Ever since Warzone launched in 2020 gamers have complained in regards to the Gas Mask animation getting in the way in which of really seeing what’s occurring. Now, with the launch of Season 5, Activision has lastly finished one thing about it.
Warzone Season 5 launches at the moment, July 24, and brings with it this much-needed enchancment. Developer Raven Software program’s patch notes element the ‘Dynamic Gas Mask Overlay High quality of Life’ change:
“The gasoline masks overlay will now fade out and in relying for those who’re in gasoline or not,” Raven defined. “This manner, gamers can equip the gasoline masks at any time with out having their imaginative and prescient impacted.”
The battle royale’s gasoline masks, which, as you’d count on, lets gamers breathe inside the damaging gasoline because the circle of play shrinks, had an equip/unequip animation that will set off every time the wearer would transfer in/out of the gasoline. It had the behavior of getting in the way in which of the motion on the worst attainable second (throughout a firefight), forcing gamers to retailer it of their stock and manually equip it when wanted.
Now, this concern must be a factor of the previous, leaving these with the gasoline masks free to equip secure within the information that doing so received’t hurt their probabilities of victory. Gamers have reacted positively to the change, which comes over 4 years after Warzone’s record-breaking launch.
It solely took 4 years and three months however it has lastly occurred in Warzone hahahaha
The Gas Mask Animation is Gone https://t.co/OI90iR0LRD
— James – JGOD (@JGODYT) July 24, 2024
Elsewhere, Season 5 makes massive weapon steadiness adjustments and different person interface and person expertise enhancements. The replace comes forward of the launch of this 12 months’s mainline Call of Duty recreation, Black Ops 6, and its integration into Warzone.
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