Updated:

Oct 27, 2022 12:05 am

Posted:

Oct 26, 2022 11:52 pm

Infinity Ward has laid retired immoderate changes that person been made to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 successful effect to feedback from the game’s beta up of its motorboat aboriginal this week.

In a post connected the studio’s website, the squad broke down respective alteration categories, including audio, UI, and movement. Most of these changes came from feedback connected the multiplayer, but volition besides beryllium applicable to the communicative campaign, arsenic well.

The afloat database of changes reads arsenic follows:

Enemy Visibility

• We person added diamond icons supra the heads of enemies. This should marque it easier for players to intelligibly place opponents successful the game.
• Additionally, we’ve continued to tweak lighting and opposition for improved force visibility.

Audio

• We’ve shortened the wide scope of footstep audio which volition let force players to get person to targets earlier they are capable to observe footsteps. We person besides continued to tweak teammate footstep audio, which volition present beryllium quieter pursuing feedback from the Beta.
• The in-world activation dependable effect measurement scope for the Dead Silence tract upgrade has been drastically decreased.

Third Person

• Following feedback from Beta, aiming down sights volition present enactment successful 3rd idiosyncratic POV for low-zoom optics. Only high-zoom optics (beginning with the ACOG and higher) and peculiar optics specified arsenic Hybrids and Thermals volition revert to archetypal idiosyncratic POV. We judge this volition heighten the 3rd idiosyncratic acquisition portion keeping the gameplay balanced. The feedback connected this mode has been precise positive, and we volition proceed to research its usage arsenic a modifier.

Weapons

• We person continued to tweak weapons crossed the crippled pursuing some feedback from Beta players and crippled data. Players tin expect much specifics connected limb tuning arsenic we proceed to enactment post-launch.

UI

• We person been moving hard connected galore updates to our UI that marque accessing and customizing your loadout much seamless. We’ve made improvements to navigation of menus and volition proceed to optimize our UX.

Movement

• Slide, ledge hang, and dive person been further refined. We’ve besides addressed immoderate question exploits pursuing Beta.

Matchmaking

• We person implemented immoderate changes that purpose to trim lobby disbandment betwixt matches. We look guardant to investigating this astatine a ample standard and getting feedback.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S connected Friday, October 28, though the run has been playable for those who pre-ordered the crippled digitally since October 20. For much connected that, cheque retired IGN's review of the campaign (or cheque retired the video mentation below), successful which it was described arsenic "underwhelming and overly familiar."

Kenneth Shepard is simply a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness each astir the internet. Find him connected Twitter astatine @shepardcdr, and perceive to his biweekly video crippled retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is presently covering Cyberpunk 2077.