Revealed on the official Call of Duty website on Tuesday, May 13, Infinity Ward outlined the various changes and additions that will be brought to Call of Duty: Ghosts across PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC with its latest title update.
Whilst each platform has its own specific tweaks and changes, the overarching changes are relevant to both consoles and PC. As a quick summary, the update has improved the game’s spawning logic, tweaked the balance of some weapons and the “Squad Mate” killstreak, improved upon the title’s anti-cheat system, introduced a new Private Match gamemode and a new feature called “Gun Game”, and more.
The full overarching changes have been listed below.
// Spawns
- Improved FFA spawn logic;
- Improved TDM/KC/Cranked spawning logic;
- Updated Blitz spawn logic for online matches.
// Weapon Balance
- Bizon:
- Reduced headshot multiplier: No longer allow for 1 body, 1 head shot kills;
- Max and Min damage range reduced;
- Slight increase to kick.
- Vepr:
- Aim down sight time faster. Now in line with other SMGs.
- CBJMS
- Max and Min damage range reduced.
- IED:
- Damage reduction always applied when the player is jumping, crouched or prone. Removed IED position check relative to player.
- Thermobaric Grenades:
- Now do 1/2 max health in hardcore modes.
// Killstreak Balance
- Squad Mate – Reduced Accuracy & Fire Rate. Swapped Weapon to mp443.
// eSports
- Update to DOM to allow 2, 5 minute rounds for eSports playlist, and with eSports mode in Private Match and System Link.
// Anti-Cheat
- Overall anti-cheat improvements;
- Fixed elite clan tag spoofing issue.
// Additional Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Tracked Operations and Progressed Operations loadout builder would not properly select items;
- Added popup message if a user tries to join on a blocked user from the recently met player list;
- Fixed an issue where the New Icons for heads/uniforms/etc would appear in private match;
- Fixed new icon to only appear on the “Heads” button when you have new heads of the gender you’re using;
- Improvements to map voting;
- Fix In Game Store Image Stuttering when moving between images;
- Fixes hardcore audio alias for kill confirmed;
- Adds proper friendly alias for blitz friendly scoring.
// New Features
- New Game Mode – Reinforce (available in Private Match):
- Reinforce is a competitive round based game mode. When a player is killed that player will stay out of the game until someone on his team captures a control point. There are multiple ways to win. Capture and hold 2 control points, wipe out the enemy team, or capture all 3 flags for an instant victory.
- Gun Game:
- Final kill now requires a throwing knife kill;
- Players can scavenge throwing knives.
// Extinction
- Reduced the usability window of other items when deploying the Riot Shield;
- Drill logic improvements;
- Grenade Turret adjustments.
Call of Duty: Ghosts’ full patchnotes can also be found via the source link below. Call of Duty: Ghosts’ previous update brought back the game’s “Chaos Mode” to its Extinction gamemode on Xbox Live and PC. Essentially a horde mode, you have you survive for as long as possible through waves of increasing numbers of enemies.
Back in April, the game’s previous Customization Items DLC brought back Soap MacTavish to the game as part of the Soap Legend Pack.
The latest addition to the franchise, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, was announced earlier on in May, which features Kevin Spacey as what appears to be a political villain.
[ CallOfDuty.com ]
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