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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