portion inactive preserving the fluidity of Black Ops 6. We promote players to spell hands-on with these fine-tuned changes, arsenic they tin beryllium hard to explicit successful a spot note. The impervious is successful the pudding!

• Jump Cooldown
  • Reduced the cooldown by 40% for improved responsiveness during repeated jumps.

• Omni-sprint Side & Back Speed Scaling
  • Reduced by 8.5%, to amended equilibrium strafe movement.

• Slide Friction
  • Increased by 4% to trim overly slippery engagements.

These adjustments code the ascendant powerfulness of strafe engagements portion maintaining fluidity for mechanics specified arsenic sprinting, strafe reloading, and wide navigation. Responsiveness crossed question systems has been improved to guarantee smoother gameplay portion striking a amended equilibrium for Call of Duty: Warzone's fast-paced encounters. This volition bring backmost the feeling of a classical Warzone acquisition that we each cognize and love.

CONTRACTS

Classic

• Recon Contract
  • Replacing the Intel contract, the Recon Contract provides players with a 4-minute timeframe to seizure a designated domination point.
  • Rewards for completion see currency and a preview of the adjacent circle.
• Supply Run
  • The much-loved “Supply Run” Contract returns! Players person 2 minutes to scope a designated Buy Station to gain rewards, which see currency and a single-item Fire Sale for each squad subordinate astatine the targeted Buy Station.
  • Supply Run contracts volition not look connected the representation until the archetypal ellipse has afloat collapsed.

With the instrumentality of the “Supply Run” Contract, we privation to marque definite that its instrumentality fits wrong the gameplay loop and the economy. This accommodation to beryllium disposable from the 2nd ellipse onwards allows for the Contract to beryllium much centered astir question and vehicles, which successful playtesting we person recovered to beryllium a much amusive and engaging Contract experience.

• Contract Multiplier
  • Returning from the Verdansk era, the declaration multiplier enhances currency rewards arsenic players implicit much contracts.
  • Each declaration completed present grants a +30% currency bonus, stacking up to a maximum of +150% further currency rewards successful some Battle Royale and Resurgence modes.

Stacking up connected completed Contracts successful the aboriginal crippled is simply a large mode to amended your chances if you request a mid-to-late crippled regain, arsenic the multiplier volition transportation passim the full crippled to springiness greater fiscal rewards aboriginal on.

• Tablet Models
  • All contracts person reverted to their archetypal tablet models, providing players with a nostalgic experience.

Adjustments

• Spawn Rebalancing
  • Contract spawn rates person been adjusted passim basal Battle Royale to heighten organisation and amended wide gameplay balance.

• Payout Updates
  • Contract payouts person been updated to align much intimately with values reminiscent of the Verdansk era, though not precisely matching them.
  • Supply Run and Recon declaration payouts are present standardized to lucifer the Scavenger declaration values successful some Battle Royale and Resurgence modes.
  • Completing a Most Wanted declaration nary longer results successful a proviso cache drop.
  • Plunder-specific declaration payouts person been adjusted for consistency crossed modes.

• Recon Contract Progress Quality of Life
  • Added upward arrows indicating however overmuch faster a Recon declaration is being captured by your squad depending connected however galore players are connected the people determination assisting with the capture.

EQUIPMENT

Classic

• Thermite
  • In Season 03, Thermite returns arsenic a specialized anti-vehicle and country denial tool, echoing its archetypal usage successful Verdansk.
  • Unlike erstwhile versions, Thermite nary longer guarantees a termination upon sticking an opponent. It will, however, woody capable harm to down players with 2 armor plates oregon fewer.
  • Thermite present instantly explodes vehicles if their wellness reaches zero from its harm ticks, akin to C4.
  • Unlockable via the Black Ops Tribute event.

Adjustments

The pursuing is an outline of the afloat arsenal of Lethal & Tactical instrumentality - including however to get them crossed a lucifer successful Battle Royale connected Verdansk:

SATCHELS

• Available Satchels
  • Armor Satchel
  • Munitions Satchel
    • Available via Bandolier Wildcard

ARMOR

Adjustments

• Maximum Armor Plates
  • Default maximum capableness reduced from 6 to 5 to lucifer the classical experience.

• Armor Satchel Capacity
  • Now increases sheet capableness by an further 3 plates (totaling 8 armor plates erstwhile equipped), down from the erstwhile 6, to besides lucifer the classical experience.

• Armor Drops
  • Eliminated players volition consistently driblet astatine slightest 1 armor sheet successful Battle Royale and Resurgence matches.
  • This does not use to bots successful Bootcamp and Battle Royale Casual.

Armor is your archetypal enactment of defence and gauges however freely you’ll instrumentality engagements. Recently armor supplies person been truthful plentiful that enemies are capable to reenforce armor respective times successful the mediate of a combat and the conception of “downtime” oregon the request to resupply has been lost. This massively affects the gait of the crippled and besides changes however you’ll rotate to the adjacent harmless zone.

To support balanced gameplay, armor has go little abundant, ensuring players acquisition meaningful downtime and strategical decisions betwixt engagements. This returns the gameplay consciousness to a much classical experience, emphasizing the worth of armor resupply.

• Gulag Armor Removed successful Unranked
  • In unranked Battle Royale modes, the Gulag present features health-only combat, placing greater accent connected precision and tactical movement, reminiscent of the classical Gulag experience.

• Armor Plate Color Improvements Quality of Life
  • The Armor Plate colour has received an betterment wherever the colour hue volition beryllium darker if the subordinate doesn’t person afloat plates. The colour volition stay the acquainted agleam colour hue erstwhile the players are full. This volition amended bespeak to players erstwhile they person astir afloat plates.

FIELD UPGRADES

New

• Field Upgrades successful Squad Widget Quality of Life
  • The Squad Widget present expands to show squadmates' progressive Field Upgrades to amusement their full inventory to let for improved comms and strategy.

Adjustments

The pursuing is an outline of the afloat arsenal of Field Upgrades successful a lucifer of Battle Royale connected Verdansk:

• Heartbeat Sensor
  • Increased artillery beingness from 60 to 120 seconds.

We can’t instrumentality location decently without welcoming backmost the Heartbeat sensor. While not infinite similar its large predecessor, we recognize that a infinitesimal of artillery clip is simply not capable to utilize effectively.

• Reclaimable Field Upgrade Icon Quality of Life
  • An interactable icon (white dot) present appears connected reclaimable Field Upgrades to amended item that they tin beryllium re-equipped.

KILLSTREAKS

• Precision Airstrike Indicator
  • To instrumentality to the classical feeling of Verdansk, the Precision Air Strike Mini-Map notification that was added past twelvemonth has been removed.

We person removed the Precision Airstrike’s approximate way indicator connected the mini-map successful bid to instrumentality backmost to however it worked successful 2020, wherever portion of its intent was to astonishment your enemies. We volition show feedback, information and sentiment connected this arsenic we look to the weeks ahead.

• Crowded Airspace Notification Quality of Life
  • The "Airspace excessively crowded" connection volition present look erstwhile a subordinate attempts to prime up oregon purpose down sights (ADS) with a killstreak successful an country wherever excessively galore aerial killstreaks are presently active.
  • This removes uncertainty astir killstreak usability upon looting.

PERKS

Adjustments

• Lootable Perks
  • All lootable perks person been removed from Battle Royale arsenic we instrumentality to the classical feeling of Verdansk.
  • These whitethorn instrumentality successful a aboriginal update depending connected feedback.

WEAPONS

Reflecting connected our 5th Anniversary, it’s important to admit our travel and existent state, including successful regards to combat. This milestone presents an accidental to observe our successes and critically measure our shortcomings. The crippled has continuously evolved done the summation of caller features, systemic enhancements, economical adjustments, and philosophical shifts successful balancing. These improvements assistance america amended recognize what is effectual and wherever further refinements are needed.

Call of Duty: Warzone was designed to present the essence of a Call of Duty Battle Royale, combining exceptional, precise gunplay wrong a strategical and aggravated "limited life" scenario. While this halfway rule remains intact, definite distractions person astatine times impacted the intended pacing and strength of gameplay.

Building upon caller adjustments, specified arsenic the simplification of Armor reserves to amended economical pacing, we are introducing important buffs to limb damage. Initially, these enhancements volition absorption connected the Black Ops 6 catalogue, subsequently extending to bequest weapons.

Our extremity with these changes is to summation the lethality of each encounter, reinvigorate overlooked limb classes, and promote players to follow a much thoughtful and deliberate strategy successful mentation for engagements.

Classic Weapons

• Kilo 141 Assault Rifle
  • Fully automatic battle firearm with an ergonomic plan that improves handling, and a dependable occurrence complaint helps enactment connected target.
  • Available via Call of Duty: Warzone Login Reward
• CR-56 AMAX Assault Rifle
  • This lightweight 7.62 x 39mm full-auto battle firearm is compact and powerful. Built exclusively for subject use, the modular contented firearm is deadly astatine mid-range combat and easy configured for a assortment of battle tactics.
  • Available via Battle Pass Page 6 HVT Tier Reward, Completion Page Battle Pass Blueprint
• HDR Sniper Rifle
  • Anti-material bolt enactment sniper firearm chambered successful 12.7 x 108mm ammunition. Bullets person a little muzzle velocity but stay devastating adjacent astatine precise agelong ranges.
  • This limb is capable to one-shot headshot force players from immoderate distance.
  • Available via Battle Pass Page 3 HVT Tier Reward, Page 11 Battle Pass Blueprint
• Kali Sticks Melee
  • Two-hit kill. Extremely accelerated onslaught speed. Short range.
  • Available via Event Reward

New Conversion Kits

• SWAT 5.56 GRAU Conversion Kit
  • Convert the SWAT 5.56 into a afloat automatic limb with little harm and scope but improved accuracy, mobility, and handling. Equips a caller default Barrel and Magazine and unlocks an exclusive 50-round extended Magazine. Blocks Barrel attachments.
  • Available via Battle Pass Page 5 Reward

New Attachments

• Monolithic Suppressor
  • Monolithic Core provides superior dependable suppression and accrued range. Moderate value summation affects agility. The perfect attachment for extending your harm scope connected large maps similar Verdansk portion retaining the concealment provided by a suppressor.
  • Available via Battle Pass Page 7 Reward

General Adjustments

• Default Loadouts
  • Default Loadouts disposable via Loadout Crates during a lucifer person been updated with much competitory options.

This season, we person updated the Default Loadouts with a caller enactment of weapons and equipment. Our extremity is to supply viable options that cater to some caller and returning players. To guarantee these loadouts stay competitive, we are committed to making predominant adjustments.

VEHICLES

Classic

• Heli
• Cargo Truck
• Polaris
• LTV
• ATV

Adjustments

Pinging Near Vehicles Quality of Life

• Made improvements to the accuracy of pings to loot adjacent a conveyance to debar the ping to ‘snap’ to vehicles.

UI/UX

Classic

• Victory Screen
  • The iconic Warzone Victory surface returns to the classical Victory animation.

• Tac Map & Compass Icons
  • The Tac Map has the circular cursor from the classical Call of Duty: Warzone experience.
  • All Map icons are besides spiritually faithful to the colour pallet from Verdansk with immoderate improvements to assistance amended place definite items astatine a glance.
• Ping Visuals
  • The Ping Shape has been reverted from the triangle signifier to a lollipop signifier that featured successful classical Verdansk
  • "Go To" pings present besides person classical visuals, improving legibility.
• Score Feed Colors
  • Standard people events present look yellowish for that classical look.
  • Special people events are highlighted successful achromatic for amended distinction.

New

• Weapon Inspect to View Attachments Quality of Life
  • Inspecting a limb present displays each its attachments on-screen, allowing players to spot precisely however the weapon is configured.
  • This tin beryllium disabled with the “Weapon Inspect Attachment Info” option.

We're excited to present this update arsenic portion of our ongoing efforts to amended clarity and onboarding. Seeing a weapon’s afloat attachment setup astatine a glimpse helps players amended recognize builds and particularly the limb they picked up from the ground. We’re investigating different ways to usage the Inspect interface to assistance with onboarding and amended explaining the player’s loadout. We'll support listening to feedback to guarantee this betterment feels adjuvant without adding clutter.

• Detailed Death Recap Quality of Life
  • We've expanded the Death Recap Widget to supply much elaborate accusation astir however you were eliminated. In summation to showing attacker number and harm dealt, the widget present highlights cardinal conditions that contributed to your death:
    • Affected by Live Ping: Indicates if the force had you pinged.
    • Affected by UAV: Indicates if you were revealed connected the minimap by a UAV, UAV Tower, oregon Advanced UAV.
    • Affected by Unsuppressed Weapon: Indicates if firing an unsuppressed limb exposes your presumption to adjacent enemies.
      • For the archetypal fewer days of the caller season, players volition announcement “Unsuppressed Weapon” saying “Weapon Ping” portion the squad works to get the wording updated.

We're excited to present this update arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to amended clarity and code concerns astir unfair deaths. This is conscionable the opening — we'll proceed expanding the Death Recap Widget with aboriginal patches. Our extremity is to make a adjuvant instrumentality that allows players to amended recognize what led to their death, admit force advantages, and yet amended their gameplay. While we're committed to adding meaningful insights, we’ll guarantee the widget remains cleanable and informative without overwhelming players.

We're anxious to perceive your feedback arsenic we refine this diagnostic further.

• Prioritize Favorite Loadout successful Gunsmith Quality of Life
  • When you’ve finished your preferred Loadout successful the Call of Duty: Warzone Gunsmith, and acceptable it to Favorite successful the Loadout Options, the Loadout is prioritized and moved to the apical of the database for easiness of access.
• Mission Items successful Squad Widget Quality of Life
  • A caller slot has been added to the Squad Widget to amusement each squad member’s astir caller ngo point icon for improved coordination.
    • A ngo point refers to things similar Keycards oregon easter-egg items that mightiness necessitate immoderate coordination with allies.

Adjustments

• Death Skull Icon Quality of Life
  • The size of the Death Skull Icon has accrued to marque it easier for players to find their erstwhile decease determination based connected feedback that it was hard to spot.

• Navigation Pings
  • Updated to supply clearer, much intuitive iconography, with a plan that whitethorn consciousness acquainted to seasoned players.

• Player Icons
  • Mini-map and Tac representation subordinate icons person been enhanced to visually differentiate between:
    • Talking
    • Firing a weapon
    • Staying quiet
    • Ghost perk connected / off

• Leaving Match Confirmation Quality of Life
  • Players attempting to permission a lucifer portion a teammate is inactive live volition present person a confirmation punctual to forestall accidental exits.

• Ping Distance Text connected Map Quality of Life
  • Added acheronian backing to pings connected representation to amended readability of the region substance connected the map.
• Ping Duration Setting Quality of Life
  • This caller mounting lets players determine however agelong pings past connected their screen. Select betwixt Off, Infinite, oregon On which volition fto players prime the duration betwixt 1 and 20 seconds.

• Tacmap Centering Options Quality of Life
  • New setting, “Map Assist”, provides a fewer antithetic options to alteration players to person much bureau implicit their experience:
    • Auto Zoom & Center: Upon opening the map, it volition car zoom and car halfway connected the subordinate each time
    • Auto Center: Upon opening the map, it volition car halfway connected the subordinate each time
    • Zoom & Center Once: Upon opening the map, it volition car zoom and car halfway connected the subordinate 1 clip per match
    • Center Once: Upon opening the map, it volition car halfway connected the subordinate 1 clip per match
    • Off: Upon opening the map, it volition beryllium showing the past determination the tacmap was closed on. This means players volition request to manually set the representation each clip they unfastened it.

We’re excited to supply much options to players to set the representation to their preference. We volition proceed to show feedback astir this betterment arsenic players get to experimentation with it.

AUDIO

Classic

• Cinematics
  • Infil, Gulag, and Exfil
• Music
• Announcer
  • Re-recorded by archetypal announcer Julian Stone (2020)
• Hit Markers
• Including Armor and Armor Breaks
• Death's Door
• Footstep Recordings
• Loot Chests
• Buy Stations
• Contracts
• UI Sounds
  • Pings, Splashes, and Progression

Adjustments

• Occlusion & Reverb
  • Transitioned from older ray-casted occlusion strategy to Microsoft Triton acoustics audio middleware, providing realistic audio occlusion, obstruction, and reverberation.
  • Improved dependable behaviour astir corners and surfaces.
  • Custom-tuned information specifically optimized for Call of Duty: Warzone.

• Sound Modifiers
  • Adopted caller procedural audio exertion (developed by Treyarch) that dynamically adjusts sounds based connected gameplay elements (entity speed, angle, elevation).

• Footsteps & Ladders
  • Unique tuning for Call of Duty: Warzone footsteps abstracted from premium titles (introduced with MWIII).
  • Friendly teammates' footsteps reduced erstwhile positioned down the player.
  • Footstep loudness dynamically scales with entity speed.
  • Footstep transportation changes based connected subordinate elevation (above vs. below).
  • Ladder sounds amplified and adjusted based connected subordinate question speed.
  • Boosted audio cues for jumping, landing, and distinctive ceiling footsteps to intelligibly bespeak players moving overhead.

• Cloth/Gear & Mantling
  • Cloth & Gear sounds are present distinctively tuned for Call of Duty: Warzone, abstracted from premium titles.
  • Increased clarity and measurement of mantling and melee sounds, differentiating affable and force movements.
  • Enhanced mantling audio to lucifer footsteps for greater situational awareness.

• Loot Supply Boxes
  • Audio transportation present dynamically adjusts based connected vertical elevation, providing clearer vertical positional feedback.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an contented that caused the Death Recap Widget to registry bleed harm portion successful past stand.
• Fixed an contented wherever Bomb Squad incorrectly allowed fuse resets; this functionality is exclusive to Reflexes.
• Fixed an contented causing players to beryllium eliminated erstwhile mantling onto attraction packages.
• Fixed an contented wherever players were eliminated upon interacting with the Most Wanted reward crate.
• Fixed an contented causing a UI mistake preventing players from creating caller loadouts.
• Fixed an contented causing a Dev Error erstwhile opening the Armor Challenge menu.
• Fixed an contented causing a Dev Error erstwhile exiting backstage matches.
• Fixed an contented wherever the Corvus Masterkey Underbarrel occasionally caused instant downs astatine immoderate range.
• Fixed an contented preventing the Quartermaster Suppressor from unlocking properly.
• Fixed an contented causing definite instrumentality to duplicate upon redeployment.
• Fixed an contented wherever players would teleport crossed the representation erstwhile utilizing an ascender successful the pre-game lobby.
• Fixed an contented with the incorrect show of afloat ATVI IDs.
• Fixed an contented wherever players mislaid power aft Jailbreak revivals.
• Fixed an contented with the state disguise overlay not aligning decently with surface boundaries.
• Fixed an contented preventing restocking of Gulag lethals and tacticals from ammo caches oregon munitions boxes.
• Fixed an contented allowing infinite submissions of Biometrics Keycards.
• Fixed an contented causing nonaccomplishment of subordinate power erstwhile interacting with a loadout aft redeploying from the Gulag.
• Fixed an contented causing incorrect currency displays for spectating players.
• Fixed an contented causing nonaccomplishment of tract upgrade deployment quality aft utilizing a loadout.
• Fixed an contented with MW2 and MW3 camo descriptions not intelligibly stating weapon-level requirements.
• Fixed an contented preventing contiguous limb occurrence aft cutting a parachute without re-pressing the occurrence button.
• Fixed an contented causing obituary messages to overlap with the squad widget successful the HUD.
• Fixed an contented causing incorrect elimination crediting to uninvolved players.
• Fixed an contented with declaration icons incorrectly displaying elevation information.
• Fixed an contented wherever Bunker Buster state harm bypassed state masks if equipped wrong the gas.
• Fixed galore bequest limb descriptions and statistics.
• Fixed an contented preventing MW2 and MW3 weapons from appearing correctly successful the loot feed.

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