Call of Duty: MW3 Patch Notes For The Pre-Season Update

Here are the Call of Duty: MW3 patch notes for the pre-season update

Activision just released a major update for the pre-season in Modern Warfare 3. This update includes many issues related to global bug fixes, multiplayer, Zombies, and much more. Since Season 1 is set to release on December 6 this year, the developers are looking to improve the state of the game before that gets here. Since both Zombies and multiplayer are filled with issues to be addressed, we can expect the developers to introduce more updates like this until they are satisfied with how everything is.

Speaking of the patch notes, they include changes and fixes to the game's performance, removal of bugs, and even some aspects of the progression. From a glimpse, it seems as if the game is headed in a good direction. 

Global

There will be a wide range of improvements to the game's performance and bug fixes to aspects which include UIX and the game Cosmetics. Some of these involve the random crash while viewing Weapon Challenges and bugs that prevented players from equipping the Borealis Camo even after unlocking it. Issues related to the Dragonfly Blueprint for the M4 and Ghoulie Camo have been fixed as well.

Multiplayer

Some of the changes and updates in multiplayer were direly needed as these were affecting the player experience drastically. Fixes include bugs that stopped match wins from progressing Armory Unlocks. The graphical corruptions that occur while transitioning between Field Upgrades and Social Menus. The issues that cause values in the Progression Menu to be displayed as negative values. Issues where Weekly Challenges wouldn’t track Triple Kills and Quad Kills have been fixed.

Map Fixes

Map fixes include visibility issues in Derail where environmental fog affected the player's vision. The grime on the widows of the Lodge in the map of the Estate has been reduced to improve clarity.

Weapon Balancing

The changes to the weapons in the game include guns like the Holger 556, DG-58, Striker, and much more. Detailed descriptions of the weapons are given below:

• Holger 556 (Assault Rifle)
  • Decreased headshot damage multiplier from 1.4x to 1.3x.

  • Decreased neck, upper-torso, arm, and hand damage multipliers from 1.1x to 1x.

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 210ms to 231ms (+10%).

• DG-58 (Assault Rifle)
  • Decreased maximum damage from 44 to 40 (-9%).

  • Decreased medium damage from 35 to 33 (-6%).

  • Decreased neck damage multiplier from 1.4x to 1.1x.

  • Increased burst delay from 100ms to 120ms (+20%).

• FR 5.56 (Assault Rifle)
  • Decreased maximum damage from 44 to 43 (-2%).

  • Decreased near-medium damage from 40 to 36 (-10%).

  • Decreased minimum damage from 36 to 33 (-8%).

  • Decreased headshot damage multiplier from 1.5x to 1.4x.

  • Decreased leg and foot damage multipliers from 1x to 0.9x.

  • Increased aim down sights time from 240ms to 260ms (+8%).

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 210ms to 231ms (+10%).

• Striker (Submachine Gun)
  • Increased maximum damage range from 9m to 19m (+114%).

  • Increased near-medium damage from 33 to 36 (+9%).

  • Increased far-medium damage from 27 to 33 (+22%).

  • Decreased aim down sights time from 240ms to 230ms (-4%).

  • Decreased maximum damage from 32 to 27 (-16%).

  • Decreased aim down sights time from 275ms to 225ms (-18%).

• AMR9 (Submachine Gun)
  • Increased lower-torso, lower-arm, and hand damage multipliers from 1x to 1.1x.

  • Decreased sprint to fire time from 294ms to 206ms (-30%).

Zombies

Changes in Zombies will also affect a lot of parts of the game such as Missions, Perk, and Enemies. These will fix some issues players have been complaining about and will balance aspects of Schematics and Scorestreaks. Overall, Zombies will see a major improvement and players will certainly appreciate them.

Missions

Changes have been made to Storm the Caste where killing the Warlord will credit the squad. The mission item will spawn after a squad member kills the target. The Interceptor mission will now track destroying the Mercenary Convoy more accurately. Picking up a keycard from a Mercenary Convoy will always count towards mission completion.

Perks

A change has been made to the Tombstone Soda perk where it won’t appear in the next session if the player extracts while in the last stand.

General

An issue where some stowed items such as acquisitions or schematics would get replaced. Essence cannot be stowed anymore. Fixes to exploits involving the use of Cymbal Monkeys and duplicating scorestreaks.

Enemies

The spawns for the Zombies have been fixed and fewer of them should appear the higher from ground the player is. So the likeliness of running into Zombies while running upstairs has dropped significantly. 

Terminus Outcomes

Damage dealt by the Mercs has been reduced to a more balanced state. Shielded Soldiers have a slower fire rate when engaged, which makes dealing with them less of a hassle.

Weapons Balancing

The issue where the Pack-A-Punch level would be incorrectly displayed is now resolved. The issue showed a Level III Pack-A-Punch as Level IV.

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