Call Of Duty Patch Notes For Black Ops 6, Warzone, And Zombies Reveal All The Big Squid Game Updates

It is a huge day for Name of Responsibility, as the brand new Squid Recreation collaboration launches at present, January 3, alongside a big replace throughout Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Activision has now posted the complete patch notes, revealing all the numerous modifications and updates–and there are numerous.

Throughout Black Ops 6, Zombies, and Warzone, all mantle speeds have been elevated, whereas doorways can now be opened and shut whereas sprinting. Moreover, the Cleaver melee weapon is now out there to unlock by the brand new Squid Recreation occasion reward within the new occasion go, which prices 1,100 COD Factors for the premium monitor.

Moreover, Activision warned that some gamers may see their Operator choices and customizations reset with the brand new replace. Activision did not say why that is occurring or what gamers can do about it past simply beginning over.

There are a bunch of latest Squid Recreation-themed multiplayer modes out there now in Black Ops 6, together with Pink Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle and one referred to as Roulette Handgun. This mode permits gamers to acquire a robust handgun that comes with the chance of killing the participant, as every shot has an opportunity to explode the weapon and the participant.

There aren’t any weapon-balance changes, however Black Ops 6’s Scorestreaks are getting new tuning updates. This features a discount in max injury for the RC-XD and Care Packages now containing fewer Scout Pulses. The Sentry Turret, in the meantime, sees will increase to its HP and hearth price, whereas the Watchdog Helo’s injury is elevated as nicely.

For Zombies, there’s a new Squid Recreation mode referred to as Lifeless Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle the place gamers attempt to rack up zombie kills throughout the Inexperienced Gentle part. When Pink Gentle is named, any participant who strikes has essence drained from them. And when the Lifeless Gentle part kicks in, gamers face off in opposition to more and more tough waves of zombies.

In Warzone, the January 3 patch fixes a lot of bugs, together with an error that might stop the exfil animation to play throughout Ranked Play. The replace additionally fixes a problem that incorrectly stopped gamers from utilizing an Superior UAV in some situations, and one other subject pertaining to cash drops.

The January 3 patch additionally brings a Squid Recreation mode to Warzone’s Urzikstan map. This comes within the type of a rotating collection of challenges, with groups eradicated every spherical till just one stays. Moreover, Pink Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle could be triggered between rounds.

You possibly can see the complete patch notes beneath, as shared by Activision.

As for Squid Recreation, the second season of the favored Netflix collection is out now. Season 3 is ready for launch later this 12 months.

Friday, January 3, 2025

GLOBAL

Motion

• Elevated all mantle speeds.
• Doorways can now be opened and closed whereas sprinting.

Weapons

• New Cleaver Melee weapon now out there by way of Occasion rewards.
• Addressed a problem the place the participant’s view might develop into obstructed with particular weapons when utilizing the Darkish Practitioner Tracer Pack Bundle with out an optic.
• Addressed a problem the place Gun Screens wouldn’t be seen on the Saug Mecha-Drake Mastercraft Blueprint.
• Hawker Hybrid optic now appropriately works with the Ginger Dread Blueprint.

UI

• Improved AAR stream.
  • Added a Dismiss button to exit at any level and a timer.
  • Added a Abstract on the finish.
• Improved readability when looking for a match.
• Addressed a problem the place Gun Screens couldn’t be previewed.

NOTE: Some gamers may even see their Operator choices and Operator customizations reset after this replace.

MULTIPLAYER

Modes

• Pink Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle (NEW)
  • Younger-hee is watching, so don’t misstep on the incorrect time. Get on the pitch within the Pink Card stadium and play three rounds of Pink Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle, every two minutes lengthy.
  • In Spherical 1, nobody will get a weapon. In Rounds 2 and three, you’ll be able to choose up weapons on the bottom and eradicate different opponents with melee assaults and Ending Strikes. There’s only one easy rule: When Younger-hee says “Inexperienced Gentle,” the struggle is on. Transfer a muscle after she says “Pink Gentle” and also you’re toast.

• Pentathlon (NEW)
  • Show that you’ve what it takes in the long term by competing in a collection of Multiplayer modes to search out out who reigns supreme! Play Domination, Kill Confirmed, and Hardpoint together with two new mode variants: Piggy Financial institution Crew Deathmatch and Roulette.
    • In Piggy Financial institution TDM, each elimination provides rating to the Mega Piggy Financial institution; struggle for possession of the massive payout when it drops half manner by the match.
    • In Roulette, one-shot eliminations by way of the Roulette Handgun award double the factors, although with every fired shot there’s an opportunity it’ll blow up in your fingers!

• Squid Recreation Moshpit (NEW)
  • Hearth up the Squid Recreation Moshpit together with Crew Deathmatch, Domination, and Hardpoint with a twist as gamers achieve entry to a few essential Squid Recreation-themed options:
    • Pink Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle Scorestreak: Is the struggle getting too hectic for you? Cease the enemy of their tracks with this Scorestreak that calls “Pink Gentle,” commanding all enemy gamers to cease transferring or threat elimination.
    • Piggy Financial institution: Eradicated gamers have an opportunity of dropping a Piggy Financial institution that awards a small rating increase when picked up. For a much bigger payday, look ahead to the Mega Piggy Financial institution. Each elimination provides extra rating to the Mega Piggy Financial institution, so as soon as it drops, struggle for it to amass all of the deposited rating inside.
    • Roulette Handgun: The epitome of excessive threat, excessive reward. The Roulette Handgun spawns within the heart of the map; seize it to activate a everlasting UAV impact whereas wielding it and land one-shot eliminations in opposition to enemies, incomes greater than double the conventional rating that will help you acquire Scorestreaks extra shortly. The catch? Your location will probably be marked for everybody to see, and each shot has an opportunity to explode the weapon, taking you down with it.

• Prop Hunt
  • Improved spatial audio on Prop whistles.
  • Addressed a problem the place Prop UI might stay current when switching rounds to the Hunter workforce.
  • Addressed a problem the place Props might block doorways from opening when locked in place.

Wildcards

• Excessive Curler (NEW)
  • Permits gamers to equip as much as 4 Scorestreaks.

Scorestreaks

• RC-XD
  • Barely decreased the RC-XD’s max injury.

• Archangel Launcher
  • Addressed a uncommon subject the place the following bullet fired from a weapon after utilizing the Archangel Launcher might be an Archangel rocket.

• Care Bundle
  • Care Packages will now comprise the Scout Pulse Scorestreak much less steadily.

• LDBR
  • Decreased the injury the LDBR does to its proprietor.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 950 to 800.

• Sentry Turret
  • Elevated Sentry Turret hearth price.
  • Elevated Sentry Turret HP.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1000 to 950.

• Hellstorm
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1050 to 1000.

• Watchdog Helo
  • Barely elevated the Watchdog Helo’s injury.
  • Elevated Watchdog Helo accuracy when it acquires a brand new goal.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1100 to 1050.

• Strategic Bomber
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1300 to 1100.

• A.G.R. MK 1
  • Prime velocity elevated.
  • Acceleration elevated.
  • Addressed a problem the place the A.G.R. MK 1 was deploying with much less HP than meant.

• Dreadnought
  • Barely elevated Dreadnought HP.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1800 to 1700.

UI

• Addressed a problem the place the incorrect Finisher would typically be previewed.
• Addressed numerous points with overlapping textual content.
• Appropriate Calling Playing cards now show throughout the Winner’s Circle in Free-For-All.

Audio

• Lowered the vary of Emote sound results.

ZOMBIES

Maps

• Citadelle des Morts
  • Elemental Sword Surprise Weapons
    • Normal
      • All swords can now hit as much as two enemies per swing. The extra hit will do injury based mostly on distance.
      • Extra hit injury is 100% at close-to-medium distance and 50% past that.
      • Gamers can now parry Amalgam grabs with Elemental Swords.
      • Addressed a problem the place sword injury might be decreased when utilizing the Void Sheath Increase for Aether Shroud.
    • Balmung
      • Skill procs extra steadily whereas charged.
      • Lowered the required kills to cost from 40 to 25.
      • Decreased cooldown from 20 to 10 seconds.
      • Barely lowered the possibility to activate the passive results to account for the decreased cooldown between activations.
    • Durandel
      • Elevated particular assault injury.
      • Elevated Electrical Beam particular assault injury per tick from 40% to 65% of base zombie well being.
      • Skill now procs extra steadily whereas charged.
      • Decreased cooldown from 25 to three seconds.
      • Barely lowered the possibility to activate the passive results to account for the decreased cooldown between activations.
      • Addressed a problem the place Durandel’s charged assault wouldn’t be seen to different gamers.
    • Caliburn
      • Adjusted to activate Napalm Burst Augments when the sword procs, much like Balmung and Durandal.
    • Solais
      • Barely decreased effectiveness of Armor regeneration means.
      • Barely elevated swing interrupt time for sword swing.
      • Lowered Armor regeneration proportion from 5% to 4% per swing.
  • Principal Quest
    • Addressed a problem the place gamers might typically be unable to choose up the Lightning Rod relying on the place it dropped.
    • The Lightning Rod zombie will now return to the Dungeon if there aren’t any gamers close by.
    • Addressed a problem the place activating the Time Out GobbleGum to progress a spherical throughout the Principal Quest boss struggle would respawn eradicated gamers within the beginning space and down them.
    • Gamers will now respawn within the boss struggle area.
    • Addressed a problem the place Particular Spherical results wouldn’t disable when getting into the Principal Quest boss struggle.
    • Adjusted Deadshot ADS placement to be extra correct in opposition to the Principal Quest boss.
    • Addressed a problem the place Krafft might communicate to the participant earlier than interacting with him within the Dungeon.
    • Addressed a problem the place saving and quitting in a Solo match earlier than talking to Krafft would stop Principal Quest development after loading the save.
    • Addressed a problem the place the Gentle Ritual mirrors couldn’t be interacted with after a participant joins in progress.
    • Addressed a problem the place wisps within the Gentle Problem for the Mystic Orb would freeze visually however nonetheless depend towards completion.
    • Addressed a problem the place the Mystic Orb wouldn’t be seen to gamers becoming a member of in progress after the Knight’s Ceremony.
    • Addressed a problem the place Principal Quest progress was not saved when selecting up the Mystic Orb after the Knight’s Ceremony and saving and quitting in a Solo match.Addressed a problem the place the Durendal sword might be floating upon loading right into a saved Solo match.
    • Addressed a problem the place melee weapons wouldn’t have the ability to open one of many locks on the Pack-a-Punch container.
    • Closed an exploit the place gamers would take no injury and be unable to maneuver when failing the Sanctuary timed problem.
    • Addressed some situations the place a particular set of interactions might result in clean goal textual content.
    • Addressed a problem the place the Blood Aetherium Crystal might get caught in a non-playable space.
    • Addressed some points with visible results spawning in non-intended areas.
    • Up to date the mannequin for the Mystic Orb.

• Terminus
  • Addressed a problem the place gamers respawned by progressing a spherical throughout the Principal Quest boss struggle with the Time Out GobbleGum could be unable to see the boss’s well being bar.
  • Addressed a problem the place the Workshop Lockdown Principal Quest step would finish early by putting a Shock Cost after beginning.
  • Pace Increase choice now correctly features throughout the Boat Race Facet Quest.

Modes

• Lifeless Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle (NEW)
  • Compete in an undead model of the stop-and-go recreation in Lifeless Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle. Within the “Inexperienced Gentle” part, gamers achieve a bonus to earned Essence, so rack up the zombie eliminations. As soon as “Pink Gentle” is named, Essence is drained from any participant who strikes, so spend huge earlier than this part or cling tight to keep away from throwing away your hard-earned foreign money. And it doesn’t finish there. When the dreaded “Lifeless Gentle” part begins, put together for a tricky struggle as a meaner wave of enemies strategy.
  • Out there first in Citadelle des Morts, with Liberty Falls added after Week 1.

• Directed Mode
  • Directed Mode now out there for Citadelle des Morts with distinctive rewards.
    • NOTE: The deadline to earn the Principal Quest early completion rewards for Citadelle des Morts by way of Customary Mode has been prolonged till the top of Season 01 to permit gamers extra time to finish the Principal Quest.
  • Prolonged time between rounds and the delay between spawning zombies after 5 looped rounds on the spherical cap in Directed Mode.

• Coaching Course
  • Addressed a problem that might stop the “Getting New Weapons” station from progressing.

Weapons

• Addressed a problem the place gamers would lose the flexibility to equip a second weapon if the “Weapon Cycle” setting was enabled.

GobbleGums

• Addressed a problem that left the participant weak briefly whereas teleporting from “Anyplace However Right here!” or “Nowhere However There” GobbleGums.

Ammo Mods

• Shadow Rift
  • Large Recreation
    • Large Recreation will not deal deadly injury to Elite enemies.

Discipline Upgrades

• Aether Shroud
  • Void Sheath Increase
    • Addressed a problem the place melee weapon injury wouldn’t be elevated.

Scorestreaks

• Mutant Injection
  • Addressed a problem the place Mangler Cannon results might be caught on the display screen after the Scorestreak has ended.

• Chopper Gunner
  • Addressed a problem the place the gun from the Chopper Gunner might be used after the Scorestreak has ended.

• Sentry Turret
  • Addressed a problem that prevented a Sentry Turret from being positioned after utilizing the Balmung charged means.

Energy-Ups

• Hearth Sale
  • Addressed a problem the place not often Hearth Sale would go away an additional Thriller Field on the map.

Enemies

• Doppelghast
  • Addressed a problem the place the needle blast from a Doppelghast affected by Mind Rot might hurt the participant.

• Vermin
  • Addressed a problem the place Vermin might typically hit twice with one assault.

Actions

• Splitscreen
  • Addressed a problem the place zombies would typically ignore the host participant.

Challenges

• Camo Challenges
  • Addressed a problem the place Pack-a-Punched GS45s wouldn’t progress the Siamese Camo after Army Camo development was full.

• Every day Challenges
  • Addressed a problem the place the “Drink 3 Perk-a-Colas” Every day Problem wouldn’t progress.

• Calling Card Challenges
  • Status 3: Explosive Shock
    • Addressed a problem the place the Explosive Shock Status 3 Calling Chard Problem was not monitoring correctly.
  • Status 8: Shut Name
    • Up to date this Problem to depend kills from teleporting with the “Anyplace However Right here!” GobbleGum.
    • Up to date this Problem to additionally embody “Nowhere However There!” GobbleGums.
  • Addressed points that prevented the next challenges from monitoring correctly:
    • Trophy Hunter: “Insanity”
    • Status 6: “Gullible”
    • Status 7: “Outdated Devoted”
    • Status 10: “Stupify”

Warzone

• Fastened a problem permitting gamers to achieve the advantages of the Battle Prepared Wildcard whereas grabbing a loadout with a distinct Wildcard.
• Fastened a problem inflicting enemy parachute opening sounds from occluding correctly, making it appear enemies parachuting are nearer than they had been.
• Fastened a problem stopping gamers from utilizing an Superior UAV after already calling one in throughout the match.
• Fastened a problem stopping controller gamers from utilizing a Killstreak if it’s not showing on the HUD.
• Fastened a problem stopping gamers from dropping stacks of $500.
• Fastened a problem stopping spawn safety on Rebirth Island from functioning correctly.
• Fastened a problem stopping the exfil animation from enjoying in Ranked Play.
• Fastened a problem that would kick gamers out of a match when leaving a chat channel.