First Call of Duty Update of 2025 Ushers in Squid Game Crossover, Increases Mantle Speeds, and Adds a New Wildcard

Name of Responsibility’s 1.065.000 is now installable, setting the Squid Recreation crossover for Black Ops 6 and Warzone reside.

Whereas the Squid Recreation crossover, alongside its controversial Occasion Move, is the spotlight of this replace, it additionally makes a variety of adjustments to the first-person shooter, as detailed within the patch notes on Activision’s web site.

Conspicuous by its absence is point out of anti-cheat after a troubling interval for Name of Responsibility that is seen its hardcore neighborhood name on Activision to do extra to stop cheaters from impacting each Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Count on anti-cheat enhancements from Season 2.

The two.699GB patch (PS5) for the Name of Responsibility app, which should be downloaded whether or not you personal Black Ops 6 or not, provides new Multiplayer and Zombies modes, the brand new Excessive Curler Wildcard, and makes numerous steadiness adjustments to Scorestreaks. The patch notes in full are beneath.

Name of Responsibility Black Ops 6 replace 1.065.000 patch notes:

GLOBAL

Motion

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

Weapons

• New Cleaver Melee weapon now obtainable through 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 accurately works with the Ginger Dread Blueprint.

UI

• Improved AAR move.
  • 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 might even see their Operator choices and Operator customizations reset after this replace.

MULTIPLAYER

Modes

• Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle (NEW)
  • Younger-hee is watching, so don’t misstep on the mistaken time. Get on the pitch within the Crimson Card stadium and play three rounds of Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle, every two minutes lengthy.
  • In Spherical 1, nobody will get a weapon. In Rounds 2 and three, you may decide up weapons on the bottom and remove different rivals 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 “Crimson Gentle” and also you’re toast.
• Pentathlon (NEW)
  • Show that you’ve what it takes in the long term by competing in a sequence of Multiplayer modes to seek out out who reigns supreme! Play Domination, Kill Confirmed, and Hardpoint together with two new mode variants: Piggy Financial institution Staff Deathmatch and Roulette.
    • In Piggy Financial institution TDM, each elimination provides rating to the Mega Piggy Financial institution; struggle for possession of the large payout when it drops half manner by the match.
    • In Roulette, one-shot eliminations through the Roulette Handgun award double the factors, although with every fired shot there’s an opportunity it’ll blow up in your arms!
• Squid Recreation Moshpit (NEW)
  • Fireplace up the Squid Recreation Moshpit together with Staff Deathmatch, Domination, and Hardpoint with a twist as gamers acquire entry to a few essential Squid Recreation-themed options:
    • Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle Scorestreak: Is the struggle getting too hectic for you? Cease the enemy of their tracks with this Scorestreak that calls “Crimson Gentle,” commanding all enemy gamers to cease transferring or danger 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 accumulate all of the deposited rating inside.
    • Roulette Handgun: The epitome of excessive danger, excessive reward. The Roulette Handgun spawns within the middle 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 traditional rating that will help you receive Scorestreaks extra rapidly. The catch? Your location shall 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 group.
  • 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 lowered 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 may very well be an Archangel rocket.
• Care Package deal
  • Care Packages will now comprise the Scout Pulse Scorestreak much less ceaselessly.
• LDBR
  • Decreased the injury the LDBR does to its proprietor.
  • Diminished rating requirement from 950 to 800.
• Sentry Turret
  • Elevated Sentry Turret hearth charge.
  • Elevated Sentry Turret HP.
  • Diminished rating requirement from 1000 to 950.
• Hellstorm
  • Diminished 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.
  • Diminished rating requirement from 1100 to 1050.
• Strategic Bomber
  • Diminished rating requirement from 1300 to 1100.
• A.G.R. MK 1
  • High pace elevated.
  • Acceleration elevated.
  • Addressed a problem the place the A.G.R. MK 1 was deploying with much less HP than supposed.
• Dreadnought
  • Barely elevated Dreadnought HP.
  • Diminished rating requirement from 1800 to 1700.

UI

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

Audio

• Diminished the vary of Emote sound results.

ZOMBIES

Maps

• Citadelle des Morts
  • Elemental Sword Marvel Weapons
    • Common
      • All swords can now hit as much as two enemies per swing. The extra hit will do injury primarily based 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 may very well be decreased when utilizing the Void Sheath Increase for Aether Shroud.
    • Balmung
      • Capacity procs extra ceaselessly whereas charged.
      • Diminished 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.
      • Capacity now procs extra ceaselessly 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, just like Balmung and Durandal.
    • Solais
      • Barely lowered effectiveness of Armor regeneration capacity.
      • Barely elevated swing interrupt time for sword swing.
      • Lowered Armor regeneration proportion from 5% to 4% per swing.
  • Important 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 in the course of the Important 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 Important Quest boss struggle.
    • Adjusted Deadshot ADS placement to be extra correct in opposition to the Important Quest boss.
    • Addressed a problem the place Krafft might converse 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 forestall Important 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 rely 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 Important Quest progress was not saved when choosing 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 may very well 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 cases the place a selected 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 in the course of the Important Quest boss struggle with the Time Out GobbleGum can be unable to see the boss’s well being bar.
  • Addressed a problem the place the Workshop Lockdown Important Quest step would finish early by inserting a Shock Cost after beginning.
  • Pace Increase possibility now correctly features in the course of 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 acquire a bonus to earned Essence, so rack up the zombie eliminations. As soon as “Crimson Gentle” is known as, Essence is drained from any participant who strikes, so spend large earlier than this part or cling tight to keep away from throwing away your hard-earned forex. 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 method.
  • Out there first in Citadelle des Morts, with Liberty Falls added after Week 1.
• Directed Mode
  • Directed Mode now obtainable for Citadelle des Morts with distinctive rewards.
    • NOTE: The deadline to earn the Important Quest early completion rewards for Citadelle des Morts through Customary Mode has been prolonged till the tip of Season 01 to permit gamers extra time to finish the Important 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 will forestall the “Getting New Weapons” station from progressing.

Weapons

• Addressed a problem the place gamers would lose the power 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 “Wherever 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 may very well be caught on the display screen after the Scorestreak has ended.
• Chopper Gunner
  • Addressed a problem the place the gun from the Chopper Gunner may very well 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 capacity.

Energy-Ups

• Fireplace Sale
  • Addressed a problem the place not often Fireplace 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.
• Each day Challenges
  • Addressed a problem the place the “Drink 3 Perk-a-Colas” Each 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 rely kills from teleporting with the “Wherever 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 Trustworthy”
    • Status 10: “Stupify”

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