Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Patch Notes - March 10th

PLAYLIST UPDATE:

• Added Search and Rescue
• Added Mayhem Mosh Pit (10v10 Grind, Drop Zone, and Cranked)
• Removing "Boots on the Ground War"

GENERAL FIXES:

• NEW Shotgun: "VLK Rogue"
• Fixed a bug that prevented respawning after a Defcon Nuke had been set off in Realism Ground War 
• Increased damage to Juggernauts when being hit by a Thermite Crossbow 
• Various Exploit fixes, including fixes to Hackney Yard and Piccadilly 
• Fix for a bug where a different pistol than one that was equipped would appear when climbing a ladder 
• Fixed a bug where any charm used alongside the MP7 Bengal variant would clip through the weapon 
• Various Ground War exploit fixes
• Fix for a bug where a constant yellow “High Alert” screen would persist after death if the player died while the perk was granted via Specialist 
• Fixed a bug in the After-Action Report that would display 0 in the Challenge field even if a Challenge had been completed 
• Fixed a bug that would spawn players elsewhere on the map after using a Tactical Insertion near the crawl space on Rust 
• Fixed a bug in the Giant Infection mode that spammed radio VO across all teammates when a player is a driver or passenger 
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to deploy throwable Field Upgrades during the round countdown. After the countdown ends, the player would still have another Field Upgrade available. This has been fixed 
• Added option to toggle a square or circular minimap 

Call of Duty League: Restricted the .357 Snake Shot in the CDL public playlist

Weapons:

• 725 Sawed-Off Barrel:
  • Increased move speed
  • Increased ADS Spread
  • Reduced ADS damage
  • Reduced far damage range
  • Extended very lethal close damage range
• Fix for the RAM-7 variant, “The Corrupter” not allowing the use of any sniper scopes
• Fixed a bug that could create an 'infinite ammo' glitch on the Model 680 
• Updating the ammo descriptions to the “Bludgeoner” LMG and the “Skull Hammer” Shotgun 
• Fix for a bug where using an NVG Thermal Scope on the Grau 5.56 could cause a graphical bug 

Missions and Challenges:

• Fix for a bug that only displayed the “One Shot One Kill” splash medal on screen when a sniper rifle was used. This is fixed to display whenever any one-shot weapon like shotguns or marksman rifles are used
• Fix for the “Get 50 Kills with Light Machine Guns” challenge not tracking as intended
• Fix for Golem’s 3^rd Mission Objective, “Get 5 Kills using Lethal Equipment” not tracking properly 
• All vehicles now award progress to any challenges that require “X vehicle run over kills” 
• Updates to the splash screen and in-game HUD as players make progress in the “Alliance” Missions

Classic Special Operations:

• Fixed a bug that prevented players for being able to use finishing moves on enemy AI. This has been fixed 
• Bomb Squad: Fix for a bug there enemies might not spawn until after the last bomb is defused 

Special Operations: Survival - Leaderboards for Azhir Cave (night) and St. Petrograd have been added

Special Operations:

• Camera is now in a fixed position when reviving while prone or crouched
• Hostages will reset to a safe area if dropped out of bounds
• Fix match ending if the last-alive player calls in a Team Revive but goes down before the other players revive themselves.
• Fix some instances where the juggernaut music could stay on unintentionally 
• Increase Heavy Hitter weapon perk to 2x melee damage
• Ensure that players who are parachuting receive the ‘out of bounds’ warning if they drift out of bounds
• Fix for hint prompts showing up while players are in last stand
• Fix for an edge case that could prevent the 4^th squad leader from spawning in during Operation Headhunter
• Operation Just Reward: Fixed an issue where the cell phone intel would fail to drop
• Operation Strongbox: Fixed a bug where destroying an enemy Wheelson was not granting any XP

Keyboard and Mouse: a contextual menu is now displayed when KBM player right-click on usernames in the Social menu’s Party tab

PC:

• Several fixes to prevent crashes and improve stability
• New PC players that are using the latest Battle.net client now have access to a simple, one-click way of creating their Activision account using their Battle.net credentials
• Fixed a few cases where certain Social menu pop-up messages would display incorrectly in higher aspect ratios