Raven Software has released the full patch notes for Call of Duty: Warzone’s season 4 update. Including playlist updates, a limited-time event, a new battle pass, a new Gulag, map changes around Farmland, ACT, the Summit bridge and the Salt Mines. Many weapons have also received tweaks, with the promise of a huge weapon balance patch to come soon.

Playlist Update

To kick things off, Rebirth Duos and Blood Money Plunder Quads have been replaced with regular Plunder quads on Verdansk and Resurgence Mini Trios, both on Verdansk. Rebirth Island Quads remains in place after recent popular support.

Added:
- Verdansk – BR – Resurgence Mini Trios
- Verdansk – Plunder – Quads
Removed:
- Verdansk – Plunder – Blood Money Quads
- Rebirth Island – Resurgence Duos

With news guns being added this patch, Plunder Quads is a welcome return as a fast path to max leveling the guns through Recon blitzing.

Verdansk Resurgence Mini is a new faster-paced mode that entirely skips the first circle and features lobby sizes of up to 45 players, potentially halving the length of the game. To compensate for the lack of time, higher tier loot densely populates the map

New Event – Ground Fall

As is tradition at this point, the new season launches with a limited-time event. This time most of the objects are geared towards exploring the newly fallen satellites scattered around the map.

“Find and secure the new Sat-Link stations to triangulate the location of a falling satellite in Verdansk. Loot the fallen satellites to score exclusive loot and cash rewards during the game. The objectives for this event will reward you with items such as Emblems, Calling Cards, a Satellite Weapon Charm, as well as some XP. Complete all three Challenges from either Cold War or Warzone, and you’ll receive an Epic Secondary Weapon Blueprint.” – Raven Software

Battle Pass

The new Battle Pass is available for purchase and includes 100 tiers of content for Black Ops: Cold War and Warzone.

The main pieces include a new operator named Jackal, various legendary blueprints and a “Takeoff” Dirt Bike Vehicle Skin at level 100. Here’s a full rundown of the best unlocks:

Tier 0
- New Operator Jackal
Tier 5
- “Monochrome” Legendary AK-47 Blueprint
Tier 21
- “Regal Scepter” Legendary Type 63 Blueprint
Tier 40
- “Night Kit” Song Operator Skin
Tier 42
- Serpent Idol” Legendary Bullfrog Blueprint
Tier 50
- “Boarding Party” Adler Operator Skin
Tier 55
- “Ancient Scarab” Legendary KSP 45 Blueprint
Tier 76
- “Regal Sword” Legendary Mac-10 Blueprint
Tier 81
- “Penumbra Carbon” Legendary AK-74u Blueprint
Tier 85
- “Ancient Spear” Legendary Sniper Rifle Charlie Blueprint
Tier 89
- “Punk Rock” Legendary Hauer 77 Blueprint
Tier 90
- “Lioness” Zeyna Operator Skin
Tier 95
- “High Stakes” Ultra-Rarity MG 82 Blueprint
Tier 100
- “Iridescent” Reactive Jackal Operator Skin
- “Forgotten Oasis” Legendary C58 Blueprint
- “Takeoff” Dirt Bike Vehicle Skin
- Season Four Emblem

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Map Changes

In addition to the new satellite crash zones located at Krovnik Farmland, Bloc 18 (near Salt Mines), Bloc 16 (near ACT) and Gora Bridge, mysterious red doors have appeared across Verdansk. These are likely tied to an easter egg that is yet to be solved, or they will become active with the mid-season patch allowing a form of fast travel across Verdansk similar to the previously removed metro system.

To the relief of many, a new Gulag is in play this season, removing the L-shaped street corner Gulag from season 3, which was often dubbed as unbalanced due to its a-symmetrical design.

(“Hijacked” Gulag map. Source - Activision)

Weapons

Four new weapons are available from the onset of the season:

MG 82: Light Machine Gun
- Unlocked at Tier 15 of the Battle Pass
C58: Assault Rifle
- Unlocked at Tier 31 of the Battle Pass
Nail Gun: Submachine Gun
- Unlocked via Challenges
Baseball Bat: Melee
- Unlocked via Challenges

Later in the season the OTs 9 submachine gun and the Mace melee weapon will become available via challenges.

Raven has promised a huge overhaul of weapon balance in an upcoming patch, with the goal of bringing the average TTK up from 60 milliseconds to 100. To get the ball rolling they have made the following changes this patch, with much more to follow:

(Source - Raven Software)

Weapons

Assault Rifles
- CR-56 AMAX (MW)
  - Upper Torso Damage multiplier decreased from 1.2 to 1.1
- Groza (BOCW)
  - Minimum Damage increased from 18-23
  - Upper Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1.1 to 1.2
  - Lower Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.1
  - Maximum Damage range decreased by 12%
- Assault Rifle Golf (MW)
  - Neck Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.5
  - Upper Torso damage multiplier increased from 1 to 1.2
- XM4 (BOCW)
  - Neck Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.5

Handguns
- AMP63 (BOCW)
  - Maximum Damage increased from 30 to 33
  - Second Damage range increased by 14.3%
  - Upper Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.1
  - Extremities Damage Multipliers increased from .9 to 1
  - Head Damage Multiplier decreased from 1.4 to 1.3

Melee
- Ballistic Knife (BOCW)
  - Projectile Velocity increased by 25%
  - Neck Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.3
  - Upper Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.23
  - Move Speed increased by 1.3%

Shotguns
- Streetsweeper (BOCW)
  - Maximum Damage range decreased by 24%
  - Second Damage range decreased by 18%
  - Third Damage range decreased by 7%
  - Move Speed decreased by 1%

Sniper Rifles
- Sniper Rifle Charlie (BOCW)
  - Bullet Velocity increased by 7.7%
  - Upper Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1.1 to 1.25
  - Lower Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.15
- Swiss K31 (BOCW)
  - Base Optic functionality improved
  - Base Reticle updated

Submachine Guns
- Submachine Gun Alpha (MW)
  - Upper Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.1
  - Maximum Damage range increased by 10%
- Bullfrog (BOCW)
  - Ironsights ADS position adjusted
- KSP 45 (BOCW)
  - Maximum damage range increased by 16.6%
  - Extremities multipliers increased from .9 to 1
- Milano 821 (BOCW)
  - Maximum Damage increased from 34 to 36
  - Minimum Damage increased from 25 to 30
  - Maximum Damage range increased by 23%
  - Upper Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.2
  - Lower Torso Damage Multiplier increased from 1 to 1.1
  - Extremities Damage Multipliers increased from .9 to 1
- Submachine Gun Echo (MW)
  - Maximum Damage increased from 34 to 35
  - Extremities Damage Multipliers increased from .9 to 1

Tactical Rifles
- DMR 14 (BOCW)
  - Recoil magnitude decreased

Attachments

There’s also a long list of attachment updates aimed at increasing diversity across weapon loadouts. Including changes to buffs to bullet velocity for all BOCW snipers, recoil reduction to BOCW AR’s, and some slight optic tweaks. For the full list of changes, you can visit Raven Software’s official patch notes.

Gameplay

Roze’s Rook skin has received another material update with the hopes of making the operator more visible in darker places. Hopefully at the third time of asking this actually works as it’s often easier to spot Batman on dark nights compared to her.

The most welcoming surprise in the patch notes is the inclusion of a fix that ensures that players rage-quitting and disconnecting when downed or in the middle of being executed with a finishing move still drop loot and the killer is accredited the kill. It’s a fix that is honestly overdue but nevertheless extremely welcome.

To celebrate Pride month, 8 new LGBTQIA+ Calling Cards have been added to each player’s inventory for free. Available by navigating to the Barracks in the menu.

A new Dirt bike has also been added. The bike is the fastest vehicle in the game, can drift at high speeds and will require mastery to get the best out of it. It has low durability and can carry two operators, with almost no room to stack a 3rd on the hitbox.

Two of the new weapons (C58 and MG 82) have been added to the ground loot pool, and the Combat Bow Killstreak from the 80’s event has returned as chest loot. Self-Revive spawn rates have been reduced across all game modes.

The 1911 starter handgun has received a slight nerf to its melee capabilities, increasing the number of melee hits to down an operator from 2 to 3. This should make hot dropping slightly less chaotic and reduce instances of being stuck arming a ground loot weapon whilst someone pounds your face in.

Finally, the Snapshot Grenade has received a sizeable buff, increasing its duration from 1.25 to 2 seconds, whilst also highlighting enemies to your team.

The patch is available now, with download sizes ranging from roughly 11 GB on consoles to 13.5 GB on PC.