Activision has launched a gargantuan blog post wherein it responded to followers’ ongoing considerations and criticisms concerning the state of Name of Responsibility, and one part confirms that the developer will quickly reduce its content material plans for Warzone because it goals to enhance the sport first.
Within the weblog publish, Activision mentioned it has made the choice to “prioritize concentrate on gameplay tuning, including extra high quality of life, and addressing ongoing bugs.” Due to this shift in focus, Activision mentioned among the new content material initially deliberate for Season 2 “has been shifted to create bandwidth to handle foundational points.” Activision didn’t specify what Season 2 content material is being delayed, nonetheless.
Activision mentioned it has quite a few updates within the works for Warzone that intention to create the “most strong basis” for the sport. These updates shall be launched over time, and embrace gameplay changes reminiscent of reload speeds as much as 20% sooner for each weapon within the recreation. Activision can also be decreasing the penalty for sprint-to-fire from 35% to 10% and growing the leap ADS speeds by 25%.
Moreover, the parachute lower animation has been elevated so gamers can transition from slicing the parachute to entering into the motion “considerably sooner.” Different updates embrace superior UAVs now exhibiting elevation arrows and the Spy Digicam define impact not rendering by means of partitions.
Warzone is getting numerous bug fixes, too, together with all of those listed beneath.
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Map & Gameplay Points
- Addressed visibility of darkish areas and characters on Rebirth Island.
- Addressed gamers being pressured to face up whereas reviving downed squad members.
- Addressed exploits permitting gamers to entry unintended areas of the map.
- Addressed parachutes deploying when leaping off ladders.
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Weapons & Tools
- Addressed weapons changing into inaccessible close to interactable areas.
- Addressed weapons falling by means of Purchase Station fashions.
- Addressed weapon tooltips showing as frequent when dropped to the bottom.
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Perks & Contracts
- Addressed Ghost persisting by means of the prematch foyer into the match.
- Addressed Chilly Blooded not correctly countering Tracker.
- Addressed Fast Repair well being regen not correctly activating whereas plating.
- Addressed Survivor stopping gamers from reviving downed squad members.
- Addressed Most Wished contracts not overriding respawn timers as supposed.
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Operators
- Addressed Operator choice look points in menu.
Lastly, Activision mentioned among the points with Warzone that gamers have reported in latest weeks could must do with the mixing of Black Ops 6’s content material into the sport.
“We need to take a second to replicate on the importance of Black Ops 6’s integration–the largest in Name of Responsibility history–which, for the primary time, has introduced our groups and merchandise collectively right into a unified growth atmosphere,” Activision mentioned. “Whereas this transformation has offered its share of obstacles, it additionally paves the best way for extra formidable updates and nearer collaboration sooner or later. We’re basically laying a basis to make new expertise instantly accessible to all of our studios, enhancing growth pipelines and the soundness of porting options between titles, and permitting us to focus extra of our time on future releases.”
As for Black Ops 6 multiplayer, Activision is making some welcome adjustments as properly, together with lastly permitting gamers to disable cross-play in Ranked matches.