By the time you read this Call of Duty Black Ops 6 might just about be upon us – certainly if you are intending to pull off the New Zealand trick to get playing early.
There were definitely a fair few things we expected to change after the beta which we played extensively and most centered around weapon balancing and player spawning. There is a fair bit of detail in the notes about the former but a suspicious lack of anything about the latter.
Many people found that on the tiny maps spawning into an instant death scenario was a bit too frequent, so it will be interesting to see if anything has been done to tweak that.
Black Ops 6 Day One patch notes
We aren’t sure the full patch changes have all been highlighted but the major ones including Weapon balancing and map changes have been covered in some detail in the notes. Here are the changes that we have so far.
Weapon Balance
While many weapon balance changes have been implemented across the board since Beta, we consider launch to be our day 1 baseline across the entire arsenal. Weapon balance is always ongoing, so we’ll be evaluating data and feedback, and sharing updates on this regularly.
- In the Multiplayer Beta, we tested a change that disabled aim assist at close ranges. While this was a change in the right direction, we felt that this was a bit jarring when crossing that close-range threshold, so we’ve adjusted our approach to linearly interpolate aim assist strength. This means that aim assist will be much weaker at point-blank ranges and smoothly increase in strength out to a short range. We will of course continue to monitor and assess data and player feedback.
- Improved Pistol and Dedicated Melee swap speeds
- Slight increase to Weapon Butt melee attack speeds
- Adjustments to sway, bob and overall weapon motions to improve point of aim when entering ADS
- Additional improvements coming in Season 01
- Improved Depth of Field across all Weapons
Movement
- Added a toggle option for Corner Slicing
- Added an option to set the hold time to perform a Dive to Prone or Slide depending on your Slide/Dive Behavior setting
- Added an Intelligent Movement option to set Mantle Assist Angle from tight, medium, or wide
Multiplayer Map Adjustments
Keen eyes have already noticed a handful of changes we have introduced to our Beta maps thanks to everyone’s amazing feedback. Delivering fair and consistent gameplay will always remain our goal, and as such we’ve introduced some additional cover and changes to make firefights a bit fairer, as well as various lighting changes.