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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season One has kicked off - patch notes

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The first season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season One has kicked off.  During the season, you can expect three new multiplayer maps, a new Ground War map, two Gunfight Maps, new multiplayer modes, weapons, Spec Ops experiences and more.

One of the three multiplayer maps, Crash, is live today alongside Port for Ground War, the Reinforce multiplayer mode,  and Rammaza and Gun Runner has been added to TDM 20 and DOM 20.

Here's more on what to expect during Season One:

  • New Multiplayer Maps: Fan-favorite multiplayer map from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Crash is remastered and reimagined as a helicopter crash site in Urzikstan, featuring all the flanking routes and action-packed rooftop encounters you remember. But, that’s not all. Joining Crash later in the season are two more reimagined maps from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, including Vacant, an abandoned office leading to intense interior combat across the complex, and Shipment, where fast and frenetic action reigns supreme.
  • New 2v2 Gunfight Maps: Jump into fast-paced, intense 2v2 matches on the new Atrium map set in a Verdansk palace, and the new Cargo map, an open-roof storage facility within the barge of a cargo container ship in the London Docks. In addition, Shipment will also be available as a 2v2 Gunfight map later in the season.
  • New Ground War Map: Engage in epic all-out war squaring off with 64 players on Port, a unique large-scale Ground War map set across cargo containers, cranes, buildings, and streets.
  • Classic Special Ops Experiences: In Pitch Black, infil into Barkov’s vacant estate to recover and transmit all on-site intel to your tactical rover. In Grounded, engage and eliminate Al Qatala militants who have seized Barkov’s former airbase to steal weaponry and air assets. Bomb Squad will arrive further into Season One, where Armistice Team 4 QRF must defuse IEDs planted in an Urzikstan city before detonation.
  • New Special Ops Operations: In Operation Strongbox, use the crypto keys you've stolen to assault the bank, break into the vault, and put The Banker out of business. In Operation Just Reward, coming to all players later in the season, cut off Al Qatala's money supply in Verdansk and target the head of their financial operation by hacking the Banker’s mobile data centers.
  • New Multiplayer Game Modes: In Reinforce, a hybrid mode between Domination, Search & Destroy, and Search & Rescue, capture points to revive fallen teammates and take all points to win the round. Further into Season One, additional modes will go live including Infected, where it’s hunt or be hunted in the survival party game mode where eliminated survivors become infected. In O.S.P. Gunfight, the same mechanics of traditional Gunfight apply, with the distinct difference that players begin each match with no weapons or equipment and must pick them up once the match begins.
  • New Weapons: Earnable for free for all players, the RAM-7 introduces a new fully automatic bullpup Assault Rifle, while the Holger-26 is an LMG spec of the Holger model rifle.

Alongside the new content comes a patch, which fixes various multiplayer issues, shaders on PC, effectiveness of FMJ has been improved on Killstreaks, and more.

You can look over the full patch notes below.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season One patch notes

Playlist Update

Added:

  • Crash 24/7

  • Port added to Ground War

  • Reinforce

  • Added Rammaza and Gun Runner to TDM 20 and DOM 20

  • Added night maps to Hardcore TDM, Search and Destroy, Cyber Attack

Removed:

  • Gun Game (available in Private Match)

  • Shoot House 24/7

  • 2v2 Gunfight Tournament

Mutiplayer

General Fixes

  • Riot Shield:

    • Tuning to how the Riot Shield protects against grenades when thrown at the players' feet

    • Reduced explosive damage within certain ranges

  • Fixed a bug where the final killcam would appear under the map when a player got stuck by Thermite or Semtex on the lower part of the body

  • Fixed an issue where players stuck inside the Infantry Assault Vehicle would not take damage from Thermite

  • Fix for a bug where attempting to scroll to the bottom of the Recent Players list could cause the list to read “No Recent Players” and return to the top

  • Gunfight (private match): Fixes ‘Win by Two’ setting to end the game properly once the conditions have been met

Missions and Challenges

The following are now fixed and have had their descriptions updated as needed

  • “Close and Personal”

  • “Perks of the Job”

  • “Bloodthirsty Killer”

  • “Destroy Ground Killstreaks” – All player-driven vehicles will count towards this launcher camo challenge

  • “Get 50 kills while an enemy UAV is active” – description updated to reflect that the Ghost perk needs to be equipped in order to complete

  • Combat Knife challenge descriptions updated

  • .357 camo challenge

  • Various updates to other camo challenges

  • Fix for Officer Challenge completion notifications not appearing on screen

Killstreaks

  • Improved effectiveness of FMJ on Killstreaks

  • Fix for the Cluster Strike dealing damage inconsistently when targeting a VTOL jet

Weapons

  • .357: Buckshot: reduced damage range, reduced effective hip fire damage. Tuned spread adjustments from barrel attachments

  • Menu damage stat bar adjustments for miscellaneous LMGs

Special Ops

  • Fixed a bug where the informant can be dropped in bad positions/near enemy soldiers in Operation Harbinger

  • Added a checkpoint after the third hack on Operation Brimstone

  • Fix for a bug where players could become stuck after going into last stand while breaching the trains on Operation Brimstone

  • Enemies in white trucks now exit their vehicles

Keyboard and Mouse

  • Leaderboards will no longer display complete gamertags. This should help higher profile leaderboards users from receiving too many invites

  • Fixed an issue where players would not be able to mantle while strafing with keyboard and mouse

  • Increased the turn-rate when aiming with a tank

  • Adjusted the camera orbit turn-rate while driving a vehicle using keyboard and mouse

  • The keybind “Vehicle Camera Recenter” is now linked to Melee by default (default on E / Mouse 4) and the re-centering of the camera has been improved

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  • Improvements for the camera transitions with Free Camera and Aerial Camera

  • Added a Killstreak view option when using the Portrait List

  • Added arrows under the players when using the Aerial Camera view

  • Added a skull icon on the Minimap where players die

PC

Shaders

Fixed an issue that forced shaders to be fully re-compiled after each title update. Shader installation should be expected mainly for new content, drivers update or changing the video card. New optimizations or bugfix that require modifying the shaders can also trigger part or the totality of the shaders to be re-compiled.

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