Call of Duty: Vanguard Season One Update 1.09 Patch Notes

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Mohammed Sadiq
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CoD: Vanguard’s December 15 update brings multiple buffs, improved stability, and changes, including a new holiday-themed event and skins in the game’s multiplayer, zombies, and Warzone.

Here are the following patch-notes:

MULTIPLAYER

Stability

  • Using Daniel’s alternative skin will no longer crash the game

Seasonal Challenges

  • Progression for Seasonal Challenges is now visible, active, and tracking 

Weapons

  • Bug Fixes
    • Riot Shield now blocks front-facing damage and bullets will not penetrate
    • The Firefight Blueprint has been fixed to remove light coming from the front end of the barrel and parts of the optic
    • Kar98K Hunter incentive skin no longer causes the gun to aim down the iron sights instead of the attached scope
    • Top Break muzzles no longer jump on reload
    • Corrected Loadouts using 7 Round Mags so the total ammo count is divisible by 7
    • Addressed multiple issues with charms in a QOL pass
    • Weapon animations have been polished and some glitches have been resolved
  • Balancing
    • Challenges
      • Panzerfaust Challenge has been changed from destroying aerial streaks to longshot kills
    • Weapons 
      • Kar98k & Type 99 
        • When using a lower caliber magazine, these weapons will now retain the ability for One-Shot-Kills when landing chest shots 
      • Top Break 
        • No longer reduces damage, but range reduction increased
      • Gorenko Anti-Tank Rifle
        • The default scope will no longer heavily obscure player vision when meleeing with the bayonet
    • Attachments
      • Melee range has been reduced for Bayonet when Reach Kit Perk is applied
  • Camos
    • Double Barrel
      • Corrected wording in the Death Artist Challenge to say “16 Gauge Mag” instead of “12 Gauge Mag” 
    • Assault Rifle Alpha
      • Camos now show proper progression
    • M1 Garand
      • Camos now show proper progression
  • Cross-progression
    • Master Ribbons data from Cold War will now be imported and reflected in Vanguard
    • Getting kills in Warzone now counts toward challenges in Vanguard

Killstreaks

  • Mortar Barrage
    • Increased damage dealt by the Mortar Barrage Flare 
    • Mortar Barrage has been tweaked to make deployment less difficult

Maps

  • Paradise
    • Fixed several out-of-map exploits 
    • Fixed instances of unnatural hitching when jumping against ramped walls
  • Radar
    • Fixed issue which made some doors indestructible
    • Fixed out-of-map spawns and exploits 
  • Desert Siege
    • Spawn tuning to reduce instances of spawning close to enemies 
    • Fixed a rendering issue that resulted in intense fog for some players
    • Blinking texture issues have been fixed in several locations
  • Bocage
    • Bullet penetration issues for certain walls have been fixed
    • MK2 Frag Grenade blast radius no longer affects players who should be protected by walls
  • Red Star
    • Fixed a bug that resulted in lighting effects following the player like a spotlight around the map
  • Berlin
    • Distracting and graphically incorrect shadows no longer appear under light fixtures
  • Numa Numa
    • Removed invisible geo in Numa Numa that blocked bullets midair
  • Gavutu
    • Fixed an issue in which an invisible wall remained after it was destroyed
  • Demanysk
    • Demolition and Tactician Perks now operate as intended
  • Sub Pens, Castle, Oasis, Das Haus
    • Fixed out-of-map exploits

Modes

  • Control 
    • Control is now live! 
  • Champion Hill
    • Players will no longer crash out of Champion Hill Duos, resulting in the closure of the entire game
    • Players can now access Scoreboard and Spectate Mode

UI/UX

  • Users will no longer get errors saying they don’t have Crossplay permission when attempting to add other consoles to a party
  • Flairs now appear with every Prestige level-up, and XP bars should reflect Prestige progression
  • Duplicate Prestige icons have been fixed
     

CAMPAIGN

  • Fixed a progression blocker in the Lady Nightingale level caused by an unresponsive character
     

ZOMBIES

Objectives

  • Purge 
    • Visibility improved in low light areas, making it more visually clear when capturing Control Runes.
    • The progress bar no longer overlaps various notifications such as Challenge Completions, Rank Ups, Weapon Level Ups, and more.
    • Professor Krafft will now acknowledge Purge objective completions.

Covenants

  • Brimstone
    • Brimstone no longer damages zombies when the player is downed.
    • Brimstone has been adjusted to now only deal damage to zombies that are in the player’s line-of-sight.
  • Dead Accurate
    • Launchers now work as intended with the Dead Accurate Covenant.
  • Swift Vengeance
    • Updated the description of Swift Vengeance to reflect that only weapon damage is increased with the use of this Covenant.
    • Knives now work as intended with the Swift Vengeance Covenant.

Weapons

  • Addressed an issue where weapons obtained from crates briefly displayed the wrong model when dropping.
  • Addressed an issue where some Mystery Box weapons would appear with their magazine detached from the weapon.
  • Addressed an issue that prevented players from loading into a match with their preferred custom reticle.
  • Addressed an issue that incorrectly identified some Launcher damages as critical hits.

Gameplay

  • Portals will now provide players with an opportunity to visit each destination before giving an option to return to the same location.
  • Closed various exploits that prevented players from taking damage from zombies.

Challenges

  • Melee Camo Challenges have been adjusted to count kills, not eliminations with the exception of Sturmkrieger Challenges.

UI

  • Zone names have been added in places where they were absent from the map.
  • The in-game scoreboard now shows the player in the correct ranking.
  • Addressed an issue with overlapping scoreboard UI.

Audio

  • Addressed an issue in which Operator and Announcer voice communications could compete with each other.

Subtitles / Text

  • Multiple fixes for subtitles when players select the English language setting.
  • Multiple fixes for voice lines and subtitles when players select the German language setting.
  • Multiple fixes for text descriptions when players select the Brazilian Portuguese language setting.
  • Multiple fixes for subtitles when players select the Polish language setting.

Stability

  • Addressed an issue that would sometimes kick a player to the main Zombies menu when Copying and Replacing loadouts.
  • Various stability fixes.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

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