Call Of Duty: Vanguard Season 4 Reloaded Patch Notes — All The Changes For The Mid-Season Update

Call of Duty: Van­guard’s Mer­ce­nar­ies of For­tune Sea­son 4 Reloaded update goes live on July 27th, with Sledge­ham­mer Games releas­ing the patch notes the day before. Along with the new map, weapon, and oper­a­tor addi­tions brought in Sea­son 4 Reloaded, this update will also include some map fix­es, Ranked Play restric­tions, and some adjust­ments to Zombies.

The new Des­o­la­tion mul­ti­play­er map will be arriv­ing tomor­row, plus, a few fix­es to made to exist­ing maps. Bul­lets can no longer pen­e­trate unin­tend­ed sur­faces near the East Ridge loca­tion in Gon­do­la, and bul­lets can not pen­e­trate the truck near Flak Gun on Par­adise (to pre­vent unwant­ed spawns).

This update also adds the Vargo‑S assault rifle, and will arrive imme­di­ate­ly restrict­ed in Van­guard’s Ranked Play. The Ser­pen­tine perk is restrict­ed in Ranked Play as well.

Zom­bies mode has received a few updates to the Shi No Numa map. The devel­op­er says var­i­ous visu­al prob­lems and zom­bie pathing cor­rec­tions will be imple­ment­ed on the map. An issue where Won­der Weapon parts not appear­ing were not appear­ing on the map in offline mode has also been addressed.

The Wun­der­waffe DG‑2 Won­der Weapon in Shi No Numa will have a slight buff, with an increased reload speed. The update will also fix an issues caus­ing the zom­bies to not be killed by this spe­cif­ic Won­der Weapon.

You can check out the full patch notes below, as shared by Sledge­ham­mer Games.

Call of Duty: Vanguard Season 4 Reloaded Patch Notes

MULTIPLAYER

Maps

• Ene­my name­plates can no longer be seen through var­i­ous sur­faces across mul­ti­ple maps.
• NEW: Des­o­la­tion
  • In a lis­ten­ing post near the Pacif­ic moun­tain­side, Des­o­la­tion is lit­tered with destruc­tible aspects to cre­ate intrigu­ing game­play scenarios.
  • Look for the Des­o­la­tion 24/7 Fea­tured Playlist at the launch of Sea­son Four Reloaded.
• Gon­do­la
  • Addressed an exploit that allowed bul­lets to pen­e­trate unin­tend­ed sur­faces near the East Bridge.
• Par­adise
  • Bul­lets will no longer pen­e­trate the truck near the Flak Gun to pre­vent unde­sir­able spawn conditions.
• USS Texas 1945
  • In Search and Destroy, Bombs plant­ed near the destruc­tible floor of the Upper Deck will no longer fall to the Mid Deck.
  • Bul­lets will no longer pen­e­trate the vents near the Low­er Deck (Bow) to pro­vide viable cover.
  • Addressed an exploit that allowed play­ers to shoot through the floor of the Upper Deck from the Mid Deck.
  • Play­ers can no longer become stuck while climb­ing crates near the Low­er Deck (Stern).

Modes

• Blue­print Gun Game
  • Added sev­er­al new Blue­prints to the pool of avail­able Weapons.
• Search and Destroy
  • Addressed an issue that caused inac­cu­rate Deaths stat on the scoreboard.

Ranked Play

• Restric­tions
  • Weapons
    • The Vargo‑S is now restrict­ed in Ranked Play.
  • Perks
    • Ser­pen­tine is now restrict­ed in Ranked Play.

Oper­a­tors

• NEW: Iken­na Olowe (Immor­tal)
  • Iken­na Olowe under­stood strat­e­gy from a young age. As a child in Nige­ria, he excelled at chess, quick­ly sur­pass­ing his teach­ers. He grew strong study­ing Gidig­bo, a mar­tial bat­tle of wits. Bal­anced in body and mind, Iken­na joined the war effort as a bat­tle­field engi­neer. His work estab­lished crit­i­cal sup­plies lines across the globe. Iken­na became a grand plan­ner, know­ing when to build and when to demolish.
  • Avail­able to pur­chase via Bundle.

Weapons

• Added Inspect ani­ma­tions for the M1916 Marks­man Rifle, Skål Crush­er, Ice Pick, and Saw­tooth Melee Weapons.
• Increased grace peri­od for slide kills chal­lenges from 0.15s to 0.5s after sliding.
• NEW: Vargo‑S (Assault Rifle)
  • Trad­ing fire­pow­er for improved accu­ra­cy and fire rate, this rifle excels in medi­um and long range engagements.
  • Com­plete an unlock chal­lenge or pur­chase a Bun­dle to earn this Weapon.
    • Get 15 Close Range Kills.

Perks

• Pierc­ing Vision (Intel)
  • Cor­rect­ed incon­sis­tent high­light behav­ior in Free-for-All game modes.

Kill­streaks

• Guard Dog (6 Kills)
  • Addressed an issue that caused errat­ic behav­ior when two Guard Dogs were called in simultaneously.

User Inter­face & Experience

• Play­ers will no longer receive a Notice prompt with unread­able text after game updates.
• Rar­i­ty Sort Fil­ter in the Armory will no longer reset after pre­view­ing a Bundle.
• Bat­tle Pass items that are Free for Clans will no longer incor­rect­ly dis­play as Unlocked for play­ers who are in an inac­tive Clan.
• Cor­rect­ed the behav­ior of the Clear Weapons New but­ton after switch­ing tabs in the UI.

Bun­dles & Cosmetics

• Improved image qual­i­ty for Bun­dle logos in the Store.
• Breath of Godzil­la Blue­print will no longer cease to glow under cer­tain conditions.
• Flame VFX will no longer trans­fer from Roland’s War Oper­a­tor Skin to oth­er Operators.

ZOMBIES

Maps

• “Shi No Numa”
  • Addressed an issue where Won­der Weapon parts were not appear­ing on the map in Offline mode.
  • Addressed issues relat­ed to zom­bies pathing on Shi No Numa.
  • Addressed var­i­ous visu­al issues on Shi No Numa.

Weapons

• Won­der Weapon
  • Wun­der­waffe DG‑2
    • Increased reload speed of the weapon.
    • Addressed an issue where zom­bies were some­times not being killed after being hit with the weapon.
    • Addressed an issue where zom­bies were not being elec­tro­cut­ed with the weapon if they were pre­vi­ous­ly under the effects of a stun grenade.
• Unlock Chal­lenges
  • NEW: Vargo‑S (Assault Rifle)
    • Trad­ing fire­pow­er for improved accu­ra­cy and fire rate, this rifle excels in medi­um and long range engagements.
    • Com­plete an unlock chal­lenge or pur­chase a Bun­dle to earn this Weapon.
      • In Zom­bies, use Assault Rifles to kill 20 or more ene­mies with­out get­ting hit 50 times.

Game­play

• Round-Based Adjust­ments
  • Craft­ing Table
    • Reduced cost for craft­ing Armor in Round Based Zom­bies mode only.
      • Lev­el 1 — 500
      • Lev­el 2 — 1000
      • Lev­el 3 — 2000

Ene­mies

• Zabal­la the Deceiver
  • Increased the Zabal­la round spawn cooldown in Shi No Numa.
  • Zabal­la will no longer enter an immune state.

Sta­bil­i­ty

• Addressed var­i­ous sta­bil­i­ty issues.