QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES

General

• The XP tokens menu has been changed to display how much time is left on your XP tokens in the lobby screen.
• XP Tokens can now be equipped in the pause menu while in-game.
• XP Tokens can no longer be accidentally activated during Double XP events.
• Players who join a game in progress will no longer get a loss if their team loses the match.
• Attachments now have a tuning icon on them in preview,, indicating which ones can be tuned and which ones cannot.
• Finishing Moves now count towards the 30 kills in third person Daily Challenge in Special Ops.
• “Stickerbook Challenges” in the After Action Report screen now say “Calling Card Challenge” instead.
• Operator bios are no longer cut off part of the way through.
• Acquiring a new blueprint will now display a pulsing dot next to the associated weapon in Gunsmith.
• Players will no longer seeing a black screen on some platforms when trying to purchase CP.
• Various issues with weapon and attachment unlocks and progression have been addressed, including stats display.

Social

• Merged Hub & Friends tabs together.
• Switched to smaller Player Card widgets for Friends.
• Added support for batch/bulk sending of friend requests.
• Fixed various bugs impacting the join and/or invite to party features.
• Transition to Grid view when scrolling in Friends list.

Showcases

• Camera positions on Operators have been adjusted for better positioning with the UI
• Adjustments to Filter/Sort
• Fixed the Player Browser so it no longer scrolls when it isn’t full.
• Fixed an issue with Calling Cards not showing up in a players Showcase after they have set them.
• Fixed an issue where players weren’t properly sorting by progression in the Player Browser.
• Hides the empty attachments nodes on Weapon Inspection when there are no attachments slotted.

Channels

• Adjusted member list states (muted, talking, connected, etc.) to be more clear
• Adjusted text message states in game channel to be more clear who they were sent to
• Players in member list will now be divided by team in lobbies
• Fixed an issue where lobby players were still able to be heard when connected to a custom channel
• Added the ability to text chat with “Group” members

Groups

• Find or create communities with this new social feature. Check out the most recent COD Blog for more.

WEAPON BALANCE

» General «

• Akimbo P890, X12, Basilisk, and .50 GS have received a damage reduction against armored opponents
• Fixed an issue causing shotguns to inconsistently display the broken armor hitmarker

» Assault Rifles «

MX9 

• Increased movement speed, ADS speed, and sprint to fire speed on the 32 round magazine

M13B

• Blocking underbarrel launcher and shotgun on 7” Bruen B-M20 barrel

Kastov-74u

• Small reduction to close damage; three hits to kill requires at least one chest hit 

Kastov 545

• Increase to muzzle velocity
• Small decrease to hip spread
• Increase close damage
• Increase to chest damage multiplier 

» SMGs «

VEL 47 SMG

• Reduced hip spread.
• Increased movement speed.
• Increased far damage.

» Pistols «

Basilisk Revolver

• Blocking Basilisk compensators and flash hider on the FTAC ARROW barrel
• Adding muzzle attachment usage on the FTAC ARROW barrel: LOCKSHOT KT85, SA LEVELER 55, CRONEN DARK KX30

.50 GS Pistol

• Reduced hip spread
• Increased 1 hit headshot range
• Increased damage range
• Increased neck and upper shoulder location damage multipliers
• Increased bullet velocity
• Increased damage range on SA LONGSHOT – 50 and SA TYRANT FIFTY barrel

» Shotguns «

• Shotguns can no longer kill fully armored players in one shot

Expedite 12 Shotgun

• Added guard category:
  • TV CF40 Guard
  • AZ-40 Shotguard
  • AZAROV T15

» Melee «

Riot Shield

• Reduced movement speed
• Reduced melee damage to 3 hit kill
• Shield movement animation improvement
• Longer switch time pulling out throwing knife when riot shield is equipped

» Launchers «

JOKR

• Missiles no longer land out of bounds when targeting a wall on the edge of a map
• Improved the thermal readability when aiming in

OTHER BALANCE CHANGES

Vehicles

• Reduced collision damage taken by the Heavy Chopper, especially from landing.
• Increase health and damage resistance of the UTV.
• Increased falling damage to the ATV & UTV.
• Added custom turret rotation speed for the APC, Light Tank & Heavy Tank.
• Increased damage done by A.I to both LTV versions.
• Reduced distance that boats can be piloted when completely out of water
• Adjusted vehicle exits to limit chances of not being able to exit on steep slopes
• Players will no longer get the “out of bounds” countdown when taking a vehicle from an enemy’s restricted area in Ground War, and driving out of the zone
• Fixed an issue where the player would continue to see the countdown if they get into a vehicle just outside the zone

Ally Visibility

• Ally nameplates disappear when an enemy is in the direct path of an ally, to prevent mistaking enemies for allies.
• In Tier 1 mode, this change only applies to allies behind geo. Allies with line of sight will always show nameplates to prevent friendly fire.

KILLSTREAKS

• Players that have been killed in one-life modes with revive capabilities, such as Knock Out, will no longer be marked as an active player when using the Cruise Missile, Chopper Gunner, or Gunship

Care Package

• Fixed an issue that allowed players to spawn on a position where a care package is occupying, resulting in an immediate death

MGB

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from calling out the MGB while swimming underwater

Juggernaut 

• The Juggernaut should now correctly switch between their minigun and pistol when entering and exiting water
• Explosive weapons that stick to the Juggernaut (such as the Semtex, Drill Charge, etc…) should now inflict more damage against it
• Fixed an issue where Juggernauts sometimes died to a single throwing knife in Tier 1

SAE

• Fixed an issue that prevented explosions from doing damage to neutral and enemy occupied vehicles

Sentry Gun

• Fixed an exploit that allowed Sentry Guns to be placed under the map in certain locations

FIELD UPGRADES

Portable Radar

• Portable Radars can now stick to vehicles

EQUIPMENT

Radiation Blocker

• Now prevents the use of this equipment when performing a number of different actions such as slotting in armor.
• This should resolve a few issues where players no longer had their weapon, or could not interact with items.
• Thermite Grenades
  • Thermites will no longer persist on a player that was stuck, then died, and respawned again.

ATTACHMENTS

Tuning

• Most beneficial Tuning value magnitudes have been increased.
• Some harmful Tuning value magnitudes have been decreased.

Optics

Thermal Optics

• Increased range of all optics thermal target identification range
• Enemies’ heat signature fades when they are killed

DRESXOM PRIME-90

• Improved quality of thermal image for improved target acquisition (including the Basileus Victus XMR blueprint from the Battlepass)

XTEN ANGEL-40 

• Fixed rangefinder to fit in lens on the GS .50

SZ HoloTerm

• Increased contrast on optic thermal rendering for improved target acquisition
  • Added thermal toggle feature

THERMO-OPTIC X9

• Increased contrast on optic thermal rendering for improved target acquisition

WEAPON CUSTOMIZATION UI/UX

Graphs

• Default weapon attachments graph contribution no longer shows up as modification on stat graphs.
• Prevents seeing red or green on a default weapon’s stat graph.
• Fixes miscalculations shown in attachment tuning spider graph.
  • Issue was prominent in sniper weapon optic’s category, Chimera’s barrel category, Bryson 800 stock category, SP-R 208 stock category, SO-14 stock category, and LA-B 330 stock category.