Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War patch notes for Season Two

The new Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War patch notes are out for Season Two, ushering in a host of new content across the entire game.

The biggest change is the arrival of a new game modes like large-scale zombie invasion Outbreak, and Gun Game, which requires you to progress through a set of 20 weapons, scoring a kill to upgrade to the next tier. Start with a pistol and level up, claiming the final kill with a knife to win the round.

Those new modes will also benefit from new and improved maps. Apocalypse is the jungle-themed first arrival, but three new maps are also on their way. Treyarch has even made a number of changes to existing maps, too, with tweaks to Cartel, Crossroads Strike, Moscow, Satellite, and Raid. Of course, new maps and new modes are nothing without some new weapons to cause havoc on them with. Whether you prefer to get up close and personal with the E-Tool and the Machete or pick foes off from afar with the ZRG 20mm sniper rifle or R1 Shadowhunter crossbow, there's something for you.

As well as the headline changes on offer, Treyarch has been busy fixing bugs, tweaking maps, and adding quality of life improvements to Black Ops Cold War. You can check out the patch notes below, or on the Call of Duty blog.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War patch notes for Season Two

GLOBAL

• Outbreak event is available across Black Ops Cold War and Warzone, available from February 24 until March 11.

Battle Pass

• New 100-Tier Battle Pass available in Season Two.
• Added attachment flyout descriptions on weapon previews in the Battle Pass.

Operators

• Naga
• New Operator available to unlock in the Season Two Battle Pass.

Vehicles

• Sedan
  • New vehicle available in Season Two for Outbreak and multi-team modes.
• New vehicle available in Season Two for Outbreak and multi-team modes.
• Light Truck
  • New vehicle available in Season Two for Outbreak and multi-team modes.
• New vehicle available in Season Two for Outbreak and multi-team modes.

Main Lobby

• Updated main lobby theming and animations for Season Two.
• Added new Screen Saver mode when the player is idle on the main menu screen.
• Addressed an issue where party members' equipped weapons would not be shown in the main lobby.

Combat Record

• Added Shot Tracker to the Combat Record's Multiplayer Weapons screen.
  • For each weapon, this displays the distribution of hits across the different body parts as well as the damage multipliers assigned to some of these body parts.
• For each weapon, this displays the distribution of hits across the different body parts as well as the damage multipliers assigned to some of these body parts.
• Addressed an issue where earned Medals were not displayed anymore.

After Action Report

• Implemented a smoother transition between leveling up animation and displaying current level rewards.
• After Action Report now only shows rewards of the last level when leveling up several ranks at once

Prestige Levels

• Four new Prestige Levels added in Season Two (Prestige 8-11).

Prestige Shop

• New legacy Prestige rewards available to unlock starting at Prestige 8.

Music Player

• Original Treyarch tracks from Black Ops II now available in the Music Player, once unlocked via War Tracks in the Battle Pass: "Main Theme," "Adrenaline," "Damned 100ae," and "Shadows."
• “Lost” (Easter Egg song from “Firebase Z”) now available in the Music Player once unlocked in-game after the launch of Season Two.

New Features

• Bundle Locker
  • Access all of your owned Store Bundles at the new Bundle Locker at the Weapons menu in any mode and the Store.
• Access all of your owned Store Bundles at the new Bundle Locker at the Weapons menu in any mode and the Store.
• Quick Equip
  • Equip certain items straight from the Battle Pass, Store Bundle Preview, and the Bundle Locker with the tap of a button.
• Equip certain items straight from the Battle Pass, Store Bundle Preview, and the Bundle Locker with the tap of a button.

Multiplayer

Maps

• Apocalypse [NEW]
• 6v6 map available in multiplayer
• Cartel
• Made cover adjustments, including reducing the heights of bushes in certain locations to increase predictability of engagements.
• Crossroads Strike
• Improved character visibility in key areas.
• Made cover adjustments to address unintended or exploitable sightlines.
• P4 Hardpoint zone moved to crates on the frozen lake.
• Satellite
• Closed small gaps in cover that could be abused in the map center.
• Moscow
• Trimmed unused space near starting spawns to address areas that cannot be flanked in certain game modes.
• Raid
• P1 Hardpoint zone radius reduced to match the Control zone radius
• Players can now mantle onto the van inside of the garage
• Express
• Addressed an issue that would allow players to spawn in front of the active train.

Modes

• Gun Game [NEW]
• Available in Multiplayer at the start of Season Two.
• Progress through a set of 20 weapons from pistol to Knife, advancing to a new weapon with each elimination. Melee kills set the target back a level in their weapon progression. First player to kill an enemy with each weapon wins the match.
• Gunfight Blueprints
• Added new Blueprints to loadouts in Gunfight Blueprints during Season Two.
• Search and Destroy
• Addressed an issue where both teams could get points if the last players traded kills in Search and Destroy.
• UI
• Reduced opacity of waypoints while ADS and when looking at Hardpoint, Control and Search & Destroy objectives.

Featured Playlists

• Apocalypse 24/7 [NEW]
• Gun Game [NEW]
• Gunfight Blueprints [New Season Two Blueprints]
• Snipers Only Moshpit
• Nuketown 24/7
• Face Off

Scorestreaks

• Death Machine
  • Now available in Multiplayer for 2200 score.
• Now available in Multiplayer for 2200 score.
• Air Patrol
  • Reduced cost from 2700 to 2400.
• Reduced cost from 2700 to 2400.
• Attack Helicopter
  • Reduced cost from 5000 to 4500.
• Reduced cost from 5000 to 4500.
• VTOL Escort
  • Reduced cost from 7000 to 6500.
• Reduced cost from 7000 to 6500.
• Counter Spy Plane
  • Increased cost from 1200 to 1400.
  • Cooldown increased from 60 to 90 seconds.
• Increased cost from 1200 to 1400.
• Cooldown increased from 60 to 90 seconds.
• Care Package
  • Addressed an issue where the Care Package marker could remain stuck if the player skipped the Killcam while it was still visible.
• Addressed an issue where the Care Package marker could remain stuck if the player skipped the Killcam while it was still visible.
• Cruise Missile
  • Addressed an issue where the Cruise Missile could inconsistently lock on in multi-team matches.
• Addressed an issue where the Cruise Missile could inconsistently lock on in multi-team matches.
• Spy Plane
  • Addressed an issue where a player who was previously hidden by the Jammer could remain hidden from enemy Spy Planes.
• Addressed an issue where a player who was previously hidden by the Jammer could remain hidden from enemy Spy Planes.
• H.A.R.P.
  • Addressed an issue where a player who was previously hidden by the Jammer could remain hidden from enemy H.A.R.P.s.
• Addressed an issue where a player who was previously hidden by the Jammer could remain hidden from enemy H.A.R.P.s.

Weapons

• FARA 83
  • New assault rifle available to unlock in the Season Two Battle Pass.
• New assault rifle available to unlock in the Season Two Battle Pass.
• LC10
  • New SMG available to unlock in the Season Two Battle Pass.
• New SMG available to unlock in the Season Two Battle Pass.
• Machete
  • New melee weapon available via in-game challenge or Store bundle.
• New melee weapon available via in-game challenge or Store bundle.
• Groza
  • Unlock challenge available for the Groza assault rifle.
• Unlock challenge available for the Groza assault rifle.
• Mac-10
  • Unlock challenge available for the Mac-10 SMG.
• Unlock challenge available for the Mac-10 SMG.

Equipment

Smoke Grenade

Field Upgrades

• Trophy System
  • Reduced the damage that a Trophy System will deal to a player.
  • The max damage that a Trophy System will now deal is 10.
• Reduced the damage that a Trophy System will deal to a player.
• The max damage that a Trophy System will now deal is 10.
• Gas Mine
  • Players can no longer spawn in an active cloud of an activated Gas Mine.
• Players can no longer spawn in an active cloud of an activated Gas Mine.

Movement

• Addressed an issue where, if a player sprinted to cancel their reload the instant before ammo was replenished, the weapon could fire instantly as the reload was cancelled.
• Small reduction to jump height and slowdown penalty after landing from a jump.

Challenges

Increased the range for Point Blank weapon camo Challenge.

Scoreboard

• Addressed an issue where the scoreboard would sometimes show reversed information on the scoreboard for the opposite team. 

Custom Games

• Addressed an issue where bots would not capture the A-side zone in Domination on Nuketown ‘84 in Custom Games.

Main Menu

• Added "Select/Deselect All" option in Quick Play menu.

Theater

• Addressed an issue where the Dropkick nuke post-match FX could remain stuck when rewinding in Theater.

League Play

Scorestreaks

• Score earned will now reset to 0 on death.
• Players now only have access to the Artillery and Cruise Missile Scorestreaks by default.
• Artillery cost reduced from 3000 to 1600.
• Cruise Missile cost reduced from 3500 to 2000.

Create-a-Class

• Addressed an issue where players were unable to select their unlocked Zombies camos in custom weapon loadouts.
• Addressed various issues with the Lobby and Create-a-Class loadouts not displaying properly.

After Action Report

• Addressed an issue where After Action Report rewards would not be displayed after a League Play match.

Zombies

Outbreak

• Outbreak available in Zombies at the start of Season Two.
• Continue the Dark Aether story with your squad of Requiem agents in this new large-scale experience, complete with new team objectives, player rewards, in-game intel, deadly new enemies, and varied infiltration zones throughout the Ural Mountains.
• Launches with three regions to explore: Ruka, Alpine, and Golova (Outbreak exclusive at launch), with more to follow.

Skill Tiers

• Added new Tiers IV and V for every Skill.
• New Refined and Flawless Aetherium Crystals are now earnable to upgrade Skills to Tiers IV/V.
• Added new Weapon Skill categories: Launchers and Specials.

Field Upgrades

• Frenzied Guard
• Frenzied Guard Field Upgrade available in Zombies at the start of Season Two.
• Base level ability: Force all enemies in the area to target you for 10 seconds. Armor takes all damage during this time.

Ammo Mods

• Shatter Blast
• Shatter Blast Ammo Mod available in Zombies at the start of Season Two.
• Base level ability: Bullets deal explosive damage. Each bullet has a chance to explode, dealing additional explosive damage and destroying any impacted armor (25 second cooldown).

Support

• Death Machine Support weapon now available in Zombies.
• Addressed an issue where VO would not play when activating Napalm Strike, Cruise Missile, or Artillery.
• Visual adjustments made to placement markers for Artillery and Napalm Strike.

Intel

• New in-game Intel available in Outbreak and Onslaught.
• All subtitles are now visible in the Zombies audio logs and radio transmissions.

New Featured Playlists

• Outbreak
• Dead Ops Arcade: First Person (Private)
• Onslaught Apocalypse (PS4/PS5)

Maps

• Firebase Z
• Stability
• Fixed crashes related to the Mangler, Mimic, Intel, and side quests.
• Gameplay
• Closed various exploits around the Village and Firebase where zombies were unable to attack the player.
• Closed various exploits where players were able to reach unintended locations.
• Addressed an issue where zombies were getting stuck in spawn at the Village.
• Addressed an issue where a notification was not being given when the door to Open Lot was purchased.
• Addressed an issue where the prompt to retrieve Dimitri’s eye persisted after interacting with it.
• Addressed an issue where the Orda’s health bar was not showing while in the Chopper Gunner.
• Cleaned up collision and adjusted zombie traversals in Scorched Defense.
• Addressed an issue where a spectating player was not seeing damage numbers.
• Assault Rounds
• Addressed an issue where the Orda’s weak spot was always vulnerable during Assault Rounds.
• Wonder Weapon
• Reduced the fire delay when switching to alternative fire mode.
• Addressed an issue where the secondary attack would not trigger when hitting Manglers directly.
• Main Quest
• Addressed an issue where the boss was not properly scaling with round difficulty. 
• Addressed an issue that prevented catching a Mimic as a solo player with the Essence Trap.
• Side Quest
• Increased timeout of the reward chest after completing a side quest.
• Addressed an issue where the upgraded Monkey Bomb was not killing the appropriate number of enemies.
• Leaderboards
• Addressed an issue where Critical and Elite Kills were not being tracked correctly on the leaderboards.
• Die Maschine
• Gameplay
• Addressed an issue where the player could be teleported out of the map when exiting the Dark Aether.
• Dead Ops Arcade 3
• Stability
• Addressed various stability issues.
• Gameplay
• Closed various exploits.
• Addressed an uncommon occurrence where the Margwa would be removed during dynamic dungeon creation.
• Addressed the Chalice/Shield Fates not being included as potential dungeon Fate awards.
• Addressed an issue where spamming the Use button could accidentally activate an object which was some distance away (and possibly cause a key to be unintentionally spent).
• Addressed an issue with too many additional bosses being spawned starting at round 125.
• Addressed an issue where the bonus room War Store was removing vehicles when player exited the bonus area.
• Addressed an issue where more than one player would donate a life to a downed player.
• Gems now stop spilling once the player respawns. This will allow players to keep more of their multiplier, as well as enhance the Divine Chalice Fate, which has faster player respawning.

Enemies

• Reduced Margwa swipe distance by 17%.

Events

• Room of Justice should now always appear after round 65 is complete.
• Time added to ROJ events based on player count. Four players still get the same amount of time.

Fates

• Fortune Fate now adds 80% instead of 40% to timeouts.
• Added Fate declaration sequence to Advanced Start mode, allowing players to choose a Fate to play with.

Bonus Areas

• Player deaths are no longer counted in Slideways bonus areas.
• Depending on level being advanced to in the Advanced Start mode, player will get additional lives, bombs, boosts to start with.

Leaderboards

• Resetting Solo, Duo, Trios, and Quads leaderboards to allow for a fresh start for all players with new Season Two gameplay tuning and exploit fixes implemented. Career leaderboard will remain unchanged.

Perks

• Tombstone Soda
• Addressed an issue where the distance to the player’s Tombstone was sometimes not properly updating.

Challenges

• Outbreak
  • Added new Outbreak Challenges, including a new Zombies Dark Ops Challenge for Outbreak.
• Added new Outbreak Challenges, including a new Zombies Dark Ops Challenge for Outbreak.
• Daily Challenges
  • Melee attacks will now correctly contribute to various Daily Challenges.
  • Addressed an issue where eliminations with Pack-a-Punched weapons were not contributing to Daily Challenges.
• Melee attacks will now correctly contribute to various Daily Challenges.
• Addressed an issue where eliminations with Pack-a-Punched weapons were not contributing to Daily Challenges.

Combat Record

• Added Frenzied Guard to the Zombies Field Upgrades tab.
• Added RAI K-84 to the Zombies Combat Record.
• Addressed an issue where the Hide and Seek Medal for the Aether Shroud in Zombies was not being tracked.

Gunsmith

• Gunsmith in Zombies will now default to Zombies camos tab when in Zombies lobby.

Customization

• Added Vehicle Customization menu in the Zombies lobby.

Onslaught (PS4/PS5)

• Apocalypse
  • Apocalypse Onslaught map available on PlayStation at the start of Season Two.
• Apocalypse Onslaught map available on PlayStation at the start of Season Two.
• Express
  • Addressed an issue where Manglers would not attack players when standing in certain areas.
• Addressed an issue where Manglers would not attack players when standing in certain areas.

Featured Playlists

• Firebase Z Endless [NEW]
• Firebase Z Round 20 [NEW]
• Dead Ops Arcade Solo Advanced Start [NEW]
• Onslaught Express [NEW] (PS4/PS5)

Perks

• Tombstone Soda [NEW]
• Tombstone Soda Perk now available in "Firebase Z" and via Der Wunderfizz in "Die Maschine."
• Quick Revive
• Addressed an issue that prevented Quick Revive from reducing the time it takes to regenerate to full health.

Support

• Napalm Strike [NEW]
• Napalm Strike now available as Support in Zombies.
• Artillery [NEW]
• Artillery now available as Support in Zombies.
• Self-Revive
• The Self-Revive will now only drop if a player in the game can equip it.
• Capped the maximum amount of Self-Revives that can drop in a game to the total number of players in the game.
• Sentry Turret
• Addressed an issue that allowed duplicating the Sentry Turret support item.

Weapons

• Assault Rifles
• Increased critical hit damage on all assault rifles.
• Increased max ammo stock on all assault rifles.
• Submachine Guns
• Increased critical hit damage on all SMGs.
• Increased max ammo stock on all SMGs.
• Shotguns
• Increased base damage on the Streetsweeper shotgun.
• Increased range of the Streetsweeper shotgun.
• Blueprints
• Addressed an issue that prevented attachments from appearing on the "Western Justice" Weapon Blueprint.

Armor

• Level 1 Armor will now replace the first Armor Shard drop in a game when no players have Armor.

 Ammo Mods

• Cryofreeze
• Reduced Cryofreeze cooldown from 3 seconds to 1 second to make it a more dependable method of slowing enemies.

Challenges

• Added new "Requiem Advancement” category of Challenges for future additions.
• Added first set of six new Requiem Advancement Challenges: "Firebase Z Report."
• Added new Dark Ops Challenge for “Firebase Z.”

Dead Ops Arcade 3

• Solo Advanced Start [NEW]
• New private playlist available for Solo players.
• Allows players to start at their highest arena checkpoint reached in Solo mode. No stats or challenges are recorded, but achievements can be completed, including "Reunited with Fidolina."
• Gameplay
• Added new pickup item: Divine Shield Potion – Grants player Divine Shield buff that allows player to absorb one damage event (30 min. expiration).
• Added new key spawn locations: Added to the high road tunnel route.
• Added a 1.5-second damage shield on player while in First Person when damage occurs.
• Made slight adjustment to multiplier progression.
• Auto-life donation now begins automatically after Round 64. The player with the highest lives to spare will now donate to downed teammates with a cooldown of 120 seconds.
• Addressed an issue where the player's shield was active even though effect was not visible.
• Addressed an issue that prevented extra lives from being awarded at expected score thresholds.
• Various gameplay bug fixes related to Fated Chicken disappearance, control bindings when exiting vehicles, unwanted deaths associated with traps, invisible electrical poles, missile turrets killing players, etc.
• Enemies and Friendly AI
• Greatly reduced Spider melee range.
• Removed Skeleton boss from arena spawning.
• Removed Demons from arena spawning.
• Reduced Megaton melee distance.
• Reduced Megaton arena spawn rate after Round 64.
• Reduced Megaton health in arena.
• Megaton Orb weapon is no longer a one-hit kill in arena.
• After Round 64, enemy target selection behavior is now weighted entirely toward proximity.
• Increased friendly skeleton horde health, enemy quantity, time duration, and weapon damage.
• Addressed an issue where melee damage caused by a friendly skeleton guardian was not registering against enemies.
• Addressed an issue where zombies could speed up while under the clock time slowdown effect.
• Addressed an issue where explosive damage vs. Spider / Meatball enemies did not register correctly.
• Addressed an issue where Spider enemies would not show up on radar.
• Addressed an issue that allowed the Gladiator "Marauder" enemy to melee kill the player when it wasn’t facing the appropriate direction.
• Addressed an issue where the Margwa was not dropping loot when killed.
• Fates
• Divine Chalice fated players now earn extra life 37.5% faster than standard players at every 125,000 points.
• Divine Chalice fated users now respawn with temporary vitality buff.
• Divine Shield fated players now respawn with Divine Shield buff.
• After Round 64, when a Divine Shield fated player picks up a nuke drop, all players will now be granted a nuke.
• Friendship fated player chickens now last 25% longer.
• The Golden Chicken associated with Friendship Fate now periodically produces eggs in arena.
• After Round 64, the Golden Chicken associated with Friendship Fate will now have permanently upgraded weaponry.
• Addressed an issue that could prevent players from collecting a Fate in the Room of Fate when the room timed out (i.e. grabbing a Fate Rock with less than 4 seconds before the room expired).
• Visuals
• Added lighting in the Room of Fate above Fate Rock pedestals five and six.
• Addressed an issue with various particle effects having visibility issues.
• Addressed an issue that could prevent the player’s selected character skin from showing up correctly.
• Weapons
• Addressed an issue with the shotgun pickup that could cause it to initially begin firing slowly before speeding up.
• Stability
• Added various crash fixes.
• General
• Added various exploit fixes.
• Added new camera mode: Extra High.
• Addressed an issue where the player was not able to use the flashlight in First Person.
• Addressed an issue with some collision in the Water Temple arena.
• Addressed an issue in splitscreen mode where players would enter The Wild in shared viewport mode.

Onslaught (PS4/PS5)

• Onslaught Express playlist now available on PlayStation. [NEW]
• Spaced out special enemy spawns.
• Added additional enemies to the mode from "Firebase Z."

Stability

• Added various crash fixes.

General

• Party Leader is no longer required to have Dead Ops Arcade 3 installed for their party to join for other Zombies game modes.
• Addressed an issue that caused zombies to maintain a slowdown debuff forever if it ended while they were mantling.

PC updates (from Beenox)

Stability

• Added various crash fixes.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when watching a replay in Theater.
• Fixed a crash that could prevent the game from starting under some conditions on Windows 7.

General

• Addressed an issue that could result in loss of keyboard/mouse functionality when opening and closing the Windows key + G capture menu.
• Addressed an issue where players could get stuck in the pause menu under certain circumstances during a game.

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