Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarThe first season has been around for almost two months, but Treyarch is tracking things down with an update that adds some new maps to the game. Multiplayer gets Express, a remake of the Black Ops 2 map, while Zombies gets the new Firebase Z map in Vietnam.
Express is located in a deserted train station, where players can fight in luggage compartment, train tunnels and on the train tracks themselves. The card is not too big, which helps to keep matches fast and hold firefights regularly. To make sure players have a chance to check the rebuilt card, Treyarch adds an Express 24/7 playlist Black Ops Cold War, which each time only contains Express with a different game mode.
The other great addition to this patch is Firebase Z, the new Zombies card. The map is in the jungles of Vietnam on a secret Cold War research base. Things, of course, went wrong somewhere along the way, unleashing Dark Aether and the dead’s hordes in the base. In addition to new weapons, new enemies, and the laundry list of secrets and Easter eggs that the card is likely to have, there is also a new perk called Tombstone that gives players the chance to come back to life after being killed.
Finally, Treyarch also announced that League Play will be coming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on February 8th. League of Call is the multiplayer position of Call of Duty, which can encourage players in more competitive games to earn ranks to show off their skills. League Play games contain more specific matches, which ensures that you are placed close to your rank with players, and that allows players to advance or decline their rank with each win or loss.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s latest patch will be available on February 4 at 02:00 ET. For a look at everything that changes with this patch, you can read the full patch notes.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season One Reload February 3 Notes
Multiplayer
Cards
print out [NEW]
- Express is now available in card rotation in Core and Hardcore modes.
- Express 24/7 playlist is now available.
General
- An issue with uneven card distribution in playlists that do not match the card has been addressed.
Modes
Endurance (40 players) [NEW]
- New counter mode for high players available at Sanatorium, Ruka and Alpine.
- After one bomb explodes, a new one comes online to take its place, so five bombs are always available instead of an initial set that is reduced to a single bomb before the next wave.
- Counting limit doubles from 500 to 1000.
Stutjag
- New maps added to Prop Hunt rotation: Express
- Attack
- Crossroads strike
- Armada strike
Shooting Range
- Nuketown ’84 added to Gunfight map rotation.
- 2v2 and 3v3 Gunfight now available in Custom Games.
Hard point
- Updated Hardpoint Owned score event to increase the score, the longer a player controls the Hardpoint. This score changer is restored after you leave the Hardpoint.
- Reduced Hardpoint Safe Score Opportunity from 50 to 25 Score.
Dropkick
- Reduce what time players can join a game in progress.
Control
- Additional defender spawn points have been added and the logic has been updated for the B catch point on Raid.
CDL custom game modes
- Increased number of players to allow two spectators in CDL Hardpoint, CDL Search & Destroy and CDL Control.
Popular playlists
- Express 24/7 [NEW]
- Endurance FTDB (40 players) [NEW]
- Gunfight Blueprints (including Nuketown ’84)
- Prop Hunt (4 cards added to rotation)
- 3v3 Snipers only
- Face Off (3v3)
- Nuketown 24/7
Arms
Launchers
- Increased minimum damage for the two weapons of the Launcher class.
Equipment
- An issue addressed where players in smoke from a smoke grenade would get goal assistance against players outside the smoke.
- Reduce hip-fire accuracy when refilling a grenade while running.
Music player
- Original Treyarch music unlocked via War Tracks can now be played in the Music Player in the Barracks, including ‘Pentagon’, ‘Rooftops’, ‘115’ and ‘Damned’.
Cards
Firebase Z [NEW]
- New Firebase Z card is now available via Endless and Round 20 playlists for all players.
The machine
- Players can now complete the complete Omega Intel collection in ‘The Machine’.
- An issue addressed about “The Machine” that players rarely positioned off the map when teleporting from the Dark Aether.
Express (assessment – PS4 / PS5)
- Express now available in Onslaught on PlayStation.
Popular playlists
- Firebase Z endless [NEW]
- Firebase Z Round 20 [NEW]
- Dead Ops Arcade Solo Advanced Start [NEW]
- Onslaught Express [NEW] (PS4 / PS5)
Advantages
Tombstone Soda [NEW]
- Tombstone Soda Perk is now available in “Firebase Z” and via Der Wunderfizz in “The Machine.”
Fast revival
- Fixed an issue that prevented Quick Revive from shortening the time it takes to restore to full health.
Support
Napalm strike [NEW]
- Napalm Strike is now available as Support in Zombies.
Artillery [NEW]
- Artillery now available as Support in Zombies.
Self-revival
- The Self-Revive will now only fall if a player can equip it.
- Limit the maximum amount of Self-Revives that can drop in a game to the total number of players in the game.
Sentry Turret
- Fixed an issue that made it possible to duplicate the Sentry Turret support item.
Arms
Assault Rifles
- Increased critical strike damage on all assault rifles.
- Increased maximum ammunition supply on all assault rifles.
Submachine guns
- Increased critical impact damage on all SMGs.
- Increased maximum ammunition stock on all SMGs.
Shotguns
- Increased base damage on the Streetsweeper rifle.
- Increased range of the Streetsweeper rifle.
Blueprints
- An issue that prevented attachments from appearing on the “Western Justice” arms blueprint is being addressed.
Armor
- Level 1 Armor now replaces the first Armor Shard drop in a game when no players have Armor.
Ammunition Mods
Cryofreeze
- Reduced Cryofreeze cooling from 3 seconds to 1 second to make it a more reliable method of slowing down enemies.
Challenges
- New category “Requiem Advancement” of challenges for future additions added.
- The first set of six new Requiem promotion challenges has been added: “Firebase Z report.”
- New Dark Ops Challenge Added for “Firebase Z.”
Dead Ops Arcade 3
Solo Advanced Start [NEW]
- New private playlist available for solo players.
- Allow players to start at their highest arena checkpoint reached in solo mode. No stats or challenges are recorded, but achievements can be completed, including “Reunite with Fidolina.”
Games
- New takeaway item added: Divine Shield Potion – grants player Divine Shield buff that allows the player to absorb one damage event (30 min. Expiration).
- New important spawn locations have been added: added to the highway tunnel route.
- Added a damage shield of 1.5 seconds on the player in the first person if damage occurs.
- Slight adjustment made to multiplier progression
- The donation of car life now starts automatically after the 64th round. Donating the player with the highest lifespan will now donate to disqualified teammates with a cooling of 120 seconds.
- Problem solved where the player’s shield was active, even though the effect was not visible.
- Addressed an issue that prevented extra lives from being allocated against the expected thresholds.
- Various game solutions related to the disappearance of Fated Chicken, control belts when leaving vehicles, unwanted deaths related to traps, invisible electric poles, missiles that kill players, etc.
Enemies and friendly AI
- Strongly reduced Spider melee range.
- Skeleton boss removed from arena path.
- Demons removed from the path of the arena.
- Less distance from Megaton.
- Reduced Megaton Arena Speed Rate after 64th round.
- Decreased Megaton health in the arena.
- Megaton Orb weapon is no longer a death knell in the arena.
- After the 64th round, the target use of the enemy is now completely weighed against proximity.
- Increased friendly skeleton horde health, enemy quantity, duration, and weapon damage.
- Addressed an issue where nearby damage was not registered by enemies.
- Addressed an issue where zombies could accelerate while under the clock.
- Problem solved where explosive damage to Spider / Meatball enemies is not registered correctly.
- Addressed an issue where Spider enemies would not appear on the radar.
- An issue that allowed the Gladiator “Marauder” enemy to kill the player if he did not face the right direction.
- Addressed an issue where the Margwa did not loot when he was killed.
The fates
- Divine Chalice lotteries now earn extra lives 37.5% faster than standard players on every 125,000 points.
- Users of Divine Chalice now have a temporary vitality lover.
- Divine Shield players are now popular with Divine Shield lovers.
- After 64 rounds, when a Divine Shield player drops from the post, all players will now get a nod.
- Friendly player chickens now last 25% longer.
- The Golden Chicken associated with Friendship Fate now regularly produces eggs in the arena.
- After round 64, the Golden Chicken associated with Friendship Fate will have upgraded weapons permanently.
- Addressed an issue that could prevent players from collecting a lot in the room of fate when the time has elapsed (ie grabbing a lot from the lot less than 4 seconds before the room expires).
Footage
- Lighting added in the Room of Fate above Fate Rock pedestal five and six.
- Addressed an issue with various particle effects that had visibility issues.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the player’s selected character sheet from displaying correctly.
Arms
- A problem with the shotgun pickup has been addressed which could cause it to initially start firing slowly before accelerating.
Stability
- Several crash fixes added.
General
- Several usage solutions have been added.
- New camera mode added: extra high.
- Problem solved where the player could not use the flashlight in First Person.
- A problem solved with a collision in the Water Temple arena.
- Addressed an issue in split screen mode where players would enter The Wild in shared viewport mode.
Attack (PS4 / PS5)
- Onslaught Express playlist is now available on PlayStation. [NEW]
- Special enemy roads excluded.
- Additional enemies in the mode of “Firebase Z.”
Stability
- Several crash fixes added.
General
- Party Leader no longer has to have Dead Ops Arcade 3 installed for their party to join other Zombies game modes.
- Addressed an issue that caused zombies to maintain a slowdown forever if it ended while mantling.
Worldwide
- Addressed an issue that in some circumstances resulted in turbulent Voice Chat.
PC
Stability
- Several crash fixes added.
- Fixed an accident that could occur if you watch a replay in the theater.
- Fixed a bump that could prevent the game from starting in Windows 7 under certain circumstances.
General
- Fixed issue that could lead to loss of keyboard / mouse functions when you open and close the Windows key + G recording menu.
- Addressed an issue where players could get stuck under the circumstances in the break menu during certain matches.