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

Call of Duty’s 1.065.000 is now installable, setting the Squid Game crossover for Black Ops 6 and Warzone reside.

Whereas the Squid Game crossover, alongside its controversial Occasion Go, is the spotlight of this replace, it additionally makes a quantity of adjustments to the first-person shooter, as detailed in the patch notes on Activision’s website.

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

The two.699GB patch (PS5) for the Call of Duty app, which have to 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 stability adjustments to Scorestreaks. The patch notes in full are under.

Call of Duty 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 out there by way of Occasion rewards.
• Addressed a difficulty the place the participant’s view may change into obstructed with particular weapons when utilizing the Darkish Practitioner Tracer Pack Bundle with out an optic.
• Addressed a difficulty 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 stream.
  • Added a Dismiss button to exit at any level and a timer.
  • Added a Abstract on the finish.
• Improved readability when trying to find a match.
• Addressed a difficulty the place Gun Screens couldn’t be previewed.

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

MULTIPLAYER

Modes

• Pink Mild, Inexperienced Mild (NEW)
  • Younger-hee is watching, so don’t misstep on the improper time. Get on the pitch in the Pink Card stadium and play three rounds of Pink Mild, Inexperienced Mild, every two minutes lengthy.
  • In Spherical 1, nobody will get a weapon. In Rounds 2 and 3, you possibly can choose up weapons on the bottom and remove different opponents with melee assaults and Ending Strikes. There’s only one easy rule: When Younger-hee says “Inexperienced Mild,” the battle is on. Transfer a muscle after she says “Pink Mild” and you’re toast.
• Pentathlon (NEW)
  • Show that you’ve got 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; battle for possession of the massive payout when it drops half method by means of the match.
    • In Roulette, one-shot eliminations by way of the Roulette Handgun award double the factors, although with every fired shot there’s a likelihood it’ll blow up in your fingers!
• Squid Game Moshpit (NEW)
  • Hearth up the Squid Game Moshpit together with Staff Deathmatch, Domination, and Hardpoint with a twist as gamers achieve entry to 3 vital Squid Game-themed options:
    • Pink Mild, Inexperienced Mild Scorestreak: Is the battle getting too hectic for you? Cease the enemy in their tracks with this Scorestreak that calls “Pink Mild,” commanding all enemy gamers to cease transferring or threat elimination.
    • Piggy Financial institution: Eradicated gamers have a likelihood of dropping a Piggy Financial institution that awards a small rating increase when picked up. For a greater 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, battle for it to accumulate all of the deposited rating inside.
    • Roulette Handgun: The epitome of excessive threat, excessive reward. The Roulette Handgun spawns in 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 acquire Scorestreaks extra rapidly. The catch? Your location shall be marked for everybody to see, and each shot has a likelihood to explode the weapon, taking you down with it.
• Prop Hunt
  • Improved spatial audio on Prop whistles.
  • Addressed a difficulty the place Prop UI may stay current when switching rounds to the Hunter group.
  • Addressed a difficulty the place Props may 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 harm.
• Archangel Launcher
  • Addressed a uncommon difficulty the place the subsequent bullet fired from a weapon after utilizing the Archangel Launcher might be an Archangel rocket.
• Care Bundle
  • Care Packages will now include the Scout Pulse Scorestreak much less steadily.
• LDBR
  • Decreased the harm the LDBR does to its proprietor.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 950 to 800.
• Sentry Turret
  • Elevated Sentry Turret hearth fee.
  • 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 harm.
  • Elevated Watchdog Helo accuracy when it acquires a new goal.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1100 to 1050.
• Strategic Bomber
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1300 to 1100.
• A.G.R. MK 1
  • Prime pace elevated.
  • Acceleration elevated.
  • Addressed a difficulty the place the A.G.R. MK 1 was deploying with much less HP than supposed.
• Dreadnought
  • Barely elevated Dreadnought HP.
  • Lowered rating requirement from 1800 to 1700.

UI

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

Audio

• Lowered the vary of Emote sound results.

ZOMBIES

Maps

• Citadelle des Morts
  • Elemental Sword Marvel Weapons
    • Basic
      • All swords can now hit as much as two enemies per swing. The extra hit will do harm based mostly on distance.
      • Further hit harm is 100% at close-to-medium distance and 50% past that.
      • Gamers can now parry Amalgam grabs with Elemental Swords.
      • Addressed a difficulty the place sword harm might be decreased when utilizing the Void Sheath Increase for Aether Shroud.
    • Balmung
      • Potential 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 harm.
      • Elevated Electrical Beam particular assault harm per tick from 40% to 65% of base zombie well being.
      • Potential 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 difficulty 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 decreased effectiveness of Armor regeneration potential.
      • Barely elevated swing interrupt time for sword swing.
      • Lowered Armor regeneration share from 5% to 4% per swing.
  • Fundamental Quest
    • Addressed a difficulty the place gamers may generally 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 difficulty the place activating the Time Out GobbleGum to progress a spherical in the course of the Fundamental Quest boss battle would respawn eradicated gamers in the beginning space and down them.
    • Gamers will now respawn in the boss battle area.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place Particular Spherical results wouldn’t disable when coming into the Fundamental Quest boss battle.
    • Adjusted Deadshot ADS placement to be extra correct in opposition to the Fundamental Quest boss.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place Krafft may converse to the participant earlier than interacting with him in the Dungeon.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place saving and quitting in a Solo match earlier than talking to Krafft would stop Fundamental Quest development after loading the save.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place the Mild Ritual mirrors couldn’t be interacted with after a participant joins in progress.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place wisps in the Mild Problem for the Mystic Orb would freeze visually however nonetheless depend towards completion.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place the Mystic Orb wouldn’t be seen to gamers becoming a member of in progress after the Knight’s Ceremony.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place Fundamental 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 difficulty the place the Durendal sword might be floating upon loading into a saved Solo match.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place melee weapons wouldn’t be capable to open one of the locks on the Pack-a-Punch container.
    • Closed an exploit the place gamers would take no harm and be unable to maneuver when failing the Sanctuary timed problem.
    • Addressed some cases the place a particular set of interactions may result in clean goal textual content.
    • Addressed a difficulty the place the Blood Aetherium Crystal may 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 difficulty the place gamers respawned by progressing a spherical in the course of the Fundamental Quest boss battle with the Time Out GobbleGum could be unable to see the boss’s well being bar.
  • Addressed a difficulty the place the Workshop Lockdown Fundamental Quest step would finish early by putting a Shock Cost after beginning.
  • Pace Increase possibility now correctly features in the course of the Boat Race Facet Quest.

Modes

• Useless Mild, Inexperienced Mild (NEW)
  • Compete in an undead model of the stop-and-go sport in Useless Mild, Inexperienced Mild. Within the “Inexperienced Mild” part, gamers achieve a bonus to earned Essence, so rack up the zombie eliminations. As soon as “Pink Mild” known as, Essence is drained from any participant who strikes, so spend huge earlier than this part or hold tight to keep away from throwing away your hard-earned foreign money. And it doesn’t finish there. When the dreaded “Useless Mild” part begins, put together for a powerful battle as a meaner wave of enemies strategy.
  • Accessible 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 Fundamental Quest early completion rewards for Citadelle des Morts by way of Commonplace Mode has been prolonged till the tip of Season 01 to permit gamers extra time to finish the Fundamental 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 difficulty that might stop the “Getting New Weapons” station from progressing.

Weapons

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

GobbleGums

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

Ammo Mods

• Shadow Rift
  • Huge Game
    • Huge Game will now not deal deadly harm to Elite enemies.

Discipline Upgrades

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

Scorestreaks

• Mutant Injection
  • Addressed a difficulty the place Mangler Cannon results might be caught on the display screen after the Scorestreak has ended.
• Chopper Gunner
  • Addressed a difficulty the place the gun from the Chopper Gunner might be used after the Scorestreak has ended.
• Sentry Turret
  • Addressed a difficulty that prevented a Sentry Turret from being positioned after utilizing the Balmung charged potential.

Energy-Ups

• Hearth Sale
  • Addressed a difficulty the place hardly ever Hearth Sale would depart an additional Thriller Field on the map.

Enemies

• Doppelghast
  • Addressed a difficulty the place the needle blast from a Doppelghast affected by Mind Rot may hurt the participant.
• Vermin
  • Addressed a difficulty the place Vermin may generally hit twice with one assault.

Actions

• Splitscreen
  • Addressed a difficulty the place zombies would generally ignore the host participant.

Challenges

• Camo Challenges
  • Addressed a difficulty the place Pack-a-Punched GS45s wouldn’t progress the Siamese Camo after Navy Camo development was full.
• Day by day Challenges
  • Addressed a difficulty the place the “Drink 3 Perk-a-Colas” Day by day Problem wouldn’t progress.
• Calling Card Challenges
  • Status 3: Explosive Shock
    • Addressed a difficulty the place the Explosive Shock Status 3 Calling Chard Problem was not monitoring correctly.
  • Status 8: Shut Call
    • 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: “Previous Trustworthy”
    • Status 10: “Stupify”

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