News - Modern Warfare 2: New Surprise Update Fixes Some Big Issues & Removes Content. Warzone 2 Update
It is another day, and surprisingly enough, that means we've got another new update here in Modern Warfare 2, War Zone 2, and DMZ. It's been a strange week. If you check the articles this past week, we also saw a pretty significant removal of content due to an issue right now within Battle Royale specifically that's definitely going to change things up while that's currently out of the game.
Modern warfare 2 world cup event rewards & 1 more update coming
Let's start first, though, with the end of the FC sort of World Cup crossover event, at least for the time being.
That actually happened yesterday. December 2nd; that was the final day for all the voting, and once that concluded, they have now sort of ended that event and distributed all the rewards for those who actually participated in the different match voting. Now, if you're like me, you absolutely fumbled the bag and basically called every single game wrong.
I'm sure some of you got some stuff wrong due to some upsets, but yeah. I was not very good at the voting and predicting who would win; granted. I don't follow soccer, so I was completely 50-50 on the coin flip, but mine did not go over well. I got two draws correct; any of the draw matches basically counted as a win for you, so you got that vote correct, but out of the six matches.
I kind of sucked; thank goodness for those draws, though, because that's what was able to get me two correct guesses out of the six there, which granted me access to the first initial blueprint, which unfortunately is a new legendary blueprint. The attack M of all weapons is not necessarily a great Marksman rifle or a great weapon in general because it's so slow to fire, so I probably won't be using this one too much, but that blueprint is now on my account.
Also, if any of you guys were able to get two of the matches correctly, that blueprint's been added to your account as well. If you were able to get four of the predictions correctly, you also got access to the other blueprints, and for every single match you did accurately predict, you also got the new calling card, like the audio Wartrack, and some bonus XP for that.
So the first part of this FC event has officially concluded; we know for a fact, though, that the World Cup crossover is not completely over yet. It would seem that in addition to our three soccer operators, we also have the predictions, and now that that's concluded, we're still missing the Cod Ball mode.
This has been officially confirmed to be coming later on in the season, but they never gave any specific dates. I will say it's kind of strange that the mode is not there when we've now had the entire first prediction round go through and we've seen all the operators debut, but the Call of Duty blog did say that later on in the season we would gain more information on this Cod ball.
LTM, which according to leaks is going to be basically Rocket League in Call of Duty, has you driving around on an ATV in a special field map where there are two goals, and you can try and knock the giant ball into one of the goals just like in Rocket League. So we're still waiting for information on that, and we're not exactly sure when that's going to debut.
This upcoming week is kind of that in-between waiting period for Season 1 reloaded. The week after is when that drops, so potentially, LTM mode will be dropping with the reloaded update since we haven't heard anything on that. If it's not dropping with the reloaded update, we should probably see that announcement happening later on this week, so we'll have to keep our eyes and ears peeled for that.
I'm also curious to see if they bring back the predictions for later rounds of the World Cup as well, so that players have more of an opportunity to try and get those blueprints if they bring back the same ones. If you hit that four threshold, you can get that Max blueprint as well.
Finally␦ raptor scope is fixed! no more pay to win!
Moving on, as mentioned, the update that took place yesterday afternoon actually did end up fixing the Raptor scope on the Victus XMR. It was up to 28 from 27, however. The XP earn rate was bugged, so you couldn't actually level up the Victus, and in turn, the Raptor scope, which corrects for bullet drop and also gives you the rangefinder, was still not unlockable, even though it was unlockable at rank 28 for the Victus.
They have now fixed that, and I'm glad that our article was likely able to, you know, help out and get that solved pretty quickly.
Multiple mw2 attachments are still bugged
As I said, there are still multiple attachments on multiple different guns that are still bugged. There's also some muzzles that are still locked for me, so while they did fix the Pay to Win aspect there, there are still many other bugs, with the attachments and with weapon levels as well, so I'd expect some other weapons to randomly gain one additional level here in the coming days and again.
I'll keep an eye out for that stuff if that happens or if we see any official updates that actually address these issues. I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on that as well, every single day. I've got you covered with news updates.
Warzone 2 just had content removed
Next up, we've got a new content removal. Yes, they have actually been removed. Some new things from Battle Royale are here that are going to change up gameplay quite a bit until this gets resolved, so yesterday afternoon Raven actually updated their Trello board and ended up coming out with this saying that currently battle rage and dead silence have been removed from Battle Royale.
Now keep in mind this is Battle Royale specifically, so you can still use these things in multiplayer as your field upgrades, and I believe you can even still find them in the DMZ. However, they're not going to be available in Battle Royale at all. All battle, rage, and dead silence have been removed while we investigate an issue.
I'm not exactly sure what the issue is with these; I imagine it's some kind of bug that is, you know, either making them too strong or giving off incorrect information or something, so they are working on that. Dead silence can obviously be pretty clutch in a war zone at certain times. Audio is obviously very inconsistent; a lot of the time it seems like players are right on top of you and you don't hear them, but you know that in buildings, footsteps are very audible; it's very clear if someone's running up a stairwell next to you or stomping on certain surfaces like wood; I feel like in metal and on harder surfaces like that, footsteps are pretty clear. And dirt, and you know Sans not so much, but you won't be seeing any dead silence for the time, Also being over in multiplayer.
