CoD: Warzone 2.0 And MW2 Patch Notes — Weapon Balancing, Ranked Play Updates, And More

A new update has arrived to Call of Duty: Mod­ern War­fare 2 and War­zone 2.0 today, May 16th. The patch notes address bugs, includ­ing a major perk exploit in the bat­tle royale game, and weapon bal­anc­ing for War­zone 2.0 guns.

Accord­ing to the notes, three pis­tols received a nerf in War­zone 2.0, includ­ing the GS Magna, the X13 Auto, and the FTAC Siege. The GS Magna and X13 Auto will now both pro­vide less armor dam­age at close range, while akim­bo attach­ments for both weapons will also deal less close range dam­age to armor. The FTAC Siege pis­tol also had its armor dam­age reduced.

War­zone 2.0’s pesky Resup­ply exploit, which pre­vi­ous­ly allowed play­ers to gen­er­ate lethal equip­ment at a much high­er rate by repeat­ed­ly equip­ping perk pack­ages, has been squashed.

This update also pro­vid­ed fix­es for War­zone 2.0’s Ranked Play, address­ing an issue that pre­vi­ous­ly caused elim­i­nat­ed squad mem­bers to receive SR for unas­sist­ed ene­my elim­i­na­tions by live squad mates, and and anoth­er that stopped the in-game score­board from track­ing assists prop­er­ly. Addi­tion­al­ly, play­ers who are inac­tive will no longer remain in Ranked Play matches.

Oth­er bug fix­es include one that caused play­ers to be removed from match­es for inac­tiv­i­ty while play­ing, an issue caus­ing play­ers to be stuck on “Fetch­ing Online Pro­file” when try­ing to look at their social notifications.

The full patch notes can be seen below, as shared by Activi­sion.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 & Modern Warfare II Patch Notes — May 16th, 2023

GLOBAL

WEAPONS

Weapon Bal­anc­ing

» Hand­guns «

• GS Magna
  • Close range head­shot Armor Dam­age reduced | War­zone 2.0 Only
  • Akim­bo:
    • Close range Armor Dam­age reduced | War­zone 2.0 Only
    • Min­i­mum Armor Dam­age added | War­zone 2.0 Only
• FTAC Siege
  • Armor Dam­age reduced | War­zone 2.0 Only
• X13 Auto
  • Close range head­shot Armor Dam­age reduced | War­zone 2.0 Only
  • Akim­bo:
    • Close range Armor Dam­age reduced | War­zone 2.0 Only
    • Min­i­mum Armor Dam­age added | War­zone 2.0 Only

BUG FIXES

Gen­er­al

• Fixed an issue caus­ing Play­ers to be incor­rect­ly removed from match­es for inactivity.
• Fixed an issue with miss­ing visu­al effects on the Tox­i­cant Blue­print in the Trac­er Pack: Poi­son Bundle.
• Fixed an issue caus­ing screen flick­er while inspect­ing Bat­tle Pass Weapon Blue­prints if the Auto On option was selected.
• Fixed an issue caus­ing Play­ers to remain stuck on “Fetch­ing Online Pro­file” when attempt­ing to inspect social notifications.
• Fixed an issue caus­ing unpur­chased Store Bun­dles to appear under the “My Weapons” tab.
• Fixed an issue caus­ing the client to freeze when select­ing the “Invite to Par­ty” option while oth­er Play­ers were already present in the Party.
• Fixed an issue with Menu behav­ior while nav­i­gat­ing Weapon Blueprints.
• Fixed an issue pre­vent­ing Play­ers from unlock­ing Oper­a­tor Grom­sko despite meet­ing the requirements.
• Fixed an issue caus­ing Pres­tige 6 to incor­rect­ly dis­play Pres­tige 10 rewards.

Attach­ments

» Under­bar­rels «

• Hellscream 40mm Drill
  • Fixed an issue with the reload ani­ma­tion on the TAQ‑V and TAQ-56

Pre­vi­ous­ly Fixed

• Fixed an issue caus­ing the Bat­tle Pass menu to become unre­spon­sive until the Play­er returned to the main menu.
• Fixed an issue with the tuto­r­i­al that would cause the menu to freeze when the Play­er encoun­tered the “Open­ing the Glob­al Pan­el” tip.

SPECIAL OPS

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that allowed Play­ers to gen­er­ate Lethal Equip­ment at a much high­er rate than intend­ed by repeat­ed­ly equip­ping Perk Pack­ages that includ­ed the Resup­ply Perk.

WARZONE 2.0

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that allowed Play­ers to gen­er­ate Lethal Equip­ment at a much high­er rate than intend­ed by repeat­ed­ly equip­ping Perk Pack­ages that includ­ed the Resup­ply Perk.

BATTLE ROYALE

BUG FIXES

Ranked Play

• Fixed an issue caus­ing elim­i­nat­ed Squad mem­bers to receive SR for unas­sist­ed ene­my elim­i­na­tions by live Squad members.
• Fixed an issue pre­vent­ing Assists from track­ing prop­er­ly in the in-game Scoreboard.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Play­ers inel­i­gi­ble for Ranked Play to use the Look­ing for Par­ty feature.
• Fixed an issue that allowed inac­tive Play­ers to remain in the match.

DMZ

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue pre­vent­ing the White Lotus Fac­tion Mis­sion to “Pick up 1 Weapon in a Deploy­ment” from track­ing properly.
• Fixed an issue caus­ing dead drop­ping cer­tain items such as Heart­beat Sen­sors to reward exces­sive cooldown reduc­tion and XP.
• Fixed an issue that would return free-to-play Play­ers to the front Menu when attempt­ing to view the Crown Fac­tion mis­sions tab.